Just a quick question about how Strength should appear on a Character sheet.

Say I'm a Marine with Strength 40, and have the usual Traits and extra abilities - so Unnatural Strength (x2) and +20 Strength from normal Mk.VII Power Armour.

Would my Strength be listed as:

(10) 40
-or-
(10) 60

The 10 is the +2SB added to my SB of 8 from Unnatural Strength (x2), but should my Strength, should I need to test on it, be S40 or S60?

Thanks in advance!

List it as 40 on your character sheet, as your statistic bar shouldn't represent equipment bonuses. ie You wouldn't list your BS as five higher just because you always carried a Singulum Link. It's effectively 60(10), though.

If you ever need to test against it, as per the un-natural statistics rule, you'd be rolling as though you had a Strength of 60. However, the difficulty is lowered by one (effectively giving you a 70) and you gain an additional Margin of Success should you pass.

I do 60 in the box and then 10 as the SB, as I'm always assumed to be wearing my power armour when I'm testing strength.

I would write it as (8) 40 since those are your 'natural statistics,' sans armor.

If you have a hard time remembering to add the power armor bonus of +20 to your strength you can do it several ways. Since there is a stat line on both sides of the standard character sheet you can add the power armored stat line on the side that has the armor so it would read (10) 40 or (10) 60. But to be honest that to me is confusing.

If you are only concerned about not forgetting to add the bonus strength from the power armor into damage just add the +2 to the damage of the weapon so your Astartes Combat Knife will list as 1d10+12 (40 str doubled to 8 + 2 for power armor + 2 for combat knife) etc.