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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.
Each time a Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle unit from your army makes a Dark Pact, it can invoke its contract. If it does, subtract 1 from the resulting Leadership test, and until the end of the phase add 1 to that unit's ranged Wound rolls and add 2 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in it.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle unit that has not shot or fought improves the Armour Penetration of its attacks by 1 if it invokes its contract.
1CP. One non-Titanic Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle unit that has not fought, if it invokes its contract, rolls a D6 each time an attack destroys an enemy model: on a 5+ it regains 1 lost wound, to a maximum of 6.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes Vehicle unit that is not already a Daemon gains the Daemon keyword for the rest of the battle, which is how you fold a plain tank into the detachment rule.
1CP. One unit that has not moved or charged this phase can move horizontally through terrain features as if they were not there. Faction Pack v1.2 rewrites the target to a Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle or Vashtorr the Arkifane unit.
1CP. Just after an enemy unit ends a move, one unengaged unit within 8" makes a 6" Normal move that must end as close as possible to that enemy. Faction Pack v1.2 rewrites the target to a Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle or Vashtorr the Arkifane unit within 8".
1CP. When an enemy unit (excluding Monsters and Vehicles) is selected to Fall Back from Engagement Range of your unit, all its models must take Desperate Escape tests, at -1 if it is battle-shocked. Faction Pack v1.2 rewrites the target to a Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle or Vashtorr the Arkifane unit.
Heretic Astartes model only. Each time a Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle unit invokes its contract within 3" of the bearer, it suffers 1 additional mortal wound if the Dark Pact hurt it, and can re-roll its Hit rolls for the phase.
Heretic Astartes model only. In your Command phase, one friendly Heretic Astartes Vehicle unit within 12" of the bearer gains Feel No Pain 6+ until your next Command phase.
Warpsmith model only. Add 4" to the bearer's Move characteristic.
Heretic Astartes model only. While the bearer is on the battlefield, each time an enemy unit within 12" is destroyed, roll a D6: on a 5+ you gain 1CP.
A Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle out of the box, so it invokes its contract without spending Daemonic Possession first.
See the box: price and offersReprinted as a datasheet in the pack, and a Daemon Vehicle whose melee profile gains the most from +2 Attacks.
See the box: price and offersA cheap Daemon Vehicle body and a good Glut of Souls target because it heals back into relevance.
See the box: price and offersThe only legal Invigorated Mechatendrils bearer, and the repair support a vehicle list needs.
See the box: price and offersNamed explicitly in three of the pack's rewritten stratagem targets, and heavily retuned by the pack.
See the box: price and offersA plain Vehicle that Daemonic Possession converts into a Daemon Vehicle for 1CP; the pack also gave it Frame and retuned both variants.
See the box: price and offersA Daemon Vehicle core has almost no infantry firepower. Havocs and Obliterators fill that hole without competing for the same stratagems.
Engines grind the centre badly and score secondaries worse. Jump-pack Infantry Fly units give the list the board coverage vehicles cannot buy.
How to play Soulforged Warpack in 11th edition — the 2-DP detachment where Daemon Vehicles take a worse Dark Pact roll in exchange for a much larger payout.
BySprue Sentry
ReviewedAug 27, 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.
Soulforged Warpack is the Chaos Space Marines possessed war machine detachment: a 2-Detachment-Point package that makes your daemon engines gamble harder on Dark Pacts and pays them properly for it. It reflects Warhammer 40,000 11th edition (Chaos Space Marines Faction Pack v1.2, legal for matched play from 26 August 2026).
This is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. The pack does not reprint this detachment in full, but its Rules Updates section officially rewrites the target sections of three of its stratagems, and those amendments are 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.
Each time a Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle unit from your army makes a Dark Pact, it can invoke its contract. If it does:
That is a deliberately lopsided trade. The -1 to the Leadership test makes failure and its D3 mortal wounds noticeably more likely, but +1 to wound on every shot and +2 Attacks on every melee weapon is far more than a normal Dark Pact grants.
The keyword to watch is Daemon Vehicle, not Vehicle. A plain Chaos Predator or Vindicator is not eligible until you spend the Daemonic Possession stratagem on it, which is the detachment's most important 1CP.
Faction Pack v1.2 tightened three stratagem targets from Vehicle to Daemon Vehicle or Vashtorr the Arkifane, which is a real nerf if you were relying on them for plain tanks. Check any list you wrote before 26 August 2026.
Six, all 1CP, and three of them were rewritten by the pack.
Glut of Souls is what makes a mid-sized engine survive its own gamble: a Defiler that kills three models and heals three wounds has paid for the mortal wounds it took failing the pact.
(Points come from the Munitorum Field Manual and move with updates; confirm in the app.)
Take it when you own daemon engines and want them to hit like the models look. Compared with Cult of the Arkifane, which is the other 2-DP vehicle detachment, Soulforged Warpack is the offensive option: Arkifane gives every vehicle a 5+ invulnerable save, Soulforged gives Daemon Vehicles a much larger damage payout for a riskier pact. If your engines keep dying, take Arkifane; if they keep failing to kill things, take this.
Be clear-eyed about the limits. The rule names Daemon Vehicle, and your Predators, Vindicators and Rhinos are not that until you spend a command point each. The -1 to the Leadership test is a real cost on a unit whose Leadership is nothing special, and a failed pact is D3 mortal wounds on the engine you were about to swing with. And the pack's three rewritten stratagem targets narrowed the detachment further.
Sample gameplan: build around two or three genuine Daemon Vehicles so the rule is live from turn one. Spend Daemonic Possession early on your best plain tank so it joins them. Put Tempting Addendum on a character that will stay within 3 inches of the engines, and Invigorated Mechatendrils on the Warpsmith so it can. Invoke the contract with the engine that is about to fight, spend Desperate Pledge on the attack, and use Glut of Souls on the melee turn to pay back the wounds you took.
2 DP, which at a 2,000-point game leaves 1 DP for a support detachment. DP costs are not printed in the Faction Pack; the official Munitorum Field Manual lists it at 2 DP, and the Warhammer 40,000 app is the final word as points updates land.
Debt to the Soul Forge. Each time a Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle unit from your army makes a Dark Pact, it can invoke its contract: subtract 1 from the resulting Leadership test, and until the end of the phase add 1 to that unit's ranged Wound rolls and add 2 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in it.
Not until you convert them. The detachment rule names Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle units, and a Chaos Predator, Vindicator or Rhino is a Vehicle without the Daemon keyword. The Daemonic Possession stratagem gives one such unit the Daemon keyword for the rest of the battle for 1CP, which is usually your first Command-phase spend.
It rewrote the Target section of three stratagems, Feeding Frenzy, Unstoppable Rampage and Predatory Pursuit, so that each now names a Heretic Astartes Daemon Vehicle or Vashtorr the Arkifane unit rather than a Heretic Astartes Vehicle. If you were using those on plain tanks, you no longer can.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.