[Reference] Household Traditions

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Constraints:

max(roster): 1

Profiles:

Household Tradition
Blessed Arms
  • Add 6" to the Range characteristic of ranged weapons models with this Martial Tradition are equipped with.
  • If a model has this Martial Tradition, the Type of every Cognis Heavy stubber it is equipped with is changed to Assault 6.
  • If a model has this Martial Tradition, the Armour Penetration characteristic of every Cognis Heavy stubber it is equipped with is improved by 1.
Close-Quarters Killers

Each time a model with this tradition makes a melee attack, re-roll a hit roll of 1.

Cold Fury

Each time a model with this tradition makes a melee attack, an unmodified hit roll of 6 automatically wounds the target (if the target of that attack is TITANIC, then an unmodified hit roll of 5+ automatically wounds the target instead).

Fealty to the Cog

Select one of the following noble households: House Raven, House Krast, House Taranis or House Vulker.

  • Use the Household Tradition of the noble household you selected
  • If a CHARACTER model with this Martial Tradition gains a Warlord Trait, they can have a Noble Household Warlord Trait associated with the noble household you selected
  • You will gain access to the Noble Household Stratagems associated with the noble household you selected.
Firestorm Protocols

Each time a model with this tradition makes a ranged attack, if the target of that attack is the closest enemy unit to this model, re-roll a hit roll of 1.

Front-line Fighters

Each time a model with this Martial Tradition makes a ranged attack, if the target of that attack is within 18" of this model, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack.

Gallant Warriors

Each time an Advance roll or a charge roll is made for a model with this tradition, roll one additional D6 and discard one of the dice results.

Glorified History

Select one of the following noble households: House Terryn, House Griffith, House Cadmus, House Mortan, House Hawkshroud.

  • Use the Household Tradition of the noble household you selected
  • If a CHARACTER model with this Martial Tradition gains a Warlord Trait, they can have a Noble Household Warlord Trait associated with the noble household you selected
  • You will gain access to the Noble Household Stratagems associated with the noble household you selected.
Glory of the Charge

Each time a model with this tradition fights, if it made a charge move, was charged or performed a Heroic Intervention this turn, then until that fight is resolved, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of this model.

Honoured Sacristans

Each time an Attack with a Damage characteristic of 1 is allocated to a model with this Martial Tradition, add 1 to any armour saving throws taken against that attack.

Hunters of Beasts
  • Each time a model with this Martial Tradition makes an attack against a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, add 1 to that attack's hit roll.
  • Each time an attack made by a model with this Martial Tradition is allocated to a TITANIC model, add 1 to that attack's Damage characteristic.
  • If you have sworn the Lay Low the Tyrants Oath and one or more models with this Martial Tradition destroy a MONSTER or VEHICLE model during a battle round, then at the end of that battle round, you gain 2 Honour points from that Oath's Pledge, instead of 1.
Hunters of the Foe

Each time a Model with this Tradition a melee attack:

  • Unless the target of that attack contains any VEHICLE or MONSTER models, re-roll a wound roll of 1.
  • If the target of that attack contained 6 or more models when this model was selected to fight, you can re-roll the wound roll.
Last of Their Line
  • Each time a model with this Martial Tradition makes an attack that targets a unit containing 11 or more models, you can re-roll the hit roll.
  • Each time an ARMIGER-CLASS model with this Martial Tradition makes an attack that targets a unit containing 6 or more models, you can re-roll the hit roll.
Machine Focus

Each time a model with this Martial Tradition is selected to Shoot, you can re-roll either one wound roll or one Damage roll.

Mysterious Guardian

If a model with this Martial Tradition is placed into Strategic Reserves, it can arrive from Strategic Reserves in the Reinforcements step of any of your Movement phases as if the battle round was one higher than it currently is, regardless of any mission rules.

Mythic Hero

When you are determining which Chivalric abilities are active for IMPERIAL KNIGHTS models in your army, models with this Martial Tradition count the number of Honour Points your army currently has as being 2 higher than it actually is.

Noble Combatants

Each time a model with this Martial Tradition fights, if all of its attacks target one enemy unit and none of those attacks are made using the Sweep profile of a melee weapon, after resolving all of those attacks, it can make a number of additional attacks against that enemy unit equal to the number of attacks that did not reach the Inflict Damage step of the attack sequence during that fight (these additional attacks cannot be made using the Sweep profile of a melee weapon)

Oathkeepers

Models with this tradition whose characteristics can change as they suffer damage are considered to have double the number of wounds remaining for the purposes of determining what those characteristics are.

When you are determining which Chivalric abilities are active for IMPERIAL KNIGHTS models in your army, provided your army is not Dishonoured, models with this tradition count the number of Honour points your army currently has as being 1 higher than it actually is. This may mean that different Chivalric abilities are active for models with this tradition than are active for other IMPERIAL KNIGHTS models in your army.

Omnissiah's Grace

Each time a model with this tradition loses a wound, unless that wound was lost as the result of a mortal wound, roll one D6: on a 6, that wound is not lost.

Paragons of Honour

If every unit from your army has the IMPERIAL KNIGHTS keyword (excluding units with the AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM or UNALIGNED keywords), then after you have sworn 2 Oaths for your army, you must, if any models in your army have this Martial Tradition, swear one additional Oath. This Oath applies to all models in your army with this Martial Tradition.

Peerless Warrior

Once per battle, when you use an Imperial Knights Epic Deed Stratagem, if you select a model with this Martial Tradition to use that Stratagem, it costs 0 Command Points

Relentless Advance

Each time a model with this tradition makes a Normal Move or Advances in your Movement phase, until the end of your Shooting phase, it can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic and Advance rolls, and each time it is selected to shoot it counts as having Remained Stationary.

Steel-sinewed Aim

Each time a ranged attack is made by a model with this Martial Tradition against an enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of their unit, add 1 to that attack's roll.

Strike and Shield
  • Each time a melee attack is made against a model with this Martial Tradition, an unmodified hit roll of 1-3 always fails, irrespective of any abilities that weapon or model making the attack may have.
  • Each time a melee attack with an Armour Penetration characteristic of -1 is allocated to a model with this Martial Tradition, that attack has an Armour penetration characteristic of 0 instead.
Unremitting

Each time a model with this Martial Tradition is selected to Shoot, for the purposes of determining how many attacks are made by weapons with the Blast ability, double the number of models in the target unit.

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