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I'm about to begin my very first 40K army and I think it's down to normal SM or space wolves.
Would any one of them lend itself to a new comer more than the other?

SMs seem a bit more friendly to paint for a newcomer and suit custom schemes a bit more but SWs are just cool.

TH3FALL3N wrote:Vanilla marines!!

Lol why so?

reds8n wrote:Gonna move this to the 40k general board.....

Sorry I'm new, need to familiarise myself with the forum better

Well..... is there any reason I can't really do custom SWs?

I know there's not much room in the official fluff for successor chapters etc

But what's to stop my buying SWs, painting them (all the following is just for example, not actually what I am thinking about doing) bright orange and calling them "the snow puppies" and saying they was some wolves that got lost and ended up as their own company - then just field them under SW codex rules?

hobojebus wrote:Whats to stop you? all SW players everywhere!!!!

You can have a none codex great company, patrols get lost in the warp from time to time and get drawn away from their home segmentum as they recieve pleas from help that stop them returning to rearm and recruit.

But they dont have the facility to make new SW so you'd have a max 120 men that would dwindle over time untill your destroyed or return to fenris.

Cool ok

I suppose for my own "private" back story I can just say something like they happened to get lost with a bunch of stuff needed to make new marines or something.
(Painting and displaying the models for my own enjoyment with custom made scenery is 75% of the reason I am getting into this, playing the game is secondary).
Or maybe they DO make supply trips to Fenris and they are a resent rediscovered company. Whatever, as long as I can do with them whatever I fancy and still play them AS SWs then that's fine.

DeffDred wrote:What is it about the SW that you like? The models, rules or the story?

If it's just the story stick with vanilla marines.

You have a much wider range of models with vanilla and can really create your own themed army.

It's the fact that SWs are basically Vikings, and I am keen on vikings, I like all the wolf pelts etc and the back story is cool.

Before I had a clue about 40K I'd have gone right for CSM based on the models but the basic back story to all the Chaos guys just doesn't do anything for me. At all.



Regular Marines are starting to appeal more to me though just on the number of models available.

Tyranids are gonna be my "B Team" for sure, the army I just add to as and when I find a bargain etc.