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Trench Ghosts

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Faction lore

Sometimes when Heretic troopers die upon a hallowed ground or in presence of an uncorrupted holy relic, they become trapped between planes of existence. Claimed by neither Heaven nor Hell, the Trench Ghosts become Undead – doomed to fight a war without an end, attacking both the Faithful and Heretic alike, hating all life, obeying commands that no living can hear. Their greed for worldly wealth and items of power remains undiminished, and their semi-corporeal bodies are exceedingly difficult to destroy. Their faces, covered with gas masks they no longer have any use for, betray nothing of the agony they endure. In close combat they whisper of the agony of their existence and the pain of their doom which will never give them rest, their broken bodies and shattered minds forced to endure the horrors of war for all eternity. Few can withstand such terror without breaking.

Tales are told of many Trench Ghost Warbands that haunt No Man’s Land, but the most famous are the Ghosts of Tannenberg, shades of the Heretic force that won the battle of Tannenberg but after sacking the Church of St. Jacob passed into the shadow.

Faction Rules

Undead
All models in the Trench Ghost warband do not suffer additional
Blood Markers
from attacks with the Keyword
Gas
.
Tank Palanquin
At the cost of 60 ducats, the Heretic Priest of the warband can ride a ghostly Tank Palanquin.
Spectral
All models in the warband ignore movement penalties caused by Difficult Terrain, though they cannot move through any objects/terrain. Dangerous terrain affects them as normal.
Slow
All models in Trench Ghost warband have a half Dash distance (i.e. 3”), and they suffer
-1 Dice
to all attacks against models Retreating from Melee combat.
Semi-Corporeal
Any Ranged attacks against all models in the Trench Ghost Warband roll injuries with
-1 Dice
– the undead are hard to kill with bullets! Melee Attacks do not suffer this penalty.
Sarcophagus Mine
At the cost of +30 ducats, up to two of the Troopers can be turned into Sarcophagus Mines.
Upgrades
Sarcophagus Mine - 30
Limit: 2

They gain an armour characteristic of -3, but can carry no other weapons or any other items from the Armoury. In addition, whenever an enemy comes within 3” of the Mine, you can trigger a detonation as described below. Alternatively, you can forgo this and explode the mine during your own Activation of the model with a successful

Risky Action
with
+1 Dice
.

When detonated, the mine explosion is treated as a

Blast
3” weapon targeting the Sarcophagus model with Keyword SHRAPNEL. Models within 1” of the model hit by the explosion roll their injuries with
+1 Dice
. The Mine itself is taken Out of Action.

Lost Souls
Since only mortals who have souls become ghosts, this warband may not have any model with the Keyword
Artificial
, such as War Wolves or Artillery Witches. In addition, no model in the warband may have a Hellbound Soul Contract or an Infernal Brand Mark. Any model that has one of these pieces of equipment in their base profile will not have it, although its price stays the same.
Horror
All models in the Warband cause
Fear
.
Enemies of All
Trench Ghosts cannot use Mercenaries.
Barbed Wire Banshee
Instead of a Chorister, a Trench Ghost warband may include a Barbed Wire Banshee at the same cost. It has the same characteristics as a Chorister with the usual Trench Ghost special rules applied to it, but instead of the Unholy Hymns ability the Banshee has Death Wail.

Captains

Heretic Priest
Cost:80
Availability:1
Image:@pie_vendor
Movement
6"/Infantry
Melee
+2D
Ranged
+2D
Armour
0
Tough
Leader
Elite
Heretic
Abilities
Puppet Master: Select a target model, friend or foe (including the Priest), within 12”. As a
Risky Action
you can move the model D6” in any one direction, including forcing it to jump/fall down or enter into melee combat with any enemy model (as if it had Charged), or leave Combat (as if it had Retreated, including granting any enemies within range free attacks).
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Spectral: Models in a Trench Ghost Warband ignore the penalty for moving through Difficult Terrain (other terrain affects them normally).
Slow: Halve the Movement Characteristic of a Trench Ghost model when they take a Dash
Action
. In addition, add
-1 Dice
to the Success Roll for an attack made by a Trench Ghost model on an enemy model that is making a Retreat.
Semi-Corporeal: Add
-1 Injury Dice
for Injury Rolls caused by Ranged Attacks that hit a model from a Trench Ghost Warband.
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Battlekit
The Heretic Priest can be equipped with any weapon, armour or equipment from the
Heretic Legion
Armoury.
Lore
The Leader of a Heretic warband. These fallen priests perform all kinds of unholy magics, summoning petrifying demons and creatures using their Goetic spells. Often pledged to a Demon Lord in Hell, such as Pazuzu or Guison, the Profane Gospels they recite terrify church forces, causing ears to bleed and eyeballs to burst in their sockets.
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Elite

Barbed Wire Banshee
Cost:65
Availability:0-1
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Movement
6"/Infantry
Melee
+2D
Ranged
-2D
Armour
0
Fear
Elite
Heretic
Abilities
Death Wail:

All enemy models within 8” of the Chorister suffer an additional

+1 Dice
when any injury roll is made against them.

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Spectral: Models in a Trench Ghost Warband ignore the penalty for moving through Difficult Terrain (other terrain affects them normally).
Slow: Halve the Movement Characteristic of a Trench Ghost model when they take a Dash
Action
. In addition, add
-1 Dice
to the Success Roll for an attack made by a Trench Ghost model on an enemy model that is making a Retreat.
Semi-Corporeal: Add
-1 Injury Dice
for Injury Rolls caused by Ranged Attacks that hit a model from a Trench Ghost Warband.
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Battlekit
The Heretic Chorister can be equipped with any weapon, armour or equipment from the
Heretic Legion
Armoury.
Lore
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Death Commando
Cost:90
Availability:0-1
Image:@pie_vendor
Movement
6"/Infantry
Melee
+2D
Ranged
+1D
Armour
0
Infiltrator
Elite
Abilities
Hide: As a
Risky Action
with
+1 Dice
the Commando can hide if any piece of scenery the model is touching can block line of sight in any direction, even partially, regardless of whether an enemy currently has a clear LOS. If successful, enemies cannot target the Commando with ranged attacks or Charges. Weapons with the Keyword
Blast
affect the Commando as normal if it is in the radius of the weapon. This effect ends if the Commando moves from its exact position in any way, it makes a Ranged Attack or an enemy model comes within 1.5” of it.
Stealth Generator: Ranged attacks against a Death Commando suffer
-1 Dice
to all the attack rolls.
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Spectral: Models in a Trench Ghost Warband ignore the penalty for moving through Difficult Terrain (other terrain affects them normally).
Slow: Halve the Movement Characteristic of a Trench Ghost model when they take a Dash
Action
. In addition, add
-1 Dice
to the Success Roll for an attack made by a Trench Ghost model on an enemy model that is making a Retreat.
Semi-Corporeal: Add
-1 Injury Dice
for Injury Rolls caused by Ranged Attacks that hit a model from a Trench Ghost Warband.
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Battlekit
The Death Commando can be equipped with any weapon, armour or equipment from the
Heretic Legion
Armoury. The only ranged weapons they can be equipped with are Silenced Pistols, a Tormentor Chain and Gas Grenades.
Lore
Silent Killers equipped with stealth generators that hide them from the eyes of God. These terrifying infiltrators have been known to kill entire enemy squads alone.
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Infantry

Annointed Heavy Infantry (Trench Ghost)
Cost:95
Availability:0-5
Image:@hardrockinterrainandpaint
Movement
6"/Infantry
Melee
+1D
Ranged
+1D
Armour
-2
Strong
Heretic
Abilities
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Spectral: Models in a Trench Ghost Warband ignore the penalty for moving through Difficult Terrain (other terrain affects them normally).
Slow: Halve the Movement Characteristic of a Trench Ghost model when they take a Dash
Action
. In addition, add
-1 Dice
to the Success Roll for an attack made by a Trench Ghost model on an enemy model that is making a Retreat.
Semi-Corporeal: Add
-1 Injury Dice
for Injury Rolls caused by Ranged Attacks that hit a model from a Trench Ghost Warband.
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Battlekit
Anointed are always equipped with a suit of Reinforced Armour which are included in the cost. This armour can never be removed. Otherwise they can be equipped with any weapon, armour or equipment from the
Heretic Legion
Armoury and may purchase a Trench Shield.

Reinforced Armour

Grants a -2 modifier to all injury rolls against the model wearing this armour.

Lore

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.

Lore
Heavily armed and armoured assault troops. Their skin is burned and blistering from their ordained pilgrimages to Hell and back.
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Heretic Trooper
Cost:30
Availability:Unlimited
Image:@pie_vendor
Movement
6"/Infantry
Melee
0D
Ranged
0D
Armour
0
Heretic
Abilities
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Spectral: Models in a Trench Ghost Warband ignore the penalty for moving through Difficult Terrain (other terrain affects them normally).
Slow: Halve the Movement Characteristic of a Trench Ghost model when they take a Dash
Action
. In addition, add
-1 Dice
to the Success Roll for an attack made by a Trench Ghost model on an enemy model that is making a Retreat.
Semi-Corporeal: Add
-1 Injury Dice
for Injury Rolls caused by Ranged Attacks that hit a model from a Trench Ghost Warband.
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Battlekit

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.

Upgrades
Heretic Legionnaire - 10
Limit: 1
Up to half of your Troopers can pick this upgrade. The Trooper becomes a Legionnaire and chooses to gain
+1 Dice
for either ranged or melee attacks.
Legionnaire Training
-
Change
Lore
These soldiers make up the bulk of the Heretic forces. They have witnessed the Gate of Hell and survived, damning them for all eternity.
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Wretched
Cost:25
Availability:Must be outnumbered by models with the keyword HERETIC
Image:@Mini Merchant
Movement
6"/Infantry
Melee
-1D
Ranged
-1D
Armour
0
Abilities
Law of Hell: 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.
Dark Blessing: If a Wretch is taken Out of Action in battle, one of your models with Keywords
Heretic
and
Elite
gains one
Blessing Marker
.
Chattel: 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.
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Spectral: Models in a Trench Ghost Warband ignore the penalty for moving through Difficult Terrain (other terrain affects them normally).
Slow: Halve the Movement Characteristic of a Trench Ghost model when they take a Dash
Action
. In addition, add
-1 Dice
to the Success Roll for an attack made by a Trench Ghost model on an enemy model that is making a Retreat.
Semi-Corporeal: Add
-1 Injury Dice
for Injury Rolls caused by Ranged Attacks that hit a model from a Trench Ghost Warband.
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Battlekit
The Wretched can be equipped with any melee weapon, armour or equipment from the
Heretic Armoury
List. None of their weapons, armour or equipment can cost more than 10 ducats each. Every Wretched must be equipped with at least one weapon.
Lore

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.

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Armoury

Melee Weapons
Bayonet
2
BAYONET LUG only
Blasphemous Staff
2
Elite only
Double-Handed Blunt Weapon
10
Greatsword / Greataxe
12
Hellblade
1
LIMIT: 2
Knife / Dagger
1
Trench Polearm
7
Sacrificial Knife
23
LIMIT: 2
Elite only
Sword / Axe
4
Tartarus Claws
15
Death Commando only
Trench Club
3
Ranged Weapons
Anti-Materiel Rifle
3
LIMIT: 1
Automatic Rifle
2
LIMIT: 2
Automatic Shotgun
15
Bolt-Action Rifle
10
Flamethrower
30
LIMIT: 3
Gas Grenades
10
Grenade Launcher
30
LIMIT: 2
Grenades
7
Heavy Flamethrower
55
LIMIT: 2
Incendiary Grenades
15
Machine Gun
50
LIMIT: 1
Pistol / Revolver
6
Semi-Automatic Rifle
15
Shotgun
10
Silenced Pistol
15
Elite only
Submachine Gun
2
Armour
Reinforced Armour
40
Annointed Heavy Infantry, Elite only
Standard Armour
15
Tank Palanquin
60
LIMIT: 1
Heretic Priest only
Trench Shield
10
Equipment
Combat Helmet
5
Gas Mask
5
Incendiary Ammunition
15
LIMIT: 1
Mountaineer Kit
3
LIMIT: 2
Musical Instrument
15
LIMIT: 1
Shovel
5
Troop Flag
1
LIMIT: 1
Unholy Relic
15
Unholy Trinket
15
Exploration Only
Armour of Cobar
8
LIMIT: 1
Elite only
Battlefield Title
6
LIMIT: 1
Elite only
Demonic Aura Grenade
3
LIMIT: 1
Executioner's Axe
6
LIMIT: 1
Knighthood
4
LIMIT: 1
Elite only
The Mark of Cain
4
LIMIT: 1
Elite only
Rocket-Propelled Grenade
2
LIMIT: 1
Sniper Scope
2
LIMIT: 2
Rifle only
Tormentor Chain
3
LIMIT: 2
Trench Dog
1
LIMIT: 1
Trench Dog (Guard Dog)
2
LIMIT: 1
Trench Dog (Hellhound)
2
LIMIT: 1

Base Faction

Heretic Legion
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