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So I was just a bit curious about these three chapters, I probably wont ever start one of them as I already have Space Wolves (And Necrons, And Tau..) But I realy like the looks of them and was curious, What kind of units would you use in fluffy armies for these three chapters?

well they all have ICs in the codex that help with their army. Vulkan means alot of flamers, meltas and Thunder Hammers which he makes TL/Master Crafted.

Pedro means Sternguard, whicch is fluffy, because the CF field a higher amount of Veteran units after the Rynn disaster.

Shrike means assault marines, and maybe Vanguard, though they are a point sink. Raven Guard are stealth units.

Crimson fists fluffy units would include sternguard and scouts. They have veterans as essential parts of their strike forces and are rebuilding their chapter so they use a lot of scouts also.

Brother Sergeant Bob covered it pretty well.

For Raven Guard, I'd think scouts with camo cloaks would be pretty fluffy troops, then use the rest of the points for assault marines and the like. Perhaps give the scout sarges a homing beacon and drop in some terminators? It's not stealthy, per se, but it seems like it'd be something for a shock attack.

Salamanders:

- like it fiery, so flamers and meltas of all sizes to " cleanse and purify "
- are basically following the codex astartes, except 7 oversized companies instead of 10.
- are capable of repairs and may have more time of their Techmarines spent on creation because of their brothers fixing their own gear...
- fluffy Salamanders would focus on close firefights, have a lot of exceptionally well made wargear and care for their allies and those they protect.
- So TDA, artificer armor, mastercrafted gear, fit well into a Salamander equipment list.
- units maybe: Veterans in TDA and PA , Sternguard, Tacticals, Devastators. Broad range of vehicals, bikes not common.

Raven Guard:

- prefer the tactical approach, a knife in the dark ...
- follow codex astartes, basically, but adopt their tactics instead of taking a codex too literally
- are sneaky, may use silenced gear to improve their inherent abilities at infiltration
- favor rapid deployment and to move unseen, planning and aftershow-meetings. a High mobility, rather cutting the enemies supply than facing them head on.
- gear: Jumppacks, lightning claws, but also camo equpiment and anything providing mobility.
- units maybe: ASM, vanguard, tacticals , scouts, droppod assault, land-speeders.
- a lot of their speciality is hard to make rules and units for. Its possibly more a decision of playstyle than anything else.

Thanks for all the replies and information! ^_^ I was the most curious about Raven Guard and Salamanders as I like the looks of them alot. Crimson Fists was mostly because I like Kantor.

Oh! This is a side question, Just dont want to make a new post of it, Anyone know how many beaky helmets you get in the various Space Marine boxes? Would be cool to have a whole army with them.

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Oh! This is a side question, Just dont want to make a new post of it, Anyone know how many beaky helmets you get in the various Space Marine boxes? Would be cool to have a whole army with them.

Usually 5-6 different heads per sprue/box.
The beaky ones are IIRC 1 found on 2 sprues of 5 standard marines each. So a 1:10 per 10 marine box.
Some boxesof 5 marines like: assault, devastators, command, combat squad may have one beaky too since GW has only 5-7 standard heads.

Alright, thanks for the information ^_^ Shame you get so few of the helmets..

They should be fairly easy to find on eBay or bits sites. I've got a ton of them because I don't use them on my army, though I have been painting them like Ultramarines and adorning my Nid bases with them.