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Starcraft Terran inspired Space Marines?

Tactics: Red Scorpions (or if people bitch about FW, Iron Hands )

HQ
Master of the Forge with Conversion beamer 110pt

Troops
Tacticals x10 + flamer + Rhino +apothecary 180pt
Tacticals x10 + flamer + Rhino +apothecary 180pt
Tacticals x10 + flamer + Rhino +apothecary 180pt
Tacticals x10 + flamer + Rhino +apothecary 180pt

Fast Attack
Land Speeder x2 HF/HF 120pt - modeled with wheels like helions
Land Speeder x2 MM/MM 160pt - wheels again
Stormtalon with skyhammer missiles 125pt - converted into Banshee

Heavy Support
Devastators x7 + 4x flakk missiles 198pt
Deimos Predator with Beamer 140pt
Deimos Predator with Beamer 140pt - siege tank style

Aegis Defense Line with Quad 100pt

This currently puts me at 1813pt.
Is the list bad?
Also, I really love reapers and jump pack marines but are they actually good? Its just that they are FA, or in elites but fkin expensive..
I also wanted to get centurion devastators as marauders.. but they are just bad. Then I thought about dreadnoughts with missiles (Mortis), but thats DA only, and they kinda dont have Stormtalons.
Any idea how to make this better?

This seems a very good list at first glance, got a good mix looks balanced, nice concept too with the Starcraft inspired MArine.. lest hope a battle with them isnt as hard as the damn game! lol

Please id love some feedback on my recent list http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/605743.page

cool.
where's dreadnaught thor?

Cool idea, but what rules would it use.. and can you even make a dread (rules wise) be as shooty as a Thor?
I was originally thinking a dreadknight fit Thor more but... eh. Nah.

 poolatka wrote:
cool.
where's dreadnaught thor?

I believe you mean reaver titan thor.

You need a bunker as a bunker, and a techmarine as an SCV.
Purchase Quad gun as a missile turret.

-Matt

Whoops... there doesn't seem to be anything here.

Question: What do the rhinos represent? Or the Devestators?

And centurions are actually really good with grav and a land raider or a chapter master to tank some hits.

The rhinos.. grounded medevacs? I was trying to think about a transport option, but a stormraven for every marine squad.. yeah theres not enough points for that. So they are there so the list is at least a bit playable, heh.
Devastators should be the Marauder-counts-as.
And I meant missile centurions - mostly since they can only have chest mounted missile launchers. But I guess I could fluff the lascannons as anti-tank missiles or something.. but their points cost is much higher than the devastators, no?

And flakk on them so i can stick them near the aegis quad and have a somewhat reliable AA.
Conversion beamer was in the SM corebook i believe.. or am I thinking of the old version?

If you absolutely wanted to dedicate this SM army to Starcraft Terrans, I'd kit bash Storm Talons with Rhinos to have "hovering" transports to represent the Medivacs. Centurions would be Marauders/Firebats.

It's a shame you lack a Vindicare to represent a Ghost...

Hm, kitbashed floating rhinos could be cool, probably need just a big flying base like a ravager... that could actually be fun to make.

The centurions im still not sure about. Plus they cant take flamers.
Maybe dreads as hellbats... I did want to use the missile dread and model the missile launchers to go out of its fists.

Shame about the vindicares, yeah, though allying GK just for that seems odd.. since the HQ would..well, not fit.

Also I just had an idea:
Contemptor Mortis Dread - with 2x TW Autocannons and Cyclone - as a Thor.

Rhino carry cap is 10, so how are you fitting in an apothecary? Does apothecary upgrade a marine to replace a model so you have 10 models instead of 11?

An Imperial Knight would make a good Thor.
You could use Assault Centurions as Firebats.

I love the idea of a Techmarine SCV.

Also if you're serious about making this army look the part check out Flinty's conversions.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/336989.page

 Filch wrote:
Rhino carry cap is 10, so how are you fitting in an apothecary? Does apothecary upgrade a marine to replace a model so you have 10 models instead of 11?

The Red Scorpions tactics let you upgrade each tactical sergeant to have a Narthecium for free.

Apothecary is a sgt upgrade. I thought about collecting the same army but it'd be a pain in the ass to convert every model in a starcraft marine ahah. By the way if you're going fluffy i'd suggest: stormtalons as banshees, drop pods as drop pods, vindicators as siege tanks, imperial knight as thor, dreadnought as warhounds or goliaths, centurions as marauders, i could even add marauders to the normal space marines squads using them as special and heavy weapons marines (different models used as normal marines, to add some variety too), assault marines as reapers, scout bikes as vultures (they even have the option for landmines as the spyder-mines of the vultures) rhinos could be represented by the colonial transports from the campaign and the same is for the stormravens, bikes as diamondbacks or an armored variant of the hellion, that's all i think... I'm sorry, no idea for ravens, medivacs or battlecruisers...

I wonder if anyone made a zerg/tyranid army. Or a taudar protoss army.

Zerg/Tyranid should be easy to do.
Get a Hive Tyrant, convert to look feminine/ like a Queen.
Get tons of gants/gaunts or even better, the Endless Swarm formation.
Carnifexes into Ultralisks, devourer Warriors into Hydralisks, Hydras as Mutalisks? Bonus points for getting a Trygon and making it look like a Nydus worm, and using it as such.


Battlecruiser.. that could be a stormraven, or the even bigger one that is a superheavy? Or that more-gun-heavy stormraven from FW.
Goliaths.. i completely forgot about for some reason, despite being my fave unit in the old SC. Huh.
I intended to model the flamer in the tacticals like a firebat - maybe add a missile launcher and make him into a marauder.
I did ponder about using Vindicators as Siege Tanks, but the think about ST's is that they are long ranged and not must-get-in-your-face kinda tank. Or I guess I could ally IG and make the Siege Tanks out of Lemans.


In fact now im thinking about IG as SC marines.. fck.