Starting Space Marines?

[kanageddaamen]

I am toying with the idea of starting a small space marines force while I wait for a (possibly never to come) new dark eldar codex.

I want something that is different from nids (ie, assault based) but I don't want a gunline/stationary army either.

Is there a specific chapter everyone would recommend, or should I just stick with Vanilla marines and use they large number of unit choices to customize.

Right out is Space Wolves as they are too nid-like in flavor.

Also I would prefer not to start a chapter that is likely to get a new codex in the near future

[umbra]

Why not start a Bike based Chapter like the White Scars? They have some good fire power, and though they would like to be in assault, they are not the best at it and can deal with being out of it. Someday, when I finally need a break from the nids, I'll start out my own White Scars army; as to me it seems like one of the better armies that come from the vanilla marine codex, and would never play just regular space marines( to Smurfy ). But that's just my Opinion.

[insanious]

I love how every nid player, my self included, would play white scars as their SM if they had to play SM... I concur, white scars as the best SM.

[welshpaul]

Friends don't let friends play Space Marines. Get an Ork or Eldar army if you want some fun assault-based battles.

[kanageddaamen]

I Want to play an army that isn't assault based, so no Orks or Space wolves. I don't like gun line armies either, so no IG or Tau.

Don't like the Necron's play style, nor the daemon deployment so no to them.

I will be playing DE if they get a new DEX, so I would rather not start eldar either.

Which leaves me with:

SMs
CSMs
WHs
DHs
DTs

A friend at my LGS plays DTs and I am not too excited about them. I was thinking maybe CSMs, don't know though...

[insanious]

CSM FTW!!! They are like SM but way cooler and not as douchey.

[VoragoTitan]

Feb 5, 2010 14:36:02 GMT insanious said:

CSM FTW!!! They are like SM but way cooler and not as douchey.

but their codex isnt so hot...

I am thinking of starting a salamanders army on the side... Just cuz they are awesome

VoragoTitan

[insanious]

Feb 5, 2010 22:41:25 GMT VoragoTitan said:

Feb 5, 2010 14:36:02 GMT insanious said:

CSM FTW!!! They are like SM but way cooler and not as douchey.

but their codex isnt so hot...

I am thinking of starting a salamanders army on the side... Just cuz they are awesome

VoragoTitan

For someone new to CSM they don't know any better. I hear about the glory days of CSM, but i still love the codex and my death guard.

[yoritomo]

Space marines are a good choice. I know everyone here gives them a hard time, but everyone should really have a space marine army. Every time I show someone how to play I whip out my marine army.

As for the marine chapter, I'd say go vanilla or dark angles. Blood angles, wolves, and templars are all pretty geared towards close combat, so you're going to want to avoid them. Vanilla is good because they have that customization that lets you do whatever you want. Dark angles are also good because they can create highly mobile armies (the ravenwing army is just crazy).

Take a look at the dark angle codex. If you like it then play dark angles. If you don't then play vanilla marines.

[Psychichobo]

Vanilla. The Dark Angel dex is cool, but there's nothing in it that Marines can't do. Really.

[allwillbeeaten]

My buddy has about 20k points of marines...Blood Angels and salamanders and I've NEVER seen him run an all terminator army because he cant.Deathwing ftw!They can also have an all bike army ala the Scars.

[kanageddaamen]

I'm not a big fan of spam armies. I like to use a lot of different units available in the codex (My 4th edition higher point nid armies used every unit we had)

I think overall Vanilla gives me the highest flexability. I probably won't run any SCs as they are usually too many points or skew the army away from flexability.

[yoritomo]

Vanilla is a good choice. It's hard to go wrong with a generic marine.

Though I would look at the Dark Angle codex before you count them out. For the most part they play like vanilla marines, but their fast attack squads have more options.

[Tyrantor]

Why not play Dark Eldar? They are insane on the battlefield, still considered broken by the people who use them right because their codex is unchanged.
Any particular reason for not doing them?

[rainthezangoose]

since i started play DE most people at my local club started a "wytchs are broken club"