How can I be a better Space Marine?

The_Magic_Man

My fellow Warriors of the Emperor, I am troubled. I feel like my love for the Emperor is not fulfilling enough to meet his majesty. I keep a beach day poster of the Emperor on my ceiling to know that he is there watching me, making sure that I am okay when I go to sleep. And I everyday as I prepare my bolter, I inscribe upon my ammunition his holy word. But it just isn't enough. My fellow brothers, how can I better show my love for his almighty greatness?

• A Distraught Space Marine Chaplain

vindicarex

Flamers are pretty legit - especially with the doctrine. Their damage is quite good, albeit you have to cast to use it, but deals with melee and cover very well when you do.

Scouts and ASM are very strong early game, particularity 1v1, due to mobility and versatility.

In general, you want to have some units for Crowd Control - blind grenades, flamers, devastators, ASM-peel, Elites - and keep them together so they can support one-another. SM are more of a combined arms race than either orks or eldar ATM, and rely on well-executed attacks rather than A-move slugfest like Okrs.

• ALWAYS use drop pods and banner whenever you can - they are very strong in taking fights that you otherwise may not win. Deal death from above, brother!

I also like a quick Health upgrade form armory (and later a flamer, or vice versa) - their already high HP pool means that the % upgrade is pretty good on them.

I feel any other advice would be too specific and dependent on specific conditions.

Diogen84

Terminators with ability to make devastators to fire without preparation is incredable. Devastators become as maneurable as TM. I use 3-4 asm for harass and main force terminators+ 2plasmarifled TM+ 2 devastators with bolters+1 flamer to stun vehicles. And ahgelos could help them.

Would like to try assault knight with predators. They seems to be very powerful .

Galahad2017

we were losing a 3v3. the other team had wiped out our tier1 infantry and was swarming the map with tier1 infantry. SM player builds a single land speeder and destroys wave after wave of infantry. turns the game around with one vehicle deployment.
don't underestimate how strong a single well protected vehicle can be.

SM vehicles are still as strong as ever from what I can tell so far. Don't expect to win without tier2 heavy infantry and vehicles, don't rush them too fast and don't zerg vehicles..they need accuracy and judgement applied wisely to win/turn battles.

Shunter

@Galahad2017 said:
we were losing a 3v3. the other team had wiped out our tier1 infantry and was swarming the map with tier1 infantry. SM player builds a single land speeder and destroys wave after wave of infantry. turns the game around with one vehicle deployment.
don't underestimate how strong a single well protected vehicle can be.

SM vehicles are still as strong as ever from what I can tell so far. Don't expect to win without tier2 heavy infantry and vehicles, don't rush them too fast and don't zerg vehicles..they need accuracy and judgement applied wisely to win/turn battles.

Yeah. The landspeeder can be an absolute demon. If you get it early enough the enemy can't count get it. It's also great for hunting down weak elites. The multimelta is sweet too, hunt down any vehicles with it.

It's a sweet crowd control for Orks I find.