That's new for me, I thought that the Sternguard Veteran only uses ranged weaponry.

For me, I choose Assault Marine, because I would like to focus on meele combat. My goal to became a Vanguard Veteran.

All marines have some form of melee weapon, it would be stupid not to give them something in the event they have to fight in close quarters/melee.

Would like to some sort of veteran warrior where you fight on the ground mainly with melee weapons.

I voted tactical, devastator and techmarine(hope so) in this specific order.
I prefer ranged tactical combat with a handful of grenades over melee fights.

i say the tacical is a big move but i personally would go dev techmarin oe apoth either way

My 2nd character will probably be a assault SM with no jectpack (if it's viable)

Just the sergeant can have a power weapon (like every other SM sergeant).

Tough call! In Space Marine I loved the assault marine aproach, that was crazy fun, so if it plays like that I'd be tempted to go that route, in MMO's I already lean toward healers, so depending how apothocaries work that could be an option, and techmarines could also be very interesting!

Stay classy, stacy tactical.

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I hope soo that I will able to unequip the jump pack.

Yeah, I hought so, just you know, that unit specialised for ranged combat, and I can't imagine them, with both unique bolter and chain/power sword (exept the sergeant [and probalbly they have combat knife])