Deadlift
07-24-2013, 01:21 PM
So I have been thinking is it possible to build a "core" marine army ? One where you could in theory use any marine based codex (not grey knights as they are too divergent) and then add the more unique elements to represent the current codex your using ?
I know some will have issues with this but I think in theory it's possible. Lets face it a marine squad of any flavour is pretty much the same with the exception of the special weapons.
For example a Warsmith could easily be counted as a Techmarine. A librarian a Sorcerer. A chaos god hammer Landraider is armed very similar to any other from another marine based codex. Same goes for most predators.
Of course all marine army's have unique units which would be added to the core models. So if your using the space wolf codex you could add some thunder wolves or if its chaos maybe a heldrake or some Obilterators. I hope I'm getting my idea across.
Now the tricky part. Which chapter do you use ? Remember in theory the idea is to be able to use any marine codex. Personally I'm thinking it would have to be a Legion that's fallen to chaos. Here's how.
You want to use just the Vanilla codex, then you say it's pre-heresy.
You want to use the blood angels codex, well add some berserkers to count as Death company.
You want to use Thunder wolf cavalry, stick some marines on crushers. Counts as doesn't have to be too difficult as long as the models are armed WYSIWYG.
I'm thinking Skyrars Dark Wolves are a good candidate or if you want to add a pre-heresy element Iron warriors.
What do you guys think ?
I know some will have issues with this but I think in theory it's possible. Lets face it a marine squad of any flavour is pretty much the same with the exception of the special weapons.
For example a Warsmith could easily be counted as a Techmarine. A librarian a Sorcerer. A chaos god hammer Landraider is armed very similar to any other from another marine based codex. Same goes for most predators.
Of course all marine army's have unique units which would be added to the core models. So if your using the space wolf codex you could add some thunder wolves or if its chaos maybe a heldrake or some Obilterators. I hope I'm getting my idea across.
Now the tricky part. Which chapter do you use ? Remember in theory the idea is to be able to use any marine codex. Personally I'm thinking it would have to be a Legion that's fallen to chaos. Here's how.
You want to use just the Vanilla codex, then you say it's pre-heresy.
You want to use the blood angels codex, well add some berserkers to count as Death company.
You want to use Thunder wolf cavalry, stick some marines on crushers. Counts as doesn't have to be too difficult as long as the models are armed WYSIWYG.
I'm thinking Skyrars Dark Wolves are a good candidate or if you want to add a pre-heresy element Iron warriors.
What do you guys think ?