Patriarch

While this model is leading a unit, melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.

At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within 6" of this model must take a Battle-shock test.

Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, this model can use its psychic familiar. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the range of its Cosmic Horror ability.

• You cannot include more than one Patriarch model in your army.
• If this model is in your army, it must be your Warlord.

Each time this unit makes an ingress move (20.04), if every model in this unit has this ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units, even if that is within your opponent’s deployment zone.

During deployment, if every model in a unit has this ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from your opponent’s deployment zone and all enemy units.

Each time an attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon results in a critical wound, the attack sequence for that attack ends and the target unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the D characteristic of that weapon. These are inflicted after resolving any normal damage inflicted by those attacks.  Mortal wounds inflicted by [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapons can damage a maximum of one model for each critical wound; any remaining mortal wounds inflicted by that attack are lost.  Example: An attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon with a D characteristic of 3 results in a critical wound against an Intercessor Squad, so inflicts 3 mortal wounds. The first 2 mortal wounds are sufficient to destroy 1 Intercessor model, so the remaining mortal wound* is lost.

Each time an attack is made with a [TWIN-LINKED] weapon, you can re-roll the wound roll.