Space Marine Elite Strike Force …

 Space Marine Elite Strike Force                                               Points: 75 + models
   There are times when the tactical and ranged skills        will unrelentlessly assault and pursue their target.
   of the Space Marines are not sufficient at taking out     Anyone foolish enough to stand between them and
   a target. Most often this will be the case when the       their intended target will feel the full brunt of a battle-
   enemy is fiercely protecting their commanders or          brother's might in combat. Though fast moving a
   holding on to well prepared defences. Long range          force like this often still carries with it heavy assault
   bombardments may simply not be viable or the              weaponry, using flamers and meltaguns to
   designated target may be worth more alive than            devastating effect. Elite Strike Forces have both
   dead. In these cases Space Marines will rely on an        been used on foot and mounted in fast transport
   Elite Strike Force to lead the charge. A small            vehicles like the rhino. On rare occasion the force
   number of tactical squads will replace Boltguns with      even uses the more heavily armed razorback,
   close combat weapons. Striking with both surgical         delivering both a crushing assault and the firepower
   precision and devastating force the Space Marines         to support it deep into the enemy's lines.




                                                             FORMATION RULES
FORMATION:                                                   Strike hard, strike decisively:
The formation consists of 20-40 Space Marines at their       Pursuing their target the unit cuts its way through swaths of
normal Codex cost, divided into squads of 5 to 10 Marines.   enemies, no man or Xenos can stand before the might of the
                                                             Imperium's strongest warriors
OPTIONS: May replace their Bolters for a Close Combat
         Weapon & Boltpistol combination for free.           The Space Marines of this formation all count as having
                                                             Terminator Honours and must move towards the designated
          All unit options from the Codex are available to   Target Unit (see below) and attack it if at all possible until it is
          each squad. However, if one squad from the         destroyed (or forcefully captured), at which point the bonus
          Elite Strike Force takes a transport the entire    ceases to exist. Other units may be attacked, providing that
          formation needs to be mounted in transport         doing so still moves the squads closer to their objective.
          vehicles. A mixture of rhinos and razorbacks is
          allowed, though no more than half (rounding        No plan without fault:
          down) of the formation's razorbacks may take       A sudden increase in close combat Space Marines certainly
          lascannon upgrades. For transport costs and        does not go unnoticed amongst the enemy and their leaders.
          upgrades see Codex: Space Marines.
                                                             The formation's Target Unit must be chosen at the start of the
                                                             game and written down of a piece of paper that is kept out of
                                                             sight of your opponent(s). It must be revealed at the start of
                                                             the first turn on 6+, 5+ in the second turn and so on, this is
                                                             naturally not necessary if the Target Unit is killed earlier.
              Written by ­ Indra