Playing Movie Marines

[Frostglaive]

Lately I've been very interested in the concept of Movie Marines. I know groups like Miniwargaming and such have done batreps with Movie Marines where basically every Marine has a captain's statline.

 

I'm thinking about trying a narrative mission out with some friends and having them use the Movie Marines. My question is how would it work from a points/power level perspective? My initial thinking is they'd use the regular points/power level for the actual units (just giving them the Captain stat line though) while the opposing force would be considerably larger. Or would it be balanced points/power and the Marine player uses the points/power for Captains per model?

 

I feel like the first option would be better from a narrative perspective, but I also don't know how I'd balance it out. For instance, Marine player has 1,000pts, builds his army, then gives everyone the Movie Marine stats. How much larger would the other force have to be for that to balance out?

 

If anyone has any experience doing this, I'll gladly take any advice or suggestions you have.

[Captain_Krash]

White Dwarf issue 300 has some really really good info that will seriously push you in the right direction. I would try and start there. Theres got to be a scan or pdf out there somewhere of that issue.

 

Krash

[Panzer]

I plan to eventually play some movie marines as well by just taking 6 Primaris Lieutenants and some other characters in a 1500p list. Unfortunately Primaris Lieutenants are rather overcosted and the fact that neither their buffs stack nor that characters can protect characters anymore doesn't exactly help their points efficiency. :D