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Hi there. I'm fairly new to 40k. I'm putting together a vanilla space marine army, having just recently recently the SM battalion and a predator as gifts. I'm still in the process of assembling the models.

Here's what I currently have:

10 man Tactical squad, missile launcher & flamer + rhino

10 man Tactical squad, lascannon & flamer + rhino

5 man combat squad

5 man Assault squad, flamer, power fist

5 man scout squad

Land speeder

Predator

As you can see I have no HQ. I'm leaning towards a chaplain and attaching him to the assault squad, but as I have no experience I'd like to hear what the board thinks.

Thanks

Captians are pretty good too. I like chaplains more though. Here's my list from what you have:

Chaplain with a plasma pistol

2x 10 marines,melta,melta, rhino

Assault squad with a power sword and a plasma pistol

Predator

Vindicator



This makes an okay list, but you'll need some more stuff. I ran this at a friends house without figuring out the points cost, so I can't really say for sure how many points it is... Maybe like.... a thousand, I think...

meltaguns and power fists are needed. you have 1 fist and 2 meltas. you should do mostly ok against tanks only if you're lucky (AV 14 might be problematic, with only 1 gun that can penetrate, and 2 others that are short-range) also, only 1 power fist is problems against armored up armies, e.d. necrons, chaos marines, termie armies....