Knights of Avarice
The warbands who follow the Prince of Greed call themselves the Knights of Avarice. Such heretics display their wealth extravagantly and prefer to carry the most expensive and hard-to-acquire weapons, armour and equipment, suffering none to join them who lacks the means to obtain their glittering panoply. They are festooned with chains of gold and the finest silk cloaks, their armour is gilded with gold and decorated with precious stones, and the handles of their great coin hammers are made of the rarest of wood. Yet despite the opulent wealth at display, their finery is tarnished by the blood and soot that spews from the Hellgate, and the delicate artistic filigree of their golden masks is both terrible and beautiful in equal measure. In combat they favour hammers and clubs that break the bones but leave the flesh and blood intact, as well as poison gas and highly accurate rifles. They scorn crude and destructive fire or explosive weapons that could damage any objects of value.
After the Knights of Avarice have claimed victory in combat, they scour the battlefield or any settlement they’ve conquered like a swarm of locusts. Anything and everything of value is taken: metals from brass to bronze, silver to gold, art objects, precious stones, livestock, trade goods, rare tomes and scrolls… all are meticulously catalogued and carried away by slaves and demonic beasts of burden or great armoured cars that take the stolen loot to the underground treasure chambers which act as the temples of Mammon. Even the dead are stripped of their flesh with the detached skill of seasoned butchers, ready to be sold at market. Internal organs taken from fallen victims are carefully preserved in alchemical liquids to be sold to the scientists of the infernal laboratories.
For the Heretics of the Path of Mammon hoarding riches is not mere acquisition of wealth – it is their religious compulsion. Ironically, they gain little pleasure from their vast wealth, as their greed makes them continuously desire ever greater riches. Thus their warbands forever roam No Man’s Land, looking for forgotten treasures or foes to dissect and turn into wealth. For the greed of Mammon will never be sated.
Faction Rules
Captains
Upon recruiting the model, you may choose one of the following heretical powers for it to possess.
Elite
All enemy models within 8” of the Chorister suffer an additional -1 DICE for all ACTIONS they attempt.
Suicide is a Mortal Sin, and sacrificing yourself to the glory of Hell is a yet greater affront to God. Some Heretics born with a gift of sonorous voice but little prospects of rising through the ranks but possessing a determination to excel may pursue the dark path of becoming a Chorister.
Such supplicants go to one of the black altars of Heretic abodes at the bottom of the deep inverted pyramid temples dedicated to the greatest of Arch-devils. There they are dressed in the robes of dark devotion, lie on the altar and mutilate themselves to death by carving unholy runes into their flesh. The more wounds they can suffer before perishing, the more pleasing it is said their offering is. The most devout slice their own throats, trying to cut as deep as they can before their miserable life leaves them.
Most such wretches go to their doom in the Lake of Fire, but some are reborn as Choristers after nine days. Their corpses lurch back to their feet, and finish their grisly beheading, and lift their severed heads that begin to sing hymns they have learned in the Inferno. From their self-inflicted wounds spurts cold blood that forms diabolic symbols and changes to match the words of their unholy chorale. They head towards the front lines driven by a call no living can hear and join the Heretic warband of their choosing.
As their severed heads sing their agonising hymns, the minds of their enemies are filled with visions from the Pits of Hell, weakening both the resolve and strength of those unfortunate enough to hear the dire song of a Chorister. Their hymns are often the first thing a fresh recruit experiences on the battlefield, as their unholy voice rolls across the trenches, proclaiming a never-ending prophecy of the final victory of Hell over Heaven.
Infantry
Infernal Brand Mark
Negates the extra BLOOD MARKER from attacks with the keyword FIRE. Any such attacks suffer -1 DICE penalty to all injury rolls.
A Heretic who has made a Holy Pilgrimage into Hell itself is branded by their patron devil with an ever-burning mark. Mortal fire no longer has the power to harm them.
Reinforced Armour
Grants a -2 modifier to all injury rolls against the model wearing this armour.
Reinforced armour is a master-crafted suit made individually for the most important and elite troops. Each one is richly decorated and often carries the personal device of the warrior who wears it.
The Artillery Witch can Climb up without taking an ACTION and does not roll on the Injury Chart when falling.
Artillery Witches are not affected by FEAR. Additionally, attacks with the Keyword GAS suffer a -1 DICE penalty to injure the Witch and they do not suffer additional BLOOD MARKERS from the Keyword GAS.
Infernal Gas Bomb
| Range | 36" |
| Hands | 1 Hands (Ranged) |
| Modifiers | Ignore Armour, Blast 3" |
BLAST (X), GAS
This wicked infernal weapon is treated as a one-handed Ranged weapon with the Keyword BLAST 3”. Specify a 1x1mm point on the battlefield within 36” that the Witch can see and that you want to target. Next, make a Ranged Attack ACTION. If the roll fails (i.e. you roll 6 or less with the two lowest Dice), the bomb lands 1” away from its intended location, multiplied by the number representing the degree of failure (for example, if you rolled 5, the bomb lands 2” away, as 7 - 5 = 2). The direction is decided by your opponent. Roll on the Injury Chart for each model within the BLAST radius. If the bomb lands exactly on top of any model, make a standard Injury roll. Other models hit by the bomb roll on the Injury Chart with -1 DICE. Any model hit, but not taken Out of Action, by this attack is blown D3” directly away from the point of impact (roll for each model separately), stopping if they hit other models, buildings or objects. This attack has the Keyword GAS and therefore causes an additional +1 BLOOD MARKER. Cover, range and higher position do not affect attacks by the Infernal Bomb. Roll injuries for models that would benefit from Cover from the perspective of the BLAST point with -1 DICE. The Activation of the Witch ends immediately after using the Infernal Bomb.
As a RISKY ACTION with +1 DICE, the Warlock can Teleport up to 6” in any direction into a free space it can see, including into melee with an enemy model. The Warlock may bring a single enemy model that is in Melee Combat with it and has a base size of 32mm or smaller. There must be suitable space for the Warlock (and a possible passenger which must end the teleport in Melee Combat with the Warlock) at its target destination or this teleport automatically fails. It may not teleport out of the battlefield. It may teleport even if it is currently Down, but remains so after the teleportation.
This is an ACTION which is modified exactly the same way as a ranged attack, executed against one enemy the Warlock can see within 24”. If successful, the model suffers one BLOOD MARKER. If the success is a Critical Success, the target suffers two BLOOD MARKER instead. This ACTION can be used against enemy models in Melee Combat without having to randomise the target.
Enemies cannot Retreat from the Goetic Warlock. Additionally, if a model is able to move out of Melee Combat with the Warlock because of a special ability (such as the Assassin’s Dagger), they cannot.
Sword / Axe
| Range | Melee |
| Hands | 1 Hands (Melee) |
CRITICAL
Because of the martial traditions of many proud nations and due to the advances in armour technology, swords and axes are extremely popular, especially amongst elite units and officers. They are supremely useful for finishing off downed opponents and causing profusely bleeding wounds.
Reinforced Armour
Grants a -2 modifier to all injury rolls against the model wearing this armour.
Reinforced armour is a master-crafted suit made individually for the most important and elite troops. Each one is richly decorated and often carries the personal device of the warrior who wears it.
Goetic Warlocks are horrific creations from the death factories of the 3rd Circle of Hell, manufactured from captured priests, prophets, vicars, rectors and monks. Fiendish machines first burn their flesh away with hellfire, encasing the still-living skeletons in an infernal suit of armour and stamping them with goetic runes. The process is so agonising that they consent to a demonic pact to bring end to their pain. Thus a new Goetic Warlock is born, ready to hunt the living they once swore to protect.
The mere gaze of the warlock causes necrosis and in close quarters they embrace unsuspecting enemies with their iron claws, using their goetic magic to gate themselves to a secluded location where they can finish their victim by slowly shredding them apart. Their favourite method is by skinning their victims alive and using their gruesome trophies as repulsive vellum to write grimoires and unholy religious texts, or wearing the faces of their victims to power their illusionary spells to confound their enemies.
Due to the rarity of victims required to create Goetic Warlocks, they are only assigned to the Heretic commanders with the greatest renown, need and with the right connections in the twisted web of Heretic politics. Mammon, the great devil of Greed, sells the services of his own personal battalion of Warlocks to the highest bidder.
The Heretic Trooper can be equipped with any weapon, armour or equipment from the Heretic Legion Armoury.
You can upgrade up to half (rounding down) of your Heretic Troopers into Heretic Legionnaires at the cost of +10 ducats each. You can select to upgrade either the Ranged or Melee characteristic of any of your Legionnaires by +1 DICE. You can choose a different bonus for each Legionnaire.
A War Wolf may take its Dash ACTION with +2 DICE. The War Wolf ignores movement penalties caused by Difficult Terrain.
Chain Maw
| Range | Melee |
| Modifiers | +1D to Hit, +1D to Injuries, Ignore Armour |
RISKY ACTION
The War Wolf treats its Chainsaw Mouth as a melee weapon with the Keyword RISKY that grants a +1 DICE bonus to hit (for total of +3D). Additionally, the attack ignores any armour worn by the target and has a +1 DICE bonus to injure. The Chainsaw Mouth does not take any hands to wield.
Shredding Claws
| Range | Melee |
| Hands | 2 Hands (Melee) |
| Modifiers | +1D to Injuries |
RISKY ACTION, CUMBERSOME
The War Wolf treats its Shredding Claws as a two-handed melee weapon with the Keywords RISKY and CUMBERSOME. The Shredding Claws have a +1 DICE bonus to injure. Because the Shredding Claws are wielded alongside the Chainsaw Mouth, they are treated as an Off-Hand Weapon and suffer penalties accordingly.
If a Wretch manages to take any enemy ELITE model Out of Action or performs a Glorious Deed, it gains its freedom and is immediately removed from the battle and from your warband permanently. It does not count as a casualty, but your warband’s total size for this battle is reduced by one for purposes of Morale.
If a Wretch is taken Out of Action in battle, one of your models with Keywords HERETIC and ELITE gains one BLESSING MARKER.
Wretched can be sold at any time for their full ducat value between battles. Note that their weapons, armour and equipment still only fetch half price.
Many unfortunates fall into the hands of the Heretic warbands, either during one of their many raids or battles, or purchased from the slave markets within their own territories. Some are foolhardy adventurers who travel into the domains of the damned only to be caught by their watchful patrols.
Their lot is grim and terrible. They are worked to death in the factories of Sixty-Six Lords, butchered for meat, or worst of all, sold or offered to the agents of the Court of the Seven-Headed Serpent to be used as raw power for Goetic Spells.
Yet one path to freedom exists: they can volunteer to serve in the Legions as the lowest of low, the most disposable of penal troops. For the law of Hell is clear: those who rebel against God can gain their freedom if they are deemed to have performed sufficiently great deeds. Thus it is no wonder that many Heretic warbands drive swarms of the Wretched ahead of them to blunt and slow down the enemy assaults.
Wretched are branded with cursed flesh-eating tattoos as a safeguard against escape and heavily drugged to degrade and dull their will, while still leaving their aggression intact. Heretic Elites discard the lives of the Wretched carelessly, as their sacrifice on the battlefield counts as a worthy deed which will be rewarded by their Patrons.
Mercenaries
Scripture Guardian has a halved Dash distance (i.e. 3”).
The Scripture Guardian reads words from the holy (or unholy!) text it carries. This is an attack ACTION with 18” range, and it can be used in either Melee or as a Ranged attack (though not both during the same Activation). Use Ranged and Melee Characteristics as appropriate. This attack ignores armour and cover. For each BLOOD MARKER the target has, add +1 to the Injury roll. Note that if armed with a melee weapon, both the Melee attack and the use of the Vengeageful Scripture can be used simultaneously.
Combat Helmet
Ignores additional BLOOD MARKERS caused by the Keyword SHRAPNEL.
The simple combat helmet has proven its value on the battlefield time and again.
Reinforced Armour
Grants a -2 modifier to all injury rolls against the model wearing this armour.
Reinforced armour is a master-crafted suit made individually for the most important and elite troops. Each one is richly decorated and often carries the personal device of the warrior who wears it.
As a RISKY ACTION, the Sin Eater can attempt to consume a model, friend (in which case the ACTION is not RISKY and is done with +1 DICE) or foe, that is on a 40mm or smaller base and is within 1”. If successful, remove the model from the table and set aside any markers that the model has (BLOOD, INFECTION, BLESSING etc.). While it is devoured the model cannot be targeted by any attack or ability. When Activated, the devoured model may make one melee attack ACTION available to it, but the attack suffers a -3 DICE penalty when rolling to hit. A devoured model counts as being Down for all rules purposes (including Morale) and, if it is still devoured at the end of the battle, it counts as being Out of Action instead.
Whenever the Sin Eater is activated, the devoured model suffers one BLOOD MARKER automatically that cannot be avoided by any means. If the devoured model suffers a BLOOD MARKER in this way when it already has six BLOOD MARKER, it is immediately taken Out of Action and it is no longer considered devoured. If the Sin Eater is taken Out of Action, the devoured model is placed Down where the Sin Eater was. The Sin Eater can only ever have one consumed model in its belly.
The Sin Eater attempts to purge a model it has devoured as an ACTION with +4 DICE. If successful, the model’s controller places the model within 1” of the Sin Eater. If no suitable space exists, the vomit fails and the model remains devoured. The vomited model is Down. The Sin Eater can only use this ACTION if it has a model devoured.
Tenderizer Maul
| Range | Melee |
| Hands | 2 Hands (Melee) |
| Modifiers | +1 to Injuries |
HEAVY
Its huge reach means that the Sin Eater may make one Melee Attack ACTION against each enemy model it is fighting in Melee.
Reinforced Armour
Grants a -2 modifier to all injury rolls against the model wearing this armour.
Reinforced armour is a master-crafted suit made individually for the most important and elite troops. Each one is richly decorated and often carries the personal device of the warrior who wears it.
Sin Eaters are horrific creatures: once they were mortal men and women, but their overwhelming greed and hunger for human flesh tainted with Sin, combined with the corrupting influence of the Hellgate, has turned them into a form that matches their inner foulness. They’re swollen into monstrous proportions and are always at a point of nearly bursting, yet forever ravenous for more flesh and human sins to devour.
The Sin Eater is one of the very few creatures that Beelzebub approves of outside his own followers due its insatiable gluttony.
