Verminous Valour

A model with this special rule may voluntarily ‘retire’ (“Too Many Characters,” Rulebook, p. 209) during the Combat Phase. In order to do so the model must:

• Be joined to a unit that has a Unit Strength of 10 or more.
• Not be part of a Challenge.
• Not be subject to “Nowhere to Run” (Rulebook, p. 211).
• Be able to be placed inside the unit outside of all fighting ranks.
• Do so before any attacks are allocated and resolved for the current initiative step of a combat that they are in.

Should a model ‘retire’ in this way the unit may still use this character’s Leadership. All other restrictions for retiring apply.

In subsequent turns, if this model’s unit remains engaged in combat with the same enemy unit, a model with this rule may move through the ranks and join any fighting rank before challenges are issued during step 1.1 of the “Choose Combat & Fight Phase” (“Characters in Combat,” Rulebook p. 209).

If at any time there is nowhere to place a ‘retired’ model outside of a fighting rank they must immediately move through the ranks and take a position in the front row of a fighting rank. They may not make any attacks in this round of combat but they may have attacks directed against them.