Editing Space Marine Chapter Creation Tables (section)

==Tactical and Strategic Organization==

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! d10 Result
! Chapter organisation
! Ultramarines
! Variant Base Chapter
|- 
! 1-3
| colspan="2" | Codex-adherent
| Matches progenitor
|-
! 4-5
| colspan="3" |Codex-adherent
|-
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | 6-7
| Divergent chapter
| Codex-adherent
| Divergent(progenitor)
|-
! 8
| colspan="2" | Divergent chapter
| Divergent(Codex)
|-
! 9
| Unique organisation
| Divergent chapter
| Unique(progenitor)
|-
! 10
| colspan="2" | Unique organisation
| Unique(Codex)
|}

As suggested by ''Rites of Battle'', numbers are different for Ultramarines successors; also usable for successors of the [[Hammers of Dorn]] or other painstakingly Codex-observant chapters. "Variant Base Chapter" is for chapters like the [[Space Wolves]], [[Salamanders]], or [[Dark Angels]]. ([[Blood Angels]] have organization which is nominally Codex-compliant, their deviations are all in geneseed with [[Death Company|two]] [[Sanguinary Priest|things]] designed/redesigned to deal with that and most [[Iron Hands]] successors use the Clan-Company system.) Divergent/Unique(Codex) means their organization is divergent, to a lesser or greater extent, and is closer to the Codex organization than the way their progenitor chapter structures things. Divergent/Unique(progenitor) is the reverse; they are closer to their progenitor than the Codex.
The post of Master of the Fleet is the most frequent special assignment to be given to anyone other than the nominally responsible 4th Captain, and a common Codex variant is to assign a full time marine to this and have 4th Captain as another Master of the X (most likely to be found in fleet based Chapters).
Some Chapters, especially Imperial Fists successors, have the additional post of Siege Captain, either supplementing or replacing standard Captain duties.
Dark Angels and successors must use the Deathwing and Ravenwing.


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! colspan="2" |Combat doctrine (d10)
|- 
! 1
| Close Combat
|-
! 2
| Ranged Combat
|-
! 3
| Armoured Assault
|-
! 4
| Stealth
|-
! 5
| Lightning Strike
|-
! 6
| [[Drop Pod]]
|-
! 7
| [[Thunderhawk]] Assault
|-
! 8
| Siege
|-
! 9
| Shock and Awe
|-
! 10
| Terror
|}


{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! d100 Result
! Characteristic Chapter Training
|-
! 01–10
| ''The Holy Bolter'': The chapter undertakes drill with the bolter and meditative prayer daily, and may combine the two.
|-
! 11–20
| ''Mental Bulwark'': The chapter's hypno-indoctrination is more thorough than most, leading to strong-willed if inflexible Astartes.
|-
! 21–30
| ''Warrior Angels'': Astartes of this chapter are famously skilled with both gun and sword, but sometimes lacking in more abstract skills.
|-
! 31–40
| ''Mens et Manus'': This chapter believes in building their brother's minds and bodies to peak performance, the better to be ready for anything. 
|-
! 41–50
| ''Endure Anything'': Training in this chapter emphasizes the need for any squad to be ready to endure any trials they find themselves in. They produce tough, durable brothers with diverse specialties.
|-
! 51–60 
| ''Duty Unto Death'': Astartes of this chapter will readily take on missions others see as suicidal, and soldier through any pain they encounter on the way.
|-
! 61–70 
| ''Shatter the Foe'': This chapter considers the best way to combat the enemy to be fast, powerful strikes which demoralize enemies and inspire allies.
|-
! 71–80 
| ''Scholar-Knights'': All Astartes of this chapter are expected to be well-read and treat gathering intelligence as a duty of equal importance to direct destruction of the foe.
|-
! 81–90 
| ''Shepherd-Marshals'': The chaplain's arts are spread well beyond the reclusiam in this chapter, and its brothers inspire those they fight alongside with their stirring rhetoric and skill with the blade.
|-
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | 91-100
| ''All Paths to Victory'': This chapter encourages an unusual degree of freedom in its training, with a result of very diverse skillsets and aptitudes among its astartes.
|}