Why no Assault squads as troops choice in C:SM

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**dashrendar**

So if you take a captain on a bike or Khan on his bike, you can take bikes as troops, like a white scars army.

So why wasnt their an option to take the captain with jet pack or Shrike, and take assault squads as troops choices?

would it be overkill? and if it is overkill, would there be a way to limit it? like a max of 2 or 3 squads can be counted as troops?

**dashrendar**

Lordhat wrote:What dietrich said.
I'm assuming they did it that way to keep BA a distinct army. Much in the same way that only DA can mix and match assault and normal terminators.

yes in a deathwing army, but C:SM bike army is pretty close to a ravenwing army, minus the backup landspeeders with the bikes.

It just seems like it should have been an option, and when the BA codex comes out, if it does, would have had better options over how we would make one out of C:SM

**dashrendar**

JohnHwangDD wrote:
dietrich wrote:Because if you did that, Blood Angels would get angrier.

QFT.

SM are 10-man Bolter squads with Transport

BA have Assault Squads

The two don't overlap on each other's specialties.

then why did we get an option for bikes as troops, that is overlapping a DA army.

**dashrendar**

themandudeperson wrote:Personally, I would have love to have seen DA BA and WS rolled up into the current codex by saying something similar "If your master/captain takes terminator armor, you can have terminators as troop choices. If your master/captain takes a jump pack, you can have assault squads as troop choices. If your master/captain takes a bike, you may take bike squads as troop choices". Then add in Baal Predators into the codex.
Then you no longer have god knows how many space marine codi rolling around and you won't have DA and BA players crying that they don't get 3+ invulnerable saves with storm shields. The only problem is then you'll have annoying combinations like a terminator captain and bike captain leading some bizarre WS/DW hybrid backed up by a couple of Baal Predators.

that would have been awesome!

GW needs to just release a overall SM Chapters codex, that lists all the main chapters (BA, DA, SW and maybe a few new ones) instead of 4-5 more single SM codexes. and it would list the special rules you would go by if you ran that chapter, like the BA rage, and the BT movement stuff.