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I was thinking about making a custom chapter master (and possibly basing an army around him) and wanted some input on how balanced/fair this would be using items from within C:SM

Lord Commander Neos of the Lunar Phalanx

WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv
6 5 4 4 4 5 4 10 2+

Wargear: Artificer Armour, The Moon's Glow, The Burning Blade (yes i know this is a Chapter Relic), Storm of Silver

Special Rules: ATSKNF, Chapter Tactics, Ind. Character, Orbital Bombardment

The Moon's Glow: A unique Iron Halo that took an immense amount of time to craft, but the time taken for its forging has led its effectiveness being greatly increased. Confers a 3+ invulnerable save
Storm of Silver: A custom made lightning claw that features a storm bolter incorporated onto it. (Standard rules for both weapons)

Based on prices for items the codex does 230 points seem fair and if your wondering about the Burning Blade, in short he wields it out of sheer respect for the Emperor

Feel free to say what you want about this and sorry in advance if i don't respond immediately, thanks.

It's pretty much over-powered. He's got standard CM stats, that's fair, but you decide to give him a Burning Blade, 3++ Invulnerable without the downside a Storm Shield gives, and a Lightning Claw/Storm Bolter. The fluff behind the Burning Blade is bad as well; "he wields it out of sheer respect for the Emperor". Every Marine has sheer respect for the Emperor, I wouldn't say this guy's any more respectful to allow the army to take a second BB.

I would ditch the BB and make the Lightning Claw more unique if you want some balance in this.

As far as points go 230 is fine, the only things about him that are different to what you can make up from the book are a 3++ save that doesn't require a hand and a lightning claw with a stormbolter built in. Due to the fact that the lightning claw is a specialised weapon you can't gain an additional attack from it so its not as if your gaining anything from have the 3++ halo instead of a stormshield, the only time the claw is better than the Blade is against T2 things as far as I can tell, or perhaps if your trying to void taking the wound it can deal.
Really nothing particularly powerful or broken here so go ahead and have fun.


I assume your making this character because you have a model you wish to use or build to represent him. If your friends are ok with homebrew rules then perhaps be a little more creative with him. Give him a reason to have a sword and a claw, give them rules that work with each other instead of just two items from the base book and give him a special rule as well that gives a bit of flavour to him instead of just a generic chapter master.
Its harder to work out a fair cost for but is alot more rewarding and fun to play with, just be sure your play group is happy with him.