Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Space Marines (section)

===Pros===
*A lot of different units.
*Easy for beginners to play, yet rewarding for experts. Can be customized to focus on many specific elements (e.g. Terminators, mass jump pack assaults, etc.) with varying grades of viability.
*Units can do something of everything, with an answer to every situation.
**A common trend with Imperial armies, your Troop choices aren't tax, being actually good.
*You're GW's favorites, so you'll always be the first to get anything new. See also: [[Primaris Marines]], getting the first full Codex in 8E, being able to be of the first to get a 8E second wave codex.
*Loads of powerful characters to choose from, many of which have potent buffs to surrounding units.
*You'll almost always have an armour save. 
*Many of your models are simple to paint with their solid colors and easily identified highlight areas---This makes painting your army very beginner friendly.
*At this point in 8th edition space marines are by far the strongest army, so if you really just want to win this is the army to go with.