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When do you feel your army will be finished?
10,000pts?
10,000 Troops
Never?

when YOU feel it is complete lol. I am sure its different between people.


For me its when I have the ability to choose what ever upgrade or unit I wish and be able to field it on the table.
instead of using a Rhino for a predator for example. haha

When you decide it's done or your wallet is empty. Whichever comes first.

I agree with Gamza. I have anywhere from 6000-7000 points of orks and I'm not even close to being done. When I can field any single unit completely maxed out at any given time, then I will be done. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

oni wrote:When you decide it's done or your wallet is empty. Whichever comes first.

More likely the latter

I am going for a full regiment of my guardsmen.
10,000 troops is a start
:p

When you can choose any unit out of the codex you wish to field, field it, and then go and kick ass, CONSTANTLY, with it.

I believed I had finished my SM when when no one could beat my mass spam of terminators

I just build blocks of points. i conisder it done at each stage of 500 past 1500.. My orks are constantly growing, but my space amrines are at a army level that i consider done. i would probably get a new army before i build on them

Someone should make an army of 1001 space marines.

1030 to be exact, theres 106 per company

the 1000 marine number apparently only takes into account of the individual Battle Brothers. It does not include the Librarium, Chaplains, Techmarines, Command Structure, and the Armoury (tank drivers mostly).

do YOU want to paint 1000+ guys all in the same colours?
lol go for it, but i would get realllllyyyy sick of painting that. That's probably why most people just pick a different chapter if they really want more marines

An army is never finished until you are. And by that I mean dead. I worked on my Plague Marines from 96-99, stopped for 11 years, started them back up again in November of this year, no end in sight. I'm still adding models to my Undead army that I started back in '94 or '95. In 2010 I added over 400 new Zombies. When I finished the last one I swore I was done, I'd never paint another model for my Undead. Then the new rules came out. I bought and painted another Corpse Cart.

It's never over. Divorce, unemployment, moving from state to state numerous times, lifestyle changes, passing of years... it is no matter. Your army is still there in the box, waiting.

Personally all my planned lists cap at 2,500, but I might end up with 3kish points of my armies. That way if I feel like changing up some parts of my lists I have the necessary gear and models to do so.

I also have 3 armies now and possibly more in the future.

When I have the option to fill any FoC slot with any unit from that slot and all possible upgrades.

Jaon wrote:When you can choose any unit out of the codex you wish to field, field it, and then go and kick ass, CONSTANTLY, with it.

I believed I had finished my SM when when no one could beat my mass spam of terminators

How many Termies can you field in a regular game?
Its limited.

I plan on building up my Necron army 'til I have a fully equipped Tomb World's worth of them. And since GW has never said what constitutes a full Tomb World I'm sort of left just constantly buying things. Ah well.

It is done when its done...?

Strange question really, I suppose an army like any project is done when the image In my head is fully manifested in plastic and metal.

I'd say an army is done when you sell it off. And then when the new edition comes out and your old army is thousands of times better, you go out and rebuy it again with new awesome models! (cough *WFB empire* cough) Damn...

Mukkin'About wrote:do YOU want to paint 1000+ guys all in the same colours?
lol go for it, but i would get realllllyyyy sick of painting that. That's probably why most people just pick a different chapter if they really want more marines

Says an Ork player.

When you die. That is when your army is done.

For my Eldar, I have two of every HQ choice (except for Yriel, who I do not want), I can max out my quantities of each Elites choice to 30+, for Troops, I have over 40 Dire Avengers, over 60 Guardians, 30 Wraithguard, over 30 Rangers and about 40 jetbikes, I can max out my quantities of Swooping Hawks, Spiders and Vypers. In Heavy Support, I have 12 Wraithlords, 6 Walkers, 44 Dark Reapers, 4 Falcons, but no Fire Prisms or Weapon Batteries. As I want neither, that doesn't trouble me. I also have a Scorpion Super Heavy, a Cobra Super Heavy and a Phoenix.

I also have lots of OOP Harlequin Jetbikes, Assassin Droids and just generally old Eldar. I think I have bought everything I am planning except for a Titan, but, of course, you can never be sure.

timetowaste85 wrote:I'd say an army is done when you sell it off. And then when the new edition comes out and your old army is thousands of times better, you go out and rebuy it again with new awesome models! (cough *WFB empire* cough) Damn...

This, oh so this. Three times now with Druchii for me.

When will my Chaos Space Marines be done?

1) When I have at least one of every available unit

2) When I have enough models to feild a large variety of units, like say a unit of Havocs with nothihng but rocket Launchers one game, and nothing but plasma guns the next.

I've pondered this question a lot. My IG are well north of 10,000pts, and I still dont' even own every unit in the codex!

I think there needs to be a difference between done and complete. An army is done when you stop working on it, be it a focused 1850-2500pt tournament army, or a sprawling 6000pt theme army.

A complete army is when you really can't add anything usable to your army. It's not quite the same as literally maxed out (where every option is available in maximum quantities), but where every unit entry has a full complement, major options are represented (predators with both TL-LC and AC, for example), and the only real gaps are in wargear or armament options.

For myself, I'll consider my IG "complete" when I can field six full strength platoons, one conscript platoon, maxed out heavy weapon squads, six veterans (although I'll no doubt have many more), enough chimeras to mount six veterans and a platoon, 10 Ogryn, 30 ratlings, 30 PBS (all of my DH/WH retinues will be switching over), 30 Stormtroopers (i already exceed this), 3 vendettas, 3 valks, 30 roughriders, 3 hellhounds, 9 sentinels, 9 Russes with at least three of each turret option and three of each of Hull flamer, hull heavy bolter, hull lascannon, las/plas, HB/plas, and triple heavy bolter, three of each artillery piece, 9 hydras, 3 manticores, 3 deathstrikes.

Amazingly, I'm not that far off. It gets hard painting minis that you know will probably never be used in a game.

wuestenfux wrote:

Jaon wrote:When you can choose any unit out of the codex you wish to field, field it, and then go and kick ass, CONSTANTLY, with it.

I believed I had finished my SM when when no one could beat my mass spam of terminators

How many Termies can you field in a regular game?
Its limited.

30 is kind of a lot!

OT:

I think its done when you no longer feel the need to improve on it any more. I'm there with my Necrons, other than procrastinating on improving the paint standard which I'll even admit is probably never going to happen.

A Wargamer works from Sun to Sun, but an Armie's work is never done.

Thats my motto!

I stick with my limit of 2,000pts. So, of course, that means all three of my armies are about 80% complete.

an army is done when everything is PAINTED.

I'm going with "never". That's not to say you won't reach a point where purchases become very infrequent, but it'd have to be a pretty amazing army for there to be nothing at all you'd want to grab - even if it's just for Apoc, or some sort of FW unit you want to mess with.