Space Marine

Com Guards Warship [sic] Fleet Marine
Type
Platoon Type (Specialty)	Foot (Marine)
Platoon Size (Squad/Platoon)	24 (6/4)
Technical specifications
Primary Weapon	24 Sunbeam Laser Pistols
Secondary Weapon	4 Blazer Rifles
Armor	Environment Suit, Marine
Tech Base/Rating	Inner Sphere (D/X-F-D)
Transport Weight	3 tons
Ground MP	1
Jump MP	0
Armor Divisor	2
To-Hit Modifier (Range in Hexes)	–2 (0 Hex), 0 (1 Hex), +2 (2 Hexes), +4 (3 hexes)
BV (1.0)	121

Description

Space Marines are infantry specially trained to fight in both normal and zero-gravity environments. While most ships have their own Marine contingents, the largest of these was for many years unheard-of. Working in secrecy for decades on WarShips that were unknown to the entire Inner Sphere, the Com Guard Warship Fleet Marines developed many skills in close quarter combat for fighting aboard space vessels. These skills came in handy during the Jihad, as many fleet battles often degenerated into boarding actions.

Armament

A Marine in a Combat Environment Suit carrying a C8 demolition block

The primary armament of Com Guard Marines is the Sunbeam Laser Pistol, their short range working favourably in tight quarters. For additional firepower these Marines are armed with Blazer Rifles.

Other weaponry and equipment known to have been used by Comstar's marines and/or various other space based marine forces and elements (including mercenary units) throughout human space include:

• Respirator
• Filter and Humidifier Masks
• Hostile Environment Suit
• Light Environment Suit
• Marine Combat Environment Suit
• Elemental armor [space variant]) (Elemental Marines of the various clans. Often organised as Binaries, or more rarely as Stars)
• NL-45 Gunboat (small boarding craft used by the Elemental Marines of some Clans. Generally are used to convey a Point of Battle Armor, i.e. five Battle Armoured Elementals, to a target ship or station)
• G12 / G13 Tornado Light Power Armor (Blakist marines)
• Combat Space Suit
• Skinsuits, such as the Asuncion Escape Suit
• Gripper Gloves
• Armored Gloves
• Exoskeletons
• Needler Pistol
• Needler Rifle
• Gyrojet Rifle (generally restricted to planetside usage for obvious reasons)
• Automatic Shotgun
• Combat Shotgun
• Demolition kit
• Grenades and specialist munitons of various types. Examples include;
  • Minigrenades
  • Rocket-Assisted Grenades
  • C8 Blasting Block
  • Pentaglycerine
• Grenade Launcher
• Riot Shield
• Ballistic Plate Armor
• Flak Armor / Ablative/Flak Armor (most commonly used for planetside or stationside operations)
• Military Microcommunicator
• Field Communicator
• Advanced Field Comm Kit (usually used for planetside operations and the like)
• Long-Range Communications Kit (as above and used alongside the AFCK, albeit normally in larger scale operations)

Alpha Strike

This is a direct link to the MUL page for the Alpha Strike card:

• Com Guards Warship Fleet Marine

Bibliography

• Tactical Operations
• Technical Readout: 3085