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Evidence tier: OFFICIAL AMENDMENT plus CROSS-CHECKED MIRROR. This detachment is not reprinted in full in the Imperial Agents Faction Pack version 1.1, but the pack amends it by name in its Rules Updates section, which is what confirms it is current and legal; the fuller rules text here is cross-checked against a community rules mirror. Imperial Agents were NOT part of the 26 August 2026 reissue, so version 1.1 of 22 July 2026 is the current pack for this faction. The mirror is CURRENT on the pack stamp for this faction, recording the same v1.1 we read, and lags only on points, recording Munitorum Field Manual v1.2 against the official v1.3. That single lag is flagged here rather than hidden. Detachment Point cost, force disposition and enhancement points come from the official Munitorum Field Manual version 1.3, read on 28 August 2026. Enhancement points are dataslate-volatile. The Warhammer 40,000 app is the final word as points updates land. Legality note: no Imperial Agents detachment carries a Unique Tag in either official document or in the mirror, so no Imperial Agents pairing is ever blocked by a shared tag. What constrains you is arithmetic. Four of the five detachments cost 2 Detachment Points and a Strike Force budget is roughly 3, so two of them together do not fit. The only two-detachment armies this faction can field are Veiled Blade Elimination Force at 1 DP plus exactly one 2 DP detachment, and there are exactly four of those. Legends note: this faction has the largest Legends shelf in this series, eighteen datasheets printed in the pack's own Legends Datasheets section and independently flagged by the mirror. Several of them are Deathwatch units a new collector would reasonably assume are core, including the Deathwatch Terminator Squad, the Veteran Bike Squad, Kill Team Cassius and the Fortis, Indomitor, Proteus and Spectrus Kill Teams. No Legends unit is named as a key unit anywhere in this set. Check a datasheet's Legends status before you buy the kit for matched play.
Each time an INQUISITOR, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO MALLEUS model from your army makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1; and if the target is a DAEMON unit, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 as well. Unconditional accuracy on the faction's core Inquisition units, with a bonus tier against one enemy keyword. It is the plainest detachment rule in the faction and the only one that pays out on every attack regardless of phase, position or timing.
First-party amended text. The pack's Rules Updates section rewrites the Effect section in full to read: until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen that attack's Armour Penetration by 1. The same standardised rewrite the pack applied to the Alien Hunters Armour of Contempt stratagem in this pass.
Mirror-sourced. Read the current card in the Warhammer 40,000 app before relying on its wording.
Mirror-sourced. Read the current card in the Warhammer 40,000 app before relying on its wording.
Mirror-sourced. Read the current card in the Warhammer 40,000 app before relying on its wording.
Mirror-sourced. Read the current card in the Warhammer 40,000 app before relying on its wording.
Mirror-sourced. Read the current card in the Warhammer 40,000 app before relying on its wording.
First-party amended value. The pack's Rules Updates section changes this enhancement's 3 inches to 6 inches. The mirror's text has it as a once-per-battle free Rapid Ingress targeting a GREY KNIGHTS TERMINATOR SQUAD unit that can then be set up more than 6 inches from all enemy units, which is consistent with the pack's change. It is the only enhancement in the faction that names a Grey Knights datasheet, so it is dead in a list without one.
Mirror-sourced. INQUISITOR model only. Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearer's melee weapons and give them [ANTI-DAEMON 3+]. The melee half of what the detachment rule does at range.
Mirror-sourced. Read the current card in the Warhammer 40,000 app before relying on its wording.
Mirror-sourced. INQUISITOR model only. Improve the bearer's Leadership and Wounds by 1, and once per battle at the start of any phase select one friendly Battle-shocked unit within 12 inches; it is no longer Battle-shocked. The cheapest enhancement in the faction at 5 points, and a Battle-shocked unit has Objective Control 0, so this is a scoring tool as much as a survivability one.
An Ordo Malleus Inquisitor, so the detachment rule reaches her directly, and a legal carrier for Daemon Slayer, Formidable Resolve and Gift of the Prescient. The pack's Rules Updates section amends her Leader section by removing DEATHWATCH KILL TEAM from the list of units she can lead, which is worth knowing before you plan an attachment.
See the box: price and offersNamed by keyword in the detachment rule, so the whole squad re-rolls Hit rolls of 1. The pack's Rules Updates section also rewrites their Inquisitorial Henchmen section: if your Army Faction is not AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM, then for each INQUISITOR unit you include you can include one INQUISITORIAL AGENTS unit that does not count towards your RETINUE allowance. That clause only matters in somebody else's army, but it is the pack's clearest first-party statement of how the allies system works.
See the box: price and offersThe generic datasheet, and the cheapest way to satisfy the detachment rule's first keyword. We track no product under this faction for the generic Inquisitor, so this unit renders without a link.
The unit Gift of the Prescient exists to deploy, and the only Grey Knights datasheet this faction's rules name. Our catalog's nearest entry is a Grey Knights product sold under a combined Paladin and Terminator Squad title, which is not an exact match for this datasheet, so we leave this unit unlinked rather than pointing at a kit whose contents we would be guessing about.
Exactly 3 Detachment Points, and the only pairing that fits. The detachment rule here covers Inquisition models and nothing else, and assassins carry none of its three keywords, so the two cards genuinely divide the army between them rather than stacking on the same models.
2 Detachment Points, PRIORITY ASSETS, and the plainest rule in the faction: re-roll Hit rolls of 1 on your Inquisition models, always, and Wound rolls of 1 too against Daemons.
BySprue Sentry
ReviewedAug 28, 2026
SourceFaction Pack: Imperial Agents v1.1 (official GW PDF, legal for matched play from 22 July 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.
Ordo Malleus, Daemon Hunters has the most straightforward detachment rule in the Imperial Agents and the only one that pays out on every attack, in every phase, regardless of position or timing. There is no once-per-battle clause, no aura radius, no target-selection cost. It just works.
This detachment is not printed in full in the Faction Pack. What the pack does is amend one enhancement and one stratagem by name in Rules Updates, which is what confirms it is current and legal. The rest of the card is cross-checked against a community rules mirror, which is current on the pack stamp for this faction and lags only on points.
Detachment Point cost, force disposition and enhancement points come from the official Munitorum Field Manual version 1.3.
Each time an INQUISITOR, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO MALLEUS model from your army makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1; and if the target of that attack is a DAEMON unit, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 as well.
Three keywords, one unconditional bonus, one conditional bonus.
The first clause is the reason to take the detachment. An unconditional Hit roll of 1 re-roll on your core units, with no phase restriction and no positional requirement, is a small effect applied a very large number of times. It works in melee and at range, on the first turn and the last, whether you are ahead or behind.
The second clause is a bonus you cannot plan around. Whether you face Daemons is not your decision. Take this detachment for the first clause and treat the second as a good matchup rather than a plan.
The keyword gate is broader than the detachment's name suggests, and this is the useful thing to notice. INQUISITOR covers every Inquisitor datasheet in the faction, not just Ordo Malleus ones, so an Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor or the pack's new Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Kroyle all collect from it. INQUISITORIAL AGENTS covers the retinue squad. Only the third keyword is actually Ordo Malleus specific.
What it does not cover. Assassins carry none of the three keywords, so if you pair this detachment with Veiled Blade Elimination Force, which is the only pairing available, the two cards divide your army cleanly rather than stacking on the same models. That is a feature, not a problem.
Both amendments are first-party from the pack's Rules Updates section, and one of them is a number rather than a rewrite.
Gift of the Prescient (20 points), changed from 3 inches to 6 inches. The mirror's text has this as a once-per-battle free Rapid Ingress targeting a GREY KNIGHTS TERMINATOR SQUAD unit from your army, which can then be set up more than 6 inches from all enemy units. The pack's change is consistent with that, and the enhancement is the only one in the faction that names a Grey Knights datasheet, so it is dead in a list without one.
That is worth knowing before you spend 20 points, and it is worth knowing about our catalog too: we track no Grey Knights Terminator Squad product that matches the datasheet exactly, so that unit is named and unlinked on this page rather than pointed at a near miss.
Truesilver Armour (1CP, Wargear), Effect section rewritten in full:
Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
This is the same standardised rewrite the pack applied to the Alien Hunters card's Armour of Contempt in the same pass. The scope is until the attacking unit finishes, not until the end of the phase, so a second enemy unit shooting the same target gets nothing from it.
The other five stratagems are mirror-sourced: Hexagrammic Wards and Psybolt Ammunition (Wargear, 1CP), and Rites of Exorcism, Ritual of Warding and Steel Heart (Strategic Ploy, 1CP). The pack does not print them and we are not reproducing wording we cannot check. Read them in the Warhammer 40,000 app.
This card has no 2 Command Point stratagem, which is unusual: three of the other four Imperial Agents detachments have exactly one.
All three are mirror-sourced.
Daemon Slayer (10 points). INQUISITOR model only. Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearer's melee weapons and give them [ANTI-DAEMON 3+]. The melee half of what the detachment rule does at range, and like the rule's second clause it is matchup-dependent. The extra Attack is not.
Grimoire of True Names (10 points). Mirror-sourced, and the pack does not touch it. Read the current card in the Warhammer 40,000 app.
Formidable Resolve (5 points). INQUISITOR model only. Improve the bearer's Leadership and Wounds by 1, and once per battle, at the start of any phase, select one friendly Battle-shocked unit within 12 inches; it is no longer Battle-shocked.
At 5 points this is the cheapest enhancement in the faction and the best value on this card. A Battle-shocked unit has Objective Control 0, so removing that state is a scoring intervention as much as a morale one, and it can be used at the start of any phase, which includes your opponent's.
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 and a Strike Force budget will not hold two of them.
The division of labour is unusually clean. This detachment's rule reaches Inquisition models and nothing else; assassins carry none of its three keywords. So you are buying two rules that touch two disjoint halves of your army rather than two rules competing for the same models.
No Unique Tags are involved. This faction has none.
What to build. Inquisitorial Agents is the core: it is named by keyword in the detachment rule, so the whole squad collects the Hit roll re-roll rather than just the character leading it. Inquisitor Draxus is the Ordo Malleus Inquisitor we track, and she is current rather than Legends, which matters in a faction where six named Inquisitors are.
One first-party change to plan around. The pack's Rules Updates section removed DEATHWATCH KILL TEAM from the Leader lists of both the generic Inquisitor and Inquisitor Draxus. If your plan involved attaching an Inquisitor to a Deathwatch Kill Team, it no longer works.
And a note on the allies branch. The pack also rewrote Inquisitorial Agents' Inquisitorial Henchmen section: if your Army Faction is not AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM, then for each INQUISITOR unit you include you can include one INQUISITORIAL AGENTS unit that does not count towards your RETINUE allowance. That clause only matters in somebody else's army, but it is the pack's clearest first-party statement of how the allies system works, and it is why an Inquisitor is an efficient addition to any Imperium force.
No, and the gate is broader than the name. It names INQUISITOR, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS and ORDO MALLEUS models, and the first of those covers every Inquisitor datasheet in the faction regardless of Ordo, including the pack's new Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Kroyle. Only the third keyword is Ordo Malleus specific.
No. Officio Assassinorum models carry none of the three keywords the rule names. If you pair this detachment with Veiled Blade Elimination Force, which is the only pairing that fits a Strike Force budget, the two rules cover disjoint halves of your army. That is a clean division rather than a waste.
Only if your list includes a Grey Knights Terminator Squad, which is the unit it targets by name. It is the only enhancement in this faction that names a Grey Knights datasheet, and in a list without one it does nothing at all. The pack changed its distance from 3 inches to 6 this version.
Formidable Resolve at 5 points. It gives an Inquisitor +1 Leadership and +1 Wound, and once per battle at the start of any phase it clears Battle-shocked from a friendly unit within 12 inches. A Battle-shocked unit has Objective Control 0, so that is a scoring intervention as much as a morale one, and being usable at the start of any phase means you can fire it during your opponent's turn.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.