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So what do I do with my aobr marines?

Should I buy a few more and make a codex marine army or don't waste my money and leave them and buy more GK or the newly released DE??

Also if I were to make an army 750 points, what is a competitive list I can build

All I can think of is:

The abobr commander

10x marines
1x rocket
1xflamer
Rhino

10x marines
1x rocket
1xflamer
Rhino

dreadnough 2xTL auto
dreadnough 2xTL auto

I don't have a marine codex yet so All i can do is base on my gk army.


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*no suggestions?

Trust me; you need a codex first!

But a competitive list my friend made based on the AoBR Set:

Captain: Power sword

x2 terminator squads: Stormbolters

x5 Tactical squads: Flamer, Missile launcher for each.

1 Scout squad, with Sgt. Tellion

1 Devastator squad

Hope this has helped

You can always try to sell them if you don't want them. They won't run for the same as their boxed counterpart, due to lack of customization options (both in posing the model and weapon options.)

If you don't make an army from them and instead move onto a non-Imperial army you could always use them as trophies...

Black reach makes a nice starter, and it's what I used as a base for my army. You can get a good sized force out of it and a battle force. An example would be

HQ:
Captain, Artificer armor relic blade
Command Squad (Kitted out as you see fit though the options in the BF box will give you a semi decent CC unit)

Troops:
10 man Tac FL, ML
10 man Tac MG, ML, Rhino
5 man scouts CCW/BP sarge with Fist (May need to find a guard player for the fist)

Fast Attack
5man Assault Squad Sarge with Fist and PP

Elites:
Dread MM/DCCW

5 man terminator with SB and Chain fist (Cut up a chainsword with some green stuff and BAM)



It's not competitive but it can give you a good idea on what the codex's strenghts and weaknesses are.

I just turned my AOBR Marines and made em into a Power Armored Warrior Acolyte unit. Dont know what to do with the Terminators though...

I had to convert mine to Death Guard and World Eaters through paint and adding horns and scrapping imperial insignia

1) Play some games at your local store and wait for some kid to buy an AOBR box. Offer to trade the marines for his orks.
2) Give them to a friend who doesn't play yet, get them into the game.
3) Loot everything for ork conversions.

Dshrike wrote:You can always try to sell them if you don't want them. They won't run for the same as their boxed counterpart, due to lack of customization options (both in posing the model and weapon options.)

If you haven't painted, they'll run for the same amount. AoBR is the very definition of WYSIWYG, with every marine in static "bolter-ready" stance, a single flamer and a single ML, no weapon customization, no customization at all. It's an excellent jumping off point, with some very nice models, but the total lack of customization makes me prefer battleforces.

I ended up workign on making them into a black templar army with the space marines captain turning into my champion.

they are pretty standard marines but with a black templar spru they turned out pretty good. if you wanted a ultramarins salamander or white scar marines set they're a great jumping off point, or as stated they make a good trade item / sell well

I don't know if I want to sell them because I don't need the money, I am gonna collect marines one day, basicly I wanna make a 750 point army for each army.

So my idea are:

pro paint them and display them or sell them, (my friend pro paint stuff and promised to paint all my for free)

buy another set of Aobr marines or just more tac marines

use them as my warrior acolyte because I am making one of them as well.

Are marines competitive?

Yes? No? Above average? Below average or just average.

If you have no better use for them.... Melt their bodies and stick their bubbling torsos onto your rhinos.... That's assuming you're a chaos player, of course

Dshrike wrote:You can always try to sell them if you don't want them. They won't run for the same as their boxed counterpart, due to lack of customization options (both in posing the model and weapon options.)

I don't think £25 for them is worth the trouble. I do like a variation to my normal GK ownage (not always) lol. Not many people in my local GW shop play competitively so My purifier list is just that tad better than the fluff list most people play


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Samus_aran115 wrote:If you have no better use for them.... Melt their bodies and stick their bubbling torsos onto your rhinos.... That's assuming you're a chaos player, of course

I don't play chaos but i can always turn them into noise marines (that is the correct name right?)


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MaximusPrime wrote:Trust me; you need a codex first!

But a competitive list my friend made based on the AoBR Set:

Captain: Power sword

x2 terminator squads: Stormbolters

x5 Tactical squads: Flamer, Missile launcher for each.

1 Scout squad, with Sgt. Tellion

1 Devastator squad

Hope this has helped

That is a little basic, I am prepared to get a few rhinos and land speeders into my list but just get the abor marines and termis to build my list. so what is your suggestion on that?