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Codex Astartes Space Marine Army List

The Codex Astartes is the holy tome of these loyal Battle Brothers. The wisdom of the ancients is both scripture and the unbending rod by which they are measured. In war, they are fierce and as steadfast as those of old who stood beside the Emperor and broke the Legions of Horus. In faith and valour they are unmatched. The torches of their chapels burn bright with flames whose holy fire has shone upon an unchanging brotherhood for a hundred centuries. In their lives and in war, the Codex Astartes is their guide.

Forces

The Codex Astartes Space Marine Army List uses the datasheets from the Space Marine Forces section, the Imperial Navy Forces section, and the Titan Legion Forces section.

Using The Army List

The following army list allows you to field an army based on one of the Space Marine Chapters that closely follows the teachings of the Codex Astartes. It can also be used as a stand in army list for other Space Marine Chapters that do not follow the Codex Astartes, such as the Blood Angels, Dark Angels and Space Wolves.

Space Marines are organised into small formations called detachments. Each detachment is made up of one or more units, and may also include a number of extra units called upgrades.

The detachments that may be taken in a Codex Astartes army are shown on the chart that follows. The chart also shows what units comprise the detachment, what upgrades are allowed, and its points cost. For example, an Assault detachment consists of four Space Marine Assault units for 175 points, and may include the Commander and Vindicator upgrades at an additional cost in points.

Each upgrade that is taken adds to the cost of the detachment, as shown on the upgrade chart. The upgrade chart also lists the units that make up the upgrade. Note that these will sometimes replace units in the detachment they are taken for, and sometimes takes the form of additional units for the detachment. Each upgrade may be taken once per formation. For example, an Assault detachment could include one Commander and one Vindicator. If both were taken it would cost 175 + 50 +75 = 300 points.

Codex Astartes armies may be supported by Imperial Navy aircraft, Titan Legion battlegroup and Codex Astartes aircraft formations. A maximum of up to a third of the points available to the army may be spent on these formations.

Special Rules

The They Shall Know No Fear rule applies to all Codex Astartes detachment formations (see They Shall Know No Fear).

Space Marine Transports

The Space Marines are a highly mobile army. Because of this, the points cost of a detachment usually includes enough Rhino transport vehicles to transport it and any upgrades that have been taken. Determine the number of Rhinos needed after all upgrades have been purchased. The number of Rhinos will always be the minimum needed to carry the formation, you can’t take extras along to cover any losses!

Note that many formations don’t receive Rhinos, usually because they can’t fit into them. Detachments that come with Rhinos will be noted as having plus transport in the units section of the army list opposite.

Also note that you don’t have to take Rhinos if you don’t want to. If you’d rather field the formation on foot instead, so it can act as a garrison for example, or be transported in a Thunderhawk Gunship, then you may do so.

In addition, you may choose to replace a detachment’s Rhinos with Drop Pods. If you do this then the detachment will enter play in a Drop Pod using the rules for Planetfall (see Planetfall). Note that if you choose to do this you will also require at least one Space Marine Strike Cruiser or Battle Barge to deploy the drop pods from.

Before each game, after the opposing army is known but before objectives are placed, the Space Marine player may choose which formations with the plus transport aspect are deployed in Rhinos, Drop Pods or on foot. If the formation has any units unable to deploy in Drop Pods then that option cannot be selected.

Codex Astartes Space Marine Army List

Codex Astartes Space Marine armies have a strategy rating of 5. Imperial Navy aircraft formations have an initiative rating of 2+. All other formations have an initiative rating of 1+.

Space Marine Detachments
Formation Units Upgrades Cost
Assault Four Assault units Commander, Vindicators 175 points
Bike Any five of the following units: Attack Bike, Bike Commander 200 points
Devastator Four Devastator units plus transport Commander, Dreadnoughts, Hunter, Land Raiders, Razorbacks 250 points
Land Raider Four Land Raiders Commander, Hunter, Vindicators 325 points
Land Speeder Any five of the following units: Land Speeder, Land Speeder Tornado Commander, Typhoons 200 points
Landing Craft One Landing Craft None 350 points
Predator Any four of the following units: Predator Annihilator, Predator Destructor Commander, Hunter, Vindicators 250 points
Scout Four Scout units plus transport Commander, Razorbacks, Snipers 150 points
0–1 Strike Cruiser One Strike Cruiser Battle Barge 200 points
Tactical Six Tactical units plus transport Commander, Dreadnoughts, Hunter, Land Raiders, Razorbacks, Vindicators 275 points
Terminator Four Terminator units Commander, Dreadnoughts, Land Raiders, Vindicators 350 points
Vindicator Four Vindicators Commander, Hunter 225 points
Whirlwind Four Whirlwinds Commander, Hunter 275 points
Space Marine Upgrades
(Each upgrade may be taken once per detachment.)
Upgrade Units Cost
Battle Barge Replace the Strike Cruiser with a Battle Barge +150 points
Commander Add any one of the following characters to any unit in the formation: Captain, Chaplain, Librarian +50 points
0–1 Supreme Commander per army +100 points
Dreadnoughts Add up to two Dreadnoughts +50 points each
Hunter Add one Hunter +75 points
Land Raiders Add up to four Land Raiders +75 points each
+125 points per pair
Razorbacks Add any number of Razorbacks, up to the number required to transport the formation +25 points each
Snipers Give up to four Scout units Sniper +10 points each
Typhoons Replace up to five Land Speeders with an equal number of Land Speeder Typhoons +10 points each
Vindicators Add up to two Vindicators +50 points each
+75 points per pair
Imperial Ally and Space Marine Aircraft Formations
(Up to a third of the points available may be spent on these formations.)
Imperial Navy Aircraft
Formation Units Cost
Marauder Squadron Two Marauder Bombers 250 points
Thunderbolt Squadron Two Thunderbolt Fighters 175 points
Titan Legion Battlegroups
Formation Units Cost
Reaver One Reaver Class Titan 650 points
Warhound One Warhound Class Titan 275 points
Warhound Pack Two Warhound Class Titans 500 points
Warlord One Warlord Class Titan 825 points
Space Marine Aircraft
Formation Units Cost
Thunderhawk Gunship One Thunderhawk Gunship 200 points

Space Marine Forces

Captain CH n/a n/a n/a n/a
Power Weapon (bc)
Assault Weapons
  • EA(+1)
  • MW
  • Commander
  • Invulnerable Save
  • Leader
Chaplain CH n/a n/a n/a n/a
Power Weapon (bc)
Assault Weapons
  • EA(+1)
  • MW
  • Inspiring
  • Invulnerable Save
  • Leader
Librarian CH n/a n/a n/a n/a
Smite (15cm)
Small Arms
  • EA(+1)
  • MW
Power Weapon (bc)
Assault Weapons
  • EA(+1)
  • MW
  • Invulnerable Save
  • Leader
Supreme Commander CH n/a n/a n/a n/a
Power Weapon (bc)
Assault Weapons
  • EA(+1)
  • MW
  • Invulnerable Save
  • Supreme Commander
Assault INF 30cm 4+ 3+ 5+
Bolt Pistols (15cm)
Small Arms
  • Jump Packs
Bike INF 35cm 4+ 3+ 4+
Twin Bolters (15cm)
Small Arms
  • Mounted
Devastator INF 15cm 4+ 5+ 3+
2× Missile Launcher 45cm
AP5+/AT6+
Scout INF 15cm 5+ 4+ 5+
Heavy Bolter 30cm
AP5+
  • Infiltrator
  • Scout
Tactical INF 15cm 4+ 4+ 4+
Missile Launcher 45cm
AP5+/AT6+
Terminator INF 15cm 4+ 3+ 3+
2× Assault Cannon 30cm
AP5+/AT5+
Power Weapons (bc)
Assault Weapons
  • EA(+1)
  • MW
  • Reinforced Armour
  • Teleport
  • Thick Rear Armour
Attack Bike LV 35cm 4+ 5+ 5+
Heavy Bolter 30cm
AP5+
Land Speeder LV 35cm 4+ 6+ 5+
Multi-melta 15cm
MW5+
and (15cm)
Small Arms
  • MW
  • Scout
  • Skimmer
Land Speeder Tornado LV 35cm 4+ 6+ 5+
Assault Cannon 30cm
AP5+/AT5+
Heavy Bolter 30cm
AP5+
  • Scout
  • Skimmer
Land Speeder Typhoon LV 35cm 4+ 6+ 5+
Twin Typhoon Missile 45cm
AP3+/AT5+
Heavy Bolter 30cm
AP5+
  • Scout
  • Skimmer
Dreadnought AV 15cm 3+ 4+ 4+
0–1× Missile Launcher 45cm
AP5+/AT6+
0–1× Twin Lascannon 45cm
AT4+
0–1× Assault Cannon 30cm
AP5+/AT5+
0–1× Power Fist (bc)
Assault Weapons
  • EA(+1)
  • MW
  • Walker

Armed with either a Missile Launcher and Twin Lascannon, or an Assault Cannon and Power Fist.

Hunter AV 30cm 5+ 6+ 6+
Hunter-Killer 60cm
AT4+/AA4+
Land Raider AV 25cm 4+ 6+ 4+
2× Twin Lascannon 45cm
AT4+
Twin Heavy Bolter 30cm
AP4+
  • Reinforced Armour
  • Thick Rear Armour
  • Transport

May transport one Terminator unit or two infantry units without Jump Packs or Mounted.

Predator Annihilator AV 30cm 4+ 6+ 5+
Twin Lascannon 45cm
AT4+
2× Lascannon 45cm
AT5+
Predator Destructor AV 30cm 4+ 6+ 3+
Autocannon 45cm
AP5+/AT6+
2× Heavy Bolter 30cm
AP5+
Razorback AV 30cm 5+ 6+ 5+
(4+)
0–1× Twin Lascannon 45cm
AT4+
0–1× Twin Heavy Bolter 30cm
AP4+
  • Transport

May transport one infantry unit (except a Terminator unit) without Jump Packs or Mounted. Armed with either a Twin Lascannon or a Twin Heavy Bolter. Razorbacks armed with a Twin Heavy Bolter have their firefight value increased to 4+.

Rhino AV 30cm 5+ 6+ 6+
Storm Bolter (15cm)
Small Arms
  • Transport

May transport two infantry units (except Terminator units) without Jump Packs or Mounted.

Vindicator AV 25cm 4+ 6+ 4+
Demolisher 30cm
AP3+/AT4+
  • IC
  • Walker
Whirlwind AV 30cm 5+ 6+ 5+
Whirlwind 45cm
1BP
  • Ind
Landing Craft AC/WE Bomber 4+ 5+ 3+
2× Twin Lascannon 45cm
AT4+
3× Twin Heavy Bolter 15cm
AP4+/AA5+
  • Damage Capacity 4
  • Fearless
  • Planetfall
  • Reinforced Armour
  • Transport

May transport twelve infantry units, Attack Bikes or Dreadnoughts; Terminator units and Dreadnoughts count as two units each; plus any six armoured vehicle units (except Dreadnoughts); Land Raiders count as one and a half units each, rounding up. Critical Hit Effect: The unit and all units being carried are destroyed. All units within 5cm suffer a hit.

Thunderhawk Gunship AC/WE Bomber 4+ 6+ 4+
Battle Cannon 75cm
AP4+/AT4+
  • FxF
2× Twin Heavy Bolter 30cm
AP4+/AA5+
  • FxF
Twin Heavy Bolter 15cm
AP4+/AA5+
  • Left
Twin Heavy Bolter 15cm
AP4+/AA5+
  • Right
  • Damage Capacity 2
  • Planetfall
  • Reinforced Armour
  • Transport

May transport eight infantry units, Attack Bikes or Dreadnoughts; Terminator units and Dreadnoughts count as two units each. Critical Hit Effect: The unit and all units being carried are destroyed.

Battle Barge SC n/a n/a n/a n/a
Orbital Bombardment n/a
14BP
  • MW
  • Slow and Steady
  • Transport

May transport 60 infantry units, Attack Bikes, or Dreadnoughts; plus 60 armoured vehicle units (except Dreadnoughts); plus nine Thunderhawk Gunships and enough Drop Pods or Landing Craft to transport any other units being carried.

Strike Cruiser SC n/a n/a n/a n/a
Orbital Bombardment n/a
5BP
  • MW
  • Transport

May transport 20 infantry units, Attack Bikes, or Dreadnoughts; plus 20 light vehicles or armoured vehicle units (except Attack Bikes and Dreadnoughts); plus six Thunderhawk Gunships and enough Drop Pods or Landing Craft to transport any other units being carried.

Drop Pod Special n/a n/a n/a n/a
Deathwind 15cm
AP5+/AT5+
  • Planetfall
  • Transport

May transport one formation of only infantry units without Jump Packs, Mounted, Reinforced Armour or Scout, or Dreadnoughts. After the drop pod lands, its Deathwind attacks all enemy units within 15cm. Each enemy formation attacked receives a Blast marker for coming under fire, and an extra Blast marker for each casualty. Then any troops carried in the drop pod must disembark within 5cm of the drop pod or within 5cm of another unit from the same formation that has already landed, so long as all units are placed within 15cm of the drop pod. Drop pod models should be removed from the board once the formation they transport has disembarked.

They Shall Know No Fear

Space Marines are renowned for their tenacity and bravery. This is represented by the following rules:

  • It takes 2 Blast markers to suppress a Space Marine unit or kill a unit in a broken formation (ignore any leftover Blast markers).
  • Space Marine formations are only broken if they have 2 Blast markers per unit in the formation.
  • Space Marines formations only count half their number of Blaster markers in assault resolution (rounding down—note that assault resolution will not receive +1 for having no Blast markers if the formation has 1 Blast marker before rounding down). Halve the number of extra hits suffered by a Space Marine formation that loses an assault, rounding down in favour of the Space Marines.
  • When a broken Space Marine formation rallies, it receives a number of Blast markers equal to the number of units, rather than half this number. Space Marines with the Leader special ability remove 2 Blast markers instead of 1.

Imperial Navy Forces

Marauder Bomber AC Bomber 4+ n/a n/a
Twin Lascannon 45cm
AT4+/AA4+
  • FxF
Bomb Racks 15cm
3BP
  • FxF
2× Twin Heavy Bolter 15cm
AA5+
Thunderbolt Fighter AC Fighter-Bomber 6+ n/a n/a
Multilaser 30cm
AP5+/AT6+/AA5+
  • FxF
Underwing Rockets 30cm
AT4+
  • FxF
Storm Bolters 15cm
AP4+/AA5+
  • FxF
Emperor Class Battleship SC n/a n/a n/a n/a
Orbital Bombardment n/a
8BP
  • MW
  • Slow and Steady
Lunar Class Cruiser SC n/a n/a n/a n/a
Orbital Bombardment n/a
3BP
  • MW
Pin-Point Attack n/a
MW2+
  • TK(D3)

Titan Legion Forces

Reaver Class Titan WE 20cm 4+ 3+ 3+
2× Turbo-Laser Destructor 60cm
4× AP5+/AT3+
  • FwA
Rocket Launcher 60cm
3BP
  • FxF
  • Damage Capacity 6
  • Fearless
  • Reinforced Armour
  • 4 Void Shields
  • Walker

May step over units and pieces of terrain that that are lower lower than the unit’s knees and less than 2cm wide. Critical Hit Effect: The unit’s plasma reactor has been breached. Roll a D6 for each breach on the unit in the end phase of each turn. On a roll of 1 the unit is destroyed and all units within 5cm suffer a hit on a roll of 5+, and on a roll of 4–6 the breach has been repaired. Any breach not repaired causes one point of damage.

Warhound Class Titan WE 30cm 5+ 4+ 4+
Plasma Blastgun 45cm
2× MW2+
  • FwA
  • Slw
Vulcan Mega-Bolter 45cm
4× AP3+/AT5+
  • FwA
  • Damage Capacity 3
  • Fearless
  • Reinforced Armour
  • 2 Void Shields
  • Walker

May step over units and pieces of terrain that that are lower lower than the unit’s knees and less than 2cm wide. Critical Hit Effect: The unit takes a point of damage and is moved D6cm in a random direction. If this move takes the titan into impassable terrain or another unit it can’t move over then it stops immediately and is destroyed. All units it moves into or over suffer a hit on a roll of 6+.

Warlord Class Titan WE 15cm 4+ 2+ 3+
Volcano Cannon 90cm
MW2+
  • FwA
  • TK(D3)
Gatling Blaster 60cm
4× AP4+/AT4+
  • FwA
2× Turbo-Laser Destructor 60cm
4× AP5+/AT3+
  • FxF
  • Damage Capacity 8
  • Fearless
  • Reinforced Armour
  • Thick Rear Armour
  • 6 Void Shields
  • Walker

May step over units and pieces of terrain that that are lower lower than the unit’s knees and less than 2cm wide. Critical Hit Effect: The unit’s plasma reactor has been breached. Roll a D6 for each breach on the unit in the end phase of each turn. On a roll of 1 the unit is destroyed and all units within 5cm suffer a hit on a roll of 4+, and on a roll of 4–6 the breach has been repaired. Any breach not repaired causes one point of damage.

Imperial Void Shields

Imperial Titans are protected by void shield generators. The number of void shields each Titan has is noted on the Titan’s datasheet.

Each void shield will automatically stop one point of damage and then go down. Do not make armour saves for damage stopped by void shields, nor allocate Blast markers. Once all of the shields have been knocked down, the Titan may be damaged normally and you may make saving throws against any hits that are scored. Hits from close combat ignore void shields but units using their firefight values must first knock down any shields before they can damage the Titan.

Void shields that have been knocked down can be repaired. Each Titan can repair one downed void shield in the end phase of each turn. In addition, if a Titan regroups it can use the dice roll to either repair the void shield or remove Blast markers (e.g., if you rolled a 2 you could repair 2 shields, remove 2 Blast markers or repair 1 shield and remove 1 Blast marker).

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