If it happens to be one of the pre-eminent chapters listed inthe sections above, which benefit from their own custom tabletop rules, all the better – but don’t sweat it if not. Paint your models the way you want, and then, when it comes to game time, treat them as whichever chapter you like. As has been pointed out above the thing that makes marines so good is their versatility so just prepare one you've started with power armour to have your mind create 100s of lists to try out and your spending to increase in the pursuit of trying them all (you'll never get to). You'll find up with hundreds. Welcome brother. Let’s talk about how Space Marine successors play on the table. I’m perennially bad very cool and good at playing 40k. In fact I’m so good that any advice I give will probably be incomprehensible for the layman. Instead I’ll now copy and paste from the Space Marine Start Competing by Corrode, who I could probably beat at 40k, if you know, I wanted to. Anyway here is what he said. Army Strengths

The Start Collecting box that gets our vote for “the next one to be discontinued,” there’s not a ton this particular box has to offer. Tactical Marines just don’t have much value when you’d rather run Scouts or Intercessors, the Terminator Captain doesn’t bring much to the table when you have other, more mobile, better-equipped, cheaper options, and the Venerable Dreadnought is only OK. You’re better off skipping this one for the Marine half of the Dark Imperium Starter. That’s why we’ve assembled this overview of the Start Collecting!/Combat Patrol boxes to help you figure out if it’s worth buying the box available for your faction. The entry for each box in this article covers what miniatures are in the box, what the box costs, how much you save by buying the box rather than buying the units/characters in the box separately, and whether any models are exclusive to the box. Savings-wise this is decent, but the contents are rubbish. You don’t ever really want Tactical Marines and Baal Predators don’t offer much either. This really suffers from including the Predator – it would be a much better box if it had say, Death Company instead. Feels like a relic of 3rd/4th edition.As we talked about, there are two main methods of Successor-ing. Established Chapters and Homebrew. Established Chapter: If you play Iron Hands, no-one will like you. But it’s ok, because the flesh is weak and logic dictates that they’re the best and most effective army in the game, so you should play them anyway. Contents: 1 Tech-priest Dominus (HQ), 10 Skitarii Vanguard/Rangers (Troops), 1 Onager Dunecrawler (Heavy Support) The Nurgle box is pretty good value. If you’re collecting Nurgle Daemons you want Plaguebearers and Nurglings en masse, and at least one Poxbringer too. If you’re going to buy those things, you might as well buy this box, and basically get the Plague Drones for free. A very respectable set which gives you pretty much what you want to get going with the faction – perfect.

As totally rad Successor chapters, we don’t get access to special characters and units but we do score the really tasty themed stratagems and warlord traits. However the most critical thing we pull out of the supplements is their effect on Doctrines.Anyway, we now know what the hell a Space Marine is. But what the hell is a chapter and a successor chapter? What Are Successor Chapters? Off The Shelf articles are unboxing and preview articles and shouldn't be taken as a full review of the product. Shadowspear Unboxing

And GW has already taken one step towards it, by including women in the Stormcast Eternals, the Space Marines’ direct analogues in fantasy game Warhammer Age of Sigmar. So, here’s hoping. There are three different Space Marines Combat Patrol starter boxes available; Combat Patrols for each of the Space Wolves, Dark Angels, and Blood Angelswith different models that contain upgrade sprues to make your minis look more like their respective chapters. You can also make a Combat Patrol from the Space Marine half of the Warhammer 40k Starter Set ultimate edition. Was macht die Vanguard Space Marines so besonders? Gemäß den Spielregeln dürfen die in diesem Set enthaltenen Einheiten während der Aufstellung praktisch überall auf dem Schlachtfeld positioniert werden, so lange die Aufstellung mindestens 9" entfernt von feindlichen Einheiten erfolgt. Damit ist man in den meisten Spielen schon sehr dicht an Missionszielen - Oder in Feuerreichweite zum Feind. In Kombination mit anderen Einheiten wie z.B. der Invictor Tactial Warsuit ergeben sich tolle Möglichkeiten für Erstschläge. Die Spielweise empfiehlt sich jedoch weniger für Einsteiger, diese sind mit der klassischen Space Marine Ausstattung aus z.B. Dark Imperium deutlich besser beraten. The Lieutenant gives you buff on your wound rolls, so hole him up with the eliminators and watch as they dish out mortal wound after mortal wound with their comically efficient sniper rifles. The infiltrators are great line troops that can do board control/area denial in equal measure. The suppressors give you a decent light anti tank unit with great mobility. Speziell bei den Infiltrators sind die ganzen dünnen, kleinen Antennen aber praxisfern - Sie brechen gerne ab, und das ist ärgerlich.According to widely shared Facebook postsattributed to the former head of GW Intellectual PropertyAlan Merrett, the firm did make a few female Space Marine figures in the runup to Rogue Trader, Warhammer 40k’s first edition – but they sold poorly, and simply got dumped for that reason. Contents: 1 Terminator Captain (HQ), 10 Tactical Marines (Troops), 1 Venerable Dreadnought (Elites) This box is about to go the way of the dinosaur. However it’s also pretty damn good value, especially if you can split the Death Guard half with a mate, so if you’re buying in currently then you should aim to get it before it’s gone. Let’s have a ganda at it. These are complete, self-contained armies you can use in the variant Combat Patrol game mode, which is a great way to get started with the game as it has very slightly simplified rules. I realize this is going to come off a bit as an “old man yells at cloud” moment but I don’t feel like those previous releases were that far in the past to really justify that price hike over time. I also realize that the Vanguard units in this box were never really the most popular option either. Still, it’s the only place you could get those Suppressors, so there is that. All that to say this release just feels bad, man.

All of these units are usable up to a fairly high level of play, with eliminators being almost must have unit in some tourney lists. Alright, we’ve spent around 650-700 points out of the 995 we had. So what’s the last chunk going to be? Well, we could opt for the safe route and just slap in another Intercessor squad. We could play it pricy and go with some Hellblasters. The Adepta Sororitas Combat Patrol Box is weird: There’s 1 Penitent Engine instead of the two that usually come in a box, 4 Sisters Repentia and 1 Repentia Superior rather than the 9 and a Superior you usually get, 3 Arco-Flagellants rather than the usual 9 and… you get the picture. This is all because most of the stuff in the box was originally part of the Adepta Sororitas limited army set, and is thus placed on the same sprues rather than being the actual multipart plastic kits, so you shouldn’t buy this box if you have a specific 2000 points competitive list in mind. One is that you can really show off the cool concept you came up for your custom chapter in the game. The second is that if you are a bit more on the tournament side of things, you can ‘hop’ from supplement to supplement, changing chapter tactics until you find the most gamey combo possible.

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They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. If money permits, I would highly suggest Betrayal at Calth as that gives you a sizable SM force and a range of bitz that lets you build up another devastator squad easily.