Death Company

The Death Company is deployed as Elites in scenarios where this is relevant.

The only characters who may lead a Death Company unit are Blood Angels Chaplains or a Sanguinary High Priest (providing, of course, that he does not have an Honour Guard). A Death Company which is not lead by a Blood Angels Chaplain or Sanguinary High Priest must move towards the nearest enemy unit as fast as possible and must make an assault if it can do so.

Some warriors are so blood-frenzied that they can ignore injuries that would incapacitate even a battle-hardened Space Marine. If a model with this ability loses a wound, roll a dice. On a 1, 2 or 3, take the wound as normal, removing the model if it loses its final wound. On a 4, 5 or 6, the injury is ignored and the model continues fighting. This ability cannot be used against weapons that inflict Instant Death (those with a Strength double or more the model's Toughness) or against close combat weapons that allow no Armour Save (such as power fists, power swords, Dreadnought close combat weapons, rending attacks that roll a 6 to hit, etc).

Fearless troops never have to fall back and are assumed to automatically pass any morale test they are required to take. They can never be pinned. This special rule is gained by any independent character joining a Fearless unit. Also, as long as a Fearless character stays inside a non-Fearless unit, he loses this special rule.