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I was wondering if anyone else has had the habit of running 10 man full squads for fluff/ fun sakes when playing non competitive games?

I've always liked bringing devastator marked up bolter marines to fill out the squads. Only thing I used to run light as a 5 man was one tactical squad to be able to fit by Company Master in a Razorback, since Rhinos lack a 11th seat for bringing librarians/chaplains, company masters with a full squad.

Do you do run anything else at max size just because it just "feels" more correct to do so?

Whenever I run my plague marines it's in squads of 7, even long after they no longer gained benefits from Legion rules.

This even applies to my collection; I have exactly 49 Plague Marines with 14 special weapons and 7 champions among them.

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
Whenever I run my plague marines it's in squads of 7, even long after they no longer gained benefits from Legion rules.

This even applies to my collection; I have exactly 49 Plague Marines with 14 special weapons and 7 champions among them.

Nurgle approves. I have a small Nurgle Daemon force and I take 2 squads of 7 Nurgling swarms for troops

To answer the OP. Yes, I have the compulsion to fill squads as well and feel it's wrong to have minimum size/ non full squads UNLESS there's a fluff reason such as Chaos Daemon numbers for squad sizes.

I always run my Imperial Guardsmen and Veterans in 10-man squads .

As far as units that are allowed to have squad sizes other than 10, I like 10-girl Repentia squads, since it means somebody might live to hit back, and sometimes I have a 10-girl Battle Sisters Squad for my firebase for Act of Faith efficiency.

I tend to run max squads for Repentia for exactly the same reason, though I'm tempted to run Repentia MSU now, maybe.

Celestians, if I bother to bring them at all, I tend to use a full unit of 10.

Broadsides, I usually use a full squad of three.

As for Battle Sister Squads, though - I used to run squads of 10, but I'm going to try two squads of five in a single Rhino now - one with 2 melta/combi-plasma and one with flamer/heavy flamer/combi-plasma, fluffed as two fire teams in a single squad.

10 squads of 10 men with 10 tanks. Face my Imperial Guard.

 Nerak wrote:
10 squads of 10 men with 10 tanks. Face my Imperial Guard.

It's a infantry company with a command squad, and 3 platoons each with 3 infantry squads of 10, a command squad, and a machine gun section, supported by a tank company with 1 command tank squad and 3 tank squadrons with 3 tanks each, and an artillery battery with a command squad, a supply section of 3 ammunition haulers, and 2 firing sections of 3 self-propelled artillery pieces.