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So, as I was building my guard army I envisioned them as the planetary defense force for the world my DIY marine chapter came from. I painted em in similar colors, black gold and red, only more black for the guard and more gold for the marines.

Anyway, now I'd like to build a good Apocalypse army list that uses elements from both armies. It should be a guard army primarily, with marine units as "support", and some Inquisition stuff for spice. I'm shooting a basic 3000 pt army that I can build off of for bigger games

In my collection I have something like:

Guard:
2 platoons w/ 2 squads each w/ plasma & flamers in the cmd squad
1 hq squad
1 hw lascannon squad
2 units of stormtroopers w/ 2 plasmas each
2 hellhounds, 1 russ, 1 demolisher, 1 basilisk, 1 baneblade, 2 chimeras
2 plastic landspeers and 2 old metal ones

marines:
1 command squad
3-4 tac squads
1 dev squad
1 unit of terminators
2 rhinos, 1 cmd razorback or a 3rd rhino, 2 predator annihilators, 1 dread

Inquisition:
2 inqusitiors (1 terminator)
2 vindicars, 2 eversors

There's a few other things like extra marines but that's basically it.

Anyone have any good ideas for making a fluffy army out of some of the above? I'd probably consider keeping the baneblade out and saving it for the big games we do. My first thought was to make it mostly all guard and just convert some marines to assault marines with jump packs but would that be too cheesy? Do I wanna just set up standard tac squads w/ a rhino? I actually haven't played my marines in years, I remember trying to set up a decent army when the codex first got redone and couldn't come up with something good with just what I had, but I'm thinking they would be great in a support role for the guard in big games. so any ideas?

You can't be cheesy in 40k. You can't be cheesy in apoc.

Since it's your chapter, well I'd have to be psychic to tell you what's fluffy or not.

When you mix marines and IG, you get a really powerful combination. Elite troops and hordes with long range shooting.

So, what's your chapter about?