Death Guard

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly Contagion Engine unit is selected to shoot.

That Contagion Engine unit.

Select one visible enemy unit. That enemy unit is Afflicted until your unit has attacked.

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when a friendly Contagion Engine unit is selected to attack.

That Contagion Engine unit.

Your unit’s attacks can re‑roll wound rolls of 1.

Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an enemy unit is selected to make a fall‑back move, if that enemy unit is engaged with a friendly Contagion Engine unit.

That Contagion Engine unit.

When an enemy unit engaged with your unit is selected to make a fall‑back move, roll one D6:

• On a 1, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
• On a 2‑5, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
• On a 6, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds.

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly Plague Marines unit is selected to shoot.

That Plague Marines unit.

Your unit’s ranged attacks:

• Can re‑roll hit rolls of 1.
• That target a unit within half range, can re‑roll wound rolls of 1.

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly Plague Marines unit is selected to shoot.

That Plague Marines unit.

Your unit’s ranged attacks have [Close‑quarters].

Start of the Fight phase

One friendly engaged Plague Marines unit.

Select one enemy unit engaged with your unit. That enemy unit makes a battle‑shock roll, with -1 to that battle‑shock roll.

Start of your Shooting Phase.

One friendly Death Guard Character unit.

Select one visible enemy unit within Contagion Range of your unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range.

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly Death Guard Character unit starts an action.

That Death Guard Character unit.

That action does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot.

Start of the Command phase.

One friendly Death Guard Character unit.

Your unit has +1 OC until the end of the turn.

Any phase.

One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE or DEATH GUARD MONSTER model from your army with the Deadly Demise ability that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.

Do not roll one D6 to determine whether mortal wounds are inflicted by your model’s Deadly Demise ability. Instead, mortal wounds are automatically inflicted. In addition, any enemy units that suffer mortal wounds as a result of this Stratagem are Afflicted until the start of your next turn.

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.

Your Command phase.

Your DEATH GUARD WARLORD that is on the battlefield.

Until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models from your army.

Your Command phase.

One DEATH GUARD model your army that has lost one or more wounds.

Select one enemy unit within 3" of your model. Roll a number of D6 equal to the number of wounds your model has lost: for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers one mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds) and your model regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 6 lost wounds).

Start of your Shooting phase.

One DEATH GUARD CHARACTER unit from your army.

Select one enemy unit visible to your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a DEATH GUARD unit from your army selects that enemy unit as the target of any ranged attacks, you can re-roll the dice to determine how many attacks a weapon equipped by a model in that unit makes.

Your Shooting phase.

One DEATH GUARD INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an Afflicted unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.

End of your Movement phase.

One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army.

Select one terrain feature within 24" of and visible to your unit. Until the start of your next turn, enemy units are Afflicted while they are within 3" of that terrain feature.

Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to move or charge this phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.

Your Shooting phase.

One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a visible enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT) within your opponent’s deployment zone, you can re-roll the Hit roll.

Your Shooting phase.

One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] ability.

Your opponent’s Command phase.

One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army.

Select one objective marker visible to one or more models in your unit. Each Afflicted enemy unit within range of that objective marker must take a Battle-shock test. Enemy units affected by this Stratagem do not need to take any other Battle-shock tests in the same phase.

Start of your opponent’s Charge phase.

One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army.

Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit selects your unit as the target of a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Toughness characteristic of models in your unit.

Start of the Fight phase.

One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that includes two CHARACTER models.

Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability.

Your Movement phase, before the Reinforcements step.

One DEATH GUARD CHARACTER unit from your army that is not leading a unit.

Select one other friendly DEATH GUARD unit (excluding Battle-shocked units and Attached units that already have two Leader units or one of your CHARACTER units leading it) within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of your unit that your unit can lead (as described in the Leader section of its datasheet). Your unit attaches to that unit as a Leader. Change that unit’s Starting Strength accordingly.

Your Shooting phase.

One BIOLOGUS PUTRIFIER unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Select one enemy unit (excluding VEHICLES) that is within 8" of and visible to your unit. Until the start of your next turn, that unit has the effect of all Plagues (see Nurgle’s Gift).

Any phase.

One NURGLINGS unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can target that unit with this Stratagem even though it was just destroyed.

Add a new unit to your army identical to your destroyed unit, in Strategic Reserves, at its Starting Strength and with its full wounds remaining.

Fight phase.

One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more PLAGUE LEGIONS units from your army, you can re-roll the Hit roll.

Your Shooting phase.

One PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Until the end of the phase, enemy units are not considered to be within Engagement Range of your unit for the purposes of selecting targets of ranged weapons. Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model loses a wound, while that model’s unit is within Engagement Range of your unit, roll one D6: on a 5+, your unit suffers 1 mortal wound after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks.

Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

One PLAGUE LEGIONS MONSTER unit from your army that has not been selected to move or charge this phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.

Your Shooting phase.

One PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army.

Until the end of the phase, while an enemy unit is within 6" of your unit, that enemy unit is Afflicted.

Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) is selected to Fall Back.

One PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

Until the end of the phase, while an enemy unit is within Engagement Range of your unit, each time that unit is selected to Fall Back, it must take a Leadership test. If that test is failed, that unit must Remain Stationary this phase instead.

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

One POXWALKERS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

After the attacking unit has fought, roll one D6 for each model from your unit that was destroyed as a result of those attacks: on a 6, the attacking unit suffers 1 mortal wound. If your unit is not destroyed after the attacking unit has fought, enemy models destroyed as a result of this Stratagem count as enemy models destroyed by an attack made by a model in your unit for the purposes of the Curse of the Walking Pox ability.

Fight phase.

One POXWALKERS unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can target that unit with this Stratagem even though it was just destroyed.

Select one enemy unit that made one or more attacks that targeted your unit this phase. Until the end of the battle, that enemy unit is Afflicted.

Your Command phase.

One POXWALKERS unit from your army.

Until the end of the turn, add 1 to the Move characteristic of models in your unit, and add 1 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.

The Reinforcements step of your Movement phase.

One POXWALKERS unit from your army that is in Strategic Reserves and that is not an Attached unit.

Until the end of the phase, models in that unit have the Deep Strike ability.

Your Charge phase, just after a DEATH GUARD unit from your army ends a Charge move.

That DEATH GUARD unit.

Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.

Your opponent’s Shooting phase.just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly POXWALKERS unit within 3" of your unit and visible to both your unit and the attacking unit.

Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your DEATH GUARD unit, if your POXWALKERS unit is visible to the attacking model and is an eligible target for that attack, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead a number of POXWALKERS from your POXWALKERS unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack are destroyed.

Start of any phase.

One TERMINATOR unit from your army.

Until the end of the phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models in your unit.

Fight phase.

One TERMINATOR unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) you can re-roll the Hit roll.

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

One TERMINATOR unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6. On a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

Your Command phase.

One LORD OF VIRULENCE model from your army.

Select one objective marker within 30" of and visible to your model. Until the start of your next turn, while an enemy unit is within range of that objective marker, that unit is Afflicted.

Your Shooting phase.

One TERMINATOR unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] and [HEAVY] abilities.

Your Charge phase, just after a TERMINATOR unit from your army ends a Charge move.

That TERMINATOR unit.

Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit, then roll one D6 for each model in your unit that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit: for each 2+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).