Activation Phase

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Actions Success Rolls +DICE and -DICE Ending The Activation Phase

If you have the Initiative, you must choose a model in your Warband and Activate it. Your opponent must then Activate a model, and so on, back and forth until all models have been Activated. A model cannot be Activated more than once per Turn.

Actions

The Activated model can take the following

Actions

once each, in any order you wish:

Move or Charge or Retreat: You can use an

Action

to Move or Charge or Retreat with your model, but not more than one.

Move: You can move your model a number of inches equal to its Movement Characteristic in any direction (no roll is required). Obstacles up to 1" high can be crossed without penalty, and your model can climb sheer surfaces if you first pass a
Risky Success
Roll. Difficult terrain, like rubble or swamp, is crossed at half speed.
Charge: Pick an enemy model that is visible to your model and within 12" of it as the target of the charge. Then roll a dice, add the result to your model’s Movement Characteristic and move it towards the target. If your model finishes its move within 1" of the target, it can Fight
Retreat: You can only move a model that is within 1" of an enemy by taking a Retreat
Action
. Move the model directly away from its opponent a number of inches equal to its Movement Characteristic (no roll is required). Your opponent can make a Melee Attack against the Retreating model before you move it away. If this attack takes your model Down or Out of Action it is not moved.

Dash: A Dash

Action

can be carried out in addition to a Move, Charge or Retreat

Action

. You can move your model a number of inches equal to its Movement Characteristic in any direction, but you must take a

Risky Success

Roll for the model first. If you Succeed, your model can Move (it cannot Charge or Retreat). If you fail, the model’s Activation ends.

Shoot: You can make a Ranged Attack with your model if it is more than 1" from the enemy and has a Ranged Weapon. Your model cannot Shoot and take a Charge or Fight ACTION in the same activation unless it uses a weapon that has the

Assault

keyword.

Fight: You can make a Melee Attack with your model if it is within 1" of an enemy and has a Melee Weapon.

Other: Some models have other

Actions

they can take during their Activations.

Success Rolls

To take a Success Roll, roll two dice, add any

+dice

-dice

to the roll as described below, pick the two highest (or lowest if any

-dice

were used), add them together, and consult the table below to see if you have succeeded. The instructions for the task you are carrying out will tell you what happens if you succeed or fail. If you are taking a

Risky Success

Roll and you fail, the model’s Activation is over and your opponent can now Activate one of their models!

2-6	Failure
7-11	Success
12	Critical Success. Add +1 Injury Dice to Ranged or Melee Attacks if you roll a Critical Success.

+DICE and -DICE

Rules often have modifiers to Success Rolls marked as

+dice

and

-dice

. These are shown in the format “

+1 Dice

” or “

-1 Dice

”.

For each

+dice

, add 1 dice to the Success Roll. Then roll all the dice and pick the 2 highest rolls. For example,

+1 Dice

means you roll 3 dice and pick the 2 highest. If

+2 Dice

are added, roll 4 dice and pick the 2 highest, and so on.

The

-dice

works in reverse. For each

-dice

, add 1 dice to the Success Roll and pick the 2 lowest numbers. For example,

-1 Dice

means you roll 3 dice and pick the 2 lowest.

If both

+dice

and

-dice

are added to the same Success Roll, remove pairs of

+dice

and

-dice

until only one type is remaining. For example, if a roll had

+2 Dice

and

-1 Dice

, one of the

+1 Dice

and the

-1 Dice

would be removed, leaving

+1 Dice

to be added to the roll.

Ending The Activation Phase

Once you have taken any and all

Actions

you wish, or have failed a

Risky Success

Roll, your model’s Activation ends. Your opponent can now Activate one of their models. The players then alternate Activating models in this fashion until one player runs out of models to Activate. Their opponent can then Activate their remaining models one after the other until they have all been Activated, then proceed to the Morale Phase.

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