Vehicles

• Always alone. A vehicle always forms a unit of a single model.
• No Armour Save. A vehicle can only use Invulnerable or Cover Saves (Damage Mitigation rolls are still allowed: they are not saves).
• Hull Points. These are the vehicle's "life". Reduced to 0 Hull Points, it is Removed as a Casualty.
• Statuses. A vehicle can suffer all statuses except Routed (it has no Cool). It can only get rid of them with a Repair Test or the Battlesmith special rule.

Repair Test

In the Statuses Sub-phase, roll 1D6 for each vehicle you control: on a 6, remove one status of your choice from it. Some special rules add dice or improve the target number.

A vehicle moves like other models, up to its Movement Characteristic, and can end facing any direction. Its facing matters enormously: it determines the facings targeted by the enemy and the fire arcs of its own weapons.

• Pivoting is not moving. A vehicle may pivot on the centre of its hull instead of moving: it then counts as having remained Stationary (the pivot must end more than 1" from any enemy).
• No rushing. Having no Initiative, a vehicle cannot Rush — unless it has the Fast Sub-type.
• No climbing. A vehicle cannot move vertically within terrain or onto terrain pieces to go up a level. It can never be deployed on a level above the battlefield's ground level (level 0), nor occupy one in any way, nor be on the battlements of a building (FAQ October 2026).
• Dangerous terrain. Failed test = the vehicle suffers 1 point of Damage (no penetration roll, no save or mitigation possible).

Driving through other units

Unlike other models, a vehicle can move through units that are not vehicles (but never through another vehicle or terrain), and it cannot end its move on a model or within 1" of an enemy.

A vehicle shoots with its Ballistic Skill like everyone else, but with two big differences: each weapon is limited to its fire arc, and it can split its weapons between several targets.

Defensive Weapons and Battle Weapons

Fire arcs and weapon mounts

Draw two imaginary lines through the corners of the vehicle to define four arcs: front, rear, left and right. Each weapon's profile states its mount, which determines where it can fire:

1. Line of Sight and Hit Tests as usual (Line of Sight measured to the hull, not counting protruding barrels and antennae).
2. Which facing is hit? Draw two imaginary lines through the corners of the vehicle: the zone the shooter is in shows the facing targeted (front, side or rear). If the shooter can see two facings, the vehicle's owner chooses. Indirect fire or no Line of Sight: always the Side Armour.
3. Armour Penetration roll instead of the Wound Test: 1D6 + the hit's Strength, compared with the Armour value of the targeted facing.

Vehicle damage table

(1D6 per Glancing Hit)

Wrecks

At 0 Hull Points, the vehicle is Removed as a Casualty. Optionally (if both players agree), a wreck can be left on the table: it counts as difficult and dangerous terrain and grants a 6+ Cover Save (no wreck if the vehicle exploded via Explodes (X)).

• No charges, no attacks, no locking: a vehicle does not lock the enemy in combat and is never Locked in Combat.
• Being charged. A charge is declared against a vehicle as normal; it can react and make its Volley Attacks at step 4 of the charge if it has suitable weapons.
• Striking it in combat. The vehicle counts as WS 1. Every hit is resolved against the Rear Armour, whatever the combatants' positions, with penetration rolls (no Wound Tests).
• Resolution. As it does not attack, a lone vehicle will normally lose the combat. It can only Hold at the end of the combat, then moves normally in its next Movement Phase.
• Staying in contact pays off: a unit still in base contact with the vehicle in its own Assault Phase can attack it again, without counting as having charged.

A vehicle with the TransportIts Transport Capacity characteristic sets the number of models that can embark on it (one model per point, unless Bulky (X) states otherwise). Only Infantry or Paragon models with the same Faction trait can embark or disembark, one unit at a time and in its entirety — never partial embarkation. The embarked unit remains a separate unit from the transport in all respects. Sub-type can carry a unit. The rules govern who gets in, when, and what happens when everything blows up.

Who can get in?

• Transport Capacity: 1 model per point of capacity. Models with the Bulky (X) special rule count as X models.
• Only InfantryThe most common type: uses the core rules without any bonus or penalty. An Infantry model can embark on and disembark from a model with the Transport Sub-type. or ParagonAllocates the hits it inflicts itself, both shooting and in melee. Can join or leave an Infantry unit (and vice versa), embark on a model with the Transport Sub-type, issue and accept Challenges, and lend its characteristics to its unit for any characteristic test. Counts as its base Wounds value for combat resolution. models with the same Faction trait as the transport.
• Only one unit at a time (characters who have joined the unit are part of it), and the whole unit or nothing: no partial embarkation.
• The embarked unit and the transport remain two separate units in all respects.

Embarking / Disembarking

• Only in the Move Sub-phase; a unit cannot embark and disembark in the same Movement Phase.
• Embarking: all models in the unit must start or end the sub-phase within 2" of a facing of the transport with an access point (doors, ramps, hatches — shown on the profile). The unit is then removed from the table.
• Disembarking: before or after the transport moves (not during). Place the models one by one in contact with a facing with an access point, never within 1" of an enemy, in unit coherency. Cannot be placed = Casualty.
• After disembarking: the unit can shoot (it counts as having moved) and charge — but as a Disordered charge, unless the vehicle has the Assault Vehicle rule.

During the journey

Emergency Disembarkation

If the transport is destroyed with a unit on board, that unit must make an Emergency Disembarkation before the vehicle is removed — even if it embarked in the same phase:

1. Place each model in contact with the transport's hull, never within 1" of an enemy or in impassable terrain (no need for unit coherency). A model that cannot be placed = Casualty.
2. No damage from the attack that destroyed the transport is transferred to the unit.
3. Once everyone is placed: Cool test. If failed, the unit gains the Pinned status.

The Sub-type is shown in brackets after the type on the profile, e.g. Vehicle (Fast, Transport). Each Sub-type adds its rules to the core rules above.