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This is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. The parts of this detachment amended in the Chaos Space Marines Faction Pack version 1.2 Rules Updates are confirmed against that document, checked on 27 August 2026. The rest of the rule, stratagem and enhancement lists come from the 10th-edition Codex: Chaos Space Marines by way of community rules mirrors. Detachment Point costs and enhancement points are not in the Faction Pack; they were read from the official Munitorum Field Manual on 27 August 2026 and are reprinted here as a planning aid. Points move with every update, so confirm them in the Warhammer 40,000 app before a game.
Ranged weapons equipped by Heretic Astartes models from your army have Assault. Each time a Heretic Astartes model from your army makes an attack that targets a unit within range of an objective marker, improve that attack's Armour Penetration by 1.
1CP. Just after an enemy unit selects its targets, one targeted Heretic Astartes unit (excluding Damned) worsens the Armour Penetration of attacks against it by 1 until that attacker finishes. Faction Pack v1.2 rewrites this Effect section.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes unit that has not fought gains Precision on attacks that target a unit within range of an objective marker.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes unit that disembarked from a Transport this turn and has not shot or fought can re-roll Hit and Wound rolls against targets within range of an objective marker.
How to play Renegade Raiders in 11th edition — the 3-DP detachment that gives every ranged weapon Assault and adds armour penetration against anything standing on an objective.
BySprue Sentry
ReviewedAug 28, 2026
SourceFaction Pack: Chaos Space Marines v1.2 (official GW PDF, legal from 26 August 2026)
Sprue Sentry strategy commentary for 11th edition, not official rules. Games Workshop updates points and rules regularly; always confirm against the current official rules and latest update before a game.
Renegade Raiders is the Chaos Space Marines detachment: a 3-Detachment-Point package that makes your whole army mobile and then pays you extra armour penetration for shooting and fighting the units contesting markers. It reflects (Chaos Space Marines Faction Pack v1.2, legal for matched play from 26 August 2026).
1CP. One Heretic Astartes unit that was eligible to fight this phase makes a 6" Normal move, or 12" if Mounted, or a Fall Back move if it is still engaged.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes Transport or Mounted unit that has not moved does not make an Advance roll; instead add 6" to its Move characteristic for the phase.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes Infantry or Mounted unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced, with +1 to the Charge roll if it targets a unit within range of an objective marker.
Heretic Astartes model only. Models in the bearer's unit have the Scouts 6" ability.
Heretic Astartes model only. Re-roll Advance rolls for the bearer's unit, and that unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
Heretic Astartes model only. At the start of your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, roll a D6 adding 1 if it is wholly within 12" of your opponent's deployment zone: on a 5+ you gain 1CP.
Heretic Astartes model only. Each time the bearer makes a melee attack while wholly within 12" of your opponent's deployment zone, it can re-roll the Hit roll and the Wound roll.
Assault on their bolters means they can Advance onto an objective and still shoot, which is the whole shape of the detachment.
See the box: price and offersThe Transport that Warpcharged Engines and Ruinous Raid are both written around.
See the box: price and offersHeretic Astartes Mounted, which unlocks the 12" version of Opportunistic Raiders.
See the box: price and offersThe unit that turns the +1 Armour Penetration objective clause into real damage when it lands on a held marker.
See the box: price and offersA heavier delivery option; the pack rewrote its transport section and gave it the Frame keyword.
See the box: price and offersEvery enhancement here is Heretic Astartes model only, so a forward-deployed Chaos Lord can carry Dread Reaver or Despot's Claim.
See the box: price and offersThis is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. The pack does not reprint this detachment in full, but its Rules Updates section officially rewrites the Unfailingly Obdurate stratagem, and that amendment is confirmed against the pack, checked on 27 August 2026. The rest of the rule, six stratagems and four enhancements come from the 10th-edition codex by way of community rules mirrors. Its DP cost and enhancement points come from the official Munitorum Field Manual, and the Warhammer 40,000 app is the final word.
Two clauses, both army-wide:
Read the second clause carefully, because it is more generous than it looks. It does not care whose objective it is, whether you control it, or whether your own unit is near it. It only asks whether the target is standing on a marker. That is a permanent +1 AP against every screen, every objective-holder and every gun line parked on home, in both the Shooting and Fight phases.
And it is worth stating what the rule is not: it says nothing about transports, disembarking, or charging out of a Rhino. Those are the flavour of the stratagems, not the detachment rule. The rule is Assault plus armour penetration, and it applies whether you own a single vehicle or none.
Six, and four of them are also gated on objective markers, so the detachment rewards fighting where the mission is.
The pattern is obvious once you see it: everything is cheaper, faster or deadlier when the fight is happening on a marker.
All four are Heretic Astartes model only, so they fit almost any character you own, and two of them reward pushing deep.
(Points come from the Munitorum Field Manual and move with updates; confirm in the app.)
Take it when you want to play the mission aggressively with any Chaos collection. The army-wide Assault is a genuine quality-of-life upgrade for a faction full of Rapid Fire bolters, and +1 armour penetration against objective-holders is a buff you will use every single turn without setting anything up.
Be clear-eyed about the price. At 3 DP it fills your whole 2,000-point budget. Its rule is also the least explosive of the four 3-DP options: it is a flat, reliable improvement rather than a combo engine, so it wins by consistency rather than by spikes. And two of the four enhancements only pay off when the bearer is wholly within 12 inches of your opponent's deployment zone, which is a real risk to take with a character.
Sample gameplan: put Mark of the Hound on a character leading Legionaries or Chosen so they start up the board. Advance everything under Assault and shoot anyway. Spend Warpcharged Engines to put a Rhino where it should not be, disembark, and use Ruinous Raid on the objective fight. Hold Unfailingly Obdurate for the return fire, and use Opportunistic Raiders at the end of the Fight phase to leave a melee you have already won and take the next marker.
3 DP, filling the whole budget at a 2,000-point game, so it cannot take a support detachment. The Faction Pack prints no DP costs; the official Munitorum Field Manual lists it at 3 DP, and the Warhammer 40,000 app is the final word as points updates land.
Raiders and Reavers. Ranged weapons equipped by Heretic Astartes models from your army have Assault, and each time a Heretic Astartes model from your army makes an attack that targets a unit within range of an objective marker, improve that attack's Armour Penetration by 1.
Only partly. Two of its six stratagems, Ruinous Raid and Warpcharged Engines, name Transports, and the Ruinous Raid combo out of a Rhino is a real play. But the detachment rule itself says nothing about transports or disembarking: it is Assault on your ranged weapons plus armour penetration against anything standing on an objective marker, and it works with no vehicles at all.
No. The rule asks only whether the target of your attack is within range of an objective marker, not who controls it and not where your own unit is standing. That is what makes it apply so often.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.