Detachment Rule: Stealth Optimisation
Hunter Cohorts combine a mastery of stealth warfare and cogitational analysis with stealth screen projectors and target-fouling apparatuses. They are elusive foes to face, and especially sinister to those they have designated as prey. SKITARII INFANTRY , SKITARII MOUNTED and IRONSTRIDER BALLISTARII units from your army have the Stealth ability, and each time a ranged attack targets a SICARIAN unit from your army, unless the attacking model is within 12", the target has the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
Skitarii Hunter Cohort
Force Disposition: RECONNAISSANCE
Detachment Points: 2
Enhancements
Battle-sphere Uplink (25pts)
In your Shooting phase, after the bearer’s unit has shot, if it is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, that unit can make a Normal move of up to 6". If it does, until the end of the turn, that unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
Cantic Thrallnet (25pts)
At the start of the battle round, you can select one friendly SKITARII unit within 12" of the bearer. Until the start of the next battle round, the Protector Imperative and the Conqueror Imperative are both active for that unit.
Clandestine Infiltrator (15pts)
The bearer, and models in any unit they are leading, have the Infiltrators and Scouts 6" abilities.
Veiled Hunter (10pts)
After both players have deployed their armies, you can select up to three SKITARII INFANTRY units from your army and redeploy all of those units. When doing so, any of those units can be placed into Strategic Reserves, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves.
BINHARIC OFFENCE
Cost: 2CP
Type: Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Detachment: Skitarii Hunter Cohort
Employing directed binharic entanglement to coordinate their motions, paired squads of Skitarii attack with eerie and lethal synchronicity. WHEN: The start of your Shooting phase or the start of the Fight phase . TARGET: Two SKITARII units from your army that have not been selected to shoot or fight this phase, and one enemy unit. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of weapons equipped by models in both of your units by 1. RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in either of your units makes an attack, it can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target].
BIONIC ENDURANCE
Cost: 1CP
Type: Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Detachment: Skitarii Hunter Cohort
Between their multi-layered bionics and their fanatical faith in the indomitability of these machine-blessings, the most augmented of Skitarii are nigh-impossible to lay low. WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase orthe Fight phase , just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One SICARIAN , PTERAXII or SYDONIAN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.
ISOLATE AND DESTROY
Cost: 1CP
Type: Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Detachment: Skitarii Hunter Cohort
The swiftest hunters seek to engage foes with the equations of war in their favour, isolating their quarry and dispatching it with ruthless efficiency. WHEN: Your Shooting phase . TARGET: One SICARIAN , PTERAXII , SYDONIAN , IRONSTRIDER BALLISTARII or SKITARII MOUNTED unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if there are no other enemy units within 6" of the unit targeted by that attack, add 1 to the Wound roll .
SHROUD PROTOCOLS
Cost: 1CP
Type: Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Detachment: Skitarii Hunter Cohort
When Skitarii Hunter Cohorts march to war, they do so beneath a shrouding squall of cyber-static and filament-heavy banks of sacred incense. WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase , just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One SKITARII INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".