Crypt Horrors

• 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

• Timing: terrain crossing that is difficult or dangerous, and Dangerous Terrain tests
• Result:
• bearers take no Movement characteristic modifier from that terrain
• Dangerous Terrain tests: a bearer may re-roll each 1 (optional)

• 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

Such a unit is allowed to take up an Open Order formation.

• 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.

• Restriction: a model with Stomp Attacks (X); X is often a dice roll
• Condition: the attacker touches the enemy in base contact
• Result: Resolving Stomp Attacks: carried out after every other attack in combat, Initiative 1 ones included
• They hit automatically.
• They use the attacker's unmodified Strength.

• Restriction: any model with this rule
• Result:
• Every model with this rule ignores the death of the army's Master of the Dead
• They and their mounts may march normally, unless joined to a unit without this rule
• A Vampire Count or Vampire Thrall Wizard with this rule suffers no penalty for armour or for a shield; IE: Cast and Dispel as Normal

• Restriction: units bearing this special rule
• Timing: end of any Combat phase where 1+ unsaved wounds were caused by such a unit
• Select: 1D6 per unsaved wound
• Result:
• Each 5+ restores 1 lost Wound to the models, per Resurrecting the Fallen
• Behemoth troop type: cap of 1 Wound restored per phase this way
• Pursue or Overrun: Leadership test is due before moving; failing it, the unit Pursues or Overruns anyway but the distance is 1D6 in place of 2D6

• Timing: once deployment is finished
• Result: each unit with Vanguard makes a Vanguard move (optional)
• Moves per Basic Movement rules; may manoeuvre, may not march
• Both armies have Vanguard units: roll-off, winner moves first, then sides alternate 1 unit at a time
• A unit that made a Vanguard move may not declare a charge in its first turn

• Restriction: unit with this rule
• Result: joining it requires Clumsy on the joining character as well; small characters fear getting trampled

Related: Monstrous Infantry