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.

The Imperial Fists have a special expertise in siege warfare and mass shock assaults. This is represented by the following rules:

• An Imperial Fists army may start three garrisoned formations on overwatch instead of two.
• All units count as having walker when making a dangerous terrain test for entering or starting to move on minefields that have been purchased as part of the army.
• All infantry units gain first strike when within trenches purchased as part of the army.
• All infantry units gain a 4+ save with reinforced armour when within bunkers purchased as part of the army. This replaces both their regular save and the 3+ bunker cover save. This save is lost if the unit suffers an ignore cover hit.

Bunker

Counts as Fortifications (see Terrain Effects). Can hold three units. Units in a bunker may not be barged by a war engine.

Gun Emplacement

Provides vehicles with a Cover Save that works in the same manner as an infantry cover save (see Infantry Cover Saves). Can hold one unit. Units in a gun emplacement may not be barged by a war engine.

Minefield

Enemy units with Jumps Packs or Skimmer must take dangerous tests for Minefields. Enemy units may not re-roll failed dangerous terrain tests for minefields.

Trench

Can hold one infantry unit per 4cm of length. Units in a trench may not be barged by a war engine.

Formations that are comprised completely of units with automata may only carry out marshal, overwatch and sustained fire actions. They also cannot capture objectives in the Epic tournament game rules.

Formations that include at least one unit without automata do not receive a Blast marker when a unit with automata is destroyed, this includes the extra Blast marker from the first casualty of a crossfire and for units destroyed for being out of formation after a move. Also, if an automata unit is hit by a weapon with disrupt it does not inflict a Blast marker. Finally, don’t count units with automata that are lost in an assault when working out who has won the combat.

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).