Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Stratagems Everyone Needs
The Space Marine Codex and Supplements have given us some great options that every army could use.
Between the new Codex and the Supplements, the Space Marines just got a metric crap-ton of new stratagems. When you take a look at all the options there are a few recurring themes that start to jump out at you as well. It’s almost like you could categorize all these stratagems into different buckets and see the “generic” ones that everyone is getting. That said, we’ve picked out a handful from the Space Marine Codex (and the supplements) that we think should end up in everyone’s army.
Hero of The Chapter
Obviously the keywords would have to change but the concept should stay. This stratagems gives you the option to nominating another character model in your army to give them a different Warlord Trait. We’ve seen this theme repeated with the Specialist Detachments and now in the Space Marine book and we think a 1CP stratagem that allows an army to have more Warlord Traits is a thing that is bound to happen.
Relics of the Chapter
Similar to the extra Warlord, this one is for extra Relics. This is another option that absolutely needs to filter out to all the other codex options. Also, it’s 1CP and it’s a stratagem that is only limited by your CP generation. If someone wants to dump all their CP to give Relics to all your models – go for it. That’s going to be one Relic-packed battlefield!
Honoured Sergeant
This one was pulled from the Ultramarines book, but we’ve seen it repeated in some form for every other chapter. The idea that you can nominate a “Squad Leader” type model and give them a limited selection of Wargear Relics is pretty neat. This is a concept that needs to be repeated for every army that can include “Squad Leader” models! Bonus points if it’s modeled on the miniatures!
Big Guns Never Tire
Yep – this one is an extremely basic concept. You can nominate a Vehicle that can move and fire Heavy weapons with no penalty. For Tyranids, it could be a Monster – but this is something that needs to be an option in every codex.
Veteran Intercessors
Veteran Intercessors is our final concept and it’s such a great idea. Every army should be allowed to nominate a Troop Unit that can become an “Elite” version and they would get some benefit for doing so. GW could play around with the stat-bump that each unit would get meaning that it doesn’t have to be an increase in attacks and/or leadership everytime. This could also scale beyond 1/2 CP – for larger squads (20+) it could be 3 or more CP – you’d have to balance that out, but depending on the option it could totally be worth it.
What stratagem concepts would you like to see from the Space Marine Codex (or supplements) get filtered out to other armies?
