I've had this discussion with friends previously. If you could build a 40k army, and money was no object whatsoever, what would it be? Try not to think just in terms of size. GW is handing you a blank check here. +2 for coming up with conversion ideas.

I've always wanted to do a full traitor guard force led by small clusters of Alpha Legion. I would want to model them like a terrorist/insurgency force rather than professional soldiers, with each model looking as though he had looted his equipment from a Guard armory. Tanks and air cavalry would look much the same, and I'd want to have some sort of technical truck conversion standing in for chimeras. Alpha legionnaires would be stand-in squad leaders sprinkled through, with a couple of dedicated Alpha Legion squads. The mortal component might be led by some sort of cult magister type, reminiscent of Kane from Command and Conquer.

A Tau army consisting solely of a Manta.

Giant hells biker army consisting of doom rider and daemonentte (the 3rd? edition sculpts not the current one or the first one)biker chicks riding the B seat all in leather and what not.

or 1 sisters of battle army

I have always wanted to build a BA DreadPod list.
But it's way to expensive in my opinion, you'd need 45 Euro per 100 points.

The idea is very simple:
Take as many droppods and dreadnaughts as possible > thrown them in his base in the first turn > Use your flamers and fragcannons to annihilate his troops and the meltaguns to kill his vehicles.
Next turn assault with your Blood Talons <3

Forge World Cadian's in Hazardous Environment Gear blob squads with Sabre Defense Platforms.

 Wilytank wrote:
A Tau army consisting solely of a Manta.

Get out of my head! Exalted

I always wanted to try an Ork Biker list with Wazdakka. Ypu could get 108 bikers, 30 nob bikers, a boss bike, and wazzdakka in one army if you had the money... but Ork bikers cost 40 bucks for 3.

A titan legion. A WHOLE titan legion.

Fluffy 2000 points of DKOK would be awsome

Waaaghpower wrote:
I always wanted to try an Ork Biker list with Wazdakka. Ypu could get 108 bikers, 30 nob bikers, a boss bike, and wazzdakka in one army if you had the money... but Ork bikers cost 40 bucks for 3.

That's a lot of points right there. 2700 points just in your bikers before Nobs.

An Elysian guard army, full of venerators, Deep striking guardn and drop sentinals.

Well there is only one army I would build then, and that would be a Sister of battle army, the thought of some hundred and fifty to two hundred Sisters on foot backe up by a hundred or so mounted in rhinos. With full support from those nice tanks of theirs and a few pentincence machines makes me drool. Also I would use the Knights Hospitaler emblem and paint them after such a scheme.

I'd recreate the entire Luna Wolves Legion. So that's about 170,000 marines, plus vehicles, and 1 one lifetime spent painting models.

 beej138 wrote:
A titan legion. A WHOLE titan legion.

I know I said don't focus on size, but this is so awesome I'm surprised the idea didn't strike me too. Put me down for Legio Mortis too!

Pre-heresy SW 13th Company.

This is easy!!! I would build an entire company of grey knights!!!!

4x10 terminators
10 paladins
2xinterceptors
2xpurgators
10 purifiers
1champion
Brother captain
2librarians and a master librarian
Grandmaster
3 dreadnaughts
2 landraiders
2 storm ravens
3 dreadknights

One ordo maleus inquisitor with retinue and chimera
Vindicare assassin
The anti psyker assassin

The ENTIRE Ultramarines Chapter.

or

An entire regiment of Imperial Guard, with support from Artillery and Tanks.

It would be a big mech army for me. Most likely blood angels predator and razorbacks everywhere

Complete my DKoK army, with proper fortifications:

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Warhammer_40,000_Terrain/IMPERIAL-FORTRESS-WALLS.html as the main fortification.

http://www.ifelix.co.uk/images994/IMG_0020.jpg (the OOP trench system) surrounding the primary fortress.

The army would consist primarily of veteran/grenadier squads in Vendettas, with heavy artillery and a Sabre platoon to hold the fortifications, and Vultures and Avengers for air support. Oh yes, and an entire squadron of Marauder Destroyers for Apocalypse (in addition to the superheavy tank squadrons I already have).

A proppa Orky army - several thousand points of Orks with all tribes represented, but the majority being footslogging Boyz.

Daemon flying circus

Bloodthirsters
Fateweaver
Deamon Princes



oh and some troops

SQUATS. A WHOLE PLANET'S WORTH OF SQUATS!!

The Ultramarines Chapter, with all the Imperial Support it could call upon.

A crusade, essentially.

Boyz. Thousands and Thousands of boyz.

A freakin' diorama of the 3rd War for Armageddon.

Space Sharks. Lots and lots of Space Sharks in Forge World PA.

A proper Iyanden army. Lots of Wraithguard, a Seer per unit, with a smattering of Wraithlords - but only minimal Aspect Warriors and *NO* Guardians. I'll actually be looking to do this if plastic Wraithguard turn up at any point.

Crux of the army would be former special character Iyanna Arienal - the Craftworld's leading Farseer, with her own Wraithlord companion. I'm planning a counts-as-normal-Wraithlord conversion that has her riding astride its shoulders.

A full Regiment of Shadowswords.

1. All of the forces from the first war for Armeggedon. All of them.

2. A Titan legion

3. A salamanders, SW, GKs, and Sisters of Battle Company.

4. An entire IG regiment.

5. An entire DE Kabal.

6. An entire Tomb World

7. An entire Hive fleet

8. An entire craft world

9. An entire WAAAAAAGH!

10. An entire Tau Sept

11. A ravenwing and a death wing army.

Entire Wolves chapter as described in the codex per the wolf lords on the annulus.

Wolf Scout army with scout sentinels as dreadnoughts? Yes please. Bran Redmaw's company with Apoc data sheets? Yes please.

I'd like to make the biggest ork trukk EVER

The biggest obstacle for me is time. I dislike paying for people to paint my stuff, so anything too large would just end up taking me too long to paint.

However, if time was no obstacle either, matching pre and post heresy Salamanders forces. The full post Heresy chapter with fun conversions for the first company with drake cloaks draped all over them, then a matching, equally sized pre Heresy force.

I'd go with an entire WAAAAGH!!! Thousands of boyz, hundreds of vehicles, dozens of Stompaz and super-heavies, and a couple of looted Imperial Titans at the core. Then I would start scratch-building Gargants and Mega-Gargants.

Some form of really weird army that spams models that you do not see a lot. Perhaps Daemons with a lot of furies or Nurglings. I don't know something Nurgley, or just an expansion of my Necrons/ Dark Angels.

A regiment of Steel Legion with a full complement of tanks and artillery and a WAAAGH! of Orks, filled with looted armor, Gargants, the works. I wanna recreate some Armageddon battles.

I can get my army though, eventually, what I want beyond those forces is the battlefield. A gorgeous trenched-up battlefield/diorama straight out of a White Dwarf centerpiece. I want the field I put my army down on to look FANTASTIC, and just bring it all to its full glorious potential.

A modestly sized Necron army constructed from nothing but green rods.

But seriously, Idfk, a really big CSM army or something?

An entire Ultramarines Chapter!

if money was no object, then it would be 100% digital. there would be no physical debit/credit cards or cash of anykind. you *might* have a barcode tatoo someplace...but one could argue that a tattoo could be considered a physical object (albeit a 2 dimensoinal one) and therefore also not present.

maybe in a startrek verse... but then there would be no GW as GW only exists to take in money, digital or otherwise. but if a simaler company DID happen to exist, then you could just go in and say..."give me 30 spess mehreene boxes.." and not have to pay anything, because money is not an object.

About 30k of DKoK 50K of super heavy/ Titans and 10k of blood ravens and 30k of space wolves.

This, using about 500 various Necron plastic kits and some serious conversion work.



...and whole sectors would burn in its wake!

squats, that's all, just .squats

A full chapter worth of Templars, 3 warhounds, a reaver, a well made warlord Titan, and a whole hive fleet...also a garage full of battle terrain

Well my catachan army would certainly get a lot bigger and way more converted models in it.

about 30 BA Terms with a mix of LCs and SHThndrShlds, a whole lot of terrain and a enough Tyrannids to fill a Space Hulk to 40K scale proper.

The entire Imperial Guard.

That's only, what, several trillion footsloggers?

An ork horde, all riding on squiggoths.

Money is not really an issue. But I've never tried a FW army which I would asap if you'd give a bigger pay check.

A Tau Air Caste Carde.
No idea how this would work on a force org chart but i was thinking something like this:

1x Manta (HQ)
3x Tiger Sharks AX-1-0 escorts (Elites)
3x Barracuda Fighters (Fast Attack)
6x2man squads of Ramora drones (Troops)

Just to see that on the table would be awesome!
Maybe it could be some kind of Apocalypse formation.

A retribution class battleship to scale a massive diorama of the siege of vraks including titans and even the little details

 TheCrazyCryptek wrote:
This, using about 500 various Necron plastic kits and some serious conversion work.



...and whole sectors would burn in its wake!

Oh lawd, I just realized for scale that the very very tiny triangles at the bottom of that are Monoliths XD

But yeah, I would make my entire Imperial Guard regiment, have them painted by professionals since I can't paint for my life, build/paint a giant battlefield that is representative of their home planet, and then make a huge Tau army to face them against so I can fight the battles in their fluff

Necrons, buy AAAAAAALLLLLL the Warriors.

/e: On second thought, I'd rather to a big, strong IG army and sell it.

Remember white dwarf 300? Remember the Hands of the Emperor Legio Custodes?? Thats what I would want.

Well I have always felt that I was in need of more armies. It would have to be sisters of battle and a fully converted squat IG army! Maybe using mantic figures but more likely just using GW bits.

 Algorithm wrote:

 beej138 wrote:
A titan legion. A WHOLE titan legion.

I know I said don't focus on size, but this is so awesome I'm surprised the idea didn't strike me too. Put me down for Legio Mortis too!

Legio Gryphonicus would be my first choice for what to make if money was no option.

Followed closely by the full Gaunts Ghosts from the last book (I guess with 3 Space Marine allies in a Ceastus to be as perfect as possible).

Demons

But to be honest, unless I won mad money...if I had a few thousand of extra spending...I'd probably just flesh out my Eldar to about 20k.

Add two Phantoms and 3 more Revenants(have 1), probably two Cobras, another Scorpion(have 1), 4 Lynx.

Another 6 Nightwings(have 2), 4 Phoenix Bombers and one of each Vampire superheavy flyer.

And lots of smaller things too.

Shadowsuns strike cadre as described in the codex, with out upgrades it works out to about 4.5k

But I want it...

A whole army of Pre-Heresy Space Wolves with Death Korps allies and a titan converted into a wolf!

FW Space Sharks

Finishing my Mega Nob looted SW's. 2 Warbosses in Mega armour/converted from SW terminators with custom heads and bits. And tech body and attack squig

2 battle wagons with conversions

2 special squads of mega nobz 9 Meganobz made from terminator armour with kombi skorcha. Custom heads, other then the Warbosses. in the battle wagons

3 squads of 6 meganobz with kombi-rokket in trukks with red-paint and everything to get them to the front line fast.

2-3 squads of 30 converted grots to wannabe SW grots.

A Chaos Marine counts as Ravenwing all bike army lead by

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMRIDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All Slaneeshi dudes standing on bikes with Noise marines weilding guitars.

Did I mention that there would be DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMRIDER?

All the traitor legions first off. Then, probably a full Tau 'invasion' force.

~Vryce

The entire Black templars force of SM, also including every tank, thunderhawk, land speeder, optional weapons, dreadnoughts, termies, drop pod, ect....

Or an entire legion of titans... one would be a lot harder to store though. so porbably BT entire force.

thakabalpuphorsefishguy wrote:
This is easy!!! I would build an entire company of grey knights!!!!

4x10 terminators
10 paladins
2xinterceptors
2xpurgators
10 purifiers
1champion
Brother captain
2librarians and a master librarian
Grandmaster
3 dreadnaughts
2 landraiders
2 storm ravens
3 dreadknights

One ordo maleus inquisitor with retinue and chimera
Vindicare assassin
The anti psyker assassin

Your dream is pretty close to my reality.

I have

3X 10 Terminators
2X 5 Terminators
4X 6 man Strike Squads
2X 6 man Interceptors
6 man Purgation squad w/ Razorback
10 Purifiers w/ Deimos Rhino
7 Paladins
1 Master Librarian
1 Grandmaster
1 Kaldor Draigo
1 Chaplain (custom unit, custom rules, only for use in very friendly games w/ permission)
1 Storm Raven ( w/ Chapterhouse Conversion)
1 Land Raider Crusader
1 Land Raider Redeemer
2 Dreadknights
4 Dreadnoughts

then...

Coteaz
Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor (converted from the LE forgeworld Warrior Priest model)
10 man Exorcists Strike Squad (forgeworld Legion MKIV models) counts as Grey Knights
5 man Exorcists Purgation Squad (same as above)
Psyker Squad
2X Henchman squads ( 1 for each inquisitor)
Forgeworld Ogeryn converted to count as a dreadnought
10 man Warrior Acolyte squad
12 man squad w/ 7 Crusaders and 5 Death Cult Assassins
1 Vindicare Assassin
1 Storm Raven (using a converted Valkyrie model)
1 Chimera

Most is built, a few things are still in the box. As for painting, well I am working on it, but I am slow, should keep me busy for a few years!

Hear are a couple of pics...

my converted Chaplain


Converted Librarian


Converted Land Raider Crusader

If money was no object I would start out with one army, maybe the Ork counts as Blood Angels army I've always dreamed of (it just amuses me to think of Orks that went backwards through the warp and came out thinking they were Marines), or a Daemon Army to go with my Chaos marines, or maybe I'd go crazy and blow my Guard up to like 200 models or something.

But I would never be able to stop. Even when money is tight I can't stop starting new armies. If money were no object, I WOULD PLAY ALL THE ARMIES! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I'd have an entire scout company with nothing but shotguns.

Entire Wraith force for my Eldar. Tons of Wraithguard, Wraithlords, and a Wraithseer. Plus several of every Eldar superheavy. I'd then want a terrain setup of the inside of a Craftworld to play out the Alaitoc invasion from the Eldar Path books.

I'll also take a pre-Heresy Thousand Sons army with Forgeworld armor, all converted up with scarabs and their tutelaries and such, along with Magnus when he eventually gets released.

Also a fully converted skitaari army, along with a couple Titans. Full Mechanicus force!

Saim-Hann Eldar. Full conversions on each jetbike and all the Forgeworld vehicle goodies. Something that makes White Scars players no longer the dominant biker gang.

Definitely pre heresy Iron Warriors legion. With the dark mechanicus elements the titans and Perturabo himself. If terrain is included in this the grand theater he created for fulgrim and the maze he recreated....

A fully fleshed out DKoK army for each of the DKoK army lists; Siege Regiment, Assault Brigade and Armoured Battlegroup. I've got the middle one, could probably scratch together the latter but the first has always been an issue and a desire of mine.

I have been working, back and forth, on 2 armies that are turning out to be really cash intensive. One is a Exodite Eldar army. Using cold ones as jetbikes, Carnasaurs as Vyper Jetbikes, and Lizardmen Salamanders as heavy weapons platforms. I'm using enough of the eldar parts to make them look eldar and they all have eldar riders and gunners. But each of the Vyper Jetbikes have a Carnasaur, a Vyper, a Warwalker, and some random bits... and the army will eventually have 6. The second is a White Scars army where the bikes are all sports bike style, with the rider leaning forward. If I was really going to go for broke though, I'd get a Legio Titanica With 6 Warhound Titans, 3 Reaver Titans, an Overlord Titan, and a Emperor Titan.

I would bring my custom dynasty into being exactly as I imagined it.

Then do something stupid like a Titan Legion or something as suitably epic and just as obscene

Simple. I'll just take one of every special character, two of every non-named character, and 10 of everything else. That includes their paint range, brushes, bitz, epic, specialist books, everything that has to do with 40k. If this blank check also applies to Forgeworld then simply continue the trend.

A space marine biker army.
A drop pod List (probably SW)

Re-create the full legion of Pre Heresy World Eaters.

I would then overthrow the earth with plastic men and forgeworld reciepts of an absurd amount.

An entire army of forgeworld daemon machines like Slaughterers and brass scorpions

A proper Elysian army, fully mounted in Valkyries with all the venators etc...
It'd just be so expensive.

The entire Blood Ravens chapter with the Forgeworld transfers and those sexy Chapterhouse shoulders for the officers. I would get kinky with the armor marks and mix them up and get some of the forgeworld versions of the old school SM vehicles. This, of course, represents the chapter's habits of acquiring (Stealing) artifacts.

The whole Blood Ravens Chapter, led by Angelos

He would be fighting an Angron sized daemon prince to represent kyras

EDIT: Ninja'd, but angelos was my idea!

 ace101 wrote:
The whole Blood Ravens Chapter, led by Angelos

He would be fighting an Angron sized daemon prince to represent kyras

EDIT: Ninja'd, but angelos was my idea!

Hey, the Blood Ravens are sexy. I'd make a Boreale myself and memorize his infamous speech to deliver before calling in my drop pods. Heck, I'd find a way to fit a speaker underneath the model so that it would say it if money was no object.

If money was no object...

Two words: Dreadnaught Army

(Apocalypse of course!)

Build one of these.



only not using baneblade hulls, it would be a gigantic monster of a machine that would rival the size of Titans, and its main weapon would have the firepower to bring an Emperor class titan to its knees in a single shot.

For a big project, The Entire Ultramarines Chapter, lead of coarse by MAC Daddy Macragge, including the chaper armoury, librarium and all the rest.

For something a lttle more modest a DKOK army of about 2000 points would be cool.

oh and some of the old "sexy" daemonettes to ally with my shaaneshi marines!

EDIT: I would also pay someone to assembly all my drop pods for me, as they are a pain in the ass!

Would love to build an entire Inquisition army, Backed up by IG. Conversions on all the models to make them look like a professional Inquisition Regiment.

Recast a 5k point sisters of battle army in pure 24 carat gold.

also engine of war: what is that?

 Desubot wrote:
Recast a 5k point sisters of battle army in pure 24 carat gold.

also engine of war: what is that?

That monster.

Is the Centurio Ordinatus, a massive Mechanicus super weapon.

"A weapon the size of a Titan. A near-perfect expression of the Omnissiah's grandeur and, of course, his puissance. Armies are thrown to the wind by its glorious song, and mountains themselves skitter aside at its demand. Nothing stands before a sacred Machine Spirit so mighty without its consent." — Tech-Priest Garrulon Vyme

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Centurio_Ordinatus

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ordinatus


its essentially a Titan sized tank/weapons platform or land based battleship.

 Vaktathi wrote:
A fully fleshed out DKoK army for each of the DKoK army lists; Siege Regiment, Assault Brigade and Armoured Battlegroup. I've got the middle one, could probably scratch together the latter but the first has always been an issue and a desire of mine.

This and then have a professional painter paint it for me because I'm lazy and wouldn't want to paint that many dudes and tanks. Then on top of that a 8x8 board of blasted WW1 trench warfare site with secondary below section with tunnels. Then on top of that finish my Catachans and have a huge jungle board.

I'd probably try to create and convert models for Dark Heresy. Specifically, creating several models for each NPC type, from Psychneuin, Charnel Daemons, Hereteks, Mutant abominations, Fenksworld Pit Things, to more mundane characters such as Adepts, Street Vendors, Nobles and Skulkers.

The entire Minotaurs chapter.

The only fluffy way to play a Minotaurs army. They are after all one of the only chapters to almost always fight at full strength.

A pre-heresy Emperors Children legion. Either that or a Valhallan Regiment with a world War II colour scheme with a huge load of tanks and commissars.

Since in the last six months I purchased 2k+ of SoB at full retail and my Avenger strike fighter is in the mail....

uh.... I'll take a Dr. Pepper.

A fully mechanized IG regiment with all the heavy supports (at least 1 of each) flyers, titan legion with ghazghkull waaagh for allies. Possibly even buy matt ward and torture him to write a good codex other than sm

Get all the neat toys and extras for my battle company.

And re-boot my Eldar forces.

Nice foam for everything

Since I just put my (very) old MtG cards up for consignment at the FLGS, this may actually happen for me

A complete Inquisition force accompanying a rogue trader with female personnal guard.

Since I can't decide on SM, SoB or IG. The Inquisition would need all 3 to support

Eldar Corsairs

But more specifically... PIRATES

I've always been about Wealth, Wine and Wenches and if Eldar corsairs weren't so damned expensive to collect I would play them from dawn until dusk regardless of balance issues in the army or against other armies. These guys and gals fit my stereotypical swashbuckling persona perfectly. I would convert up howling banshees to be power-rapier wielding female duelists complete with tricorns and ruffles as well as their normal body suit and wild "banshee hair". The bulk of my forces would be made up of sea dogs on jetbikes and in war walkers, with the best available "broadside" weaponry, all bedecked in bright crimsons and golds. Prince Yriel would get an eyepatch and a sash with a handcannon stuck in it and probably a battered tricorn of his own and he would lead my army from a hover-galleon converted from a ravager or Tantalus (of course, the catamaran design wouldn't be very sporting for a galleon. I'd have to design a whole new pimpmobile for him).

I could go on forever about my band of pirate-y Eldar no-goods.

An inquisitorial henchmen army with only conversions and kitbashes.

And, ofcourse, a guard force based on Halo's UNSC!

A fully converted Black Templar army, where all of the models were decked out like Sword Bretheren, loaded for war each carrying a great sword, a bolt gun, and a bolter.

Then pay someone to write a new codex where ccw, bolt guns and bolters are a part of standard wargear, and update the rules/vows so they're more in line with 6th ed. The new codex doesn't have to be Space Wolves good, but at least make them competitive whilst staying true to the fluff. Even if staying true to the fluff hurts us a bit I don't mind, like a rule that states "BT cannot be Battle Brother allies with any army that is currently employing a psyker."

 Typhus the Betrayer wrote:
1. All of the forces from the first war for Armeggedon. All of them.

2. A Titan legion

3. A salamanders, SW, GKs, and Sisters of Battle Company.

4. An entire IG regiment.

5. An entire DE Kabal.

6. An entire Tomb World

7. An entire Hive fleet

8. An entire craft world

9. An entire WAAAAAAGH!

10. An entire Tau Sept

11. A ravenwing and a death wing army.

I second this. would have done it if i had won the 600 mil lottery draw. Plus an entire room furnished by geek chic.

Games Workshop... The whole thing.


Also, a heath bar.

Im not one for quantity, rather quality.

A decent sized Space Marine force (say about 3000pts) however every single model is "true scale" using terminator bodies as base. All the vehicles would be "appropriately" scaled as well (eg baneblades converted into landraiders, landraiders into rhinos). Obviously it would have no tabletop application, purely for aesthetic. Needless to say every single model would have considerable detail work both in extra bitz and painting.

serpent-riding wraithguard horde

If money was no object. I would probably buy a space marine pre heresy crusade force. So like 18 full legions with complete support elements including Titan legions and super heavy tanks. It'd probably end up being around 100k+$

IF money was no object, I'd buy out GW and make them update the Sisters of Battle in a way that doesn't suck, then buy an army of that.

If money was no object, I'd buy GW from Melissia and make the Sisters ass.

BlaxicanX wrote:
If money was no object, I'd buy GW from Melissia and make the Sisters ass.

You wouldn't have enough money in the world to do buy it from me

A converted mechanicus army including a few titans, knights, tons of skitarii and to top it off, a transport space ship. Or an army of nothing but elysians, valkyries, and other flyers.

The entire Grey Knights Chapter

A full company of space marines

Think I'd have to go with a holotank.

By which I mean, a fully operational and functional holographic projection chamber in which to wage wars between my little dudes.

And after GW funds the development, I'd own the world's first two of them.

The second one I'd have sent to my special cuddlefox in Michigan.

Why? Because even though I love the models, and I love building models, I really don't like painting most of the time. So if money were no object, I'd definitely have to go with something I'd never have to paint.

All the forces at the Seige of Terra, Calth, Prospero AND the Drop site Massecare, with massive boards to match

The eldar release stuff.

I'm not one for too many models, simply because I won't be able to finish painting them all.
I'd have to go for a simple 2500-3000 points of pure plastic, pure nurgle CSM. FW tanks, and every squad of plague-marines will be kitbashed from CSM, FW MKIII and plaguebearer kits. Heldrakes converted from arachnarok spiders (plague-drone style) and maybe a zombie dragon. Spawn kitbashed from the CSM spawn and river trolls kit, cultists bashed from beastmen and FW bits, loyalist-converted helbrutes (because FW is a bit boring)...man the possibilities are endless!

I would finish my Sisters of Battle. Every time I look at them, they seem so lonely and sad that they never get played. So that would be taking them from 500 pts to about 3000 points.

Yeah, I'd also probably just binge on SoB. 3000 or 4000 points worth, roughly. And a nice, big wall-mounted display case to put them all in. And maybe I'd buy loads of the FW iconography for them to make my force look uber-faithful.

My dream army is pretty daaaamn close, Iv got a professionally painted CSM codex fully magnetized.... but i really really want to add Titans to go with my thunderhawk...

The Iron Warrior legion that laid siege to the imperial palace on terrra, combined with ranks of renegade imperial guard.
I would add the siege engines found by the DA.
A titan legio (3warhounds, 2reavers, 1warlord)
25 superheavy tanks (stormsword, fellblades,...)

I would like to do Space Wolves and I would really norse them up with bits from all over the place.

DKoK infantry, flyers and mechanized assault with all of the lovely extras that FW has to offer. I have loved the way the models look and their background, very steampunky WW2 and quite creepy looking faceless men.

For the hell of it, I'd construct Iori Delta Tove. And the entire necron force that comes with it.

if money was object i wouldnt be building it or painting it, that's for sure.

I would like to make a 7th company loyalist Death Guard from the Hersey era.

I would convert "Straight Arrow Garro" with his trademark bionics and weaponry and armour. All of my tactical s would be FW Mk.2 and Mk.3 heresy armour all with matching heresy weapons. I would sprinkle in a few Dreadnoughts and a ton of devastators. I would also include a few FW heresy rhinos and Predators (vehicles would be kept to a minimum though due to fluff)

Finally I would ad some Vostroyansin as Imperial army support element with high tech heresy era FW tank patterns.

I would build it up to only 3000-4000pts as after that there in no practical reason to go any further.

Imperial Guard. - An entire FoC filling group of them. That would be around 850+ models.

Fully Mounted Elysian Drop Trooper Company

I would re-create my Epic imperial guard army in 40K scale. Three companies of super-heavies, an artillery company, a leman russ company, and (here's the tough one) a Leviathan.

Oh, can't forget, two commissars.

I would create the whole traitor legion of the word bearers. Every single model having conversions. Also maybe amp up my painting supplies.

 Algorithm wrote:
I've had this discussion with friends previously. If you could build a 40k army, and money was no object whatsoever, what would it be? Try not to think just in terms of size. GW is handing you a blank check here. +2 for coming up with conversion ideas.

I've always wanted to do a full traitor guard force led by small clusters of Alpha Legion. I would want to model them like a terrorist/insurgency force rather than professional soldiers, with each model looking as though he had looted his equipment from a Guard armory. Tanks and air cavalry would look much the same, and I'd want to have some sort of technical truck conversion standing in for chimeras. Alpha legionnaires would be stand-in squad leaders sprinkled through, with a couple of dedicated Alpha Legion squads. The mortal component might be led by some sort of cult magister type, reminiscent of Kane from Command and Conquer.

For me it was a full chaos renegades force using the FW conversion parts. Had shelved the idea completely due to cost, and then my wife walked out and suddely money was no object and I started the project. So I've been there and done that already.

Skriker

If money was no object, i would recreate the whole 40k universe, all of the different armies, not just one army of ig fpr example, but all million of different regiments, companies etc. And the same to all other armies. all planets, the whole lot, would then hire every single commission painter in the world to paint all of the models, scenery etc, then would need to pay off some scientists to make a time machine, so that i could send the models back in time so that they would be ready the next day and also build an amusement park the size of a country to host the ultimate WH40K park where people. Could travel the galaxy and play games. This ofc if money or RL was no object.

the nearly unbeatable tyranid army:
2000pts
10 tervigons...
come at me bro!
and before anyone says flyers will beat it, flyers have to be able to move or they hover and get assaulted. with this army i have seen players fill the board so the fliers cannot move and either are forced into hover mode or die because they don't have hover...


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Either that or one of these two (or both)

1. The Entire Salamanders Chapter, with Chapter Master Tu'Shan at the front converted with the sign of the promethean cult on his terminator armour, a specialy crafter thunder hammer and combi-flamer plus his drakescale cape. The firedrakes at the vanguard and then all 5 Battle Companies with the 7th scout comapny on recon.

2. A massive World Eaters Warband with daemonic allies and the Daemon Primarch Angron using The Forge World Daemon Lord of Khrone But with the butchers nails sculpted in. Kharn at the head of the marines and a legion of Iron Warrior Daemonically possessed Titans and Daemon Engines...

Me i would have to have a full khornate army with a mix of daemons and marines

A blank check eh?

I'd cut out the middle man and buy GW itself.


Awww someone beat me to it :(

10000 tyranids

commoragh, the entire population of commorah professionally painted and with a 10'x10' table of commoragh and re create the space marine invasion of commoragh then have all the denizens of commoragh to be mechanically animated to take orders and have an AI then take over the world with my entire population of Commoragh! thus splving world hunger and creating world peace.

If money was no object I would buy GW and have Matt Ward skinned then use his hide as my bathroom mat. The one the goes around the toilet to catch the pee splash.

 TheCrazyCryptek wrote:
This, using about 500 various Necron plastic kits and some serious conversion work.



...and whole sectors would burn in its wake!

Holy crap that would be impressive

Finish my Death Korps of Krieg army and then ally them with Elysians.

Then start a Bretonnian army.

If money was no object I would get some dire avengers

tgf wrote:
If money was no object I would buy GW and have Matt Ward skinned then use his hide as my bathroom mat. The one the goes around the toilet to catch the pee splash.

I don't think anyone would want to use that bathroom as they'd fear that they'd get some kind of a contagion from that Ward mat... pun not intended.

An Imperial army with complete Chapters, Orders, Regiments and Legions. Would need a lot of help to build though...

I'd go total nidzilla and get that Hierophant and Harridan from FW.

I would recreate the Horus Heresy, every Space marine legion with full support from various Imperial army units.

Okay, barring any technology like holotanks, I'd basically tell GW, "You can keep the money if you create and release a proper update* for the Sisters of Battle within the next 2** years. Hell, I'll even give you money back when I buy the models and Codex when they come out!"

*"proper update" refers to a variety of new plastic infantry kits for the Sororitas themselves, a complete, relatively well-written and well-designed (compared to other 6th edition codices) hardback codex sold independently in the stores, with mostly new content along with new tellings of old content, at least 1 new selection each for Elites, Troops, Fast Attack, and Heavy Support, an equal cut of White Dwarf coverage and marketing, but I'll skip the written apology mailed to everyone who's ever bought a Sisters of Battle miniature.

**Timeframe is negotiable within reason.

And if I felt like playing hardball, I'd add, "And if you don't accept my offer, I will buy your whole fething company with that cheque and ram it into the ground."

10 000 MK3 Iron Armour Suits, with 50 Contemptors, 20 baneblades and 70 Thunderhawks, plus 100s of tanks, and throw in a few warlord titans. Additionaly, a slave doomed to paint that army expertly for the rest of his life....in the Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons chapter colours


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Plus 12 million Imperial Army Auxilliares

 Phosis T'Kar Jr wrote:
10 000 MK3 Iron Armour Suits, with 50 Contemptors, 20 baneblades and 70 Thunderhawks, plus 100s of tanks, and throw in a few warlord titans. Additionaly, a slave doomed to paint that army expertly for the rest of his life....in the Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons chapter colours


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Plus 12 million Imperial Army Auxilliares

You sir deserve a medal

2 Mantas

BAM!

I would want to build a Space Marine Striker Cruiser Hangar in 28mm.



So the Hangar would be about 8ft by 6ft and I would build it out of Zone Mortalis pieces. I could then put an Entire Company of Vehicles in their as bits of Cover, maybe a Transport Thunderhawk.

I would use it for Boarding Ops Games, Xeno's trying to engulf a Space Marine Cruiser. I would also model a Boarding Torpedo, a Mysetic Spore, and an Ork Kruiser at act as Boarding device for the Zeno's.

Obviously there would be lots of Imperial Fighters etc in there, *Think Battlestar Gallactica but with 40k Flyers!*





I would put in a small Apocatharion and a Space Marine Armoury etc, maybe a load of Sentinel lifters, lots of servitors and Vehicles under Repair.

Naturally it would be "Iron Hands" too.....

I've never seen anyone do a Full on Strike Cruiser Board.

Alright, I've thought it over, and extorting a new product line from a company that's giving me free access to as many of their products as I want, to have and to keep, sounds kinda crazy in retrospect. Also it makes me a smartass, which I come by honestly from my dad.

So instead of that craziness, I'd bulk out my Sisters with:

-a pair of all-plastic Exorcists made from Whirlwind turrets on the Immolator/Sisters of Battle Rhino chassis
-two or three extra transports
-more specials/heavies/superiors (for extra squads and variety of choice)
-official arco-flagellant models (for places which don't allow non-GW models)
-Daughters of the Flame from Privateer Press modified to use a pair of chainswords each (to have female "counts-as" arco-flagellants that aren't so icky-looking)

I would skip the Penitent Engines; much as I like their killiness, they're a real pain to put together.

I'd also bulk out my Imperial Guard with:

-a Macharius with twin battle cannons and a GW plastic Stormlord (both of which are because I love those models)
-fill out my collection of Leman Russes to have 2 of every turret weapon
-a pair of Medusas
-a trio Valkyries and/or Vendettas (not familiar with these things, but I like the models enough that I'd use em)
-a pair of Hydras
-enough third-party female Guardsmen to field a 1500pt tank/infantry list, plus enough extras to have some flexibility and convert tank commanders and artillery crew

And some more stuff for my other armies, too, but the power's about to be shut off so I gotta go!

Lets See ... I'd buy out GW and run the company myself, changing everything that customers/gamers think is wrong with it and improving on whats already right.

Joking aside:

40k: 5000pts each of Tau, Space Marines, Black Templars, Blood Angels, Raven Guard, Tyranids, Imperial Guard and Eldar

Fantasy: 5000pts each of Wood Elves, Vampire Counts, Skaven, Dark Elves and Lizardmen

BFG: 3000pts each of Tau, Space Marines, Imperial Navy, Chaos Armada and Eldar Pirates

Inquisitor: 3 Warbands consisting of 10 models in each (not that all ten would ever make it onto the board at the same time but I like variety)

ok, i'd build a massive chaos invasion force - loads of Alpha Legion, huge cultist army, with a side order of Death Guard and many waves of Nurgle daemons. Make it really fluff friendly and using lots of FW stuff, loads of converted tanks and dreadnaughts. lots of metal GUOs and old nurglings

I would make the entire Lamenters chapter.

That is to say, 6 marines.

An all footguard of either catachahs or some nice and fluffy Tanith, First and Only. I haven't read past the first book, but that wouldn't stop me from running as many heavy weapon squad as possible.

An entire Iron Hands clan company, nothing too major. Also a custom-built gaming board like the awesome diorama ones you see at Warhammer World and Games day's.

I warehouse and all the models needed to reenact the 3rd battle for Armageddon, full scenery of trashed titans and tanks. Some 300+ LRBT's, 20k plus IG each squad with its own Chimera, 100+ Hydras, 50+ baneblade equivalents, 20 Warhounds, 10 Reavers, 5 Warlords and a scratch made Imperator, and an entire chapters worth of SM models and a trio of thawks. Fully painted/based. for the Imperial side. I don't even want to think about how many orks id need.

An 8*4 craftworld gaming board would be nice