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I have a few questions about what I should do with my army. I am buying a commander, should i make it a master or a captian? I am also buying an asault squad. Would it be worth it to equip all of them with the sheilds, bolt pistol and chain sword? And also two with plasma pistols? on the sargent, should i equip him with a power fist, storm bolter and a sheild?


And how bout this for a chapter name "soul Reapers".

I have space marines.

First read the Codex carefully, not everyone can be given shields. You cannot have a storm bolter and shield either - nor would you want to.

Second think about your troops choices before you worry about what leader to use. Get two boxes of tacticals and a Devastator boxset before you build any of them. This will give you 25 marines. Enough for four squads of six (and one man spare).

Now your Commander boxset should wait for now, try and scrounge a pair of lightning claws (from someone with Assault Terminator or Dark Angel boxset) and convert them for your commander. This is by and large as good as you get for outfitting him. Alternately try a power weapon and shield - which you can do right now.

Give the assault marine sergeant a powerfist and bolt pistol. He doesn't need a shield as you shouldnt have to take him as a casualty in most cases. The two plasma pistols are an ok choice, but I prefer flamers. If you go with flamers wait until you can buy your tacticals, you will find the flamers you need there.

Hiya there! Welcome to Dakka, I hope they go easy on you.

That being said, I think we need more info to answer this properly. To make sure it goes well with the army you already have , what stuff does your space marines have already? And what do you usually fight against?

-Hans

If you want "the rest" of your army to reliably shoot at what you want, make him a master.  The shooty elements will use his leadership to target the apporpriate enemy squads.  Powerfist on the sergeant is best.