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Evidence tier: OFFICIAL. This detachment's rule, enhancements and stratagems were read from the printed pages of the free Leagues of Votann Faction Pack version 1.1, legal for matched play from 22 July 2026. The Leagues of Votann were NOT part of the 26 August 2026 faction pack reissue, so this is the current pack for this faction but it is not a current-day document. 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, and nothing on this faction's Munitorum Field Manual page changed in this pass. The Warhammer 40,000 app is the final word as points updates land.
Friendly SAGITAUR units have Scouts 6 inches. That is the entire detachment rule, and it is the narrowest in the faction: it names one datasheet and gives it one ability. Everything else on the card is SAGITAUR-locked too, both enhancements and all three stratagems, so this is a 1 Detachment Point package that does nothing at all unless you own Sagitaurs and quite a lot if you own two or three. A Sagitaur is also a transport, so the Scouts move carries whatever is inside it.
Target up to TWO friendly SAGITAUR units. Select one enemy unit; your units' ranged attacks against it can re-roll hit rolls of 1 and re-roll wound rolls of 1. The two-unit target clause is what makes this worth a Command Point rather than a shrug, and it is the clearest signal in the pack that this detachment expects a Sagitaur pair rather than a single vehicle.
Target up to TWO friendly SAGITAUR units in strategic reserves; they each make an ingress move. Reserves plus a mid-turn ingress is a very different plan from the Scouts move the detachment rule gives you, and you cannot do both with the same vehicle. Decide before deployment which Sagitaur is pushing up the board and which is arriving late.
Ranged attacks against your unit with a Strength greater than its Toughness have minus 1 to wound rolls. A Sagitaur that has just scouted 6 inches into the open is the model most likely to be shot at first, so this is the insurance policy attached to the detachment rule rather than a separate idea.
SAGITAUR unit only. This unit's ranged attacks have [IGNORES COVER]. Reads Upgrade because it attaches to a unit rather than to a character, which is how all three of the faction's 1 Detachment Point detachments price their enhancements.
SAGITAUR unit only. This unit has MOBILE. The pack's own flavour text is about smashing through debris and ruins rather than driving around them, which is exactly the problem a vehicle making a 6 inch Scouts move into a terrain-dense midboard runs into on turn one.
The only datasheet the detachment rule names, and the only datasheet either enhancement can be given to. Buy the Sagitaur before you take this detachment, not after. The kit is commonly sold as a pair in larger boxes, and both stratagems here target up to two Sagitaur units at once.
See the box: price and offersThe passengers. A Sagitaur is a transport with a capacity of 6 Leagues of Votann Infantry models per the pack's own amended Transport section, and it cannot carry Artillery, Exoarmour, Exoframe or Ironkin Steeljacks models, which rules out most of the elite options. Hearthkyn Warriors are the squad the vehicle is actually built to deliver.
See the box: price and offersTwo 1 Detachment Point detachments for 2 DP total, leaving a point spare at Strike Force. Armoured Trailblazers pushes Sagitaurs up the board on turn one; Farseekers turns Hernkyn into a targeting network that strips cover for everything behind them. Both are forward-deployment packages that want the same first turn, and neither competes for the other's models.
Exactly 3 Detachment Points and the most coherent vehicle army in the faction. Brandfast Oathband's rule gives every Leagues of Votann TRANSPORT an aura that hands [SUSTAINED HITS 1] to Infantry within 6 inches, and Armoured Trailblazers gets those transports 6 inches further up the board on turn one. The Sagitaur is a transport, so it collects from both rules at once.
Exactly 3 Detachment Points. Persecution Prospect's Guerrilla Adepts ability marks an enemy unit as assailed and then pins it, and pinned units lose 2 inches of Move and 2 from Charge rolls. A scouting Sagitaur that arrives 6 inches early is the model best placed to apply that mark on turn one.
1 Detachment Point, DISRUPTION, and the narrowest rule in the faction: Scouts 6 inches for Sagitaurs, with every stratagem and both enhancements locked to the same datasheet.
BySprue Sentry
ReviewedAug 28, 2026
SourceFaction Pack: Leagues of Votann 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.
Armoured Trailblazers is the cheapest detachment in the Leagues of Votann and the most single-minded. Every part of it names one datasheet. The detachment rule, both enhancements and all three stratagems are SAGITAUR-locked, so this is a package that does nothing at all if you own no Sagitaurs and quite a lot if you own two.
Read from the printed pages of the official Leagues of Votann Faction Pack version 1.1, page 2, with Detachment Point cost, force disposition and enhancement points from the official Munitorum Field Manual version 1.3.
An earlier version of this page said the detachment's stratagems had not been outlined. They are printed in full in the pack, and here they are.
Friendly SAGITAUR units have Scouts 6 inches. That is the whole rule.
Three things follow from it.
A Sagitaur is a transport, so the Scouts move carries its passengers. The pack's amended Transport section gives it a capacity of 6 Leagues of Votann Infantry models, excluding Artillery, Exoarmour, Exoframe and Ironkin Steeljacks models. That exclusion list is doing a lot of work: it rules out most of the faction's elite infantry, which means the squad going for the ride is usually Hearthkyn Warriors or Hernkyn Yaegirs.
Six inches is a scoring distance, not a killing one. A Sagitaur that starts 6 inches further up is on a midboard objective on turn one rather than turn two, and the army rule pays Yield Points for exactly that. This detachment is quietly a scoring detachment wearing a vehicle's clothes.
The rule names one datasheet, so buy before you commit. If your collection has one Sagitaur, this is a 1 Detachment Point spend on a single model's ability. If it has two, the stratagems start targeting both at once and the price looks very different.
Coordinated Crossfire (1CP, start of your Shooting phase). Target up to two friendly SAGITAUR units. Select one enemy unit; your units' ranged attacks against it can re-roll hit rolls of 1 and wound rolls of 1.
That two-unit clause is the design statement of the whole detachment. Nothing else in the faction targets two vehicles with one Command Point. The pack expects a Sagitaur pair.
Outflanking Armour (1CP, end of your opponent's Movement phase, from the second battle round onwards). Target up to two friendly SAGITAUR units in strategic reserves; they each make an ingress move.
Read this against the detachment rule rather than alongside it. A Sagitaur cannot both Scout 6 inches on turn one and be sitting in reserves waiting to ingress. You are choosing between two deployments for the same model, and if you own two Sagitaurs you can do one of each.
Built to Last (1CP, your opponent's Shooting phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly SAGITAUR unit). Ranged attacks against your unit with a Strength greater than its Toughness have minus 1 to wound rolls.
This is the insurance attached to the detachment rule. A vehicle that has just scouted 6 inches into the open is the model most likely to be shot first, and the Strength-greater-than-Toughness clause means it only fires against the attacks that were actually going to hurt.
Saturation Rounds (Upgrade) (15 points). SAGITAUR unit only. This unit's ranged attacks have [IGNORES COVER].
Optimised Attack Lines (Upgrade) (15 points). SAGITAUR unit only. This unit has MOBILE.
Both read Upgrade because they attach to a unit rather than to a character, which is how all three of this faction's 1 Detachment Point detachments price their enhancements. They cost the same, so the choice is entirely about your table: Optimised Attack Lines exists because a vehicle making a 6 inch Scouts move into a terrain-dense midboard is the model most likely to be stopped by a ruin, and the pack's own flavour text says exactly that.
Enhancement points are dataslate-volatile; both values come from the Munitorum Field Manual v1.3 and neither carries a change marker in this pass.
At 1 Detachment Point this leaves 2 DP spare at Strike Force, and it needs them, because two light transports are not an army.
Plus [Brandfast Oathband](/40k/armies/leagues-of-votann/detachments/brandfast-oathband) (2 DP, total 3). The strongest fit in the faction. Brandfast Oathband gives every Leagues of Votann TRANSPORT an aura handing [SUSTAINED HITS 1] to Infantry wholly within 6 inches, and a Sagitaur is a transport. This detachment moves that aura 6 inches up the board before the first turn begins, with the passengers still inside it.
Plus [Persecution Prospect](/40k/armies/leagues-of-votann/detachments/persecution-prospect) (2 DP, total 3). Persecution Prospect marks an enemy unit as assailed and pins it on the second application. A scouting Sagitaur is the model best placed to apply the first mark on turn one, which brings the pin forward by a full turn.
Plus [Farseekers](/40k/armies/leagues-of-votann/detachments/farseekers) (1 DP, total 2). Two cheap forward-deployment packages that share a first turn rather than fight over one. This leaves a Detachment Point spare, which is unusual and worth doing only if you want the flexibility.
Nothing here carries a Unique Tag, so every one of those pairings is unambiguously legal.
A Sagitaur is a transport with a capacity of 6 Leagues of Votann Infantry models per the pack's own amended Transport section, and Scouts is an ability on the vehicle. Check the current core rules wording for how Scouts interacts with embarked models in the Warhammer 40,000 app before you rely on it in a tournament, because that interaction lives in the core rules rather than in this faction's pack.
The pack's Rules Updates section sets the capacity at 6 Leagues of Votann Infantry models and excludes Artillery, Exoarmour, Exoframe and Ironkin Steeljacks models outright. In practice that means Hearthkyn Warriors and Hernkyn Yaegirs rather than Einhyr Hearthguard, which is worth knowing before you plan a delivery.
It is thin. Both stratagems target up to two Sagitaur units, and Coordinated Crossfire in particular is priced as though you have a pair. With one vehicle you are buying Scouts 6 inches and one enhancement slot. With two, the same Detachment Point buys twice as much and the stratagems start paying for themselves.
Yes, and it is the natural way to run a pair. The detachment rule applies to Sagitaurs on the table at deployment; Outflanking Armour targets Sagitaurs in strategic reserves from the second battle round onwards. One model cannot do both, but two models can do one each.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.