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As per the title - how many points is your ideal army?

Not your 'ideal points level', not 'what's your best X000 list'. More of a 'if money, time and FoC were no constraint on you' type affair. What is your concept of a perfectly represented army for your chosen force, and how many points does it work out?
I hope I've explained, but I suspect I've not been clear enough.
Here's a sort of sample. Let's say you play Tyranids. How many points would it take to field your fluff ideal swarm, and what would comprise it? That sort of thing.
To put some kind of break on it, because let's face it the points value of the background accurate Nids and IG would be something like 'fifteen squillion points', your force must be able to comfortably deploy onto a 8'x4' board.

Ready? GO!

What do you guys think? I myself would say about 7K points for Space Wolves, which would give me enough space for a fluffy army with tons of Puppies, maybe 9K for Space Marines, which would be nice to build 1-4 companies.

Last time I actually crunched the numbers, I could field a full battle company in a way that actually seemed appropriate (not just spamming MSU for the free transports) for about 3k points. Toss in some space for some chapter level support, and a little help from the 1st and 10th, and I think a 4.5-5k points would make for a very nice marine army.

For my dark angels about 15k

3000pts lets me take ALMOST anything I want no matter how big I make my fluffy choices. As long as I'm not facing Superheavies or Gargantuans, I'd love to play more games at 3k. Especially with Chaos or Tyranids. Lets me bring the 2k list of elite units and then 1k of small swarms of crap. Cultists, Gaunts and Genestealers.

Might actually throw in some offers at my gaming club for that. 2k lists with 1k additional 'basic' troop choices. UNLEASH THE TARPITS!

I always start with a 2K list but they usually end up around the 6-7K mark.

I'd say about 5-6,000 pts would be my ideal

13,112 points to field the entire Order of the Sacred Tome and their Navy support.

Well, my dream would be to field a full Titan Legion with Skitarii. So probably on the order of 100k points.

Would be a Warlord Titan, 2 Reavers, 4 Warhounds, 8 Imperial Knights, and then a bunch of Skitarii.

I have about 3k points of Eldar. I would like more, but my upcoming hobby time is going to be devoted to building up my Dark Eldar.

I'm working towards an imperial force that represents the defence force when Abaddon lands on Terra. I've got about 12k, probably about the same to go.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Well, my dream would be to field a full Titan Legion with Skitarii. So probably on the order of 100k points.

Would be a Warlord Titan, 2 Reavers, 4 Warhounds, 8 Imperial Knights, and then a bunch of Skitarii.

No idea how many it would be to field the Phantine 1st PDF lol!

As a nid player, I would say that 100k points would let me properly represent a small section of the swarm.

But in reality, I think 10k would be solid. It allows me to run a couple hundred little bugs and still give full support from a lot of MCs, synapse, and fliers. Plus it leaves room for a biotitan and maybe a harridan. That's at least my goal for my swarm.

About 6k. (And in fact I have it already.) A ground force of a reaver Titan and baronial court of Knights, backed up by a BA force of all the jump pack characters and some captains each in full jump squads with priests, including asty in a full death company and a full sanguinary guard.

My ideal army (the Blitzakrieg) would be about 2250 points. Blitz Brigade with 3 dakkajets loaded with Flash Gitz, Tankbustas, Boyz, and Nobz. At 2000 points is really difficult to fit everything into this list and the extra 250 points would allow me to flesh everything out with the needed wargear and extras. Make it 2500 if I could throw in a Painboy and Weirdboy into every unit. You could scale this up to whatever size.

I've played a few 5,000 point games and I have found them very enjoyable. Big enough to fit in everything I want to have, without becoming too big.

(You have to remember that I played CSM and now play Pride of the Legion. Even a 5,000 point army of mine will be small in the end.)

2000, I've always liked 2k with single force org when that was a thing. It gives you room to play around with stuff or new units without crippling the rest of the force. More than that just takes too long for my speed, and I hate apoc. I've tried it a few times and I just get so bored with it.

n+1000 points.

Where n = the current points cost of your army.

My nids run out of space before they max out on points. The gaunts, gargoyles, warriors, and a few hive tyrants completely fill a 6x4 deployment zone

About 2k for my greyknights, since in the fluff they deploy small amounts for most daemon smiting excursions. With this amount I can get draigo, paladins, termies a dread knight or two, a dread naught and some strike/ purifiers with rhinos and maybe a stormraven <3.

Some where in the 5-6000 point range for my IG. I could use all my infantry, my Chimeras, Baneblades, Thunderbolt, Lightning, Vendettas and my piles of Leman Russes. Maybe more if I include my Warhound and buy the Basilisks and Hydras I want.

Hmmm, my ideal fluffy list?

Finally! An excuse to use Battlescribe to make an army list now that all of my WH40k stuff has been packed away in preparation for selling the house! : D

For daemons? As many as I can carry in my car xD I think my full planned apocalypse list was about 5000pts, so add the cost of 4 decimator engines and a chaos knight.

For my black templar it would be two full companies plus a half dozen contemptor dreadnaughts and a sicarian battle tank

Bout 100 marines armed with bolters, 3-4 dreadies with dual cc weps and 2 modified predators that *cough* shoot marines into the hordes of enemies of the *cough* Emprah

These are not Angry marines, pay no attention to my profile pic...

Okies, so I got it all figured out at last. It's just shy of 7,000 points to include pretty much the entirety of me and my friend's combined custom forces.

Starting with the big stuff, and not bothering with the minutiae of individual equipment:

1 Baneblade
1 Warhound Titan

Next, my friend's renegade Space Marine forces:

Salamanders Chapter Tactics (to represent their love of tinkering and making high-quality equipment)

1 Chapter Master (his RP character)
1 squad of 3 Honor Guard, Razorback transport
2 Priestesses (my two RP characters, included here because they'll be stuck in with the Honor Guard and Chapter Master in one unit)

1 Captain
1 Command Squad, Razorback transport

2 Techmarines
2 Dreadnoughts
1 squad of 6 Sternguard Veterans, Razorback transport
1 squad of 6 Vanguard Veterans, Razorback transport
2 squads of 10 Tactical Marines, Rhino transports
2 squads of 8 Bikers, 1 Attack Bike per squad
2 Predator tanks
1 Vindicator tank
1 squad of 5 Grey Knight Interceptors (representing his Marines' most powerful psykers)

And now, my own Sisters of Battle forces:

1 Canoness (the SoB's leader)
1 Sororitas Command Squad, Immolator transport

1 not-Celestine

3 squads of 10 Battle Sisters, Rhino transports
1 squad of 10 Seraphim (the not-Celestine's bodyguard)
1 squad of 5 Retributors, Immolator transport
2 Exorcists

And that's it. Everything's got plenty of upgrades. Vehicles almost universally have dozer blades and hunter-killer missiles, with the Sororitas tanks also having Laud Hailers. Pretty much everyone who can take a power weapon has one, usually a sword, but the priestesses have axes and some of the Marines have relic blades or thunder hammers. Storm shields are pretty common among the more elite Space Marine melee units. The Space Marines have a total of 0 plasma weapons, due to their aversion to weapons that so frequently injure the users. Every Immolator has a multi-melta, and every Razorback has a twin-linked assault cannon. There are no Simulacrum Imperialises.

Also, I would never field this army, because 7,000 points is WAY too much for me to enjoy a tabletop 40k game with. I also lack the models for many of the Superiors and Sergeants.

25'000 points of Elysian Drop Troopers.

Absolutely untenable, but would be awesome just to have a singular CAD Company Size Force.

And about 5K of Preheresy Dark Angels, to game Apocalypse with. Far more reasonable, and likely.

About 60-100k... Fluff wise, this is for my Necron "Kageros" Dynasty, it's so I can evaluate firepower etc.
As it goes for actual models to own, I'd say around 6-10k per army depending on models/upgrades
And for actually Fielding in matches? Id say 3-5k is really fun

Around 14000 points. 3 Taunar, 3 full units of Stormsurges, two full Retaliation Cadres (3 Broadsides, 3 Riptides, 18 Crisis, 1 Commander) a full Optimized Stealth Cadre, Darkstrider, a Gunfort, and a bunch of strike teams.

Grey Knights. I have a full Brotherhood at about 5800 points, plus another 1500 or so for supporting units of Paladins and Purifiers.

About 6k of DA, enough to run several competitive lists. Daemons? About the same, just enough for what I find fun. Orks? 20k, enough to run EVERYTHING.

30k of 30k XD Nah, 10,000 points of Death Guard, Thousand Sons, and Solar Auxilia/Militia each to me would look correct, play correct, and be awesome