Editing Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II (section)

===Space Marines===
Get up close and tear your enemy a new one with massed boarding actions and lightning strikes. SM ships have very strong armor, can take the punishment, and have decent guns for their weight classes. Their ships are also the fastest among the Imperial factions, having 40 more speed units than everyone else in each ship type. They are however, also the most expensive to deploy, usually costing around 20-25% more points than the Imperium's and AdMech's ships on each weight class, and their armament selection is much lower.

Use this technique against the biggest enemy ships first, making the enemy flagships into drifting hulks. Your battle barge and 3 strike cruisers (or fleet made up of strike cruisers only) should be able to deal with whatever is left of the enemy fleet. Beware of scuttling actions by the enemy, as this can fuck up your fleet. Also, make sure your enemy doesn't retake their ships. Your goal as a space marine fleet is to turn the enemy fleet into a bunch of drifting hulks, because that is what your fleet is best at. They also do not have morale penalties, so the crew will never mutiny against you, regardless of how bad the situation is getting.

Also, remember every single one of your ships has Honor the Chapter, which gives you a free short-ranged boarding action that ignores Shields and has a high critical rate. <s>That includes Escorts</s> Not as of the second patch. Use them. You also have torpedoes with zero spread, which means that at long range they'll do more damage than other torpedo-equipped ships. Their HP is low but their armor makes up for it.
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Chapters of the Space Marines
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Salamanders: Burner bois and absolute bros.

Ultramarines - you know them, you love to...Well, up to you. Either way, you get a Gloriana class Battleship ready to broadside the shit out of anything nearby. Have fun.

White Scars- Speedy bois

Iron Hands- The flesh is WEAK! Medusa appears in the game and is arguably the most useful planet.

Dark Angels- Definitely not traitors.

Imperial Fists - Good news, you get the Phalanx and by the Emperor does it wreck shit for Chaos. You can tank ramming a Blackstone Fortress to death and look cooler on the other side. Bad news, you don't get to use it after. Boo!

Blood Angels- Fabulous and furious.

Space Wolves- FURRIES!

Raven Guard- Sneaky bois
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