Fire Support Protocol
Establish Killzone
Choose a visible lane or zone. Your first Overwatch or Reactive Fire attack through it gains +2 to hit.
Devastator Marine
The answer to armor, monsters, hordes, and anything foolish enough to stand in the open. Heavy weapons, suppression, armor-cracking firepower, and battlefield control.
Astartes ClassesHeavy Weapons SpecialistAvailable in 1.0
Class Dossier — Devastator Marine
Working Draft · v0.1Devastator Marine
The lane is closed. Permanently.
Astartes ClassAvailable in 1.0Working Draft
The Devastator Marine is fire support made transhuman: heavy bolter roar, lascannon judgment, missile trails, braced armor, and battlefield denial.
A Devastator does not merely deal damage. They decide which streets, doors, gantries, monsters, vehicles, and enemy ambitions are no longer viable.
The class fantasy is simple:
A Devastator Marine survives through gene-seed, heavy wargear, fire discipline, armor stabilization, braced positioning, and the certainty that nothing crosses the killzone twice.
// Design Philosophy
The Devastator Marine should not play like a generic heavy gunner. The class should create moments like:
- That lane is my Killzone. Nothing crosses it.
- I brace, and the wall of fire begins.
- The vehicle is a problem. I am the solution.
- Keep them pinned. None rise.
- Move through my arc, brother. I am watching it.
Signature Mechanic — Fire Support Protocols
Signature MechanicFire Support Protocols are the Devastator signature class mechanic.
// Rules Draft
- A Devastator Marine starts with 3 Fire Support Protocols at level 1.
- Protocol Uses are restored after a safe rest.
- Draft Uses: Proficiency Bonus per safe rest.
Fire Support Protocol DC = 8 + Proficiency Bonus + Agility modifier
For bracing or recoil, Strength or Toughness may apply.
Fire Support Protocols are special. Devastator Marines do not gain a new Fire Support Protocol every level.
Killzone
KillzoneA Killzone is a lane, zone, doorway, street, corridor, ridge, or arc of fire under the Devastator's control.
// Rules Draft
- By default, one Killzone can be active at a time.
Fire Support Protocols Known Progression
| Devastator Marine Level | Fire Support Protocols Known |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 4 |
| 9 | 5 |
| 13 | 6 |
| 17 | 7 |
This progression is a working draft. Final class balance may change after all classes are designed.
Fire Support Protocols
Working DraftFire Support Protocol
Brace and Fire
If you do not move, ignore one Heavy Weapon, Heavy Recoil, or bracing penalty until next turn.
Fire Support Protocol
Sustained Suppression
Your next Suppression action imposes Disadvantage on the first affected target's save.
Fire Support Protocol
Anti-Armor Solution
Your next attack against a vehicle, monster, armored elite, or heavy target adds Proficiency Bonus to damage.
Fire Support Protocol
Ammunition Rite
Once this scene, one attack, Burst, or Suppression consumes no ammunition.
Fire Support Protocol
Fire Support Call
One ally moving through your Killzone gains +2 Defense against Reactive Fire.
Fire Support Protocol
Walking Fire
Move 5 feet while maintaining suppression or Overwatch posture if terrain permits.
Doctrine Trees
Progression SystemDevastator Marine progression uses Doctrine Trees.
A Devastator Marine earns Doctrine Points and spends them across the trees below, specializing deeply in one tree or spreading points across several.
Each rank costs 1 Doctrine Point and requires the previous rank in that tree unless future rules say otherwise.
// Doctrine Points Progression
Devastator Marines gain 1 Doctrine Point at every even level.
Doctrine Points
| Devastator Marine Level | Doctrine Points Gained |
|---|---|
| 2 | +1 |
| 4 | +1 |
| 6 | +1 |
| 8 | +1 |
| 10 | +1 |
| 12 | +1 |
| 14 | +1 |
| 16 | +1 |
| 18 | +1 |
| 20 | +1 |
This progression is a working draft. Final class balance may change after all classes are designed.
Rank 1Roaring Catechism
Add +1 damage once per turn with heavy bolter or similar heavy ballistic weapon.
Rank 2Sweep the Line
When you use Burst or Suppression, one affected target has -1 to its save.
Rank 3Red Rain Pattern
If a target fails Suppression by 5 or more, it becomes Exposed.
Rank 4Belt-Fed Faith
Once per scene, a Burst or Suppression from your heavy bolter consumes no ammunition.
Rank 5Mass Reactive Storm
Once per safe rest, add your Devastator level to one heavy bolter hit or suppression damage event.
The sound is doctrine leaving the barrel.