Fulguris Task Force: The 11th-Edition Space Marines Speeder Detachment

The detachment rule (previewed as Skystrike) gives your Land Speeders and Storm Speeders — Hailstrike, Hammerstrike and Thunderstrike — a shared Speeder identity and, crucially, a bonus reposition move in your first Movement phase. That turn-one "ingress" burst lets fast, heavily-armed skimmers appear in firing angles your opponent never screened for: side and rear shots on tanks, or heavy guns onto a backfield objective. It sits in the pack's Disruption role for a reason — the whole point is to be somewhere inconvenient on turn one.

The officially confirmed signature stratagem is Reactive Evasion: on your opponent's turn, when an enemy gets close, an unengaged Speeder makes a short reactive move — sliding out of a charge, off a screen, or back into cover. Use it to deny charges and keep your skimmers alive after they have alpha-struck; hit-and-run only works if the units survive to run.

The faction pack includes further stratagems beyond this one. Community trackers list additional escape and detection tricks, but their exact wording is not yet confirmed from an official source, so check the current pack rather than committing to specific numbers.

The confirmed standout enhancement is Bellicose Weapon Spirits, which lets the bearer re-roll its Damage rolls and its random number-of-Attacks rolls. Put it on a Speeder carrying random-shot or random-damage weapons — a multi-melta Speeder or a Storm Speeder Thunderstrike — where smoothing those dice swings turns a feast-or-famine gun into a reliable one.

The pack offers more enhancements; some appear on trackers (for example an Ignores-Cover option that is excellent against objective-campers in cover) but are not yet officially confirmed, so treat those as provisional.

• Land Speeder (the new Armageddon-box kit) — the signature unit: fast, FLY, strong firepower for its cost, and a duck-back-after-shooting profile that the detachment's mobility amplifies.
• Storm Speeder Thunderstrike — anti-vehicle/anti-monster; the free ingress move lines up melta and heavy shots turn one, and Bellicose Weapon Spirits steadies its damage.
• Storm Speeder Hammerstrike — dedicated tank-hunter that loves getting side/rear angles immediately.
• Storm Speeder Hailstrike — anti-infantry output that reliably clears objective-holders.

At 1 DP it is rarely your whole army — its best use is as a cheap support detachment bolted onto a 2-DP core (an Ironstorm armour list, an Anvil gunline) at a 2,000-point game, adding a fast, disruptive Speeder wing to a slower list. Take it when you lack turn-one pressure or a way to threaten backfield objectives, and it shines into slow gunlines and cover-camping armies.

Sample gameplan: deploy the Speeders, use the turn-one ingress to jump into firing positions, alpha-strike priority targets (meltas into vehicles, output into objective-holders), then on the opponent's turn use Reactive Evasion to slide unengaged Speeders back out of threat range. Trade efficiently and grind objectives with repeated hit-and-run.