
- BGG rank
- BGG #9,327
- BGG rating
- 8.1
Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars
- 1–4 players
- 60–120 min
- Complexity 2.3/5
- 2024

Expansion for Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition)
2024
Rules assistance for Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition): Codex – Chaos Space Marines
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Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition): Codex – Chaos Space Marines is an expansion for Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition) released in 2024 for 2 players. Its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Dice Rolling, and Measurement Movement.
Chaos Space Marines are genetically augmented transhumans who seek only to conquer, slaughter, and despoil. Clad in baroque power armour bedecked in macabre trophies and infernal iconography, Chaos Space Marines do battle alongside growling battle tanks, monstrous Daemon Engines, and thronging masses of cultist thralls. Some are possessed by daemonic allies, others bear Chaos-tainted artefacts or wield warp sorcery. No matter what form they take, they pursue their Long War with pitiless brutality, slaughtering any who stand in their path in an ever-escalating campaign of vengeance, conquest and apocalyptic violence. Codex: Chaos Space Marines is an essential tome for building and painting a collection of Heretic Astartes, and using them in games of Warhammer 40,000. Inside this book you'll find an infernal hoard of inspirational background material and art to inspire you, along with rules for waging your own galactic war with narrative Crusade campaigns, skirmish-sized Combat Patrol games, and plenty of rules for matched play games. This grimoire is also packed with photography to evoke the horror of facing down this terrible foe, as well as more detailed examples of single miniatures. Inside this 160-page hardback book, you'll find: Background material about the many hosts of Chaos Space Marines, including some of the most notorious warlords of the Black Legion Macabre artwork revealing the horrible truth of these infernal soldiers at war, including their daemonic allies and insane, gibbering cultists 48 datasheets detailing each unit, including their wargear, profiles, and unique abilities, from nightmare Spawn to immortal Daemon Princes A massive eight themed Detachments, each with their own detachments rules, Enhancements and Stratagems Crusade rules to lead your warband on a furious campaign to seek the favour of the Dark Gods Combat Patrol rules to use Zarkan’s Daemonkin in fast-paced skirmish games An ‘Easy Metal showcase of stunning Citadel miniatures from the incredible Chaos Space Marines range
Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition): Codex – Chaos Space Marines supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition): Codex – Chaos Space Marines belongs to these categories: Wargame, Miniatures, and Science Fiction. Its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Dice Rolling, and Measurement Movement. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The catalogue lists Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition): Codex – Chaos Space Marines as an expansion for Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition). Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition) to use it. Check that your edition of Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition) is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.