From the master rumor mongers at Bell of Lost Souls
Marneus Calgar
First off, Marneus Calgar is described as awesome; the Abaddon of loyalists. Not simply because he’s an outstanding fighter but because of the support he provides for his army. He gives all Ultramarines the ability to pass or fail any Leadership test (other reports say morale checks). This is a superior ability to Combat Tactics as that only works in CC and the marines can normally only choose to fail.
Marneus also has a rule called “God of War” which allows him to re-roll virtually anything (shooting to hit rolls, attacks rolls in assualt, to wound rolls). It is basically the psychic power Warp Time, but is always on and works with Marneus’ shooting. His storm bolter built into the Gauntlets of Ultramar is AP2. Marneus had 4 base attacks on his statline and is armed with two powerfists. ~you do the math
Calgar possesses Eternal Warrior without any mention of a mantle. Power armour is apparently no longer an option for him, but his “Honour Guard” are still in power armor. Finally, he’s wearing his Terminator armour with an additional 4+ invulnerable save.
Honor Guard Vs Command Squads
There is a bit of confusion regarding these units so here are some other morsels we’ve heard. Honour Guard and Command Squads are two different things. Only “Chapter Masters” can get Honour Guard and they cannot take apothecaries (so no Honor Guard-Feel No Pain combos). Command Squads are available for company captains. The leader of the Command Squad is the company champion who gets to re-roll all hits against enemy ICs.
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I do believe Marneus shites allover any bad guy HQ, cept maybe Abbadon or the C’tan.
BUT:
He can still choose to wear articfer armour and an iron halo (Sv 2, inv sv 4)
Or
termie armour but nor iron halo (sv2 inv 5)
BUT!
he forfeits deep strike if he joins a command squad with power armour
id have to say tho, Honour Guyard is ultimo awesome,
power armour( Champ and Ancient have articifer armour), krak n frags, power wpn
All for thirty points for a basic honour guard….Neat
Honour Guard anyday over command squad.
Fluff-wise, GW need to get Calgar and Abbadon together. That is something i want to see, having already seen the following ‘match ups’ at my local club:
Ctan v Bloodthirster win for BT
Carnifex vs Defiler win for carnifex