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I was thinking of putting together a space marine assault army and would like some advice on were to start it doesn't matter which space marine codex (chaos,DA,BA,vanilla) as long as its not space wolves. Also i was wondering on the best way to use assault marines. Thanks

Blood Angels would be your best bed because they use Assault Marines as troops. You can run them with jumppacks or with no jumppacks, thus getting a discount on vehicles.

The other codici can't provide you with Assault Marines as troops.

I have seen people play them with chaos.
DA is the worse choice.
Vanilla is pretty bad apart from you can give everyone fleet.
BT is interesting as you can give everyone stormshields.

BA is the answer.

Wolves can do well also!

BA

assault as troops

nuff' said

ASSAULT MARINE army or ASSAULT ARMY? because with the first one, definitely BA. With the second,with the wonders of assault terminators and assault vehicle land raiders, even vanilla can viably pull that off.

Assault army you want a large number of bodies on the field and a way to get them into combat quickly, Rhinos or Drop Pods most likely, use Fast Attack to screen your transports.

If you want to use the vanilla Codex you could dig up Korvyde out of IA8, he's a pretty effectively priced Raven Guard Captain that lets you take Assault Marines as Troops; then again he's probably one of the few truly OP things to come out of Imperial Armor since he's effectively got 20pts of free gear plus his alternate organization and Hit and Run special rules so you might have trouble finding an agreeable opponent.

BA. Simple, fast, effective, deadly. And red.

BT regular crusade squads come with either bolters or ccw. So they might work for what you want.

Otherwise, its BA