
If you do so, that ka’tah’s other stance also becomes active for your army. Once per battle, when you select one of that ka’tah’s stances to be active for your army, you can use this ability. The fighting style they gain depends upon which shield host they are assigned to.Įach fighting style also specifies a martial ka’tah. If your shield host is not listed in this section, it is treated as an EMPEROR’S CHOSEN shield host for the purposes of the following rules.Īll units in a Shield Host Detachment will gain a shield host fighting style, each of which includes two traits. Such a Detachment is referred to as a Shield Host Detachment. If your army is Battle-forged, units in ADEPTUS CUSTODES Detachments gain access to the following shield host rules, provided every model in that Detachment that is assigned to a shield host is assigned to the same shield host. Note that this means in the fifth Command phase, there would be no ka’tah stances available to her, so she does not select one. In her fourth Command phase, she must select Calistus stance 1 to be active, as it is the only remaining stance she is able to select. She selects Calistus stance 2 to be active. She cannot select Rendax stance 1, as she cannot select a stance of a previous ka’tah. In her third Command phase, she can select Dacatarai stance 2 to be active, or she can instead select Calistus stance 1 or 2 to be active, as she has previously selected a secondary ka’tah stance. She selects Dacatarai stance 1 to be active. She cannot select a Calistus stance, as she must select a secondary ka’tah’s stance before she can select a tertiary ka’tah’s stance. In her second Command phase, she can select Rendax stance 1 to be active, or she can instead select Dacatarai stance 1 or 2 to be active, as she has previously selected a primary ka’tah stance. In her first command phase, she selects Rendax stance 2 to be active. She selects Rendax as her primary ka’tah, Dacatarai as her secondary ka’tah and Calistus as her tertiary ka’tah. Once you select a stance of a different martial ka’tah, you cannot select a stance of a previous martial ka’tah.Įxample: Every model in Emily’s army has the ADEPTUS CUSTODES keyword.You must select a primary ka’tah stance first, and you cannot select a tertiary ka’tah stance until you have selected a secondary ka’tah stance.You cannot select a ka’tah stance more than once.When selecting a ka’tah stance to become active, the following rules apply: Each time you do so, units from your army with this ability benefit from it until the start of your next Command phase. In each of your Command phases, so long as one is available, you must select one ka’tah stance to become active for your army. Note this down secretly on your army roster. If every unit from your army has the ADEPTUS CUSTODES keyword (excluding ANATHEMA PSYKANA, AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM and UNALIGNED units), and every unit that is assigned to a shield host is assigned to the same shield host, this unit can use this ability and the following rules apply.Īfter both sides have deployed, but before you have determined who will have the first turn, you must select a primary, secondary and tertiary martial ka’tah from the list below for your army to use in the battle. Certain abilities that are common to many units are only referenced on the datasheets rather than described in full. If your army is Battle-forged, you cannot include units from two different shield hosts in the same Detachment.Ī unit’s datasheet will list all the abilities it has. This could be one of the shield hosts detailed in a Warhammer 40,000 publication, or one of your own design.Įxample: If you include a SHIELD-CAPTAIN unit in your army, and you decide he has been assigned to the Solar Watch shield host, his keyword becomes SOLAR WATCH and his Inspirational Fighter ability reads, ‘While a friendly SOLAR WATCH CORE unit is within 6" of this model, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a hit roll of 1.’ When you include such a unit in your army, you must nominate which shield host it is from and then replace the keyword in every instance on its datasheet with the name of your chosen shield host. This is a keyword that you can select for yourself, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book, with the guidance detailed below.Īll ADEPTUS CUSTODES units are assigned to a shield host. ADEPTUS CUSTODES datasheets in this section have the keyword.
