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I am completely stuck on what to get next for my space marines...

ATM I have:

vulkan
couple of captains
chaplain
libby
2x tac squad
1x scout squad
1x sternguard squad
1x landraider
2x rhino
10x sm bikes
1x vindicator
2x dreadnought
1x termi squad
1 x whirlwind
1x assault squad
2x dev squad

What should I get next???

Vindicators. You can never have too many vindicators.

Scout Bikers Alpha Strike ftw!

You can never have enough vindis. Having more tactical squads can't hurt. A LRR/LRC kit is a nice thing to pick up too. Hammernators?

ask yourself what kind of marine army do you want to field.

I can field 3 types of marine armies...

1) Battle company. 2500 point army, 101 marines on the table. 6 squads of tactical marines in rhinos, 2 squads of assault marines, and 2 squads of devastators, led by a captain. Only bring it out for friendly games, as its not exactly competitive, but its pretty fun to play.

2) Mechanized. 1000-3000 point army... basically if you want to mech up you need 2-3 rhinos, 2-3 razorbacks, tac squads to go inside them, a raider or two, some assault terminators, a few predators, maybe some speeders (typhoons)... write up a list before deciding what to buy. There are a lot of viable options, so its wide open to your playstyle.

3) Bikers. 1500-2000 point army... You just get in their face, hit them hard with meltas and plasmas, and use typhoon speeders for long range cover fire. possibly dual autocannon dreadnoughts as well... whatever.

Decide what army you want to play, write a list, get it critiqued on the forums, and THEN buy your models. Save yourself time and money, unless you want to buy models because they look cool (I know I did).

To those who said vindicators / land raider redeemers / crusaders.... they only work in vulkan lists.

He does have a vulkan model. Vindis also work well in an Imperial Fist style army.

Get as many assault squads and assault termies as you can, and a chaplien or to so they can re-roll

Some claw and/or hammer and shield termies wouldn't be a bad thing to pick up.

Vindicators are solid. Maybe some Speeders for MM/HF silliness with Vulkan?

Start tooling them out so you can run the other Marines Dex's. It really helps me from being bored because, for the price of one army, you can run 3 - 5.

Happygrunt wrote:Vindicators. You can never have too many vindicators.

Three pretty much sums it up doesn't it?
Looks like you could get some Speeders.

Predator? Just a suggestion.

I like preds too. I am pretty fond of the 85pt dakka preds with AC and HB sponsons

More than 3 if you play apoc or planetsrike!

Touche. Touche. I am suprised nobody has suggested a TFC yet...

TFC is fail without a VERY specific build in mind, and even then, you'd need at least 2 of them.

again, tell us what type of marine army you want to play before we make suggestions ><

I think you have a respectable pool of units to play from.

Unless you are going for a specific list, or an APOC sized force, I would suggest you change it up and start a new army!

Predators and landspeedrs both bring a lot to the table and fit into all sorts lists and if you magnetize them you can play around with different weapon load-outs.

OOh a predator or two would be nice...

Thanks for all the suggestions people it's been a great help

buy more dreads and Magnetize I bought 3 Dreads (2 AOBR + 1 Standard) plus about 8 various arms on Ebay. I can swap out to any weapon loadout across the 3, Power Storm bolter/Flamer/Melta? How about an Auto Cannon/Twin Las/Assualt Cannon/MM/Powerfist with Storm bolter/Plasma gun/Twin heavy bolter/hurricane bolter? Missile launcher? Seige drill?
Its great as you can loadout all 3 as assualt Dreads or Firesupport dreads or a mix, your opponent never knows what he is facing.

I have a magnetized ironclad but My other dred was glued together before I could come to my senses .

How effective are tankhunter dreds, how would they stack up against, say, a pred with all lascannons?

Anti Armour Dreads are good, i take the following MM/Powerfist with Flamer. Stick it in a Drop Pod and drop it in amongst the enemy Armour. If you get the drop on them they will get creamed, if you send in 2 Dreads this way it is expensive but against most enemies they will be so distracted and sucked in by these Monsters in their Rear Echelon they will forget about the wider battle lose focus. You definitely don't want to run a gauntlet of Lascannons or ML with a Dread.

I'm having a hard time decidng too, I'd bet with a list like that in your stable it gets really hard to choose....
Thanks for the replies ... you peeps are great...

I'm just now ready to add Mech. to my list, I'm thinking a Rhino, a Razonback, a LR Crusader, a Pred., and a Vindi...
then start pairing up on ones I like..........


for a Mech./Speerhead army, should I get a battleforce, or just a Rhino and 3rd Tac. Sqd.???

sorry to Hijack,but the wording on the posting rules seemed like unless the relevant thread was old, this was the norm....

I would go on EBAY or BARTERTOWN and buy a load of Rhinos/ SM Mech cheap. Buy them unpainted or strip them using SIMPLE GREEN.

I agree with the vindicators and adding a pred or 2 into that force, then id say a techmarine with serviators, techs are pretty cool n the models decent lookin to.