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In addition to other large units. I remember a site where a guy actually had an entire Blood Angels chapter (only had about 1 Thunderhawk though).

Edit: Here's the BA guy -> http://www.exlibrismortis.org/
Edit: It's more like a company or 2, but still pretty big.

There should be several Hobbyists with multiple companies.
But whole Chapters/RGT ?

I know I didn't stick with just 1 chapter but ended with more than enough little plastic men.
Hit the brakes after this.:



( PIC not including actual project: red marines )

and this:


( PIC not including every Valkyrie, 2 tanks missing )

and a few SoB ( who refuse to be on a pic ), so I may on some Imperial forces.

Slowed down the army construction a bit to a squad per month. Wait, wasn't it 2 last month?
Its possible to collect a lot of stuff over the years. Started in 98' so maybe 100 models per year I guess.......

That's pretty impressive. My goal is to build up a 40k army and a WHFB army to those sizes eventually. Complete with terrain and everything. I've actually come to the conclusion that I'm more interested in painting and creating dioramas than I am with playing the game.

Edit: That Valkyrie looks kind of lonely though.

Well, I suspect that the resident Grand Old Man of the Imperial Guard, H.B.M.C comes close to having a Panzer Regiment. Unfortunately the forum search functions fails me at the moment. There should be a picture of the armoured might of his forces somewhere.

My dark angels runs to
a full company of marines ( maybe a bit over )
3 rhinos
3 razorbacks
2 landraiders
1 pred
1 vindie
7 dreadnoughts
7 droppods
half a company of terminators
9 landspeeders
Just under half a company of ravenwing

My sisters runs to
1 inquisitor with 12 man retinue + chimera transport
70 - 80 infantry ( SOB )
8 immolators
4 penitent engines

and my imp fists is at 5000 pts and still growing ( its my new build army )

I sincerely doubt anyone here has 200 Sisters (IE, a Preceptory). If they did, damn. I'd lvoe to see an image of them set out in squads of ten in an orderly formation...

i have...

about 120 odd marines

65 Terminators

2 Predators, 7 Dreadnoughts, 3 Landraiders, 1 Vindicator, 4 Rhinos, 1 Razorback, 2 Drop pods, TFC, 4 Landspeeders, 1 Stormlord, and 1 Warhound.

40 PAGKs, 15 TAGKs and 2 GK dreds.

I wish I had a chapter!

I have over a company.

60 Tac Marines (Includes Sgts, heavies, and specials)
30 Assault Marines (with Jump packs)
10 Assault Marines (no jump packs)
20 Devestators (8 heavies)
16 Assault Termies (10 Hammers, 6 Claws)
5 Sanguinary Guard
3 Sang Priests
10 Command Squad Marines
5 Biker CMD squad marines
7 Death Company

1 Vulkan
1 Dante
1 Tycho
1 Corbulo
2 Libbies (1 JP and 1 regular)
3 Captains (1 bike, 1 regular, 1 AoBR)
2 Chaplains (1 regular, 1 JP)


3 Rhinos
3 Drop Pods
1 Predator (magnetized)
2 Vindicators
2 Land Raiders (1 regular, 1 LRR/LRC magnetized)
1 AoBR Dread
1 Death Company Dread w/ talons (converted from AoBR)
3 MM/HF Land Speeders
1 Stormraven


Looking to add a homebuilt thunderhawk eventually.

Melissia wrote:I sincerely doubt anyone here has 200 Sisters (IE, a Preceptory). If they did, damn. I'd lvoe to see an image of them set out in squads of ten in an orderly formation...

Surely 200 metal models are easier to collect than 1000 Space Marines? (Or at the very least an entire IG army).

Let's see, currently about $30 AUS for 7 models. 200 divide by....

Around about $860 for 200 basic sisters of battled. A scattering of optional superiors, special weapons, a canoness and the odd scattering of vehichles could be achieved in under $1000.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Let's see, currently about $30 AUS for 7 models.

That's 29 AUD for 3 models. Even buying from the UK only gets you down to $6 each.

oh...Why show Seven models then? Why GW, WHY???


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So...closer to $2000-$2500 for a Sister Preceptory then...

It's easy to have a full guard regiment, they're not fixed sizes. You could have two companies andy that's all there is left alive.

BearersOfSalvation wrote:It's easy to have a full guard regiment, they're not fixed sizes. You could have two companies andy that's all there is left alive.

But you could also claim that your 2 Tactical Squads are the survivors of an entire Space Marine chapter. Or the 3 Battle Sisters squads are the survivors of an entire convent (not that convents have a set size anyway).

Emperors Faithful wrote:oh...Why show Seven models then? Why GW, WHY???

Rubbing salt in your wounds? Making it look like they are cheaper than even multipart IG, then crushing your dreams and laughing?

More likely, it's just to show the full range of options, so you don't think your army is going to be made up of the same three models over and over again.

I couldn't imagine having a full some 1000-2000 Slanneshi Warband. I'd actually have to STICK to an army.

:S

Maybe someday...

How large is an Imperial Guard regiment? C'mon, give me something to aim for...

Amaya wrote:Edit: Here's the BA guy -> http://www.exlibrismortis.org/
Edit: It's more like a company or 2, but still pretty big.

10,000 points is only a company and a bit.

Here's the company I built after the 5th edition codex came out (my third) - approx 8000points



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Brunius wrote:How large is an Imperial Guard regiment? C'mon, give me something to aim for...

The armoured regiment listed in IA1 is:
Regimental HQ - 1 Leviathan

Regimental Command Attachments -
3x sentinels
Comms - 3x chimeras, 2x trojans
Supply - 8x trojans, 3x sentinel powerlifters
Medical - 10x chimera ambulances
Recovery - 3x atlas, 3x trojans
Workshop - 3x trojans

1st Company - 10x Russ
2nd Company - 10x Russ
3rd Company - 10x Russ
4th Company - 10x Russ
5th Company - 1x salamander, 18x chimeras - 3x PCS, 12x Squad, 3x HWS
6th Company - 1x salamander, 18x chimeras - 3x PCS, 12x Squad, 3x HWS
7th Company - 1x salamander, 18x chimeras - 3x PCS, 12x Squad, 3x HWS
8th Company - 1x salamander, 1x chimera, 12x basilisk
9th Company - 1x salamander, 9x hydra
10th Company - 9x salamder, 8x sentinels
11th Company - 3x destroyers

Company attachments -
Superheavies - 3x baneblade, 1x shadowsword
Siege - 10x demolishers, 3x medusas
Engineer company - 25x chimera, 1x CCS, 3x PCS, 9x squad, 3x cyclops, 3x bridging team

So, about 220 vehicles and 70 guys.

If I ever manage to get my Beagles to that amount of models I want someone from Dakka to hunt me down and give me a present! Then i want them to drown me, because my life will have officially been wasted!

God I want that army though!

One of my buddies is about 2/3 of the way to an infantry regiment. I have no idea why - it's just endless infantry squads, more than he'll ever use.

I can't imagine anything more boring than painting that.

Yeah, that is true...still impressive though, but I'd go for a bunch of different armies if I had the time and money to do that!

Emperors Faithful wrote:oh...Why show Seven models then? Why GW, WHY???


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So...closer to $2000-$2500 for a Sister Preceptory then...

And ~$1150 USD for 200 Battle Sisters WITHOUT special or heavy weapons. That's 67 packs of 3.

It gets MUCH more expensive if you add special/heavy weapons to the mix. 10 bucks for a special weapon, 14 for a heavy weapon. 14 for a single Seraphim (they don't sell the squad anymore). And if you want Sister Superiors, may the Emperor have mercy on your soul.

It wasn't even that much cheaper when they DID have squads available because the special weapons combinations SUCKED.

Oh. And I thought getting to the seemingly lofty point of owning a battle company counted for something.

So I guess there isn't some sort of club for them.

the local store has a buy 2 get 3rd item free so me and my 2 friends were thinking about buying 3 Spears fo Sicarius and save 333.33 dollers each to get a full company.

we are still waiting on 1 guy getting his money together.

A Preceptory is 1000 Sisters. 200 would be a Commandery.

3 Spears of Sicarius would be sick btw.

Right, my bad. It's been too long since I bothered looking up Sisters fluff (I'm focusing on Orks at the moment, waiting for the new Sisters codex to come out sometime next year).

So it'd actually be $5750 for a preceptory of Sisters.

Unless you do what I did and get it for 1/5 price on ebay .

Assuming you can find 1000 Sisters on ebay for 1/5th price.

I am working on my IG, SoB, and =I= forces to be quite large. Does anyone have solid numbers for a whole, intact IG regiment? I have about 500-600 IG bodies, with a little over 300 of that as just lasguns. I have two tank companies, one vanilla LRMBT, one Demolishers, one Basilisk battery, and only three Baneblades. I am starting to increase my IG again, buying all Steel Legion models is a pain and expensive, but my FLGS has been great working with me. Job security is a great thing to have with a hobby like this.

I only have about 60-70ish bolter Sisters with about six each of all the special and heavy weapons available, three Exorcist tanks, and three six woman squads of Saraphim with hand flamers (working on getting Inferno Pistols as well). I almost forgot about my six Sob Rhinos (the Immolator ones). Aside from pure numbers, what makes up a Preceptory or a Commandery unit wise?

i have two =I= lords, one with full retinue, three Vindicare Assassins, three 10 man IST squads with choice of Meltaguns or Plasmaguns with a LR for my Lord and normal Rhinos for the IST. Having read some =I= books and fluff, but not much, is there a "standard" force?

Ideally with the armies I have, I like to max out the FoC. Damn Conscript Squads no longer being separate.

Slightly off topic, but still fun nonetheless, last 1850 tournament my FLGS ran, I ran a pure Infantry IG list of 340 Guardsmen.

2 X CCS, Plasma Pistol, Powerfist

6 X INF PLT
w/ 1 x PCS, Bolt Pistol, CCW
5 X 10 Squads, 9 Lasguns, 1 Laspistol, CCW

I was fortunate that my opponents were good sports about it. I also learned that 340 Guardsmen will fit deployed in Pitched Battle, but not so much in Spearhead. I did not blob squad.

Edit: Spelling fail and realized I missed some stuff but too lazy to fix now.

IG regiments can vary in size, some barely break a thousand, and then's the classic quote of "A Million Men Standing Arms Stretched Out Across The Continent, An Unbroken Chain Of The Emprah's Will!" So maybe a 1,000,000 is roughly the topish end?

Eyclonus wrote:IG regiments can vary in size, some barely break a thousand, and then's the classic quote of "A Million Men Standing Arms Stretched Out Across The Continent, An Unbroken Chain Of The Emprah's Will!" So maybe a 1,000,000 is roughly the topish end?

Hardly, hive worlds have been known to raise regiments comprising of several millions. And the Garrison worlds have larger yields still. I've never heard of founding-strength regiment that was a mere 1000. Perhaps several thousand for fuedal and primitive worlds, but nothing lower than that. There would simply be no point in shipping them around.