Dark Rider Rules.pdf

Cavalry Rules

All Mage Knight™ rules apply to mounts, riders, and cavalry units, except as noted

in these rules.

Base Slot

Saddle

Mount Symbol

Mounts

Some warriors, called mounts, have elongated

bases. Each of these bases has a base slot that

can accommodate another warrior’s base, and a

saddle that can physically accommodate a rider.

Each mount is of a certain mount type and

has a mount symbol (printed next to its speed

value) associated with it. Mounts cannot make

free spins.

Battle Horse

Pegasus

Cloud Griffon

Salamander

Desert Warbird

Sky Dragon

Horned Stag

Technocat

Riders

Some warriors have an attack bonus printed within

a square (for example, ). Only these warriors,

which have one or more mount symbols printed on

their bases, can become riders. These mount symbols

indicate which mount type or types that warrior can

ride. A warrior on a mount becomes a rider. A warrior

that can become a rider can use its attack bonus

only when it is on a mount; this bonus applies to all

attacks that this warrior makes, regardless of what the

warrior’s attack type is.

Mount Symbol(s)

Rider Attack Bonus

Cavalry Units

Together, a mount and rider are called a cavalry unit. To form a cavalry unit, follow these steps:

1. Remove the warrior from its base. This will reveal a plastic peg that

you can insert into a hole on the mount’s saddle. This secures the rider

to its mount. Warriors eligible to become riders are the only warriors

that can be removed from their bases in this way.

2. Place the rider’s base into its mount’s base slot.

All mounts must be deployed as cavalry units; that is, they cannot be deployed without

riders. Both the mount’s and the rider’s point values count toward the build total.

Cavalry units cannot

• make free spins,

• capture or be

captured,

• use the surge proiciency,

• be affected by the Strong Flyer or Magic

Levitation special abilities, or

• use subfaction abilities.

A mount and its rider are in base contact with each other and form a single igure,

or unit. A igure in base contact with a cavalry unit is in base contact with both the

mount and the rider. When a cavalry unit occupies a terrain feature, both the mount

and the rider occupy that terrain feature.

Special abilities of a rider or items that a rider wields that refer to the rider’s front arc,

such as Venom or Sweep, use the mount’s front arc while the rider is part of a cavalry unit.

Giving Actions to a Cavalry Unit

You can give a cavalry unit only one action per turn.

If you give an action to a cavalry unit that causes it to be given a second action

token, it is not dealt 1 pushing damage after the action resolves.

When a cavalry unit is given a move action, only the mount’s speed value, special

abilities, and proiciencies can be used to resolve the action.

When a cavalry unit is given a close or ranged combat action or a special action, you

must choose to use either the rider’s combat dial or the mount’s combat dial to resolve

the action. When using the mount’s combat dial, only the mount’s special abilities can

be used. When using the rider’s combat dial, only the rider’s special abilities and items

the rider is wielding can be used. A rider that can wield items can drop and pick up

items while part of a cavalry unit. When dropping or picking up items as part of a

cavalry unit, the item token must be in base contact with the mount. A cavalry unit

given a close or ranged combat action uses the mount’s front arc and center dot.

Attacking and Damaging a Cavalry Unit

When targeting a cavalry unit, the attacker chooses the dial against which to resolve

the attack. Use the mount’s center dot to determine line of ire and any area of

effect, such as with the Bombardment special ability. If a cavalry unit is affected by

the Bombardment special ability or other area-of-effect attack, apply damage to both

the mount’s and the rider’s combat dial, as applicable.

Use the mount’s rear arc to determine if any rear arc modiiers apply to the attack.

If a cavalry unit is dealt pushing damage, you must choose to apply the damage to

either the mount’s or rider’s combat dial.

Cavalry Units and Formations

Cavalry units can create formations only with other cavalry units. All riders in a formation

of cavalry units must have the same faction symbol; ignore mount factions for

formation purposes.

Eliminating Cavalry Units

If a mount is eliminated before its rider, return the rider to its base. Place it on the

battleield in base contact with the mount and eliminate the mount from the game. If

the rider cannot be placed in base contact with the mount, eliminate both the mount

and the rider. When a mount or rider is eliminated, remove any action tokens that

were on the cavalry unit.

If a mount is without a rider, the mount’s intelligence level determines how the mount

reacts. Each mount’s mount type is printed inside one of three shapes: a circle, a pentagon,

or a square. This shape indicates the mount’s intelligence level, as described below.

Intelligence Levels

Skittish ( ): If this mount does not have a rider at the beginning of any player’s end

phase, remove it from the game.

Independent ( ): If this mount does not have a rider, it can be given actions as normal.

Mean-Spirited ( ): If this mount does not have a rider at the beginning of any

player’s command phase, it is a friendly warrior to the player whose turn it is, and an

opposing warrior to all other players for that turn.

Dismounted Riders

A rider can dismount during the game; this warrior is both a dismounted rider and

a warrior until it gains another mount, and all rules that apply to dismounted riders

and warriors apply to this warrior, as appropriate.

To dismount a rider, give the cavalry unit a special action. Do not give the mount

or rider an action token, and remove any action tokens from the cavalry unit. Remove

the rider from its mount, return it to its base, and place it on the battleield in base

contact with the mount. Both the rider and its mount can be given actions on the

same turn the rider dismounts. If there is no room on the battleield for the rider to

be placed in base contact with its mount, the rider cannot dismount.

A dismounted rider can gain another mount during a game. To do so, the

dismounted rider must be in base contact with a friendly mount without a rider, and

the mount’s and dismounted rider’s mount symbols must match. Give the dismounted

rider a special action, remove it from its base, and place it in the mount’s saddle. Then

place the rider’s base in the mount’s base slot. Give the newly formed cavalry unit an

action token. The cavalry unit can be given an action on the same turn it was formed.

Proiciencies

Some proiciencies allow a cavalry unit to both move and attack using only one action.

In these cases, the mount and the rider can use any special abilities they possess that

require the kind of action given when they resolve the action, unless speciically stated

otherwise. Cavalry unit proiciencies are listed below.

Horsemanship

When this unit is the target of a ranged combat attack that is resolved against the

rider’s combat dial, the attacker gets –2 to its attack value.

Impale

This unit’s rider cannot use the Weapon Master special ability. When this unit’s rider

succeeds at a close combat attack against a single target, the rider gets +2 to its

damage value.

Mounted Bound

Give this unit a ranged combat action when it is not in base contact with an

opposing igure. This unit can move up to its full speed value and then make a ranged

combat attack. Use the mount’s combat dial to resolve the movement and the rider’s

combat dial to resolve the ranged combat attack.

Mounted Charge

Give this unit a close combat action when it is not in base contact with an opposing

igure. This unit can move up to its full speed value and then make a close combat

attack. Use the mount’s combat dial to resolve the movement. You choose whether to

use the mount’s or the rider’s combat dial to resolve the close combat attack.

Overwhelm

Give this unit a move action when it is not in base ontact with an opposing igure; this

unit cannot use any speed special abilities. At the end of the movement, it must be in

base contact with a single opposing cavalry unit. Roll one six-sided die and add the

rider’s attack bonus to the result. If the result is 6 or more, the rider of the opposing

cavalry unit is dismounted. If there is not enough room for the dismounted rider’s

base to be placed on the battleield in base contact with the mount, eliminate the

dismounted rider.

Trample

Give this unit a move action when it is at ground level; it cannot use the double-time

proiciency. Measure a movement path in a straight line through the mount’s front

arc. This movement path can cross other igure bases. Resolve the movement. Any

igure at ground level whose base is crossed by the movement path is dealt 1 damage.

Dark Riders Subfaction

Cavalry units from the Dark Riders ( ) subfaction follow the same rules as other

cavalry units, with the following exceptions:

• Riders and mounts are matched by their collector’s numbers, not their

mount symbols. For example, warrior #12la can ride only mount #121b.

• Riders from the Dark Riders subfaction cannot dismount or be dismounted.

• A Dark Riders mount cannot be eliminated before its rider is

eliminated. If three skulls show in the stat slot of a Dark Riders

mount that still has a rider, instead of eliminating the mount, turn its

combat dial to the starting marker.

• When a rider from the Dark Riders subfaction is eliminated or removed

from the game, remove the rider’s base from the mount’s base slot. The rider

remains in the mount’s saddle.

• Riders from the Dark Riders subfaction can use their subfaction

abilities while they are part of a cavalry unit.

Subfaction Abilities

Apocalypse

Dark Riders

DARK UNITY (optional) At the beginning of your command phase, deal 1

pushing damage to this unit’s rider to heal its mount of 1 damage. This ability can be

used only once on each of your command phases.

Elemental Freeholds

Wylden Host

NATURE’S ALLY This warrior’s line of ire is not affected by hindering

or concealing terrain. Targets of this warrior’s ranged combat attacks treat

hindering and concealing terrain as clear terrain for those attacks. When this

warrior is in hindering terrain, it gets +1 to its defense value.

New Glossary Terms

base slot: The space on a mount’s base where a warrior’s base is placed when the

warrior becomes a rider of that mount.

cavalry unit: A unit composed of both a mount and a rider.

dismount: To remove a rider from its mount.

dismounted rider: A warrior that has been removed from its mount. It is both a

dismounted rider and a warrior for game purposes.

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