Organization

For a long time I never organized my marines into preset squads with squad markings. They were all marines and flexible to go into any formation I deemed necessary for the current army list.

Then about two years ago I finally bit the bullet and come up with defined squads, and painted squad markings. I divided them as this:

1 squad of 10 Chosen Marines
2 squads of 15 Tactical Marines
2 squads of 10 Assault Marines
2 squads of 8 Havoc Marines

For a long time this was my divisions, although sometimes I would make a third tactical squad from the other tactical squads and use them as infiltrators. The 15 man squads were useful in terms of absorbing damage, but lately I've been finding the desire for the third tactical squad more overwhelming, so I reorganized into this:

4 squads of 10 Tactical Marines
2 squads of 10 Assault Marines
2 squads of 8 Havoc Marines

The chosen were never being fielded, so taking a heavy weapon from them allowed me to make them a normal tact squad. I changed the squad markings of the painted squads last night so I'm ready to go, and all set for the megabattle this coming weekend.