Spearpoint Task Force: The 11th-Edition White Scars Detachment

Storm-swift Onslaught lets your Adeptus Astartes units declare a charge in a turn they Advanced or Fell Back. That is the same headline permission as Stormlance Task Force's Lightning Assault, and it does the same enormous work: huge, reliable charge threat ranges, the ability to disengage from a bad fight and re-charge somewhere better, and control of the game's tempo.

The second clause, Wrath of the First Khan, is White Scars specific. At the end of the Fight phase, if a Suboden Khan unit destroyed one or more enemy units and is not within Engagement Range, that unit may move up to 6". It is a consolidation-after-the-consolidation: kill something, then slide onto an objective or out of the retaliation you were about to eat.

The headline comparison is the DP cost. Stormlance costs 3 DP and fills a 2,000-point budget on its own; Spearpoint costs 2 DP and leaves you a support detachment. That is the main reason to be here.

All six cost 1 CP:

• Spear Thrust and Sabre Swing (Fight) — pick Lance or Lethal Hits for the unit's melee weapons, and Mounted units get both. This is the detachment's damage stratagem and it is written to reward bikes specifically.
• Mobile Lethality (Movement) — until the end of the turn, the unit can shoot in a turn it Advanced or Fell Back. Combined with the detachment rule you get the full advance, shoot and charge package on one unit for a single Command Point.
• Hunter's Instincts (opponent's Movement) — an Infantry or Mounted unit within 8" of an enemy that just moved makes a 6" move. A flat 6", not a D6", which makes it a reliable repositioning tool rather than a gamble.
• Evasive Manoeuvres (Shooting) — a Mounted or Fly Vehicle unit subtracts 1 from Wound rolls against it for the phase. Keeps your fast attackers alive through the counter-punch.
• Withdraw and Regroup (end of opponent's Fight) — remove a Mounted or Fly Vehicle unit not in Engagement Range into Strategic Reserves, to come back somewhere better.
• Armour of Contempt (defensive) — worsen incoming AP by 1.

• Spearpoint Paragon (25 pts) — improve the Strength and AP of the bearer's melee weapons by 1, and by 2 on a turn it charged. The core of a bike-character deathstar, and it scales exactly with the plan the detachment wants.
• Hunter's Eye (20 pts) — the bearer's ranged weapons gain Sustained Hits 1 and Ignores Cover. Two useful abilities on one enhancement, and unusually it is not restricted to Mounted models, so it can sit on a foot character leading a shooting squad.
• Stormseers' Wisdom (15 pts) — re-roll Advance rolls for the bearer's unit. Cheap, and it smooths the single dice roll the whole advance-and-charge plan depends on.
• Chogorian Huntmaster (25 pts, Mounted) — treat the battle round as one higher for setting the bearer's unit up from Strategic Reserves. Pairs directly with Withdraw and Regroup for a leave-and-return loop.

• Outriders — the core fast bikes, Mounted, and the unit that gets both Lance and Lethal Hits from Spear Thrust and Sabre Swing.
• Suboden Khan — the named model behind Wrath of the First Khan; without him that clause never fires.
• Chaplain on Bike or a Mounted Captain — one of the few Mounted character options, and the natural carrier for Spearpoint Paragon and Chogorian Huntmaster.
• Jump Pack Assault Intercessors — Fly plus advance-and-charge gives enormous threat range across terrain.
• Storm Speeders and other fast vehicles — Fly Vehicles that benefit from Evasive Manoeuvres and Withdraw and Regroup.
• A character with Hunter's Eye — note this one is not Mounted-restricted, so it can go on a foot character leading Hellblasters or Sternguard if your list is not all bikes.

Take Spearpoint Task Force when you play White Scars and want a fast, aggressive army that dictates the game. The decision that actually matters is Spearpoint against Stormlance Task Force, because both give you advance-and-charge.

Stormlance costs 3 DP, is open to every Chapter, and has its own strong toolkit including Full Throttle and Fury of the Storm. Spearpoint costs 2 DP, is White Scars only, adds the Suboden Khan post-fight move, and gives Mounted units both Lance and Lethal Hits from a single stratagem. Crucially, the DP saving means Spearpoint can take a 1-DP support detachment — a Fulguris Speeder wing, Subversion Assets for scoring, Vengeful Hosts for a jump element — while Stormlance cannot take anything at all. For most 2,000-point White Scars lists that flexibility is worth more than Stormlance's extra stratagems.

Sample gameplan: deploy bikes and jump units aggressively with a Mounted character carrying Spearpoint Paragon. Push up turn one, using Stormseers' Wisdom to smooth the Advance rolls and Mobile Lethality when a unit needs to advance and still shoot. Charge after Advancing and spend Spear Thrust and Sabre Swing on your bike block for Lance and Lethal Hits together. Protect the survivors with Evasive Manoeuvres, use Hunter's Instincts for a reliable flat 6" reposition on the opponent's turn, and cycle a battered fast unit off the board with Withdraw and Regroup, bringing it back early via Chogorian Huntmaster.