Just curious as to how big people's collections are. I have a little over 9000, split between two armies of roughly equal points cost - both set to grow...
I'm every bit as much a collector as I am a gamer so when I start an army, it gets big fast!

So how much stuff ya got?

Probably over 30K points worth of stuff? Got 11k in IG, 7-8 on CSMs, 4-5K in Eldar, 2K in GK's, ~1.5K in Sisters, probably 2k of random loyalist SM stuff, maybe 3K, 2250 of Tau, probaly a similar number for Tyranids, and a random smattering of other stuff.

32k in Marines alone. About 1.5 in sisters. And a negligible inquisition force.

I am a little shy of 10k of Ultramarines
My Eldar army is a bit over 2k
I’ve got about 2k worth of stuff primed, waiting for paint.
Maybe 2-300 still on sprue.

I’ve got some dust covered IG and BA, maybe another 1,000 points, but that’s really just a guess. Haven’t played them since 2nd-ish, and the last rules I have for them is 3rd edition.

3000pts of HH Ultras.
750 of Elfdar
2500 of IG
2500 of 40k Space Marines

And 0 painted.

Last I checked, I've got well over 20k worth of orks. Decent amount of it painted, too, around 80%.

Holy ! Suddenly I'm not feeling so guilty about my stuff
What does 30k worth of marines/ 20k of orks even look like??? O.o

I lost count at this point.

Last estimate was approx. 20k of troops and war machines (not including "Super Weapons", custom giant war machines including an Ordinatus Majoris, Atomic Artillery, and War Zepplien)

Now?

Heck if I know.

maybe 25 or 30k? Perhaps more.

The additions of Skitarii, Cult Mechanicus, and a group of Death Korp for more meat for the grinder bumped up the number.

99% are painted. A handful of skitarii infantry wait to be completely painted. A few finished tanks are not based. The new Death Korp are not painted (at least not in my colors).

I need to update my signature:

15,000 points of Death Guard (30k)
2,500 points of Thousand Sons (30k)
4,000 points of Solar Auxilia (30k)
1,000 points of Imperial militia (30k)


so, 22,500 points total? And to think, I'm still growing TS, SA, and will be starting mechanicum soon :(


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 hippyjr wrote:
Holy ! Suddenly I'm not feeling so guilty about my stuff
What does 30k worth of marines/ 20k of orks even look like??? O.o

well, from a 30k standpoints, ~17,000 marines looks like 70 terminators, 150 marines, 10 dreadnoughts, a primarch, and some misc stuff

Actually, just thought of something - is it common practice to list your army points as it would be with all upgrades, etc. or barebones?

I typically go with modeled upgrades.

I have about 5000 points of Necrons, 2000 in Dark Angels and about 900 CSM.

My IG are just 12,000 points (fully painted), although I haven't pulled them all out in a couple of years.

My 30k EC are just about 2500 painted, I don't know how much my grey knights are now, but they were about 2000 points in 5th edition.

My infantry:

Nids 7500
Orks 7000
SW 6000
IG 7000
Eldar 6000
Crons 3500

+ Superheavies about 40000

5500 worth o' crons without any upgrades

4500 Orks
2000 Chaos/Khorne Daemonkin
1100 Eldar
500 Tau
550 Nids
350 IG/AM

Only Orks and Khorne can actually make a viable army though, my eldar are from when I started in 2001 and didn't know how to build an army, it's got no psykers or vehicles.
The rest are just models I liked or got a deal on.

8000 pts. But half of those are played by my son.

I play Ultramarines and Imperial Guard

My son plays Crimson Slaughter and Tyranids

I think I had roughly around 3k-4k of Tyranids alone (although that amount has went down with some point cuts here and there) so I'm definitely over the 5k mark, since I have over 3k of chaos space marines as well (possibly 5k of them).

Rest of which I never bothered to count, but I have anywhere from 500 points to 2000 points of nearly every single army (besides SoBs)

Before I traded them, I could field about 20k in Grey Knights/Inquisition.

Right now I can probably do about 3k in eldar.(I just started them this month and bought almost everything brand new)

CSM/Daemons......I....I don't know....I can't even begin to imagine trying to calculate the amount of points I have lol.

After thinking about these numbers, and how many of these models still need painted, I became very sad.

In total around 20,000 points.

12,000 of Daemons including all 4 daemon lords.
6,500 Skitarii, Cult Mechanicus, and Imperial Knights
2,000 Black Templar

I have not included all of the still on sprue Horus Heresy miniatures that I have that I will probably get around too at some point...

9000 or so of both Chaos and regular space marines
7000 of orks
6000 of tyranids
3500 sisters
3500 dark eldar

I currently play: Dark Angels, Imperial Guard, Sisters, Grey knights, Space Wolves, Imperial Knights, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Chaos Marines, Chaos Deamons, Orks, Tau, Tyranids, and I have a few others.

Honestly, I have at least 3,500 in each army. The Imperial Guard on is almost 12,000 points.

This is also not including several superheavies (must have at least one for each race). Let's just put it this way, when you stopped counting your titans at 30, you know you have an obsession.

I have 2,000+ points easy of every xenos army, so past 20,000 by a decent amount.

IG(including MT, Inq, Ass)- 10k
IK- 2k
tau- 6k
DE- 4k
Orks- 3k

I have five armies, each in the 2000 to 3000 point range. But no more than 3000 in any one army (orks being the biggest) and that is without having bought any of the highest pointed models. The most expensive point wise model I have is a Land Raider Crusader and Logan Grimnar at 250 points, the next a Daemon Prince at 183.

~5K Grey Knights
~8K Space Marines
~4k Heresy Era World Eaters

I have like 6-7k of Word Bearers (part 30k and part 40k stuff).

And 1k of Eldar.

Per my sig, I'm well over 5,000 pts!

9k Craftworld Eldar
7k Imperial Guard
4k SM
2k CSM
2k Inquisition
1k Sisters
+4k Dogs of War

It's a bit excessive when the maximum game I play tops out at 2000 pts.

Well it's good to know there are others who share my addiction.

8K IG
7K marines
8.5K Tau
2.6K Imperial Knights

Plus small contingent of grey knights and Inquisition.

Nearly all painted...

Since I don't keep honest track, my best guesses:
4k Tyranids
3k+ Ultramarines in 30k and 40k
2k Astral Claws
2500 Chaos Marines
2k Blood Angels
1500 Eldar
800 Dark Eldar
Turning both of them into 1500 Corsairs
1500 Necrons
780 Orks
300 Inquisition

Hmmm.... maybe I should have been a teensy bit more ambitious with my poll options

according to my inventory
4919 pts tau
710 pts allied assassins
2144 pts magnetized suit & weapon options.

not updated for my new acquisitions.
not included are the
200+ pts of Cygnar
80+ pts of Convergence

If I were to spend the morning going through all I have, I would probably easily break 40K points of 40K models.

25,000 crons
5000 nids

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
If I were to spend the morning going through all I have, I would probably easily break 40K points of 40K models.

that's always been a secret goal of mine: 40k of 40k!

Approximately 2200-2500 of Tau and a small amount of DE probably about 500 points.

These are all impressive numbers, but the real question is...

How much of your collection is painted and based, verses just assembled, vs still in box?

In my case its all painted and based, 10,000+ points worth save 5 dark eldar models.

The 13k of IG I posted about are all painted. I have about 3k or so unpainted as well, but that'll happen when you collect huge armies.

Ratius wrote:Nids 7500
Orks 7000
SW 6000
IG 7000
Eldar 6000
Crons 3500

+ Superheavies about 40000

Polonius wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
If I were to spend the morning going through all I have, I would probably easily break 40K points of 40K models.

that's always been a secret goal of mine: 40k of 40k!

It isn't called 40k because thats what you should aim for ???




Currently own about 1200 Models of space marines... maybe 30k Points.
Some IG and some super heavies , a few knights, SoB , Necrons too.

So more than 5000 was my pick. I suspect the Imperials are already 40000..

Plus the ( unassembled ) boxes of BaC, the Ad Mech I am painting right now .... ownership is a bit ahead of completed projects

And i thought about 5000 was a lot

 Spyro_Killer wrote:
And i thought about 5000 was a lot

The thing is: It is. If you have 5,000 points on the shelf, you can put together a wide variety of lists, swap stuff out to keep things fresh, etc. You could stop there, and have a happy hobby life.

But we all know that doesn’t happen. New shiny stuff gets released. We find a bargain to good to pass up, we want more WYSWYG options, etc.

And models don’t go bad. Once you paint something and stick it on the shelf, you can keep using it. I know I’ve been slowly growing my collection for decades. While some years are slower then others, it builds up.

 Spyro_Killer wrote:
And i thought about 5000 was a lot

5000 *is* a lot. You generally won't play it all in a game, so a lot of it is for looks and funsies. Really, anything over 2k is just extra options.

 Jayden63 wrote:

How much of your collection is painted and based, verses just assembled, vs still in box?

About 24K/27K painted, about 26.5K/27K assembled.

The majority of my Tau is painted and I'm working on the last few things. 6 Stealth Suits > 4 ML Drones > XV8 Team > Commander > Last of the Tidewall. I don't usually paint my drones though since why. I'm hoping to have about 3000-4000 points when all said and done for each army I eventually make over the years. Some things need touching up and the majority of it isn't highlighted or shaded because I hate that.

Ultramarine - 5500
Fallen Angels - 2250
FSE - 2000, but only half assembled.
Inquisition - 600

Imperial Fist 3rd company, 8300 (5500 points painted)
Ravenwing ~2000 (1900 points painted)
Deathwing ~2000 ( 300 points painted)
Sons of Horus ~3000 ( 2500 points painted)

Got a long way to go, ugh

Check out my sig. My tau points have gone up from like 900 to around 2000 or so I should probably change that.

I could just about muster 1000 points of CSM.

I'm a bit faster at painting now so I expect to have a 2000 points ready to go pretty soon.

I don't buy unless I've finished painting what I have.

This will be rough estimates from my head, but close enough.
5600 points of CSM, although that is without ANY wargear at all, it seems to be about 7k with wargear.
Other than that I have like 500 points of Daemons and 1000-1500 points of 30k Word Bearers.

All painted of course.

500 points of IG *cries in a corner*

Somehow the poll has the wrong numbers.

I expected seomething like <2000, 2k, 4k. 6k, 10k, 15k 20k, >20k

I mean after more than 15 years in 40k, 5k is the size of one army. And I have 5 of them painted

 kodos wrote:
Somehow the poll has the wrong numbers.

I expected seomething like <2000, 2k, 4k. 6k, 10k, 15k 20k, >20k

I mean after more than 15 years in 40k, 5k is the size of one army. And I have 5 of them painted

Yeah, I had no idea that the options would be so small compared to what people actually have....

I have

-5000 pts of Marines
-6000 pts of Imperial Guard (I share this with a friend, though, and he houses/stores/keeps the models)
-4500 pts of Orks

 hippyjr wrote:

 kodos wrote:
Somehow the poll has the wrong numbers.

I expected seomething like <2000, 2k, 4k. 6k, 10k, 15k 20k, >20k

I mean after more than 15 years in 40k, 5k is the size of one army. And I have 5 of them painted

Yeah, I had no idea that the options would be so small compared to what people actually have....

People with large collections, myself included, love to talk up how big they are. I'd guess the poll has some answer rate bias.

12k or so in Nids. Fills up a full sized dinner table with exceedingly minimal spacing, and then some.

 kodos wrote:
Somehow the poll has the wrong numbers.

I expected seomething like <2000, 2k, 4k. 6k, 10k, 15k 20k, >20k

I mean after more than 15 years in 40k, 5k is the size of one army. And I have 5 of them painted

The typical player seems to have something like 20k - 25k worth of models.

So it should have been 1k, 2k, 5k, 10k, 15k, 20k, 25, 30k, 40k, more!

Well over 18000 points of Craftworld Eldar and Harlequins in my parents' loft.

About 12000 points of Marines.

About 2500 of old Renegade Marauder Chaos Marines.

About 2500-3000 points of Orks in my parents' loft.

About 1500 points suitable for a Lost and the Damned army.


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Oh, and about 3000 points of beakies and other RT era marines destined for becoming 30k Raven Guard.

 Polonius wrote:
The 13k of IG I posted about are all painted. I have about 3k or so unpainted as well, but that'll happen when you collect huge armies.

Based? Only my Thousand Sons, painted: EVERYTHING!

5k Gk
4k sm
3.5k ad mech
2k LoD
1.5k orks
1.5k assassins
1k csm
1.5k harlequins
1.5k ig
1k nurgle daemons
500 de
500 nids
1k inq

So about 25k total.

Between 10 and 15k.

Out of curiosity, is there anyway to redo a poll without making a completely new thread?

Roughly 2200 of orks.

I'm new.

2.5k CSM
3k SM
500pt squat
1k IG

and dropping fast thankfully

At rough counts

4000 marines

1500 Imperial Knights

10,000 of Craftworld Eldar

2000 Dark Eldar

2500 Harlequins

See my signature. I actually have gotten into buying more stuff lately, so soon will have even more Necron stuff, and I currently have about 200 points of Eldar, which is currently negligible.

 Polonius wrote:

People with large collections, myself included, love to talk up how big they are. I'd guess the poll has some answer rate bias.

We should do a "post pictures of your painted armies" thread and see how many of these posters come back...

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Polonius wrote:

People with large collections, myself included, love to talk up how big they are. I'd guess the poll has some answer rate bias.

We should do a "post pictures of your painted armies" thread and see how many of these posters come back...

Large armies are really difficult to photograph, actually. The last group shot I ever took of my IG was from 2008, when it was about 2/3 the size it is today:



Three years later, just the infantry is almost the same size:

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Polonius wrote:

People with large collections, myself included, love to talk up how big they are. I'd guess the poll has some answer rate bias.

We should do a "post pictures of your painted armies" thread and see how many of these posters come back...

~10k of painted Ultramarines.

 Scott-S6 wrote:
We should do a "post pictures of your painted armies" thread and see how many of these posters come back...

This is my IG from 2009:


I currently have more stuff, and it's more painted.


Thing is, at the points level that some of us are talking about, it no longer really matters how much is painted.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Thing is, at the points level that some of us are talking about, it no longer really matters how much is painted.

I kind of disagree. 5,000 points of 40k models can be the result of a bad night on ebay. 5000 points of painted 40k models is the result of a lot of effort.

7500-8000 pts of daemons.

Maybe 1200 painted points. I work wayy too much and have almost no time to paint. I've stopped buying models mostly because I'm ashamed of my pile of grey sadness.

5000 pts Necrons

5000 pts Eldar

1000 pts DE

2000 pts DA

10,000 pts BA

 Polonius wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Thing is, at the points level that some of us are talking about, it no longer really matters how much is painted.

I kind of disagree. 5,000 points of 40k models can be the result of a bad night on ebay. 5000 points of painted 40k models is the result of a lot of effort.

Once you have 3,000 - 4,000 - 5,000+ points painted, it doesn't really matter that much. You can play at a drop of a hat.

Painted only, guys. Anyone counting unpainted probably cheats at solitaire!

10,000 points Black Templar
2000 points Horus Heresy Imperial Fists (+150 unpainted. Working on it)
1500 points Crimson Fists (+400 unpainted. Need to finish those terminators)
1500 points Chaos Space Marines (+600 in unpainted HQ models)
600 points Orks (+1500 unpainted. WAY on the back burner)


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 JohnHwangDD wrote:

Thing is, at the points level that some of us are talking about, it no longer really matters how much is painted.

I'll never agree with this sentence. It's either painted or it isn't.

I know I have about 13K of daemons alone. I think my SW are around 4K, and I believe my R&H are massively variable pending on what the infantry are. I would put them at anywhere from 3K to 6K.

Around 6k of Dark Angels, a bunch of Inquisitors and Assassins, 2 Knights, 2k of Necrons and a bunch of other random stuff. Only counted the painted miniatures. My pile of shame is shrinking every day so don't you worry about me, Dakka.

Nids about 15k vanilla.

Eldar about 15k vanilla.

Grey Knights - I have a full battle brotherhood and most of the paladin and purifier corps, not counted lately but it must come in over 15k

CSM about 20k vanilla

SM allies for GK maybe 500

IG allies for GK about 500

Small Dark Eldar force about 3k

Assassins around 500

Inquisition 200 maybe?

Total? About 68k ish.

Lets see, depending on options....

Dark Eldar- 3000
Tyranids- 4000
Craftworld Eldar- 1750
Harlequins-750
Admech- 500
30K Salamanders- 2000

 Lammikkovalas wrote:
Around 6k of Dark Angels, a bunch of Inquisitors and Assassins, 2 Knights, 2k of Necrons and a bunch of other random stuff. Only counted the painted miniatures. My pile of shame is shrinking every day so don't you worry about me, Dakka.

We aren't worrying. There is only judgement and condemnation, but never worry!

 kronk wrote:

 Lammikkovalas wrote:
Around 6k of Dark Angels, a bunch of Inquisitors and Assassins, 2 Knights, 2k of Necrons and a bunch of other random stuff. Only counted the painted miniatures. My pile of shame is shrinking every day so don't you worry about me, Dakka.

We aren't worrying. There is only judgement and condemnation, but never worry!

If we're going down that road, don't forget to ABBAB.

4k sisters
4k necrons
1250 grey knights

My sig says it all, although I probably need to update it soon as I've gotten yet more stuff since then. Close to 10k points spread across three main armies.

 kronk wrote:

We aren't worrying. There is only judgement and condemnation, but never worry!

*Sigh, it's statements like this that made me give up painting and why I'm in the process of getting my 10k of Eldar commission painted...

5000 Sisters (all painted)
5000 Orks (60% painted)
1850 DE (all painted)
1000 AM (5% painted)
1000 D99 (0% painted)

2500 pts of Dark Angels
2500 pts of Tau
2000 pts of Blood Angels (for 30k mainly)

 kronk wrote:

 Lammikkovalas wrote:
Around 6k of Dark Angels, a bunch of Inquisitors and Assassins, 2 Knights, 2k of Necrons and a bunch of other random stuff. Only counted the painted miniatures. My pile of shame is shrinking every day so don't you worry about me, Dakka.

We aren't worrying. There is only judgement and condemnation, but never worry!

That is why I've been working to get everything playable! Or traded / sold. Every reduction in the unbuilt box/sprue count is a plus in my book!

My armies are smaller than they should be, probably because I have a quite good hobby attitude. I never use anything unpainted, and I don't move onto another project if I haven't finished the previous.

10k Eldar.
10k Blood Angels/Space Marines.
3k Tau (Farsight Enclaves; 6 Fire Warriors, everything else is Battlesuits and Drones).
1.5k Harlequins.

Around 30k base points. That doesn't include upgrades etc. no idea if you go wysiwyg.

This is across most of the product line: eldar, dark eldar, nids, tau, marines ( various flavors ), ig, necron and daemons

I know my own chapter of marines has over 8000 pts, and it is not the biggest of my 4 marine armies.

When you throw in all the other armies it gets ridiculous.

6k marines
3k greyknights
3k eldar

At least 2100 of IG all painted, and 900 ork's I just bought like two days ago. Basically all of it is still in the spruce

I have 20kish in space marines(wolves) 15-20k of t'au, 6k nids, 6k orks, 4.2k necrons, 3k sisters, 2k ynnari and just started gsc with 265pts lol

Careful this is THREADOMANCY

Depends upon wich edition we'discussing (not all of my models/armies even exist in some editions) & GW likes to change pts values of stuff....
But speaking generally?
Somewhere around 250k pts.

That's split between 49 distinct armies/forces that now cover most everything but Custodes. Most of wich are in storage atm.
If your curious as to the list look for a thread about how many armies do you have.

Currently 7000ish points of Orks and 3500ish points of Space Wolves.

I used to have a collection that was worthy of twice that amount of points, including 5000ish points of Drukhari. Halved my 40k collection to make room for Necromunda and Warhammer Fantasy armies.

Between 50.000-60.000 points in 40k, maybe more. More if I count AoS with it.

To be fair I've been collecting since second edition(with a break in 4th) and have bought a lot of old armies at good deals over the years.

Somewhere in the realm of 5k points of Orks for me.

Once upon a time I had an additional 6k points of Orks and about 10k points of Guard, but I sold them all when I fell out of the game and had to start over afterward.

Far too many?

Around 2k of Drukhari
3k of clowns
~25k (really no clue anymore at this point) of CWE.
3k of HH salamanders.
Assortments of other bits and pieces from deals, battle boxes, etc.

Have about 15k all in all between guard, orks, grey knights, space marines and inquisition. Here’s a pic of about 6k guards. I have more unpainted and far more in unfinished projects haha.

 Nevelon wrote:
I am a little shy of 10k of Ultramarines
My Eldar army is a bit over 2k
I’ve got about 2k worth of stuff primed, waiting for paint.
Maybe 2-300 still on sprue.

I’ve got some dust covered IG and BA, maybe another 1,000 points, but that’s really just a guess. Haven’t played them since 2nd-ish, and the last rules I have for them is 3rd edition.

Last tallies from my 2021 year end post:
Marines 16,785 points.
Tyranids 1,645 points.
Eldar 4,023

Since this post 6ish years ago I’ve painted quite a bit. Depending on the year I average 2,500 points added to my collection annually, spread over all my armies. In the tome between posts I built up small Deathwatch and Tyanid forces, a bumch of Nighthaunt, and a host of other random things.

I have not recalculated how that will change with the balance datasheet, but I got something in the range of 6400 points of "Guard and friends". So almost pure guard with 2 Inquisitors and a hand full of admech.
That's build and painted, I think another 500-1000 points are yet unbuild

My tyranids on their own are 5000+. I genuinely don't know how many points of stuff I have currently.

About this many:



I don't really worry about point totals. I just kinda buy what I'd like to paint and eventually field. When I get about 2500-3000pts, I actually concern myself with list building. Because no matter the faction, I am going to want to change up my lists from game to game, and I don't field an army until it is painted. Which is at least 6 months, and a lot can change in that time in 40k these days.

So currently, I have playable Black Legion, Primaris and Genestealer Cult armies. And I am a little more than halfway to having a fieldable Necron army. The rest are pretty much kill teams.

Depending on edition and context...I'd believe 6-8k of Space Marines, in the neighborhood of 5k of Mechanicum and Knights, and somewhere around 1.5k of various sorts of Eldar. If you want point totals for the current rules maybe half of that is legal for play, and I'd struggle to put together 2,000pts that didn't automatically lose by virtue of being old, inefficient, and interacting with no stratagems.

If Battlescribe is correct... 8,119 PTS of pure space Marines with 1 Inquisitor (1,365PTS are Primaris which were built during 9th, rest is Firstborn but all is deployed as 1 army)

Oh and 660 of Custodes, wasn't planning to build this army but got a Guard box as a gift & saw the 9th codex on shelf at local store so \o/

This poll explains so many things about views of people here, it is just awesome how clear it becomes.

I've painted an average of about 500 points a month since getting back into the hobby roughly 2 years ago.

Karol wrote:
This poll explains so many things about views of people here, it is just awesome how clear it becomes.

Remember the poll is 6 years old, though.
So I could see it go either way: people that are still around will probably have moved into the 5000+ range by now but voted for less back then, on the other hand a lot of people might have left and a lot of people probably joined since 8th edition.

At last tally before I sold or threw into the garbage what I could not sell all GW models for my move since I was not in the game anymore...

I had 18 fully painted armies of at least 3000 points.

For 40k that was:
Thousand Sons (5000 or so)
Death Guard (3000 or so)
Generic Chaos Space Marines (4000 or so)
Necrons (5000 or so)
Eldar Iyanden (3000 or so)
Imperial Guard penal legion (3000 or so)
Space Marines (3000 or so)

I have 2,560 points in Land Raiders.

Karol wrote:
This poll explains so many things about views of people here, it is just awesome how clear it becomes.

"If you're going to stick to playing 40k for any significant length of time you need to have bought 5,000pts of 3+ armies so that when all your stuff is nerfed or deleted you can keep playing" isn't exactly news.

Hard to tell, as I don't play official ruleset anymore, so I don't follow point costs. But estimating from 7th ed costs and multiplying by plastic weight increase since then, I'll say about 30k of various Eldar flavours, Tyranids, Genestealers and Ad-mech, and steadily growing by couple K per year.


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Karol wrote:
This poll explains so many things about views of people here, it is just awesome how clear it becomes.

Well, 40K is hobby first, with the game a distant second if at all for the significant majority of people who're into 40k. So such poll results shouldn't exactly come as a surprise. It's only competitive players who think the entire 40k world revolves around "tournament meta".

I have yet to see someone who started w40k, who after getting 2000pts decide to get another 2000pts, unless there was an edition change. In fact most people I have seen, who were new players, quit after an edition or codex change wrecks their army.

It does explain the, just play something else advice, which I guess works when people have 5000+pts of stuff.

Karol wrote:
I have yet to see someone who started w40k, who after getting 2000pts decide to get another 2000pts, unless there was an edition change. In fact most people I have seen, who were new players, quit after an edition or codex change wrecks their army.

It does explain the, just play something else advice, which I guess works when people have 5000+pts of stuff.

That's because you focus on FLGS crowd. I know half a dozen people who own between 1k and 6k of assorted 40k, AOS and Necromunda models and have not played a single game in their lives, none of them even own a rulebook and only two of them own a codex, for the lore. Those people will never set foot at FLGS, because they treat assembling, converting and painting models the same as colouring books for adults, Zentangle or LEGO.

Karol wrote:
I have yet to see someone who started w40k, who after getting 2000pts decide to get another 2000pts, unless there was an edition change. In fact most people I have seen, who were new players, quit after an edition or codex change wrecks their army.

It does explain the, just play something else advice, which I guess works when people have 5000+pts of stuff.

I started my second army (Primaris only space marines) in 2019 after getting the Shadowspear box. I started playing them before Shock Assault and Bolter Displine existed. I had a 2000pt army when Hellblasters were the only Primaris space marine Heavy Support option (Repulsors were Dedicated Transport). I was playing my Primaris space marines at arguably the space marines' lowest point in 8th edition. Because I really enjoy painting Primaris space marines. Seriously, they are my favorite models to paint ever.

Later in 2019, I started my third army Genestealer Cults reaching 2000 points when the GSC Start Collecting released. I liked playing them in Kill Team and had a sizable collection, and I liked painting them. I have been crushed playing GSC every game except versus Tau in 9th before the Tau codex released. That'll probably continue as I have a pretty rigid mindset of a marine player that makes me a terrible GSC player.

My desire to start a new army is based on how much I enjoy painting the models of the faction more than how well they play. The size of my collection is in part due to my enjoyment in painting, part because I like having different options for building armies and part because my job pays well enough to afford it but also doesn't really allow for me to take vacations (so painting are my mini-vacations).

So there are definitely people that just spontaneously start new 40k armies. 40k isn't a game I care that much about winning or losing. I don't want the game to be absolute garbage, and I'm not a fan of how lethal it is. Part of my enjoyment is the games being a change to display models, but if they are quickly put back in the case, that enjoyment is diminished. Not to say I don't enjoy the gaming part, I am just not seeking power and optimization before the game actually begins. I want to do well on the table, not before I get there.

And despite the size of my collection, I tend to stick with my favorite units, good or bad. I play my CSM the most, and I often forget I even have Cultist models, as I always go marines for my Troops. I rarely don't field 15 Chaos Terminators. I like breaking out my Chaos Land Raider for games just because. I rarely field Abaddon, and to do so; I have rule to field Harkeen Worldclaimer in a game before Abaddon (the whole Herald of the Warmaster and everything). I have lots of crazy rules when playing my CSM (always overcharge plasma, always charge enemy characters with my characters, always make use of the Chaos Boon strat when the opportunity is presented, and other Chaos stuff).

And with my Primaris space marines, if am not doing a Tactius or Gravis themed army, I am going to have 10 to 20 Reivers because I think they're neat. I also never use a space marine chapter supplement. My custom chapter is an unknown successor, and I am sticking with that. Not every chapter is the 'Greatest of them all' Ultramarines. Some of them are the ones you never heard about at the beginning of a Black Library novel. You know, the space marine chapters that get wiped out to show how dangerous the threat is.

Karol wrote:
I have yet to see someone who started w40k, who after getting 2000pts decide to get another 2000pts, unless there was an edition change. In fact most people I have seen, who were new players, quit after an edition or codex change wrecks their army.

It does explain the, just play something else advice, which I guess works when people have 5000+pts of stuff.

what Saturmorn Carvilli said

... Hi Karol, nice to meet you.

I started with Guard 2 years ago in 8th and kept getting more and more while the army got worse competetively. And I won't stop any Time soon regardless if they get Top dogs or get nerfed...

somewhere in the neighborhood of 10k+
buddy of mine who ran a shop had like....well over 40k+ worth of models.

My total comes in at a current 36,422 between all my 40k armies (most of the ones in the game)... I'm almost able to say I have 40k points of 40k.

Nearly 8000 points of marines although roughly a 1000 points worth yet to be painted.

6k ultramarines,
4k thousand sons
3k black legion,
3k imperial guard
3k tyranids
3k necrons,
1.5k tau
1.5k knights
1.5k deathguard
And a reaver.

And 3k empire, 3k night goblins, 2k dwarves for the world that was.

I prefer to count them using Power Levels!

grahamdbailey wrote:
I prefer to count them using Power Levels!

That doesn't give us a very good idea of what you have since 6 models or 10 models is the same PL

15k Sisters and probably 5kish marines. Plus 2k of Knights and about 750 of Custodes.

Oh I'm a little afraid to even try to make a guess, I've been playing for 20 years and have built up a lot of points. My total points for my main three armies which include Imperial Fists, Imperial Guard and Tyranids probably surpasses 20k. Then I have at least 2k of Dark Eldar and Tau plus 3k for Grey Knights and three other Marine chapters ranging from 1500 to 2-3k. If I had to make a wild guess I'd just have to go on a whim and stick to the theme of the game and say I have 40k points.

I just counted only the Blood Angels HQ: 43 Units with 4.900 Points.
Add the rest and I have easily more than 20.000 Firstborns.

Plus Knights, SoB, Custodes and Space Wolves with each around 3.5 K and an even bigger Army of T'au.
Smallest Army should be CSM ~ 2K.
Don't know the Points of my Guard. Maybe 4K plus Baneblade?
If you want you could add my 200+ models "army" of Necromunda-Gangs.

It's getting too much. I need a big House with a big hobbyroom! :(

Zero

I play on TTS (back in college I played with circles cut out of index cards)

That said, I've been learning blender so I can customize my TTS models. I've been gradually recoloring and rebasing all of the models to fit the fluff of my IG army. Once that's done I might try my hand at custom painting the model (although I might try to get a drawing tablet first).

I honestly have no clue. I have way too much guard and dark eldar ready to go. Add to that a whole bunch of space marines and assorted other models and I really wouldn't know or even want to know.

Amongst some of the most prolific posters here I've probably got very little.
Last I checked I had about 4k of Marines, I've got about 1.5k of Tau, another 2k of 30k Marines if that counts.

Most of my hobby resources have gone into other games. I've got 4 shelves piled high with games, not including those under my bed, 40k is just one of those shelves.

All of these are conservative estimates as I am like many people on here, lots of stuff still in boxes:

20K Space Marines
1.5K Imperial Guard
5K Eldar
5K Tau
1K Nids
4K Orks

I need to add some more vehicles to the Space Marines and some more elites and auxiliaries so that will go up. Same with Eldar and Tau. I need more of a base force in IG and Nids. I am not fond of the new Orks so my base may just stick to this unless I get more of the older set, but I need more elites and other auxiliaries.

Easily in excess of 20K...just don't ask how much is assembled and painted : )

I'm probably at 10k of Salamanders, 3k Admech/Knights, 2k pure Flawless Host, 1500 Traitor Guard, 1k Bloody Rose, 500 Ynarri & a metric crapton of Necromunda.


Haven't played a game with my Metallica in 9th and probably not going to. I've never played Ynarri, pure Traitor Guard or Bloody Rose.

I'll echo what others have said, the GAME is the thing I like least about 40k and do want it to not suck. I'm just thru with GW dictating how I interact with the Game.

About 95,000pts all told.
I just punched into battlescribe what I remember off the top of my head for each army plus a few upgrades on units that really need them (e.g. devastator squads).

AELDARI:
Craftworlds Stoped counting after 20,000pts before the latest codex probably 21,000 ish now?
Dark eldar >6,500pts
Harlequins >3,100pts
Ynari Triumvrite + any of the above

OTHER XENOS:
Orks 1,200pts

Necrons >3,800pts

Tau ~1,500pts

Genestealer cults ~1600pts

IMPERIUM:

Space Marines:
-Custom marine chapter > 3,333pts
-Deathwatch ~2,000pts
-Ultramarines ~3,500pts
-Space Wolves ~220pts (Ragnar and a Burning of Prospero wolf dude)
-Black Templars 3,900pts
-Grey knights 2,400pts

Ad-mech >5,000pts

Imperial knights ~3,500pts

Astra Militarum:
-Custom guard regiment ~2,900pts
-Custom Scion regiment ~2,500pts
-Krieg 120pts

Inquistion/rouge traders ~ 1,000pts (Bunch of inquisitors and acolytes not a playable army)

Battle sisters ~1,750pts

Custodes/sisters of silence ~3,500pts

CHAOS
Cultists ~450pts (shared)
Iron Warriors ~2,000pts
Death guard ~5,600pts
Gellerpox 280?
Custom khorne themed CSM ~2,600pts
Custom Slaanesh themed CSM ~2,700

Daemons ~7,000pts

Unalined / fortifications 1,585pts

My (more or less) painted, playable forces total:

10,000 Space Marines: Crimson Fists
5,000 Craftworld Eldar: Craftworld Samonios
3,000 Imperial Guard: Armageddon Steel Legion

I also have a nascent Chaos Space Marine force that would be about 2,000 points if it were all assembled and ready to go.

Unknown.
Previous data is listed in my Sig.
2000-3000 in Marines.
Waiting on new release to find out about other Army listed in my sig.

I don't know anymore. I got six armies and I stopped counting points years ago.

This poll needs a reset with new number ranges to provide useful information.

So 22 Baneblades at appx 550 each (it varies but I don't want to do the real math) is about 12100, plus the support company or Trojans and the regimental commander and her stuff and all that is probably 13k.

My daemons probably about 6k - lemme do the math here.
6 keepers at 230 each, 3 soul grinders at 175(?), Zarakynel at 450, 90 Daemonettes at 7 each, 2 Heralds at I think 60 each, the Masque at 60ish, sylleske 210, mirror 210, DP 170. Roughly 3750.

Armageddon Steel Legion 2500ish (2000+hw platoon with chimeras)

Vostroyans 2kish (haven't revisited since the points update)

Too many Eldar that I am trying to sell because the Crusade rules are so bad.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
So 22 Baneblades . .

WOW.

Too many Eldar that I am trying to sell because the Crusade rules are so bad.

Oh yeah? I'll PM you.

 Insectum7 wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
So 22 Baneblades . .

WOW.

Too many Eldar that I am trying to sell because the Crusade rules are so bad.

Oh yeah? I'll PM you.

OK!

And yea, wanted to make an entire Regiment of Imperial Guard back in the day. Ironically enough, the Baneblade chassis vehicles were the easiest way to do it, because you only need 3 for a company.

So 7 companies of 3, plus one command vehicle. It's actually organized as

Regimental Command
- Banehammer
- Regimental CO and staff (XO, scribes, astropath, primaris, lord commissar, servitors, techpriest/admech liason, etc)

1st Company (Line)
3 Baneblades (2 plastic, 1 Mars pattern)

2nd Company (Assault)
3 Hellhammers (plastic)

3rd Company (Line)
3 Baneblades (1 mars again)

4th Company (Assault)
3 Stormswords (plastic)

5th Company (Breakthrough)
3 Stormhammers (the resin ones, sadly legends now)

6th Company (Tank Destruction)
3 Shadowswords (Arkurion ones; resin with targeters instead of lascannons... also not a real option anymore I think)

7th Company (Transport)
3 Banehammers

8th Company (Support and Attachments)
- 3 Hydras and a "radar vehicle" (counts as Salamander Command Vehicle) attached from an air defense regiment (I usually run these as Cadian, so a different regiment from the 2nd Concordian).
- 3 Trojans to support the Baneblades
- 3 Atlases for tank recovery (all 3 tow one baneblade, so here's hoping there's not too many losses that need rapid recovery!)
- Command Chimera for the company commander and his staff.

The regiment is the iron core of my battlegroup, Battlegroup Infernus, that includes elements of other regiments (also in my post - armageddon steel legion and vostroyans predominantly).

Anyways, there's tons of fluff available if you're interested.

@ Unit1126PLL: wow, that sounds pretty awesome. Do you by any chance have a picture of all those Baneblades on one table?

I haven't tried o total up any of my armies since 7th edition. My Orks were over 20K in old points. Not going to bother figuring it out again.

My IG +support is around 3K currently

My Primaris BA's might be between 2500 nd 3500, neve made a master list but I have two of almost every unit choice available.

If my 30K First legion counts I have over 5K.
Hope to add a bit more to that and my IG but no plans to add to the other two armies as I am actually thinking about how to sell most of those Orks and BA's. I'd like to keep 2000 points of both of those but build in 4 blocks of 500 points or something like that and rid myself of the rest.

 Pyroalchi wrote:
@ Unit1126PLL: wow, that sounds pretty awesome. Do you by any chance have a picture of all those Baneblades on one table?

They don't really fit on one table and I rarely get them all out! However, I have some old pics from earlier stages of the Regiment. There's also some newer pics but not of the whole thing in one place - here's a few (spoilered for size). NOTE: Please forgive my painting. These represent years of work, and I've learned lots as we go. Some of these are old pictures, though - of bad paints and work (e.g. undrilled barrels). So have mercy!


This is an earlier iteration of the regiment at 6 companies. At the time, the last two companies were still in progress, so the 6th is a mix - one Banehammer and two Valdors. Originally, I was making it 30k and 40k compatible, so Valdors made sense for the anti-tank company, but as the regiment evolved into a 40k regiment (which is less "combined" in the fluff than the old Solar Auxilia) I ended up making a Shadowsword company and a Banehammer company (so 3 shadowswords and 2 Banehammers more than depicted, while losing the Valdors). The support company has also changed since then.


This is the converted deck of the regimental Command Tank. It used to be called Rodina, but in light of recent events in Ukraine I am planning to rename her. You can see Katerina Malinenko in her white field jacket, but I've since updated her model with better, so hold on!


Here is a WIP of the Banehammer Transport Company. Most of my photos are WIP as I'm usually sharing them with the local club.


Updated Katerina Malinenko model. I based her with a metal base so instead of getting 2 models (one for the tank, one to disembark) I could slot in this model and have it look halfway okay. Yes, I know I paint badly ....


WIP of the Regimental staff and bodyguards/scribes/etc.


There's more I can share (a lot more) but I don't want to hunt down all my pictures right now AND I would probably have to take some updated photos. So ... enjoy!

Around 6.5k points of nids, although the exact number is variable because my larger monsters are magnetized.
I guess PL is ironically more precise at measuring entire model collections, so 345 PL.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
So 22 Baneblades at appx 550 each (it varies but I don't want to do the real math) is about 12100, plus the support company or Trojans and the regimental commander and her stuff and all that is probably 13k.

Ok, that's impressive.

My signature says how much I have but off the top of my head ~10k Space Wolves, ~6.5k Tyranids, ~4k Sisters and ~3.5k Guard. Plus a few hundred points of Inquisition/Assassinorum stuff.

somewhere aund 12.5k of orks, at last count. been neglecting 40k for a while, need to tot it all up with the (not really) new (any more) codex!

plus about 3k of chaos, and some necrons I'm trying to sell, plus the all-metal space marines I wanted to make... yeah It's a lot now.

I think your poll undershot reality some!

Almost 10,000.

5000 points of chaos daemons (all gods) - 75% Painted
3000 points of Death guard - 80 % Painted
2500 points of Orks, retro 3rd edition models. restoring this army.- 50% Painted

Yep, definitely an obsession

Eldar: 43k. (Craftworld 28k, Drukari 10k Harlequins 5k)
CSM: Iron Warriors 18k Thousand Sons 2.6k
Daemons: 15k

Well i have sold off many armies over the years as i thinned my collection. of the stuff i kept-in 5th edition points were are talking roughly

7K in my DIY salamanders successors including allied inquisitors, assassins and grey knights.





A little over 2K of left over dark angels



And around 2K of admech using mostly 3rd party minis.



Now in epic scale we are talking 10s of thousands in equivalent points.

My guard are my largest army, and I hit about 24k with them. I can do sort of a "combined arms" regiment, with a mechanized infantry company, three LRBT companies, a basilisk company, a sentinel company, a mixed artillery company, a super heavy company, a kasrkin company, and a bunch of auxiliaries.

Over ten thousand craftworlds, eight thousand of sallies and three thousand of drukhari.

I think I might be closing in on the 200,000 point mark.

All 40k scale, 3 Warlords, 12 Reavers, 5 Warhounds, 8 Knights. Leviathan command tank, 2 Phantoms, 3 Revenants, Scorpion, 2 Great Gargants, 3 Stompas. I want to get a Warbringer and I want to print an Imperator titan

about 16,000 in Imperial Guard
11,000 in Custodes
4,000 Ultramarines
4,000 Space Wolves
4,000 Grey Knights
7,000 Dark Angels
4,000 Deathwatch
3,000 Blood Angels
4,000 Sisters of Battle
3,500 Admech
4,000 Black Legion
5,000 World Eaters
2,000 Daemons
4,500 Dark Eldar
4,000 Eldar
6,000 Orks
4,500 Tau

I also have about 70 Squat infantry models lying about for whenever their codex comes out.

Rough estimate:

Guard: 13k in three different armies
Grey Knights: 2k
Deathwatch: 3k
Black Templars: 2k
Chaos: 500
Orks: 250
Nids: 1k
Warhound Titan: 1k

So somewhere around 22k total.

Edit: Reading this thread made me realize something: Someone at GW needs to wake up and realize how much money Guard players are willing to spend....

Cypher and a pack of Palatine Enforcers.