40K RUMORS: Codex Space Marines
Fasten Your Seatbelts boys and girls. The Space Marine Train is headed down the tracks!
via Best Pone
Up for release in September is the new Codex: Space Marines.
– There will be 7 Ltd Ed varients. 6 of these will be covers for First Founding chapters, whilst the 7th will have Black Templars on the cover.
– New weapon family: Grav weapons. I believe these wound against the armour save (so terminators would be wounded as if they had a toughness of 2).
– First Founding chapters will be getting a substantial section each to themselves, so hopefully this can be looked as as Codex: Space Marines instead of Codex: Ultramarines. This will also show in a rule called Chapter Tactics, for which the effects depend on the chapter being played.
– There is a new armour type that at first glance looks to be somewhere between a terminator and a dreadnought – looking more closely, it appears to go over the marine’s power armour however.
– This new armour can be armed in 2 ways, depending on the user. The devastator version has either a bolter array or missile launchers mounted on the chest armour, whilst the gauntlets can be armed with heavy bolters, lascannons or grav cannons. The assault version has a bolter array or frag launchers mounted on the chest armour, with assault drills mounted on the gauntlets.
– There are 2 new AA tanks. One tank veterans will already be familiar with as the Hunter, armed an AA missile launcher. The other tank mounts 2 tri-barreled turrets instead.
– There is a new tactical squad. Lots of options as you’d expect, but of particular interest will probably be the grav pistol and grav rifle.
– A new plastic Sternguard veteran squad.
– A new plastic Vanguard veteran squad.
– New plastic characters: a captain, a librarian and a chaplain.
Editor’s Note: The Space Marine “Hunter” vehicle is originally from EPIC – just saying…
~ Hmm, looks to be taking some of the legacy of both the old Doctrine system from 4th, and some of the Heresy-era weapons from the Legion book. It’s marines – you cannot resist…
