Instead you may retain a single normal defense die as a critical save, but aren’t disqualified if you already retained another critical. In most cases your opponent is going to have 2-3 special weapons that you need to do your best to avoid, or bait out and kill quickly. The Balefire Acolyte is the psyker of the Legionary Kill Team, which means that it can manifest psychic powers, but can’t take the Khorne Mark of Chaos, since Khorne really hates magic. Suspensor System: The Heavy special rule of ranged weapons the operative is equipped with is treated differently. As with any Battle Honour, an operative cannot have the same one more than once (if a duplicate result is rolled, roll again until a different result is rolled).

This can be used to upgrade the standard Marine profile by 1 attack and 1 critical damage, which is huge for your non-combat specialists allowing them to more reliably bully horde operatives in combat, or defend themselves against enemy specialists. Each operative in a Legionary Kill Team must have a Mark of Chaos keyword, which grants them a bonus in the game depending on which Chaos God from which they receive their mark.

This counts whether they’re the attacker or not giving operatives significant movement potential if your opponent isn’t careful. This operative’s main draw is the In the Eyes of the Gods ability, which allows him to perform a single Free Action after it incapacitates an enemy setting up for incredibly powerful 4 action activations. With its Action Point Limit of 3, 12 wounds and a 3+ Save, it’s as formidable as they come for an operative in power armour, and its weapon options are also pretty straightforward: You can go for a Boltgun and Fists or a Bolt pistol and Chainsword.

Tzeentch - Empyreal GuidanceEach time this operative makes a shooting attack, in the Roll Attack Dice step of that shooting attack, you can retain one of your attack dice results of 5+ that is a successful hit as a critical hit. The Heavy Bolter has the Fusillade Special Rule that allows it to distribute its attack dice among multiple adjacent targets, as well as the P1 Critical Rule that gives it Armour Penetration 1 if it scores any critical hits. This archetype focuses on outnumbering (in terms of APL) your opponent on key locations and remaining static, meaning it can pair very well with Loot. In most cases plasma and melta are the primary threat making Blessing of Tzeentch a reliable path to take.

It can do so even if it’s performed a Normal Move or Charge action during the activation, and vice versa, doing so doesn’t prevent it from subsequently performing a Normal Move or Charge action during that activation in the normal manner. Life Siphon is 5 attacks, +3 hit/wound, 3/3 damage, and heals D3 wounds if at least two attacks are resolved, making it more niche than Fireblast.

All of this sounds like a lot, and it is, but the Butcher is also the only operative that hits on +4 and comes with 1 less attack than his peers, making him very vulnerable to counter charging from opposing melee specialists, or simply missing entirely.Mutagenic Flesh (C) and Implacable (C) – Mutagenic Flesh was the key ploy for most Legionnaires team up until the Q1 2023 Dataslate, which now caps its damage reduction on normal hits to 3 as opposed to 2.

The intended target is within of a point at which a Cover line crosses another operative’s base (unless that other operative is not itself in the active operative’s LoS), or a terrain feature that provides Cover (see Terrain Traits).If you like having many different options and being able to change your playstyle a lot between games, the Legionary Kill Team might be the right team for you.