Agent of the Imperium

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When you select a PSYKER unit to manifest psychic powers, you select one psychic power that unit knows and attempt to manifest it. With the exception of Smite, you cannot attempt to manifest the same psychic power more than once in the same battle round, even with different PSYKER units. The same PSYKER unit cannot attempt to manifest Smite more than once during the same battle round. The other three effects are a bit more esoteric. The Folly of Mercy allows an Armiger to Action and Shoot, which is now relevant thanks to a new Secondary Objective, so can be worth having in your “spare” slot if you’re expecting to aim for that. The last two both interact with the Oaths mechanic and they’re…OK. One lets nearby Armigers count your Honour as higher than it is as long as you’ve got at least some active, and the other lets you turn on the Honoured or Virtuous effects of an additional Oath for one model. Both of these sound cool, but run into the problem a lot of things in this book do – quite few rules that interact with the Code Chivalric feel like they were written for a slightly different version of the ability (which I’ll discuss in more detail the end), and end up a bit underpowered as a result. Here, I don’t think you ever take these – there are three excellent choices in the two powerful Auras and Wisdom, and Folly can broaden your objective plan. Secondary Objectives A dominion as vast as the Imperium requires all kinds of agencies to keep it running, from the fastidious scribes and accountants of the Adeptus Administratum to the void-faring Imperial Navy. Most of these organisations maintain their own cadres of professional troops for when things get dicey on their own patch. These are the Imperial Agents, a disparate collection of house troops, irregulars, and specialist operatives sometimes seconded to other parts of the Imperial war machine when their expertise may prove useful. Voidsmen-at-Arms are a T3/4+ unit which gains the [LETHAL HITS] ability when shooting the closest target. They’re armed with a variety of light weapons, and of course the best feature is a dog armed with a vicious bite. The Imperial Agents RETINUE units are an eclectic combination of releases from Kill Team and various boxed games.

The release of 10th Edition brings about a complete rewrite of every faction, and in this article we’ll cover how Imperial Agents work. Unlike regular factions, Imperial Agents are designed to complement IMPERIUM faction armies, adding units that can be integrated into other armies without affecting their faction or detachment rules. This means things will be a bit different from the other faction focus articles.Relics: A spicy selection of relics was one of the big draws to Imperial Knights in 8th Edition, and that’s just as true in the new book.

James Bond meets Star Wars' is a shorthand way of describing the series but it will be more than that. Cross is not Bond but the stories will be influenced by Bond, as well as Secret Agent, Jason Bourne, and so on." ―John Ostrander [2] If your army is Battle-forged, you can include one AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM unit in each IMPERIUM (excluding FALLEN units) Patrol, Battalion and Brigade Detachment in your army without those units taking up slots in those Detachments. The inclusion of an AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM unit does not prevent other units from their Detachment benefiting from Detachment abilities (e.g. Chapter Tactics, Defenders of Humanity etc.), and it does not prevent other units from your army benefiting from abilities that require every model in your army to have that ability (e.g. Combat Doctrines). An AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM unit included in a Patrol, Battalion or Brigade Detachment in this manner is ignored for any rules that state all units from that Detachment must have at least one Faction keyword in common (e.g. in a matched play game), and when determining your Army Faction.Just at baseline though, if these did nothing other than provide Damage Reduction, you’d still want to have all your Armigers under the effect of one all the time. Given they provide considerably more than that, make sure you build your army so that you can make this happen (which is, as we’ll see, very doable).