Let’s not mess about – even if this is your very first step into Warhammer, you probably already know a bit about the Space Marines. Here’s our comprehensive guide to the Space Marine legions, chapters, tabletop tactics, codex, and lore. Arguably Games Workshop’s most successful creation, the power-armoured, Imperium-protecting super-soldiers of the Adeptus Astartes are not only Warhammer 40k’s best known characters they’re also at the centre of some of its best storytelling, and a perpetual favourite tabletop army.

Warhammer 40k’s Space Marines are undoubtedly the veteran sci-fi wargame’s most famous, popular, and prominent army.