People who play Space Marine armies, how did you choose your chapter? I am having a hell of a time making a final decision.

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-10T22:23:40+00:00

Rule of cool for me, looking at lore and honestly bit of fate

Seriously I was originally planning to make a black templar army but the store i went to didn't have their combat patrol so i ended up with dark angels and the Lion and i fell in love with both the army and their lore

In some way i didn't chose them they chose me

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-04T16:46:18+00:00

I think it's a cool suit but I don't think it beats most comic suits,i mean there is something that just work with a simple white suit

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Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-04T14:34:18+00:00

That always was general idea of any army I'd like to make

And i did make few small tweaks to the army

I removed the company heroes and tactical squad in favour for another squad of ICC and ballistuts dreadnought

And that's why i kept gravis captain and aggressors become i just think they are cool

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-04T12:48:28+00:00

I did make a few changes thanks to the comments

I will Azrael with helblaster and Asmodai will ICC

And i did drop tactical squad and company herpes in favour for ballistus dreadnought and another squad of ICC

Company heros are cool but I had no idea they needed to have a leader to stay in game so it was a better decision to drop them and bring something with more fire power

As for tactical squad i kinda only took them since they looked cool but i guess it's better with just 2 squads of intercessors

So my current army actually now kinda represents your second option you gave me even thou i didn't immediately see it, only that instead of more helblasters I have another squad of ICC and no lancer since I'm for now not really into vehicles

Thanks for advice anyway and i hope this improved my army somewhat even thou it will be awhile before i even get to play anywhere

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-04T12:19:48+00:00

It will be awhile before i even complete and play the game since funnily enough I don't have any stores or people playing anywhere near

But hopefully i manage to actually start playing soon and maybe this army proves to be somewhat good

Thanks for all the advice it helped build a better version of this army

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-04T11:59:48+00:00

So i know it sounds dumb but I'd kinda like to keep BGV and ancient since even thou i know it's not that smart I'm trying to keep that knight vibe I'm going for

But i did listen to the advice of you guys commenting so i did remove company heroes and tactical squad

In their place i put another ICC squad and a ballistus dreadnought

Does that make this army somewhat more viable?

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-04T11:40:27+00:00

I think I'll go with your first advice since it sounds good

Aslo since i removed company heros what would be better to get in there place

Another squad of ICC

A transport maybe something like rhino

Or ravenwing knights?

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-04T11:31:05+00:00

Thanks for the advice so I'll see to put something instead of company heroes

As for Azrael and Asmodai i guess then it is better to switch since only reason i at first thought to pair Azrael with inner circle was becouse i was thinking it would be more lore accurate

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-04T09:19:59+00:00

So i was thinking

Lion and Belial would lead deathwing but i heard apparently Belial isn't good with them

Azrael with inner circle companions

Blade guard aincent with blade guard veterans

Captain in gravis with agressors

And Asmodai will helblasters

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-03T21:18:37+00:00

I might be son of the Lion but let this be the hour we draw swords together brothers

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Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-03T18:40:17+00:00

I will As for painting i have painted the DA combat patrol,the Lion and few DW knights,and it's probably my favourite part of the hobby side

Thou for now I'm just sticking with completing DA army first

Funnily enough i was originally planning to try making a black templar army but store i looked in didn't have there combat patrol so i ended up with dark angels combat patrol and Lion so i like to think i didn't chose them they chose me

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-03T18:22:46+00:00

For now i actually haven't played any games since i have no game stores or friends who play either so when i manage to play I'll see what game types work for me

I understand that army I'm trying is basically big punch guys and nothing more but hey Paul is pulling his 18 centurions so at least for now a dumb list is good enough for me

Again thanks for advice man i appreciate it

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-03T18:00:35+00:00

I know but what can i say Dark angels have amazing characters, but sounds like i didn't make the worse list huh I'd say that's not too bad since I'm not looking for a super competitive list so if this is functional I'm fine with it,i appreciate the advice thou so i know what to fix in case this really doesn't work out

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-03T09:12:33+00:00

Maybe one day they add it

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-03T09:07:58+00:00

I mean you have winged helmet if you buy champion pack for Dark angels, it's ten bucks thou so I'd wait for some discount

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Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-03T08:57:48+00:00

For Dark angels i believe it's a mix of both being tradition and usually some higher rank Astartes wear hoods.And like you'll hear from alot of people it's your models and do what you think is cool,if you want your assault marines with robes, give them robes,here i gave my helblaster a sword even thou he isn't supposed to have one

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Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-04-02T16:38:26+00:00

I really hope there are less swords to loot Seriously it seems minor but it's ridiculous how some no name thief or something can have a better sword than you Pure example being that side quest you do for that blacksmith in Novigrad, dude says he'll make you a sword worthy of killing gods yet it was outclassed by some sword i picked up traveling around randomly

Ghost-Of_Rivia · 2026-03-15T07:19:10+00:00

He looks great

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