Each time this unit makes an **ingress move** (20.04), if every model in this unit has this ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units, even if that is within your opponent’s deployment zone.

Scouts

This ability always takes the form **Scouts X"**. In the Resolve Pre-battle Abilities step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can do one of the following: 
- If that unit is in **strategic reserves**, you can set up that unit anywhere that is wholly within your deployment zone. 
- If that unit is wholly within your deployment zone, it can make a **scout move** (see below). 
- If that unit is embarked within a **DEDICATED TRANSPORT** that is wholly within your deployment zone, and if every model embarked within that **DEDICATED TRANSPORT** has the Scouts ability, that **DEDICATED TRANSPORT** can make a **scout move**.

Leader

While a Bodyguard unit contains a Leader, it is known as an Attached unit and, with the exception of rules that are triggered when units are destroyed (pg 12), it is treated as a single unit for all rules purposes. Each time an attack targets an Attached unit, until the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks, you must use the Toughness characteristic of the Bodyguard models in that unit, even if a Leader in that unit has a different Toughness characteristic. Each time an attack successfully wounds an Attached unit, that attack cannot be allocated to a Character model in that unit, even if that Character model has lost one or more wounds or has already had attacks allocated to it this phase. As soon as the last Bodyguard model in an Attached unit has been destroyed, any attacks made against that unit that have yet to be allocated can then be allocated to Character models in that unit.

Each time the last model in a Bodyguard unit is destroyed, each CHARACTER unit that is part of that Attached unit becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks. 

Each time the last model in a CHARACTER unit that is attached to a Bodyguard unit is destroyed and there is not another CHARACTER unit attached, that Attached unit’s Bodyguard unit becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks. 

Each time a unit that is part of an Attached unit is destroyed, it does not have the keywords of any other units that make up that Attached unit (unless it has those keywords on its own datasheet) for the purposes of any rules that would be triggered when that unit is destroyed.

Profiles:

Unit	M	T	Sv	W	LD	OC	InSv
Acolyte Iconward	6"	4	5+	3	6+	1

Abilities
Nexus of Devotion: While this model is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability. If that unit has the HYBRID METAMORPHS keyword, models in that unit have the Feel No Pain 4+ ability instead.
Summon the Cult: Once per battle, when you have to remove a Cult Ambush marker because your opponent has moved too close to it, if one or more models from your army with this ability are on the battlefield, you can use this ability. If you do, instead of removing that marker, you can place it anywhere on the battlefield that is within 12" of a model from your army with this ability and more than 8" horizontally away from all enemy units (if this is not possible, this ability is not considered to have been used and that marker is removed as normal).
Leader: This model can be attached to the following units: Acolyte Hybrids Hybrid Metamorphs Neophyte Hybrids

Modifiers:

add error Cannot take 3 secondary Characters in the Cult Unveiled

and

force is Boarding Actions

1+ selections of Cult Unveiled in force (recursive)

and

1+ selections of Acolyte Iconward in force (recursive)

1+ selections of Clamavus in force (recursive)

1+ selections of Kelermorph in force (recursive)

1+ selections of Locus in force (recursive)

1+ selections of Sanctus in force (recursive)

append name (Battle-hardened)

and

16+ selections of Experience Points in self (recursive)

30- selections of Experience Points in self (recursive)

append name (Battle-ready)

and

5- selections of Experience Points in self (recursive)

1+ forces of Crusade Force in roster (recursive)

append name (Blooded)

and

6+ selections of Experience Points in self (recursive)

15- selections of Experience Points in self (recursive)

append name (Heroic)

and

31+ selections of Experience Points in self (recursive)

50- selections of Experience Points in self (recursive)

append name (Legendary)

51+ selections of Experience Points in self (recursive)

increment max Crusade: Weapon Modifications(self) 2

0 selections of Fortress World in roster (recursive)

repeat for every 1 selections of Weapon Modifications in self (recursive)

increment max Crusade: Weapon Modifications(self) 3

1+ selections of Fortress World in roster (recursive)

repeat for every 1 selections of Weapon Modifications in self (recursive)

increment min Crusade: Weapon Modifications(self) 2

0 selections of Fortress World in roster (recursive)

repeat for every 1 selections of Weapon Modifications in self (recursive)

increment min Crusade: Weapon Modifications(self) 3

1+ selections of Fortress World in roster (recursive)

repeat for every 1 selections of Weapon Modifications in self (recursive)

set hidden true

and

force is Boarding Actions

0 selections of Cult Unveiled in force (recursive)

set max(force) 1

and

force is Boarding Actions

1+ selections of Cult Unveiled in force (recursive)

set max(force) 2

1+ selections of 1. Incursion (1000 Point limit) in roster (recursive)

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Xenos - Genestealer Cults(Catalogue)