Adeptus Custodes

Magisterium Lex Ultima

As far back as records exist of the Adeptus Custodes, they have held the Magisterium Lex Ultima, making them answerable to only one - the Emperor. Such a mark of office holds them above all law and command save for the direct authority of the Master of Mankind, and affords them the incontestable jurisdiction to pursue Imperative Endeavours as they feel is appropriate.

If your Crusade force includes TRAJANN VALORIS or any other SHIELD-CAPTAIN units and you are not currently on an Endeavour, you can claim the Magisterium Lex Ultima before a battle. If you do, you must commence an Endeavour for your Crusade force. This entails a collection of objectives (known as Imperatives) that you must attempt to complete in sequence over a series of battles. Doing so will earn you Endeavour Rewards, but failure will bring about Dishonour.

When you commence an Endeavour, you must determine its three Imperatives from the Imperative tables. To do this, roll one D6 to decide which Imperative table to use, then another D6 to determine an Imperative from that Imperative table. You cannot determine the same Imperative for each Endeavour more than once (roll again until a new Imperative is determined). Once you have determined all three of your Imperatives, make a note of them, and the order in which they were generated, in your Order of Battle. Your Endeavour has now commenced and you must complete its Imperatives one at a time, starting with the first Imperative you determined - this is known as the active Imperative.

At the end of a battle, if you have completed the active Imperative, mark that Imperative as completed in your Order of Battle. The next Imperative you determined is now active for subsequent battles. Once you have completed all of your Endeavour’s Imperatives, you can claim an Endeavour Reward, and can then claim the Magisterium Lex Ultima once more. You can abandon an Endeavour at the end of a battle. If you do, and you have completed two out of three Imperatives, you can randomly select an Endeavour Reward from the two you have completed, and the other Endeavour Reward is lost. In addition, if you have not completed all of your Endeavour’s Imperatives within nine battles of beginning that Endeavour, then it is abandoned. When an Endeavour is abandoned, you must select a Dishonour, and can then start a new Endeavour before the next battle.

Adeptus Custodes Notion Instructions:

  1. Add a row in the Faction Goal Tracker to track your Magisterium Lex Ultima, aka your Endeavours
  2. Track the remaining battles left to complete your Endeavour by adding a row in the Goal Currencies/Assets table. Subtract by 1 for each battle completed
  3. In the Faction Goal Tracker Add the Imperatives that were rolled in the order they are rolled. The order is preserved
  4. Track the current active imperative in the Faction Goal Tracker column named Custodes Active Endeavour Imperative
  5. Track the Endeavour Rewards and Dishonours in the Faction Goal Tracker in their respectively named columns

Astra Militarum

Tours of Duty

If your Crusade force includes any ASTRA MILITARUM units, it can go on a Tour of Duty to crush the enemy forces and reinforce the Imperiums defences. Each time your Crusade force starts a Tour of Duty, you must first determine how many battles it will need to fight and how many victories are required to claim overall triumph.

Once these goals have been determined, make a note of them on your Order of Battle. After each battle, reduce the number of battles that remain to be fought by 1 (to a minimum of 0), and if you won that battle, reduce the number of remaining victories required by 1 (to a minimum of 0).

Once both of these numbers reach 0, your Crusade force has completed that Tour of Duty, and you can spend Commendation points on your Crusade force. Once this stage is complete, your Crusade force can then begin a new Tour of Duty.