Huron's Marauders: The 11th-Edition Chaos Space Marines Red Corsairs Detachment

In your Command phase, select one of two abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, each Heretic Astartes Infantry unit from your army has that ability. Then, at the start of each phase, any such unit that is visible to a friendly Huron Blackheart model has both abilities for that phase.

• Huron's Elite — each time a model in the unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.
• Mobile Marauders — the unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

A designer's note nails down the timing: if a unit is getting Mobile Marauders because it is visible to Huron, but it is no longer visible to him after its Fall Back move, it does not become eligible unless it is visible again at the start of the relevant phase. Visibility is checked at the start of each phase, not once per turn.

That makes Huron himself a positioning puzzle rather than a passenger. An army-wide +1 to hit is a very large effect, and the detachment hands it to you for free every Command phase; the second ability is the reward for playing around one model's sight lines.

Six, all 1CP, and unusually well spread across the phases.

• Hardened Killers (Command) — a Damned unit picks +1 Ballistic Skill on ranged weapons, +1 Attack on Rapid Fire weapons, or +1 to its Save characteristic, until the start of your next turn.
• At the Tyrant's Command (Movement) — shoot and charge after Advancing.
• Seize the Prize (Movement) — skip the Advance roll for a flat +6 inches Move.
• Reavers' Flurry (Fight) — +1 Attack on melee weapons for a unit that charged.
• To the Favoured the Spoils (opponent's Shooting) — a unit that lost wounds makes a D6-inch surge move.
• Encircling Surge (end of opponent's Fight) — a unit within 6 inches of a battlefield edge and not engaged goes into Strategic Reserves to come back somewhere better.

Seize the Prize and At the Tyrant's Command in the same Movement phase is the signature turn: a full-speed advance that still shoots and charges.

• Eager for Bloodshed (30 pts) — the bearer has Infiltrators. Note the wording: this is the one enhancement in the set that does not exclude Damned models.
• Dread Reputation (25 pts) — excluding Damned: each time the bearer's unit is set up, enemy units within 6 inches take a Battle-shock test, or within 12 inches if it arrived by Deep Strike.
• Voice of the Tyrant (25 pts) — excluding Damned: the bearer's unit has both Tyrannical Motivation abilities. This is the enhancement that frees you from Huron's sight lines for one unit.
• Raid Leader (20 pts) — excluding Damned: the unit can still declare a charge after disembarking from a Transport that made a Normal move.

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

• Huron Blackheart — the detachment rule is written around him, and the pack reprinted his datasheet.
• Red Corsairs Raiders — reprinted in the pack, and the themed infantry the whole detachment exists for.
• Red Corsairs Reave-Captain — also reprinted, and a character that can carry Voice of the Tyrant when Huron is elsewhere.
• Traitor Guardsmen Squad — a Damned unit, which is the only legal Hardened Killers target; the pack rewrote its Twisted Defence Force ability to a flat +1 Save against ranged attacks while on an objective.
• Chaos Rhino — Raid Leader assumes a Transport that made a Normal move, so one is not optional in a list that takes it.
• Legionaries — Heretic Astartes Infantry to actually receive the Command-phase ability.

Take it when you own Huron Blackheart and a Red Corsairs force, or simply when you want a free army-wide +1 to hit every Command phase without any setup at all. Huron's Elite alone is one of the strongest detachment rules in the faction, and it does not ask you to pact, mark, teleport or infiltrate anything.

Be clear-eyed about the price. At 3 DP it fills your whole 2,000-point budget. The rule also names Heretic Astartes Infantry only, so vehicles and Monsters get nothing, and the doubled version depends on one model staying alive and staying in line of sight, which a competent opponent will attack directly. Losing Huron does not switch the detachment off, but it does halve it.

Sample gameplan: deploy Huron centrally with clear sight lines, ideally on high ground, and pick Huron's Elite in your first Command phase. Move infantry so the units doing the important work stay visible to him, which quietly gives them Mobile Marauders as well. Spend Seize the Prize plus At the Tyrant's Command on the turn you commit, Reavers' Flurry on the charge, and hold To the Favoured the Spoils and Encircling Surge for your opponent's turn. Put Voice of the Tyrant on a Reave-Captain leading the unit you most need to work when Huron cannot see it.