Cataclysm in the Abyss

Aeldari

Faction detachments for Boarding Actions

Print-Friendly Boarding Actions Rules Back to Mustering Rules Back to Main

Contents

Khaine’s Arrow

Mustering a Boarding Patrol

You can include up to one of the following units:
*You can only include a PHOENIX LORD model if you also include one of the units it can normally be attached to.

You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to one of each of the following units:
You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to one of the following unit:

Rules Adaptations


Army Rule

Seers’ Guidance

The rune-sighted wisdom of the Farseers helps to guide the killing strikes of the Aeldari warhosts.

Units from your army with the Strands of Fate ability replace that ability with this one.

Once per battle round, you can target one unit from your army with this ability with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP.

Detachment Rule

Unerring Strike

Once loosed at their target, the warriors who make up the Arrow of Khaine focus all of their attentions upon their singular target, ’[hey move with all the balletic speed of their people, and let nothing slow their attack.

In your Movement phase, each time an AELDARI unit from your army makes a Normal move, while making that move it can attempt to operate a closed Hatchway that is within 1" of it at any point during that move, provided there are no enemy units within 1" of that Hatchway. If that AELDARI unit does attempt to operate that Hatchway, reduce the distance each model in that unit can move this phase by 2" (if this makes it impossible for that unit to gel within 1" of that Hatchway it wishes to operate, then it cannot attempt to do so), and it cannot operate a Hatchway again this turn.

Stratagems

VOID GHOSTS
1CP
Khaine’s Arrow – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Exploiting the fluctuating gravity of voidship fighting and flowing with the nigh-imperceptible movements of the vessel around them, the Aeldari acrobatically evade the blasts and blades of their foes.
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

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

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
BLADEFOCUS
1CP
Khaine’s Arrow – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Those Aspect Warriors best versed in close-quarters combat fight all the harder, knowing they must act as the piercing tip of their host's strike.
WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One HOWLING BANSHEES or STRIKING SCORPIONS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if it made a Charge move this turn, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
CRITICAL CAPTURE
1CP
Khaine’s Arrow – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
These warriors know precisely which strategic sites must be secured, and in what order.
WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army (excluding CHARACTER units).

EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit. In addition, at the end of your turn, select one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. That objective marker is Secured by your army.
FOCUSED FUSILLADE
1CP
Khaine’s Arrow – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The fiery passage of Khaine's Arrow scours the enemy away, leaving them nowhere to hide.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One DIRE AVENGERS, FIRE DRAGONS, SWOOPING HAWKS or WARP SPIDERS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Wound roll.

Enhancements

We are not using enhancements from Boarding Actions in the crusade. These are here for reference only!

Click to view
Runes of Sanctuary (Psychic)

Before battle was even joined the runes were cast, and this forces safest and truest passage through their foes predicted then committed to heart.

PSYKER model only. Once per turn, in your opponents Shooting phase, when a friendly AELDARI unit within 9" of and visible to the bearer is selected as the target of a ranged attack, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets that friendly AELDARI unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Shieldmaster

This warrior exploits every detail of their environment to stave off pursuing or encircling foes.

Once per turn, in your Movement phase, after the bearer has moved, you can close one open Hatchway it moved through this phase (this can be done in addition to operating a Hatchway using the Unerring Strike Detachment rule).

Protector Host

Mustering a Boarding Patrol

You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to three of each of the following units:
You can include up to two of the following unit:

Forming Boarding Squads


Rules Adaptations


Army Rule

Seers’ Guidance

The rune-sighted wisdom of the Farseers helps to guide the killing strikes of the Aeldari warhosts.

Units from your army with the Strands of Fate ability replace that ability with this one.

Once per battle round, you can target one unit from your army with this ability with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP.

Detachment Rule

Determined Defence

All too aware of the value of that which they defend, these warriors fight harder than ever, weaving around incoming enemy fire and shrugging off wounds that might otherwise see them laid low.

Each time an attack targets a GUARDIANS or DIRE AVENGERS unit from your army, if that unit is within range of an objective marker, add 1 to any armour saving throw made against that attack.

Stratagems

VOID GHOSTS
1CP
Protector Host – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Exploiting the fluctuating gravity of voidship fighting and flowing with the nigh-imperceptible movements of the vessel around them, the Aeldari acrobatically evade the blasts and blades of their foes.
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

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

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
SHURIKEN STORM
1CP
Protector Host – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Shuriken weaponry fill corridors and chambers with inescapable hails of monomolecular discs and reduce enemy boarding parties to bloodied ruin.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of Avenger shuriken catapults, shuriken catapults, shuriken pistols and shuriken cannons equipped by models in your unit.
SHIELD OF BLADES
1CP
Protector Host – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
A discipline refined for shipboard battle, this feat of marksmanship sees the Aeldari overlap annihilating hails of defensive fire.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement or Charge phase.

TARGET: One DIRE AVENGERS or GUARDIAN DEFENDERS unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
RAPID AMBUSH
1CP
Protector Host – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Reacting with a speed most mortal beings could not dream of, the Aeldari engulf emerging foes in a sudden hail of gunfire.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit opens a Hatchway.

TARGET: One DIRE AVENGERS or GUARDIANS unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase and is wholly on the opposite side of that Hatchway from that enemy unit.

EFFECT: If that enemy unit is within 9" of and visible to your unit, roll one D6: on a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. If that enemy unit suffers one or more mortal wounds in this way, your unit can then make a Normal move of up to D6”.

RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit cannot fire Overwatch.

Enhancements

We are not using enhancements from Boarding Actions in the crusade. These are here for reference only!

Click to view
Grace of Khaine

Fighting with lethal agility and perfect balance, this warrior places their every blow to inflict the maximum damage and scythe their enemies' every defence.

Each time the bearer makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 and re-roll a Damage roll of 1.
Rallying Cry

With well-chosen inspirational words, this war leader swiftly mobilises the Aeldari defence forces to protect their vessel.

In the Deploy Armies step, when the bearer is set up in an Entry Zone, you can set up two friendly GUARDIANS units within that Entry Zone instead of any other units.

Wraiths of the Void

Mustering a Boarding Patrol

You can include up to two of the following unit:
SPIRITSEER
You can include up to two of each of the following units:
WRAITHBLADES (5 or 10 models)
WRAITHGUARD (5 or 10 models)

Rules Adaptations


Army Rule

Seers’ Guidance

The rune-sighted wisdom of the Farseers helps to guide the killing strikes of the Aeldari warhosts.

Units from your army with the Strands of Fate ability replace that ability with this one.

Once per battle round, you can target one unit from your army with this ability with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP.

Detachment Rule

Wraith-Marked

By harnessing and binding ethereal energies to strategically significant sites, this force is able to create spiritual waypoints that shine like beacons to the ghost warriors’ perceptions.

In your Command phase, you can select one AELDARI unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control. That unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting 2 from the result if it has the WRAITH CONSTRUCT keyword: if passed, that objective marker is Secured by your army.

Stratagems

GUARDIAN CONSTRUCTS
1CP
Wraiths of the Void – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Like graven sentinels the wraith constructs stand immovable, barring the enemy's path.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

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

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the attacking model is wholly on the opposite side of a Hatchway from your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
WRAITHSIGHT
1CP
Wraiths of the Void – Battle Tactic Stratagem
There are advantages to perceiving the foe as glimmering souls without the obstruction of intervening walls and bulkheads.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability. In addition, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack's Ballistic Skill characteristic and/or to the Hit roll.
D-STRIKE
1CP
Wraiths of the Void – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Recognising the importance of liminal boundaries in void warfare, the ghost warriors unleash their fury upon such a space to the shock of their foes.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One WRAITH CONSTRUCT unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway that is visible to and within range of one or more of the ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit. Open that Hatchway and, until the end of the battle, that Hatchway cannot be closed. For each enemy unit within 3" of that Hatchway and wholly on the opposite side of it from your unit, until the start of your next Shooting phase, that enemy unit is stunned. While a unit is stunned, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to shoot.
UNFLINCHING FIRE
1CP
Wraiths of the Void – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
None can match the calm, patient precision of those who have already known death and do not fear it.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement or Charge phase.

TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.

Enhancements

We are not using enhancements from Boarding Actions in the crusade. These are here for reference only!

Click to view
Direct Guidance

Practised in the arts of warfare amidst tangled corridors and chambers, this seer knows how best to guide their spirit warriors to victory.

At the end of your Movement phase, select one friendly WRAITH CONSTRUCT unit within 6" of and visible to the bearer. Until the end of the turn, that WRAITH CONSTRUCT unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
Song of Renewal

Employing their potent arts, this seer is able to guide ghost warriors back from the very brink of oblivion.

In your Command phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one friendly WRAITH CONSTRUCT unit within 6" of and visible to the bearer. Return one destroyed model to that WRAITH CONSTRUCT unit with its full wounds remaining.

The bearer can only use this Enhancement up to two times.

Star-dancer Masque

Mustering a Boarding Patrol

You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):
If you do not include any other CHARACTER models, you can include one of the following unit:
You can include up to three of the following unit:

Forming Boarding Squads

In the Form Boarding Squads step, TROUPE units containing 11 models are each split into two Boarding Squads, one containing 6 models and the other containing the remaining 5 models.

Rules Adaptations


Army Rule

Seers’ Guidance

The rune-sighted wisdom of the Farseers helps to guide the killing strikes of the Aeldari warhosts.

Units from your army with the Strands of Fate ability replace that ability with this one.

Once per battle round, you can target one unit from your army with this ability with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP.

Detachment Rule

Faolchú’s Last Flight

Even should they be struck down by the foe, the players remain in character, embodying in their final steps the doomed but deadly fall of winged Faolchii.

Each time an AELDARI model from your army is destroyed by a melee attack, if it has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 3+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

Stratagems

VOID GHOSTS
1CP
Star-dancer Masque – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Exploiting the fluctuating gravity of voidship fighting and flowing with the nigh-imperceptible movements of the vessel around them, the Aeldari acrobatically evade the blasts and blades of their foes.
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

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

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
DARTING STRIKES
1CP
Star-dancer Masque – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Shuriken weaponry fill corridors and chambers with inescapable hails of monomolecular discs and reduce enemy boarding parties to bloodied ruin.
WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
SERPENT STRIKE
1CP
Star-dancer Masque – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
A discipline refined for shipboard battle, this feat of marksmanship sees the Aeldari overlap annihilating hails of defensive fire.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an AELDARI unit from your army destroys an enemy unit.

TARGET: That AELDARI unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Consolidation move, it can move up to D3+3" instead of up to 3" and, if it cannot end that move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units that are visible to it (and in Unit Coherency), it can still make that Consolidation move, and when doing so can move in any direction.
ACROBATIC LEAPS
1CP
Star-dancer Masque – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Reacting with a speed most mortal beings could not dream of, the Aeldari engulf emerging foes in a sudden hail of gunfire.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, Desperate Escape tests taken for models in your unit are automatically passed, and each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, models in your unit can move through other models as if they were not there.

Enhancements

We are not using enhancements from Boarding Actions in the crusade. These are here for reference only!

Click to view
Prismatic Garb

In the close confines of shipboard war, the bewildering effect of this Harlequin’s domino field is redoubled.

Enemy units cannot fire Overwatch at the bearer.
Path of Eldanesh

Following the steps of the Path of Eldanesh, this player moves through their foes like a bladed wind, swift and unstoppable as that hero of myth.

The bearer has the Fights First ability and, each time the bearer opens a Hatchway, until the end of the turn, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer by 1.