Crusade Rules

This page contain everything you need in order to play in the 9th edition play, CRUSADE. Link to original page here.

Crusade Faction

When you start a Crusade force, you must decide what its Crusade Faction will be - this must be one of the following Faction keywords:

• IMPERIUM
• CHAOS
• AELDARI
• TYRANIDS
• ORKS
• NECRONS
• T’AU EMPIRE

Order of Battle

A player's Order of Battle is primarily a list of all the units that they have as part of their Crusade force. A player’s Order of Battle can consist of any number of units, but you must have a Crusade card for each unit and the combined Power Ratings of all the units in your starting Crusading force cannot exceed 50. This is called your Crusade force's Supply Limit, and it can be increased by playing more battles (as explained later). Make a note of each unit's Power Rating on your Order of Battle.

Battle Tally and Requisition points

A player s Order of Battle must also have a tally of the number of battles you have played with it, as well as your current number of Requisition points (RPs). When you first start a Crusade army and you create an Order of Battle, you will start with 5 RPs.

Crusade cards

Each time a player adds a unit to their Order of Battle, the unit’s details must be recorded on a Crusade card. Each unit's Crusade card details the following:

• What models and how many of each are in the unit.
• What weapons models in that unit are equipped with and what wargear they have.
• The total Power Rating of the unit (see Power Ratings and points section).
• If the unit has any keywords that must be chosen when that unit is included in your army, its Crusade card must make a note of what are those keywords (e.g. < MARK OF CHAOS >, < LEGION >, < CHAPTER > etc.).
• If the unit is a PSYKER, its Crusade card must make a note of which psychic powers it knows.* When you are generating that units powers, you can ignore rules that state the unit must be part of a specific Detachment in order to know that power (though all other requisites, such as having the correct keywords, still apply).
• If the unit has any abilities that must, or that can be selected or generated before the battle, your Crusade card must note what those selections are (e.g. Litanies of Battle, Prayers to the Dark Gods, Powers of the C’tan, Exarch Powers etc.).
• If you have used any Requisition points to upgrade the unit, the Crusade card must note all the details of those upgrades. So, if any units have been given a Relic, a Warlord Trait, or have been upgraded via a Stratagem, these must be noted on their unit card*
• Any Battle Honours or Battle Scars the unit has.
• The unit’s current number of experience points (when adding a unit to your Order of Battle, this will be 0).
• The unit’s Combat tallies (when adding a unit to your Order of Battle, these will be 0).
• The unit’s total number of Crusade points.

Experience

When you add a unit to your Order of battle, it will start with 0 experience points. Units can gain experience points as follows:

• Battle Experience: At the end of a battle, each unit that has a Crusade card that was part of your army list for that battle gains 1 experience point.
• Dealers of Death: A unit gains 1 experience point for every third enemy unit it has destroyed in total.
• Marked for Greatness: At the end of a battle, you can select one unit that has a Crusade card that was part of your army list for that battle; that unit gains 3 experience points. Keep a tally on the unit's Crusade card of how many times it has been Marked for Greatness.

The following units never gain experience points, and so can never gain Battle Honours, however, they also are assumed to pass any Out of Action tests they are required to take (no dice is rolled) and so never accrue Battle Scars. You can mark the Experience Points section of their Crusade card as ‘N/A’ to remind you.

• Named characters
• SWARMS
• DRONES
• Units with the Fortifications Battlefield Role
• Summoned units (i.e. any unit that is added to your army during a battle)

Requisition points

Requisition points can be used to purchase Requisitions: these can upgrade your Crusade force, or units within them. Each time you spend a Requisition point, reduce your total by 1. Each time you play a battle, you will gain 1 Requisition point after that battle has been completed, regardless of the result of the battle itself.

Relics, Warlord Traits and Upgrades

No model in your Order of Battle can have a Relic or a Warlord Trait unless you have purchased the appropriate Requisition. This means that your Warlord does not automatically have a Warlord Trait, and you do not automatically get to give a Relic to one CHARACTER in your army.

Named Characters

Named characters always have a Warlord Trait, even if they are not your Warlord(in such cases they are only considered to be your Warlordfor the purposes of their trait). If a publication lists what a named character's WarlordTrait must be, then it must be this; they have this WarlordTrait even if another model in your Order of Battle already has this WarlordTrait, but having this named character in your Order of Battle does not prevent another model in your Order of Battle from having this Warlord Trait.

Knight Characters

IMPERIAL KNIGHT Detachments and CHAOS KNIGHT Detachments both have a Detachment ability (Knight Lances and Traitoris Lances respectively). The part of this ability that enables a model to gain the CHARACTER keyword does not apply to Crusade Armies. The only method by which an IMPERIAL KNIGHT or a CHAOS KNIGHT model can gain the CHARACTER keyword is by purchasing the Specialist Reinforcements Requisition when it is added to your Order of Battle in order to use either the Exalted Court or Tyrannical Court Stratagems.

Requisition

• INCREASE SUPPLY LIMIT 1RP

Purchase this Requisition at any time. Increase your Crusade force's Supply Limit by 5 Power.

• FRESH RECRUITS 1RP

Purchase this Requisition at any time. Select one unit from your Order of Battle (excluding CHARACTERS, VEHICLES and MONSTERS) that has a Crusade card. You cannot choose a unit that has achieved the Battle-hardened, Heroic or Legendary rank. Add any number of additional models to this unit (up to the maximum listed on its datasheet) and increase its Power Rating accordingly. If the unit you selected has achieved the Blooded rank, you must increase its Crusade points total by 1 if its Power Rating has gone from 10 or less to 11 or more.

• REARM AND RESUPPLY 1RP

Purchase this Requisition at any time. Select one unit from your Order of Battle (excluding CHARACTERS) that has a Crusade card. You can change any wargear options that models in that unit are equipped with as described on that unit’s datasheet, provided that none of those wargear options would change the Power Rating of the unit. You cannot replace a weapon that a model is equipped with if the weapon in question has been upgraded by a Weapon Enhancement.

• REPAIR AND RECUPERATE 1RP

Purchase this Requisition either before or after a battle. Select one Crusade card from your Order of Battle that has one or more Battle Scars. Select one of that unit’s Battle Scars and remove it from its Crusade card (remember that for each Battle Scar removed, the unit's Crusade points will effectively increase by 1).

• PSYCHIC MEDITATIONS 1RP

Purchase this Requisition either before or after a battle. Select one PSYKER unit that has a Crusade card from your Order of Battle. You can change what psychic powers that unit knows (make a note of the unit’s new psychic powers on its Crusade card - all the usual rules for selecting psychic powers apply).

• SPECIALIST REINFORCEMENTS 1RP

Purchase this Requisition when you add a Crusade card for a unit to your Order of Battle. If there is a Stratagem that could upgrade this unit to give it either a better characteristic profile and/or abilities, you can use that Stratagem to upgrade that unit for free, even if you would not normally have access to such a Stratagem unless your army includes a specific Detachment.

• WARLORD TRAIT 1RP

Purchase this Requisition when you add a Crusade card for a CHARACTER unit to your Order of Battle, or when a CHARACTER in your Order of Battle gains a rank. You can give that CHARACTER one Warlord Trait (even if they are not your Warlord - in battle, this CHARACTER is only considered your Warlord for the purposes of this trait).

• RELIC 1RP

Purchase this Requisition when you add a Crusade card for a CHARACTER unit to your Order of Battle, or when a CHARACTER unit in your Order of Battle gains a rank. You can give one CHARACTER model in that unit one Relic

Ranks and Battle Honours

If a unit has accrued enough experience points it will gain a promotion and go up a rank (from Battle-ready to Blooded, for example). Each time a unit gains a rank, it will gain one Battle Honour; make a note of the unit’s new rank and its Battle Honour on its Crusade card.

Experience	Rank	Battle Honours
0-5	Battle-ready	0
6-15	Bloodied	1
16-30	Battle-honoured	2
31-50	Heroic	3
51+	Legendary	4

Battle Honours

There are four types of Battle Honours:

• Battle Traits: New skills and abilities.
• Weapon Enhancements: Upgrade an item of wargear.
• Psychic Fortitudes: Boosts a unit's psychic might.
• Crusade Relic: Gain a rare and powerful artefact.

Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, increase its Crusade points by:

• 1 if unit has a Power Rating or 10 or less.
• 2 if unit has a Power Rating of 11 or more.