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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?

An army of only scouts

I have an all-Terminator army, lead by Captain Marian Suu.

All dreadnaught army with spacewolf and iron hands dreads

Farsight Enclaves crisis suit army with no ranged weapons equipped. KUNG FU MECHAS.

 DanielBeaver wrote:
Farsight Enclaves crisis suit army with no ranged weapons equipped. KUNG FU MECHAS.

That is the wackiest way to lose

Sorry, most of these ideas are just spam but funspam, not in a WAAC way:

SM:
Drop Pod Assault: 20x empty DP with Deathwind Launchers. Good luck to your opponent clearing them all off the objectives.
Airborne Cav: All CCW scouts in LSS

Tau:
Shadowsun Invisi-vespid bomb (name needs work): All infiltrating 6 man stealth suits and DSing vespids. Opponent never leaves deployment zone.
Kroot Ambush Pack: 8x (10 Kroot, 10 hounds, sniper rounds), hammer and anvil deployment, all outflanking.
Tau-fodder: all fire warriors and gue'vesa (rules in IA3 I think?) marching forward
Ninja-Tau: All ethereals with honour blades/equalizers.

Nids:
Ripper-tide. Endless swarm rules, but with rippers only (25 units?)
Genestealer uprising - Manufactorum Formation x 2 on dense urban terrain., preferably against gun line tau in well defended ADL pockets

I have played a Dark Eldar army with no vehicles. 60 kabalite warriors, talos and cronos.

dark angel greenwing with asmodai as an HQ, a company command squad, and 3 squads of veterans. fill from there but basically this is a band of robed guys which is very dark angels esque.

Synpase-less Nids.

HQ: Deathleaper (or Old One Eye)
Troops: Gaunts
Fast Attack: Gargoyles

I had one idea for a Tau army that I have been working on trying to figure out what to take for. A Tau Scouting party, A couple of units of Fire Warriors in Devilfish, Some units of Kroot with Hounds, And Stealth Suits.

i'm preparing two armies for a ~3000pt per side match in a city:

first army - imperial knight household with two magera and one of each cerastus knight, a skysheil landing pad and a warhound titan. (nothing but super-heavies)

second army - Ordo Reductor caleb decima, 18 thallax with p.p.fusils and tank hunters and an avenger strike fighter
Allied Taghmata archmagos macroek, tech preist auxillia, myrmidon secutors with grav weapons, a storm eagle and 4 thanatar. (infantry, monstorus creatures and flyers only)

I've done CC Tau against Khrone Demons/ Marines using

Farsight(AP2 sword!)
O'Ralai(T5!)
Commander with Fusion blades, shield gen, and FNP.(anyone who's used this knows he's a beatstick, and will munch a lot of face.)

2 min squads carbine FW's
1 min Pathfinders
3 crisis suits
1 crisis shas'vre with that self exploding wargear

The fusion blades commander was with a squad of crisis suits who where charged by Khrone beserkers Kharne and Skulltaker who charged seperately., the crisis suits managed to kill a few bezerkers, while the commander accepted Kharnes Challenge. He proceded to kill Kharne and the remaining beserkers(excess wounds pile back!) with the fusion blades and unfortunately broke them(they stop working on a roll of a 1) while skull taker killed the rest of the squad. Next round he handed Skulltaker an eviction notice from the mortal plains via his fists.

The solo suicide suit surprised my opponent who couldn't figure out why he was solo after he charged his bloodletters into the suit and lost most of the squad when it died.

The firewarriors wrecked a lot of blood letters but ended up dying as Belakor trashed them.

Belakor got into fisticuffs with Farsight and O'R'alai who just couldn't manage to kill the Demon, eventualy it was just my Commanders VS Belekor who proceded to just smash each one and ID them. He got away with one wound.


I like the idea of CC tau, and really only works in fun lists, but jeez it's hilarious.

Don't knock close combat crisis suits. For 23ppm, you get S5, 2 attacks, 2 wounds, S5, Ld8, 3+ and jetpack mobility. And while their WS is crap, they still hit WS4 opponents on 4's, and so will beat down an equivalent points worth of Assault Marines.

How about an army of assassins? Oh wait...

All with close combat weapons or all with ranged weapons.
for example, you have 9000 ork boyz all armed with choppas (one is a chainsaw choppa, the other is a regular choppa)
Or maybe you have 99999 ork boyz all armed with sluggas
(all sluggas are the same)
Or maybe you have 999999 ork boyz with shootas, and 99 boyz with big shootas
Or maybe 99999 boyz have big shootas
This is just an example, nobody probably has this. Not even me.

'Zerkers only. Run one Khorne-marked power-armoured HQ, everything else is a Berzerker.

Here's a wacky army idea:

Grey Knights that do not spam Dreadknights!

SGTPozy wrote:
Here's a wacky army idea:

Grey Knights that do not spam Dreadknights!

Let's not get too silly, here...

Currently I'm working on an ODST themed Scion Drop Pod army, looks awesome and is a lot of fun to play!

Ork gunline ... I would actually like to see if it is possible.

Tau all alien force. Kroot for troops, Vespid for fast attack. You could probably make a 1000 point army out of this. I guess you'd have to have a HQ, take a Cadre Fireblade and call it a "military adviser"

 OIIIIIIO wrote:
Ork gunline ... I would actually like to see if it is possible.

Big Gunz (or Mek Gunz or whatever theyre called)
Lootas
Flash Gitz
Grot Tanks
Grot Mega Tank

Loadsa dakka. Not even counting the battlewagon loadouts, but for a gunline the mekgunz and lootas are probably a better use of heavy slots. Grot tanks are better at shooting anyway, and are fast attack or elite.

Sisters of Battle

30K 'Dreadmanders'

HQ: Cassian Dracos; Nomus Rhy'tan w/3 'Cmd Squad' Dreads
Elite: 12 Contemptors
Troops: whatever
Hvy: 3 Deredeos

19 Dreads total

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
Sisters of Battle

Sisters of battle are legit. Nobody knows because nobody plays them, but they are good, especially in lower point games. It would certainly be an interesting sight to see though.

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.

 dementedwombat wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
Sisters of Battle

Sisters of battle are legit. Nobody knows because nobody plays them, but they are good, especially in lower point games. It would certainly be an interesting sight to see though.

Yeah I've vassal'd them a few times. Tabled enemy each time. One of them was a Khorne dog rush. The sisters damage output at close range is pretty nightmarish.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
Sisters of Battle

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

I should really try this... Tyranid prime for the HQ, warriors and rippers for troops, any elites I want, shrikes for fast attack, biovores for heavy. Sounds like a load of fun.

Finally a reason to run pyrovores!!!