First look at troops

The first of my Ultramarines and the basic troop choice, the trusty Tactical Squad. These 10 Ultramarines are set up for 2 squads of 5 Tactical Marines.

The first squad has a sergeant with grav pistol and power sword and meltagun. The rest are armed with the standard bolt gun, bolt pistol and krak/frag grenades.

The second squad has a sergeant with combi-melta and a marine with a missile launcher. The rest like the first squad are equipped with their basic weapons.

These guys were the first 10 that were stripped and repainted from my Facebook find, so they were my guinea pig unit where I tested colours on and it shows compared to the later units I have painted. Their skin is too dark, their shoulder pads don't have the correct squad markings on them (before I understood the lore). I look at these guys and think that they were a good starting point, and happy I have improved.

The first of the Primaris units! These two 5 man Intercessor squads were super fun to build (ya ya easy build, mono pose models) and paint. I actually have one more model that came with a broken barrel in the mail from France when I ordered them, so I bought the GW magazine with the miniature to replace the broken one. The broken one is still painted, and it sits beside my computer/paint station and helps me when deciding what I want to do for colours.

This set of Tactical Marines was purchased from a friend for $10 and all I had to do was finish the bases, some lines on the lascannon and add the shoulder markings. I liked this unit because it gave me some options with the plasma gun and lascannon to take on some stronger units with more AP. They are sadly on 25mm bases, but I have thought of getting the base extenders to bring them up to the 32mm that new marines are on.

The last of my Tactical Marines, a mish mash of weapons to use in various squad combinations. The sergeant has a plasma pistol and chainsword, there is a plasma gun, missile launcher in here as well. I like the white helmets, and thought that this squad could use one, so the squad gets another one here. This is the most recent of the Tactical Marines I have painted, and you can see how the new skin paint colour is a large improvement (as well as my painting improved as well I hope!)

I do love the flexible Tactical Marine, and in my most recent game, the sergeant of this squad performed extremely well, and the missile launcher fellow next to him did some serious damage.

I hope you enjoyed the look at my basic troop options which I hope to expand in the future with both some sniper scouts and close combat scouts.