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A full Death Korps of Krieg army, take the Siege Regiment list and make a full company complete with artillery assets, Grenadiers in Centaurs, Cyclopses, Engineers, and hundreds of infantry Do like 5,000-8,000pts worth and rock that thing in awesome Apocalypse games.

LunaHound wrote:I find the current crisis suit extremely ugly. Its enough to make me stay away from collecting Tau xD

What about the FW suits?


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Manchu wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:So, in my original reply, I simply proposed to have all of my stuff completed (i.e. fully-painted) to a consistent, high standard over a period of a few months.

I didn't propose buying more minis, because, for the most part, I own what I want and money hasn't ever really been an issue in getting any of this stuff.

Ah, I see. This is the best post so far IMO. The assumption here is not that minis are too expensive to buy but rather you have to work to afford everything else and so have little time to actually deal with the kits. If money is no object *lightbulb!* you don't have to go to work and can play with your toys a lot more often. Sorry for being Captain Obvious here but I totally missed that when I read your first answer. My answer was basically from the perspective of earning a lot more money at work and so being able to commit to buidling a gimmicky army just to see how it played--but still having the usual time constraints given work.

There's apparently quite a lot to your question, Luna!

To be fair, I own well over 20k pts of 40k alone, so that's actually a pretty huge proposal. It's significantly larger than yours, for example. If I had to attach a dollar figure to it, it's on the order of $6k to $10k USD.

A short battalion of Steel Legion with assorted Russes, artillery and AA support. Also an Air Assaulting Stormtrooper detachment to go along with it.

If money isnt an issue.. get a Pro Painter to paint up my Eldar army. 8)

If you stick with the hobbie long enough, you can make pretty much anything. I always find its the other things that cost. "Time" to paint. "Bags" to carry the mini's. Scenery, paints, tools, mediums etc etc

An army of the metal, not hideously ugly, deamonettes.
And 5 of every Baneblade variant.
(and like someone said, a full space marine chapter)

Flashman wrote:I find money is less of an issue than finding the time to paint stuff i.e. I can buy things a lot faster than I can paint them. Infact the very thought of being given a boxed set like "Spear of Sicarius" scares me. All that unpainted plastic! Or worse, all that untrimmed plastic!!

This sums it up for me.

Although, were money, time, and drive in infinite supply, Krieg all the way, painted to the very best of my abilities.

Actually since its supoused to be fun.

I'd try to make my "Xavien" race a counts as army. I think i'd use the Space wolf dex or even go so far as to make a dex. But then have it "oked" by gamers.

I'd do a grimdark IG army themed to WWI British trench army - gas masks with the long trunks and big box air filters, long coats, big rimmed helmets and pretty much DKoK tanks, horses and weapons.

I'd do an Ork army themed to look like the Locusts from Gears of War.

I echo what some previous posters have said, I am lucky to be in a position where money is not a huge issue, if I see something I want I either get it or if it's something big (Forgeworld Titan) put some spare cash aside for a month or two.

So for me it's getting my ever expanding horde of little green hooligans painted. Idealy I could pack them all of with a sample to someone who could get them all done for me. However finding a trustworthy painter, who has a decent turnaround time, reasonable prices and paints to an equivelent standard is not easy. There is also a part of me that feels like it would be admiting failiure!

A small IG army to represent Easy Company from Band of Brothers.

Probably a Revenant Titan so I don't have to finish my scratch-build (which is going hidiously wrong at times)

Also I haven't read the whole of this thread but if money is not an issue. You can buy whatever you want.

Buy out GW.

Further to previous answers, if money were no object then I would plump for a full FW DKOK army, although like many others it would probably take me a lifetime to paint if I weren't to consider commission of some sort.

filbert wrote:Further to previous answers, if money were no object then I would plump for a full FW DKOK army, although like many others it would probably take me a lifetime to paint if I weren't to consider commission of some sort.

Do people always make purchase with painting them in mind?
Or do they purchase them also for the sake of just having them? Would that be considered as collectors?

LunaHound wrote:

filbert wrote:Further to previous answers, if money were no object then I would plump for a full FW DKOK army, although like many others it would probably take me a lifetime to paint if I weren't to consider commission of some sort.

Do people always make purchase with painting them in mind?
Or do they purchase them also for the sake of just having them? Would that be considered as collectors?

For me, a little bit of both. I am an incredibly slow painter naturally and even slower when one factors in external circumstances like work and children so I can go months without painting stuff. If I were to only purchase product based on what I had left to paint then I would never buy anything, simple as. I have that much of a backlog already. So with that in mind, I still buy stuff that I want, need or desire even though I know fully well it won't get painted for months / years to come.

Vostroyans, lots and lots of vostroyans.

Or 6x10 man wraithguard with warlocks

60 troops with 3+saves and toughness 6, guns wound on 2+ hits on a 3+, strength 5 and not to mention they are fearless.

MWahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaaha

To be honest, money isn't a problem for me where my Hobby comes into it. If I really want to do an army, I'll budget for it.

Sure, an army revolving entirely around the contents of Battalions and Plastic Boxes will be gathered quickly, my money going that much further. But just because another army, comprising mainly metal models with heavy conversion say will take me longer to collect given a set budget (say £80 a month for arguments sake) is no something I've ever seen as a barrier.

As long as I continue to enjoy the game, I'll continue to spend my money at whatever rate I feel I can afford.

I know some people don't like the 4 yearly Edition Cycle, but particularly involving 8th Ed Fantasy, I've found that they often give older armies I've already had gathering dust for a while a new lease of life, meaning for the relatively paltry cost of a new Rulebook (paltry compared to a new army) I'm getting even more value out the stuff I've already bought.

Like others, I'll take a death korps army.

I would have 10,000 points of every chapter of the marines, well the main ones, BA, DA, SW, BT, ultra marines, imperial fists, raven guard, crimson fists, white scars and salamanders, a mix of titans, super heavy vehicals and many many troops.

Oh dear. Money not an issue? I need to go have lie down...

DKok, heaps of them.

6000 pts Forge World Armoured Company.
6000 pts DKoK infantry.

If money was no object then the word 'army' would not be singular. I would own everything, plain and simple.

- DkOK army, with lots of infantry platoons, grenadiers in centaurs, painted by commission because painting 200+ detailed infantry models would keep my bsy for the rest of my modelling life
- Elysian air cavalry, with Imperial Navy support (the army I'll make 1 day).

The entire Syrath warriors army , 10,000 Troops , loads of daemons .

Hi Dakka Dakka!
Well, I would like to make several Sisters of Battle armies, representing the different established orders in addition to my own. And then I'd do Inquisitors with Inquisitorial Stormtroopers 'cause I've never ever played Imperial Guard, and I'd get all the non-sisters models like Arco-Flagellents and stuff

And if I had any money left over I'd mail a check to GW thanking them for the Sisters of Battle, for 40K, and encouraging them to do more!

--- Fun question, thank you!
----- Frankie

That too:
If money wasn't really an objecting I'd commission a traitor army from Dave Taylor or an AM army from Hortwerth.
But that's never going to happen unlike the previous.

Well I'd likely flesh out each of my three armies so I can play more than just the list I build for them...

But as for starting a NEW army.

Tyranid Nidzilla. 6 Carnifexes, 2 Tervigons, Hive Guard, Venomthropes, Warrior Primes, and Termagants to taste.

Guard Assault Horde supported by Aircav. Power Blobs with Vendettas to drop in meltas and pop tanks.

Chaos renegade Army from forge world at least a full battalion
then a full space marine chapter then a full IG battalion and then two whole armored divivsons with a titan company and then the biggest WAAAGH ever dreamed of and a full Space marine legion not chapter strength but legion awww that would be it

A 3000 point army with 2 units of 400 goblins, finished with fanatics, and crazy assed mages.