Pariah Nexus Crusade (Official)
Pariah Nexus Crusade (Official)
Pariah Nexus Crusade (Official)
The Necron Crypteks and the forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus are seeking a key resource in the Pariah
Nexus: blackstone. While some factions are happy to assist in the acquisition of this substance, others are
determined to interrupt it.
Blackstone Fragments
Gaining Blackstone Fragments
Harnessing Blackstone Fragments
Salvaging Blackstone Fragments
Campaign Points (Leaderboard)
Blackstone Alliance Upgrades
Selecting Alliance Upgrades
Strategic Points
Alliance Upgrades
Strategic Footing
Blackstone Upgrades
Blackstone Battle Honours (CHARACTER only)
Blackstone Crusade Relics
Pariah Nexus Battle Traits
Pariah Nexus Crusade Relics
Pariah Nexus Crusade Blessings
Pariah Nexus Mission Agendas
Strategic Footing Agendas
Playing a Pariah Nexus Crusade Mission
Mission Tables
Pariah Nexus Crusade Missions (Incursion/Strikeforce)
Pariah Nexus Crusade Missions (Onslaught)
Blackstone Fragments
Gaining Blackstone Fragments
While playing in a Pariah Nexus campaign, your Crusade force will accrue Blackstone Fragments, a powerful
resource that will help empower your units in a number of ways. Blackstone Fragments can be gained as a
result of Pariah nexus Agendas and mission rules, as well as through other means such as Crusade Relics.
Keep a Blackstone tally on your Order of Battle, adding 1 to it each time you gain a Blackstone Fragment.
Each time you harness or salvage Blackstone Fragments as described below, reduce your Blackstone tally by
the necessary amount.
If you wish to do so, after a battle, you can spend 5 Blackstone Fragments to grant 5 XP to one CHARACTER
unit from your Crusade force. While playing in a Pariah Nexus campaign, you can only salvage Blackstone
Fragments in this way once per Campaign Phase.
The victorious and runner-up Alliances of a Campaign Phase will gain a number of Strategic Points (see
Strategic Points below).
When the next Campaign Phase begins, each Alliance’s Campaign Points are reset to 0, putting alliances on
an equal footing for the next phase of the campaign.
At the end of the campaign, the alliance with the most Strategic Points wins the Campaign and its players are
declared the victors!
If any alliances are tied, tally up the total number of Blackstone Fragments between all members of each
alliance. The Alliance with the most Blackstone Fragments is the winner.
Phase 1 2 1
Phase 2 3 1
Phase 3 4 0
Alliance Upgrades
Underestimated Threat
There is some strategic advantage to being underestimated by your enemies, and you intend to seize it
In the next phase of the campaign, each time a player from the Alliance plays a battle, if they are the
Underdog, they can select 1 additional Crusade Blessing for that battle. If they are not the Underdog and their
opponent would select 2 or more Crusade Blessings for that battle, subtract 1 from the number of Crusade
Blessings their opponent can select.
Supply Surplus
Recognising that your alliance’s efforts in this region are crucial to the wider war effort, elements behind the
lines have diverted more resources in your direction.
Timely Reinforcements
Whether they come by fortuitous warp jump, glowing dolmen gate, or some other more esoteric means, you
have received a sudden and substantial influx of much-needed reinforcements.
Each member of the alliance increases their Crusade force’s Supply Limit by 500 points.
Might of Antiquity
In the face of adversity on every front, your alliance has sanctioned the deployment of ancient war relics and
supernatural super-weapons. So armed, surely you cannot fail.
Each member of the alliance can select one CHARACTER unit (excluding EPIC HEROES) from their Order of
Battle. That unit gains a Crusade Relic.
Each member of the alliance can select one INFANTRY unit (excluding CHARACTERS) from their Order of
Battle; that unit gains 7 XP.
Strategic Augury
Foretelling the future through psychic or hyper-cogitational means provides your Alliance with potent insights to
exploit.
Before a battle in which a member of the alliance has Advantage (see Strategic Footing), that player can select
one INFANTRY unit from their Crusade army to gain the [DEEP STRIKE] ability for that battle.
Orbital Bombardment
Shapes vast and dark slide into attack positions above the contested world as your warships prepare to rain
death upon the armies battling far below.
During their next battle, each member of the alliance can use the following ability:
Orbital Bombardment: Once per battle, at the start of your Shooting phase, place a marker anywhere on the
battlefield. At the start of your next Shooting phase, place another marker anywhere on the battlefield with its
center within 9” of the center of the first marker, then draw a line between the center of those two markers. For
each unit that line passes over or through, roll one D6: on a 2+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Both
markers are then removed.
Fortified Defenses
Exploiting the rubble, wrecks and ruins of countless previous battles, your hosts are able to swiftly assemble
improvised defenses ready to help them weather the next enemy onslaught.
During their next battle, each member of the alliance can use the following ability:
Fortified Defenses: Once per battle, at the start of your Command phase, you can use this ability. If you do,
until the start of your next Command phase, each time a ranged attack targets a unit from your Crusade army,
if that unit is within the range of an Objective Marker you control, models in that unit have the Benefits of Cover
against that attack.
Hoarded Noctilith
Certain that it can be put to myriad potent uses, your Alliance shares out a portion of their hoarded blackstone.
Nodal Map
Blackstone Battle Honour - 20 Blackstone Fragments
With each fresh blackstone deposit discovered and recorded, it becomes ever easier to determine where the
next such hidden prize may be secured.
If the bearer is within range of an Objective Marker, and if the bearer’s unit is Battle-shocked, change the
Objective Control characteristic of models in that unit to 1, instead of 0.
Single-Minded Seeker
Blackstone Battle Honour - 10 Blackstone Fragments
Locating the strange richers of this region only feeds this commander’s desire to accrue more such esoteric
wealth.
If the bearer is your WARLORD, at the end of the battle, roll one D6, adding 2 to the roll if you won the battle.
On a 6+, you gain 3 Blackstone Fragments.
Acquisitive Opportunist
Blackstone Battle Honour - 15 Blackstone Fragments
Thanks to the stifling effects of the nodal matrix, many commanders fighting in this region are forced to do so in
relative ignorance or while wrestling with the nightmare effects of the Stilling. This warlord has become adept
at recognising these weaknesses in their foes and adapting accordingly.
At the start of the battle, if the bearer is your WARLORD, until the end of the battle, it gains the ability below
that corresponds with the Strategic Footing you selected in the Select Strategic Footing Step:
● Aggressive: Models in the bearer’s unit have the [Scouts 6”] ability.
● Balanced: The bearer has the [LONE OPERATIVE] ability.
● Defensive: Models in the bearer’s unit have the [STEALTH] ability.
House Ruling: the Scouts or Stealth will still be granted to the entirety of an attached unit the bearer is a part
of.
Empathic Disinclinator
Blackstone Crusade Relic - 15 Blackstone Fragments
This experimental neuro-emitter can be energistically entangled with local deposits of blackstone, causing
them to resonate on micro-frequencies cogitated to trigger disturbing visual hallucinations amongst the foe.
Enemies so much as looking in that direction have their aim fouled and their blows robbed of strength by the
horrors they see.
At the start of the battle, select one Objective Marker. While the bearer is on the battlefield, friendly units within
range of that objective marker have a 5+ Invulnerable save.
Noctilith Armament
Blackstone Crusade Relic - 20 Blackstone Fragments
Many would consider it reckless to augment a weapon with shards of empyrically charged blackstone. It cannot
be denied, however, that the results can be impressive…
Select one melee weapon equipped by the bearer (excluding a weapon that has been replaced by an
Enhancement* or upgraded via the Weapon Modifications table). That weapon is now a Crusade Relic; note
this on the bearer’s Crusade card and give the weapon a suitable name. Once per battle, in the Fight phase,
the bearer can activate this Crusade Relic. If it does, until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made
with that weapon, Invulnerable saving throws cannot be made against that attack.
*Crusade Relics can be selected as they are neither Enhancements or Weapon Mods
Blackstone Amulet
Blackstone Crusade Relic - 20 Blackstone Fragments
This soul-sapping periapt may destroy its wearer given time. However, in the short term it renders even their
mere presence baleful.
Each time a melee attack is allocated to the bearer, on an unmodified saving throw of 6, the attacking unit
suffers 1 mortal wound after it has finished making its attacks. If that attack was made with a PSYCHIC
weapon, this effect applies on an unmodified saving throw of 5+ instead.
Pariah Nexus Battle Traits
Battle Traits are skills or upgrades that units have acquired during their years of warfare, and help to give them
a vital edge on the battlefield. Each time a unit gains a Battle Trait, roll one D6 and consult the table below to
randomly determine which Battle Trait the unit has gained. A unit can have more than one Battle Trait, but it
cannot have the same Battle Trait more than once (if a duplicate is rolled, roll again until a different result is
rolled).
2 Horror-Hardened
You can target this unit with Stratagems even while it is Battle-shocked.
3 Arch Acquisitor
Add 3 to the Objective Control characteristic of one CHARACTER model in this unit.
4 Claim Stalker
While this unit is within range of an Objective Marker, it has the [STEALTH] ability.
5 Heroic Constitution
Add 1 to the Wounds characteristics of one CHARACTER model in this unit.
6 Duellist
Each time a CHARACTER model in this unit makes a melee attack that targets a
CHARACTER unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
1 Hardened Defenses
This unit has the Feel No Pain 6+ ability.
2 Totemic Presence
Add 2 to the Objective Control characteristic of one model in this unit.
3 Tank Hunter
When this unit targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, re-roll Wound rolls of 1.
4 Stubborn Explorator
Each time this unit makes a Normal or Advance move, it can move over terrain features
that are 4” or less in height as if they were not there.
5 Heavily Armoured
Once per battle, when an attack is allocated to a model in this unit, you can change the
Damage characteristic of that attack to 0.
6 Reaper
Each time a model in this unit makes an attack that targets an INFANTRY or MOUNTED
unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
1 Battle-scarred Resistance
Models in this unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability.
2 Wraith of Ruin
This unit has the [Infiltrators] ability.
3 United by Adversity
You can target this unit with the Heroic Intervention Stratagem for 0CP, and can do so even
if you have already targeted a different unit with that Stratagem this phase.
4 Raiders
Each time a model in this unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is within range of an
Objective Marker, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
5 Purgators
This unit gains the GRENADES keyword. If it already has that keyword, once per battle,
you can target this unit with the Grenade Stratagem for 0CP.
6 Terror Assault
At the start of the Fight phase, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of this
unit. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
MOUNTED units
D6 Battle Trait
1 Riders of Ruin
Add 2” to the Move characteristic of models in this unit.
2 Thundering Onslaught
Add 1 to the Advance and Charge rolls made for this unit.
3 Saddleborne Assassins
Each time a model in this unit makes a ranged attack that targets the closest eligible target,
improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
4 Linebreakers
Each time this unit ends a Charge move, until the end of the turn, melee weapons
equipped by models in this unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
5 Crushing Charge
Each time this unit ends a Charge move, select one enemy within Engagement Range of it,
then roll one D6 for each model in this unit that is within Engagement Range of that enemy
unit: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
6 Blur of Speed
Models in this unit have the [STEALTH] ability.
Pariah Nexus Crusade Relics
When fighting in the Pariah Nexus, units from your Crusade army can gain the following Crusade Relics.
Blackstone Compass
Artificer Crusade Relic
After you win a battle, if the bearer is on the battlefield, you gain an additional 2 Blackstone Fragments.
Veil of Ancients
Artificer Crusade Relic
The bearer has a 4+ Invulnerable save.
● [Lethal Hits]
● [Precision]
● [Sustained Hits 1]
Noctilith Sigil
Antiquity Crusade Relic
Non-Psyker model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Feel No Pain 4+ ability against PSYCHIC
attacks.
House Ruling: the FNP will still be granted to the entirety of an attached unit the bearer is a part of.
Dolmen Key
Antiquity Crusade Relic
Models in the bearer’s unit have the [Deep Strike] ability. In addition, you can target the bearer’s unit with the
Rapid Ingress Stratagem for 0CP, and when resolving that Stratagem, you can set up that unit anywhere on
the battlefield that is more than 6” horizontally away from all enemy units and within range of an Objective
Marker. Until the end of the turn, that unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
House Ruling: the Deep Strike will still be granted to the entirety of an attached unit the bearer is a part of.
Vantachren’s Mirror
Antiquity Crusade Relic
Models in the bearer’s unit have the [Stealth] ability. In addition, each time the bearer’s unit is selected as the
target of a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll.
House Ruling: the Stealth will still be granted to the entirety of an attached unit the bearer is a part of.
Eye of Mars
Antiquity Crusade Relic
After both players have deployed their armies, select one unit from your Crusade army and redeploy it. When
doing so, you can set that unit up in Strategic Reserves if you wish, regardless of how many units are already
in Strategic Reserves.
Noctic Shield
Legendary Crusade Relic
Add 1 to the Toughness and Wounds characteristics of the bearer. Once per battle, when an attack targets the
bearer’s unit, if your Crusade army is in the Defensive Strategic Footing, the bearer can activate this
Crusade Relic. If it does, until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in the bearer’s
unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of every attack by 1.
Crusade Blessings
Difference in Crusade Points Number of Blessings
0-4 0
5-9 1
10-19 2
20+ 4
Prepared Positions
Until the start of the second battle round, each time a ranged attack targets a unit from your Crusade army, if
that unit is wholly within your deployment zone, it has the Benefit of Cover against that attack (cannot be
Ignored).
High Strategy
You start the battle with 2CP.
Compartmentalised Plans
You can select one additional Agenda for this battle.
Defiance Undimmed
At the end of the battle, every unit from your Crusade army that is not destroyed gains 1XP.
Fortune Favoured
Once per battle round, if your WARLORD is on the battlefield, you can use the Command Re-roll Stratagem for
0CP.
Desperate Offensive
During the first battle round, add 1” to the Move characteristic of INFANTRY and WALKER units from your
Crusade army.
Linchpin Leadership
Until the end of the battle, improve the Leadership characteristic of models from your Crusade army by 1 while
they are part of an Attached unit.
Blackstone Bounty
After the battle, you gain 1 Blackstone Fragment. If you won that battle, you gain an additional 1 Blackstone
Fragment.
Noctilith Augury
During the Select Strategic Footing step, after Strategic Footing selections have been revealed, you can
change your Strategic Footing. If you are not playing in a Pariah Nexus campaign, you cannot select this
Crusade Blessing more than once per Campaign phase.
Some Agendas will award Experience points or tally marks ‘each time’ an enemy model or unit is destroyed. A
model or unit can, if it is resurrected for any reason (i.e. it was destroyed and subsequently returned to the
battlefield), potentially contribute several Experience points or tally marks to these types of Agendas (assuming
it is resurrected and subsequently destroyed several times over).
To the Last
At the start of the battle, you can select up to three units from your Crusade army that are on the battlefield.
For each of those units, at the end of the battle:
● If that unit has not been destroyed, it gains 2XP.
● If that unit is not Below Half-strength, it gains 1 XP.
● For each of those units that is not destroyed, you gain 1 Blackstone Fragment.
Critical Resources
At the start of the battle, your opponent must select two different objective markers on the battlefield (if there is
only one objective marker, only that objective marker is selected). At the end of the battle, select one of those
objectives. If you control that objective marker, you can select up to three units from your Crusade army that
are within range of that objective marker. Each of those units gains 2XP, and for each selected unit, you gain 1
Blackstone Fragment.
King Slayer
Each time a model from your Crusade army destroys an enemy CHARACTER unit, that model’s unit gains
2XP and you gain 1 Blackstone Fragment (to a maximum of 4 Blackstone Fragments). In addition, each time a
model from your Crusade army destroys the enemy WARLORD, that model’s unit gains an additional 2 XP.
At the end of your turn, if that unit is within range of an objective marker you control that is not in your
deployment zone, roll one D6: on a 4-5, that unit gains 1XP; on a 6, that unit gains 2XP and you gain 1CP.
Each time a unit from your Crusade army gains XP as a result of this Agenda, you gain 1 Blackstone Fragment
(to a maximum of 3).
Central Position
At the end of your Command phase, each CHARACTER unit from your Crusade army that is within 3” of the
center of the battlefield gains 1 XP. If you gain 4 or more XP as a result of this Agenda, you gain 4 Blackstone
Fragments.
Psychic Beacons
At the end of the battle, select two or more PSYKER CHARACTER units from your Crusade army that are
wholly within different table quarters (but only one per table quarter). Each of those units gains 2XP and you
gain 4 Blackstone Fragments.
Re-Establish Communications
At the start of the battle, your opponent must select one objective marker to be a Comms Relay. At the end of
the battle, if you control that objective marker and one or more CHARACTER units from your Crusade army
are within range of it (excluding Battle-shocked units), select one of those units. That unit gains 4 XP and you
gain 4 Blackstone Fragments.
3. Determine Mission
Next players determine which mission will be used for the battle; they can choose from the missions presented
in the tables for their chosen battle size. This will determine the deployment map that is used, as well as the
specific mission briefing. Players can either simply agree which they will use with their opponent, or they can
roll a die to randomly select a mission.
When rolling to determine an Incursion or Strike Force mission, first roll 1D6 to determine which table to use:
on a 1-3, use the Incursion/Strike Force A table; on a 4-6, use the Incursion/Strike Force B table. Then roll 1D6
to determine which mission to play. For Onslaught missions, roll 1D6 to determine which mission to play on the
Onslaught table.
Mission Tables
Incursion/Strike Force A Table
D6 Mission
3 Quantum Siege
4 Outflank
5 Overwhelming Dread
6 Unstable Archeotech
1 Polarising Energies
2 Amidst the Miasma
3 False Intel
4 Tortured Worldscape
5 Interdimensional Clash
6 Nullification Field
Onslaught Table
D6 Mission
3-4 Reawakening
5. Read Mission
Each mission has a mission briefing that will detail the aims of the battle. Each mission will also list one or
more additional mission rules that will apply for the duration of the battle and a series of objectives, which may
be different for the Attacker and the Defender. Players should read and familiarize themselves with these
before proceeding.
During the battle players can gain Victory points(VP) by achieving mission objectives. Mission objectives can
either be ‘Progressive’ or ‘Endgame.’ Progressive mission objectives are scored during the battle(exactly when
is detailed on the mission objective itself), and can be achieved, and hence award Victory points, several times.
End Game mission objectives are scored at the end of the battle.
Some Progressive objectives will award Victory points ‘each time’ an enemy model or unit is destroyed. A
model or unit can, if it is resurrected for any reason(i.e. it was destroyed and subsequently returned to the
battlefield), potentially contribute several Victory points due to these types of mission objectives(assuming it is
resurrected and subsequently destroyed several times over).
Unless otherwise stated, when setting up terrain features, use the guidelines detailed in the Core Rules.
Players must use the rules presented in the Core Rules for terrain features.
Terrain features should be set up with any impassable sections(such as the walls of a ruin) within 1” of any
objective markers.
8. Purchase Requisitions
If you have access to any Requisitions that are used before a battle, you can spend RP to use them now. If any
of these upgrade one or more of your units for the coming battle, make a note of that upgrade on your Army
Roster.
9. Select Agendas
Each player then secretly selects two Agendas for the battle and writes them down. Each can award
Experience points to certain units in that player’s Crusade army, as described on the Agenda itself. Once both
players have selected their Agendas, they reveal their selections to their opponent.
The Crusade Blessings available depend on the war zone the battle is being fought in.
When both players have done so, they declare their selections to their opponent.
In Pariah Nexus Crusade missions, Reserves units cannot arrive during the first battle round, and any
Strategic Reserves or Reserves unit that has arrived on the battlefield by the end of the third battle round
counts as having been destroyed, do any units embarked within them (this does not apply to units that are
placed into Strategic Reserves after the first battle round has started).
12. Deploy Crusade Armies
Players now alternate setting up their remaining units one at a time, starting with the Defender. A player’s units
must be set up wholly within their deployment zone - the Attacker’s and Defender’s deployment zones are
shown on the deployment map of each mission. If one player finishes deploying all their units, their opponent
then deploys the remainder of their units.
The victor of a mission can then claim the Victor bonus listed on that mission. If the game is a draw, neither
player can claim the bonus.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Before the battle, select one unit from your Crusade army. Until the end of the battle, that unit has
the [INFILTRATORS] rule, but it cannot begin the battle within range of an objective marker in No Man’s Land.
Comms Blackout: At the start of the Command phase, each player only gains the 1CP they normally would if
one or more units from their army are within range of one or more objective markers in No Man’s Land they
control.
Victor Bonus
The victor’s Crusade force gains 1 additional Requisition point and 3 Blackstone Fragments.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Once per battle, you can target a CHARACTER unit with the Epic Challenge Stratagem for 0CP.
Blackstone Collecting: At the start of the battle, each objective marker on the battlefield contains one
Blackstone Fragment. At the start of your turn, if a CHARACTER model from your Crusade army is within
range of an objective marker you control that contains a Blackstone Fragment, that model can collect it. If it
does, that model takes possession of that Blackstone Fragment and that objective marker no longer contains a
Blackstone Fragment.
Raiding Their Cache: If a CHARACTER model in possession of a Blackstone Fragment is destroyed, place a
marker as close as possible to where that model was destroyed. For the purposes of the Blackstone Collecting
rule, that marker counts as an objective marker containing one Blackstone Fragment (which can be collected
as described above), but does not count as an objective marker for any other rules purposes.
Victor Bonus
Select one unit that collected one or more Blackstone Fragments during the battle; that unit gains D3+3XP.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Once per battle, in your Command phase, you can select one unit from your Crusade army. Until
the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristics of models in that unit.
Quantum Shielded: At the start of the battle, each objective marker is considered to have its quantum shield
enabled. While a unit is within range of an objective marker with its quantum shield enabled, models in that unit
have a 5+ Invulnerable save against Ranged Attacks.
Configure Shield Conduit: At the end of each player’s Movement phase, the player whose turn it is can select
one objective marker they do control that has one or more units from their Crusade army (excluding
Battle-shocked units) within range of it. That player can choose to enable or disable that objective marker’s
Quantum Shield.
Victor Bonus
Before the next battle, the victor can use the Rearm and Resupply Requisition up to two times without
expending any Requisition points to do so.
Mission Rules
Advantage: You can select which deployment zones will be used for this mission: either those marked A or
those marked B. If you select B, the Attacker must set up at least one third of their army’s units in each of their
deployment zones marked B and the Defender always has the first turn. If neither player has advantage, use
the zones marked A.
Flanking Strike: The Defender cannot place any units into Strategic Reserves or Reserves (excluding units
that must always be placed in Reserves, e.g. AIRCRAFT that cannot Hover, Drop Pods).
Victor Bonus
If the Attacker is the Victor:
Each unit from that victor’s Crusade army that ends the battle within range of an objective marker gains
2XP.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Before the battle, select one objective marker on the battlefield. Until the end of the battle, that
objective marker is not affected by the Stilled Nodes or Disruption mission rules.
Stilled Nodes: While a unit is within range of an objective marker, each time that unit takes a Battle-shock or
Leadership test, subtract 1 from that test.
Disruption: While a unit from your Crusade army with an Aura ability is within range of an objective marker
you control, the range of that Aura ability is decreased by 3” (to a minimum of 1”).
Victor Bonus
The victor gains 2 additional Requisition points.
Note: only use the Yellow objective markers in a Strike Force battle.
6. Unstable Archeotech
Many unpredictable horrors of technology were brought into this war zone by reckless Tech-Magi. A device of
just this sort has vomited its unstable payload over this area, and commanders must now scramble to direct its
fury against their foes.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Once per battle, at the start of your Shooting phase, you can select one objective marker you
control. Until the start of your next Shooting phase, that objective marker can be moved using the Delivery
mission rule without preventing a unit from shooting or charging.
Delivery: At the start of each player’s Shooting phase, the player whose turn it is can select one or more units
from their Crusade army (excluding Battle-shocked units) that are eligible to shoot and within range of an
objective marker. Until the end of the turn, the selected units are not eligible to shoot or declare a charge.
At the start of that player’s next Command phase, for each of those units, if that unit is still within range of the
same objective marker and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, that player can move
that objective marker up to 6”, provided it ends that move closer to their opponent’s battlefield edge.
Victor Bonus
Each unit from the victor’s Crusade army that ended the battle within range of an objective marker the victor
controls gains 1XP.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Once per battle, at the start of the battle round, you can choose for the polarity of the objective
markers not to shift that battle round.
Positively Charged: Objective markers marked A begin the battle positively charged. While a unit is within
range of a positively charged objective marker, that unit has the Benefit of Cover.
Negatively Charged: Objective markers marked B begin the battle negatively charged. At the end of the battle
round, each unit within range of a negatively charged objective marker suffers 1 mortal wound.
Shifting Polarity: From the second battle round onwards, at the start of the battle round, each objective
marker shifts polarity (i.e. positively charged objective markers become negatively charged, and vice versa).
Victor Bonus
The victor gains 3 Blackstone Fragments.
Mission Rules
Advantage: At the start of the battle, select one unit from your Crusade army. Until the end of the battle, that
unit is not affected by the Shambling Through the Fog mission rule.
Shambling Through the Fog: Each time a unit is selected to Advance, if it is within No Man’s Land, subtract 2
from the Advance roll.
Fight Through the Haze: Each time a model makes an attack that targets a unit within No Man’s Land,
subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
Victor Bonus
The victor can select one additional unit from their Crusade army to be Marked for Greatness.
Mission Objectives
Struggle for Control (Progressive Objective)
At the end of each Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores 5VP for each of the following conditions
they satisfy:
● They control one or more objective markers.
● They control more objective markers than their opponent.
Escape (End Game Objective)
At the end of the battle, each player scores 10VP for each unit from their Crusade army that is wholly within
their opponent’s deployment zone.
9. False Intel
With confusion already rife across the battlefronts surrounding Stornvor’s Fortress, wily commanders resort to
seeding false intelligence, the better to misdirect their enemies and leave them open to attack.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Once per battle, before rolling off for the Intel Discovery mission rule, you can choose to
automatically win that roll off.
Intel Discovery: At the start of the battle round, both players roll off. The winner can set up one objective
marker wholly within No Man’s Land, more than 9” away from all other objective markers and within 1” of a unit
from their Crusade army that is not Battle-shocked and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy
units. If that player does not have an eligible unit, their opponent can set up one objective marker as described
above instead.
Victor Bonus
The victor can select one unit from their Crusade army that was not destroyed to gain a Battle Trait. This must
be a unit that can gain a Battle Trait.
Mission Objectives
Intel Download (Progressive Objective)
At the end of each Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores 10VP for each of the following
conditions they satisfy:
● They control one or more objective markers.
● They control an objective marker that was set up during this battle round.
● They control the objective marker at the center of the battlefield.
10. Tortured Worldscape
The competing cosmic energies unleashed by the super-weapons of warring factions have destabilized the
very world beneath their feet. The resultant tectonic fury may yet spell mutual destruction for all.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Once per battle, at the start of the battle round, you can select one fissure; until the end of the
battle round, while a unit from your Crusade army is within that fissure, models in that unit have the Feel No
Pain 4+ ability against mortal wounds inflicted by the Open Fissure rule.
Open Fissure: At the start of the battle round, each unit within an open fissure (see deployment map) must
take a Leadership test. If that test is failed, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
Splitting Earth: At the start of the first battle round, Fissure 1 is open and Fissure 2 and 3 are closed. At the
start of the third battle round, Fissure 2 opens, and at the start of the fifth battle round, Fissure 3 opens.
Victor Bonus
The victor can select one unit from their Crusade army that was not destroyed. That unit gains 5XP.
Mission Objectives
With Risk Comes Victory (Progressive Objective)
At the end of each Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores 5VP for each of the following conditions
they satisfy:
● They control one or more objective markers.
● They control one or more objective markers within an open fissure.
● They control more objective markers than their opponent.
To Ash and Ember (Progressive Objective)
At the end of each Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores 5VP for each of the following conditions
they satisfy:
● They destroyed one or more enemy units.
● One or more enemy units were destroyed as a result of the Open Fissure mission rule.
11. Interdimensional Clash
Battling around the feet of the Necron pylons becomes a confusing nightmare as overlapping dimensional
oubliettes and localized teleportation corridors add to the tangled devastation already created by the pylon’s
emergence or manifestation.
Mission Rules
Advantage: If you are the Attacker, extend your deployment zone by 3” towards your opponent’s battlefield
edge. If you are the Defender, reduce the Attacker’s deployment zone by 6” towards their battlefield edge.
Danger Close: When resolving the Deadly Demise ability, increase its range by 3” and add 1 to the roll.
Designer’s Note: We recommend placing a higher volume of terrain as ruins in No Man’s Land and the
Defender’s deployment zone to represent a tight, close-quarters battlefield.
Victor Bonus
If the Attacker is the Victor:
Each unit from the victor’s Crusade army that ends that battle within range of an objective marker in the
Defender’s deployment zone gains 3XP.
Mission Objectives
A Grip on Reality (Progressive Objective)
At the end of each Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores 5VP for each of the following conditions
they satisfy:
● They control one or more objective markers.
● They control more objective markers than their opponent.
12. Nullification Field
In this region, a potent contra-energistic Necron defense structure has awoken and unleashed its leeching
powers. With no other option, warring forces must push forward against the squall of negative energies to
seize victory.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Select one objective marker within the Null Field, excluding the one at the center of the battlefield.
You can move that objective marker up to 6” in any direction, so long as it ends that move not within the
Nullification Field and within No Man’s Land.
Nullification Field: While a model is within 12” of the center of the battlefield, Invulnerable saving throws
cannot be made for that model.
Victor Bonus
The victor can select two units from their Crusade army to be Marked for Greatness.
Mission Objectives
Search Locations (Progressive Objective)
At the end of each Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores 10VP for each of the following
conditions they satisfy:
● They control one or more objective markers.
● They control one or more objective markers that are within the Null Field.
● They control the objective marker at the center of the battlefield.
Pariah Nexus Crusade Missions (Onslaught)
1. Into the Tomb
The Necrons’ efforts in this region have drawn unwanted attention to one of their awakened tomb complexes.
Now warring factions fight amidst shadows and eldritch energies of ancient structures as they seek to seize or
sabotage them.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Once per battle, you can select one objective marker and add 1 to or subtract 1 from that
objective marker’s Power tally (to a minimum of 0).
Power System Override: At the start of the battle, each objective marker has a Power tally of 0, and each
starts under the Defender’s control, and remains so until controlled by the Attacker.
At the start of each player’s turn, for each objective marker the Defender controls, add 1 to the Power tally of
that objective marker. For each objective marker the Attacker controls, subtract 1 from the Power tally of that
objective marker (to a minimum of 0).
Overloaded Systems: If at any point an objective marker’s Power tally reaches 5 or more, that objective
marker is overloaded and removed from the game.
Victor Bonus
One unit from the victor’s Crusade army that is not destroyed at the end of the battle gains D3+3XP.
Mission Objectives
Sappers (Progressive Objective)
At the end of the battle, for each objective marker that was overloaded, the Defender scores 20VP.
Mission Rules
Advantage: Once per battle, you can target a unit with the Rapid Ingress Stratagem for 0CP.
Drop Zone Blocked: Units arriving from Reserves or deploying using the [INFILTRATORS] ability cannot be
set up within range of any objective markers.
Narrow Window: During the first and second battle rounds, objective markers marked ‘A’ are active and can
be controlled normally (all other objective markers cannot be controlled). During the third and fourth battle
rounds, objective markers marked ‘B’ are active and can be controlled normally (all other objective markers
cannot be controlled). During the fifth battle round, the objective marker marked ‘C’ is active and can be
controlled normally (all other objective markers cannot be controlled).
Victor Bonus
The next time the victor uses the Legendary Veterans Requisition, it costs 1 RP.
Mission Objectives
Power Struggle (Progressive Objective)
At the end of each Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores 5VP for each of the following:
● They control one or more objective markers.
● They control more objective markers than their opponent.
Mission Rules
Sweep and Clear: If a player controls an objective marker at the end of their Command phase, that objective
marker remains under their control, even if they have no models within range of it, until their opponent controls
it at the end of any turn.
Victor Bonus
The Victor gains 5 Blackstone Fragments.
Mission Objectives
Conquerors (Progressive Objective)
At the end of each Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores 5VP for each of the following conditions
they satisfy:
● They control one or more objective markers.
● They control more objective markers than their opponent.