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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,
I am hoping I could impose some questions on the community in order to reaqaint myself with Warhammer 40k. I was originally introduced to the setting with the original Space Hulk game which I greatly enjoyed. Shortly thereafter I found there was a game called 40k in the same universe that wasn’t as restrictive as the board game. So I purchased some mini’s back in ’95 and played some games with friends.

The problem I am running into currently is this: First off that was some time ago, and apparently three editions ago (!). Secondly I am not sure if we ever even played the game as it was intended, I mainly liked painting the mini’s but the game was cool too..

Anyway, I digress. I purchased the 5th edition rulebook and the game seems monstrously complex right now, I don’t recall being able to customize units as much and so forth. What I’d really like help with is direction on putting together a very small space marine army (maybe 500 points?) with the intent to expand on it in the future. I was thinking of just making it sort of ‘shooty’ or a ‘gun line’ and forgo close combat for now (I hope I used those terms correctly, I read them here ).

With that said:

Which space marine chapter would fit a shooty kind of army?
If at some point I wanted to add some close combat types, is it possible or would I be kind of screwing myself?

I guess the heart of what I am asking is I’d like to make a decent army to kick around with some people I know at the local game store. If you consider that I know a lot of fluff, and jack about mechanics would you help me out? I would appreciate it.

If you’d like to reply to me personally, or want to converse in email rather than littering your forums with questions – my email address is Worms4u@hotmail.com.

Respectfully,
Worms4u

Welcome to dak dak¡ If you are going for "gunline" marines moreso than assaulty then Ultramarines or any marine type that uses Space Marine codex seems best to me. As i am not a SM player i cant offer much help.

That's sounds enough advice.

Plus, I'd ask over in the "40K Tactics" Forum for even more, and quite possibly better, advice...

And, welcome to Dakka Dakka!

Hello and welcome.

Welcome to Dakka!

Welcome to Dakka!
Dont worry, you will get back into it quickly

Welcome to dakka.

Long fang heavy Space wolves make a pretty impressive 'gunline'

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