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This is a little challenge I thought of: Using any Codex, create any infantry unit which has the highest points cost. I would say the 10 Vanguard with Thunder-Hammers and Storm Shields, which IIRC is about 900 points.

Whats the most expensive unit you can think of?

10 Wolf Guard, (power armor) Thunder hammers, Stormshields, Bikes, Meltabombs, one gets MotW on top of all this, and one gets the Arjac upgrade

1175 points
unless you want to get picky about arjac being in TDA, then its 1095 points without him


or you could do all terminators with TH/SS and 2 cyclones, meltabombs, MOTW, and Arjac, 875 points.



EDIT* I actually kinda like the idea of 10 TH/SS termies with 2 cyclones... lawl. 690 points.

Infantry Platoon


Platoon command Squad
commander bolt pistol and melta bombs
commissar
commisarplasma pistol, power fist
medi-pack
platoon standard
vox caster
heavy flamer
las cannon
plasma gun
krak grenades
Captain Al'rahem

5x Infantry squad
seargent with bolt pistol, melta bombs
commissar with power weapon and plasma pistol
plasma gun
vox caster
lascannon
krak grenades
chimera with camo netting, extra armor, dozer blade, hunter killer missile, pintle mounted heavy stubber

5x heavy weapon squad
3x lascannon
krak grenades

2x speacial weapon squad
3x demolition charge

Conscripts
30 additional conscripts



2602 points

The cost for Infantry Platoons could be even higher if you gave every single squad possible a Chimera.

If Army Builder put the points right, a maxed out Infantry Platoon with Chimeras and the most expensive upgrades runs 2805 points for one platoon.

EDIT: Oops forgot a heavy flamer instead of a standard. 2810

BlackDracoSLC wrote:If Army Builder put the points right, a maxed out Infantry Platoon with Chimeras and the most expensive upgrades runs 2805 points for one platoon.

EDIT: Oops forgot a heavy flamer instead of a standard. 2810

Wow! You could field that against a couple of Reavers! 2810pts of infantry vs 2500pts of Titan!

It just might work with the 20 lascannons they have.

Off the top of my head without my codex with me:
15x Nobz
Painboy
All cybork
All 'eavy
14x Power claws
14X Kombi Rokkits

1040 pts. (would add bikes but cannot remember the pts.)

I think calgar with his 3 squads of honor guard max out around 2500... I don't remember though.

mattv2099 wrote:Infantry Platoon
2602 points

Looks like Calgar has finally lost
He can only get up to 2500.

I make the infantry platoon 2795 (and I've also learned that I've got too much time on my hands. hey, it's china, youtube's blocked.)

Pretty sure I've done it right - the most expensive character is chenkov, because he lets you blow 75 points on SITNW (so 125 points total) but that means you can't spend the 30 points you usually could kitting out your platoon leader.

All krak grenades+meltabombs where possible.
All 6 commissars got plasma pistol, power weapon/fist
All 6 chimeras got all possible upgrades (they're 120 pts each!)
Gave the PCS men a medipack, heavy flamer, 2 plasma guns. (you can only buy 4 upgrades, remember
Infantry squads, sergeants kitted with plasma and power weapons, las/plasma, voxes
HWSs, lascannons
SWSs, demo charges

So 2795 points is the max (I'm pretty damn sure my numbers are right) but it can deploy as up to 20 seperate units, so not sure if that's quite a fair candidate.

Blarglord wrote:Off the top of my head without my codex with me:
15x Nobz
Painboy
All cybork
All 'eavy
14x Power claws
14X Kombi Rokkits

1040 pts. (would add bikes but cannot remember the pts.)

Nobz can't go bigger than 10 men. However, if you really wanted to bump up their cost again, you could give em all bosspoles and stikkbomms.

me and my friends made a 6000 or so point honour guard squad. forgot what it included though.

Maxed Infantry Noz Mob = 817 points
1x Painboy w/ stikkbomms, grot orderly, cybork body
9x Nobs w/ stikkbomms, PK, kombi-shoota, 'eavy armour, bosspole, waaagh banner, ammo runt, cybork body
They are the most expensive the Orks have to offer.

How about the most expensive unit to buy?

10 Immortals - $132.5

10 Ogryns - $200

19 Kroot, 12 Hounds, 3 Krootox, 1 Shaper - $221 + some extra kroot

If you count Platoons, I'd say they'd probably win. Just including Infantry Squads and Conscripts, you're dealing with $198

5 Heavy Weapons Squads are going to run you $175

The Command Squad is $25.

And then you'd still have to deal with making the 2 Special Weapons Squads.

$398 for an incomplete (and transport-less) troops choice.

Of course, this only applies if you're stupid and use everything for its intended purpose (there are much cheaper ways of making a Command Squad, etc.).

twistinthunder wrote:me and my friends made a 6000 or so point honour guard squad. forgot what it included though.

I very much doubt that.

grankobot wrote:How about the most expensive unit to buy?

10 Immortals - $132.5

10 Ogryns - $200

19 Kroot, 12 Hounds, 3 Krootox, 1 Shaper - $221 + some extra kroot

A manta?

I'm wondering if I can make a single mob of Nobz cost over 1000 points.

10 Nobz, all on warbikes, with stikkbombs, 5 power klaws, 4 big choppas, Cybork, armor, but even then I can only make it cost around 805 points (that's a stretch) so I think the vanguard vets have it.

Not like nob bikers are any cheeper to buy though, you basicly have to make them out of the Nobz and Warbiker kits, nobz kit is pretty good, @$25 or so, but warbikers are around $50, so 10 of them would be $225, it'd be cheaper just to buy the megaforce!

An Honour guard squad maxes out at 710, plus 115 for a maxed-out razorback.

Nobs run 875 plus 290pt battlewagon, or just 1125 for a maxed unit of nob bikers. (you can buy the painboy equipment right?)

Vanguard veterans come up at 825 with jumppacks, or 725 + 115 for a razorback. (the sergeant can pay full price for his thunderhammer, if he really wants to)

That's all the candidates I have the numbers for. I'm sure space wolves can do some weird stuff. The 3.5 chaos codex would have dominated though. You could have a unit of 20 chosen champions, all of whom could select from the armoury. Oh, and the old ulthwe craftworld rules let you make an unlimited size seer council.

Current most expensive unit: Nob bikers
Current most expensive Force organisation choice: IG platoon.

Once the nobz are on bikes they are no longer infantry.

Nobz on bikes are the most expensive ork unit possible (maxed at around 1067 pts).

The painboy can only have bike, stikkbomms, cybork body and grot orderly. i.e., the upgrades available to the entire mob.

Green Tide

1 unit, infinite size. Just keep adding boyz until its big enough to be the most expensive.

The old eldar seer council could do the same thing.

10 man black templar command squad w/ 10 x Terminator Honours, 20 x MC Thunder hammers, 10 x Artificer armour, 10 x jump pack, 10 x bionics, 10 x combat sheild = 1565

there must be an infantry unit which has no max size. Isn't there one?

AussieKSU wrote:there must be an infantry unit which has no max size. Isn't there one?

Most rank-and-file units have no size limit in WHFB.

AussieKSU wrote:there must be an infantry unit which has no max size. Isn't there one?

bravelybravesirrobin wrote:Green Tide

1 unit, infinite size. Just keep adding boyz until its big enough to be the most expensive.

The old eldar seer council could do the same thing.

One IG Infantry Platoon with every possible upgrade and fully mobile comes to 1845 points.... beat that sucka

Angron wrote:One IG Infantry Platoon with every possible upgrade and fully mobile comes to 1845 points.... beat that sucka

Already have. If you read the previous posts you would have noticed that someone already did the IG Infantry Platoon to about 2810 points.

bravelybravesirrobin wrote:Green Tide

1 unit, infinite size. Just keep adding boyz until its big enough to be the most expensive.

The old eldar seer council could do the same thing.

This works if we include the Apocalypse expansion's formations/datasheets. However, the challenge is an infantry unit using any codex.

So do the IG have it then?

I should mention, although its no match for an infantry platoon, a 5-man IG Company Command squad, with nork dedogg and a couple of non-FOC ICs included can hit around 1500 points, if I remember correctly.

Creed, Keel, Nork Dedogg, Medic, bloke with Plasmagun, entire squad with krak nades and carapace armour, Lord commisar, techpriest w/out retinue, fully upgraded chimera... er... *shakes fist at codex not being to hand*