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I was wondering if a space marine tactical squad spam would work? How it would work? What i should give them in terms of load outs? What kind of units should i take with them? Etc... Thanks

I've done it, to great effectiveness.

My preferred recipe is Salamander chapter tactics, full squads, and drop pods. I combat squad most of the time. Flamer, Multimelta, with a combi-melta, lightning claw, and melta bombs on the sarge. For tactics regarding multiple units on the drop, you can check out this tactics article here.

I like to back them up with a Land Raider with Assault Termies and Vulkan inside. Really, I've won many games with just the Vulkan-Termie-Land Raider plus as many Tactical squads as I could fit. You'll usually have a few points left over, but there's some really cheap options to fill those out. Attack bikes, Land Speeders, and a Librarian are all good gap-fillers, and if you have 95 points to spend, you can get a drop pod assault squad with two flamers.

Another possibility is Lascannon/Plasmagun squads with Red Scorpions tactics to make all the sergeants into apothecaries.

Black Templar las/plas crusader squads with las/plas backs.

For sheer tac marine power? UM tactics, Calgar as warlord. No contest.

More limited but more troops try a heresy tactical list. 1500 points, 4 squads of 20 tactical marines, power wpn and melta on the sgts, each with an apothecary, and led by consul and a few points left to spare for minor upgrades. Most armies don't have the fire power to down 85 feel no pain marines.

Cept eldar lol

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Another possibility is Lascannon/Plasmagun squads with Red Scorpions tactics to make all the sergeants into apothecaries.

Run a Seige Vanguard list from the Badab War with Red Scorpion CT and give all your tactical squads boring shields for re-rollable saves against shooting leaving you with multiple 10 man tactical squads all with re-rollable 3+ saves and 5+ FNP! These squads will basically never die!

where can I find access to these performance enhancing tac marine CTs

Forge World Chapter Tactics update.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/F/FWchaptertactics.pdf

I've run something like this quite a bit recently, I think the most I've used was 5 tac squads in a 1500 game. It can work very well against armies that rely on 5+ saves and numbers, as Tac marines can mow through the likes of guardsmen and gants as fast as anything, while being fairly cheap.

In terms of squad setups, I like the following loadouts:

HB/Flamer/Combi-flamer in a pod. 2 templates on the drop, HB can be dropped but I have it around for fluff reasons. This is a neat anti-infantry unit.

Melta/combi-melta/MM in a pod. As above, but against vehicles.

Las/plas in a Rhino. Good AP2 shooting and works nicely with a razorback.

ML/Flamer, cheap and cheerful. Don't expect wonders, but pretty reliable and not a huge investment.

In terms of supporting units, I like Sternguard in a super-tac squad role, bolstering the gunline or DP assault, and AM for counter-charge purposes. Vehicles in HS work well with Rhino lists, but for a foot list you're more likely to want Devs and TFC.

Regarding CT, Ultras for versatility, IF for reliability, IH for survivability, Sallies for offence.