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| [[Image:Space_Marine_Scouts.jpg|right]] | | #REDIRECT [[Scout Squad]] |
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| In [[Space Marine]] Chapters that follow the [[Codex Astartes]], '''Scouts''' are Space Marines in training. They have not yet gained the Black Carapace, the [[gene-seed]] organ that allows a Marine to interface with his [[power armour]]. They are usually organized into squads in the Tenth Company, and are [[Reasonable Marines|the only Marines that regularly wield sniper rifles or use camouflage]] (although, in some Chapters and the [[Deathwatch]], full Marines do use both). Fittingly, the [[Raven Guard]] use a lot of Scouts, since their combat doctrine centers around infiltration and sabotage. Once he serves about ten years as a Scout, the Space Marine receives his Black Carapace and power armour, and is sent off to the [[Devastator Squad]]s.
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| They are led by a Sergeant, who is usually a member of a [[Tactical Squad]] that chooses to impart his wisdom to a younger generation, but may also be a Veteran Scout who refused the opportunity to become a full-fledged Space Marine. In the case of the [[Blood Ravens]], they are led by [[Steve Blum]] voicing an angsty, ineffectual dork, who he hopes one day to teach all the Blood Ravens to be angsty, ineffectual dorks. His most important lesson is to go out of the way to point out problems and question every solution as if it was the most inexperienced idea you've ever heard.
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| Also, if you even say the word [[Meme|"bonk"]] within a hundred feet of an [[Angry Marine]] Scout with a Power Bat, he will beat you so hard you won't know which end of your sternum you're looking through.
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| Back in the times of the Great Crusade however, the Space Marine Legions didn't have Scouts at all. Instead they had the even better Legion Reconnaissance Squads. Instead of being made out of simple Neophytes that were to experience their tour of actual combat, Legion Reconnaissance Squads were made out of experts at reconnaissance, intel gathering, guerilla warfare, assassinations and sabotage. If they were fighting along their brethren on the battlefield, then they'd become flankers and wreck havoc and confusion among the enemy's ranks.
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| == A history of stat lines ==
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| Placeholder text for 5th edition and earlier history
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| By 6th edition, all scouts/claws had space marine muscles, but had the finesse of a guardsman. When the Space Wolf and Blood Angel codices continued the tread, everyone expected this to hold through the edition. Then the Space Marine Codex dropped.
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| At no point increase on anything, scouts and anything scout related got WS/BS 4. The Dark Angel codex droped as well with the same stat line boost as the Space Marine codex, and free access to Grim Resolve (i.e. Chapter Tactics for Dark Angels)
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| As of current with all 7th edition codex released, half of the Adeptus Astartes books have junior Marines with WS/BS 4. This may be fair for Space Wolves, because blood and sky claws get Rage, but it makes Blood Angel Scouts weaker at gun play compared to DA/SM scouts.
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| == I Can't Believe It's Not A Scout™ ==
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| Though using Neophytes as Scouts was established when the [[Emperor]] formed the [[Legiones Astartes]], not all [[Chapter]]s utilize them as Scouts:
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| *'''[[Space Wolves]] Wolf Scout:''' Scouts in the Space Wolves are bitter, experienced veterans taken from the Grey Hunters (the Space Wolves equivalent of the Tactical Marines); most of them are introverts that find it hard to fit in with the rest of the (incredibly gregarious) Space Wolves and prefer to operate more-or-less alone. New recruits are put in [[Blood Claws|Blood Claw squads]] instead.
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| *'''[[Black Templars]] Neophytes:''' The Black Templars are too cool to use Scouts. Instead, when an Initiate (the Black Templar equivalent of a Tactical Marine) decides he has learned enough, he takes on a Marine-in-training, referred to as Neophytes, which are then mixed into Crusader squads. This is nominally to pass the experience of an Initiate to a Neophyte, but in reality, the Neophytes just make amazing meatshields.
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