Thomas Miles Corbett
07-24-2013, 08:26 AM
Hello guys
When I played Space marines more often that I do now as Ultramarines (I know sorry ;) ) I liked to make my army different and more in keeping with a ultramarine army as of the battle of Macragge with the planets own defense force to be the main army supported by a core of Space marines.
To do this I just merged the Imperial guard and Space marine codex but didn't take any imperial guard tanks (Just APC's) and limited the amount of space marines in my army. This balance of hard hitting space marines with the strength to counter attack while the Guardmen were the front line troops who with the mass firepower of lasguns and bolters (taken from the story lines) would together win many battles.
Has anyone else done this, how did it go? It was designed to a very different SM army to the usual with a huge basing on the storylines of the battle rather than designing an army to be the best at winning. It was more fun than anything else and playing in at my local GW store (Shrewsbury) againist the Tyranids was really impressive.
Thomas
When I played Space marines more often that I do now as Ultramarines (I know sorry ;) ) I liked to make my army different and more in keeping with a ultramarine army as of the battle of Macragge with the planets own defense force to be the main army supported by a core of Space marines.
To do this I just merged the Imperial guard and Space marine codex but didn't take any imperial guard tanks (Just APC's) and limited the amount of space marines in my army. This balance of hard hitting space marines with the strength to counter attack while the Guardmen were the front line troops who with the mass firepower of lasguns and bolters (taken from the story lines) would together win many battles.
Has anyone else done this, how did it go? It was designed to a very different SM army to the usual with a huge basing on the storylines of the battle rather than designing an army to be the best at winning. It was more fun than anything else and playing in at my local GW store (Shrewsbury) againist the Tyranids was really impressive.
Thomas