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Hey there guys. I was wondering what particular playstyles people in general tend to favour for Space Marines and what degrees of success you have had. Do you go for massed fire power, MSUs of elite units, a broad spread of units or a Flying/Drop pod Calvary?

I'm currently using a massed fire power model for my chapter, though I want to sprinkle in some fliers and assault terminators to clean up the messes made by my crusader squads. Though my land speeders are currently my favourite unit because of the damage they they dish out

People seem to prefer MSU White Scars army with grav guns used prolifically.

I generally run TAC lists with a little bit of everything.

I favour the sternguard squads but I'm going to run a gunline list at my next tournament I'm attending

I run Salamanders in Drop Pods. Lots of meltas and lots of flamers and lots of Drop Pods. Usually with an assault termie squad in a Land Raider to draw fire.

If I ever get things squared away and painted, I will most likely be running Iron hands with a heavy armor column of two preds/vindis and a land raider, 4-6 rhino/razor squads, a couple of ironclads in pods with a twin flamer assault squad pod to make the numbers jive... Something like that. Saturate heavy armor, bring adequate scoring, hope for the best

Dont have a marine list yet but i have the codex and was planning on getting marines when i get my Tau painted up all nice and pretty-like (trying to actually paint some of my gak i got lying around before buying more....i know its heresy to think that way lol).

I WAS planning to go white scars biker lists. However i feel they are the only unit in the game that truely hate the new Jink rule as a whole. Yeah, they have a 3+ jink thanks to skilled rider but they lose their awesome BS4 to get it. Which kinda neuters them. Least marine landspeeders still want jink because otherwise they have no save whatsoever and will gladly take snapshots if it means they can attempt to shrug off that missile in their face lol.

Now, not sure. I'll have to reread their codex. i still want to bring some vanilla marines out but i want it to be a specialized and heavily customized/well painted list so i want tthe model count low to prevent having too much to paint lol

^I want that too, the low model count... The thing I mentioned is certainly not there what with all of the tactical squads. I may have to see if the new edition helped dark angels out any.

I was expecting to use Marines bikers as allies to Tau, but now Drop pod became a more interesting option (or LotD, just to add to the ignore cover festival)

I make a list around deterrence. I make sure everyone is in shooting range to protect eachother with at least something. And then if you come in after someone to break up the cohesion I will drop a literal or figurative meteorite of doom on top of you with something nasty.

This has its weaknesses naturally. Forcing me to prioritize threats and predicting where I will smash hardest will mess me up. And knowing the limits of my commanders will also be important

I'm a big fan of Terminators, ever since Space Hulk, and my list is basically Land Raiders and Terminators. It's not a very effective list and gets slaughtered by tournament lists, but it looks like it will be much better under 7th than it was under 6th.