Creations of Bile: The 11th-Edition Chaos Space Marines Augmented Infantry Detachment

At the start of the battle, select which augmentations are active for Heretic Astartes Infantry models (excluding Damned models) from your army until the end of the battle. You choose how:

• Select one from the list, guaranteed; or
• Randomly determine two by rolling two D6. If Fabius Bile is your Warlord, you can re-roll one or both dice. Duplicated augmentations have no additional effect.

The six augmentations are:

• Cholinergic Accelerants — +1 Attack on melee weapons.
• Hyperadrenal Infusion — +2 inches Move.
• Paraneural Reactions — +1 Weapon Skill on melee weapons.
• Supracutaneous Chitination — +1 Toughness.
• Macrotensile Sinews — +1 Strength on melee weapons.
• Ophthalmic Enhancement — +1 Ballistic Skill on ranged weapons.

That is a whole-army, whole-battle decision, not a per-unit or per-turn one, and it is the single most misreported thing about this detachment. Two random augmentations are better on average than one chosen, but only if you can live with any pair, and rolling doubles wastes half the effect. Taking Bile as Warlord is what makes the gamble worth it.

Six, and four of them are defensive, which tells you what the detachment is really for.

• Monstrous Visages (1CP, opponent's Shooting or Fight) — -1 to Hit against a targeted Infantry unit.
• Masters Are Watching (1CP, Fight) — destroyed models in a targeted Infantry unit fight anyway on a 4+ (with -1 for a Damned unit).
• Specimens for the Spider (2CP, Fight) — re-roll Wounds against Characters, and force Battle-shock tests within 6 inches if you kill one, or on every unit within 6 inches if it was the enemy Warlord.
• Delayed Mutations (2CP, Command) — take D3 mortal wounds to gain an extra augmentation on one unit until your next Command phase. The reason a bad opening roll is survivable.
• Diabolic Regeneration (1CP, Command) — return one destroyed non-Character model, or D3 if the unit is Battleline.
• Autostimulants (1CP, start of Charge) — declare a charge after Advancing.

Delayed Mutations and Diabolic Regeneration are the two that define the detachment's turn: one patches your augmentation choice, the other refuses to let the brick shrink.

• Prime Test Subject (35 pts) — Heretic Astartes Infantry only, excluding Damned: +1 Damage on melee weapons and re-roll melee Hit rolls. The most expensive enhancement here and the most decisive.
• Helm of All-Seeing (25 pts) — Infantry only, excluding Damned: enemy units arriving from Reserves cannot be set up within 12 inches of the bearer. A whole deep-strike plan, denied.
• Living Carapace (15 pts) — Chaos Lord only: +1 Wound and Feel No Pain 5+.
• Surgical Precision (10 pts) — excluding Damned: Precision on the bearer's melee weapons, which is how a cheap character sniper picks off a leader.

(Points come from the Munitorum Field Manual and move with updates; confirm in the app.)

• Fabius Bile — as Warlord he lets you re-roll one or both augmentation dice, and the pack rewrote his Chirurgeon ability so he comes back on a 2+ the first time he is destroyed.
• Legionaries — Battleline Heretic Astartes Infantry, so Diabolic Regeneration returns D3 models rather than one.
• Chosen — the elite infantry that turns +1 Attack or +1 Strength into real damage.
• Possessed — multi-wound Infantry that benefit disproportionately from +1 Toughness and Monstrous Visages.
• Chaos Lord — the only legal Living Carapace bearer.
• Chaos Rhino — delivery for an infantry-only detachment, but the pack rewrote its transport section to exclude Terminator, Jump Pack, Mutilators, Obliterators and Possessed models.

Take it when your collection is infantry-heavy and you want your existing units to simply be better than their datasheets for the whole game, rather than learning a new trick. It is the most straightforward 3-DP detachment in the faction: no keywords to track, no Marks to assign, no Reserves timing.

Be clear-eyed about the price. At 3 DP it fills your whole 2,000-point budget, and the rule does nothing for vehicles, Monsters or Damned units, so a list with tanks or a cultist horde is paying full price for a partial buff. The whole-battle commitment also means a bad matchup cannot be adapted to, apart from one Delayed Mutations spend per turn.

Sample gameplan: take Fabius Bile as Warlord and roll two augmentations, re-rolling anything that does not help your list. Give a Chosen or Possessed unit Prime Test Subject and put Helm of All-Seeing on a character standing where a deep strike would hurt most. Push infantry onto objectives, spend Monstrous Visages and Masters Are Watching to make the brick expensive to remove, Diabolic Regeneration on a Battleline unit every Command phase you can, and Specimens for the Spider on the turn you can reach an enemy Character.