Imperialis Fleet: The 11th-Edition Imperial Agents Voidfarer Detachment

At the start of your Command phase, you can select one of the following to apply until the start of your next Command phase.

Eliminate At All Costs. Select one enemy unit on the battlefield. Each time an AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM model from your army makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.

Acquire At All Costs. Select one objective marker on the battlefield. While an AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM unit from your army is within range of that objective marker, improve the Leadership and Objective Control characteristics of models in that unit by 1, and models in that unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.

Three things worth pulling out.

The keyword gate is the faction keyword itself, which makes this the broadest detachment rule in the Imperial Agents. Where the two Ordo detachments name specific Inquisition keywords and Alien Hunters names DEATHWATCH, this one reaches everything you can field, including assassins. That matters for the pairing below.

Acquire At All Costs is the only army-wide invulnerable save in the faction. A 5+ invulnerable on everything standing on one objective is a genuine defensive rule, and the Leadership and Objective Control bonuses on top make it a scoring rule as well. The cost is that it is one objective, chosen at the start of your Command phase, so the opponent has a full turn to work around it.

You re-choose every turn. Nothing commits you. A common shape is Acquire early while you establish a position and Eliminate later when a specific threat needs removing, but nothing stops you alternating.

The pack prints exactly one FAQ for this faction, and it is about this detachment. It is worth quoting the shape of it, because it does two jobs at once:

Question: while using the Imperialis Fleet detachment, if I attach a CHARACTER to a unit selected using the Clandestine Operation or Combat Landers enhancement, does that CHARACTER also gain the ability conferred by that enhancement, that is Infiltrators or Deep Strike respectively? Answer: Yes.

That answers the question asked, and it also tells us first-party that both enhancements exist, that Clandestine Operation confers Infiltrators, and that Combat Landers confers Deep Strike. It is the whole of this detachment's first-party evidence.

Clandestine Operation (15 points). AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM model only. At the start of the Declare Battle Formations step, select up to three AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM INFANTRY units from your army, excluding GREY KNIGHTS TERMINATOR SQUAD units; those units gain Infiltrators.

Combat Landers (10 points). VOIDFARERS model only. At the start of the Declare Battle Formations step, select up to three VOIDFARERS units; those units gain Deep Strike.

Three units for one enhancement is a large effect, and the FAQ's answer makes it larger: an attached character comes along for free. Note the difference in eligibility, though. Clandestine Operation can go on any Agents of the Imperium model and buffs any Agents infantry; Combat Landers must go on a VOIDFARERS model and only buffs Voidfarers units. A list without voidfarers can only take one of the two.

Fleetmaster (20 points). Mirror-sourced. VOIDFARERS model only. Once per battle round you can target the bearer's unit with the Violent Acquisition, Masters of the Void or Close-quarters Barrage stratagems for 0 Command Points.

That is half this card's stratagem list going free on one unit, once a round, and one of the three is the card's only 2 Command Point stratagem. It is the largest Command Point saving in the faction, and it is the reason a Fleetmaster list should expect to use one of those three cards every single battle round. If you take this enhancement and then never use those stratagems, you have wasted it.

Digital Weapons (10 points). Mirror-sourced. AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM model only. Each time the bearer is selected to fight, roll three D6; for each 4+, one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound, allocated as if the attack had [PRECISION].

Precision mortal wounds are how a support character removes an enemy leader out of a bodyguard unit, and the three-dice roll makes it reliable enough to plan around rather than hope for.

The six stratagems. Violent Acquisition (Strategic Ploy, 2CP), Masters of the Void (Epic Deed, 1CP), Close-quarters Barrage (Battle Tactic, 1CP), Displacer Field (Wargear, 1CP), Emperor's Will (Strategic Ploy, 1CP) and Selfless Bodyguard (Epic Deed, 1CP). All six are mirror-sourced. The pack does not print this detachment, so there is no first-party version to check them against, and we are not reproducing wording we cannot verify. Read all six in the Warhammer 40,000 app.

Enhancement points are dataslate-volatile and none of the four carries a change marker in this pass.

Plus [Veiled Blade Elimination Force](/40k/armies/imperial-agents/detachments/veiled-blade-elimination-force) (1 DP, total 3). Exactly a Strike Force budget, and the only detachment this one can pair with, because every other Imperial Agents detachment also costs 2 Detachment Points.

This is the best of the four pairings on a technicality worth understanding. The other three 2 Detachment Point detachments have rules gated on DEATHWATCH or on Inquisition keywords, none of which assassins carry, so their detachment rules do nothing for the Veiled Blade half of your army. At all Costs is gated on AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM, which every model in the faction carries, including assassins. So this is the one pairing where both detachment rules reach both halves of your list.

Concretely: nominate an enemy unit with Eliminate At All Costs and your Vindicare is shooting it at +1 to hit while Prime Target re-rolls its Wound rolls of 1. Nominate an objective with Acquire At All Costs and your Callidus is holding it with a 5+ invulnerable save and +1 Objective Control.

No Unique Tags are involved. This faction has none.

What to build. Rogue Trader Entourage is the VOIDFARERS core, and it is what makes Fleetmaster and Combat Landers usable at all, since both read VOIDFARERS model only. Without voidfarers you can only take two of this card's four enhancements. A Navigator is a cheap Agents of the Imperium character that can hold Digital Weapons or Clandestine Operation, neither of which is gated beyond the faction keyword.

Voidsmen-at-Arms are the bodies this detachment wants, and we track no product for that datasheet under this faction, so it renders without a link. Worth noting anyway: the pack rewrote their Navy Bodyguard section so that in a non-Agents Imperium army, each VOIDFARERS CHARACTER unit lets you include one Voidsmen-at-Arms unit outside your Retinue allowance.