Lieutenant John Thorne

"Victory requires sacrifice, yes. But even more than that. To defeat your enemy is not to just beat them on the battlefield; you must have them known and predicted at every step. Every movement the enemy takes must fit your battle plans, or you will pay the price heavily. You must sabotage their logistics, slay their commanders, poison their rations, and annihilate any advantage they have. Because if you have slain a thousand heretics with your lasgun, and come home to see that heretic Commissar and his lackeys snacking on your ration bars, then you've lost the war before it even started."

- Lieutenant John Thorne on the second day of fighting in the Klendatthu System.

John Thorne: M6" WS3+ BS3+ S3 T3 W6 A3 LD10 SV4+

Kasrkin Bodyguard: M6" WS3+ BS3+ S3 T3 W5 A5 LD10 SV4+

John Thorne is a single model armed with a Beamer Meltagun, Bolt Pistol, Officer's Sabre, as well as frag and krak grenades. This unit costs 7 power and 135 points. This model is also accompanied by six Kasrkin Bodyguards. Four of them are armed with Ash-pattern Hotshot Lasguns, Shock Mauls, as well as frag and krak grenades. Two of them are armed with Flamers, Shock Mauls, as well as frag and krak grenades. You may only include one of these units in your army.

Beamer Meltagun: 30" Heavy 2 S8 AP-4 Dd6+1. Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+3.

Bolt Pistol: 12" Pistol 1 S4 AP0 D1

Officer's Sabre: Melee SUser+2 AP-2 D1

Ash-pattern Hotshot Lasgun: 24" Assault 3 S3 AP-2 D1. If a model with this weapon is targeted by **First Rank, Fire! Second Rank, Fire!**, this weapon's type instead changes to Assault 9.

Shock Maul: Melee SUser+2 AP-3 D2. If at least one enemy model survives an attack from this weapon, they must fall back out of melee in their movement phase. If choosing not to fall back out of melee, every model armed with a Shock Maul may freely attack again as if it were the fight phase.

Flamer: 12" Assault D6 S4 AP0 D1. Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target.

Frag Grenades: 6" Grenade D6 S3 AP0 D1. Blast.

Krak Grenades: 6" Grenade 1 S6 AP-1 Dd3

Abilities: Voice of Command

Refractor Field: This model has a 5+ invulnerable save. John Thorne has this ability and if he is slain, you lose this ability.

Off-map Reinforcements: Once per turn, if John Thorne is still alive, he may call for off-map reinforcements. Roll 4D6 and pick up to two EMPEROR'S SHROUD units (they must not be HQ units) from the army list and place them on your board edge. They may not move or shoot this turn, however may act normally on your next turn.

Logistical Strategist: When an enemy uses a stratagem, that stratagem costs one extra Command Point. If the enemy can no longer afford that stratagem, the Command Point required is wasted. Additionally, when this rule triggers, roll a D6. On a 5+, you gain half the Command Points the enemy wasted, or gain 1 Command Point if the number wasted was less than 2. John Thorne has this ability and if he is slain, you lose this ability.

Grand Command: If your army is battle-forged, and this unit is your warlord, you gain 2 Command Points.

Veteran Bodyguards: If this unit declares Overwatch, then all Kasrkin Bodyguard models in this unit hit on a 4+ instead of a 6+, and fire at a weapon type of Assault 6 instead of Assault 3. All Kasrkin Bodyguards have this ability, and if they are all slain, you lose this ability.

Protect the Lieutenant!: All Kasrkin Bodyguard models must be slain before John Thorne takes any damage or wounds whatsoever. If a Kasrkin Bodyguard model is slain, and it is the last of those models, any additional damage that would have been allocated to John Thorne is negated and the attack sequence ends. This unit automatically passes morale tests.

Wargear: The two Kasrkin Bodyguards armed with Flamers may replace their Flamers for any weapon from the Astra Militarum Weapons List.

Faction Keywords: IMPERIUM, ASTRA MILITARUM, EMPEROR'S SHROUD

Keywords: CHARACTER, INFANTRY, OFFICER, JOHN THORNE,