Greetings lovely BOLS people. I need help choosing a chapter to play and collect. Here's how things currently stand:
I first started getting into 40k about 10 months ago, choosing Dark Angels as my chapter. However, I quickly learned that the DA codex is designed to be most effective running a bike army or a Terminator army, neither of which interests me. I have since sold off my army and am looking to start anew.
I love space marines. I'm certainly not interested in any other type of 40K faction, so let's not even bring that up.
With that in mind, here are my 5 biggest criteria for choosing a chapter:
-I don't want Space Wolves. I think the fur pelts are silly.
-I want a Chapter that excels at close combat.
-I don't want a chapter that needs lots of bikes to be successful.
-It can't be a Chapter that using pink or purple as its primary color.
-I would love to have a good variety of units so that I can play flexibly. I don't like massing a single type of unit (like Terms or bikes, a la Dark Angels)
I don't know enough about the various other chapters to have an idea of what I should collect. Last time I went purely on look, flavor, and fluff, and I was disappointed. I think I'll be happy with virtually any SM chapter as long as the models aren't wearing silly furs.
What should I go for?