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Some homebrew tabletop shenanigans for Battlegroup Arpat Ensues.

This datasheet represents the Arpat Infantry Squad, standard battleline units under the Lord General's command. These soldiers are defined by their superior gear, cadian pattern armor with a segmentum ultima pattern flair, and a focus on punching up and tactical flexibility through the use of their sergeant and expendable FPV skull-drones.



Datasheet: Arpat Infantry Squad

Keywords: Infantry, Battleline, Regiment, Arpat Battlegroup Unit Composition: 1 Sergeant, 4 Arpat Guardsmen, 2 Deployable FPV Servo-skulls (5(+2) models total)

Arpat Guardsman: M6" | T4 | SV4+ | W1 | LD7+ | OC2

Arpat Sergeant: M6" | T4 | SV4+ | W1 | LD7+ | OC2

2x FPV Servo-Skulls: M12" | T3 | SV6+ | W1 | OC1 [FLY, STEALTH, EXPENDABLE]


The Arsenal

6x Arpat Pattern Plasma-Guns: Range 18" | A2 | BS4+ | S8 | AP-3 | D2

Note: No "Hazardous" or self-destruct—highly stable, assault-range power.

1x Sergeant’s Bolter: Range 24" | A2 | BS3+ | S4 | AP0 | D1

Abilities

1. Ultima Pattern Armor (Passive - Human Models)

The squad’s heavy armor and integrated HUDs provide superior protection.

Effect: Human models have Toughness 4 against all Ranged Attacks.

2. Vindicator Tracers (Active - Sergeant)

The Sergeant designates a target for the squad’s heavy fire.

Effect: After the Sergeant shoots, pick one target unit. For the rest of the phase, the Arpat squad gets +1 to Hit and +1 to Wound against that target. The target also loses Stealth and Benefit of Cover.

3. FPV Servo-Skulls

Passives

Hard to Track: Attacks against a Servo-Skull always fail on an unmodified Hit roll of 1-3, regardless of Ballistic Skill.

Stealth: Subtract 1 from Hit rolls made against this model.

The Slingshot (Deployment)

At the start of your Movement Phase:

Launch: Deploy 1 Servo-Skull anywhere within 6" of the squad.

Active Flight: The servo-skull becomes an added model to the squad, immediately make a 12" Normal Move or an Advance. They are eligible to Charge in the same turn.

Targeting Augmentation (Utility Mode)

The drone hovers over the fray to provide real-time weak-point data.

Effect: Select an enemy within 12" of a Skull. The Arpat squad gains [LETHAL HITS] against that target for the phase.

Objective Control: While in this mode, the Servo-Skull gains OC 1.

Recharge: After use, the drone has a 1-turn cooldown before it can use Targeting Augmentation again, it retains objective control

Kinetic Impact (Attack Mode)

The drone charges in for a terminal strike.

Effect: On a successful Charge, the drone is expended (destroyed).Damage: Deal D3 Mortal Wounds to the target. If the target is a VEHICLE or MONSTER, deal 3 flat Mortal Wounds.

Ukrained: The survivor is -1 to Hit until your next turn.

Some narrative flavor to define how they play out

The canyon floor was a funnel of jagged obsidian and rising heat. Deep within the shadows of the ravine, a column of hormagaunts were led on by a warrior which clattered forward, confident in their sheer mass and the carnifex that followed, preparing to siege an imperial fort. They had no idea the trap had already been sprung.

High on the obsidian shelf, five figures remained motionless, croched down against the rock so their heavy blue plate didn't give away their positions. The Sergeant didn't signal with a hand; the command was sent via a silent burst of data. With a deafening rhythmic pulse, the Tracer Bolter expended the Emperor's fury. The bright red tracer rounds streaked across the dark canyon, slamming into the leading Tyranid Warrior. They didn't kill the beast, but they shattered upon its thoracic plate, bathing the synapse-creature in pyrescent crimson flares.

"Launch protocols engaged."

Two Servo-Skulls modified to carry krak grenade charges shrieked into the air. They dived into the ravine, their Wraith-Signatures and speed making them ghosts to the swarming hive-mind. The hormagaunts lashed out with scything talons, but the drones moved with such erratic, twitchy velocity that the aliens' strikes found only empty air.

One drone banked sharply, hovering at an unreachable edifice upon the flank of the scuttling mass. It initiated its Targeting Augmentation sweep. Immediately, the squad’s targeting visors were flooded with binharic command translated into devastating ballistic formulae that the squad had been drilled on like clockwork. Through the thick, chitinous carapaces of the swarm, the drone’s sensors highlighted the pulsing nerve clusters and the thin, unarmored joints where the limbs met the torso.

The four guardsmen rose as one. The whip-crack of Arpat Pattern Plasma guns echoed through the canyon like a thunderclap. Blue-white bolts of immolating matter didn't just hit the swarm; it dismantled it. Guided by the drone's data, the plasma fire threaded through the crowded ranks, vaporizing the Warrior's synaptic core in a single, surgical volley. Deprived of their leader, the hormagaunts fell into a mindless frenzy, but the logic of the machine ensured that every shot found a vital artery or a nerve center.

The Carnifex roared, a sound like grinding stone, and lunged toward the canyon wall to climb toward its attackers. But the second drone was already in its terminal dive. It didn't aim for the beast's armored head; it plummeted straight into the soft, pulsing sensory chimneys on its back. The Kinetic Impact was a sharp, localized detonation that sent a massive concussive shockwave through the creature's nervous system. The Carnifex didn't die, but it collapsed, its massive limbs twitching, its bioluminescent eyes flickering as it was left rattled and helpless in the obsidian dust. The other Servo-skull whirred in to finish the job.

As the heavy armored boots of the squad turned to move to the next vantage point, they left behind a ravine filled only with cooling bio-matter and the fading hum of plasma. The once coordinate tyranid assault now reduced to little more than a horde of mindless beasts.