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Now, this might sound a bit crazy, but I am am planning on making an army completely composed of scouts (and the like). Now, the reason I am in this forum is because, do you think I should make A kind of scout that is better than the regular scouts, but not as good as the standard tac. marine. The reason is, I want an army based on good, stealthy, and lethal infantry better than standard infantryman. I'm thinking, maybe we could bump up the WP and BP by one point, or maybe even increase the attacks. I'm open to any ideas, suggestions, or criticism (well, maybe not much of the last one)

Honestly all you need to do is make the Land Speeder Storm a dedicated transport and then take Vulkan Hestan for TL melta goodness...

6 sets of scouts in storms plus 3 sets of scout bikers would be more than enough for most games. Then at higher point levels you call in the marines who you are scouting for.



In some of the older books you will find that the scouts are an Elite choice and have WS/BS 4 for 15 pts base without grenades. The newer troops scouts are weaker to balance the fact that they are scoring.

Well, thanks alot. I might revive this post eventually with some pics. But, that would probably be in about a couple months.

I mostly agree with some earlier posts, lots of scouts and their bikes, land speeder storms and Telion, hopefully your not an ultramarine so defile his chapter affiliation.

Does Telion count as a HQ choice? Because that would be the only problem with this idea.

Crazy? If that's crazy, lock me in a room with padded cells. I have a scout army (not very big, but I'm gonna get 10 more soon)-

5 scouts (Heavy bolter)
10 scouts
5 scouts (snipers, missile launcher)
3 scout bikes (plasma pistol, grenade launcher)
5 scouts
Land speeder storm
Korvydae (raven guard captain of the 10th)

Yeah there is all of this fluff about the 10th company being all scouts, but they cannot let you play a scout army.

you can have a really SICK 500 pt army consisting of 1 chaplain, 2x5 scouts, 1 set CCW, the other sniper+heavy bolter and a LR redeemer.

For HQ i would suggest maybe a librarian in a Drop pod with Sternguard. They could be the veterans who are training the scouts.

10th company aren't all scouts.
The sergeants are veterans and the Captain, Chaplain, Librarian and any attached Techmarines are in power armour or better.

Well still, I think I'll just stick to scouts. (to tell you the truth, I really don't like regular space marines. I was thinking I could have a chaplain on a bike with the other bikes, as my HQ choice. And another question: what about tanks? I really see no problem having tanks in this army, but I'm trying to take the stealthy long-range approach. Maybe a Whirlwind. Or a Land Raider. Who knows what'l happen?

If it's a 10th company then there would be some sort of commander (Like a chaplain)
Tanks not so much but a whirlwind could make sense as the scouts could use it as adistraction force.
OR
As the SM codex says "Large portions of an enemy force have been assigned to destroy whirlwinds only to be ambushed in turn by a cunning commaner who forsaw the move"
They could be defending the wirlwind...

That could be a fun idea for a scenario game.

svendrex wrote:Yeah there is all of this fluff about the 10th company being all scouts, but they cannot let you play a scout army.

you can have a really SICK 500 pt army consisting of 1 chaplain, 2x5 scouts, 1 set CCW, the other sniper+heavy bolter and a LR redeemer.

For HQ i would suggest maybe a librarian in a Drop pod with Sternguard. They could be the veterans who are training the scouts.

OR just use a captain, saying it is the captain of the 10th.
Chaplains could work too.
Libbys...not so much.

I'm thinking, maybe I could model the captain with some scout bitz to look more like a scout kinda guy.

susejo239 wrote:I'm thinking, maybe I could model the captain with some scout bitz to look more like a scout kinda guy.

Why not buy the Space Marine Captain of the recruits and convert him a bit from there if that's what you want?

He's not totally scout-ish, but he sorta looks it, and is one of the few really good looking HQ models imho.

I have a list I plan to make, its 1500 point army

HQ
Cap (100) artificer armor (15) relic blade (30) = 145

Troops
Scouts x10 (140) camo x10 (30) heavy bolter (10) = 180
Scouts x10 (140) camo x10 (30) heavy bolter (10) = 180
Scouts x10 (140) camo x10 (30) heavy bolter (10) = 180
Scouts x5 (75) Power fist (25) Ccw x4= 100
Scouts x5 (75) Power fist (25) Ccw x4= 100

Fast attack
Land speeder squad x3 (150) Typhoon missile launcher x3 (120) = 270
Scout bike squad x5 (110) Astartes grenade launcher x5 (50) cluster mines (10) = 170
Scout bike squad x5 (110) Astartes grenade launcher x5 (50) cluster mines (10) = 170

TOTAL = 1495 points

I have yet to even start on the army, its more for fun then anything else. I plan to change the space marines in the speeders to scouts for fluff. I would run Speeder storms if they where dedicated!
IDK if points are right I made the list off the top of my head.

Ahem, now, as I said before, thanks alot. I might revive this post eventually with some pics. But, that would probably be in about a couple months