I am currently putting together and painting my Codex Marines.

I was wondering how many characters people are using (and where)?

I am aiming to put together a tournament style army based around 3000 points. I have the character pack, so I can do most options, but which ones am I most likely to want?

Chaplain, Librarian, Supreme Commander. You don't see many Captains to be honest.

Is it acceptable (at tournaments) to have generic Chaplain/Librarian and then attach them to whatever formation?

Or should I have the chaplain in terminators/assaults etc? (ditto for the librarian)

Generally acceptable.

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Thanks chaps.

Most have them on the stands to be honest. They only time I've really seen models next to units is for commissars. Shouldn't be a big deal though. Personally I've made one terminator magnetic so I can swap out between normal/chaplain/librarian, but that may be taking things a bit far really!

I wasn't aware that was actually possible.

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I base mine separately on magnetic bases so I can swap them out. I use Chaplains for the most part (and Apothecaries and Standard Bearers as proxies), I have a Captain but have not used him that often. Haven't gotten to Librarians yet. My Supreme Commander is its own base.

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You need to slightly hollow out the 'hole' on a standard base but it does work. 1mm thick magnet of course.

What I meant was if I was to make a unit with a chaplain, and 4 generic space marine figures. Would it be generally acceptable if that stand was swapped for an assault marine stand or terminator stand?

Or is it necessary to have a chaplain plus 4 assault marines, a chaplain plus 4 terminators and a chaplain plus 4 "whatever" marines, so that the stand being replaced has the correct models.

(The magnet trick is very good, but it might be stretching my modelling skills and/or wallet)

PS Very nice marines there Dave

Normally you'll need a stand with assault marines to be an assault marine character. Best bet is to use Dave's approach with single figures added to the base and if magnets are a bit OTT a small bit of blue tack would work just as well.

Some of mine ...

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If you buy the SM character pack you get the relevant characters with the right wargear for the other stands (Assault/Term/Bike). You don't really need that many and tactical/dev are interchangeable.

This would prove confusing if the other units in the formation were killed. You'd be left with a unit of Marines that look like Tactical Marines, but which were actually Devastators, or Assault Marines, or Terminators, or Scouts.

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It's rarely neccesary to have generic characters, since most formations lend themselves to particular characters. Assault marine will never have a librarian for example, but almost always have a chaplain. Supreme commanders are almost always found on tactical formations. Devestators usually have librarians etc.