Greetings, fellow crybaby devilmen! Today, I’m starting a new series of posts looking at stratagems. They are an integral part of 8th edition, and while there are mountains of garbage stratagems, there is also a significant amount that can seriously throw you for a loop if you are not prepared to deal with them. This series aims to identify those key stratagems that a competitive player simply MUST know in order to be effective, and provides suggestions on how to counter/minimize their effect.

And with that, let’s start with the Space Marines’ stratagems.