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I enjoy playing SM and was wondering if anyone had ideas for what a good 2nd Army might be for someone who plays SM alot.

Do not colect another Astartes-Like army. That means no Grey Knights, no non-Vanilla Space Marines, no Vanilla Space Marines, no Custodes. Nothing. This will help you have more fun with your second army. As for the army you should buy, do you want to complement your Space Marines or have something completely different?

If you want something different, I'd say go for Chaos. They have the base flavour that I find most Space Marine players are attracted to when the go for Space Marines in the first place, but they're different enough and are not alloes of the Imperials, so it makes them a good choice. If you want to support your Imperials, I'd say go Imperial Guard or a Knight House.

Go xenos. All of them are different from Imperial armies.

Something completely different and not overpowered as you already have an overpowered army, so I'd avoid other imperium factions, tau, chaos (still too close to SM), daemons and eldar.

Tyranids and orks are awesome but quite expensive, they're not appropriate as a second army and if you start them you can get tired of them or they become your first army. You'll want a huge number of models with those two armies, take it into account.

I'd suggest gen cult, necrons or dark eldar. Maybe a combined space elves force with dark eldar, harlequins and eldar.

Which Space Marines do you use? If you are a Dark Angels player you might not fancy painting more green things so don't choose orks and go for Necrons or Tau instead.

Mil tempestus maybe? They seem like theyd be a small model count, more elite force which could ally with your marines if you wanted.

I havent played them but just a thought...

I'd go Imperial Guard, very very differant play style, but you can still use them with allies or the castellians detachment. this'll allow you to slowly build up your IG force and still get to use them while you're building.

What play style are you interested in? IG have everything from drowning the enemy in bodies to armored formations to a few elite squads in transports or Valkyries. A bit more info on what you're interested would help vector us towards what to recommend.