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I am new to 40k and trying to put together a general space marine army (750 for now) and with what i have left over i can put together a command squad, but i am not sure it is worth it. I have read a lot of negative things about the unit. Also I am not exactly sure what role they should fill.

Here is what I came up with:

4 vets 1 apothecary
power sword
lightning claw
2 melta guns
2 plasma pistols = 195 points

and the squad would be attached to a Captain with:

Captain
Powerfist
Combi-melta
artificer armor
digital weapons = 160

Any help is much appreciated

I would do it just because it looks cool
But the group would be expensive at 750 points I think. Could you put up your whole list to see what would mesh well?

Whole Army:

Tactical squad
10 marines
plasma gun
missile launcher
sergeant with powerfist = 205

Tactical squad
10 marines
plasma gun
missile launcher
sergeant with powerfist = 205

Razorback
twin lascannon
storm bolter = 85

4 vets 1 apothecary
power sword
lightning claw
2 melta guns
2 plasma pistols = 195 points

Captain
Powerfist
Combi-melta
artificer armor
digital weapons = 160

Total = 850 gah I'm stupid i forgot i was making it 850 people play that right? if not i can cut something. thanks for replying



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Questions still stand...

Well, you should check at your local FLGS to see what the normal amount of points allowed is. Generally, 1000-1500 points is the norm, but it would depend on where you play.

Other than that, it looks ok to me, but I have lists made that use Vulkan, so you may want to check more overall knowledgable people.

You need look beyond the points at the moment. This mostly as i doubt I could even win below 1000pts.

Command squads can take loads of melta and hard to kill. So drop pod them and laugh.
They can take bikes and cc weapons and are hard harder to kill so laugh.

In depends on roles, so they are not scoring but they can have awesome options if your list lacking certain roles.

A good example would be that there is a need for a hard cc unit above 2000 pts, that can be filled with the command squad if your elite FoC is filled.