Board Thread:Critique and Advice/@comment-5940646-20161026204618/@comment-3055683-20161027055124

Dragonofelder,

I agree with Imposter101, you really don't want to put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. Void combat is just one common type of combat encountered in the 40K universe, and especially amongst the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. You could say that your Chapter specialises in ship-borne assaults and boarding actions, but you might also want to balance it out with other specialty tactics -- like defensive actions, pursuit operations or extended unsupported operations in hostile domains. Or perhaps embellish your Chapter a bit and say they are assault specialists or that they are experts in strategic decapitation strikes.

This is a common mistake with many new writers when creating their own Space Marine Chapters. They get so caught up with trying to make their Space Marines so bad ass and/or 'special', that they sometimes don't take the time to step back and think about the overall picture in regards to how a Space Marine Chapter would actually deploy in combat or how they would be utilised in a real-world combat scenario.

Imposter is also correct in his assessment that you shouldn't have your Chapter rely on one specific tactic. It doesn't work. The problem with being specialised in one specific tactic or purpose is that your Chapter becomes too specialised for general warfare and would only be called upon when a particular threat or situation presented itself. This isn't to say, that you couldn't have your Chapter called upon when the need arises, just ensure that you balance your forces out and make them competent in a variety of forms of warfare. Or at the very least balance them out with specialisations in various types of planetary warfare as well.

Your concept is decent, you just need to work on improving your Chapter by making them more balanced. Just my two cents.