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Event House Rules

Horus Heresy 3.0 - House Rules


Welcome to Great Northern Heresy’s event rules page! Please review the following house rules carefully before participating in any of our gaming events. These rules help keep game play fair, balanced, and fun for all players.

New Edition!

  • As we are just at the beginning of 3rd edition of Horus Heresy, there are no major house rules that are in effect. However, we will be experimenting with a few rules below.

Area Terrain

  • Models wholly within Light Area Terrain are granted a 6+ Cover Save.
  • Models wholly within Medium Area Terrain are granted a 5+ Cover Save.
  • Models wholly within Heavy Area Terrain are granted a 4+ Cover Save.
    • Units outside of Heavy Area Terrain may draw Line of Sight into the terrain, but not through it, unless they have at least one model wholly within the footprint.

Scatter Terrain

  • Models hit by an attack which must draw Line of Sight through a Light or Medium Area Terrain feature, or Scatter Terrain, are granted a 6+ Cover Save. Even if the target model is not inside the area terrain.
    • In this case, Infantry models that are also in Base Contact with, or within coherency range of a model in Base Contact with Scatter Terrain, are granted a 5+ Cover Save.

Vehicles and Cover Saves

  • Vehicles that have the Closest Target Armour Facing at least 25% obscured are granted a 6+ Cover Save.
  • Vehicles that have the Closest Target Armour Facing 100% obscured, may be still fired at by targeting another visible facing, but the Vehicle is granted a 5+ Cover Save.
  • Vehicles may only benefit from cover saves granted by Area Terrain if the model is at least 50% within the terrain feature.

Explodes!

  • All Vehicles and Walkers that do not already have any version of the Explodes! special rule gain Explodes (6+).

Vehicle Wrecks

  • All destroyed Vehicles that are not removed due to the Explodes! special rule become a Wreck as per the Wrecked Vehicle rule as detailed on page 221 of the main rule book.

Battlefleet Gothic

Ruleset

We use the Battlefleet Gothic: Remastered Ruleset for our events, along with the co-responding fleet lists which are available on New Recruit for list building purposes.

You may access the rules at the following link:
https://www.specialist-arms.com/forum/index.php?topic=5203.0

New Recruit
https://www.newrecruit.eu