Vehicle Cards

The crew have bolted extra plates on to the vehicle as a second skin of armour. The first hit to pass a Penetration Test against the vehicle is ignored; any later penetrating hit counts as normal. Hits from a Graviton Gun or a Shokk Attack Gun take no notice of the ablative plates. Exposed Crew are not shielded by them and are hit as normal.

The vehicle is armoured in ceramite, a compound as protective as ordinary armour plate and far better at shedding heat. When a Multimelta, Meltagun or Melta Bomb hits the vehicle, its Armour Penetration roll is halved. Exposed Crew gain no protection from the ceramite and are hit as normal.

Neither a Skimmer nor a vehicle carrying Exposed Crew may take this card.

Shaped plates of laminated hyper-alloy and ceramic make up this advanced armour. A model firing on the vehicle from the side must penetrate its front Armour Value instead, as though it were firing from the front.

Only a Skimmer may take this card.

Ejector seats let the crew escape when the vehicle is lost. When a damage result destroys the skimmer, each crew member, though not any troops it is transporting, ejects on a roll under their Initiative. Those that get out are set down D6" from the wreck in one random direction. Together they form one unit that can move and fight in its next turn.

Any vehicle may take this card except one with Exposed Crew.

A live current runs through the hull, a simple guard against attack at close quarters. Any model must pass its basic Armour Save against the shock before it may strike at the vehicle at all in Hand-to-Hand Combat; an Energy Field gives no save against it. A model that fails is hurled back 1" and makes no attack this turn. A model that passes attacks as normal.

Only a vehicle whose weapons have a Targeter may take this card.

The system takes the place of the standard Targeter on one weapon. A gyro-stabilised laser sight holds that weapon on its target as the vehicle moves: it may fire at any moment of the Movement Phase, so the vehicle can shoot and then pull back into cover.

A null-shield projects negative psychic energy, which pushes psychic power away on contact.

Whenever a Psychic Power targets the vehicle or Dreadnought, the Scatter Dice is rolled first. On a hit the power breaks through and works as normal. On an arrow it is turned 2D6" aside in the direction shown, crossing terrain and obstacles freely, and affects the first model it meets along that line other than the shielded one.

Where the shielded model lies inside the area of effect marker of a Psychic Power, a D6 roll of 4+ nullifies the power.

Extra plates, track links, sandbags and the like are lashed all over the vehicle or Dreadnought. Every hit location gains +1 Armour Value, except wheels and tracks.

The added weight costs speed. A vehicle loses 1" from its Slow speed, 2" from its Combat speed and 4" from its Fast speed. A Dreadnought or other Walker moves 2" less.

Only a Bike may take this card.

Razor-edged scythes on the bike mow down enemy troops while the rider speeds past. Whenever the bike makes a Hit & Run Attack, the enemy model rolls a D6 before anything else and must score no more than its Initiative; a 6 fails whatever the Initiative. A model that fails suffers a hit at Strength 4, Save Modifier -1, which inflicts 1 wound. If it survives, or passed the roll, the Hit & Run Attack is then resolved as normal.

A searchlight picks out hidden troops. When it is used, a 2" Blast Marker is placed anywhere within the vehicle's Line of Sight. Hidden enemy models wholly or partly under it are Spotted when in Soft Cover or behind it, such as woods or bushes, and Detected when in Hard Cover or behind it, such as walls or rocks.

Any vehicle may take this card, Bikes and Skimmers included, but not a Dreadnought or any other Walker.

The driver has lavished care on the engine: rebored, gas-flowed and given a huge supercharger. In any Movement Phase the supercharger may be used to raise the vehicle's speeds as the chart shows, the extra distance being rolled afresh each time. The extra need not be used, unless the dice show the most they can (6 on a D6, 12 on 2D6), when all of it must be.

The detonator spreads a field over a wide area that senses the tiny warp drives inside Vortex Grenades and sets them off early. Should any model try throwing a Vortex Grenade while within 12" of this vehicle, the field catches it and the grenade explodes while the model still holds it: its marker goes over the model as though it had hit itself.