IвЂ™ve been collecting Space Marines for decades now, and these are easily the most visually interesting models IвЂ™ve ever owned.

While the engineering of the push-fit minis alone is remarkable, itвЂ™s the sheer amount of detail in these figures that won me over. I didnвЂ™t break any in assembly, but I did bang a few up moving them around the house. While just about everything went together very easily, some models have wobbly heads or spindly midsections that require some plastic cement to hold them together. Indomitus includes only вЂњpush-fitвЂќ miniatures, which Games Workshop says donвЂ™t require any glue to assemble. ThatвЂ™s good news if youвЂ™ve spent the past few years practicing drybrushing, like I have. The sculpts themselves are particularly fine, with very little in the way of mold lines that need to be removed prior to assembly. WhatвЂ™s remarkable is how easy it all is to put together. That includes a small Space Marine and Necron force. The modelsДЄfter several long nights of trimming plastic, IвЂ™m about three-quarters of the way through the Indomitus miniatures. So, even without models, youвЂ™re still looking more than $100 for a single player to get started. The same goes for every other army in the game. So youвЂ™ll need that book, as well as a set of errata to bring it up to the current edition. Codex: Space Marines ($40) was published last year, during 8th edition. Say that you want to play as the Space Marines. While Indomitus itself comes with a slim pamphlet called The Silent War, which includes data sheets needed to field the all-new units inside the box, in order to build a proper army youвЂ™ll need a Codex. Of course, the Core Book isnвЂ™t the only document youвЂ™ll need to start playing. My only real complaint about the Core Book is that the font size is too small, leaving a lot of empty room on the margins. Games Workshop still has a ways to go before it has the same kind of layout and graphic design as Dungeons & Dragons or even Pathfinder, but the gap is closer than ever before. Image: Charlie Hall/PolygonД¬ompared to other tabletop wargames - Infinity or Warmachine, for instance - itвЂ™s all very elegant. Individual sections of a turn are arranged on facing pages, meaning you can sit the book open on the table for easy reference. The editors have even gone so far as to keep topics together on facing pages, so you can lay the hardback volume open on the table and survey at a glance everything you need to know in each phase of the turn. There are plenty of helpful sidebars, simplified graphics, and informative diagrams as well. Key features include helpful bullet-point summaries, so you can scan a page and quickly find your bearings. They read less like the rules of a fiddly tabletop wargame and more like a really accessible, easy-to-understand textbook. The rules themselves are very finely wrought this time around, especially when compared to previous editions of the game. The best bits - especially the double-page foldout galaxy map - serve to elevate the Core Book to more of an in-fiction artifact than a game manual. But, for those who are steeped in the lore of the 41st millennium, itвЂ™s nice to have it all in one coffee table-style book. ThatвЂ™s a pretty big fluff-to-rules ratio, and a lot of that fluff feels redundant. Meanwhile, the expanded core rules themselves come in at a modest 75 pages. Backstory and table setting accounts for 191 of those pages - more than half the book. How much lore? The Core Book is more than 367 pages long. A beginnerвЂ™s guide to buying and painting miniatures

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