‘Iron Hand’ Straken

Model NameMTSvWLdOC
‘Iron Hand’ Straken
25mm
6"33+ 4++47+1
Keywords:
Astra Militarum, Epic Hero, Imperium, Grenades, Officer, ‘Iron Hand’ Straken, Character, Infantry
Ranged WeaponsRangeABSSAPD
Auto shotgun
assault
12"33402
Plasma pistol – standard
pistol
12"137-21
Plasma pistol – supercharge
hazardous, pistol
12"138-32
Melee WeaponsRangeABSSAPD
Bionic arm with devil’s claw
anti-monster 4+
Melee626-22

Abilities

Cold Steel and Courage:While this model is leading a unit, melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
Been There, Seen it, Killed it:Each time this model makes a melee attack, if it made a Charge move this turn, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.

Wargear Options

None

Wargear Abilities

Unit Composition

1 ‘Iron Hand’ Straken – EPIC HERO
This model is equipped with: auto shotgun; plasma pistol; bionic arm with devil’s claw.

Costs

1 model - 55pts

Led By

Stratagems

NameDescription
1CP COMMAND RE-ROLL
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test or a Hazardous test for a unit from your army, or a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll or a saving throw for a model in that unit, or a roll to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon equipped by a model in that unit. If you are using fast dice rolling, this Stratagem can still be used after rolling multiple rolls or saving throws at once.

TARGET: That unit or model from your army.

EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw. If you are using fast dice rolling, select one of those rolls or saving throws to re-roll.
1CP GRENADE
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One GRENADES unit from your army (excluding units that Advanced, Fell Back or have shot this turn) that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Select one GRENADES model in your unit and one enemy unit that is not within Engagement Range of any units from your army and is within 8" of and visible to your GRENADES model. Roll six D6: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
1CP FIRE OVERWATCH
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement or Charge phase, just after an enemy unit is set up or when an enemy unit starts or ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, or declares a charge.

TARGET: One unit from your army that is within 24" of that enemy unit and that would be eligible to shoot if it were your Shooting phase.

EFFECT: If that enemy unit is visible to your unit, your unit can shoot that enemy unit as if it were your Shooting phase.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target a TITANIC unit with this Stratagem. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 6 is required to score a hit, irrespective of the attacking weapon’s Ballistic Skill or any modifiers. You can only use this Stratagem once per turn.
2CP COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.

TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
1CP HEROIC INTERVENTION
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.

TARGET: One unit from your army that is within 6" of that enemy unit and would be eligible to declare a charge against that enemy unit if it were your Charge phase.

EFFECT: Your unit now declares a charge that targets only that enemy unit, and you resolve that charge as if it were your Charge phase.

RESTRICTIONS: You can only select a VEHICLE unit from your army if it is a WALKER. Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.
1CP GO TO GROUND
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, all models in your unit have a 6+ invulnerable save and have the Benefit of Cover.
1CP EPIC CHALLENGE
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Fight phase, when a CHARACTER unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more Attached units is selected to fight.

TARGET: One CHARACTER model in your unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, all melee attacks made by that model have the [PRECISION] ability.
1CP RAPID INGRESS
Detachment: Core
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.

TARGET: One unit from your army that is in Reserves.

EFFECT: Your unit can arrive on the battlefield as if it were the Reinforcements step of your Movement phase, and if every model in that unit has the Deep Strike ability, you can set that unit up as described in the Deep Strike ability (even though it is not your Movement phase).

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem to enable a unit to arrive on the battlefield during a battle round it would not normally be able to do so in.
1CP INSANE BRAVERY
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you take a Battle-shock test for a unit from your army.

TARGET: That unit from your army.

EFFECT: Your unit automatically passes that Battle-shock test.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per battle.
1CP BELLICOSA DROP
Detachment: Bridgehead Strike
WHEN: The Reinforcements step of your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Infantry unit from your army that is in Reserves and has the Deep Strike ability.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when your unit is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.

RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
1CP SERVO‑DESIGNATORS
Detachment: Bridgehead Strike
WHEN: Your Shooting phase, just after an ASTRA MILITARUM INFANTRY unit from your army has shot.

TARGET: That Astra Militarum Infantry unit.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks that is visible to your unit. Until the end of the phase, that enemy unit cannot have the Benefit of Cover.
1CP FIRE AND RELOCATE
Detachment: Bridgehead Strike
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit (excluding Titanic units) from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Advanced.
2CP FLEXIBLE COMMAND
Detachment: Combined Arms
WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: Any number of Astra Militarum Officer units from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your Officers can issue Orders to Regiment units and Squadron units.
1CP INSPIRED COMMAND
Detachment: Combined Arms
WHEN: Your opponent’s Command phase.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Officer unit from your army.

EFFECT: Your OFFICER can issue one Order as if it were your Command phase.
1CP BRUTAL CHOKE POINT
Detachment: Embarked Regiment
WHEN: Your opponent's Movement or Charge phase.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army (excluding OGRYN units) that has not fired Overwatch this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
1CP AGAINST THE ODDS
Detachment: Embarked Regiment
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army (excluding OGRYN units) that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, on a Critical Wound, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 2.
1CP DUCK AND COVER
Detachment: Embarked Regiment
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army (excluding OGRYN units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks and has one or more models on the opposite side of an open Hatchway from one or more models in the attacking unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
1CP IDLE HANDS
Detachment: Embarked Regiment
WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway within 1" of your unit. Your unit can operate that Hatchway.

RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit cannot operate a Hatchway again.
1CP NO RETREAT!
Detachment: Grizzled Company
WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army affected by the Duty and Honour! Order.

EFFECT: If your unit is within range of an objective marker you control, that objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of a phase.
1CP MORDIAN MINUTE
Detachment: Grizzled Company
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Infantry unit from your army affected by the First Rank, Fire! Second Rank, Fire! Order.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, improve the Strength characteristic of that attack by 1.
1CP ADDITIONAL ARMOUR
Detachment: Grizzled Company
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
1CP PURGING FIRE
Detachment: Grizzled Company
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army affected by an Order that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: If your unit is within range of an objective marker, until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
1CP SNAP TO IT
Detachment: Grizzled Company
WHEN: Start of any phase.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Officer unit from your army.

EFFECT: Your unit’s OFFICER model can issue 1 Order as if it were your Command phase.
1CP VETERAN SHARPSHOOTERS
Detachment: Grizzled Company
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability.
1CP RAPID DISPERSAL
Detachment: Mechanised Assault
WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Infantry unit from your army that disembarked from a Transport this phase.

EFFECT: Your INFANTRY unit can make a Normal move of up to D6".
1CP VOX-RELAY
Detachment: Mechanised Assault
WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: One Infantry Officer unit from your army embarked within a Transport. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it is embarked within a TRANSPORT.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit can issue Orders even though it is not on the battlefield, and it can issue Orders to Astra Militarum Transport units from your army [excluding TiTANic units) regardless of the distance to and from your unit’s TRANSPORT.
1CP CLEAR AND SECURE
Detachment: Mechanised Assault
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army that disembarked from a Transport this turn and has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit within range of an objective marker, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
1CP HASTY EXTRACTION
Detachment: Mechanised Assault
WHEN: Your opponent’s Charge phase, after an enemy unit has selected targets for its charge but before it makes a Charge move.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Infantry unit from your army that was selected as a target of that charge.

EFFECT: Provided your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and every model in your unit is within 3" of an AsTRA Militarum Transport from your army, it can embark within that TRANSPORT.
1CP MOVE OUT
Detachment: Mechanised Assault
WHEN: End of your opponent’s turn.

TARGET: One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army.

EFFECT: Provided your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and every model in your unit is within 3" of an Astra Militarum Transport from your army, it can embark within that TRANSPORT.
1CP SCRAMBLE FIELD
Detachment: Recon Element
WHEN: Start of your opponent’s Reinforcements step.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Infantry unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, enemy units that are set up on the battlefield as Reinforcements cannot be set up within 12" of your unit.
1CP TANGLEFOOT GRENADES
Detachment: Recon Element
WHEN: Start of your opponent’s Charge phase.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Grenades unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit selects your unit as the target of a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).
1CP COURAGEOUS DIVERSION
Detachment: Recon Element
WHEN: Start of your opponent’s Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Infantry or Astra Militarum Mounted unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Feel No Pain 6+ ability, and each time an enemy model makes an attack, if your unit is the closest eligible target, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
2CP OVER THE TOP
Detachment: Siege Regiment
WHEN: Start of your Command phase.

TARGET: One Infantry Officer model from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when your model issues the Move! Move! Move! Order, it can issue that Order to any number of eligible friendly Infantry Regiment units, regardless of range to your model.
1CP TRENCH FIGHTERS
Detachment: Siege Regiment
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Infantry unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if it is a Regiment model. On a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
1CP FLARE BURST
Detachment: Siege Regiment
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Astra Militarum Character unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes an attack that targets a visible enemy unit within 12", you can re-roll the Hit roll.