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Yeah i was wondering that ever since I have 350 space marines should i stop collecting D:.
But i really want to buy some Blood Angel stuff as their symbol looks like mine...
Ok heres what i got.
1st company
1 Terimantor Squad (10 man)
Assualt Cannon
6 Sternguard Squads (10 man)
3 have melta and flamer
3 have heavy weapon and melta or plasma
3 vanguard squads (10 man)
1 entirely of powerfists
1 entirely of chainswords
1 entirely of powerweapons
1 Captain Terminator ARmor
1 Chaplain Terminator Armor
2nd Company
1 Captain Scarius
1 command squad
1 Chaplain
6 Tactical squads
3 heavy bolter (plasma and flamer mix)
3 rocket launcher (flamers)
2 Assualt squads
2 Devastor Squads
3 heavy bolters, 1 lascanon, 1 plasma cannon 3 rocket launchers
10th Company
1 Captain
1 Chaplain
5 Tactical Squads (3 plasma cannons, all types, melta gun, plasma, flamer,)
(2 rocket launchers and 2 meltas) 1 Plasma gun
1 Devastor Squad (5 man)
2 Assault Squads
3 Vanguard Squads (1 6 man, 1 5 man, 1 10 man)
2 Stern Guard Squads
15 Libarains. -.- Yeah I love them
10 Commanders
Dreadnoughts x6
predators x 2
Razorbacks x 4
rhinos x 2
Land Raiders x 2
Thunderhawk gunship in the works (not the one from FW)
1 Chapter Master
With
10 Honor Guard
also got 2 chaplains.
:/
yeah I spent alot of money. like 450... 250 on ebay. 200 at GW. and most of this is from Friends who quit, dad, uncle, etc.
Should I buy this stuff or no....
I want/need the Death Company and the Sangunariy Guard and alot of paints. so in grand total around like 75$ Which i have enough money for right.... (I.E i need this stuff for my lore as i need to represent certain characters and icons on my segerants.)

You're a third of the way to having a whole chapter, why stop now?

I'd at least hold off on purchasing until everything was painted.

Jeez; now trade some of those to me in exchange for an ork army. =p

Hmm, to be objective here...Go the Chapter!

*Jim Carey voice* I have 350 marines, somebody stop me!!!

On a more serious note collect however you feel. Why don't you field all 350 in a giant APOC game. How awesome would that be.

Or carry on collecting and field an entire chapter . . . It would be completely un-fluffy . . . But who wouldn't enjoy seeing an entire SM chapter beat the living daylights out of a massive horde of something =p

Oshova

Well. Thing is. I want at least 500 marines. in total 4 compaines of marines. and 1 company of pure badasses.

You should've stopped collecting 51 marines ago.

And then made a Leonidas conversion.

I've made my own chapter
In which it is heavly based on a Templar.
I like spartans. I just dislike greek history.
I love templars. And i'm trying to get the luck number, 1,300
I have at least 368 marines? I don't know haven't looked at my marines for a while. I haven't counted them. Keeps changing D:

Finding someone(s) who could field a large enough army to let you deploy all of them at once would be pretty cool. A bitch to move them all, yes, but cool.

Vrakk wrote:Finding someone(s) who could field a large enough army to let you deploy all of them at once would be pretty cool. A bitch to move them all, yes, but cool.

I have fielded 200 of my marines before. I owned. But! It was only because I knew exactly how to play these guys. It was basically around 6.5k VS 7k. The 6.5k was me...

LOL

Your doing a templar themed force, and are trying to get the "lucky" number 13 as your total troop count?
You do realize the origin of friday the 13th and the number 13 being unlucky is from the fact that the TEMPLARS were rounded up and massacred almost to a man on a friday the 13th

Dont wanna be a douche but idk i just find it ironic

sc0ttfree wrote:LOL

Your doing a templar themed force, and are trying to get the "lucky" number 13 as your total troop count?
You do realize the origin or friday the 13th and the number 13 being unlucky is from the face that the TEMPLARS were rounded up and massacred almost to a man

Dont wanna be a douche but idk i just find it ironic

Yep. I know that. But. I have totaled a 1,250 space marine deaths throughout my gaming career. On the hobby boards. I count how many marines i loose at the end. and figure out ways to play it better.
But I really want 1,300 space marines because one i would like to stuff an entire chapter and support onto the field so that i can make the orc players at my store look worthless >
But anyway. I have fully read Templar history. And i have added that they are basically the Bank of the Imperium in which they hold all the relics and key items of the imperium. Like STC machines, lots of technology. And my chapter loans it to other chapters. And we get things we want to add to the collection.
And i also put in that I have a connection to the "Church" and have ties with the Inquistion. I have been following the Templar stuff in all my lore. But it is twisted into a futurisitic Version of it. Where the templars i have are smart and tactical like today's soldiers.
I have all the lore i need

Well Anyway Should I buy yes or no?

I have 30,000 points of Guard and Chaos. I also have separate Ultramarine, Deathwatch, Tyranid and Necron armies, virtually every Necromunda Gang, 3 editions of Space Hulk, a few thousand dollars worth of CoD and Planetstrike terrain, every Warhammer Quest product ever made and two sets of Tyranid Attack. And I just started buying MicroArt stuff to make an Adeptus Mechanicus army.

There's no such thing as 'too much'.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I have 30,000 points of Guard and Chaos. I also have separate Ultramarine, Deathwatch, Tyranid and Necron armies, virtually every Necromunda Gang, 3 editions of Space Hulk, a few thousand dollars worth of CoD and Planetstrike terrain, every Warhammer Quest product ever made and two sets of Tyranid Attack. And I just started buying MicroArt stuff to make an Adeptus Mechanicus army.

There's no such thing as 'too much'.

That puts my army to shame....
But i do have all the space hulks
I have counted a total of 55 terminators in that army.
Oh i forgot.
I have more than 20 terminators
And 16 Scouts.
And a Vindicator.
I'm also planning on getting an inqusitor just because the model looks awesome ^.^

Henners91 wrote:You should've stopped collecting 51 marines ago.

And then made a Leonidas conversion.

^ Seconded

I say yes BUY lol

The Emperor of Mankind wrote:

Henners91 wrote:You should've stopped collecting 51 marines ago.

And then made a Leonidas conversion.

^ Seconded

Stuff the rest of my plans for the evening, I need to do this now, though I may have to do a Dreadnought one too at some point (after the film )

An army of 300 Dreads? Or 300 Marines with a Dreadnought Leonidas?

I'm liking the idea of the first one, but not the cost of it =p

Oshova

I was thinking a Leonidas Dread, but if I ever won the lottery then yes 300 Spartan themed Dreads, ah one can dream...

I didn't like 300

What?! 300 was awesome!? Why not?

300 was awesome if you've never studied the history of Sparta, the battle of Thermopylae, or ancient Greece in general at all.

If you know thing one about any of the above, it's thoroughly ridiculous.

It's a romanticized version of a romanticized version of an actual event.

As if the graphic novel wasn't ridiculous enough.

Oh, and if you know anything about filmmaking, or, more specifically, cinematography... well, it's like a train wreck, see, you want to look away but you just can't.

Well, I used to be a history teacher and have studied and taught all of those events and I still thought it was awesome!
Obviously not true or even close to what might have actually happened, but then, the reality would have been a pretty lame movie.

That being said, I don't know jack about film making, so, you're probably right about everything else!

Jihadnik wrote:Well, I used to be a history teacher and have studied and taught all of those events and I still thought it was awesome!
Obviously not true or even close to what might have actually happened, but then, the reality would have been a pretty lame movie.

That being said, I don't know jack about film making, so, you're probably right about everything else!

Fair enough. I'm not saying you're not entitled to your opinion, but...

1) The Spartans were not betrayed by a mutant hunchback with daddy issues.
2) The Spartans did not go into battle half-naked. They were brave, not stupid.
3) There were, by many accounts, more like several thousand Persians, by other accounts, close to a hundred thousand, but no historical account of the Battle of Thermopylae I've read every claimed there were a million.

I could go on.

But from a cinematographic standpoint, there is no justification for the abuse of lens flare and slow motion (modern special effects gimmicks) in this movie.

However, this is all entirely my opinion. There's nothing wrong with enjoying the movie either!

DEATH89 wrote:

The Emperor of Mankind wrote:

Henners91 wrote:You should've stopped collecting 51 marines ago.

And then made a Leonidas conversion.

^ Seconded

Stuff the rest of my plans for the evening, I need to do this now, though I may have to do a Dreadnought one too at some point (after the film )

On topic...

I've managed to amass quite a lot of marines over the years too. I think I just recently tipped over the 200 mark.

There is quite a mixture. I have some metal grey hunters, limited edition Legion of the damned, lots of old RT marines. I think I have about 14 Librarians too, and quite a selection of chaplains, captains, vets and other characters. Not to mention a sh*tload of plastic tac squads from various eras. It's hard to know what to do with them all.

Lately I've been collecting Blood Angels, because I like the models. Most of my BA army is new though. I have a new jump pack Chapie, Lemartes, Astorath, Sanguinary guard, 20 new death company etc...

But I have also been cherry picking models from my old armies to use in my new one. I have some old Apothecaries who will all be updated to Sanguinary Priests, an old BA captain who has now traded in his cape for a winged jump pack. My 2009 Space Hulk Terminators are obviously going in. And my old Ultramarine dreadnought is about to succumb to the black rage (he doesn't know it yet).

As for the rest... I'll probably recycle them all eventually but not all as BA. At some point I'd like to paint some Imperial Fists, Angels of Redemption, Doom Eagles... Raven Guard and Salamanders look fun too. And I'd like to try a Space Wolves successor chapter.

I would rather have lots of tiny armies, that I can expand on later, or pull out for a quick game, than one big army that never gets used. Lots of small armies gives you more opportunities to paint and convert ICs and special characters too, which are more fun to work on than rank and file.

I don't think 350 marines is too much at all... But I do personally think it is too much for one army. And I think it's kind of lame to spend money on 60% tac squads just to follow GW's company structure. I would derive more fun from splitting them into smaller battle forces, and spend money on more interesting units.

It sounds like you are already committed to building companies anyway, so go for it... It's your money after all.

I would be quite interested to know how many of the 350 are actually painted, and to what standard?

Henners91 wrote:

DEATH89 wrote:

The Emperor of Mankind wrote:

Henners91 wrote:You should've stopped collecting 51 marines ago.

And then made a Leonidas conversion.

^ Seconded

Stuff the rest of my plans for the evening, I need to do this now, though I may have to do a Dreadnought one too at some point (after the film )

yeah i saw that one and the others with him but i think better is now possible and of course I now want to do the dread version

Back From School Thanks for the comments. The $100 in my room is burning a hole in my pocket...