So you’ve got your base (or not), and are looking for ways to expand. Here’s what I’d personally recommend looking at for taking your next steps: If You… …Just Want to Build a Competitive Army for Events If static position, look at Ultramarines, but also look at Astra Militarum (Imperial Guard), they are far better. There’s obviously a huge number of ways you can build out Successors – the variety is part of the fun – but given how great the Vanguard Start Collecting is for a new player, we thought we’d cover an example that shows off how you can effectively use it. The toys in the Start Collecting box have pretty strong synergy with Raven Guard successors, as the power of Eliminators goes up hugely once their doctrine is active, so let’s decide that we are Raptors. You can also get some use out of the Primaris Space Wolves start collecting too, as Aggressors are nice with the options out of the Raven Guard book and everyone needs Intercessors. Starting Marine armies tend to skew quite heavily towards spamming infantry because of the cost-efficient ways of getting big squads, so let’s lean into that by choosing Bolter Fusilades as one of our traits (which also helps our Eliminators). For the other, let’s focus on the fact that the core of this army wants to push right into your opponent’s face and choose the Whirlwind of Rage trait.

Target-rich army: All your units are good, but that makes them all valuable targets. Since they mostly trend towards the lower end of the mobility spectrum (at least once they’re on the board), opponents with high powered mobile units like Aeldari and some Chaos lists can strike surgically and do a lot of damage. Finally there is one specialist detachment in Vigilius Defiant called Indomitus Crusaders. It’s cool, but hardly essential. Contents: 1 Watch Captain Artemis (HQ), 10 Deathwatch Veterans (Troops), 1 Venerable Dreadnought (Elites), 1 Deathwatch upgrade sprue We’ve talked about the rules a bit in our general Getting Started article on the rules, so let’s drill down into detail about Space Marine Successors. The Codex

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For a start you are going to want the codex. This coupled with the rulebook is technically all you need. Released in August 2019, it is a very cool and good book. Mostly because it lets successors go down three distinct paths. More on that in a bit. The Supplements And GW has already taken one step towards it, by including women in the Stormcast Eternals, the Space Marines’ direct analogues in fantasy game Warhammer Age of Sigmar. So, here’s hoping. However, these keywords only come into play with certain Detachments: for example, marines with a chapter keyword other than Space Wolves can’t join the Sons of Russ Detachment. But you could use specialist Space Wolves units in a standard Gladius Task Force Detachment, and even mix them in with Ultramarines. Primaris Space Marine Lieutenants, one armed with a power sword and bolt pistol, the other an auto bolt rifle and bolt pistol Aggressors and Intercessors are brilliant units that feature in a bunch of high level armies. Split the Intercessors into two 5 strong squads, throw bolt rifles on them. Couple this with the Aggressors and you have a core army that can throw out absurd amounts of firepower.

When it comes to starting SMs there's actually no em wrong place to start. With the start collecting box you have units that can work well for you but as a collective they don't really work together. Yes the captain will allow you to reroll your ones to hit but does he really need terminator armour for that? All of these units are usable up to a fairly high level of play, with eliminators being almost must have unit in some tourney lists. The terminator captain is passable, he can deep strike to get into combat or hang around with the tactical squad and dread to aid them with his re-rolls of 1s to hit. This doesn’t sound like much but seriously buffs like this are one of the strengths of a space marine army.This was done because one person controlling millions of hyper powered super humans, of which a force of a mere 10 to 100 of them is a planet threatening event was considered “OP” and “Could cause major problems, as seen by the massive, empire crippling civil war we just had” by the Imperium. The Chaos Space Marines included in Shadowspear have the same rules as the current Chaos Space Marines, but Shadowspear includes some new miniatures to represent he Daemonkin. Their rules in the codex list the equipment that these miniatures are armed with, but they are interchangeable with any Chaos Space Marines you own and can be added into your own force.