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Alternative Space Marine Perks

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Each of the six Marine classes can exchange its usual perk for one of two alternatives. The choices reshape battlefield roles: Tactical Marines can spread their scan or combine attacks, Vanguards exploit grapnel assaults, Assault Marines improve dodging, Bulwarks cross hostile squares or intercept attacks, Heavies enhance firepower and Snipers counter cover or slow targets.

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RulesWD 521 · pp. 4–7

Deadly Encounters: Tomb Worlds

Optional narrative rules turn Killzone: Tomb World into an unpredictable Necron complex. Unexplored rooms acquire persistent environmental effects when first entered or opened, while objectives reveal their own mechanisms when first contested or controlled. Separate instructions adapt the same discoveries to head-to-head games or solo and cooperative missions without letting non-player operatives prematurely reveal the surprises.

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RulesWD 521 · p. 6

Tomb World Room Features

Collapsed ceilings, darkness, corrosive leaks and energy ruptures make the safest route through a tomb difficult to predict. Other results interfere with specialised actions, alter activation order or exchange movement speed for melee strength. The room table remains relevant after discovery, rewarding players who reconsider positioning rather than merely treating an opened door as cleared terrain.

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RulesWD 521 · p. 7

Tomb World Objective Features

Objective devices range from defensive shields and dangerous Tesla equipment to teleportation links, command resources and temporal manipulation. Others improve close-combat lethality, offer a last chance at survival or let an operative overcharge a weapon. Because a carried objective retains its feature, the rules can transform both a location and the operative transporting it.

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