>>14752188Playing the game for one year now, just my observations. Let's start with Marine codices.
Vanilla Marines: Useable, but pale in comparison to newer Marine subbooks
Dark Angels: Probably the weakest Marine codex out there atm, brought down by 4th ed stuff
Black Templars: really old codex, can be powerful but hard to grasp for a newbie
Blood Angels: Specialize in Assault, have easiest access to Feel no pain in the game. Troops more expensive points wise than Vanilla marines.
Space Wolves: Do everything better than vanilla marines for cheaper. Extremely good Shooting and good combat
Grey Knights: Elite army, very low model count but also a lot of special rules, might be hard to for a beginner to grasp.