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Create a Chapter

November 2004·pp. 72–77

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A heraldry-led checklist builds a Space Marine Chapter through armour colours, name and emblem before turning to company and squad markings. Contrasting colours and several ways to divide armour provide a starting vocabulary, while Codex and non-Codex examples show how organisational identity can remain legible within an original design.

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