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Games against veteran marine players; I live for them.
There is no game I'd rather play, they're always so intense and often down to the wire.

Im glad to see there arnt many haters, though i dislike the ultramarines, they were what got me into 40k, and i need to respect that

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/322869.page#2043596
Here is a list of my Custom Chapters.
Then I have another thread showing off another 1k.

i made a new chapter from the Pre-heresy Era, The Swamp Stalkers

I enjoy the Marines, I like their fluff and what they stand for in the 40K Universe.

Game wise I find them a fun army and they are actually my favorite opponents... some people may find mirror match boring, but I like the feeling of 'fairness' that comes from them.

Well, I do enjoy marines. Have to thank Dawn of War for creating a chapter that I found interesting, though. Although as far as models go, it is actually the Eldar that drew me in.

I like them.

They're loud, over the top, have absurdly silly fluff, and make absolutely no sense from a realistic perspective. So pretty much all awesome.

To be honest I think they all are lame. Except for the Space Wolves.

Especially Grey Knights. But to be fair "Paladins in space" or knights in shining armor never appealed to someone like me.

I do like the fluff of the Horus Heresy and what not. But Chaos just get's beaten back every time kinda like Team Rocket being after pikachu.

Not a fan myself. The only SM faction I ever considered playing was SW. I dig the whole Vikings in space idea. I'll just have to live with the fact that they are also SM.

I'm not really bothered about Space Marines, although I do have 1500pts of Space Wolves. I guess I just find them not very interesting, except Wolves. Orks, Necrons, Tyranids are much more fun and look at lot more interesting.

Im generally a pretty big fan of marines, sorta needed to jazz up the imperium in a galaxy where not only is everything ten times as deadly as you, but also ten times more interesting. Sorry guard fans, but normal humans are pretty boring.

I'm ambivolent on marines.

They are an army that is entirely comprised of round pegs in a world of square, triangular, and star-shaped holes. No unit ever seems to have the proper equipment for the job, and those rare instances where that's not true, the options tend to be way too expensive to justify taking them. Given that everybody knows how to take apart marine armies, I actually see marines as one of the least competitive armies out there (with the exception of whatever sub-chapter just got it's new codex, but even this fades over time. cf. BT and DA).

In order to be good with vanilla marines, you've got to be a die-hard veteran. These people are definitely out there, and can definitely win games, but for your average person just starting out, well, there's a reason that 13 year olds play ultramarines - they just don't know any better.

I like them, but I wish people at my local GW would play something else. Been playing for 2 years and only once did I face anything that wasn't space marines. Although I faced daemon hunters too, but they're kinda similar.

My biggest problem with SM is the amount of focus they get from GW. Yeah it's their poster boy, but I just feel if GW put their time into doing promoting other armies they could be just as successful. Look how many people are ready to start a DE army because GW put some time and effort into their new models, and their codex actually looks interesting.

I would liek to see GW put out 4 Codex a year one each quarter with out every other one being a Space Mariene book.

I can't wait till they start working on the Cron and Tau dex's just so maybe other armies get some love. Their are enough choices out there to play mariens lets do some other stuff.

I love seeing a space marine army. It's like a litmus test for the player. It immediately tells me who I can avoid playing and saves tons of time. It's all the same codex-hopping, no skill, internet listers out to play the latest flavor of the month strong codex in pursuit of nothing but cheese and victory everywhere you go as soon as you see power armored figures.

Saves me so many bad games by focusing in on the people who play armies they care about. Ya know the armies that actually have substance to them.

I have no problem with SMs, who hasn't got there grubby little pre-pubesant hands on them when they first started?

I still have a small force of about 1000pts (give or take) of SM infantry to back up my massed IG (bordering on 3500pts).

The one thing that does anoy me is the amount of SM players there are where i play, out of 50 members of the local gamming club i've seen about ten or so none SM armys.

Needless to say my IGs get to see alot of action as mostly every time i'm there people want to play against some thing difrent...then i plonk my four Leman Russ's down and go "Power Armour Omm nomm nomms"

I guess I'm lucky... my local gaming club has...

2 SM (including me)
2 Blood Angel
1 Space Wolf (Who is also one of 2 BA player)
3 Orks
2 Eldar
4 Tyranids (One of them also has 1 of the Necron armies)
1 IG
3 Necron
1 Sister of Battle
1 Gray Knight
2 CSM (One of them also has 1 of the Necron armies)
2 Tau
1 Dark Eldar (Who's basically having multiple orgasm at the thought of the new codex).

I've shown up at League night and been the only Space Marines player quite a few times...

Shadowbrand wrote:Especially Grey Knights. But to be fair "Paladins in space" or knights...

They're not as nice as you seem to think they are.

Ribon Fox wrote:I have no problem with SMs, who hasn't got there grubby little pre-pubesant hands on them when they first started?

I had some models, and indeed even had my own DIY chapter fluff written up, but then because they were FSM (it's easier to write for your own gender) most people reacted VERY negatively to it, so I just decided "screw it" and bought Orks and Guard instead, as they also interested me (legions of disciplined soldiers battling against endless hordes of barbarians? Awesome). I later picked up Sisters, as I got more into the fluff (I've never liked their models, so that kept me from them in second edition).

i love my marines

i love the fact that you can make your own chapter, but this also turns into a hate thing.


90% of Self chapter makers do a horrible job. they either make their chapter 1 of the lost legions(which is ok, but you need to do a veeeeeeeery good job with fluff) or they make this horrible fluff about how their chapter is the best(bester then the UMs ) and their Chapter master beat Calgar in an arm wrestling match, they killed Ghaz and Abbadon, they hardly ever die, no gene flaws...


granted i was guilty of about 4 of these problems when i started, but have since retconned my own fluff to be more normal.



Make your own chapters with awsome fluff, but for Emprerors sake make it decent(i like my eyeballs where they are )

Black Templars are my first army. I'll sometimes use them as Codex marines, too.

I enjoy playing marines. They can be shooty and assaulty, and great at either. You just need to pick one.

When my group of players started, we had IG, Tau, Eldar, Necron, and my templars.

Now, two players have picked up Space Marines (SW and BA) as their second armies.

No hatred in our group. Except for the Eldar. Those guys are tough as nails.

They are the best of 40k. I love to crush them, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their wom...er, players.


Apart from that, I´m one of those freaks that feels indifferent towards them and never had the desire to play them despiting the huge efforts of GW´s propaganda machine. I always have found their fluff, models and general character kinda bland and unexciting, and I didn´t change my mind since I was a newbie ( I like the Imperial fluff as a whole, though). Only SW make me raise an eyebrow of interest, but the fact that they´re still marines isn´t easy to forgive.

Actually I never started with space marines. I got assault on Macragge and immediately focused on the Tyranids, while my brother used the marines.


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And I still don't have marines.

Marines are cool, only problem is all the noobs get encouraged to do them.
The fluff's epic, but I still shake my head at people who do ultramarines. Apparently, they're the best at pretty much everything. Except Stealth, that's Raven guard...and attrition, that's imperial fists...and CC, that's SW...and jump infrantry, that's BA...and bike warfare, that's white scars...and crusades, that's BT...so, yeah. They're no good at anything. They just do sod all and claim all the glory. It's the afore-mentioned chapters that are the real heroes. While the Horus heresey raged on terra- where were the ultramarines? Other side of the galaxy. Story of thier lives. No offence, but the ultramarines are like the americans- Claim they're the best, steal the glory. (e.g: WW2)

I started with vanilla marines, orgionally going for a raven guard army, but soon switching over to Imperial Fists.

I like them a lot, they have cool guns, they got a very lofty and compentent aura in their fluff, and they are also 8 foot tall super soldiers. It is hard to NOT like playing 8 foot tall super soldiers!

That said, as fun as they are, They do get boring after playing them on the table for a while... Dark Eldar are next on my list for "buy 500 dollars worth NOW!"

Don´t mean to offense but I don´t understand -and I wish to- the fascination of newbies about SM, bearing in mind they initially know little about their fluff. Oversized super soldiers are regarded in popular culture as either dumb asses or the -usually dumb- villain of the movie, when not his main henchmen. What is cool about that?

Wiglaf wrote:Don´t mean to offense but I don´t understand -and I wish to- the fascination of newbies about SM, bearing in mind they initially know little about their fluff. Oversized super soldiers are regarded in popular culture as either dumb asses or the -usually dumb- villain of the movie, when not his main henchmen. What is cool about that?

I shall try to answer this!

When I first saw space marines, I thought they were elite soldiers for the greater force they were fighting with. That they were given the best equipment and training because they earned it.

While the statement above is in ways true and false, I think that is what many players see. Seeing a heavily armored elite soldier blasting spikey goons is just cool.

Hate loyalists.

LOVE CHAOS MARINES! I read lots of loyalist fluff, but it's no where near as good as the chaos stuff, IMO.

Chaos marines are the coolest thing I've ever heard of, seriously. Giant, super-engineered men in impermeable metal suits with mini rocket launchers and power punches AND INSANE KILLING MACHINES BENT ON DESTROYING THE HUMAN EMPIRE AND WREAKING HAVOC ACROSS THE GALAXY WITH THEIR CRAZED AND HOLY GODS AT THEIR BACKS.


LOVE

Funny, I interpret it as a bunch of dudes who got mad at their dad and are now throwing an epic temper tantrum But then, you gotta admit that several of the legions (Traitor or otherwise) are pretty shallow.

Samus Aran, your sig disagrees with you.