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Starting a new marine army and i was given 40 mk6 marines and a conemptor dread.
I don’t want to use tactical squads so knowing that how would you use them in a 40k list?

Count as intercessors is my immediate thought but where do i get a grenade launcher?

Use the Contemptor as an old school box dread?

Any ideas?

You were gifted 40 beaky boys?! Nice!

Intercessors is a good way to use them. You can probably just cut the grenade launcher part off of some intercessor bits and glue them onto these guys' bolters or something similar.

Alternatively, consider using them as infiltrators (the more experienced first born have the experience needed to sneak up on the enemy more reliably) or as sternguard. Just say that the sternguard are using "special ammo" (a thing they used to have rules for), and that that's why your guns are using combi-weapon stats. Those devastating wounds you just inflicted were totally from the kraken rounds!

You could get some combi weapons and have one in the squad to counts-as the AGL for an intercessor squad.

If you pick up the 30k special weapon pack you could use plasma and flamers to make hellblasters/infernus marines

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
Starting a new marine army and i was given 40 mk6 marines and a conemptor dread.
I don’t want to use tactical squads so knowing that how would you use them in a 40k list?

Count as intercessors is my immediate thought but where do i get a grenade launcher?

Use the Contemptor as an old school box dread?

Any ideas?

WYSIWYG isn't really a thing (at this point) so you don't need to do anything. I'd also look into doing a chapter/legion so they can double-duty in Horus Heresy based on paint scheme.

40 beakies painted black would make for an awesome Raven Guard army...

 usernamesareannoying wrote:


Count as intercessors is my immediate thought but where do i get a grenade launcher?

Literally buy a bag of plastic tubes (Evergreen has a great assortment) and make some underbarrel launchers. $10 tops.

1st, pick wich types of squads/characters you want to make.

2nd, pick up boxes of the 30k special, heavy, assault weapons &/or bitz order weapons as needed.

As for the Contemptor? I'd run it as a Contemptor since it has a Legends data sheet.

You do kind of a need to buy 40 bases, as the the HH marines come on too small ones to use in w40k. A friend of mine had a IF/BT army, that was made out of HH assault space marines and despoilers, magnetized to regular marine bases. So he could use them both in HH and w40k. He use templars as brethern, volkite HSS as hellblasters. He used terminators and scouts on their regular bases as those are the same in both games.

Start playing Heresy.

I'd buy the Close Assault weapon upgrade kit to start with, followed by the special weapons upgrade kit. That would already give you a bunch of options on what to run them as.

Karol wrote:
You do kind of a need to buy 40 bases, as the the HH marines come on too small ones to use in w40k. A friend of mine had a IF/BT army, that was made out of HH assault space marines and despoilers, magnetized to regular marine bases. So he could use them both in HH and w40k. He use templars as brethern, volkite HSS as hellblasters. He used terminators and scouts on their regular bases as those are the same in both games.

I thought all basic power armor marines, both 30 and 40k, were on 32mm?

just personal opinion here but i really like the primaris marines and would like to include them. if i add a box on intercessors would you mix the armor types or keep them separate?
im sure theres no right or wrong but i like to hear what others think.
head cannon is its just units being upgraded as they suffer loses.

10th has worked real hard to get rid of the primaris/firstborn line. We are starting to see firstborn units, like sternguard, just modernized . And units like assaunt intercessors are basically assault marines. NMNR wargear options nonwithstanding. We’ll see what happens in 11th.

As long as it;s clear what the unit is, nobody should care about armor marks. I suspect we’re heading down the road where mkX tacticus armor will be just as relevant as mks 2-8 to game stats.

i really should play HH, i enjoy the older minis, probably nostalgia getting me... lol.

having said that i also love the new stuff so that's killing me too.

i'm thinking blood ravens or alpha legion since they seem to make sense from a mix of old and new equipment standpoint but i know there are a few other chapters that this would make sense of out there too.
maybe the consecrators too... too many choices lol.

the scales and color on alpha are kind of scaring me though haha.

I used them to combine with the emperor's children tormentors, the kit has enough options for both melee and shooting infantry. The MK VI are a bit smaller but not really noticeable, adding something small to the base and swapping shoulderpads / backpacks / heads helps.
Got 20 for the price of 10 in a sense (had mine left over from the old AoD box)

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
just personal opinion here but i really like the primaris marines and would like to include them. if i add a box on intercessors would you mix the armor types or keep them separate?
im sure theres no right or wrong but i like to hear what others think.
head cannon is its just units being upgraded as they suffer loses.

I'd mix them without hesitation or 2nd thought same as I've done for every other mk of armor released over the years.

Mostly I did this just for some variety.
Sometime necessity- GW used to sell models several per blister & the shop didnt always have enough of a certain armor mk, or I'm building squads out of mixed stuff from ebay lots, etc.
There's never been any head cannon, deep thought, or lore attached to my doing this.

3 tactical squads and 1 veteran squad is how I'd use those marines, but that would be 3rd edition

you guys were helpful, thanks for that.
i hope i dont regret it but i broke down and bought some stuff haha.

2 boxes of intercessors to mix in with my mk6.
a leviathan to count as a ballistus (was this a bad idea for a proxy?)
a redemptor that im hoping to magnetize
and i have a comtemptor to run as im not sure yet unless i run legends.

my first new army in a dont know how long.

i think id like to add mk2 assault troops because i really like them a lot... the weapons are just great looking.

who knows where else to go next, i have enough to hold me over for a while haha

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
you guys were helpful, thanks for that.
i hope i dont regret it but i broke down and bought some stuff haha.

2 boxes of intercessors to mix in with my mk6.
a leviathan to count as a ballistus (was this a bad idea for a proxy?)
a redemptor that im hoping to magnetize
and i have a comtemptor to run as im not sure yet unless i run legends.

my first new army in a dont know how long.

i think id like to add mk2 assault troops because i really like them a lot... the weapons are just great looking.

who knows where else to go next, i have enough to hold me over for a while haha

So if your willing to use Legends for the Contemptor, why proxy that Leviathon as a Balitus??

i suppose because i was happy with the idea since they match up size wise, at least according to pics i can find but the contemptor is stuck in an odd spot size wise.
id like to avoid legends if possible,

that and honestly the thought of running a legends leviathan never even came to mind lol...

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
you guys were helpful, thanks for that.
i hope i dont regret it but i broke down and bought some stuff haha.

2 boxes of intercessors to mix in with my mk6.
a leviathan to count as a ballistus (was this a bad idea for a proxy?)
a redemptor that im hoping to magnetize
and i have a comtemptor to run as im not sure yet unless i run legends.

my first new army in a dont know how long.

i think id like to add mk2 assault troops because i really like them a lot... the weapons are just great looking.

who knows where else to go next, i have enough to hold me over for a while haha

The Redemption probably doesn't need to be magnetized. The arm swaps out pretty easy and friction holds it - I've never seen an edition where I was tempted to use frag launchers over storm bolters. Likewise they haven't had flame comparing with Onslaught/Assault Cannon for a while

Thx breton
I was contemplating magnetizing it to swap it to a ballistus.
Cool to know friction may be enough to hold things.

Brickfix wrote:
I used them to combine with the emperor's children tormentors, the kit has enough options for both melee and shooting infantry. The MK VI are a bit smaller but not really noticeable, adding something small to the base and swapping shoulderpads / backpacks / heads helps.
Got 20 for the price of 10 in a sense (had mine left over from the old AoD box)

That's similar to what I'd go with too - firstborn don't look good in a 40k SM army anymore IMO. But they're perfect for chaos, and with the new Red Corsairs coming out that have less trim and more smooth plates some Mk VI marines could easily fit in.

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
Thx breton
I was contemplating magnetizing it to swap it to a ballistus.
Cool to know friction may be enough to hold things.

That may need magnetizing as those arms are completely separate and at the shoulder instead of the elbow I think. I meant the Redemptor Left arm BIG Onslaught Gatling and the Plasma. Those can friction fit at the elbow.

10 4 Breton, thank you.
i understood