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.
"Deception is the point. Any fool can calculate strength. That one has been doing it from the moment he saw us. Now, he has to calculate what he can't see. And fear what he doesn't know."
Låter trovärdigt i sin helhet även om jag tror att det är ett par kombinerade boxar där. AA-bilarna förstås och antagligen något av infanteriet också.
Normalt säger jag alltid att det inte kommer nya plastvarianter av något som redan finns i plast (och det har aldrig varit fel hittills), men Space Marines är ju något av ett specialfall på grund av sin elefantastiska försäljning så det är nog inte omöjligt med nya Tacticals heller.
Ser fram emot en fin ny bok i vilket fall som helst.
Space Marine Codex
176 pages!!!!! $58
by Robin Cruddace
Cover pic is a close up Ultra Marine pointing forward into battle
War Zone: Damnos
by Phil Kelly
68pages $33
Space Marine Stalker/Hunter
$65
The three barreled Stalker and the Single large barreled Hunter
Space Marine Reclusiam Command Squad
$90
Includes Razorback 5 man command squad and a space marine chaplin
Space Marine Captain
1 model $30
Space Marine Librarian
1 model $30
Space Marine Strikeforce
39 models $220
Space Marine Centurion Devastator/ Assault Squad
3 models $78
Space Marine Tactical Squad
10 models $40
Space Marine Sternguard
5 models $50
Space Marine Vanguard
5 models $40
"Or Draigo's entry, which is also decidedly ridiculous. Not only did he walk into Tzeentch's house, but he drank all his beer, slept with his wife, and pissed on all the nice tapestries!"
"Deception is the point. Any fool can calculate strength. That one has been doing it from the moment he saw us. Now, he has to calculate what he can't see. And fear what he doesn't know."
