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Hi guys just curious what everyone's ultimate tabletop army is from any game be it WH40K or LOTR etc.

Have fun

Money no issue?

A high elf army. Including the cost of a new steel mould for updated spearmen and archers.

If I didn't have a backlog to take care of, I'd start up a Lost and the Damned army.

I have loads of "renegades" in the form of plastic converted cultists, but I'm talking about the resin models from Forge World.

Money isn't really the issue for me, it's the time. I guess if I throw in the idea that I'd pay for commissions rather than doing the work myself, I would like a large Bretonnian themed Undead army for WHFB and a large Space Wolf army with some custom sculpted bits (much of which I've already done roughly but would probably need a pro to do well and on the scale I'd want).

I'd also like to finish my late war WW2 Germans and British.


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 Vermis wrote:
Money no issue?

A high elf army. Including the cost of a new steel mould for updated spearmen and archers.

That's a good idea, if we throw in the idea of getting new moulds made, I'd get an Eldar army that wasn't so cone headed and had new jetbikes

 Bryzee1993 wrote:
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Hi guys just curious what everyone's ultimate tabletop army is from any game be it WH40K or LOTR etc.

Have fun

I did a Hobbit army. so...giant spiders

Hire Forgeworld Team to Model me a Imperator titan

Italian Wars. Entire armys of puffy sleeves, colourful pikes and war alters. Thatd keep me busy for a bit.

Good question.
Actually, there would be no 40k project to undertake atm.

High Elves would be tempting but not gonna sure they survive End Times.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Money isn't really the issue for me, it's the time. I guess if I throw in the idea that I'd pay for commissions rather than doing the work myself, I would like a large Bretonnian themed Undead army for WHFB and a large Space Wolf army with some custom sculpted bits (much of which I've already done roughly but would probably need a pro to do well and on the scale I'd want).

I'd also like to finish my late war WW2 Germans and British.
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Oh man this is sooooo true!

I like to paint my minis myself so commission aren't my thing but I have a whole stack of boxes that houses my future projects that I have bought but not got to yet;Tyrants Legion SM's, FW AD Mech, FoW Germans/US/Russians and WHFB Undead being the ones that come to mind. :(.

A Pacific Rim themed Imperial Knights army, with display board set up to look like the inside of the Shatterdome.

Space Marines painted in the colors of all the canon chapters.

The entire Celestial Guard chapter.

A Steel Legion army with super-heavy support,

A proper board with tons of terrain.

X points of Tyranids, where X is big. Very big.
Like Hive Fleet big.

I don’t think I’d start any new projects, but my current ones would rocket off into the sky with no budget issues.

My Ultramarines would go from a reinforced company to a legion. Massive influx of FW books and kits, and all the stuff I’m on the fence about now.

Eldar would get all the shinies. SH tanks, more bikes and normal tanks.

I’d stop messing around with old tools, just because they are what I have. New brushes, new workshop, airbrush setup, full paint lines, etc.

DKoK, were I to start a new army project without worrying about cost.

I'm far (I mean far) from rich, but I can at least afford the odd new tool or little man-dolly, if I hunt for deals. I've amassed a pretty large backlog, over the years, and can say with surety that only a small portion, if any, of a sudden windfall would go to hobby stuff.

Hmmm, if money were not an issue...

ALL OF THE ARMIES!!!

A fully fleshed out Finish army set to the winter war, with fitting gaming boards, made to represent both the Karelia, northern Finland and such.
I would even go so far as building the internationale volunters that, came and fougth for the Finns when the world turned its back to them in their time of need.

First, can I make a suggestion for a small change to the question. Rather than "of money were not an issue" a better question would be "if you were retiring today". IE you have time and money free. Not infinet but enough free of both. Just a diffrent way to look at it, and realistic for most people one day.

For me, two things.

1) an ad mech army. Lots of conversation, lots of work. It would have two war hound Titans and lots of tanks.

2) a skaven army. I don't play warhammer any more , but I always wanted a skaven army and I figure if I had the time I would have time to play warhammer.

A complete titan legio, with a wonderfully resinous tide of tyranids to fight them!

 Steve steveson wrote:
First, can I make a suggestion for a small change to the question. Rather than "of money were not an issue" a better question would be "if you were retiring today". IE you have time and money free. Not infinet but enough free of both. Just a diffrent way to look at it, and realistic for most people one day.

For me, two things.

1) an ad mech army. Lots of conversation, lots of work. It would have two war hound Titans and lots of tanks.

2) a skaven army. I don't play warhammer any more , but I always wanted a skaven army and I figure if I had the time I would have time to play warhammer.

[i]This sounds like a better way to phrase my question thank you

I'd undertake a Marrienburg Empire army complete with landships, pirates, and converted blunderbuss' on everything.

Money's no issue ?

15k Chaos dwarves, fully comission painted.

Large Chaos Marine / Daemon / Heretics & Renegade force converted / painted in the theme of Malal / Sons of Malice (currently working on this, but no way will ever have the time or cash for how I envision it)

The obvious hire FW to do sisters or other gw metal kits.

Personally.
Imperial fist full chapter
Full 4x8 forgeworld or whatever city fight table
Round out my skaven to 10k points
Elsysn drop troops or artillery list to go with imp fists
get it all painted.
Roughly in that order.

If money would be a non-issue? I think I'd get a division's worth of bolt-action russians. And then maybe some germans to keep them company, too.

If money were no issue:

I would get Tom Meier to finish every one of the Fantasy Armies he has ever begun, including re-sculpting every Ral Partha figure from the Fantasy Collectors Series as a 30mm figure (With the height of the Elves adjusted up so that they would be taller, rather than shorter than humans), and then filling out those armies so that it would be possible to do every army in Middle-earth from the Beginning of the First Age to the end of the Third.

This would be:

• First Age Noldor.
... The Sons of Fëanor in the NE in the Mountains between Dorthonion and the Ered Luin
... Doriath/Grey Elves
... Sea Elves/Teleri at Brithombar and the Mouths of Sirion
... Gondolin, which could field an army of around 50,000 Elves, and not just the paltry 10,000 who went to the Nirneath Arnoediad. It had around fifteen different units of Heavy Infantry alone, and around 10,000 Archers... Not to mention it could have fielded armored Elven Knights
... Nargothrond (mainly medium infantry, but at least 5,000 heavy infantry). They also had cavalry, both heavy and light.
... Green Elves
... Other Sylvan Elves and Morquendi
• First Age Edain and Easterlings (Which are actually Vikings/Rus - do your Tolkien research and there is a lot of evidence that Vikings were his original "Easterlings." Just look at the names).
• First Age Dwarves, including the Firebeards and Broadbeams of Nogrod and Belegost, as well as the Longbeards of Khazad Dûm.
• Drúadan.
• Orcs: both Sauron's from Angband and the captured Eithel Sirion (as well as his werewolves and other creatures, such as Thurwingethil) and Morgoth's from Angband.

• Second Age Noldor, including:
... Lindon Noldor
... Eregion Noldor (Celebrimbor/Hollin). They made up the main force of around 25,000 Elves initially resisting Sauron just after the creation of The One Ring
... Lothlórien (mainly medium infantry, armed with bow and axe, much as the forces of Doriath, but the Galadhrim would be both heavy infantry and cavalry)
• Sylvan Elvesof Greenwood.
• Teleri/Sea Elves of Forlindon and Harlindon
• Hill men of Gondor and Eriador.
• Kingdoms of Men south of Gondor (which did not yet exist as a nation for most of the Second Age) and in the NE Eriador, and near the Sea of Rhûn (These would be the "Kings of Men" to whom Sauron gave the Rings of Power)
• Early Númenóreans
• Later Númenóreans (King's Men) when they dominated Middle-earth from their cities along the coast: Primarily based in Umbar
• Early Gondor and Arnor
• Dwarves of the Iron Hills (which were a combination of Longbeards, Firebeams, and another, unstated branch of the Dwerrow).
• Dwarves of Khazad Dûm.
• Easterlings.
• Southrons (both allied with the Númenóreans, and those allied with Sauron)
• Orcs (Misty Mountains, Iron Hills, Mordor, Ered Nimrais)
• Druadan
• Foradain of Rhovanion

• Third Age Elves of Mirkwood and Lothlorien.
• Remnant Noldor of Lindon and Imladris
• Remnant Sea Elves of Forlindon and Harlindon
• Dwarves of the Ered Luin
• Dwarves of the Iron Hills
• Dwarves of Khazad Dûm until Durin's Bane.
• Arnor under the kings.
• Rhudaur as Dúnedain.
• Rhudaur as Dark Men
• Cardolan
• Early/Late Arthedain
• Early/Middle/Late Gondor under the Kings
• Gondor during the Kin-Strife
• Early/Late Gondor under the Stewards.
• Foradain of Rhovanion
• Éotheod
• Early and Later Rohirrim
• Early/Later Wainriders.
• Balcoth
• Haradrim and Far-Haradrim.
• Early Umbarrim/Black Númenórean and Later Umbarrim
• Variags of Khand
• Northern (Gundabad), Middle (Goblin town and Angmar), and Southern (Moria) Hithaeglir Orc/Goblin.
• Angmar
• Mordor (Orc and human)
• Minas Morgul (Orc and human)
• Drúadan


And rather than having the miniatures cast, I would have each one C-C machined so there would be no mold lines

AND...

I would create machined brass weapons for all of the figures so that they would not get bent (I am doing this anyway for the miniatures I am working on. These are intended to be very high-end weapon Sprues for people who want extravagant weapons for their figures, and who want weapons that are finely detailed - not fat - yet which resist bending).

And then I would have several distinct collections created:

1) Two collections for RPGs and Skirmish games like Saga or the LOTR FBG... One collection in 30mm and another in 54mm.

2) A collection for Mass Combat Games that was based using the Field of Glory/DBx basing standard (I don't do WHFB/WAB style masses individual basing).

And I would finish my own contributions to those lines.

And... Since money is no object:

A similar set of armies for Hyboria.

MB


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 oni wrote:
Hmmm, if money were not an issue...

ALL OF THE ARMIES!!!

^^^ This ^^^

MB

 notprop wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Money isn't really the issue for me, it's the time. I guess if I throw in the idea that I'd pay for commissions rather than doing the work myself, I would like a large Bretonnian themed Undead army for WHFB and a large Space Wolf army with some custom sculpted bits (much of which I've already done roughly but would probably need a pro to do well and on the scale I'd want).

I'd also like to finish my late war WW2 Germans and British.
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Oh man this is sooooo true!

Same on the time. Assuming I had the money to take time off work (like a 6 month vacation, or on retirement), I'd totally convert the garage into a man-cave and try to recreate Marathon and Sekigahara in 15/28mm on 10x4' custom tables. Maybe even fit some fleet action in for Marathon.

If I managed them, then a huge Stalingrad table for Bolt Action, or start recreating the missions from the Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines game.

Firstly, funding genetic research into a way of copying some real painting talent from the best painters on here. Any army at all after that really

A full 28mm Byzantine army of Alexios I.

I would get a couple of large 6mm Napoleonic armies to go with my Russians.

I can't paint 6mm any more because my eyes are too old.

All of the everything!

To be more specific, a ridiculously enormous Ork Waaagggh and the entire Blood Angels chapter.