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No offense meant by this, but do you think you're the person to bring the Angry Marines into 5th edition? From what I've seen of your forum posts you don't have the greatest grasp of the English language. Perhaps even worse, you aren't screaming obscenities, and already apologized and backed down from a ridiculous claim that your poll was biased.

I do think that there's a need for an Angry Marine codex, but I'd like it written by someone who pounds keyboards so hard that they must be replaced after every page. Their computer ought to have a spit shield because they so often froth at the mouth. They should have some idea what badgerfeth means, and the ability to harness all of this unreasonable anger into a well-written codex. If you can still see straight enough to read this last sentence, I just don't think you're the one to do it. There's a reason that this codex comes from 4chan- it must be written by fa/tg/uy trolls. Sadly, I am not up the task either. I do not possess the requisite rage.

Then let's get down to it. How does the basic Angry Marine differ from a Space Marine in game terms?

Space Wolves are crafty, and have counter-attack.
BloodAngels are crazy, and have furious charge and other bloody things.

What will make them different?

Actually, I was quite curious to see what you were going to do to make them different, Brother Jakub. I run mine as Space Wolves, which works pretty well. Dual powerfist wolfguard are a fair stand in for Powerfeet Terminators, and the Lone Wolves are a magnificent representation of Black Brothers.

What you're talking about is creating a new codex- to do that they must be more than just marines with bats, powerwrenches and a penchant for hating weeaboos, furries and spehs elfs.

They need a few units to make them interesting, like the Predator Angrinator, and they need a twist on their basic unit to set it apart. The twisted standard marine is the easiest thing to do. You might have something like a standard marine statline, but they may exchange their bolter for dual ccws of any sort. Rather than 2 specials, they could have 2 close combat weapons. Think about what special rule they need- Move through cover to represent smashing through cover with no regard for their surroundings, or a modified version of furious charge which just gives them +2 str, no initiative bonus?

The possibilities are endless- but much easier to keep balanced than a custom vehicle.

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

There's the Angry Marines wiki. They aren't about shooting, like Dark Angels. They're about putting various objects through their opponents' orifices in order to kill them as quickly as possible. This doesn't seem consistent with WS 3. I do like the idea of S5 and T5, but that might be over the top for basic troops.






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Ok, 20 points sounds like a reasonable jumping off point. We are, however, squad based. What options will this squad have?

Size of squad and weapons options will define their role. A Tac squad is only different from a Devastator squad because devastators can take more heavy weapons.

Assault style armies have the option of 2 specials in most cases, shooty armies have one special and a heavy. If you want to get really out there, you could add special ccw.

They should have Raege. One big flaw of the last codex was that it didn't have commissars. All of their fluff points towards overly enthusiastic commissars being shipped out to the Angry Marines. Commissar Fuklaw, Commissar Dan and his pet basilisk Fluffy, and Commissar Raege all belong in this codex.