My friends and I have been discussing the possibilities of run a hoard of marines at 1500 and 1750pts (our typical-sized games)...
In our envisioning this we have been looking at the CSM codex...
but what about the new SM codex also? (Can the new SM codex do squads of more than 10 under any circumstances?)
I run a hoard of IG right now and while I have tried to get myself excited about a low-model-count-project,
I can't think of an idea that floats my boat :-) so I am doing my research into this one...
I don't have a CSM or SM codex, so I have questions:
The idea is an extreme interpretation of boys-before-toys with an army type that I have not seen used in this fashion...
It is not a 'competitive' idea but ideally it would work in at a games club where the people are pretty competent...
6 squads of 20 Chaos marines, no upgrades (unless champions can take meltabombs) and some(?) hq(s) to keep your blokes from running away if possible
(or at least to raise Ld of the squads... and an extra bonus if they have a cheap trick for av14)
Who cares if you can't kill landraiders or flyers, they will have to work very hard to kill enough of you (especially if you keep your spacing to avoid pie plates
and ice cream cones)... this list would ominously march across the board boltering infantry, grenade-ing armour and trying to swamp things, while dieing
by the bucket load thus keeping khorne v happy but still having enough left at the end if all goes well for objectives and the like
Without posting up exact costs, can you fit the 120+ marines into 1500pts?
Thinking along the lines of a disparate just-fallen chaos warband, the scope for different schemes of painting thoughout the list could be pretty interesting,
even though everything is power armour...