ACTION POINTS SUMMARY

SEQUENCE OF PLAY

BEFORE THE GAME STARTS

Trump suit: shuffle and cut the cards to find the trump suit - place the trump suit counter on colour track.

Deal cards: deach each player his normal hand of cards, starting wiht the Marine player.

Marine hand	2 cards plus 1 card per psyker in play.
Stealer hand	4 cards whatever the number of psykers in play

MARINE PLAYERS TURN

Timer phase: remember to add +30 seconds if you've got a psyker - this is because the psychic cards phase is part of the Marine's timed turn.

Command points phase: Draw command point chip whithout revealing its points. Drawn chips are not mixed back again until the last chip is drawn, after that all chips are mixed again.

Psychic Cards Phase: draw 1 card for each psyker in play, up to a macximum of 2 cards above your normal hand. Then discard any cards of your choice to reduce your hand to its normal size.

Marine Action Phase: The Marine player moves.

Sections Effects Endphase: Roll a dice for all Vortices to see if they move - direction of movement is shown on the marker.

Roll for additional damage for any model in a section containing a Hellfire or Vortex marker (unless the section effect was cast during this Marine turn).

Roll to decay any psychic section effect markers of your choice - roll one dice for each, with a 6 meaning it's decayed.

Play force cards to disperse any psychic section effect that you didn't try to decay. The effect marker is removed unless the Stealer player retaliates and begins a force battle to keep it on the board.

STEALER PLAYER'S TURN

Psychic Cards Phase: discard 1 card if you want, then draw as many cards as necessary to return your hand to its normal size.

Stealer Action Phase: The Stealer player moves.

Section Effects Endphase: roll for Vortex movement, additional damage, decay and dispersal as in the Marine player's turn.

Endphase: move the trump suit marker one section to the right along the trump track (or back to the beginning if it's at the end) - this marks the new trump suit until the end of the next Stealer turn.

Psychic attack cards reference table

Psychic Combat Summary

(personal note: could all references to open doors below really mean closed doors? check the rulebook)

Psionic - Yellow (Skull with eye on fronthead): Control, Miasma, Scan and Smite

Power - Red (crossed lighing bolts): Blast, Jinx, Switch and Teleport

Kinesis - Green (Triple Sickles): Assail, Hellfire, Lighting Arc and Vortex

Temporal - Blue (Scythe): Burst of speed, Prescience, Stasis and Warp Time

Unstoppable (Card marked with skull): Force cards can't dispel an attack from this card.

Close assault bonus (Number indicated on card): Add bonus (+1 to +6) to close assault roll.

Areas of Effect

Self: only affects casting psyker.

Model: affects a single model. Blips are converted if hit - converted Hybrids can immediately play psychic cards in defence.

Door: (Switch) - only affects doors.

Feature: (Blast) - affects features such as open doors and crates. Blast has no effect on models, but they can be damaged by the Blasted feature.

Section: affects all models, blips and features in a single section. Blips are not converted so Hybrid psykers can't play psychic cards in defence. If the attack remains on the section, place correct psyckic effect marker. Sections can't be targeted if only visible square on section contains an open door.

Force Cards

Cards with a force icon in the bottom right corner can be used to dispel psychic attacks. They can only be played by the psyker who is the target of the attack (whether model or section). A card is only effective against cards of the same suit as shown by its force icon (ie the force icon matches the symbol in the top left corner of the attacking card). A force card automatically dispels an attack.

If the other player also has a card with the same force icon, he can use it to reinforce his attack - the original card now takes effect. Both players can continue to play cards to dispel and reinforce attacks until one runs out of cards with the correct force icon. If the defender played the last card, the attack is dispelled; if the caster played the last card, the attack has full effect.

Dispersing Section Effects

If a psyker has LOS to a section containing an effect marker, he can try to disperse it during the section effect endphase. To do this, he plays a card with a force icon matching the symbol and suit of the original attack card. The other player can try to stop him by playing reinforcing cards as with normal force battles - to do so, he only needs a psyker in play, not necessarily with LOS to the section.

Aura Cards

An Aura nullifies one kill from a psychic or non-psychic attack - it must be played immediately after the kill. It doesn't stop any other effects of the attack (ie other models in a section are affected normally). Auras act as force cards against cards of their own suit (ie force icon and suit symbol are the same).