I dont think im the only one that picks battalion / plastic regiments to *beef up my armies.
So if money isnt an issue , what are some crazy armies you always wanted but never made it because
its just not viable money wise?

For me, i always wanted:

Fantasy: O&G with LOTS of squigs , Squig hopper , Squig riders , anything to do with squigs!
40k: All Metal Aspect Warrior army.

40k ... a full chapter of space marines. 1000 marines, plus vehicles.... woot.

Horst wrote:40k ... a full chapter of space marines. 1000 marines, plus vehicles.... woot.

Sternguard marines while we are at it!

oh definately. I'd have the entire 1st company in there.. probably 40 sternguard, 30 terminator, 30 vanguard.

A Deathwing army is something i'd like.

RogueMarket wrote:A Deathwing army is something i'd like.

I dont really touch space marines , but cant the plastic termies work? ( since they cost so much point wise ,
i dont imagine needing too many boxes )

RogueMarket wrote:A Deathwing army is something i'd like.

Terminators aren't particularly money inefficient. 5 points per dollar is pretty good at stock prices, more with a good discounter. In fact I'd say that DW armies are cheaper than most to make.

I always wanted 96 Gargoyles and 6 X 32 Old metal Hormaguants (the ones that looked like the aliens from "Aliens")

And even after that it would still be only around a 1000pt army.

I would buy 500 gnoblars for my ogres

also a dwarf army with large units of slayers.

me it would have to be two small imperial guard regiments and then..
3 vendettas
6 valks
3 leman russ punishers
3more leman russ
ans 3 manticores
and as many chimeras as fit

I like those words "IF money isn't an issue"

Hmmm... Gee.. Now let me think..

Probably I would have enough models in my space marine army to take exactly what I wanted to game with..
The PICK UP & PLAY technique.

Each Tactical Squad would have 9 normal marines & a standard sergeant with the following extra models
4 marines armed with Heavy Bolter, Multi Melta, Missile Launcher, Plasma Cannon
3 marines armed with Plasma Gun, Melta gun and a Flamer
All the combos of how a Sergeant can be armed with

Elites, Heavy Support choices would be all maxed out (3x 10 Vanguard plus 3x 10 Vanguard with Jump Packs, etc)

Then all the tanks would just cover the 6x4 board

I'd have 2 Full Regiments of IG 1 Tanith first and only and a Valhallan Armoured.

The way I do now. Pick a theme, create a list, then buy it one regiment at a time, intending to paint one, buy one, paint one, buy one.

Though rather than one unit a month, it might one unit a week.

I find money is less of an issue than finding the time to paint stuff i.e. I can buy things a lot faster than I can paint them. Infact the very thought of being given a boxed set like "Spear of Sicarius" scares me. All that unpainted plastic! Or worse, all that untrimmed plastic!!

A Catachan army using entirely command squad models. In other words, I'd make my regulars out of that wonderful box, instead of the 12+ year old sprues contained in the regular troops box. This army would be Valk heavy and would have 9 Leman Russ Punishers.

Alternately, all Valhallans.

LunaHound wrote:So if money isnt an issue , what are some crazy armies you always wanted but never made it because
its just not viable money wise?

A massive Guard Force.

I'd start with 6 45-man platoons - two of the old Cadian, two of the new, one Mordian and one Tallarn. The two plastic Cadian would be funny mech, all in Chimeras. All of these platoons would have like 4 Heavy Weapon teams attached each, sometimes more, one of each type of weapon. Enough extras like CHQ's and Commissars and things like Ratlings and Sniper/Demo Charge guys to make it all legal and cohesive.

I'd then have three complete Leman Russ Companies - y'know, Command tank + three 3-tank Squadrons. I'd have one for Artillery too, and then maybe two for Sentinels (20 Sentinels!) 'cause I love the models. Then I'd have a full Super-Heavy Regiment - a command Baneblade (or Baneblade hull), and then two companies, each Company with 3 Super-Heavies (all Baneblade hulls) and then, for fun (and even though it's Forge World), a full Super-Heavy Company of three Macharius tanks, one of each type.



Oh wait... I just described the army I already own. I dunno... guess I'd do Tau?

Clthomps wrote:I always wanted 96 Gargoyles and 6 X 32 Old metal Hormaguants (the ones that looked like the aliens from "Aliens")

And then spend the rest of your money on the therapy bills after getting that many of the old Hormaguants to stay upright.

I own 12 of those horrid little models. I did own 11, and the only reason I bought that elusive 12th one was because I'm OCD with even numbers. But believe me, had I owned an even number, I would have never taken them out of the drawer again...

I'd build a true Skaven Horde. And get someone to paint it.

I'm talking no blocks smaller than 25 models, built around a core of Clanrats and Slaves. Probably about 500-700 Skaven.

Ahhh skavens!

I always wanted a maxed size Jezzail gun line -_-

How about an IG army that's actually the size of a real battlegroup? Let's assume that IG work on a sort of old-fashioned org. system, 1000 man infantry battalions as in WW1, and make the heavy tank regiments about the same size as the UK has today (54 tanks)

1000 guardsmen, all basic infantry platoons, 1 CCS.

OR

54 Leman russ tanks,

OR

100 Chimeras, carrying 90 vet squads and 10 CCSs.

OR

10 Superheavy tanks

OR

All of the above, deployed together. Hell, get 50 artillery pieces, a few 10-sentinel companies, a hellhound company as well. How many blackhawks and apaches does and american aircav regiment use? You could make one of those using valks and vendettas.

I don't want to start collecting IG, because I'd never be able to stop. They'd just work so well as an apocalypse army!

can you expand existing armies? If yes I would rack both my chaos and ork up to 10,000 points. if not I would do my techmarine army, master of the forge, Captain and command squad(because of Pedro Kantors model), as many Techmarines and servitors as Elites, dreads as Heavy suport and scouts as troops and then I would keep expanding it.

waaagh!orksrocks wrote:can you expand existing armies? If yes I would rack both my chaos and ork up to 10,000 points. if not I would do my techmarine army, master of the forge, Captain and command squad(because of Pedro Kantors model), as many Techmarines and servitors as Elites, dreads as Heavy suport and scouts as troops and then I would keep expanding it.

Sure ! this is sort of ( whats your dream army ) thread hehe.

I can, and did, buy all the GW models I ever wanted.
I once bought a Baneblade just to paint it lavender, as a joke.

lord_blackfang wrote:I can, and did, buy all the GW models I ever wanted.
I once bought a Baneblade just to paint it lavender, as a joke.

Aww you people just ruin all the fun. So there is absolutely no army or unit builds that interests you atm?

2000 pts.
All plaugebearers and Epidimius.
3 nurgle daemon princes.

well in that case I would have a massive speed freak waaagh! literally a full waaagh! however big it is and a massive army of chaos worshipping the emperor (long story) . full of baneblades, skullhammas, stompas, titans and fliers.(between them)

chaos space marine army based on the OOP noise marines

Yea... I don't play LOTR but I'd do 10,000 Uruk Hai.

I would get a Tyranid swarm that had a full sized brood of every unit.
(At least) One brood of each possible configuration that is.



The second part is the kicker, just about done with the first. . . until 2010.

Then I would probably get a BFG fleet done like that same, and get them painted the same scheme and call it a Hive Fleet.

Well, lets see;

2 heavily 1k sons converted chaos sorcerers

1 ahriman

2 heavily converted deamon princes to look like 1k sons daemon princes, one as magnus the red

6 full squads of 1k sons, a land raider and rhino for each one with all options modeled so i can pick and choose the load out

3 full chaos terminator squads, converted with 1k sons kits to make them 1k sons terminators also with land raiders for each squad with all options modeled so i can pick and choose the load out

3 full squads of raptors, using the wings from eldar jump troops and converted with 1k sons kits to fit the theme with all options modeled so i can pick and choose the load out

9 obliterators converted with 1k sons kits to fit the theme

9 fire team bases made out of dev squads and 1k sons kits to match the theme and stand in for obliterators with a single marine holding each weapon an obliterator has.

1 chaos forgeworld titan with all options magnetized

that is it so far, this would be a nasty army and well set for apocolypse games and tournament levels, i would also probably commission the entire thing out so that it would look fragging amaizing, i would also have custom sabol trays made for the entire thing. with each squad of 1k sons their LR and rhino having their own tray.

following the foc i have the list up to 6910 points, though that is following foc, if i didn't it would be alot more.

um the entire grey knights chapter (yes they are an arstartes chapter dont believe me check out 'the art of warhammer 40,000')

also id get a 1,000,000pt necron army full of pariahs, immortals, wraiths, flayed ones, destroyers, heavy destoyers and lots and lots of monoliths.

infact i'd probably buy a 1,000,000pt army for each army they ever release

LunaHound wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:I can, and did, buy all the GW models I ever wanted.
I once bought a Baneblade just to paint it lavender, as a joke.

Aww you people just ruin all the fun. So there is absolutely no army or unit builds that interests you atm?

I still have 30.000 or so points worth to paint!

Maybe I'll get a Space Squirrel army after I'm done with Pretty Marines.

The three armies that I have avoided strictly on price: Sisters, Savage Orcs, and a Throgg big stompy army.

Time = Money?? I think Time is more a limiting factor for me.

If I had the time, I'd do 25,000 ork boyz so that the people running a whole marine chapter could enjoy a game against an entire ork waaagh.

To answer the original question, I'd have to go to FW - sorry Luna, but I've got a real job and can afford whatever GW stuff I want.

If money were no issue, though, and FW was allowed, I'd do a titan legion. 4 or 5 reavers, each with 2 or 3 warhounds as an escort, and a couple of scratchbuilt warlords.

Redbeard wrote:If I had the time, I'd do 25,000 ork boyz so that the people running a whole marine chapter could enjoy a game against an entire ork waaagh.

Good idea but can I just say a waaagh! is described as millions of orks so it would be a rather small waaagh! or atleast thats the scale I'm basing my waaagh! on. woohoo 6,000,000 ork bikes and 500,000 trukks full of boyz this would be epic.

I'd have 2 Full Regiments of IG Valhallan Infantry and a Valhallan Armoured.

And a SOB convent, in it's entirety.

40k:
Foot-slogging IG horde, basically maxed out conscripts and infantry platoons. Everything converted with Pig Iron Kolony heads for that WW1 human wave/meatgrinder feel. An army that could choke an Ork horde with the corpses of dead Guardsmen.

WHFB:
-DE Khaine-heavy army, so LOTS of expensive (IMO) Witch Elves and Executioners.

Epic:
-An entire brigade/division-sized combined arms force. Probably a mix of air assault infantry in Valkyries, mech infantry in Chimeras, the usual assortment of tanks/artillery, and all necessary organic support assets like transport/supply trucks. Plus I'd flesh out my current 14-strong Titan Legion (2 Imperators, 12 Warlords) with another 20 or so Reavers and Warhounds. I have about 1,000 guard infantry on sprues and that's shockingly nowhere near enough for a brigade (3,000+) or a division (15,000-20,000).

Oh, and I'd have these painted professionally, which would be the biggest expense. No way I'm taking the time to paint all of the above.

kirsanth wrote:I would get a Tyranid swarm that had a full sized brood of every unit.
(At least) One brood of each possible configuration that is.



The second part is the kicker, just about done with the first. . . until 2010.

Then I would probably get a BFG fleet done like that same, and get them painted the same scheme and call it a Hive Fleet.

I think tyranid bits makes easy yet great looking BFG hive ships.

I would probably go for a full out 2500pt Vostroyan Guard Army.
Either that or A complete Ork Waagh; bikes, trukks, lootas, burnas, kommandos, tankbustas, flash gitz...

Flashman wrote:I find money is less of an issue than finding the time to paint stuff i.e. I can buy things a lot faster than I can paint them. Infact the very thought of being given a boxed set like "Spear of Sicarius" scares me. All that unpainted plastic! Or worse, all that untrimmed plastic!!

Amen to that one.

In that vein, though I probably would second the various comments about getting a Valhallan army, I would say if money were no option I'd send all my stuff out to highly skilled painters and/or modelers. I'm just too lazy and ham handed to really accomplish some of the truly amazing stuff I get to see all the time that others have done, and I'd want my armies to look that sweet. I wouldn't even care if I had to buy them all myself as long as GD winners were painting them.

Well, for the most part, I'm not as funds-limited as I am time-limited. That is, I own way more stuff than I'm able to finish in a 12-month window. I am thankful that I was able to build and paint a bunch of stuff when I had more time:

- metal Aspect Eldar army
- metal Regiment Guard army
- bitz-heavy Marines
etc.

If I were to *add* anything to my collection of armies, I'd go for a metal Daemons of Chaos Tzeentch / Slaanesh army.


But, as I've said before, if a *big* pile of money arrived out of nowhere, I'd hire a art student to convert and paint my stuff over a summer.

Goliath wrote:I would probably go for a full out 2500pt Vostroyan Guard Army.
.

ooh i love those models but they are darn expensive.

If money wasn't an issue, I wouldn't buy models for myself, I'd pay Games Workshop to update all codices to a reasonable level.

Oh and also buy them out. Entirely. Then listen to the community for once.

=D

Marushi wrote:If money wasn't an issue, I wouldn't buy models for myself, I'd pay Games Workshop to update all codices to a reasonable level.

Oh and also buy them out. Entirely. Then listen to the community for once.

And we have a winner!

A baneblade battalion. Nuff said.

I'd buy the dozen Steel Legion and Storm Trooper sergeants I need to make my Imperial Guard army legal in the new rules.

I would buy the old molds to all of the old Rogue Trader models and create a factory in which to create all of the stuff I wanted, and then flood the market.

I would build a DKoK Army so big I would have to dedicate a portion of my house to it's hodlings. I would also pay to have the whole thing painted by someone else so I didn't have to do it.

It would have enough models for an Infantry Horde, Tank Spam of Every Kind, Valk and Vendettas galore, and everything that could fit in an army, would be there.

It would be MAGNIFICENT!

And baneblades. Many baneblades. And a titan. 5. Maybe more.

Without FW?

A massive Eldar Army. Mutliple of every aspect and every single thing. 3x Of all heavy support, 4x of all Fast attack, 6x of all Troops etc... Everything would be painted by someone else and would be magnitized to have all the options.

I'd hand money out to my buds, so they could get into the hobby. (Which they enjoy, but can't afford)

Or build an army of Defilers and CSM's.

Well, I'd go for a pure Night Lord force with every guy made with the bat heads and shoulder guards. I'd be a step up from the 16 heads and guards I have now with over 60 guys.

Well money never has been an issue to me so i'll just name off some of the more costly armies i have done.

1. An all Bike White Scars army, Complete with both a chaplain and a Librarian on a bike as well as a command squad on bikes (at $15-$20 a guy this gets really costly really quickly)

2. My DKoK Guard army (i know you said no forge world but i don't "fit" into the normal theme of this thread)

I have other armies as well naturally, but i would say that these 2 were the most costly when i was putting them together.

Well, with money not being a worry, quit my job so I could spend more time painting, and playing. But otherwise, continue what I'm doing, just faster. Working on Daemons, the same way I did Necrons. Able to max out every FOC slot with any option. So for Necrons I have 120 warriors, 30 immortals, 30 flayed ones, 10 pariahs, etc... Doing the same for Daemons, which means I'm currently hoping for horrors, PBs and nurglings to go plastic. As well as everything else, but particularly any unit that can number 20...

For my Tau, I would add two more hammerheads, both ionheads, another sky ray, two five skimmer strong piranha teams, enough kroot to make the Kroot mercenary force Apocalypse data sheet, three more full mechizaned fire warrior squads, and two more full vespid stingwings. Now for the suits, enough normal crisis suits to make a rapid insertion force, (hey I like the standard suit call me odd), at least 2 of the foregworld XV8s, some more xv25s (about 4 more), 9 foregworld XV-88s, and 9 of the XV-9s when they come out with the different weapon options. While this is dreaming I am not to interested in the flyers, but 2 of each and one Manta would be rather cool to own.

a whole infintry guard army for 3000 pts

I'd build roughly 20k points of DKoK with 2 or 3 Baneblade Companies, approximately 24 Leman Russes, 12 Manticores, probably 1k points worth of Death Riders and the rest of the 20k points in standard grunts.

So many boots I'd have I would need an entire garage floor just to set it all up.

Can't forget a Reaver and 4 Mars Pattern Warhounds.

Oh, I'd also build around 20k of 'Nids (after the new codex of course) featuring at least 2 Bio-titans and 8-10 Heirodules (both Scythed and Barbed).

If TIME wasn't an issue for me, i would...
finish my Tau.
build a 4000pt Kroot army. Not just standard kroot, with lots of conversions like vehicles, custom weapons or extra riding beasts.

A high-tech IG army - not a rivet in sight on the entire army. Possibly halo-themed

A low-tech IG army - probably DKoK. I LOVE the forgeworld stuff.

An inquisitorial-themed DH/SM mixed army.

And a massive Chaos Mortals fantasy army.

Time is the issue more than money.

I'd probably like a Saim-Hann army with lots of bikes and vypers, or an Iyanden army with lots of wraithguard and wraithlord. Other than eldar, I would probably want an imperial guard cadian army, with like 150+ infantry, around 15+ sentinels, some basilisks, and about 30+ leman russ's

We are Legion! 450 boxes of Chaos Space Marine Army would got me enough Iron Warriors for the entire legion, plus transports. I would then only need a few titian legions plus several armies (I don't know what is larger than a regiment) of armour, artiliary, and slaves.


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And by titian legions i mean about 4-6 warhounds, 3-6 reavers, and 3-6 warlords. By Armour and artillery i mean 120+ leaman russ MBT, 120+ griffin, 120+ basilisk, 120 +Medusa, 120+ other bigger stuff, plus 21 super heavies. That would be a good start.

Wait, are we also counting the hire staff to assemble and paint these models full time. I think 5 staff working full time could get it done in about 2 years, probably less.

First: Buy a house for the gaming stuff.

Second: A Traitor Chapter for my Fallen Angels, with Traitor Fellblades.

The Blood angels Chapter. 'Nuff Said.

IG Armies for both of the above. Not too big, maybe 20k Points each?

Chaos Orks. To Ally with the Fallen DA. 20k Points

Eldar: To ally with the BA. 20k Points.

3 or 4 of the Citadel Mega paint sets. (to start off with)

3 or 4 Airbrushes.

And have enough left over to Put some beds, couches, tables, electronics, and food in the house.

A massive sound system, and all the D's I could ever want, all burnt onto a Hard drive attached to the Sound System.

Oh yeah. Let's party

Well I would do that 20,000pt Wood Elf army I've always dreamed about I'm on my third incarnation of the army and that stands at 2500pts ish so there's not long to go.

Also expand my high elves to roughly 30,000 now thanks to Luna and a few others it currently stands at 15,000pts so I'm half way there just need more metal infantry and some reavers
etc, yeh it may seem silly but I like to have really large armies.

Oh and probably finally do a sisters army if money isn't an issue.

Id like to have a real ( well as close to realistic as possible) WAAGH! and Im not talking in pts terms. around 1000 boyz would be a nice start. And since the money isnt a problem anymore, a big ass table to show them all off on would make me happy

A full Deathe Korps of Krieg Regiment with all sorts of Forge World stuff.

Maximized Dinosaurus army of Lizardmen!
A Carnosaurus, 8 Stegadons, about 20 Terradons, 15 Kroxigors (even thought they suck nowadays) and 9 Razordons.
Yea, it would be pretty mostly the most awesome thing I could ever have.

I really really would like to create the pre-heresy luna wolves entire chapter.

Or a complete Tyranid hyve (Just can't imagine how many units that would be!

An ork army with more Nobs than you can count, and like 20 killa kans, some stompas and Ghazkull Thraka

40k
IG: Rough Rider, all-cavalry army.
SM: all-Drop Pod Chapter
Tau: at least a full Company of Gue'vesa to field alongside my Tau (right now I only have about a platoon to field)

40K: A full chapters worth of Space Marines built from robe sprues of both Black Templars and Dark Angels to make a crusader themed army. Might also think about a full Air Cav IG Army.

Fantasy: A 10,000 Model Strong High Elf Army.

if i could do forge world i would do a 1,000,000 titan legions and 1,000,000 titan legions worth of eldar titans and 1,000,000 titan legions worth of tyranid bio-titans
(hierophants) and play the world biggest, funniest game of apocalypse using those titans and my 1,000,000pt armies of tyranids, space marines/imperial guard and eldar.

#1: Time machine, to go back to the meeting where the idea of Warhammer 40,000 was first discussed.
#2: Mad hypnotism skills, so I could convince the creators of Warhammer 40,000 that true scale Marines of both the Imperial and Chaos flavors are a necessity (On 30mm bases).
#3: Awesome miniaturization technology so that my little men would actually move and fight in front of my eyes, responding to direct mental commands.

That's too much to ask, I know, but I'm a persnickety bastard.

A bezerker tide with just hundreds of stock bezerkers..

Models would be made out of bezerkers (torsos, heads)

Chaos marines (bezerker hands are too big)

Warhammer chaos warriors for variety

Led by some crazy daemon prince conversion..

Hmmm...

Firstly, get off my behind and finish up my Dark Elves.

Then, Grab some Rhino's, A Devestator Squad, Some Drop Pods, and make myself some Imperial Fists.

I'd probably buy a massive army so that I could sub out many different builds/lists. Usually I buy my armies after putting together a list. I'd like once to buy all aspects of an army and be able to swap in/out what I want any time.

Also, if money were no issue, I'd have my entire army professionally painted/converted. I enjoy the painting and converting aspect of the hobby, but I'm no professional. I think it would be cool to pull out a golden demon worthy army and put it on the table at my flgs.

Death Korps of Krieg.

I'd make a renegade mechanised gaurd army with those lovely berserker ogryns and the death korps rough riders.

With some forgeworld greater daemons and daemon princes, why not.

And I'd get a load of the nice GW scenery.

An imperial guard army, massive, thousands strong. Made entirely from the oldest imperial guard plastics, the guys with the baggy pants and blast goggles.

Rank after rank of those poor grey-clad bastards being marched out to die in droves being so simply human surrounded and attacked by all the alien bugs, superhuman demon worshippers, ancient robot killing machines and psychotic bipedal fungus.

A few commissars, officers and so on, big tank and artillery support but mainly just the waves of grey anonymous troopers.

- A 6000 horsemen Rohan army (actually I've never played LOTR, but love Rohan).
- A 2000 men Tanith Imperial Guard army. Dunno if full-metal or converted plastic.
- A unit of 20 chosen Chaos Warriors for my WFB army LOL (26€ each 5 guys )
- I would add a unit of 10 Hellions to my DE army. And Asdrubael Vect.
- A 1'500 points army composed only by Kharn the Betrayer plus loads of berzerkers with the FW upgrade kits.

I think if the forge world caveat was removed ever answer would be dkok..

I would make Dkok elysians and tallarns with titan support.

I'd cast it myself.

- What? You said "if money is not an issue"...

I'll lump legal defenses into the costs pile.

Easy answer for me: Any army that you can get forgeworld parts or models for (i.e. DKOK, World Eaters with the special torsos, etc)

A 40k ork Deathskull army, full of looted everything. Looted titans, looted super-heavies, looted land raiders, looted leman russes, looted basilisks, yeah, you get the idea...

Hi all.
If money WAS an issue , you wouldnt buy anything from GW anyway!

So large that I would have to give up my house and backyard to field it.

I would just buy models as I finished painting and converting the ones Im currently working on, and not be limited to whats in my bitz box for conversions.

chromedog wrote:I'd cast it myself.

- What? You said "if money is not an issue"...

I'll lump legal defenses into the costs pile.

Oohhh... Clever.

You get a cookie!

I'd probably just buy two boxes of the old Catachan Guys with 20 per box, five Catachan command squad boxes, and one A-10 Tankraper. The Tankraper will be my counts-as Hydra, and the other boxes I can use to customize some really cool guys; I currently have a few ideas for poses and such bouncing around in my head but none that are tangible on account of a manpower shortage on the Sprue Front. I hate large sided battles, so modeling, painting and gaming with smaller forces (500-1000 points) is good enough for me.

Rico...


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Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:A 40k ork Deathskull army, full of looted everything. Looted titans, looted super-heavies, looted land raiders, looted leman russes, looted basilisks, yeah, you get the idea...

Looted ORKS!

Do it.

Props to you if you do.

Rico...

Chaos Terminators. Lots of them.

Enough Guardsmen, Space Marines and accompanying support to build a large 6x8 diroma, to show how desperate a battle is, plus all the green stuff, and materials for the table it self. Yes, that would be epic.

Money's not an issue?

I'd have Werner Klocke custom sculpt an all-female IG army.

Save up, Ebay, find a retailer that will cut you a discount...
there are several on line.

A entire death korps of krieg infantry company so around 722 men.. *drools* would have to be the best part of £1600

or anything death korps of krieg to be honest.. death rider company of 65 men, Artillery company 9 guns+crew

or what I'm actually working on right now.. Death korps of krieg tank company. 10 leman russ' + commissar in executioner ^_^

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£2151for infantry to be more accurate

Alive

Early Caliphates


Cavalry by Perry Brothers
Turkish Ghulam by Musketeer Miniatures
Infantry by Gripping Beast

All Rogue Trader minis for each of the available races. Building complete armies from conversions for variety.

Then I would start on massive Epic scale armies for each race.

I'd get the guys from Chapter house and maxmini to make a complete Tallarn army from scratch with every model different! it would look so cool, imagine how fluid it would look! and i'd have a company of marines for the raven guard, space wolves, and whatever I start today.

Horst wrote:40k ... a full chapter of space marines. 1000 marines, plus vehicles.... woot.

I tried doing that. Reason kicked in at 4 companies. I'm back down to about 2.5 companies now.


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I would love to do a Fantasy army in the style of Greek Hoplites. A Tilean army maybe, since they seem to be operating in a City-State meme, from what I've read.

I would also love to have a "living" Tomb Kings army, much like what was represented in the first Nagash book.

Sisters of battle - the cost is a killer (£30 for a 10 woman squad with weapons.. if I'm lucky...)

I'd have sisters with many many meltas and flamers. A rhino and immolator option for many squads with all of the iconography and FW stuff. Use a whirlwind AND immolator kit for each exorcist. Field 9 penitant engines... :-)

All 12 great companies
Titan legion 1 emperator 2 warlords 4 reavers 6 warhounds and a knight household
A battalion of Krieg

Phototoxin wrote:Sisters of battle - the cost is a killer (£30 for a 10 woman squad with weapons.. if I'm lucky...)

I'd have sisters with many many meltas and flamers. A rhino and immolator option for many squads with all of the iconography and FW stuff. Use a whirlwind AND immolator kit for each exorcist. Field 9 penitant engines... :-)

My favorite choice so far :3

A large enough endless swarm to completely cover a 6'x4' field with atleast 3 hieorphants standing over with plenty of warriors, tyrants, fexes, FW trygons, and raveners.

Hmm, well if I could find a good way to do a counts as army, i'd do an all Stormtrooper army. Those are some of my favorite models, I just never had a good way to use them.

Also, a FW titan legion would be sweet.


I also think the 13th Great Company would be cool, but again thats more of a matter of not knowing how to build the list rules wise.

Im a daemons player, so not really anything i cant afford.
Just expanding the army more and more as time goes on.


However, all of the FW greater daemons would be nice
Might be just as nice to add in some daemon engines (plague hulks, blight drones, blood slaughterers, scorpions etc)

All in all, i would just go apoc on my daemons.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/304884.page

I'd do that. I'm curious to play it.

Manchu wrote:http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/304884.page

I'd do that. I'm curious to play it.

If money isnt an issue you would only get 1000 pts of catachan?

Wow thats impressive xD

I'd probably do a mix of a peasant and Knights Brettonain force with a selection of each of the Knight units. Then I'd commission groups of 15 knights and blocks of 50 men at arms to be painted by famous Golden Deamon winning painters like Jen Halen, Victoria Lamb, etc etc.

LunaHound wrote:Wow thats impressive xD

Er, is the idea that money is not an issue for one day only or something? I guess I thought of it like "what would you be working on now if you had the money?" and thousands and thousands of points of anything would simply not fit into my life at the moment.

From the OP:

So if money isnt an issue , what are some crazy armies you always wanted but never made it because
its just not viable money wise?

I see the OP as pretty broad in scope. It's clearly not limited to a day, just pretending that you could get / transform any of your armies without having to worry about the monetary cost.

So, in my original reply, I simply proposed to have all of my stuff completed (i.e. fully-painted) to a consistent, high standard over a period of a few months.

I didn't propose buying more minis, because, for the most part, I own what I want and money hasn't ever really been an issue in getting any of this stuff.

I don't have much interest in playing IG, but Santa, I'd just love to have a few hundred pounds of DKoK (tenderly) crammed under my (nonexistent and seasonally inappropriate) Christmas tree. Oh, with generic and Forgeworld IG vehicles, upgrade sprues, and brass etchings to match!

Then again, I wouldn't say no to pretty much any free models. Most realistically, if I had some extra cash lying around with nothing but 40K to spend it on, I'd buy some snazzy glass display cabinets and hobby supplies, then beef up my Orks and SM until I could comfortably field 2,000pts. of each, with room for list customization (probably about 3K total, per army, plus a few titans/superheavies to bump my forces up to Apocalypse level).

JohnHwangDD wrote:From the OP:

So if money isnt an issue , what are some crazy armies you always wanted but never made it because
its just not viable money wise?

I see the OP as pretty broad in scope. It's clearly not limited to a day, just pretending that you could get / transform any of your armies without having to worry about the monetary cost.

So, in my original reply, I simply proposed to have all of my stuff completed (i.e. fully-painted) to a consistent, high standard over a period of a few months.

I didn't propose buying more minis, because, for the most part, I own what I want and money hasn't ever really been an issue in getting any of this stuff.

I know , im impressed because while most people go wild with what they want ( endless Titan legions! )
i thought manchu was rather humble.

I want bunch of Grot Tanks xD

A massive Horde of Warriors of Chaos, devoted to Khorne, an entire Space Marine Chapter, with the first chapter's vets made from a captain kit each, and at least 27 Darkheim Platinum Guardian Imperial Guard Regiments (my own imperial guard). If FW is included, I'd get enough thunderhawks to carry all my space marines in, and a few titans. Also, plenty of Super Heavies!

LunaHound wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:I see the OP as pretty broad in scope. It's clearly not limited to a day, just pretending that you could get / transform any of your armies without having to worry about the monetary cost.

So, in my original reply, I simply proposed to have all of my stuff completed (i.e. fully-painted) to a consistent, high standard over a period of a few months.

I didn't propose buying more minis, because, for the most part, I own what I want and money hasn't ever really been an issue in getting any of this stuff.

I know , im impressed because while most people go wild with what they want ( endless Titan legions! )
i thought manchu was rather humble.

That's the impression I got as well - that Manchu's restraint was admirable.

With the finest minerals and oils melted into one most expensively detailed casting. Just Kidding, I'd just buy a lot of crisis suits before they get redesigned when Tau get an update in the far future

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:With the finest minerals and oils melted into one most expensively detailed casting. Just Kidding, I'd just buy a lot of crisis suits before they get redesigned when Tau get an update in the far future

I find the current crisis suit extremely ugly. Its enough to make me stay away from collecting Tau xD

I find the current crisis suit extremely ugly. Its enough to make me stay away from collecting Tau xD

Which makes the idea of an army of them being eviscerated by an army of whatever amazing design of the future all the more beautiful.

5000+ point Sisters of Battle army with Repressors counting-as Chimeras.

My armies would actually be done.

Poor dwarves, they got put off till I find another job. D:

A counts as Empire army with models being pre unification Tau converted from Ungors.

Titans

ALL OF THEM
every class every variant

then custom models of TITANS
that look like Primarchs


what? you said money is not an issue?

I would make a massive Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii legion supported by a Titan legion of the Collegia Titanica Diviso Militaris. 10 Warlord Titans, 1 Imperator Titan, 1 Warmonger Titan, 20 Warhound Titans and 1 Reaver Titan. All hail the Omnissiah!

Id buy a massive horde led under abbadon and his allies

1000 CSM's

200 Chosen

100 Terminators

200 khorne berzerkers

200 Thousand sons

200 Plague marines

200 Noise marines

250 rhinos

50 landraiders

75 predators

90 obliterators

50 defilers

150 havocs all of them with missile launchers

couple greater daemons, and 100 lesser daemons

then i would play an appocalypse game using ALL OF THEM!

JohnHwangDD wrote:So, in my original reply, I simply proposed to have all of my stuff completed (i.e. fully-painted) to a consistent, high standard over a period of a few months.

I didn't propose buying more minis, because, for the most part, I own what I want and money hasn't ever really been an issue in getting any of this stuff.

Ah, I see. This is the best post so far IMO. The assumption here is not that minis are too expensive to buy but rather you have to work to afford everything else and so have little time to actually deal with the kits. If money is no object *lightbulb!* you don't have to go to work and can play with your toys a lot more often. Sorry for being Captain Obvious here but I totally missed that when I read your first answer. My answer was basically from the perspective of earning a lot more money at work and so being able to commit to buidling a gimmicky army just to see how it played--but still having the usual time constraints given work.

There's apparently quite a lot to your question, Luna!

Well the thread is supposed to be fun -_-
Liike armies of your wildest imagination etc etc. Maybe like all grot army etc etc.

A full Death Korps of Krieg army, take the Siege Regiment list and make a full company complete with artillery assets, Grenadiers in Centaurs, Cyclopses, Engineers, and hundreds of infantry Do like 5,000-8,000pts worth and rock that thing in awesome Apocalypse games.

LunaHound wrote:I find the current crisis suit extremely ugly. Its enough to make me stay away from collecting Tau xD

What about the FW suits?


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Manchu wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:So, in my original reply, I simply proposed to have all of my stuff completed (i.e. fully-painted) to a consistent, high standard over a period of a few months.

I didn't propose buying more minis, because, for the most part, I own what I want and money hasn't ever really been an issue in getting any of this stuff.

Ah, I see. This is the best post so far IMO. The assumption here is not that minis are too expensive to buy but rather you have to work to afford everything else and so have little time to actually deal with the kits. If money is no object *lightbulb!* you don't have to go to work and can play with your toys a lot more often. Sorry for being Captain Obvious here but I totally missed that when I read your first answer. My answer was basically from the perspective of earning a lot more money at work and so being able to commit to buidling a gimmicky army just to see how it played--but still having the usual time constraints given work.

There's apparently quite a lot to your question, Luna!

To be fair, I own well over 20k pts of 40k alone, so that's actually a pretty huge proposal. It's significantly larger than yours, for example. If I had to attach a dollar figure to it, it's on the order of $6k to $10k USD.

A short battalion of Steel Legion with assorted Russes, artillery and AA support. Also an Air Assaulting Stormtrooper detachment to go along with it.

If money isnt an issue.. get a Pro Painter to paint up my Eldar army. 8)

If you stick with the hobbie long enough, you can make pretty much anything. I always find its the other things that cost. "Time" to paint. "Bags" to carry the mini's. Scenery, paints, tools, mediums etc etc

An army of the metal, not hideously ugly, deamonettes.
And 5 of every Baneblade variant.
(and like someone said, a full space marine chapter)

Flashman wrote:I find money is less of an issue than finding the time to paint stuff i.e. I can buy things a lot faster than I can paint them. Infact the very thought of being given a boxed set like "Spear of Sicarius" scares me. All that unpainted plastic! Or worse, all that untrimmed plastic!!

This sums it up for me.

Although, were money, time, and drive in infinite supply, Krieg all the way, painted to the very best of my abilities.

Actually since its supoused to be fun.

I'd try to make my "Xavien" race a counts as army. I think i'd use the Space wolf dex or even go so far as to make a dex. But then have it "oked" by gamers.

I'd do a grimdark IG army themed to WWI British trench army - gas masks with the long trunks and big box air filters, long coats, big rimmed helmets and pretty much DKoK tanks, horses and weapons.

I'd do an Ork army themed to look like the Locusts from Gears of War.

I echo what some previous posters have said, I am lucky to be in a position where money is not a huge issue, if I see something I want I either get it or if it's something big (Forgeworld Titan) put some spare cash aside for a month or two.

So for me it's getting my ever expanding horde of little green hooligans painted. Idealy I could pack them all of with a sample to someone who could get them all done for me. However finding a trustworthy painter, who has a decent turnaround time, reasonable prices and paints to an equivelent standard is not easy. There is also a part of me that feels like it would be admiting failiure!

A small IG army to represent Easy Company from Band of Brothers.

Probably a Revenant Titan so I don't have to finish my scratch-build (which is going hidiously wrong at times)

Also I haven't read the whole of this thread but if money is not an issue. You can buy whatever you want.

Buy out GW.

Further to previous answers, if money were no object then I would plump for a full FW DKOK army, although like many others it would probably take me a lifetime to paint if I weren't to consider commission of some sort.

filbert wrote:Further to previous answers, if money were no object then I would plump for a full FW DKOK army, although like many others it would probably take me a lifetime to paint if I weren't to consider commission of some sort.

Do people always make purchase with painting them in mind?
Or do they purchase them also for the sake of just having them? Would that be considered as collectors?

LunaHound wrote:

filbert wrote:Further to previous answers, if money were no object then I would plump for a full FW DKOK army, although like many others it would probably take me a lifetime to paint if I weren't to consider commission of some sort.

Do people always make purchase with painting them in mind?
Or do they purchase them also for the sake of just having them? Would that be considered as collectors?

For me, a little bit of both. I am an incredibly slow painter naturally and even slower when one factors in external circumstances like work and children so I can go months without painting stuff. If I were to only purchase product based on what I had left to paint then I would never buy anything, simple as. I have that much of a backlog already. So with that in mind, I still buy stuff that I want, need or desire even though I know fully well it won't get painted for months / years to come.

Vostroyans, lots and lots of vostroyans.

Or 6x10 man wraithguard with warlocks

60 troops with 3+saves and toughness 6, guns wound on 2+ hits on a 3+, strength 5 and not to mention they are fearless.

MWahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaaha

To be honest, money isn't a problem for me where my Hobby comes into it. If I really want to do an army, I'll budget for it.

Sure, an army revolving entirely around the contents of Battalions and Plastic Boxes will be gathered quickly, my money going that much further. But just because another army, comprising mainly metal models with heavy conversion say will take me longer to collect given a set budget (say £80 a month for arguments sake) is no something I've ever seen as a barrier.

As long as I continue to enjoy the game, I'll continue to spend my money at whatever rate I feel I can afford.

I know some people don't like the 4 yearly Edition Cycle, but particularly involving 8th Ed Fantasy, I've found that they often give older armies I've already had gathering dust for a while a new lease of life, meaning for the relatively paltry cost of a new Rulebook (paltry compared to a new army) I'm getting even more value out the stuff I've already bought.

Like others, I'll take a death korps army.

I would have 10,000 points of every chapter of the marines, well the main ones, BA, DA, SW, BT, ultra marines, imperial fists, raven guard, crimson fists, white scars and salamanders, a mix of titans, super heavy vehicals and many many troops.

Oh dear. Money not an issue? I need to go have lie down...

DKok, heaps of them.

6000 pts Forge World Armoured Company.
6000 pts DKoK infantry.

If money was no object then the word 'army' would not be singular. I would own everything, plain and simple.

- DkOK army, with lots of infantry platoons, grenadiers in centaurs, painted by commission because painting 200+ detailed infantry models would keep my bsy for the rest of my modelling life
- Elysian air cavalry, with Imperial Navy support (the army I'll make 1 day).

The entire Syrath warriors army , 10,000 Troops , loads of daemons .

Hi Dakka Dakka!
Well, I would like to make several Sisters of Battle armies, representing the different established orders in addition to my own. And then I'd do Inquisitors with Inquisitorial Stormtroopers 'cause I've never ever played Imperial Guard, and I'd get all the non-sisters models like Arco-Flagellents and stuff

And if I had any money left over I'd mail a check to GW thanking them for the Sisters of Battle, for 40K, and encouraging them to do more!

--- Fun question, thank you!
----- Frankie

That too:
If money wasn't really an objecting I'd commission a traitor army from Dave Taylor or an AM army from Hortwerth.
But that's never going to happen unlike the previous.

Well I'd likely flesh out each of my three armies so I can play more than just the list I build for them...

But as for starting a NEW army.

Tyranid Nidzilla. 6 Carnifexes, 2 Tervigons, Hive Guard, Venomthropes, Warrior Primes, and Termagants to taste.

Guard Assault Horde supported by Aircav. Power Blobs with Vendettas to drop in meltas and pop tanks.

Chaos renegade Army from forge world at least a full battalion
then a full space marine chapter then a full IG battalion and then two whole armored divivsons with a titan company and then the biggest WAAAGH ever dreamed of and a full Space marine legion not chapter strength but legion awww that would be it

A 3000 point army with 2 units of 400 goblins, finished with fanatics, and crazy assed mages.

scarskull5 wrote:A 3000 point army with 2 units of 400 goblins, finished with fanatics, and crazy assed mages.

You left out squig hoppers and squig herders! They are my favorite of all Fantasy scultps xD

Imperial Guard: I would love to see a Armored Fist Imperial Guard Army will full sized Infantry Platoons.

You left out squig hoppers and squig herders! They are my favorite of all Fantasy scultps xD

I guess we are thinking along the same lines then
Ill grab some pics of my squig based gobbo's later (squig riders, squig chariots, squigapault etc)

I would be going for min core units with maxed out squigs.




On a note here, ive seen tons of people say DKoK.
Whats the catch with them?
Seems every man and his dog are in love with these models.
I just dont see the spark with them myself

I'd definitely go for a full Waagggghh! Three of every Elite, Fast and Heavy; six of every troop; every HQ option...then I'd hit up Forge World

if money wasnt a deterrant, i would do a 9k plus point Planetstrike Guard army...

basically, it goes like this:

Command Squad x2 in chimeras(one with straken, one with Creed/Kell)
a Lord Commissar
8 Infantry Platoons, with maximum number of squads, max number of heavy weapon squads, max number of special weapons squads, all in Chimera Transports
2 Storm Trooper squads
Valkyrie squadron with 2 Valkyries
1 Leman Russ Squadron with a demolisher and 2 punishers (w/ upgrades)
1 Leman RUss Squadron with 3 Battle Tanks (upgrades and Pask
2 Full Basilisk Batteries
2 Full Colossus Batteries.

There was actually more to this army, but Army builder, where this list is stored got updated, and so deleted some units. Also, again, if money was no issue, this would be a full DKK army.

Additionally, i would do the Entire Iron Snakes Chapter of Marines.

In 40k, I would love to do 5,000 points of all the First Founding Chapters.....
In Fantasy, I would like to do about 4,000 to 6,000 of the Tomb Kings...

A full Tyranid army filled with multiple MC's, and hordes and hordes and hordes of Gaunts.




All made using converted Imperial Guard models.

Crazed humans with kinves as H-Gaunts, heavily converted kitbashed mutli-legged Sentinels as Monstrous Creatures. And so on.

Techmarine biker army! MotF on a bike and Chapter Master on a bike, 5 space marine biker squads (one for each tech and HQ), 3 techmarines on bikes, three ironclads in drop pods, 3 thunderfire cannons in drop pods (squeaking out those extra tech marines)! I just love techmarines

If money is no issue, I'd buy the company and reorganize the studio.

Sure I might not have a cool army, but I'm sure I could get one painted and it'd be fun to blow a fortune trying all my wacky ideas like open-sourcing rules.

I would make my army out of money...the other green stuff.

Check out my Thousand Dollar Sons led by Chaos Lord Hamilton!

Full Imperial Segmentum Fleet! Fleet Bakka!


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A full 1st Company Deathwing Army.

9 Terminator Squads + dedicated Land Raider Transports.
Belial + Interrogator Chaplin.

Though, it would be the 9 Landraiders + 3 heavy support Landraiders.

Horst wrote:40k ... a full chapter of space marines. 1000 marines, plus vehicles.... woot.

This is my life's mission with warhammer. Before I die I will have the entire Dark Angels Chapter. I already have the 3rd company (working on getting them pro-painted). I just need some more vehicles to flesh it out. I have 25% of the Deathwing (pro-painted) and 40% of the Ravenwing (pro-painted). I will be buying a thunderhawk gunship after I get back from this deployment. When I have the entire chapter, I am going to take some pictures, write up a nice letter, and email/mail them to JJ and GW. At that point, I hope they do a special feature in WD about lunatics like myself, who have spent their whole life collecting that many models. =D

Would make the following:

A Ghazgull's deffwing army (Ghaz, mega armoured boss, 5 maxed out units of meganobz, battlewagons all round, 3 battlewagons as HS).

A Dreadmob (Stompa, 3 deff dreads, 9 killa kanz)

A council of the thirteen skaven force, ALL special characters + a vermin lord, enough lord/hero choices to make all known members of the council, ALL stormvermin for core, then whatever the hell I like for the rest!

A very Suit and Kroot heavy tau army for lolz.

I would fill out my 3k Worth of omega marines all the way up to a full chapter, and my Orks up to a horde of equal points value.

Then Id have a buddy choose an army and play multi-game a campaign where casualties and vehicles stay dead and keep damage.

If money were not an issue? ... hmmmmmm, how many Orkz can fill 50,000pts?

Make a Star Wars themed Walker army. Sentinels as Chicken Walkers, Leman Russ converted to be AT-ATs. Some army with Gas masks (Death Korps?) To be infantry.

The question is.... with how horrible your standard stormtrooper shoots, are they Infantry or Conscripts?

40k IG

13 Infantry platoons with 5 infantry squads, two heavy weapon squads, 1 conscript squad each
10 Valkryies/vendettas
40 Chimeras
30 Leman Russ Tanks
5 Baneblades
25 hellhounds
15 Basilisks
3 Deathstrike missles
30 armored Setinals
10 extra infantry squads
10 extra heavy weapon squads
3 extra conscript squads
5 storm trooper squads
5 ogryn squads
Officer of th fleet
Master of Ordinance
and...CREED!!!!!

Jedi use weighted dice for their Inv saves.

I'd commision a sculptor to do me an entire IG infantry army in kilts. A celtic themed IG army has always been on my to do list but i don't have the time to do it my self or money to pay someone else to do it.

propainted 2500 point DKoK blob army

a full chapter of space marines, complete with a company of bikers, and chapter council, Apothicarium, techmarines, chaplains, captains and chaptermaster, and an ORK WAUGH for it to pewpew with.

Pay games workshop to design, and make rules for a full equipped Ad-mech army.

Oh and model and paint it all for me.

Buy one of everything. No, three. No, FIVE. NONONONONO TENTWENTYTHIRTYFORTYFIF-*passes out from not breathing enough*. Probably 3-5 of everything, just so I'd always have the options I'd want. A bike list? Well, I'd have 5 units of bikes, ready to go. A Tau list with 6 broadsides, and 9 sniper drones with 5 full units of kroot? sure.

RxGhost wrote:I would make my army out of money...the other green stuff.

Check out my Thousand Dollar Sons led by Chaos Lord Hamilton!

I like your idea

If money was no problem I would probably hire some really professional graphics artists like the people who made the DoW 2 intro or maybe the artists over at Blizzard entertainment and have them sculpt 3d models for my Sisters of Battle army. Then have them 3d printed and molds made out of them and cast in plastic (or titanium if I wanted to be silly, or perhaps white gold). Then I would have them painted by some of the worlds greatest miniature painters.

Id pay GW a gakload of money as well to update the Sisters of Battle codex (2ed if you dont know about the SoB codex).

Ah, I can dream cant I. Would prolly cost 50 000 - 100 000 just for the army.

Titan legion

One Ogre Kingdoms army cast in gold, please. Those would be some damned 'eavy metal models, even before you painted them.

A converted Imperial Guard or Space Marine force with a Starcraft 2 theme. Something about seeing tabletop Starcraft units duking it out with 40k stuff seems awesome.

I would buy the whole store......

I would want to have a massive Tyranid horde. Maybe 60,000pts of gaunts. Maybe only about 3000 points worth of monsters and synapses. I really want to field a never ending tide!

I would make an Iyanden army, with only Wraithguard for troops, three wraithlords, a cobra and revenants. And yriel, but with helmet, and his personal Vampire. Though the main issue with money for this idea is that wraithguard cost so bloody much right now, so if they would come in plastic I may recondiser my opinion.


edit: I know what someone will write... "Yeah, because the FW packs are really cheap."

I would do a Forgeworld Death Korps of Krieg infantry army with some Death Riders and towed artillery. Maybe a few Valkyries, but definitely DKoK infantry.

If Money wasent the issue. i would quite happily forge an army of 9 Reaver Titans and an Emperitor Titan as the HQ

PURE SKINZzz wrote:If Money wasent the issue. i would quite happily forge an army of 9 Reaver Titans and an Emperitor Titan as the HQ

I second this motion.


However id be more inclined to have a massive eldar army with two Type II Heavy Anti Grav Tanks and six wraithlords, four fire prisms, basically lot and lots of everything

I'm actually going to add on to what I said earlier since I've been thinking about it. I've always wanted to make an IG army that was themed after the U.S army during the Indian War time period and the "Indians" would be Orks (I was going to go with Kroot but had an idea that is mentioned later and it makes sense with nick names like Redskin/ Greenskin. No offence ment to anyone). Blue uniforms and all that with the yellow stripe down the leg, convert the rough riders to be based off of cavalry from back then, maybe do the same with Ogryns.

Make a counts as Chimera for my command platoon (or squad or whatever it is, I'm not an IG player ) that would be a base that's the same length and width with some terrain to give it height and then I would have horses on it and I would model my command to be on the horses, then when they disembark I would have the exact same models just on foot and I would replace the mounted horses with unmounted ones.

I would have Penal Legionaires that would be represented as Kroot mercenaries (hired Indian scouts). The best heavy weapon squad to represent cannons. Some veterans with a old west type nickname, probably some Valkyries and Leman Russ Punishers (gatling guns). Probably a converted Commisar Lord in case they came across any "deserters". Not a single unit would be put on the table unless it was heavily converted and 100% painted (probably by someone else. It would also be a Apocalypse force.

Then I would make another Ork army made to be Feral Orks and have them be the "Indians" and they would also be heavily converted to suit their theme and well painted and they would also be an Apocalypse force except the army would be double the size of the guard one.

An entire regiment of FW DKoK

Replace Knight of the realm in my Bret army with Grail Knights, because they just look badass

A rogue imperial guard army using just fw parts where possible.

Ooooooo...I love this topic.

First of all I would finish off buying everything I needed for my marines. I need 6 Rhinos, 4 Speeders, dreadnaught autocannon bits, TH/SS arms for my AoBR termies, and maybe another Land Raider for kicks. I also need various bits and pieces to make everything wysiwyg.

Next batch of stuff I would buy would be the hobbying stuff. I need new brushes and new paints. I like the GW paints, but I know I can get brushes for cheap at the local hobby store.

Third, I would finish off my Eldar by buying the various bits I need to fix various things that have broken.

Fourth, I would buy everything I needed to finish off the vampire counts that I started building over a year ago and haven't really touched. I need a bunch of horsemen and wraiths/banshees (I think, haven't looked at the VC book in a long time).

Fiffth, I would probably start another army for both fantasy and 40k. Most likely Tyranids or Tau and Wood Elfs.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:One Ogre Kingdoms army cast in gold, please. Those would be some damned 'eavy metal models, even before you painted them.

An irriduum/titanium blend for me. Finally, a force I'm williing to allow other people to pick up.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:One Ogre Kingdoms army cast in gold, please.

Pfft. If we're going silly money, then I'll have an all-footy Imperial Guard Conscript army cast in Plutonium, for sale to the highest bidder...

all known 18 founding chapters...Pre-hersey and post Hersey

An all pegasus bretonnian army, 10,000pt Night Goblin army painted up like spartans, and an apoc sized world eaters army with 3 tower of skulls

Well since some of these examples seem to be abandoning all semblance of common sense and good taste (solid gold ogre army? wtf? WIN!!!) . . . .

I would like to feel like I am a real general in 40K! I'd build a stadium or maybe buy the ones the Dallas Cowboys use. Then me and my friends would sit up in the VIP box in full costume and direct our small army of paid servants to move around our huge armies on the pitch. I don't know how many points that is but it has to be enough to fill a stadium. Oh and we play with 30% terrain so there should be man-sized mountain ranges with waterfalls and stuff and smoke machines to simulate fog of war.

rabidaskal wrote:Well since some of these examples seem to be abandoning all semblance of common sense and good taste (solid gold ogre army? wtf? WIN!!!) . . . .

I would like to feel like I am a real general in 40K! I'd build a stadium or maybe buy the ones the Dallas Cowboys use. Then me and my friends would sit up in the VIP box in full costume and direct our small army of paid servants to move around our huge armies on the pitch. I don't know how many points that is but it has to be enough to fill a stadium. Oh and we play with 30% terrain so there should be man-sized mountain ranges with waterfalls and stuff and smoke machines to simulate fog of war.

That sounds... awesome

I would build the largest Waaaaagh! in existance. Led by the fiercest of generals.

I'm thinking:
Ghazgkull
Wazdakka
Grotsnik
Zogwort
12 Big Meks
8 Warbosses
4 weirdboyz

18 mobs of lootas
20 mobs of burnas
16 mobs of kommandos (one with Snikrot)
8 mobs of tankbustas
15 mobs of foot nobs
5 mobs of meganobs
6 mobs of biker nobs

35 mobs of bikers
60 mobs of sluggas
45 mobs of shootas
90 mobs of gretchin

18 mobs of storm boys (one with Zagstrukk)
20 squadrons of warbuggies
15 squadrons of deffkoptas

40 Deff Dredds
30 mobs of Kans
25 looted wagons
30 Battle wagons
10 mobs of flash gitz (one with Badrukk)
25 batteries of kannons
15 batteries of lobbas
10 batteries of zzap guns

That's 9288 models, not including any ammo runts, orderlies, etc.

Let's see a chapter tackle this.

S_P

Pfft. I'll see your Ork mob and raise you a full Codex of Guard.

Hope you like pie...

I do like pie. But there's a full crap ton of storm boys, kommandos and bikers (both regular and nob variety) hitting your lines more or less straight away, and not to mention my own artillery pounding away. The tankbustas will have a field day.

I want this battle to happen.

S_P

I can just imagine 10,000 points of Earthshakers pie-ing your army to death on the first turn... at 75 points for an earthshaker patform that is 133 pie plates per turn

80 per turn if you take basilisks - plus then you get 80 HB shots a turn too

I think I could gain the upper hand.

There will be about 340 rokkits coming from deffkoptas, buggies, kans and tankbustas; up to 810 shots coming from lootas; up to 12 Shokk attack gun plates (depending on how I decide to arm my meks); 25 boomgun shots; and up to 1080 orks reaching combat by turn 1, of which 129 are nobs.

All the while, the rest of my army shoots like crazy or Waaagh!s it's way into combat.

I imagine the battle would be entirely dependant on who gets first turn.
Guard - I take massive casualties from artillery and don't have enough numbers to pull it back.
Orks - Mass charges across the board and your artillery is left with nothing to shoot at.

S_P

You've got 10k models, so we're talking on the order of 100k pts of Apoc, maybe 200k (not sure about points). As Mech Guard I'd be taking at least 50k pts of Pie throwers, for 300+ pies per turn. Probably more. That's an awful lot of pie.

Also, with We're not playing on a 4' deep board. At a minimum, we're looking at more of a 8+' deep board, probably more like something on a basketball court. You're not hitting anything Turn 1.

At the game size you suggest, I think the thing becomes a chore to play.

True, true.

I guess we'll never know until someone does it, so for now, I submit to JohnHwangDD's army of intense pie.

S_P

A pre-heresy chapter of the 1k Sons Legion.



Plus the Egyptian Conversion spares from this website so I convert them to be more, in keeping with their roots.
Infact I'm going to do it anyway, very slowly and I might get 6 Thunder hawks (Epic 40k ones! )
yep that would look really good.