Hey everyone,
I started playing Eldar, and I love it. But I want to put together a Space Marine force so that I can introduce others to the game with a pretty straight-forward army that they can pick up and "point and click" their way to a competitive game. At the same time, I'll be buying, building, and painting them myself, so I want something I enjoy. I also want to keep costs down, though, so hopefully I can make use of the DV set I have, along with the SM Battleforce that I purchased a little while back.
The problem is I can't find a single chapter that I like; however, there are units from different ones that I enjoy. So my plan was to try to put together an allied force using as many units that are at the top of my list as possible. I'm just not sure what's going to do that!
Units I would like to include (in order of my love of the models):
Dark Angels - Deathwing Knights
Space Marines - Sternguard Veterans
Blood Angels - Sanguinary Guard
Shrike (though I'm assuming I can use him as a generic HQ in another army, and if rumors are correct, I can take his Combat Tactics: Fleet in the new codex, which is a huge draw for me)
Space Marines - Sniper Scouts
Dark Angels - Asmodai
Also, I'm not a huge fan of bikes, but I can throw them in the list if it's going to make it solid.
I'm a little confused over the Sternguard Veterans - I'm pretty sure Dark Angels can't take them, but GW has that box set under the DA as an elite choice. Any clarification there?
I'll probably end up using the Allies rules to make a force, and then create my own chapter that explains the weird assortment of characters and troops. But I need to make a legal force with as many of these units as possible first, and I'm having trouble figuring out a way to maximize that! I'm thinking a Blood Angels force, maybe trying to kitbash the Shrike figure into a Blood Angels HQ, with DA allies, but if I can get something that works better with the units listed above, I'm all ears! Especially since I think I'd prefer a DA main force with Termies as troops.
Thanks in advance.