If Chapter Tactics weren’t enough for you, players will also be able to create their very own Space Marine Chapters with rules in 40k!
Warhammer Community announced that players will be able to create their own Space Marine Chapters in the days ahead. These Chapters will be successor Chapters of the other well-known Chapters lore-wise but can pull from different rules to give them a unique feel! Take a look at all the details.
Creating Your Own Space Marine Chapter
This is the bit where you get to shape the future of the 41st Millennium by creating your own Space Marine successor Chapter! To do so, you need to choose a name, Chapter icon and colour scheme. Unless you’d prefer the knowledge of their genetic heritage to remain unknown (a fate shared by the Blood Ravens), you should also choose a First Founding Chapter to be your successor’s parent Chapter.
Once you’ve got all the background fluff covered, you’ll be able to create your own Chapter Tactics covered in a list inside of the Space Marine Codex. You’ll have 19 different listed options to pick and choose rules from for your Chapter.
Chapter Tactic Options Previewed
Take a look at some of the options that were previewed:
Essentially, this lets you have your Marines painted in any way you want while still letting them operate off of one of the main Chapters of the Imperium’s force.
Similar to the Salamanders, you basically get a free reroll to hit and wound in every phase of the game with shooting/melee.
As for a Stealthy Chapter Tactic, your units that are more than 12″ away from the enemy count as being in cover. It’s not that great but it’s something. Just hope you don’t go against any Imperial Fists.
Bolter Fusilades and Long-Range Marksmen favor bolter-heavy Marine lists with free rerolls of 1 coming alongside a bonus 3″ range. Combo this with the Bolter Discipline rules and you’ll be able to sling some S4 firepower.
Preferred Enemy gives you a bonus on whatever you pick as an enemy Faction Keyword. (Note that you can’t choose Adeptus Astartes, Astra Militarum, etc.). But you get a nice reroll all failed hit rolls bonus in combat if you charge or heroic intervene into something of the chosen enemy keyword. That’s like having a free Chapter Master reroll aura proc whenever you touch something you really don’t like.
And as for Indomitable, this is really only useful if you plan on running big blobs of Marines. We can definitely see this being useful if you’re running Death Company swarms or even maxed-out Hellblaster squads.
Astartes Design Download Sheet
While we wait for all of the Astartes support to get here, Warhammer Community also gave us a downloadable PDF sheet for designing our Chapters. You’ll be able to experiment with color schemes, practice heraldry, etc. while you hold on for the new book to get into your hands.
With all of this support coming down the pipe, which Chapter Tactic previewed looks the most competitive to you? Have you already made your own Chapters? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group, and sign up to get your free hobby updates newsletter each morning as well!
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