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★ Ulthwé

The following section describes the Black Guardians of Ulthwé – fearless warriors who have been sent on a desperate mission to hold back the encroaching Chaos tide. Using the webway to launch surprise assaults across the galaxy, Ulthwé Strike Forces thwart the Great Enemy at every turn, lending aid to their allies whenever they can.

How This Supplement Works

On this page you will find datasheets that describe the elite Black Guardians of Craftworld Ulthwé. It also contains the Ulthwé Strike Force Detachment that allows the Black Guardians to take to the field.

Books


BookKindEditionVersionLast update
► Gathering the Storm: Fracture of Biel-tanSupplement71.0February 2017

Ulthwé Special Rules


Faction, Allies and Detachments

The four units described on the following pages – Black Guardians, Black Guardian Windriders, Black Guardian Vyper Squadron and Black Guardian War Walkers – have the Eldar Faction, and ally as such, as described in the Allies section of Warhammer 40,000: The Rules. These units can only be included as part of an Ulthwé Strike Force Detachment or a Reborn Warhost, and cannot be included in an army that contains any units from any of the following Factions: Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, Khorne Daemonkin and Renegade Knights.

Heavy Weapon Platforms

One Black Guardian from the same unit as, and within 2” of, a Heavy Weapon Platform may fire the platform instead of their shuriken catapult, counting as having the Relentless special rule. If there are no Black Guardians left in the unit, remove the Heavy Weapon Platform as a casualty. Weapons platform models are ignored when allocating Wounds from Look Out, Sir rolls.

Webway Assault

A unit composed entirely of models with this special rule can be set up in Deep Strike Reserves instead of deploying with the rest of your army. When they arrive from Deep Strike Reserves, they will not scatter, but no model in the unit can be placed within 9" of any enemy models.

Detachments


Ulthwé Strike Force


RESTRICTIONS
Only the following units can be included in this Detachment: Black Guardians, Black Guardian Windriders, Black Guardian Vyper Squadron, and Black Guardian War Walkers.

COMMAND BENEFITS
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: All units in this Detachment have the Stubborn and Preferred Enemy special rules if the enemy army contains any units from the following Factions: Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, Khorne Daemonkin and Renegade Knights.

If this Detachment contains four units, its units can roll to arrive from Deep Strike Reserve from turn 1.

Elites


Black Guardian Vyper Squadron


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BS F S R HP Unit Type
Black Guardian Vyper 4 10 10 10 2 Vehicle (Fast, Open-topped, Skimmer)
Unit Composition: 1 Black Guardian Vyper
Wargear:
 • Shuriken cannon
 • Twin-linked shuriken catapult

Special Rules:
 • Webway Assault
Options:
 • May include up to five additional Black Guardian Vypers45 pts/model
 • Any Black Guardian Vyper can exchange its shuriken cannon for one of the following:
  - Starcannon5 pts/model
  - Bright lance10 pts/model
  - Scatter laser10 pts/model
  - Eldar missile launcher15 pts/model
 • Any Black Guardian Vyper may exchange its twin-linked shuriken catapult for a shuriken cannon10 pts/model
 • Any Black Guardian Vyper can take any of the following upgrades:
  - Spirit stones10 pts/model
  - Holo-fields15 pts/model
  - Star engines15 pts/model
  - Vectored engines15 pts/model
  - Crystal targeting matrix25 pts/model

Black Guardian War Walkers


65

WS BS S F S R I A HP Unit Type
Black Guardian War Walker 4 4 5 10 10 10 5 2 2 Vehicle (Walker, Open-topped)
Unit Composition: 1 Black Guardian War Walker
Wargear:
 • Two shuriken cannons
 • Power field

Special Rules:
 • Ancient Doom
 • Battle Focus
 • Fleet
 • Scout
 • Webway Assault
Options:
 • May include up to two additional Black Guardian War Walkers65 pts/model
 • Any Black Guardian War Walker can exchange any shuriken cannon for one of the following:
  - Scatter laserfree
  - Bright lance5 pts/model
  - Starcannon5 pts/model
  - Eldar missile launcher15 pts/model
 • All models in the squadron can take a ghostwalk matrix10 pts/model
 • Any Black Guardian War Walker can take any of the following upgrades:
  - Spirit stones10 pts/model
  - Star engines15 pts/model
  - Vectored engines15 pts/model

Black Guardian Windriders


60

WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv Unit Type
Black Guardian Windrider 4 4 3 4 1 5 1 8 3+ Eldar Jetbike
Unit Composition: 3 Black Guardian Windriders
Wargear:
 • Twin-linked shuriken catapult

Special Rules:
 • Ancient Doom
 • Battle Focus
 • Webway Assault
Options:
 • May include up to seven additional Black Guardian Windriders20 pts/model
 • Any Black Guardian Windrider may exchange its twin-linked shuriken catapult for one of the following:
  - Scatter laser10 pts/model
  - Shuriken cannon10 pts/model

Black Guardians


110

WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv Unit Type
Black Guardian 4 4 3 3 1 5 1 8 5+ Infantry
Heavy Weapon Platform - - - 5 1 - - - 3+ Infantry
Unit Composition: 10 Black Guardians
Wargear:
 • Shuriken catapult
 • Plasma grenades

Special Rules:
 • Ancient Doom
 • Battle Focus
 • Fleet
 • Heavy Weapon Platforms
 • Webway Assault
Options:
 • May include up to ten additional Black Guardians11 pts/model
 • All Black Guardians may exchange their shuriken catapult for a shuriken pistol and close combat weaponfree
  - Up to two Black Guardians may exchange their close combat weapon for a power sword15 pts/model
  - Up to two Black Guardians may exchange their shuriken pistol and close combat weapon for one of the following:
  ○ Flamer5 pts/model
  ○ Fusion gun10 pts/model
 • For every ten Black Guardians with shuriken catapults in the unit, may add one Heavy Weapon Platform from the following list:
  - Shuriken cannon15 pts/model
  - Scatter laser15 pts/model
  - Bright lance20 pts/model
  - Starcannon20 pts/model
  - Eldar missile launcher30 pts/model