I've been craving an apocalypse battle recently so I was just mentally counting up how many points I can field, then I realised something: I own 8 super heavy models, ranging from Primarchs, to Daemon engines, to mini titans. I didn't initially think that this was a lot but then I thought about 2 of my closer friends who had been playing for just as long as me: one is an IG player with 4 super heavies and the other is an Ork player with 5 super heavies. Come to think of it, even my friend who plays Imperial Knights only has 6 knights.

So now I have to ask the question: do I have too many Super Heavies? Or do I not have enough and me and my mates have been woefully under armed in the Super Heavy department?

Be interesting to see how many Super Heavies everyone has and, if you want to leave a comment, what army/ies are they for.

At present I just have a single Renegade Knight for my Death Guard. Later this year I do intend to purchase a second and perhaps a super heavy tank from Forge World for them as well.

I find one Super Heavy is all that you REALLY need for matched play. I use a Lord of Skulls, and got a Renegade Paladin off to the side.

Uh, let me think.

Taunar, Brass Scorpion, renegade and loyalist Knights, a pylon, an obelisk and I'm working on building an Ordinatus out of scenery kits.

So I think seven unless I missed one.

None. Six Land Raiders though.

Edit: scratch that, I lied. I own a Wraithknight and Magnus. Haven't played with either so I forgot about them.

I haven't got a one, but really they're your stuff, only you should be the judge of how many is too many! or too few, really.

Personally i prefer smaller models to really giant ones so i can't imagine ever having any. My favorite imperial guard tank is and probably always will be the chimera, that's the sort of "big" tank I like.

1 Baneblade
1 Shadowsword
2 Knights
1 Warhound
1 Reaver

1 Greater Brass Scorpion
1 Baneblade
1 Aang'rathh the unbound


I would say that's not really such a bad thing running that many super heavies. In fact i wish i had more

Just two.

Imperial Knight

Typhon Heavy Siege Tank

Love both of the models I just can't justify playing either of them in a normal game anymore.

Baneblade hellhammer and a stompa

One Knight Titan.

It's a nice centerpiece model, and performs adequately. A full Knight army would be really cool, but I doubt it would be particularly fun to play or play against.

I currently don't own any super heavy stuff but I'm looking into maybe a Spartan or Fellblade.

They wouldn't see much use but damn do they look good.

2. A knight Warden and a Knight Atrapos.

None. That may change in the future, but I think I'd only ever field one at a time, and then only in a game somewhere in the 2000 point range.

Lord of Skulls and Mortarion

I've got:

Magnus
Zarakynel
Scabeithrax
Stompa
2 Wraithknights
Revenant Titan
Phantom Titan

So I'm up to 8. I also play quite a bit of apocalypse, so that's why I have so many.

3 knights and a baneblade

I currently own about 10,000 points of Marines and not a single super heavy, though I do hope to add a Thunderhawk at some point.

I've always favored a MSU approach to list building rather than Death Stars or SHV.

Also, transporting models to and from shop is a pain, so if I cant fit everything into a single Sabol bag, I don't even consider it.

I firmly believe they belong in huge (3000+) point games only, but I do have 3, and for good reason:

Spartan Assault Tank - because it can actually carry a 20-man Crusader Squad

Typhon Heavy Seige Tank - because I love Vindicators and Land Raiders, and this thing is essentially a Land Raider caught halfway through eating a Vindicator

Fellblade - quite simply because it is, in my opinion, the best looking model GW makes (particularly when blinged up to fit in with the Black Templars!)

I've got a Chaos Knight. I planned on buying some one or more of the FW tanks and possibly the Kytan.

2 knights, baneblade, warhound, Horus so 5.

1 Stormsurge
2 Wraithknights
3 Imperial Knights - all of these are freeblades, one was for looks, one was to go with an army, and the last was for knight on knight fights like some sort of robot fighting league (it's a gallant of course).. still need to work out some sponsor decals for it if I ever revisit the idea. But then I'd probably want to build more knights for it so it's probably best to leave it alone.
1 Revenant Titan

None as I haven't really found a super heavy that I actually would want to use. That being said I do hope to get/scratch build a Stompa (no WAAAAGH is complete without a proppa stompa) but i got a gak ton of models that need to be assembled and painted before I start up such a project.

3:

1 Imperial Knight
1 Wraithknight
1 Scathach Wraithknight

My superheavies include (since the term is somewhat loosely defined in this thread):
A Renegade Knight, originally for my Khorne Daemonkin army in 7th edition, where it served with distinction and reaped many skulls for Khorne.
A KV128 Stormsurge Ballistic Suit for my Tau. It too served me well in 7th, but like the Renegade Knight it has yet to see a table in 8th.
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch of the Death Guard. He's seen a few battles and I consider him a very good investment.
I also have a loyalist Imperial Knight, still on sprues. Not sure that counts though. I've got little incentive to get it built and painted since Knights just aren't very good in 8th for their points.

3 official:

Baneblade (by Armorcast)
Shadowsword (by Armorcast)
Knight

I've had the Armorcast models since the 90's, I only finally ever used them in a game late this last year.

If you go beyond GW though, I have quite a few 1/35 model tanks, Gundam kits, Robotech toys and Pacific Rim figures I could play 28mm Adeptus Titanicus/Epic if I felt like it.

Two Knights, Shadowsword, and Eldar Wraithknight.

Gargantuan Squigoth - the core model for my Snakebites Ork army
Wraithknight - for my DE
Cerastus Knight Castigator - the "protector honoris" for my SoB
Typhon Heavy Siege Tank - for my 30 World Eaters

so basicaly one for every army (the Imps will get an Marauder Destroyer and the Primaris Marines will get their Astraeus within the next two years)

5 total!

1 Wraithknight
1 Imperial Knight Titan
1 Shadowsword
1 (unbuilt) Imperial SHV tank
1 Leviathan Crusader!

3 Wraithknights
1 Imperial Knight
1 Bared Hierodule

I used to have a Lord of Skulls, but just sold to a friend, does that count?

7x Imperial Knights, most of which are magnetised to be hot swapped for weapons.

One Shadowsword that's magnetized for all the non-turret Baneblade variants (although I still haven't converted the Titan Plasma Blastgun to fit it, so no Stormblade right now)

12 Baneblade Chassis
2 Heirophant
Harridan
3 Knights
If we're counting knights then 3 Heirodules too.

Own a Falchion & a Typhon.

Couple of Stompas
5 Knights
Wraithknight
Bane Blade
Shadow Sword

and some count as stuff.

I have 1 stompa and 2 silver towers of Tzeentch, all home-made before there were official models for them (in fact I am not sure there even ARE any silver tower rules now, as they were only on an obscure part of the website)

1 knight which I've only used twice.
I plan on converting a baneblade in the summer though, so I'm not averse to superheavies.

1 Knight, 5 Baneblade variants, 1 Wraithknight. That is just so far.

I've currently got ... four Knights, three super-heavy tanks (although only one is built), a Warhound titan, a (metal) Thunderhawk Gunship still unbuilt and four Primarchs, although three of those are display pieces.

(although if you count Epic, I've got an Imperator, two dozen Warlords, four Reavers, four Warhounds, five Phantoms, two Revenants, a Great Gargant, two Mega-Gargants, a Banelord, a Lord of Battles, a Cyclops, a Hellbore heavy tunneler, four Thunderhawks, a Landing Craft, a Marauder bomber, three Baneblades, three Stormblades, two Heirophants, two Heirodules, a couple of Trygons, three greater daemons and four daemon Primarchs.)

 Crimson wrote:
One Knight Titan.

It's a nice centerpiece model, and performs adequately. A full Knight army would be really cool, but I doubt it would be particularly fun to play or play against.

I forgot that technically I have a Wraithknight too, but it has been sitting unbuilt in a box for years, so it really doesn't count.

Lord of Skulls x2
Renegade Knight x2
Magnus

I may have a problem.

I have 8 Eldar titans total.

3 wraithknights, a scorpion, a vampire, 2 revenants and a phantom.

I know I, I know I'm that guy

I have 3, a small amount for now but I'm sure that it'll grow in time!

1 Renegade Knight
1 Hellforged Spartan Assault Tank (for my lovely Berzerkers)
1 Imperial Knight Atrapos

One.

To rule them all.

My Shadowsword.

5.

One Stompa and four Imperial Knights. Up to now only the Stompa and one Knight are painted. They are great models and their sight fills me with pride and joy. But I don´t want to build another Stompa. It was just a hassle to assemble. Both Walkers spend their time in my cabinet because I am afraid to transport any of them. In particular the Grots can easily come off.

The Stompa is painted in a Bad Moonz paint scheme and the Knight has a jungle camo pattern. The latter fits in well with my Catachans.

 Strg Alt wrote:
Both Walkers spend their time in my cabinet because I am afraid to transport any of them. In particular the Grots can easily come off.

Not to put you off or anything but I did have a friend who brought a Stompa to one of our apocalypse games only to find that it had caved in on itself in transit (he must have not believed hard enough). However, during the game it did mean his 20 boyz that were inside the Stompa could ride on the base which was fun to watch.

Too many super heavies? That's like having too much Dakka... so... not a thing really.

I am actually kind of amazed by just how many people have! i think i've seen... one or two at once in the same place. I think two ork stompas and an imperial knight. Impressive, but again, to big for my own tastes.

And also too big for my hobby space. Honestly that's the real problem i have.

Two Knights, and looking to get a Tesseract Vault.

WK
Shadowsword
Fire raptor unpainted and 80% assembled

I've never used the last 2 in a game.

 mrhappyface wrote:

 Strg Alt wrote:
Both Walkers spend their time in my cabinet because I am afraid to transport any of them. In particular the Grots can easily come off.

Not to put you off or anything but I did have a friend who brought a Stompa to one of our apocalypse games only to find that it had caved in on itself in transit (he must have not believed hard enough). However, during the game it did mean his 20 boyz that were inside the Stompa could ride on the base which was fun to watch.

Yeah, the Stompa is a very fragile model and I intend to only use it in games at my home. He participated in only one battle and in true orky fashion ran out of ammo with his main gun on turn 1...
But that´s not too bad because I spend more time painting & assembling than playing the game.

I forgot to answer your question. As long as it is no chore for you to build the actual model there is no limit for your collection. Though your cabinet might run out of space.
I will finish first my remaining three Knights before there are any new additions to my collection. Perhaps the new Pacific Rim movie will spark my interest to paint an Imperial Knight again. The last one took me two weeks to complete and the Stompa seven years...
I would like to purchase a Gorkanaut/Morkanaut in the future to help my Stompa out in an Imperial Knight Renegades game. Is the Gorkanaut/Morkanaut kit easier to assemble than the Stompa?

Stompa and stormlord

 Strg Alt wrote:
Yeah, the Stompa is a very fragile model and I intend to only use it in games at my home. He participated in only one battle and in true orky fashion ran out of ammo with his main gun on turn 1...
But that´s not too bad because I spend more time painting & assembling than playing the game.

That rule always did make me feel a bit better about Chaos' random rules that could turn out great or kick you in the nuts.

I forgot to answer your question. As long as it is no chore for you to build the actual model there is no limit for your collection. Though your cabinet might run out of space.

Oh it already has, though it is only a small cabinet so I should probably get another.

I will finish first my remaining three Knights before there are any new additions to my collection. Perhaps the new Pacific Rim movie will spark my interest to paint an Imperial Knight again. The last one took me two weeks to complete and the Stompa seven years...
I would like to purchase a Gorkanaut/Morkanaut in the future to help my Stompa out in an Imperial Knight Renegades game. Is the Gorkanaut/Morkanaut kit easier to assemble than the Stompa?

From what I saw of my friends slow migration from a base, to a headless/armless body, to an unpainted and then fully painted Morkanaut over the cause of several games, they aren't that hard to build and much sturdier than a Stompa.

I've got

Warhound Titan x1
Chaos Knight x1
Chaos Baneblade x1
Zarakynel x1

A bajillion! All picked up slowly over the years.

5 Wraithknights (barely counts)
2 Cobras
1 Scorpion
1 Vampire
2-4 Revenant Titans (in various states of repair)
2 Phantom Titans

One, a Baneblade - old 'unreliable'.

None yet, but I'm getting a Cobra.

2 here.
1 Baneblade
1 SPG (left it modular so I could swap the main gun out)

I have.

3 Knights (Gallent, Paladin, Crusader)

2 Malcador Annihilators

2 Malcador Infernus (One as the Pyro, other has a Cryo Cannon)

1 Malcador Defender

1 Macharius Vulcan

1 Macharius Battle Tank

1 Macharius Vanquisher

1 Crassus Armored Assault Transport

1 Domnius Bombard

2 Baneblades

2 Shadowswords

1 Stormblade

1 Banehammer

1 Stormsword

3 "Custom Ultra heavies"

War Zeppelin, Atomic Cannon, Ordinatus Majoris (Sonic Disruptor)

23 total so far.



The big ones in the back.

 Engine of War wrote:

That is an utterly glorious custom built army!

I forgot the Knights

Single Gauss Pylon here.

None. They don't really belong on the table in games of less than 3000 points.

I've recently convinced my buddy to try an all-infantry 2500pt battle. For heavies, we get ONE dreadnought per side.

Should be a fun party.

A Knight-Acheron and a Baneblade. Also a Lynx, but I don't think that counts given that it hasn't been a superheavy since 6th Edition.

I've got a car to transport my ork boyz. The only reason i have a car is that i have no super-heavies.

I own 3 armies, almost 20000 points of stuff and not a single superheavy. The most expensive and biggest model I have is the stormwolf.

I find it interesting that more people have 2-4 than just have 1.

 EnTyme wrote:
I find it interesting that more people have 2-4 than just have 1.

I guess a lot of people bought the Imperial Knights Renegade game. In this box were two Knights and a building. This deal was quite a bargain and motivated me to pick up two boxes.

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/04/imperial-knights-renegade-boxed-game-review.html

Three Ordinatus engines from 30k
22 Imperial Guard superheavy tanks of various flavours for my superheavy tank regiment
1 Macharius that is kind of an experiment - gone-wrong.
1 Praetor Armoured Assault Launcher - same thing.
4 Malcador Heavy Tanks (Used to be superheavies, are now heavy support without the Titanic keyword)
3 Valdor tank hunters.

I think that's it.

Hmmm

3 Knights
2 Gargants
2 Baneblades
1 Giant Squiggoth
1 Reventant Titan
1 Hierophant
1 Cron Obilisk

Nothing for my new Khorne army, have to get thinking on that one

4 Knights and a Baneblade. Hierophant and a Barbed Hierodule.

1 Malcador Defender
1 Crassus Armoured Assault Vehicle
1 Macharius Vulcan (soon)
1 Valdor Tank Hunter

Three scratch built knights, and two baneblades.

for my Word Bearers (30K & 40K)

1 typhon heavy siege
1 kytan ravager
1 glaive special weapon tank

for my skitarii (and Word Bearers large games)

1 atrapos knight
1 magaera knight

just five at the moment, looking for something larger to add to my Word Bearers maby at the end of this year or early next year. Something like a thunderhawk, warhound. If I have the money, maby even a sokar stormbird. Eventually, I'd like to have a sokar stormbird and a warlord titan at some point in my life.

5

2 Imperial Knights (with variable loadouts), 1 Knight Castigator, a Baneblade and a Shadowsword.

I plan on getting an Orion Dropship for my Custodes though once its rules are out.

An Imperial Knight and a Necron Obelisk, here.

Do primarchs count? Because Magnus is friggin' huge.

 Kawauso wrote:
An Imperial Knight and a Necron Obelisk, here.

Do primarchs count? Because Magnus is friggin' huge.

Yep, Primarchs count.

 mrhappyface wrote:

 Kawauso wrote:
An Imperial Knight and a Necron Obelisk, here.

Do primarchs count? Because Magnus is friggin' huge.

Yep, Primarchs count.

Well, three then, in my case.

And ultimately, at some point, I've got my eyes on 4 more down the road:
Guilliman, a couple of Baneblades (well, one for my IG and a Stormblade for my Mechanicus) and a Wraithknight.

well now that the Spartan is a super heavy, 2

ta'unar
mortarion
bloodthirster that I sometimes use as an'ggrath
land raider with front magnetised so I can swap between standard/achilles/typhon siege tank
stompa - not yet built

So either 5 or 3 depending on if you count models like a regular BT counting as a FW LOW. I'm not a fan of models that take up too much space off the board, so any superheavies I get are either small to start with, or are made to come apart between games. Stompa is a bit trickier as it is so bulky.

4 in total.

Baneblade
Baneblade
Stormsword? (It's the Gatling cannon tank, sadly it's never even seen the table...)
Knight Crusader (Also has never seen the table.)

I have a Scorpion, Cobra, Vampire Raider, wraithknight, Revenant titan, phantom titan, Minotaur, Malcador infernus and a Macarius Vulcan for things that would be superheavy-level aside from characters like Magnus.

GW Plastics (lots of scratch building)
3 x Baneblades
2 x shadowswords
1 x Stormblade
1 x Stormlord
1 x Stormhammer
Armourcast
1 x high detailed Baneblade (painted as a Commisar Tank)
1 x regular Baneblade
1 x Shadowsword
1x Stormblade (epic version with missile rack)
Knights
2 x knigts
1 x knight Warden (Epic tracked versioin)
Titan
2 x Armourcast Reavers

Edit - didnt notice that folk were including their Marcharius' so ill add

1 each of the four verieties of Macharius'

Ehh I forgot about Angron.

7 Knights
3 Baneblade/Shadowsword Variants
1 Marauder Destroyer
1 Reaver Titan

So *just* past 11+

I have had the joy of using all of them at once, against a single opponent with a similar ... compulsion, albeit not yet in 8th edition.

Knights are still sufficiently evil, but not untenable that I don't feel quite so bad running them regularly. The Tanks have been shelved with the rest of my IG collection because IG is not fun to play against for my area at the moment.

The Reaver only comes out with an appointment, because with all the steel that went in to it's assembly it weighs north of 20 kg on its own.

Something built with the old VCR rule set was my first Super Heavy. A Walker.

Plastic Baneblades -> had no more "its resin" excuse to keep away from Super Heavies.

So 12 Tanks based upon the chassis of the Baneblade.

And 7 Knights. They almost built themselves..

The Praetor Armored Assault Launcher is the lonely FW Model in this category.

My answer: 21 Vehicles.

Got a reserve of 1 Baneblade kit and a Tesseract Vault kit.

 1hadhq wrote:
And 7 Knights. They almost built themselves..

Uh, the Knight torso doesn't just magically fall together.

Knight Crusader for my Space Wolves and Mortarion for my Death Guard.

The closest I come is 40k Guiliman. (who still needs paint)

In the few apoc sized games I’ve played, I’ve felt the lack of a big centerpiece model. But none of the marine ones really appealed to me. And how much do I want to spend on something I’m kinda “meh” on that’s only going to see the table once every few years? I know you can use them in normal games these days, but that’s not really my style.

I’d be more likely to pick up a Eldar SH tank, as I love the looks of those, but my army is nowhere near big enough to justify including one, and again, the price.

A knight or baneblade-chassis might find it’s way into my collection at some point, but at a low priority. They have the advantage of being plastic and readily available.

2 Spartans
Fellblade
Shadowsword
Baneblade
Typhon
Cerberus
Falchion
Ordinatus Ulator
Mastodon
Phantom
2 Revenants
3 WK
2 Skathach
Hierophant
3 Hierodules
Scorpion
Cobra
2 Lynx
Vampire Raider
Marauder Destroyer
Minotaur
4 GW IK
Styrix
Renegade Knight
Brass Scorpion
Orion
Acheron
Porphyrion
Lancer
Castigator
Atrapos
2 Malcador
Malcador Infernus
Macharius Vulcan
Macharius Omega

And next month I'm gonna buy the Astraeus...

Yes, I have a BIG problem xD

I have 4:

- knight paladin
- Lord of skulls
- Questoris knight Styrix (FW knight)
- Warlord titan.

One of these is not like the others and to be fair the warlord should probably count as 4.

5 imperial knights
3 baneblade chassis
2 stormsurges

For the sake of sanity I'm only counting the ones I have built and painted, not the horde in my to-do pile:

Marauder Destroyer
Valdor x2
Malcador Annihilator
Macharius Vanquisher
Minotaur

This list is going to get significantly longer someday. Why have superheavies when you can have squadrons of superheavies?

31.

3 Baneblades, 1 Shadowsword, 1 Stormlord, 1 Macharius Vanquisher, 1 Valdor Tank Hunter
2 Felblades
2 Warhounds, 1 Reaver
17 Imperial Knights

Scabeiathrax the Bloated
Scythed Heirodule

I like playing Apocalypse. A lot.

Just assembled my first knight!

1 x warhound
1 x fellblade
1 x Imperial Knight
1 x Baneblade

I do have a few other heavy stuff lime my spartan but that's not a super heavy. Some people seem to be confused between a LOW & a super heavy.

So my superheavy tank regiment is getting rearranged, we'll see how it turns out. As it stands, I'm still at 22 vehicles for the moment in the regiment, plus the other stuff in my first post.