Fun/wacky army themes

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**raiden**

Super mutants- all bullgryn/Ogryn army XD XD. Painted green of course.

**Da Butcha**

Someone mentioned the Synapse-free Tyranids. I almost did that one back with Cityfight (when you could deploy through the sewers).

6 squads of 12 Genestealers

Broodlord and Retinue of Genestealers

Lictors and Deathleaper.

The only things 'deployed' on the board were the lictors, and they were hidden.

**MrFlutterPie**

The Fast and the Furioso.

Take a bunch of fast blood angel tanks backed by furioso dreads.

**Jancoran**

Siphen wrote:
I've been playing some "silly" games with a friend recently. We've each been making 1000 point lists that are somewhat to extremely unconventional and testing out our creations. I'd just like to hear some other ideas for building fun and wacky lists - for any army. Bonus points for Tau, Nids, or Marines (my armies ).

Just to give you an idea, some of the things we've tried:

Close Combat Tau: Aun'Shi (the close combat Ethereal). Fire Warriors with EMP grenades. Crisis Suits with Flamers, FnP, and Fleet. Large blobs of Kroot Hounds. The entire Tau army wants to rush forward and charge.

125 point Guard: Every single unit in his army was 125 points. 125 point Veterans in a 125 point Chimera next to a 125 point unit of Sentinels...

Medium base only Tyranids: No monstrous creatures and no little bugs. Only Tyranid warriors, Hive Guard, Lictors, Zoanthropes, etc.

Other ideas?

Scope out my blog. You might find it to be exactly what you're looking for. here is an example:

http://www.40kunorthodoxy.blogspot.com/2014/11/tau-empire-vs-eldar-battle-report.html

**ClockworkZion**

Unit1126PLL wrote:
Sisters of Battle

Not wacky enough. I had a 2k game today with Sisters/Inq Allies. Due to forgetting some of my models I improvised some things and ended up running a punchy Sisters army with 1 Battle Conclave, 2 Punchy units of Henchmen (the three of them had combinations of Priests, Crusaders, Arco-Flagellants, and Death Cult Assassins), and a unit of Repentia. Mixed into this was Celestine and a unit of Seraphim, Jacobus (he had the Battle Conclave), a Hereticus Inquisitor, 2 BSS, 3 Sisters Rhinos, 2 Inq Rhinos, and 3 Exorcists. Throw some upgrades onto it all to fill out to 2 and serve.

It was silly and surprisingly fun, though it could have been more optimized and if I do that again some tweaks will definitely be in order.

**Melevolence**

I would play 1000 points of just Killa Kanz because Grots rule.

**Co'tor Shas**

All tau drone army. Unbound (of course). Drone teams, sniper drones, heavy gun drones, and drone turrets.

For a fun build, mobile tau. Farsight (so crisis as troops), or fire warriors with pulse carbines and devilfish. XV9s and pirahnas galore. It's what my actual army is (it's not half bad either).

Pretty much anything with vespids, although some tactics might find them useful.

Eldar, all skimmer/jetbike army.

**ClockworkZion**

I'm sad to see this thread sinking already. We need more wacky armies!

Mostly because I'm looking for a wacky army idea to build and play

**AnomanderRake**

The HELLO! army. Elysians, except instead of Guardsmen your turn-one Combat Drop Valkyries are loaded with (insert scary Imperial infantry here)

**SirDonlad**

before the grey knight codex got changed, you could make an army of jokaero led by a lone inquisitor..

**Niiru**

SirDonlad wrote:
before the grey knight codex got changed, you could make an army of jokaero led by a lone inquisitor..

You can do the same thing now can't you? You just have to use the Inquisitor codex instead.

**Vector Strike**

Revenge of the Drones: Farsight list with 40 drones (1/3 are markers with commanders, the rest are gun drones), suits with a lot of target locks and drone controllers. sadly it didn't work against a SM/SW force, but I managed to kill his 3-man+libby cent star!

TheCustomLime wrote:
Spess Marines: The way of the Bolter.

Bolters are awesome man. A real manly man's gun. They are the greatest implement of battle bar none. If you don't think so then you are wrong.

HQ:
Captain: 115 pts
+The Primarch's wrath
+Storm Bolter

Command Squad: 160 pts
+5x Storm Bolters
+Drop Pod w/ Storm Bolter

Troops:
Tactical Squad: 190 pts
+Storm Bolter
+5x Men
+Heavy Bolter
+Drop Pod w/ Storm Bolter

Tactical Squad: 190 pts
+Storm Bolter
+5x Men
+Heavy Bolter
+Drop Pod w/ Storm Bolter

Tactical Squad: 190 pts
+Storm Bolter
+5x Men
+Heavy Bolter
+Drop Pod w/ Storm Bolter

Tactical Squad: 190 pts
+Storm Bolter
+5x Men
+Heavy Bolter
+Drop Pod w/ Storm Bolter

Tactical Squad: 190 pts
+Storm Bolter
+5x Men
+Heavy Bolter
+Drop Pod w/ Storm Bolter

Tactical Squad: 190 pts
+Storm Bolter
+5x Men
+Heavy Bolter
+Drop Pod w/ Storm Bolter

Elites:
Sternguard Veteran Squad: 295
+5x Marines
+Drop Pod
+2x Heavy Bolters
+2x Storm Bolters
Sternguard Veteran Squad: 290 pts
+5x Marines
+Drop Pod
+1x Storm Bolters
+2x Heavy Bolters

2000 points of manliness.

They're Imperial Fists, right?
Yo dawg, I heard you like bolters...

**SirDonlad**

Niiru wrote:
SirDonlad wrote:
before the grey knight codex got changed, you could make an army of jokaero led by a lone inquisitor..

You can do the same thing now can't you? You just have to use the Inquisitor codex instead.

Nice to hear it's still good - i wasn't aware of said inquisitor 'dex 'till now.

i started buying jokaero to do exactly that but the cost was fantastic!

i also toyed with buying two imperial guard armies - one tallarn 'taliban' force (lots of those missile launcher teams and toyota hilux toys as chimeras) and the other a combined mordian iron guard, steel legion and DKoK 'nazi' force (mordians as the ss elites all others as grunts).

highly politically incorrect but my god, how hard i would laugh if i saw someone actually with one of those at a GW store!

**kingbobbito**

Librarius Maximus

Ezekiel, leading the Dark Angels Librarius Conclave

4 Terminator Librarians, Mastery level 2, all with displacer fields

All in one blob squad attached to a squad of deathwing knights.

Exactly 1000 points.

**skarnalaxwarlord**

Here's one for da Orks;
HQ- Weirdboy
Troops- ALL GROTS
FA- Kamikaze Trukks
HS- Bubblechukkas

**SBG**

Tyranid blast spam (TBS). I run this from time to time and it is uncompetitive and fun, if you like rolling for scatter.

HQ
Prime- Miasma, or Tyrant - Stranglethorn

Troops
Warrior x3 with barbed strangler (3-4 squads or more!)

Heavy
Stranglefexes
Biovores
Tyrannofexes

FA
Harpies

...The bioblast node is useful here, if you have the points.

Fun list unless you face loads of flyers!

**raiden**

kingbobbito wrote:
Librarius Maximus

Ezekiel, leading the Dark Angels Librarius Conclave

4 Terminator Librarians, Mastery level 2, all with displacer fields

All in one blob squad attached to a squad of deathwing knights.

Exactly 1000 points.

I want to play this now... perhaps run tac squads with libby commands :O :O BLOOD RAVENS WHEWT!

**Hollismason**

The Tomb Awakens

1 Spyder

Everything else Scarabs.

**koooaei**

raiden wrote:
Super mutants- all bullgryn/Ogryn army XD XD. Painted green of course.

**Hunam0001**

Ork or Chaos bikers with Dark Angel or White Scar "allies"

Ork/Chaos all start on the board at the edge of your deployment zone, and only move towards the enemy table edge.

Dark Angel/White Scars all start in reserve, and chase after the Orks.

Bonus points if DA are modeled as Raven Wing "on foot".

**ClockworkZion**

All Servitor Inquisitor army.

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Unbound Ogryn army could be fun/funny too. No tanks, no HQs, just Ogryns as far as the eye can see.

**lustigjh**

All Slaanesh cultists. They spend the entire game doing dirty things in their deployment zone.

Alternately, Khorne cultist blobs, because 30 weak guys with rage and furious charge plus two weapons is actually hilarious if they make it to combat

**GoonBandito**

Niiru wrote:
SirDonlad wrote:
before the grey knight codex got changed, you could make an army of jokaero led by a lone inquisitor..

You can do the same thing now can't you? You just have to use the Inquisitor codex instead.

3 Henchmen Warbands with 10 Jokearo's each, each taking a Valkyrie as a Dedicated Transport. Use the Grav-Chute rule to Deep Strike the Jokearo out of the Valkyries and have an ARMY OF MONKEY PARATROOPERS

**SisterSydney**

Fly, my pretties! Fly!

**The Riddle of Steel**

I've been wanting to try a true grot army using Ork rules, not weedy Guard rules like some rebel grotz armies. Troops would be a flood of grotz. Fast Attack would be buggies converted to be driven by grotz (maybe even as some sort of grot tanks or armored cars). Heavy Support would be the toughest because I would want both lots of Mek Gunz and lots if Kans, so I would need to either take two or three detachments or go Unbound.

It would be great fun to play and if you ever won a game, you could tease your opponent mercilessly about losing to GROTZ!

**ClockworkZion**

Flying monkeys are pretty funny.

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The Riddle of Steel wrote:
I've been wanting to try a true grot army using Ork rules, not weedy Guard rules like some rebel grotz armies. Troops would be a flood of grotz. Fast Attack would be buggies converted to be driven by grotz (maybe even as some sort of grot tanks or armored cars). Heavy Support would be the toughest because I would want both lots of Mek Gunz and lots if Kans, so I would need to either take two or three detachments or go Unbound.

It would be great fun to play and if you ever won a game, you could tease your opponent mercilessly about losing to GROTZ!

FW has some Grots stuff that might help fill that in. And if you can find the Grot Bot model there's a ~~War~~ Grotboss for you.

**MrFlutterPie**

GoonBandito wrote:
Niiru wrote:
SirDonlad wrote:
before the grey knight codex got changed, you could make an army of jokaero led by a lone inquisitor..

You can do the same thing now can't you? You just have to use the Inquisitor codex instead.

3 Henchmen Warbands with 10 Jokearo's each, each taking a Valkyrie as a Dedicated Transport. Use the Grav-Chute rule to Deep Strike the Jokearo out of the Valkyries and have an ARMY OF MONKEY PARATROOPERS

I freaking love this!

**ClockworkZion**

I'm looking for a fun/wacky Thousand Sons army. Anyone have some ideas?

**Slayer-Fan123**

ClockworkZion wrote:
I'm looking for a fun/wacky Thousand Sons army. Anyone have some ideas?

Taking Rubrics is pretty wacky and terrible in the first place, so that'd be the first place to start.

**AnomanderRake**

ClockworkZion wrote:
I'm looking for a fun/wacky Thousand Sons army. Anyone have some ideas?

Run them with a few Tzeentch Daemon allies and summon only Screamers. Drown your foe in manta rays.

Honestly the range isn't quite big enough for there to be silly ways to run Thousand Sons.

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Barge fight. DE versus Necrons trading broadsides out of their open-topped boats.

(It's closer than you think, the Necron boats may be tossing masses of Gauss but the DE boats can start shooting earlier and can have a lot of lances on board)