BLOODED

KILL GRADE [12]

1	2	3	4	5
2	5	7	10	12

What to Know

Tactical Overview

The Blooded faction excels at aggressive, close-quarters combat by earning Blooded tokens through incapacitations, which grant powerful weapon bonuses and can trigger the Gaze of the Gods for devastating critical hits, rewarding bold offensive play and sacrifice.

Core Abilities

Unusual Shooting ✓

Firefight Ploy: Turn Their Guns: ignore friendly operative restrictions when selecting target

Unusual Melee ✗

Super Conceal ✗

Out of Order Movement ✗

Activation Manipulation ✗

APL Modifiers ✓

Firefight Ploy: Infernal Swiftness: +1 APL to friendly operative under GAZE OF THE GODS

Bitter Demise ✓

Bitter Demise: Inflicts D3 damage on enemy when friendly operative is incapacitated.

Block Rerolls ✓

Faction Equipment: Sinister Trophies: cannot reroll attack dice results of 1

Damage Reduction ✗

Faction Rules

BLOODED: Gain Blooded tokens for incapacitations, granting Accurate 1 and potential critical success boost.

Strategic Ploys

Offering to the Gods: Gives Ceaseless or Relentless against target enemy.
No Coward Can Earn Glory: Gives Accurate 1 or Punishing in enemy territory.
Favour of the Dark Gods: Reroll one defence dice when targeted.
Bitter Demise: Inflict D3 damage on death to nearby enemy.

Firefight Ploys

Turn Their Guns: inflict damage on friendly operative on failed hits
Infernal Swiftness: add 1 to APL for activation
Reward Earned: gain Blooded token on enemy incapacitation
Spared from Death: redirect attack to another friendly operative

Equipment

CHAOS SIGIL: Reward Earned ploy costs 0 CP.
SINISTER TROPHIES: Enemies cannot reroll attack dice of 1 near Blooded tokens.
SYMBOLS OF BLOODY WORSHIP: Regain 1 wound after damaging enemies in an action.
WICKED BLADES: +1 damage to bayonets and improvised blades.

Operative Selection

BLOODED 💀 operatives are selected from various traitor roles such as Chieftain, Commsman, Corpseman, Enforcer, Brimstone Grenadier, Butcher, Gunner, Ogryn, Sharpshooter, Thug, Trench Sweeper, and Trooper.

Operative Datacards

12 operatives

Commsman

2 6" 5+ 7

Corpseman

2 6" 5+ 7

Enforcer

2 6" 5+ 7

Chieftain

2 6" 5+ 7

Brimstone Grenadier

2 6" 5+ 7

Butcher

2 6" 5+ 7

Gunner

2 6" 5+ 7

Ogryn

2 6" 5+ 7

Sharpshooter

2 6" 5+ 7

Thug

2 6" 5+ 7

Trench Sweeper

2 6" 5+ 7

Trooper

2 6" 5+ 7

Faction Rules

1 rules

BLOODED

Faction Rule

Gain Blooded tokens for incapacitations, granting Accurate 1 and potential critical success boost.

BLOODED 💀

The Blooded seek to earn the favour of malign warp entities by hurling themselves into combat and slaying the most potent foes. Should they die in the attempt, their souls may serve as acceptable sacrifices.

You gain one BLOODED 💀 token: - In the Ready step of each Strategy phase. - The first time an enemy operative is incapacitated during each turning point. - The first time a friendly operative is incapacitated within 6" of an enemy operative during each turning point. As a STRATEGIC GAMBIT, you can assign any of your unassigned BLOODED 💀 tokens to friendly BLOODED 💀 operatives. Each operative cannot have more than one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens. Then, if four or more friendly operatives in the killzone have one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens, you can select one of them to be under the GAZE OF THE GODS until the end of the turning point. Whenever a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative has one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens, its weapons have the Accurate 1 weapon rule. If that friendly BLOODED 💀 operative is under the GAZE OF THE GODS, you can retain one of your normal successes as a result of the Accurate 1 weapon rule as a critical success instead.

Strategy Ploys

4 ploys

Offering to the Gods

Strategy Ploy

Gives Ceaseless or Relentless against target enemy.

BLOODED 💀

By bringing down the strongest and most capable of enemies, the Blooded may provide a worthy offering to the Ruinous Powers.

Select one enemy operative visible to a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative. Until the end of the turning point, whenever a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative is shooting against, fighting against or retaliating against that enemy operative, that shooting, fighting or retaliating operative’s weapons have the Ceaseless weapon rule, or Relentless if it has one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens.

No Coward Can Earn Glory

Strategy Ploy

Gives Accurate 1 or Punishing in enemy territory.

BLOODED 💀

No coward can earn glory. The Blooded are willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of malefic warp powers.

Whenever a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative that’s wholly within your opponent’s territory and doesn’t have one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens is shooting or fighting, its weapons have the Accurate 1 weapon rule. Whenever a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative that has one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens is wholly within your opponent’s territory, its weapons have the Punishing weapon rule.

Favour of the Dark Gods

Strategy Ploy

Reroll one defence dice when targeted.

Bitter Demise

Strategy Ploy

Inflict D3 damage on death to nearby enemy.

BLOODED 💀

Consumed by hatred, the Blooded spit, curse and lash out as they die, screaming aggrieved words of heresy as they land a final strike upon the foe.

Whenever a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative is incapacitated, before it’s removed from the killzone, roll one D3: on a 3 (or 2+ if that friendly operative has one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens), inflict damage equal to the result on one enemy operative visible to and within 2" of that friendly operative.

Firefight Ploys

4 ploys

Turn Their Guns

Firefight Ploy

inflict damage on friendly operative on failed hits

BLOODED 💀

Pity is a trait of the weak. The Blooded will gladly turn their guns upon their own kin if doing so will ensure the destruction of an enemy.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative performs the Shoot action and you’re selecting a valid target. Having other friendly BLOODED 💀 operatives within an enemy operative’s control range doesn’t prevent that enemy operative from being selected. Until the end of that action, whenever you discard an attack dice as a fail, inflict damage equal to the dice result on one friendly operative of your choice within control range of the target.

Infernal Swiftness

Firefight Ploy

add 1 to APL for activation

Reward Earned

Firefight Ploy

gain Blooded token on enemy incapacitation

Spared from Death

Firefight Ploy

redirect attack to another friendly operative

BLOODED 💀

Those who have spilled the blood of the foe and earned the favour of their infernal patron may be spared from death, as long as another pays the price in their stead.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative that has one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens is selected as the valid target of a Shoot action or to fight against during the Fight action. Select one other friendly BLOODED 💀 operative visible to and within 3" of that first friendly operative to become the valid target or to be fought against (as appropriate) instead (even if it wouldn’t normally be valid for this). If it’s the Fight action, treat that other operative as being within the fighting operative’s control range for the duration of that action. If it’s the Shoot action, that other operative is only in cover or obscured if the original target was. This ploy has no effect if it’s the Shoot action and the ranged weapon has the Blast or Torrent weapon rule.

Faction Equipment

4 items

CHAOS SIGIL

Faction Equipment

Reward Earned ploy costs 0 CP.

SINISTER TROPHIES

Faction Equipment

Enemies cannot reroll attack dice of 1 near Blooded tokens.

BLOODED 💀

The Blooded adorn their armour with severed heads affixed to rusty spikes, cloaks and tabards of flayed skin, and all manner of other grisly trophies hacked from the corpses of their victims.

Whenever an enemy operative is shooting against, fighting against or retaliating against a friendly BLOODED 💀 operative that has one of your BLOODED 💀 tokens and is within 2" of it, your opponent cannot re-roll their attack dice results of 1.

SYMBOLS OF BLOODY WORSHIP

Faction Equipment

Regain 1 wound after damaging enemies in an action.

WICKED BLADES

Faction Equipment

+1 damage to bayonets and improvised blades.

Universal Equipment

0 items