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To run a full contingent of Chaos troops devoted to every god with war machines and psykers representing said gods in addition to the Black Legion Chosen and Terminators led by Abaddon marching up front and center on top of their Daemon allies led by Be'lakor, I'd say I would need about 8k points.

I don't care about the points but I want all related to my army FW models (once) which is AL + Mechanicum.

Might be (soft of) threadcromancy, but about 20k points would be enough to sort of represent my homebrew chapter, which is totally not a rip off of Space Wolves. I'd have

- A company with TWC, which would represent the 1st company,
-1 Battle Company, consisting of Long Fangs and Grey Hunters
-A Scout Company
-A Blood Claw Company, with both Blood Claws, Swiftclaws and Skyclaws

Eac company would have ~25-100 Marines each.

My average army size is about 5000, so that seems to be my ideal point size for my army.

Oddly enough, it is never the right unit combos for all the formations, as a lot of the points are tied up in things like 10 men terminator squads, a Caestus Assault Ram, etc.

5000 Points allows me to field a reasonable fraction of the roughly 50,000 points i have available.

Wow, so many high-point answers. I don't know if they didn't read the part about "your force must be able to comfortably deploy on an 8'x4' board).

I personally think the game is too congested. I think you can represent almost all armies at the 1500pt level. When you just start multiplying a list you make, you aren't better representing anything if you don't change the ratio.

Yes, you could do 50 drop pods with 50 tac marine squads and 30 centurions. But why not just do 5 drop pods with 5 tac marine squads and 3 centurions? You are still giving the same ratio.

If making an accurate representation number-wise was the goal, the army points would be in the millions! But I didn't interpret OPs question like that, just as a representation. So, to represent what the army is like, just get the ratio right and don't needlessly multiply it.

My Ideal Iron Warriors list would be:

two Kitted out khorne lords, one PA one Termie, 6 squads of ten marines in a rhino, 1 squad of 5 chosen in a rhino 1 squad of 4 Termies in a Land Raider, 3 vindys, a Typhon, a Sicarian, 3 Hell Talons, two mayhem packs of Helbrutes, and a Contemptor.

So probably in the 4k-4.5k range.

500 more points than my opponent at this time.

Ideal *army* would be somewhere in that 10k range. Ideal *game* though is around 1500-2000.

Does anyone have any exact numbers on the Siege of Terra? Thinking about writing something...

I dunno, maybe 15K?

I recently played an apoc game where I had 10k of daemons. I would bring that down to say, 8K, and then bring 7K of renegades and heretics. I think that would be pretty awesome.

 Ryan_A wrote:
Wow, so many high-point answers. I don't know if they didn't read the part about "your force must be able to comfortably deploy on an 8'x4' board).

I'm guessing you are correct. An 8x4 board really limits you to about 4-5000 points. any more than that, and it's just a parking lot.

For my IG, want a full infantry company. Not three platoons of three squads each, but a maxed out, six platoons of five squads, plus support type company. 300+ men. That's not as much as you'd think, but it's still pushing 6000 points. The inevitable armored support balloons that to well over 10k.. For the record, I'm over half way there...

I'd like a 1st company, second company, 10th company plus auxiliaries for my Imperial fists, all pro painted. Wouldn't matter if it was competitive if it looked awesome.

For me, I'd say 1850 points is a good number for an army. It's big enough to allow plenty of different units, yet small enough to force some picking and choosing. I prefer to play this points level even in casual games, although I've played as small as 1000 and as big as 3000 before.

1500-2000 ish, I think.

 Polonius wrote:

 Ryan_A wrote:
Wow, so many high-point answers. I don't know if they didn't read the part about "your force must be able to comfortably deploy on an 8'x4' board).

I'm guessing you are correct. An 8x4 board really limits you to about 4-5000 points. any more than that, and it's just a parking lot.

That entirely depends on the army. You could fit 20k points of Titans onto an 8x4 nicely. You could not fit that much IG onto the same board however.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Polonius wrote:

 Ryan_A wrote:
Wow, so many high-point answers. I don't know if they didn't read the part about "your force must be able to comfortably deploy on an 8'x4' board).

I'm guessing you are correct. An 8x4 board really limits you to about 4-5000 points. any more than that, and it's just a parking lot.

That entirely depends on the army. You could fit 20k points of Titans onto an 8x4 nicely. You could not fit that much IG onto the same board however.

Yes, but are that many knights so close together and accurate representation of the knights?

 Ryan_A wrote:
Wow, so many high-point answers. I don't know if they didn't read the part about "your force must be able to comfortably deploy on an 8'x4' board).

I personally think the game is too congested. I think you can represent almost all armies at the 1500pt level. When you just start multiplying a list you make, you aren't better representing anything if you don't change the ratio.

Yes, you could do 50 drop pods with 50 tac marine squads and 30 centurions. But why not just do 5 drop pods with 5 tac marine squads and 3 centurions? You are still giving the same ratio.

If making an accurate representation number-wise was the goal, the army points would be in the millions! But I didn't interpret OPs question like that, just as a representation. So, to represent what the army is like, just get the ratio right and don't needlessly multiply it.

Some armies scale different than others. Imperial guard for the most part gets better and better as the points increase and they don't really shine until about 3k. Armies like necron and their super durable units do well in lower point games where each surviving unit counts for so much more.

1850 or 2000

Since I play orks (WAAAGH!), I have no points limit to my army. The only limit is financial stuff.

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Since I play orks (WAAAGH!), I have no points limit to my army. The only limit is financial stuff.

That's the spirit!

 Matthew wrote:

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Since I play orks (WAAAGH!), I have no points limit to my army. The only limit is financial stuff.

That's the spirit!

Exalted!

Great topic! I was actually thinking about this the other day... And I'm still not sure... Maybe 10k?

I find 1850 the best size for a bit of fun, but not too cheesy lists.

2000 is common in my LGS, but I often find it becomes a disadvantage for my Orks at that size.

Daemons: Around 10K. That gets you one of each Greater Daemon, several of each Herald, and a decent variety of the various units for each Chaos God.

Orks: For me, around 4K is plenty. I'm interested specifically in a mek-mob and when I wrote a 3K list I had to make only a few sacrifices - and extra thousand would be plenty.

Dark Angels... No idea. I don't even know what I would consider representative of the chapter. I guess about 10-15K should cover a full company with armoured support as well as a significant Deathwing and Ravenwing presence and a suitable selection of characters...

2500 its fun to see such massive armies clash especially in cities of death something i play a lot of in my circle

so i always tell myself im stopping at certain point limit like 3000 points ... so i can field a solid 2000 point army and still change out a few models and still play a fairly larger game... but i tend to be like ooh something new and that looks cool and that! that would fit perfectly, and this would make the campaign so awesome! and bam!!!... i have a 10000 point army... some may consider it to be a problem
fmj

1500pts is ideal for 1-2 hour play. Some how 1850 is just too much and always seems to be 3-4hours.

Also at 1500, there is less room for ultra death stars and so much gimmicks such as war convocation and decurion or gladius or what ever. If they are trying to fit that in 1500pts, they will be seriously lacking in other things.