100 marines

[B-rock]

well sir you ahev proven me wrong good day sir lol

[Strangleweb]

There's actually nominally 107+ Marines in each battle company:

Captain
Chaplain
Command Squad (5)
6 Tacticals (60)
2 Assault (20)
2 Devestator (20)

Drivers of rhinos etc are usually drawn from the reserve companies. Also, reserve company marines plug the holes caused by casualties.

[RocketRollRebel]

hmmm I like, I like. I've been playing almost nothing but mech IG lately but I've dusted off my BA and this idea has me pretty interested. Just tons o marines woo and laugh at your opponents AT weps just like mech laighs at heavy bolters! MUAHAHAHA

[nellis14]

is a list with 100 marines with flamers and multi-melta and vulkan and a predator a good idea or is it tactically bad

i have done something similar with my dark angels 6 troops 3 devastator squads (no heavy wep!) total of 90 marines plus 2 Chaplins and a command squad for each (102 marines)..... and it only came to around 2000pts and yes it has the WTH factor .....and one i got alot was 'give me that rule book this just can not be right'

tactically speaking unless you come up against a strong template army you should be fine.....my problem was no anti tank but a land raider sorted that out

[Kirsten]

is a list with 100 marines with flamers and multi-melta and vulkan and a predator a good idea or is it tactically bad

is 100 marines stupid

It depends, I used to own a complete company of Dark Angels. For a while my standard army was 6 ten man tactical squads, 2 ten man devastator squads and a captain (all available for less than 1500 pts) then whatever I fancied to make up the difference. In the end I stopped using it simply because nobody came remotely close to beating it. You will find an opponent has pretty much no chance of killing 80-100 marines in a game. If you simply want to win, go for it. If you want your opponent to enjoy the game too, then halve the number.

[Ulf]

You can get the following legally in one list;

2 Chapter Masters
2 10 man Honor Guard
3 10 man Sternguard
6 10 man Tacticals
3 10 man Assaults
3 10 man Devestators

That's 172 Marines.

Edit: If you take Marneus Calgar, you can take even more Honor Guard

Chaos can easily field more marines:

HQ:
2x Chaos Lord with Power Armour

Elites:
3x 20 Possessed Chaos Space Marines

Troops:
6x 20 Chaos Space Marines

Fast Attack:
3x 20 Raptors

Heavy Support:
3x 20 Havocs

[mysterex]

Actually, you can do it pretty easily with Space Wolves for less than 2000 points.

If you take:

2 Wolf priests
5 Wolf guard
3 x 10 Grey hunters
3 x 15 Blood claws
3 x 6 Long fangs

That comes to just 1685 points, then add in some unit upgrades. I'd thought about turning my codex marines into a "counts as" army and going down this path a few times as the basic troops are both cheap and effective.