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Picked up AOBR for myself and a buddy of mine. He's going with the Orks, and I'll build another army with the SM. So, in your opinion, what SM variant is the best when starting with an AOBR set, knowing that I will expand upon it?

Who are the Flesh Helms? Sounds like a pretty terrible name for a space marine chapter, IMHO.

Blacksails wrote:Who are the Flesh Helms? Sounds like a pretty terrible name for a space marine chapter, IMHO.

Sounds kinda naughty too.

Imperial fist are a cool shove-it-Calgar-and-your-darnd-Ultramarines army.

They're a joke chapter:

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Flesh_Helms

I've seen a fair amount of Ultramarines, made from the AOBR set, however you should probably take a look at the gallery section to see what you will like. Personally I picked Black Templars, because they're my favorite chapter, followed closely by the Space Wolves.

http://www.philipsibbering.com/wh40k/10-07-1000-chapters.shtml

Really, pick the one you like the looks of. You can have plan looking marines in any army... though GK would be harder to do sense they have all kinds of funky weapons that other chapters don't get.

Paint them Warmongers. Bring epicness to an obscure tribe of space marines no one has ever heard of.

Go forth.

make them Salamanders - they have Multimetas and a flamer

Go Ultramarines! They are the best chapter around and Marneus Calgar is the spiritual leige of all marines. Even my chaos marines want to remove their spikes and follow him.

Flesh Helms.. sounds dirty...


Anything but UM. They are a bunch of insufferably self-righteous prats that have less acting skill than early Shatner..

You can do any of them. I personally turned mine into Space wolves. The extra bits in the wolf pack box made it real easy. I was even able to convert the terminators fairly easily.

Black Templars with their codex you can get more out of less miniatures fielded

Justus wrote:Go Ultramarines! They are the best chapter around and Marneus Calgar is the spiritual leige of all marines. Even my chaos marines want to remove their spikes and follow him.

He brings Dante his coffee during campaigns!

Dante > All

I'm currently leaning towards Imperial Fists. Is there anything in their fluff that says they don't have assault marines? I don't think I've ever seen a IF with a jump pack, now that I think about it.

Ultramarines, because there should be more of them.

Jimsolo wrote:Black Templars, because there should be more of them.

Fix'd!

That said, boltermarines with Tac squad markings make Templars a more modelling-intensive choice. On the other hand, if you get 2 Cyclone Missile Launchers and a terminator power fist you get the best unit in the BT Codex (or you could just run the Sergeant as a Marshal in termie armour and have the 4 others be his command squad).

Forgive my ignorance, but is the BT codex outdated?

nectarprime wrote:Forgive my ignorance, but is the BT codex outdated?

Yes and no. We've got the oldest Codex this side of Necrons, but after the FAQ was released this January we got a whole lot of cool stuff, including dual CML Terminators (and Terminator Command squads) with Tank Hunters.

well of the 6 you listed one is the smurfs, another is a joke chapter.
3 of the others use slightly different tactical signs, (The exception is the IF)

sks_kessler wrote:I've seen a fair amount of Ultramarines, made from the AOBR set, however you should probably take a look at the gallery section to see what you will like. Personally I picked Black Templars, because they're my favorite chapter, followed closely by the Space Wolves.

Well done my man.

Crimson Fists, the components from AoBR fit right in to a small CF force. Start adding Sternies, Scouts, and Tanks and your all set.

generic marines... make your own symbol.

that way you can have them wysiwyg for equipment, but play them as any MEQ chapter

allows you to change things up, tired of playing vanilla marines.. .pick up black templar codex... tired of that try out wolves... not the most popular thing to do, but hey its perfectly legal

ultrapansies.

Crimson Fist!

While ultramarines are kinda boring, they are easy to do up.

Anything but Ultras. But I'd choose the Fists personally.

G00fySmiley wrote:generic marines... make your own symbol.

that way you can have them wysiwyg for equipment, but play them as any MEQ chapter

allows you to change things up, tired of playing vanilla marines.. .pick up black templar codex... tired of that try out wolves... not the most popular thing to do, but hey its perfectly legal

Here's an idea: a Deatwatch army that I can use as a counts-as with any SM codex. I think this is what I might do....

nectarprime wrote:

G00fySmiley wrote:generic marines... make your own symbol.

that way you can have them wysiwyg for equipment, but play them as any MEQ chapter

allows you to change things up, tired of playing vanilla marines.. .pick up black templar codex... tired of that try out wolves... not the most popular thing to do, but hey its perfectly legal

Here's an idea: a Deatwatch army that I can use as a counts-as with any SM codex. I think this is what I might do....

Or just create your own chapter.

Honestly the box was made for Ultramarines so you have their emblems on the shoulder pads, but after reading up on the Flesh Helms I would make those. Does anyone know if someone has made any current rules for the Flesh Helms somewhere on the internet?

Darkninja107 wrote:Honestly the box was made for Ultramarines so you have their emblems on the shoulder pads,

There aren't any Ultramarine symbols on them. Not anything glaringly ultramarines, anyway.

I'd go with whatever Space Marine chapter you'd enjoy painting.