Talk:Codex Astartes

Weakness of the Codex? Theory
I was re-reading the Ultramarines novels the earlier, and I started to think about the Codex Astartes. Surely it is a bad idea to publish the entire battle tactics of the Chapter, and many other Chapters, in one book? A rebel commander, or a Renegade Company, would have full knowledge of the tactics used by Codex Chapters, and would therefore find other Space Marines easier to beat, because they know the battle plans the Chapters adhere to. This is clearly a glaring weakness in the idea of the Codex Astartes as being "the rules, that you can't break". I think they should be (to quote Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean) more like guidelines, than actual rules. Eggy2504 (Talk) 18:10, 29 September, 2011