Reclamation Force: The 11th-Edition Space Marines Objective Detachment

The rule is two clauses, both anchored on objective markers:

• Offence: melee attacks by your models against a unit within range of an objective marker improve their AP by 1. Not a to-hit or to-wound bonus, but an AP step, which is the modifier that most reliably converts into dead models against armoured targets.
• Defence: attacks against your units that are within range of an objective you control subtract 1 from the Wound roll when the attack's Strength beats the unit's Toughness.

Read them together and the detachment has a clear identity: it does nothing in the open field and a lot in the places that score. It rewards you for planting a unit on an objective and daring the opponent to remove it, and the defensive clause is specifically an answer to being shot with weapons that are too big for the target.

All six cost 1 CP and almost all of them are about holding ground:

• Ultramarian Destiny (Movement) — a controlled objective stays yours until your opponent's level of control exceeds yours. Sticky objectives, which lets a unit leave and keep scoring.
• Crusading Conquerors (Command) — +1 Objective Control for a unit until your next Command phase. Wins a contested marker outright.
• Furious Dedication (Charge or Fight) — add 2 to Charge rolls and 1 to melee Attacks, once per turn. Your reliable way to actually reach the enemy sitting on the objective you want, and then hit harder for it.
• Fight to the End (Fight) — destroyed models roll a D6 and stay in play to fight on a 4+ before being removed. Turns a losing objective fight into a mutual trade.
• Scions of Guilliman (Movement) — a unit that Fell Back can still shoot and declare charges. Your escape from a tarpit that is denying you a marker.
• Marching Ever On (opponent's Movement) — after an enemy unit Falls Back, one of your units makes a Normal move of up to D6+1". Punishes an opponent trying to disengage and re-contest.

• Liberatum (25 pts) — the bearer re-rolls Hit and Wound rolls against enemies at objectives. Full re-rolls on both, in exactly the situation the detachment engineers, make this the headline pick and the reason to put a melee character on your main objective-clearing unit.
• Seals of Reconquest (20 pts) — a 5+ invulnerable save. Straightforward, and Space Marine characters usually lack one, so this is what keeps your anchor alive when the opponent commits to shifting it.
• Scroll of Proclamation (15 pts) — when declaring a charge, if enemies near objectives are within 12", you re-roll the charge but must end engaged with them. A conditional but powerful reliability boost, given how much of the detachment depends on connecting.
• Avenging Avatar (10 pts) — enemy units below Starting Strength within 9" must take a Battle-shock test. Cheap attrition pressure: a battle-shocked unit loses Objective Control, which is exactly what you are competing for.

• Assault Intercessors — cheap melee bodies that get the AP bonus every time they fight over a marker, and the natural unit for a Liberatum character to lead.
• Intercessor Squads and Heavy Intercessors — durable holders that benefit from the defensive Wound penalty while parked on a controlled objective.
• Bladeguard Veterans — elite melee that converts the AP step into real damage against enemy elites contesting the middle.
• Terminators — expensive but very hard to remove from an objective, especially with the -1 to Wound against oversized guns.
• A melee character with Liberatum — the single most impactful build in the detachment.
• A character with Seals of Reconquest — attached to whichever unit is holding your most contested marker.

Take Reclamation Force when you keep losing games on points rather than on models. It is a detachment for players who already have a decent army but do not convert board presence into score, and it is unusually honest about that: both halves of the rule are worthless in the open field and strong the moment you are standing on a marker.

It is not a killing detachment. There is no army-wide re-roll, no Strength bonus, no doctrine to time. What you get instead is an AP step where it counts, a defensive shield against oversized weapons, sticky objectives, and a charge bonus to reach the marker you want. Against something like Ironstorm Spearhead or Headhunter Task Force, which are both 2 DP and both about killing things efficiently, Reclamation Force is the deliberately mission-focused alternative.

At 2 DP it leaves 1 DP spare at 2,000 points, and it pairs particularly well with a mobile support like Fulguris Task Force, which reaches the objectives an infantry line cannot.

Sample gameplan: deploy to contest the midfield markers early and use Crusading Conquerors when a marker is genuinely contested. Push a Liberatum character with Assault Intercessors or Bladeguard into whoever is holding the objective you want, opening with Furious Dedication for +2 on the charge and an extra attack each. Once you hold it, use Ultramarian Destiny to make the marker sticky so the unit can move on, keep Fight to the End for the turn a fight goes badly, and use Marching Ever On to chase down an opponent trying to disengage and re-contest.