I am very new to wargaming in general, but I really enjoy Warhammer 40k (the fluff, the way it plays out, rules interpretations, etc.). I have been playing SUPER casually with my friends who got me into it (Tau, Ork, and IG/Chaos).
For background, I am playing a chapter that was lost in the warp for 10,000 years, and recently emerged. They are supposed to be very hardy and "Hold the line" type of space marines, and I love tanky CC guys. So far, I have 10 Assault Termies with SS/TH, scouts, tactical marines, a land speeder, a librarian, a chapter master, and my main guy who will represent my HQ (like I said, we are very casual). In my first battle, I played them as Ultramarines with Cato Sicarius, and I was not that much of a fan (too squishy to fight an orc Warboss). In the second one, I played Lysander and loved him, but I am not really taking advantage of the chapter tactics (and nothing in Sentinels of Terra excited me much).
All of this rambling gets me to the point (i hope), is there a way to make a lysander like character for another chapter, or do you end up giving up too much? So far, the shield relic on a chapter master seems to get you most of the way there, but losing the Str 10 weapon really hurts against Orks. Am I missing something or is that about the sum of it?
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