The Top Nine Strongest Space Marine Units? Most Commonly Played Competitive Datasheets? 

sleep is a thing auspex

Just making sure the minis i own but never play with are still the most meta

It's crazy that the Assault Intercessors cost more than Primaris Crusaders with their extra chainsword attack and 2 power fists per 10-man squad

Auspex is an absolute mechine. They 100% must have become an admech so they can optimise video production.

Amazing content recently, Auspex

The only constant thing in my life right now are these videos. Keep up the hustle brother.

Gotta give a shout out to the Stormraven Gunship, it's a big part of a lot of new lists

I have been having a lot of fun with the Invictor Tactical Suit, 16D6 tank shocks is very reliable 5 mortals.

I really like eradicators with the biologis and the enhancement from the firestorm assault force that allows you to change missed hits into an auto 6, triggering lethal hits and pushing some good damage through

Auspex has become one with the machine god!. Pumping out these vids.

Assault Intercessors plus Asmodai is actually pretty good in ICTF. Load them up in a land raider, charge onto something on a bowed objective to get full hit/wound rerolls and +1 to wound.

Heavy Intercessors with Anvil Siege Force. 2x 10 with Biologis and one Captain. Every Round 40 S5 BS 2 +1 Wound Lethal Hits and Sustained 5+

>Looks at the minis I bought to make a 1k list back in 7th, but never got the time to play. >Got the time to play now in 10th. >Looks at what I have. >Looks at what's considered viable for anything other than the most casual of games. >Looks at wallet. >Cries. (I still enjoy theory crafting lists, though, and fantasizing with what I might get myself if I ever start making more money)

Auspex. Sir. Thank you so very much for this video! You are just the damned bees knees, brotherman! Appreciate what you do for us.

Good morning Auspex

I like 10 Assault Intercessors in a Landraider with Corbulo and a lieutenant w/ SS, Volkite, Pwr Sword. The landraider normally can delete or soften up anything too big the can't fully handle before the charge.

Incursors always work so much better for me. Their target mark/hit reduction ability is unbelievably good, and their mine is just an extra kaboom, + the extra attacks with their combat blades. I find them more useful overall than infiltrators, but the deep strike is great for protecting other units and their comms and helix gauntlet give them a little extra bump.

I just got into this hobby a few months ago, built an army list I felt fun to play with and started painting. The points increase on Whirlwinds and Inceptors blew that list to pieces

Stormraven is amazing in Firestorm. I use it with Redeemer, Lancer and Brutalis.

I'm just an old grumbler, I don't really like the the new drink prime space marines but I'm not a Space marine player so it's all good. This is a good video and really well made. I guess my favorite thing is I have a buddy that really likes Infiltrators and is a space wolf main. I know it's not on this list but the space wolf and blood angels unique dreads are so cool to me.

I wanna bring up a staple of my list: hellblasters / lieutenant in a drop pod

I've been running a unit of 6 Eradicators with a Biologis with Fire Discipline after a friend suggested it as i wasn't liking the Aggressor brick. In Devastator Doctrine there's almost nothing they don't one shot

Amazing as always. I just don’t see how the aggressor bomb has fallen out of favor…

Assault intercessors are lovely in Gladius... as is intercessors with Lt.

Eradicators work awesome for Deathwatch. Attach a Gravis Captain with Beacon Angelis enhancement. Deep Strike Eradicators. Lovely.

My 2 infiltrators along with 2 invictor tactical war suit chilling on the far objectives are a decent combo with my Black Templars ironstorm build. It forces my opponent to deal with them while I move my bigger pieces around

Hey Auspex. Where can I find those lists people have run at tournaments? :)

Never thought I would have death by powerpoint on a hobby

Thanks for this man, this video really cheered me up

My go to are infiltrators, scouts, devastators and eliminators. if I play firestorm hellblasters on impulsor or infernus on impulsor.

As a fists Anvil player, scouts have 2 heavy weapons for as cheap as possible, and the scout means they can position to stand still first turn easier

What would you recommend for a stormlance taskforce for anti-tank purposes? I had difficulties finding any list that would be considered competitive these days

Not really hip on the competitive scene but surprised the eliminators party bus impulsor didn't get mentioned. Did they finally nerf it so you can't go in and out?

Bit of a Rules question: I've noticed that the Techmarine's "Blessing of the Omnissiah" ability and the Tech-Priest Engineseer's "Omnissiah's Blessing" ability are, while very similar, not the same ability. If you were running an army with both units, would it be rules-legal to use both abilities on a single vehicle unit? It would result in the unit repairing 2d3 wounds, as well as granting both the Engineseer's 5+ Feel No Pain, and the Techmarine's +1 to hit to the same target in the same Command Phase. The rules for each ability say that a unit "can only be selected for this ability once per Turn/Command Phase", but since they are in fact two different abilities with slightly different names and effects, are they stackable like that? Or is there a separate rule that vehicles can only be repaired once per turn?

Gladiator Lancer’s crazy man 1st game in a tournament it 1 taps my caladius grav in turn 1 which essentially just ruined me 3rd game I was too scared to push the right flank because he had a single lancer and some incursors there and I was too far to do anything

I'd rate the following as "the 7 best": Infiltrators (Deepstrike denial, durable objective sitters), Eradicators (One of the best ranged units), Assault Intercessors (Cost effective melee staple and screening purpose), Inceptors (High Plasma damage, deepstrike) Lieutenant (Staple for buffs) Incursors (Buffs, but can be a bit situational) Bladeguard (Slightly better melee unit) Plus I'd consider adding these 3 for armoured lists: Techmarine (Cheap armoured list utility) Gladiator Valiant (Decent damage/durability for its cost) Redemptor Dreadnought (Decent damage/durability for its cost) Honourable mention: Hellblasters (Backline ranged damage, but not always useful) Aggressors (Frontline infantry wiper, but it's easy to focus them down) In your video: Scouts (Cheap board presence, objective pusher/sitter and screening purpose) Land Raider Redeemer (Can last, but expensive and can at times be somewhat ignored) Gladiator Reaper (Decent for the points, but not good vs heavy units) I'd probably replace the Valiant on my list with a Reaper against a horde army and objectively speaking Scouts probably do deserve the top 7 list over something else (probably the Bladeguard spot).

I expected hellblasters to be on here. What unit were you expecting but didn't end up making the cut?

speaking of Inceptors: Does their 3inch deep strike ability overwrite the 12 inch deep strike denial ability that some units have, such as the Regimental Attaches of Guard?

I keep looking at the shots and stats. Space Marine Intercessors with stalker bolt rifles seem to be the best bang for your buck. Outside of knights they will pay for themselves. 🤓

I run some of these, and all are great. As far as gladiators go, I run one reaper and one lancer. I think I like the reaper more, as it gets enough shots to really do some DMG to infantry, and is highly likely to do at least some DMG to any target. Plus as a blood angels player, I prefer to send my jump infantry towards tough stuff as they handle it just fine.

Baal Predator, cheap and pretty great vehicle, maybe around 5-7 tier in top 10, i love them

“…And that’s basically how I picked my list”

so sm are again Iron hands? hah

I went 2-0 and won at a four man tournament today with Gladius space marines. And I had the lancer, redeemer, scouts, and assault intercessors in my list. Put that in your data, quick!

My buddies hate my lancer with a burning passion. Las-cannon go burr. On the off chance I get both hits sustained and lethal with the techmarine even an angron 4+ involve type character is getting a hole in its chest.

Oh? None of the marine snipers? Nice to see the top 10 has changed a little bit over the years.

Sad to see Terminators where they are. Would love for them to get a rule buff

Day 2 of asking for auspex tactics miniatures reveal

Slightly off topic but the Leman Russ Vanquisher could really do with the Gladiator Lancer’s targeting optics rule to make it viable.

TERMINATORS WILL ALWAYAS BE NUMBER ONE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ok noob question: If I used Uriel Ventris to give an eradicator squad deep strike They have 18” melta weapons. So when they deep strike in, are they half range or not?

No hellblasters?

i genuinely dont understand the whirlwind nerf, what does it accomplish?

Watch them NERF the shit out of space marines again.... Dark Angels, SM and the other chapters are suffering from Black Templars success. They shouldn't have made supplement Codizes but a codex for every Chapter with their own point cost so you could specifically target that one chapter and not all at once

I liked the comment on divergent chapters preferring their own centrepiece unit.. calling them out one by one - yet silence on Dark Angels. Man their codex feels really bad

Callidus Assassins is Space marines unit now? I thought Callidus is part of Agents of Imperium

Why are terminators not being used as much

Tactical Marines will get scrapped, Reivers, together with Infiltrators and Incursors, should cost between Scouts and Assault Intercessors - around 140 or max 150pts per 10, Aggressors I'll use with my Sallies, no matter what, just like Eradicators - 6, 9 or 12 and Terminators should get acces to combi-weapons (they are friggin' chapter's elite...) or get AP-1 on their Storm Bolters. But as always, meta destroys everything and there'll be some nerfs - again.

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Is it bad that scouts are the best Space Marine unit?

Lmao I believe Auspex is powered by energy drinks

Any release dates?

I know this is a bit off topic but have you guys seen the full tau codex, got mine delivered today and oh boy everything got a point increase and the Riptide got an 80+ bump and is now 245. Also farsighted is bumped up to 140

Assault Intercessors with a captain - use rite of battle - fight on objective, laugh

Whoops i run one thing on this list and its a 5 man infiltrator squad. I should really try pick a few units based on ability not just looks😅

GW needs to cut the BS and add multimeltas to all the tanks, just not Black templar.

It’s great that Eradicators are so cheap in 10e compared to 9e, but I find myself using them less frequently now than I did when they were nearly twice the points. I own 6 Eradicators for my Black Templars army, 6 for Ultramarines, and 3 for Dark Angels, so obviously I’m a fan of Eradicators - sadly, I don’t use them as much in 10e. The main reason is that their Total Obliteration ability was hugely nerfed! That double-shot at half range was incredibly intimidating, and when Eradicators provided fire support to a squad of Bladeguards holding a mid-field objective, they were very difficult to shift. Another reason why I don’t use Eradicators as much these days is because of 10e’s changes to the Apothecary. The Apothecary can only use its abilities on the squad it’s attached to, it can’t attach to an Eradicator squad, it can’t HEAL anymore, and and the Gravis Apothecary Biologis cannot Heal or Revive. If GW changed the Bio-Apothecary’s abilities so it could heal and revive, I’d definitely use it to lead Eradicators - probably 6! I don’t agree that Infiltrators are one of SM’s strongest units. That extra 3” of Deep Strike denial isn’t worth 20 more points than Intercessors, and it’s ineffective against units or stratagems that allow 3” deep strikes. For the points, I’d rather take Heavy Intercessors because they are much stronger objective holders and they have a much greater chance of defeating a deep-striking or charging enemy unit, thanks to their Dam2 weapons, 3 Wounds, and objective-based ability. I love the Land Raider for my Black Templars, especially the Redeemer, but it’s an odd choice for Space Marines in general. Whereas the Redemptor dread is a more universally strong “vehicle” for any SM chapter - even after its recent 10 points increase.

Top nine units who are getting their points increased next balance update :'>

Man, remember when Reivers were good?

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1) 10 Assault Intercessors buffing a Lieutenant with a Power Fist (S11 in Salamanders) and a Sarge with a Thunder Hammer is underrated. 2) Auspex, sleep for the love of the Emperor, please

The fact that centurions are not even mentioned when they are strictly better than anything admech has is killing me on the inside Space Marines being low in winrate is definitely not a mesure of their real competitive worth

Infiltrators are over-rated!

Some of this seems legit, some seems like tier-list/new player meta garbage tbh.

no, not rly, eradicators are rly bad unit, few shots with str only 9, rerolls only against vehicles - even then wounds only on 5+ , close range, very very bad unit, anything is better than that, best units are jump pack assaults , assaults intercessors on foot + chaplain, predator tanks with autocanons (even better than lancer and reaper , which are good) hellblasters if you play gladius, infiltrators, scouts, inceptors, (devastators are suprisingly good) , callidus is great, redemptor and balistus are not so good, land raider is 50/50 depends on your opponent, this list is good, but delete eradicators

In other words , top 9 units of this faction that will soon be nerfed