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All space marine codexes will be made obsolete, and all space marine players will be required to by the new Space Marines Codex, which will be twice as large as the rulebook, but with half as much fluff or rules. The majority of the book will be a collection of every rogue trader era artwork made and falsified battle reports, coupled with random pictures of Matt Ward dressed as an ultramarine.

All non-ultramarine characters will have their rules replaced with the ultramarine characters rules, plus one chapter specific rule.

All space marine squads start at 4 points per model, but they have to buy all of their weapons, armor and grenades, which determine which FOC slot they take up. All models except two and the sergeant will have to have the same gear. The sergeant will have a close combat weapon and pistol regardless of what you wanted him to have. Space marines can now be squads of up to thirty marines.

The space marines will receive two new flyers. One will have four twin linked las cannons with armor 12, while another will have a S6 AP3 Assault 2 flame template with the torrent special rule and a 5+ invulnerable save, also armor 12.

For a slight 40% price increase, thunderfire siege cannons will be made in plastic. Additionally, there will be a new artillery piece, the Spacemarine Cannon, which unlike normal artillery is T8. It will feature multiple firing modes, none of which will be useful at killing other space marines.

Players will not choose which chapter their marines are from. Instead, they will roll for it on 3d6 after choosing warlord traits, with 10 being ultramarines, and 19 being Black Templars. Players will need to have a different space marine army ready for each potential roll.

In addition to gaining thunderwolf cavalry from the Space Wolf codex, space marines will be able to take horses into combat. The horses will wear power armor.

Additionally, one new chapter will be revealed. The Ultra-ultramarines. They live on a planet called Ultra-Ultramar, which is an ocean world where the ocean happens to be ultramarine. They will be superior to all other chapters in every way, and feature their own unique space marine models that people will have to buy if they want to use them.