Immaterial Interdiction: The 11th-Edition Grey Knights Interceptor Detachment

In your Shooting phase, when a friendly INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit has shot, you can use this ability. If you do:

• That unit cannot use its Personal Teleporters ability.
• That unit can make a surge move of up to D6+1 inches.

Three things follow, and all three are usually got wrong.

It is a trade. You are giving up the Personal Teleporters ability for the turn in exchange for a short move after shooting. Most write-ups, ours included, described the benefit and omitted the price. Before you use it, work out whether the D6+1 inches is worth more than the teleporter move you are forfeiting, because frequently it is not.

It has nothing to do with charging. Our earlier page said the rule "upgrades the Interceptors' teleport-style move so that it can flow into a charge, enabling a shoot-then-jump-then-charge sequence in a single activation". There is no clause here that permits a charge. It is a surge move in the Shooting phase, full stop. Describing it as a charge enabler promises a sequence the rule does not grant, and a player who builds around that will be corrected at the table.

It is optional and it happens after shooting. That ordering is the actual value. A shooting unit in a melee faction most wants the ability to fire and then break line of sight, or to fire and then step onto an objective. Echojump is a disengagement and scoring tool, not an aggression tool.

What v1.1 changed. The surge move is D6+1 inches in the current version, and the ability is now framed as something you choose to use after the unit has shot, with the Personal Teleporters clause attached as its cost. The pack lists this among only three changes in the whole document, which tells you the designers considered the original wording a problem.

Three, all 1CP. One is damage, one is a mission tool, and one is reactive movement.

• Blades from the Beyond (Fight). When a friendly INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit that made a charge move this turn is selected to fight, that unit's melee attacks have [LANCE]. Lance adds 1 to wound rolls on a turn the unit charged. This is the detachment's only real damage tool and it requires you to have charged, which the detachment rule notably does not help you do. Interceptors are not a melee unit by profile, so read this as a way to make an opportunistic charge into a weakened target actually finish it, rather than as a reason to charge something healthy.
• By Thought Alone (your Shooting). When a friendly INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit starts an action, that action does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot. A pure mission stratagem and a quietly excellent one. Actions normally cost the unit its shooting, which is why players hate assigning a good unit to one. This lets a fast unit both score the secondary and contribute fire, and in a low-model-count army where every unit has to do two jobs, that is worth more than most damage buffs.
• Responsive Displacement (your opponent's Movement). When an enemy unit that was engaged with a friendly INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit ends a fall-back move, if that Interceptor unit is unengaged, your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3 inches. That is 4 to 6 inches on your opponent's turn, and it punishes the standard answer to being charged. An opponent who falls back from your Interceptors does not actually get away from them. Note the condition that your unit must be unengaged afterwards, so it does not fire if something else is still holding them.

Two, both 10 points, and both are Upgrades on the INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit itself rather than character relics. Neither needs a Character.

• Predestined Coordinates (Upgrade) (10 pts). INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit only. In your first Movement phase, this unit can make an ingress move. The aggressive option: it puts the squad on the board and in position during your first Movement phase rather than leaving it in Reserves. Cheap for what is effectively a free redeployment, and the better pick when you want Interceptors contesting the midboard early.
• Astral Overlap (Upgrade) (10 pts). INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit only. This unit has Stealth. Stealth subtracts 1 from ranged hit rolls against the unit, which on a fragile, fast squad that spends its life in the open is a straightforward survivability increase.

They are the same price and they answer opposite questions: Predestined Coordinates gets them there sooner, Astral Overlap keeps them alive once they arrive. At 20 points for both, taking them together on one squad is entirely reasonable.

The correction. Our earlier page told readers to "attach it to the character leading your main Interceptor unit so the mobility and the buff travel together". Both are unit Upgrades. There is no character, and no character is needed.

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

• Interceptor Squad is the only unit the detachment rule, all three stratagems and both enhancements name. Without one, this detachment does nothing at all. No box is linked, because our catalog has no exact Interceptor Squad entry, and an approximate kit link would be worse than none.
• [Strike Squad](/40k/boxes/warhammer-grey-knights-strike-squad-new) is the static half of the list. Interceptors are a repositioning tool, and a list made only of repositioning tools never holds anything.
• [Brotherhood Terminator Squad](/40k/boxes/warhammer-grey-knights-paladin-squad-new) is the anvil to the Interceptors' hammer. This detachment adds mobility and almost no killing power, so bring something that wins a fight outright.
• [Grand Master Voldus](/40k/boxes/warhammer-grey-knights-grandmaster-voldus-new) is worth noting because Faction Pack v1.1 rewrites his Sanctuary ability: his unit has Stealth, and melee attacks that target it have -1 to hit rolls. That is a defensive profile that suits a forward-deployed list.

No Unique Tag, so every 2 DP detachment is legal for exactly 3 DP.

• [Brotherhood Strike](/40k/armies/grey-knights/detachments/brotherhood-strike) (2 DP) is the sharpest pairing and gets its own page. Fury of Titan re-rolls Hit rolls of 1 and Wound rolls of 1 for a unit set up using Deep Strike, for the whole turn. Interceptors arrive that way, shoot with the re-rolls, then Echojump out of line of sight. The two rules chain inside a single Shooting phase.
• [Augurium Task Force](/40k/armies/grey-knights/detachments/augurium-task-force) (2 DP) is the thematic twin. Both are repositioning detachments and both carry the Reconnaissance force disposition. One recycles units through Reserves at the army level, the other repositions a squad after it shoots. Note that sharing a Force Disposition is not a tag clash: this pairing is entirely legal.
• [Hallowed Conclave](/40k/armies/grey-knights/detachments/hallowed-conclave) (2 DP) gives you a Terminator core that can fall back and still shoot and charge, with a fast squad to take the objectives the Terminators are too slow to reach.
• [Banishers](/40k/armies/grey-knights/detachments/banishers) (2 DP) benefits Interceptors directly, since they are Psykers with Nemesis weapons and so turn on Channelled Force themselves.
• [Sanctic Spearhead](/40k/armies/grey-knights/detachments/sanctic-spearhead) (2 DP) gets fast infantry that moves on its own rather than needing a transport, which suits a list whose vehicles are busy attacking.

It also pairs with [Argent Assault](/40k/armies/grey-knights/detachments/argent-assault) and [Fires of Purgation](/40k/armies/grey-knights/detachments/fires-of-purgation) for 2 DP, and all three together make the faction's only legal three-detachment army.

The one it cannot take is Warpbane Task Force, at 3 DP, on the budget trap.

Take it if you own Interceptors and want a fast, slippery unit that scores secondaries and dictates where the game happens.

Be clear-eyed about the limits. The rule covers one datasheet, it costs the unit its Personal Teleporters ability every time you use it, and the detachment's only damage stratagem requires a charge that nothing here helps you make. This is a utility and mission detachment, not a killing one, and it should be evaluated as such rather than as a way to make Interceptors dangerous.

Sample gameplan: pair it with [Brotherhood Strike](/40k/armies/grey-knights/detachments/brotherhood-strike) (2 DP) for exactly 3 DP. Take Astral Overlap on the squad that will spend its life in the open and Predestined Coordinates on the one you want on the board early. Deep strike the Interceptors so Fury of Titan gives them re-rolled 1s to hit and wound for the whole turn, shoot with those re-rolls, then use Echojump to break line of sight or step onto the objective. Use By Thought Alone to score the secondary in the same turn the squad is shooting, and hold a point for Responsive Displacement when your opponent tries to disengage.

For the fundamentals underneath all of it, read the Grey Knights army guide.