Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
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DeveloperProxy Studios
PublisherSlitherine Ltd.
Released12 Jul 2018
Price
£35.10
ReviewsVery Positive (82% of 8,176)
Steam DeckPlayable
Playing now810
Achievements 0 of 166 unlocked
We Have Tanks On Our Side
Win as the Astra Militarum.
9.1% of players · Rare
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Innocence Is No Defence
Execute a coward.
5% of players · Rare
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Teching No Prisoners
Finish the Astra Militarum story.
5.9% of players · Rare
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Dictum Administratum
Start an Astra Militarum city edict.
15% of players · Rare
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Where It All Starts
Found a city.
75% of players · Common
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Second Foundation
Found a second city.
27% of players · Uncommon
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Breaking Ground
Construct a building.
61% of players · Common
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Land Grab
Acquire a tile.
64% of players · Common
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There Are Only Warriors
Produce a unit.
56% of players · Common
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I Need A Hero
Recruit a hero.
46% of players · Uncommon
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A Little Knowledge ...
Research a technology.
63% of players · Common
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An STC?!
Research all technologies with any one faction.
8.8% of players · Rare
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Airstrip One
Develop a city to 25 loyalty or more.
16% of players · Rare
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Top Clearance
Clear a tile.
33% of players · Uncommon
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Know It Vaul
23% of players · Uncommon
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Prime Mover
Explore the whole map.
34% of players · Uncommon
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Rogue Trader
24% of players · Uncommon
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The Living Stone
Ian got you to capture an artefact.
46% of players · Uncommon
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Planting The Flag
Capture an outpost.
81% of players · Common
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Nothing But A Hound Dog
Kill some Kroot Hounds.
50% of players · Common
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Primal Rage
Eliminate a faction.
28% of players · Uncommon
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Life, But Not As We Know It
Eliminate all native life on Gladius.
14% of players · Rare
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Super Trooper
Attain the highest level with a unit.
20% of players · Uncommon
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Devil May Cry
30% of players · Uncommon
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The Walls Came Tumblin' Down
Destroy an enemy city.
32% of players · Uncommon
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A Commissar's Solution
Kill an enslaved unit.
27% of players · Uncommon
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An Ethereal's Solution
Free an enslaved unit.
27% of players · Uncommon
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Entry To Eternal War
Finish a multiplayer game with another human player.
10% of players · Rare
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The Players That Team Together
Start a multiplayer game with a team of human players against a team of AI opponents.
9.3% of players · Rare
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C'tan Opener
9.8% of players · Rare
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Safe From The Old Ones
Finish the Necron story.
5.4% of players · Rare
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A Test of Metal
Win as the Necrons.
10% of players · Rare
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Wake Up, Sleepyheads
Use rapid rise.
19% of players · Rare
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Intergalactic Headbutt
Finish the Ork story.
4.3% of players · Very rare
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Another Green World
Win as the Orks.
6.8% of players · Rare
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WAAAGH!
Reach maximum Waaagh!.
14% of players · Rare
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Pyrrhic Victory
Finish the Space Marine story.
6.5% of players · Rare
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The Emperor Protects
Win as the Space Marines.
19% of players · Rare
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Special Delivery
Deploy a Space Marine chapter tactic.
36% of players · Uncommon
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Pugio
Win a solo game on medium difficulty or higher.
9% of players · Rare
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Sica
Win a solo game on hard difficulty or higher.
4.3% of players · Very rare
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Falx
Win a solo game on very hard difficulty or higher.
3.2% of players · Very rare
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Gladius
Win a solo game on ultra hard difficulty or higher.
2.8% of players · Very rare
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Spatha
Win a solo game on impossible difficulty.
2.6% of players · Very rare
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Beardy
Win with every faction.
2.7% of players · Very rare
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Skulls For The Skull Throne
Kill the Lord of Skulls.
6% of players · Rare
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Nothing Stops The Storm Troopers
Enter difficult terrain with a unit of Tempestus Scions.
6% of players · Rare
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In The Shadow of Death
Kill a unit of Neophyte Hybrids while they are shrouded.
15% of players · Rare
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Immortal Kombat
Kill a unit of Guardsmen with a unit of Immortals from range 2.
3.3% of players · Very rare
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Snazzy Digs
Attack with Flash Gitz without moving.
4.2% of players · Very rare
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Taxi!
Disembark a unit from a Land Raider.
4% of players · Very rare
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The Doom
Finish the Tyranid story.
3.1% of players · Very rare
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Roadside Picnic
Win as the Tyranids.
4.9% of players · Very rare
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We Can Rebuild Him
Reclaim a unit.
6.3% of players · Rare
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Roughneck
4% of players · Very rare
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Fireside Fratricide
Finish a hotseat game.
2.5% of players · Very rare
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Who Guards the Guard?
Win a solo game on impossible difficulty against Astra Militarum on a huge map.
2.4% of players · Very rare
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Blessed Sacrifice
The Chaos Gods take their pawns' lives with as much glee as their foes'.
7.4% of players · Rare
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A Whole New World
Finish the Chaos Space Marines story.
3.1% of players · Very rare
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Warmaster
Win as the Chaos Space Marines.
4.6% of players · Very rare
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Apotheosis
2.8% of players · Very rare
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Apocolocyntosis
2.8% of players · Very rare
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Ram Raider
Even the Empire's mightiest war machines are fodder to a Chaos Lord
2.3% of players · Very rare
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The Sound of Unsilence
Prevent 3 units from doing overwatch attacks with a Chaos Rhino with full cargo.
2.4% of players · Very rare
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Killing Joke
Heal a unit with Bloated.
6.7% of players · Rare
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In Death, Life
Sacrifice Chaos Cultists to boost growth on a city with an active Rite of Chaos and Our Lives for the Gods researched.
2.9% of players · Very rare
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I'll Huff And I'll Puff...
Destroy a fortification with a Maulerfiend.
3.7% of players · Very rare
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Use Master of Possession's Incursion while under the effects of Venomcrawler's Reservoir of Daemonic Energy.
2.8% of players · Very rare
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A Good Servant
These icons shine brightly in the Warp, gathering the malefic energies of Chaos to those who bear them.
4.1% of players · Very rare
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Empty Nest
Maintain 3 Void Shield Generators on the field at once.
3.2% of players · Very rare
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Down To Earth
Kill a superheavy flyer with a Gauss Pylon.
2.4% of players · Very rare
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A Long Shot, But It Might Just Work
Kill an enemy unit with the Aquila Macro Cannon at maximum range.
4.4% of players · Very rare
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Super-Brolly 2000
Use a Big Mek's shield to reduce ranged damage taken by your unit.
4.3% of players · Very rare
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What Is Yours, Is Mine
Kill 10 units with Spore Mines.
2.4% of players · Very rare
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Consequentialism In Action
Finish the Tau story.
3.2% of players · Very rare
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I Did It, My Way
Win as the Tau.
4.9% of players · Very rare
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For Great Space Communism!
As Tau, convert 10 units to your side.
4.9% of players · Very rare
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John Stuart Mill Was Particularly Ill
3.6% of players · Very rare
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Utopia
As Tau, build every type of building in a city, with no duplicates.
2.6% of players · Very rare
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Supporting Fire Warriors
As Tau, kill 10 enemy units that are next to other friendly units with overwatch.
3.7% of players · Very rare
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The Golden Drone
Create 20 drones.
6.8% of players · Rare
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Any Support In A Storm
Install 10 support system.
3.7% of players · Very rare
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It Takes Tau
Start a match in a team with another Tau player.
6% of players · Rare
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Monat
Attain the highest level with a Fire Warrior.
3.5% of players · Very rare
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Farsighted
Win the game with a Commander on the field.
4.5% of players · Very rare
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Argon Genesis Devilalion
Kill a Dreadnought unit with a battlesuit unit.
2.8% of players · Very rare
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Suited and Booted
Have 10 battlesuit units on the field at once.
4.6% of players · Very rare
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I Am Kroot
5% of players · Rare
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Crown of Thorns
Kill an enemy Psyker with a Noctilith Crown.
2.4% of players · Very rare
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Don't Spare The Horses
Transport a Lord Commissar with Aura of Discipline in a Chimera.
3.9% of players · Very rare
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You Call That A Scythe?
Stomp a Carnifex with a Scythed Hierodule.
2.3% of players · Very rare
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It Was Beauty Killed The Beast
Kill a Scythed Hierodule with a flyer.
2.6% of players · Very rare
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Weapons of Mass Construction
Construct 5 Tidewall Gunrigs in 1 turn.
2.4% of players · Very rare
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Yarrick Did It With One Arm
Kill a Warboss with a Lord Commissar
2.6% of players · Very rare
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Tau Can Play At That Game
6.4% of players · Rare
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Dark Messiah
Kill a unit with an Ethereal.
4% of players · Very rare
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Brain Food
Kill a hero with a Lictor's overwatch.
2.3% of players · Very rare
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Drive Me Closer, I Want To Hit Them With My Sword
Kill a unit of Ork Boyz with a Tank Commander's roll over them ability.
2.6% of players · Very rare
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Stuck In The Middle With You
Blind 5 units with Warp Talons in a single jump.
2.1% of players · Very rare
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Rock Around The Clock
Turn all land tiles on the map into bedrock.
2.1% of players · Very rare
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Haru, Is It Me You're Looking For?
Win a solo game by only creating Haruspex units.
2% of players · Very rare
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There Is No War
Win a solo game without killing any units that are not headquarters.
2% of players · Very rare
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There Is Only War
Kill 40000 units.
2% of players · Very rare
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The Anvil of the Gods
Finish the Craftworld Aeldari story.
2.6% of players · Very rare
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Rage Against The Dying of The Light
Win as the Craftworld Aeldari.
3.6% of players · Very rare
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Rhana Dandra
Win a solo game on impossible difficulty as Craftworld Aeldari on a huge map against a team of 2 AI Chaos Space Marines.
1.8% of players · Very rare
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Battle Focused
Move a unit after using an action.
23% of players · Uncommon
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Webway Guardian
As Craftworld Aeldari, win a game without any Webway Gates getting destroyed.
3.4% of players · Very rare
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Where There's A Web, There's A Way
Play a game where a Webway Redoubt is constructed on each Webway Gate.
1.9% of players · Very rare
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Burnt Umbra
Kill an Umbra with a Flame or Melta weapon.
11% of players · Rare
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Autarchy In The UK
Buff 5 units with Autarch's Assault.
3.9% of players · Very rare
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Psychonautica
Kill a unit with a Farseer's Mind War.
2.5% of players · Very rare
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Fatal Refraction
Kill a unit with a linked fire Fire Prism.
2.2% of players · Very rare
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Blood For... The Other Blood God?
Produce an Avatar of Khaine.
3.8% of players · Very rare
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The Banshee's Call
Affect 3 units with Howling Banshee's War Shout.
2% of players · Very rare
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Scorpio and Orion
Move a Scorpion side-by-side with an allied Wraithknight.
2.8% of players · Very rare
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Mission Improbable
Win a solo game on impossible difficulty by finishing the story quests.
1.8% of players · Very rare
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Dragged Back In
Restore a unit's morale with Laurels of Command.
2.5% of players · Very rare
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Militarily Distanced
Win a multiplayer game against a human opponent.
8.1% of players · Rare
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Zhuko Was Here
Win a game as ZhukoDim, but without playing.
1.8% of players · Very rare
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Omniscient? Omnissiah Ain't
Finish the Adeptus Mechanicus story.
2.3% of players · Very rare
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Life on Mars
Win as the Adeptus Mechanicus.
3.9% of players · Very rare
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You Said The Magic Word
Reprogram 10 Kastelan Robots.
2% of players · Very rare
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Citadel Miniatures
Construct 20 buildings adjacent to your headquarters tile.
4% of players · Very rare
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Xenarite Heretic
Power Surge a tile with 4 Librarium Omnis buildings.
2.2% of players · Very rare
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Canonically Faster
2% of players · Very rare
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Metal Anthem
Use a Canticle of the Omnissiah on 10 units.
2.6% of players · Very rare
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...The Harder They Fall
Attack a 10 armour unit with a Graviton weapon.
3.4% of players · Very rare
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Shock Jock
Take damage while Siphoned Vigour is active.
2.8% of players · Very rare
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Master of Machines
As Adeptus Mechanicus, repair 100 units.
3.2% of players · Very rare
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The Mouse That Roared
2.5% of players · Very rare
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Adeptus Monotonous
As Adeptus Mechanicus, win a solo game on impossible difficulty by producing units only from Sub-Cloisters.
1.6% of players · Very rare
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Chapter Approved
Not as Space Marines, win a solo game on impossible difficulty without founding a second city.
1.7% of players · Very rare
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Hero Worship
Win a multiplayer game by producing only heroes.
1.8% of players · Very rare
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The Final Countdown
Finish the Adepta Sororitas story.
2.1% of players · Very rare
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Enforcers of the Faith
Win as the Adepta Sororitas.
3.3% of players · Very rare
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Archaeologist
As Adepta Sororitas, make sure all Holy Sites on the map are explored.
1.7% of players · Very rare
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Miracle Maker
Perform 100 Acts of Faith.
2.3% of players · Very rare
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Ain't So Scared Anymore
As the Adepta Sororitas, kill an enemy unit with a unit that has the Oath of Faith trait.
5.6% of players · Rare
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It's Avenging Time!
Kill an enemy unit with an Avenger Strike Fighter that has the trait Avenging Zeal or Bloody Resolution.
1.9% of players · Very rare
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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Kill a Knight Crusader with a Cerastus Knight-Lancer.
1.6% of players · Very rare
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The Purge
As Adepta Sororitas, win a solo game on impossible difficulty against Necrons, Craftworld Aeldari, T'au, Tyranids, Chaos Space Marines and Orks.
1.6% of players · Very rare
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Never Give Up!
As Adepta Sororitas, win a solo game on impossible difficulty without breaking the morale of any of your units.
1.6% of players · Very rare
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That's a Lot of Talking
Increase the armour of allied Adepta Sororitas units by a total of 100 points by using "Stirring Rhetoric".
2.4% of players · Very rare
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Witch Hunter
Kill a Psyker unit with a Canoness.
2.1% of players · Very rare
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Steam Cooking
1.6% of players · Very rare
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Succession Guaranteed
Attain the highest level with a Space Marine Scout unit.
1.9% of players · Very rare
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Serial Winner
Win 10 multiplayer games.
2.1% of players · Very rare
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Brother Get The Flamer—The Heavy. Flamer
Kill 100 units with flame weapons.
3.8% of players · Very rare
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Righteous Executioner
Kill 3 heroes with Saint Celestine.
2% of players · Very rare
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How The Tables Have Turned
Finish the Drukhari story.
1.6% of players · Very rare
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Delightful Sufferings
Win as the Drukhari.
2.1% of players · Very rare
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Explosive Delivery
As Drukhari, deal 20 damage in one attack with a unit with Raider Assault.
1.9% of players · Very rare
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Secured Merchandise
As Drukhari, control all outposts.
1.4% of players · Very rare
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Supreme Ruler
As Drukhari, gather 1000 influence in one game.
2.6% of players · Very rare
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Mortal Beauty
Kill 3 units with a Succubus with one use of the Whirling Death ability.
1.4% of players · Very rare
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Multitasking
Kill 2 units in a single turn with an Archon.
1.5% of players · Very rare
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Troublemaker Twins
As Drukhari, win a game with an allied Craftworld Aeldari on Ranger difficulty against a team of Adepta Sororitas, Adeptus Mechanicus, Astra Militarum and Space Marines on impossible difficulty. This can also be completed in multiplayer.
1.3% of players · Very rare
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Poison Supporters Gathering
As Drukhari, win a solo game by producing only units with poisoned weapons (Haemonculus, Hellions, Kabalite Warriors, Razorwing Jetfighter, Succubus, Venom, Wracks).
1.4% of players · Very rare
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Five Star Shipping
Fill a Tantalus with allied non-Drukhari units.
1.4% of players · Very rare
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Friendly Fire For The Greater Good
Kill both an allied unit and an enemy unit at once with the XV107 R'Varna using the Nova Electromagnetic Shockwave ability.
1.4% of players · Very rare
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So Close Yet So Different
Kill a Kataphron Destroyers unit with a Kataphron Breachers unit.
1.4% of players · Very rare
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Battle Royale
Win a solo game against 10 AIs on a tiny map.
1.5% of players · Very rare
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Bug On Bug Warfare
1.4% of players · Very rare
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Rubicon Primaris
As Space Marines, win a solo game recruiting only Primaris units.
1.1% of players · Very rare
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Extremely Repulsive
As Space Marines, control 10 Primaris Repulsor Executioners at the same time.
1.2% of players · Very rare
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