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Im new and have just started an ultramarine army its 500pts and im sticking to small squads cause thats what i have
my list is......
HQ. 125pts
captain with powerfist

Command squad w/ melta,plasma and flamer
champion and standard bearer. 175pts

And 2x 5 man squads with stormbolters on the sarge

so how can i expand to a 1500pt army

There are endless possibilities, i would start with a couple of rhinos and predators

I would suggest expanding the tactical squads to 10 men each and getting a rhino for each of them. With the captain, give him a relic blade to take advantage of his I5. Also get a predator. If you are going to expand more get some terminators and some sternguard and a librarian. You should be sorted after that.

Thx, i forgot to mention i have a librarian on a bike that im gonna put in a bike squad


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So what list do you guys suggest


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I like cc best

If your looking for cc, th/ss terminators delivered via a landraider can be very scary for your opponant.

Ok cool thx

Transport is needed (unless your going defensive) to get to CC so a LR with terminators is good (as advised by matrixlurts). Also a droppod would get any other nasty things near to the enemy and combined with a locator beacon, vanguard and heroic intervention the droppod can become the lynchpin of a very nasty assault which may need to include a troop choice which could arrive in the pod or via rhino.

Would assualt marines be good eith vanguards


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Im meant with

Assauly marines would still land safely and pack a punch bet vanguard can use heroic intervention to assault after deepstrike so they wouldn't be shot and could start killing quickly.

Ok cool i should read the codex better

Stormbolters on the sarges look cool do more damage (generally) and are cheap but it does lose you your extra attack for to cc weapon (pistol and power weapon/chainsaw). It may be better for you to have an extra attack if you want close combat tactics, a power weapon can also really give an advantage in assaults but is more points.


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I forgot to mention earlier that vanguard with all melta bombs can ruin a stationary support tanks day.

Cool im starting to like vanguard