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I've looked through the Vanilla Marines Codex and it says that if you take off the assault marines jump packs and give them a dedicated transport that they become infantry. Does this mean that they are counted as scoring units or no?

NO. They are still fast attacks.

Well if you take Korvydae, the raven guard captain of the 10th company, you have to have scouts, but assault marines count as troops. Even jump-pack equipped ones. He's in IA vol.8.

Alternatively, play Blood Angels.

use search next time before posting

and yes play BA

Riddick40k wrote:I've looked through the Vanilla Marines Codex and it says that if you take off the assault marines jump packs and give them a dedicated transport that they become infantry. Does this mean that they are counted as scoring units or no?

Jump Infantry can still be scoring. However, they must be chosen from the Troops Section of the army list.

See the Scoring Units section on P90 for more about this topic.

Scoring jump troops, like everyone else said Play Blood Angels.

I dont want them to be jump infantry, i would wanna take them in rhinos and drive up to an objective, disembark, and assault enemy objective holders with them

Or do what every other Bangle player does: realises that the point discount applies to razorbacks as well and spams assault cannon variants....

Riddick40k wrote:I dont want them to be jump infantry, i would wanna take them in rhinos and drive up to an objective, disembark, and assault enemy objective holders with them

You can do that but you need to deliver a Troop unit to take the objective. If you don't want to switch to the blood angels codex, what about using bikes? (bikes become troops with a captain on a bike). The assault marines drive the enemy off the objective, the bikes move up to secure it.

Riddick40k wrote:I dont want them to be jump infantry, i would wanna take them in rhinos and drive up to an objective, disembark, and assault enemy objective holders with them

Then play Black Templars

Riddick40k wrote:I dont want them to be jump infantry, i would wanna take them in rhinos and drive up to an objective, disembark, and assault enemy objective holders with them

Like everyone has said, play BA because the only way you can what you want is with a vehicle with assault ramps which BA can get with either a Storm Raven or LR dedicated Troop transport.

Riddick40k wrote:I dont want them to be jump infantry, i would wanna take them in rhinos and drive up to an objective, disembark, and assault enemy objective holders with them

That isn't possible with any codex, in one turn at least.


Using BAs you can take off the packs as you are wanting and they are still scoring units (Troops).