Beastmaster

The Beastmaster and any Tigers and/or Panthers he has under his control must deploy together as a Skirmish unit.

The animals may be released either when declaring charges or when attempting to pursue a fleeing foe. When releasing the animals, they become a separate unit from the Beastmaster for all purposes.

The Beastmaster can decide how many animals he wants to release at any point, and previously released animals may return to the unit by moving within 1” from it unless it is engaged in Close Combat.

If their Beastmaster is killed, any unengaged animals will immediately flee the battlefield. Victory Points are scored individually for Beastmasters and animals.

Members of the Lowborn Caste are treated by units from the Noble Caste or the Warrior Caste as being Expendable.

A Mixed Unit most often consist of two different Troop Types, with one or more handlers that drive the rest of the unit forward. The handler(s) may be deployed in the rear rank of the unit. Mixed Units cannot be joined by characters, unless specified.

If a Mixed unit is required to take a characteristic test, this is done using the characteristics of the unit itself, not the handlers. The only exception is LD tests, which are taken using the unit’s highest LD value. When the models in a unit with Mixed Unit have different M allowances, the handlers M value is ignored, unless they are the only models remaining. Any rules that the unit might have do not apply to the Handlers unless specified – ignore the handlers completely in those cases.

As long as the unit (but not the handlers) have a unit strength of 5 or more, any missile hits are resolved against the unit itself. At less than unit strength 5, the controlling player decides who is hit, but must allocate one hit on each model before they can add a second hit on a model; they must allocate two hits on each model before they can allocate a third, and so on. Hits from templates are resolved against the handlers as normal. In close combat, the handlers can only be attacked by models who are in base contact with them.

Models with Strider will normally have a subset of Strider that is mentioned in the brackets. The rule only applies in terrain of the specified type. Models with Strider treat that piece of terrain as open ground for the purposes of Movement, meaning they ignore any M penalties or Dangerous Terrain tests otherwise caused by it. Note that they still follow the rules for that terrain type in terms of combat.

Any friendly Warbeast, Monstrous Beast, Monstrous Cavalry or Monster (not including Devas) within 6" of a Beastmaster may re-roll failed LD tests and are Stubborn.