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This is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. The detachment rule, stratagems and enhancements below are read from the printed pages of the free Chaos Space Marines Faction Pack version 1.2, legal for matched play from 26 August 2026, checked on 27 August 2026. 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.
At the end of your opponent's turn you can select Heretic Astartes Terminator, Obliterators and Mutilators units from your army that are not within Engagement Range of any enemy unit, remove them from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves. The number you can select depends on battle size: up to 1 at Incursion, up to 2 at Strike Force, up to 3 at Onslaught.
1CP. Just after an enemy unit selects its targets, one Heretic Astartes unit (excluding Damned) that was targeted worsens the Armour Penetration of attacks against it by 1 until that attacker finishes. You cannot target the same unit with this and Armour of Corruption in the same phase.
2CP. Just after an enemy unit selects its targets, one targeted Heretic Astartes Terminator, Obliterators or Mutilators unit subtracts 1 from the Damage characteristic of each attack allocated to it until the end of the turn. Mutually exclusive with Empyric Dislocation on the same unit in the same phase.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes Terminator, Obliterators or Mutilators unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes Terminator, Obliterators or Mutilators unit within range of an objective marker you control locks that marker under your control until your opponent's Level of Control there exceeds yours at the end of a phase.
1CP. Up to two Heretic Astartes units set up using Deep Strike this turn that have not yet shot gain Ignores Cover on their ranged weapons until the end of the phase.
1CP. One Heretic Astartes unit set up using Deep Strike this turn that has not declared a charge has +2 to charge rolls.
Heretic Astartes model only, excluding Damned models. Once per battle you can target the bearer's unit with the Rapid Ingress stratagem for 0CP, even if you have already targeted a different unit with it this phase.
Heretic Astartes model with Deep Strike only. The bearer's unit can arrive by Deep Strike in the Reinforcements step of your first, second or third Movement phase regardless of mission rules.
Heretic Astartes model with Deep Strike only. Each time the bearer's unit is set up on the battlefield, you can re-roll Charge rolls for it until the end of the turn.
Heretic Astartes model with Deep Strike only. Improve the bearer's weapons' Attacks, Strength and Armour Penetration by 1, and improve their Damage by 1 until the end of any turn the bearer's unit arrives from Reserves.
One of the three datasheets the rule names, reprinted as a new datasheet in the pack, and a melee threat that wants repeated deliveries.
See the box: price and offersThe workhorse the rule is written around. No current catalog kit matched this datasheet, so no box is linked.
The third named datasheet, and the one whose firepower most rewards being placed somewhere new each turn. No current catalog kit matched this datasheet, so no box is linked.
A Deep Strike character that can carry Tzagulla, Eye of the Warp or Akshur's Binding Runes and ride with the Terminators.
See the box: price and offersA non-Terminator body that still benefits from Siegebreaker Strike and Portal of Spite, both of which name any Deep Striking Heretic Astartes unit.
See the box: price and offersThe teleport package leaves your back line thin. A Sorcerer core adds ranged mortal wounds and Ignores Cover that do not depend on being in Reserves.
Warp Portals recycles a small number of elite units; jump-pack Infantry Fly covers the objectives those units keep leaving behind.
How to play Warpstrike Champions in 11th edition — the 2-DP detachment that picks your Terminators, Obliterators and Mutilators back up at the end of your opponent's turn and redeploys them.
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.
Warpstrike Champions is the Chaos Space Marines elite teleport detachment: a 2-Detachment-Point package that lets a small number of heavily armoured units leave the board and come back somewhere better, over and over. It reflects Warhammer 40,000 11th edition (Chaos Space Marines Faction Pack v1.2, legal for matched play from 26 August 2026), which prints its full rules.
This is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. The rule, six stratagems and four enhancements below are read from the pack's own printed pages, checked on 27 August 2026. Its DP cost and enhancement points come from the official Munitorum Field Manual, and the Warhammer 40,000 app is the final word as points updates land.
At the end of your opponent's turn, you can select a number of Heretic Astartes Terminator, Obliterators and Mutilators units from your army, excluding units within Engagement Range of any enemy unit. The maximum depends on battle size:
Once selected, remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
There are three things to notice. It happens at the end of your opponent's turn, so your units come back in your following Movement phase, not immediately. Units in Engagement Range cannot be picked, so a unit you charged in with is stuck until it wins or falls back. And it is not optional damage mitigation only: pulling a unit out of a bad position before your opponent scores is often worth more than the shooting you give up.
The detachment names exactly three keywords, so the list-building question is simple: do you own enough Terminators, Obliterators and Mutilators for this to be a plan rather than a trick?
Six, and unusually for Chaos, two of them are pure damage mitigation with an explicit restriction against stacking.
Siegebreaker Strike and Portal of Spite both name any Deep Striking Heretic Astartes unit, not just the three keywords, so a Chosen or Raptors unit arriving alongside benefits too.
Three of the four require the bearer to have Deep Strike, which is a real constraint on who can carry them.
Akshur's Binding Runes is the one that fixes the detachment's worst turn, because a mission rule that delays Reserves would otherwise strand a unit you deliberately removed.
(Points come from the Munitorum Field Manual and move with updates; confirm in the app.)
Take it when your collection has a real Terminator, Obliterator and Mutilator core and you want to play a positional game: threaten two places at once, refuse the fight you would lose, and land on the objective your opponent just cleared.
Be clear-eyed about the limits. It is three keywords, and if you own one Terminator squad the rule is a once-a-turn trick rather than a plan. Removing units also means not shooting with them in the turn they are in Reserves, so a Warpstrike list gives up a meaningful amount of output for its flexibility. And the two mitigation stratagems explicitly cannot stack on the same unit in the same phase, which is easy to forget under pressure.
One pairing note: this detachment is at odds with Devotees of Destruction on the same Obliterators. Rain of Ruin's Heavy rewards standing still; Warp Portals rewards leaving. Pick one plan for that unit.
Sample gameplan: deploy Terminators and Obliterators forward with a character carrying Akshur's Binding Runes. Shoot, then at the end of your opponent's turn pull the units that are exposed into Reserves. Bring them back with Siegebreaker Strike for Ignores Cover and Portal of Spite for the charge. Use Warp-tainted to lock a marker before you leave it, and hold Empyric Dislocation or Armour of Corruption, not both, for the unit that gets focused.
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.
Warp Portals. At the end of your opponent's turn you can select Heretic Astartes Terminator, Obliterators and Mutilators units that are not within Engagement Range of any enemy unit, remove them from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves. The limit is 1 unit at Incursion, 2 at Strike Force and 3 at Onslaught.
Not in the same phase. Both stratagems carry an explicit restriction stating you cannot target the same unit with both in the same phase. You can use them on different units, or on the same unit in different phases.
It is legal and it is 3 DP exactly, but the two rules pull your Obliterators in opposite directions: Rain of Ruin's Heavy rewards remaining stationary, while Warp Portals removes the unit and brings it back from Reserves. If you take both, plan for the Havocs to be your static gun line and the Obliterators to be your teleporting one.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.