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A GREAT thing for starting players is also the "battle boxes" becasue almost every local game store has a couple players who are pretty new with different armies to start. Finding someone to split a battlebox with gives you a bunch of stuff (usually fairly solid stuff that is decent to use) for roughly half price, and gives you someone who now thinks of you as a 1. cool guy who got them their deathgaurd stuff cheaper and 2. potential play opponent. For example "dark imperium" is about 140 bucks, so your half would be 70, and get you 5 more hellblaster, 3 bolter incepters, 10 intercessers more, another captain and 2 lieutenants. ... so like, 20 primaris for about 67 bucks.
Conversely if you go after the cheapish but still one player primaris starter set of the wolven you get something like that, only not quite as good a deal, but you don't have to split it.
The smallest -- easy split -- kits are down in the 34 (edit .. per person.) bucks range ("know no fear") and has 5 Primaris Intercessors
x5 Hellblasters
x3 Interceptors
x1 Primaris Captain in Gravis Armor.
Yeah, ytou probably don't want 2 captains especially cause gravis armor is a fairly slow to move footslogger, but... consider 3 primaris inceptors if bought alone are already a 42 dollar purchase. More advanced kits like the shadowspear greatly alter your possible battle options, and come with more and different officers. (shadowspear has a phobos trio .. cap'n, lieut, and librarian). Wake the dead has a lieutenant but no captain. Those make those kits excellent options to balance out your captain rathter than doubling up, but the know no fear is a pretty awesome filler deal.
it gives you your battalion and the incepters are a drop unit, you have a lot more firepower with 10 hellblasters than 5 against armor, and its only 34 or so bucks, AND you have foudn a friend at the local game store -- or had an excellent means of introducing yourself to all the other new players just to ask them if they want to split a box.
You can also ask the other older players which boxes are good to split, thus meeting all of them. Usually people are encouraging to new players, so you can quickly find a lot of expertese wiling to help you gin up your new list in person.
Use those conversations to ask around if there are any people selling old marine stuff they no longer want. Many people dip into marine armies and don't play them much, and many are quite willing to sell the odd drop pod or marine tank for cheap, or dreadnaught, or old squad of tac marines, etc.
That's another way you can get your army bigger cheaply. Don't buy the individual units in boxes yet at all, because you are essentially paying double to pick EXACTLY the unit you want to play with, and right now, you haven't foudn your own playstyle and your own enjoyment style in the hobby as a marine player yet. In a few months, you may be gleefully charging your line of orks at the enemy, and your marines, although much enjoyed, are relegated to a back drawer in your bedroom because you like orcs better. Or you may find you really wanted slightly different primaris, in which case, sell your newbie starter army to someone else for a bit less than you paid, and go buy what you really, really want.
So save your ducats now, its a case of measuring twice before spending full premium price once!
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