Ethereal:
- Restriction: Ethereal creatures
- Result:
- For movement every terrain type counts as open ground; it may cross impassable terrain but not finish inside it
- Only Magical attacks can wound it
- Non-Ethereal characters cannot join Ethereal units, nor the reverse
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Indomitable (X):
- Limits: no stacking; with several models in a unit, the unit uses the best value (e.g. a character with Indomitable (2) joining Indomitable (1) gives the whole unit 2)
- Result: wounds from Unstable drop by X
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Magical Attacks:
- Restriction: model or weapon with Magical Attacks
- Result: its attacks and hits are 'Magical' attacks
- All spells and all hits from magic items also count
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Necromantic Undead:
- Restriction: a character with it cannot join units without it, and vice versa
- Result:
- Models count as ‘Undead’
- No march, unless using Fly (X) to move
- They also gain Fear, Immune to Psychology, Unbreakable and Unstable
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Regeneration:
- Restriction: model with Regeneration (X+), where X+ is its Regeneration value
- Timing: immediately after a Wound is lost, ahead of removing models at 0 Wounds
- Result: a "Regeneration save" roll of 1D6 (optional): on X+ the Wound comes back, but still counts toward the combat result
- Effects altering armour values do not touch the Regeneration value, unless stated otherwise.
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Terror:
- Restriction: model with Terror
- Result: also causes Fear
- When a Terror-causing unit declares a charge, its target takes a Leadership test straight away; failing means it must Flee, passing means it chooses its charge reaction as usual. A target that cannot choose to Flee skips this test.
- When 1+ Terror-causing units are on the side that wins a combat: each unit on the losing side gets -1 to its Leadership characteristic for its Break test.
- Causing Fear gives no protection against the Fear of Terror-causing models. Models causing Terror are immune to Terror; a unit not causing it gains no immunity when a character that does joins it.
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Wailing Dirge (X):
- Restriction: bearers of this special rule
- Limits: target Leadership cannot be brought under 2
- Select: enemy unit at ≤8”
- Result: may make a ‘Wailing Dirge’ attack, a Shooting attack with Magical Attacks
- Skips to hit and to wound; the target takes a Leadership test at −X to its Leadership characteristic (X = value in brackets)
- Failed test: target takes wounds equal to the failure margin; no armour or Regeneration saves, Ward saves work normally
- Lone character targets: allowed, normal Lone character targeting rules ignored
- Engaged in combat in the Shooting phase: may pick a unit touching its base, even when this model made a charge this turn
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Press of Battle:
- Restriction: Unit with this rule, arrayed in combat order
- Condition: It did not charge this turn
- Result: Its fighting rank counts as 2 ranks deep
- Models directly behind, in base contact with a model of the actual fighting rank, also count as in the fighting rank
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Massed Infantry:
- Restriction: Side fielding at least one unit with this rule
- Condition: When combat results are tallied, that side's Unit Strength is the greater
- Result: It may claim +1 combat result point
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Parry:
- Restriction: Model with this rule, carrying a hand weapon plus shield
- Condition: In close combat, and opting to use that weapon and shield combination
- Result: armour value +1, capped at 3+
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