When you start adding these stratagems with abilities from the Space Marine book and Faith and Fury, you get a lot of strong combinations that push the damage potential of units to another level.Įxample: here is a damage profile of ten Intercessors with Bolt Rifles using Rapid fire in any other codex vs. Stand your ground: +1 Save against Damage 1 weaponsīorn Protectors: In short, when one unit gets picked to charge, this unit gets to overwatch. Rise from the Ashes: Bring a character back from the dead after it’s been destroyed. The first unit can’t get picked as a target until the other unit is dead. Self-Sacrifice: Pick a unit and then select another Salamander unit. Strength of the Primarch: Use in fight phase, add +1 Strength, 6’s is double dmg. Let’s go over the basic ones that create a core toolkit for the army.Ĭrucible of Battle: Shooting or fight phase, add plus 1 to wound. The Stratagems within the codex provide great value. The basic Chapter Tactic of Master of Artisans and ignore ap -1 has a lot of value in the current meta Strong combinations with the Marine codex and psychic powers

Skip to today, and with all this downtime we have had, I’ve discovered a hidden gem a lot of people have forgotten about: Salamanders. Fast forward to LVO Raven Guard and Iron Hands were dominating the scene, and no one bothered to look at the other books afterward because so much time has passed, and Iron Hands were dominating the scene. That directed a lot of focus in the competitive community to create lists around Iron Hands, as they were the top contenders.

On top of that, the final big tournament at the end of the year was Pro Tabletop in Atlanta. Near the end of 2019, Marines were coming out, and one of the last books was Salamanders.

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