Space Marine help

It's no secret that I'm trying to start Blood Angels. I have the Codex and I have a vague idea of the units I want but what I'm having trouble with is equipment. See as an Eldar player I've never had to deal with giving people different weapons in the same squad and such because if I wanted a melta gun I took a squad of Fire dragons. If I wanted long range fire support I took Dark Reapers. I don't know how to build a squad that combines them all. What are some examples of what people use and what seems to work in general? How many power weapons and or bolters in a death company squad. Should an assault sergeant take a power fist or a power sword inferus pistol. Do I take a full squad of assault marines with packs or do I take the 6 in a razor back. And for the love of god what do I do with tactical squads?! I don't know!! >.< The customization is driving me crazy.

while I'm not very familiar with the blood angels, i tend to customize my units to do what i intend to use them for, although tactical squads can be used for anything they are best used, i personally thing, to fight of other troops, and any no vehicle units, save the tanks for the devastators, and for the assault marines, its really up to how you wanna play you army, and most of the customization is really dependent on how you plan to play your army, i generally find that tailoring you tactical squads to be anti-infantry is good, with a flamer and a melta gun or a plasma gun if you're feeling lucky, and i have never used assault marines so im just going on my experience with regular squads, but i do know rhinos are very helpful in getting your guys around, its a tough fight to win a game if you have no transports, and the choice between power sword power fist is whether or not you think you're gonna need it, because you strike last there is a chance that your sergeant is gonna die before he uses it in close combat, but it does pack a punch, and its great against vehicles, so if you want to go vehicle hunting give em melta bombs and a power fist and go to town

When you come in Thur. I can help you out.

Thanks Miller. At work I was toying with the idea that no matter how much planning you do to form a strategy, either the mission, your opponent, or plain dumb luck can ruin that strategy so if I just make my units good at a little of everything, then if I should be able to handle the situations that arise tit for tat. heh, tit.

Keebler I will gladly help you out as I thought about BA before I did Space WOlves. THere are several good builds that are versatile.

Coolsie!

The real trick is to build your army with a style in mind. Are you going to form some kind of gun line, or are you going to blast accross the table and try to knock heads. Once you have that idea you can build around it. The hardest part is being able to think on your feet once the game is underway.

all the above advice is way better than mine lol, and shorter XDDD

MMMM....Drop Pods!

Drop pods are like drugs,

JUST SAY NO!!!!!!!!!

i have never once used a drop pod, and im doing pretty well, kinda

I dont think Blood Angels really need drop pods with their better than average deep strike capabilities.

Personally I shall take on blangels with my templars... they are no mach my death squads beat yours and my basic troops although more points can fair a beating.

If you would be so kind I invite you to battle Marine vs marine battle on tuesday at the store (comix zone) as a friendly practice match for us both. This will allow you to see another version of marines who fair in combat more then instead of shooting.

I would love to know how this match goes, i got to play the old WD Blood Angels as black templars and i was routed sternly,

I would love to know who the heck Jay is addressing since I don't actually have enough marines to play.

what style are you actually thinking of bro? o:

I've talked with Horton and I'd like to play a blitz style where I overwhelm the opponent and he can't deal.

Drop Pods played a vital part of my Blitz for the Blood Angels. Remember....they have locator beacons so Deep Strikers can enter play within 6 inches of them...and BA Land Raiders can deep strike. Basically, my list ran one unit of scout bikes with a locator beacon and 3 drop pods with Assault Squads. When you remove the jump packs, Drop Pods are FREE. I then used the locator beacons to deep strike my land raiders. It was a beautiful thing.

But that's also not fluffy. I want to play classic Blood Angels, so jump packs and fast tanks.

Papa Nurgle wrote:Drop Pods played a vital part of my Blitz for the Blood Angels. Remember....they have locator beacons so Deep Strikers can enter play within 6 inches of them...and BA Land Raiders can deep strike. Basically, my list ran one unit of scout bikes with a locator beacon and 3 drop pods with Assault Squads. When you remove the jump packs, Drop Pods are FREE. I then used the locator beacons to deep strike my land raiders. It was a beautiful thing.

i remembered you telling me about that that is an amazing tactic for a blitz. but you just gotta watch out for units that have jamming beacons. ESPECIALLY in a marine vs marine battle. i know im goin to try and make the units i put in the front have them because of what you told me XD thats the only real way to defend against it. well, from what ive read. and i would use drop pods with tactical marines or devastator squads. you get enough of em on the front lines, it wont matter how many the enemy kills. hell, i think you cna make them terminators too. imagine a ton of them just appearing on the front lines. thats one hell of a blitz.

Smarties wrote:

Papa Nurgle wrote:Drop Pods played a vital part of my Blitz for the Blood Angels. Remember....they have locator beacons so Deep Strikers can enter play within 6 inches of them...and BA Land Raiders can deep strike. Basically, my list ran one unit of scout bikes with a locator beacon and 3 drop pods with Assault Squads. When you remove the jump packs, Drop Pods are FREE. I then used the locator beacons to deep strike my land raiders. It was a beautiful thing.

i remembered you telling me about that that is an amazing tactic for a blitz. but you just gotta watch out for units that have jamming beacons. ESPECIALLY in a marine vs marine battle. i know im goin to try and make the units i put in the front have them because of what you told me XD thats the only real way to defend against it. well, from what ive read. and i would use drop pods with tactical marines or devastator squads. you get enough of em on the front lines, it wont matter how many the enemy kills. hell, i think you cna make them terminators too. imagine a ton of them just appearing on the front lines. thats one hell of a blitz.

With the BA, you only need a few drop pods to take advantage of the situation. The Ultramarines, on the other hand, can take full affect of the drop pods. With them, I think 7 is a good number...although I met a guy in Baltimore that runs 9 with full 10 man squads in the first 5. That is 50 marines appearing in the first turn. Pretty sick if you think about it. I am a fan of the Iron Clad Dreads in the first turn, pouring out of the Drop Pod Assault.

Yes, jamming beacons can be a bit tricky to get around...but most people don't take them. After reading this, EVERYONE will take them.

Papa Nurgle wrote:

Smarties wrote:

Papa Nurgle wrote:Drop Pods played a vital part of my Blitz for the Blood Angels. Remember....they have locator beacons so Deep Strikers can enter play within 6 inches of them...and BA Land Raiders can deep strike. Basically, my list ran one unit of scout bikes with a locator beacon and 3 drop pods with Assault Squads. When you remove the jump packs, Drop Pods are FREE. I then used the locator beacons to deep strike my land raiders. It was a beautiful thing.

i remembered you telling me about that that is an amazing tactic for a blitz. but you just gotta watch out for units that have jamming beacons. ESPECIALLY in a marine vs marine battle. i know im goin to try and make the units i put in the front have them because of what you told me XD thats the only real way to defend against it. well, from what ive read. and i would use drop pods with tactical marines or devastator squads. you get enough of em on the front lines, it wont matter how many the enemy kills. hell, i think you cna make them terminators too. imagine a ton of them just appearing on the front lines. thats one hell of a blitz.

With the BA, you only need a few drop pods to take advantage of the situation. The Ultramarines, on the other hand, can take full affect of the drop pods. With them, I think 7 is a good number...although I met a guy in Baltimore that runs 9 with full 10 man squads in the first 5. That is 50 marines appearing in the first turn. Pretty sick if you think about it. I am a fan of the Iron Clad Dreads in the first turn, pouring out of the Drop Pod Assault.

Yes, jamming beacons can be a bit tricky to get around...but most people don't take them. After reading this, EVERYONE will take them.

was that the guy from glen burnie bunker or another guy? i know mike was talkin about that when i was down there. and is it just ultra that can do that? i came up with my own color scheme and chapter so im kinda antsy now lol and the iron clad is a sick nasty idea. tearin things up the first turn.
they will only take the jamming beacons is they read it lol they might be unfortunate enough to not read it :3

The list he ran could only be done with Ultras since he ran Thunderfire cannons with them. He was an employee at the battle bunker.

yea that was mike! he was an awesome guy. and actually, my chapter is one that works closely with the ultramarines so if my opponent allows, im goin to try and push for them to have the same rules as the ultramarines.

I run a chapter called The Relictors. I actually run 2 different lists, one from the Ultra Marines Codex and the other from the Blood Angels.