Which Weapons To Take

[wako1302]

Building my first Space Marine Army (Ultramarines)

 

I have 20 tactical marines, so was thinking of creating 3 squads of 5, with 5 spare marines to increase the size of the squads if required.

 

But how would you equip them .....

 

At the moment I am favouring giving each squad a Plasma Cannon but why are people saying a Plama Cannon is better than a missile launcher.

 

Plasma Cannon (safe mode) - 36" range, D3 hits, Strength 7, AP -3 and 1 damage

Missile Launcher (Anti Vehicle Mode) - 48" range, 1 hit, Strength 8, AP-2, D6 damage

 

 

 

Combi-Plasma also seems to be the obvious choice for the Sergeant.

[Race Bannon]

Tactical Marines?  There is a thread in this very forum discussing them at the moment ^_^

[Claws and Effect]

I think people are just giddy that plasma cannons are worth taking again. I have a 4 PC Dev squad myself.

 

The debate I'm seeing more of is missile launcher vs lascannon.

[Kua]

ML and PlasCan are both universal weapons. With the latter one being the actually useful one of both.

Same as I see little space for the multi-melta.