Marine Models

[jjfelber]

Note: Please don't make this a 'who has more topic.' Thanks!

 

 

I think I may have over done it. I have about 40 power Armor Models with nothing but Bolters or BP/CCW.

I make every special weapon (except maybe plasma Pistols) that comes in a box and I still have 40 vanilla marines. When am I ever going to use 40 Vanilla marines.

Even in a pack of 10 GHs you get 2 special guns, 1 special weapon, MOTW, and Wolf standard. That only leaves 5 vanilla marines, 4 if you add a pack leader, and 3 if you add a character and pack leader (and want to fit into a Rhino)

 

I have enough special weapons to make 5 units of 10 GHs fully kitted and I still have at least 15 vanilla marines sitting there.

 

Now the silly part. I made my GW Christmas list before I noticed this issue and now I am going to get more GHs!

 

What do you guys do with your marines? I thought about just not put them together until I get more special weapons. Maybe save them for conversions.

 

Has anyone tried GH spam? I mean bring 1 or 2 normal kitted out GH squads in Rhinos with Rune Priests, but then bring 4 or 5, 150pt units of 10 vanilla GHs. That doesn't sound awful.

Maybe in a large game 2k+ bring 600-750 pts of vanilla GHs. That 40-50 wounds of counter-attacky objective holding goodness. All the while the 2 rune priest give them all 4+ cover saves. What a crazy distraction that would be. It may not be the best strategy, but I bet you would win some games before you normal opponents caught on.

Good Idea or not.

 

This post is a bit two sided, but really I want to know what do all do with you extra Vanilla marine models?

[Max_Dammit]

create a unit of wolf-guard in power armor, useful in combat and as pack leaders.

[Growler67]

eBay, for bashers. You can also use them in those REDICULOUS 5000 point games. Mod a few as caualties. They can become objectives ln subsequent games "Rescuethe Squad" or something similar. Practicing/trying out new and more dynamic poses.

 

There ARE things you can do with them. Otherwise, send them to me and I'll do it :D

[Nacho Wolf]

Now now growler, you really shouldnt take advantage of a poor, lost, confused soul... How about you give them to me jjfleber and that way I can make sure growler stays away from them

[dswanick]

1> I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 of the 2nd edition era box set Space Marines with bolters. The old three-part models which consisted of base, body and Bolter and hands held in front of the chest.

2> If your gaming group does Apocalypse they should probably allow a Space Wolves player to field a Space Wolves Great Company, counting Grey Hunters as Tactical squads, Long Fangs and Devastator squads, and Blood Claws/Sky Claws as Assault squads, for which you would need at least 30 Grey Hunters w/ Bolters per Battle Company and who wants to field just one Great Company in Apocalypse. So there is 60 or more right there.

3 > As mentioned above - Wolf Guard in PA w/ Bolters. If for no other reason than to add a cheap ablative wound to a Long Fand Pack.

[Vorion]

A guy at my local hobby store runs like 4 squads of GHs that are basic, he uses the points he saves to put more into his other units and just uses his GHs to claim objectives, seems to work for him

[Simo429]

Start magnetising lad and then you can run plenty of different options, once you do it you will never go back

[Wolf Guard Nostromo]

Interestingly, I'm the other way round - I have got more and more lean with the upgrades I use on my Hunters, and so crave basic marines - I have 7 packs of 10 hunters and very rarely use all of the models from a single pack together because they are overequipped, not under.

 

My only real addition to above is this - use your imagination! - there are literally hundreds of things you could do with them, so think outside the box a little and do something a little different - conversion projects, dynamic poses, casualties... the list is endless. If you're really that stuck, sell them or give them away, but you should be able to think of something, surely.

 

You also seem to be missing Blood Claws completely - a maximum sized pack of 15 claws can only have 4 upgrades anyway (excluding Lukas because he's a seperate model), so two packs of 15 would need at least 22 'basic' marines.

[clanfield]

i run 40 gh in 4 packs and 30 bc in 2 packs works wonders when you horde em they realy dont expect it

[Brother Captain Kezef]

I do the same, 10 man wolfguard pack in TDA, a pair of 10 man Hunter packs and a pack of 15 blood puppies in a crusader.

[Vor]

Apocalypse is the perfect field for this many Hunters.

[Brother Nathan]

in my storm angels i have 6 full tactical squads, and i havent used a tactical squad since some time last ed, well over a year. think its more that i have a full company and it looks cool when thay are all together.do you have enough to form a greatcompany?

[Wildfire]

Note: Please don't make this a 'who has more topic.' Thanks!

 

 

I think I may have over done it. I have about 40 power Armor Models with nothing but Bolters or BP/CCW.

I make every special weapon (except maybe plasma Pistols) that comes in a box and I still have 40 vanilla marines. When am I ever going to use 40 Vanilla marines.

Even in a pack of 10 GHs you get 2 special guns, 1 special weapon, MOTW, and Wolf standard. That only leaves 5 vanilla marines, 4 if you add a pack leader, and 3 if you add a character and pack leader (and want to fit into a Rhino)

 

I have enough special weapons to make 5 units of 10 GHs fully kitted and I still have at least 15 vanilla marines sitting there.

 

Now the silly part. I made my GW Christmas list before I noticed this issue and now I am going to get more GHs!

 

What do you guys do with your marines? I thought about just not put them together until I get more special weapons. Maybe save them for conversions.

 

Has anyone tried GH spam? I mean bring 1 or 2 normal kitted out GH squads in Rhinos with Rune Priests, but then bring 4 or 5, 150pt units of 10 vanilla GHs. That doesn't sound awful.

Maybe in a large game 2k+ bring 600-750 pts of vanilla GHs. That 40-50 wounds of counter-attacky objective holding goodness. All the while the 2 rune priest give them all 4+ cover saves. What a crazy distraction that would be. It may not be the best strategy, but I bet you would win some games before you normal opponents caught on.

Good Idea or not.

 

This post is a bit two sided, but really I want to know what do all do with you extra Vanilla marine models?

 

Well, how many with bolter do you have? Those are your GH. How many with bp/ccw? Those are your BC. Besides that, you don't necessarily want to put every piece of bling possible in every squad.

[dublindawg]

With the amount of Apocalypse games they play at the store I frequent, that many GH's would be used in a heart beat. I run 4 full packs with spare options to swap in what I need, ie: 2 flames, 2 melta's, 2 PF, ect so that if I know I'm going to be playing the horde orks or the Eldar i can easily swap in and out certain loads. As such I paint up 14 GH's for each pack.

 

This reminds me that I still need to assemble some sky claws as I have a dozen jump packs I need to put to use and enough spare body and bits to make another 20+ men.

[jjfelber]

Well, how many with bolter do you have? Those are your GH. How many with bp/ccw? Those are your BC. Besides that, you don't necessarily want to put every piece of bling possible in every squad.

 

 

I have about 20 each of each. The ones with Bolters are GHs, but the the ones with BP/CCW are either GHs or Bloodclaws. As GHs are better then bloodclaws I RARELY take bloodclaws. So they are all GHs.

[trefenwyd]

The perfect answer: Make about 30 combi-melta/combi-plasma wielding wolfguard! There are several tutorials on a DITY combi-melta; I spent $3 on some jewelry pieces and have enough to make 56 combi-meltas. I just finished painting my 10-man combi-melta drop pod unit (w/2 power fists) - absolutely love playing with it. And for a more competitive list, reducing to a 4-man suicide squad for 127 pts is always worth it.

[Wildfire]

The perfect answer: Make about 30 combi-melta/combi-plasma wielding wolfguard! There are several tutorials on a DITY combi-melta; I spent $3 on some jewelry pieces and have enough to make 56 combi-meltas. I just finished painting my 10-man combi-melta drop pod unit (w/2 power fists) - absolutely love playing with it. And for a more competitive list, reducing to a 4-man suicide squad for 127 pts is always worth it.

 

Link? I'm very curious how one can turn $3 in jewelry piecies into 56 combi-meltas...