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Juice carton as dreadnought. Although I think I still prefer that over empty bases. At least it's the right size for LOS!

The worst I've seen was a person running a bret army composed entirely of Goblin Spiders. There were no riders either mind you...just those damn spiders!!

Even the characters were just spiders, and his peg knights were spiders in trees.

It was a well painted army but when there's nothing other than spiders and you have no idea what unit is what and where the characters are let alone what characters they are its quite terrible.

Buttlerthepug wrote:The worst I've seen was a person running a bret army composed entirely of Goblin Spiders. There were no riders either mind you...just those damn spiders!!

Even the characters were just spiders, and his peg knights were spiders in trees.

It was a well painted army but when there's nothing other than spiders and you have no idea what unit is what and where the characters are let alone what characters they are its quite terrible.

YO DAWG... I HEARD YOU LIKED SPIDERS... SO I PUT SPIDERS ON YOUR SPIDERS, IN YOUR SPIDERS, SO YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SPIDER IS A SPIDER!!!

I've seen a friend of mind who plays Blood angels with a completely painted set of Blood letters and Chaos. He even played it for the 'Ard boyz tournament. no one gave a solid care about it. He's a solid gamer. Here is a blog
http://thewarmastersrevenge.blogspot.com/

Not that strange. I've seen worse.

In my most recent game I deployed some cocktail shaker drop pods.

I loled out loud! that's some pretty strange proxying there!

How about this...

Pieces of cardboard cut out to the correct size of the base, proxied as thunder cavalry, in an apocalypse game, with a battle report posted on youtube.


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ArbitorIan wrote:

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.

This isn't a terrible proxy - it's MODELLING GENIUS.

I've been threatening to build an army like this for ages. There was a guy on here recently who was building a Tzeentch daemon army of 'gelatinous cubes' out of melted polystyrene - they actually looked amazing...

These aren'y proxies in my book - they're a fantastic, characterful counts-as army which someone has obviously put time and effort into...

I personally came face to face with this army in vegas, a guy tried to enter a tournament with them and got told off by the TO. We hung out with him after the regular games.

Anyone else wanna see the blood army above fight the spruecrons?

My worst was probably when my opponent tried to use a picture of his ex girlfriend as a nurgle greater daemon, I think they had a bad break up lol

Has anybody plans to update the Sprue crons for 5th Ed yet?

Buttlerthepug wrote:The worst I've seen was a person running a bret army composed entirely of Goblin Spiders. There were no riders either mind you...just those damn spiders!!

Even the characters were just spiders, and his peg knights were spiders in trees.

It was a well painted army but when there's nothing other than spiders and you have no idea what unit is what and where the characters are let alone what characters they are its quite terrible.

Isn't the Brettonian army mostly composed of X knights, Y knights, Z knights, and flying knights; with knight characters?

I can't see how this would be much more complicated than a standard Brettonian army.

At one of my FLGSs I once saw a guy with a piece of graph paper with the word "elves" written on it. I had to walk away to keep from laughing!

I'm usually okay with proxies (to a point), but this was taking the concept a bit far...

Lol. I only proxy if I must.

Llamahead wrote:Has anybody plans to update the Sprue crons for 5th Ed yet?

Now there is an idea.

I have sculted blu tac miniatures to represent unassembled stitch thralls. I might show pics if I get round to it.

I once used decks of Magic cards to proxy land speeders, with heroclix minis standing in for terminator squads in a space marine army, but that was because it was only after the hour and a half train ride did I realize that I'd left one of my foam trays at home...

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:The press out cardboard Ork Dreadnought from the 2nd Ed box set ranks up there....

Ah, I've still got one of those somewhere! The thing I love about that one is that a cardboard cut-out is about as lazy and inappropriate as you can get, and yet it was officially sanctioned, while cans of deodorant and yoghurt pots weren't! Man, that would have been awesome if my 2nd Ed box came with free toiletries, but, nope, it came with cardboard and a little clippy base. This is the "best" pic I could find of it - you can see the Ork "Dread" right in the middle. Anyone got a clearer pic?



Actually, now that I think about it... Is this "model" still legal? Older models are still allowed, so long as they're WYSIWYG. Somebody needs to roll up to a tournament with one of these bad boys (or maybe a whole bunch of them!) and find out.

Someone at my FLGS tried to convince me (back in my early days) that d6s were acctual GW sm drop pods- i fell for it and was owned by miniature drop pods with nothing in them, exept for whirlwind launchers (YAY FW)

a rhino as a chimera
eventualy my FLGS GW staff got wind and halted it. said rhino is now undergoing conversion to a COLOSSUS SEIGE MORTAR. tremble all you MEQ and cover loving players for i shall squash you like the maggots you are .

Lego Police van as an Ork Trukk.
To be fair, size wise it was similar, and we allow proxy's in our gaming group as there is only four of us and this hobby is expensive.

My friend used a Ken Griffey Junior bobblehead as a proxy for the Master of the Forge.

...He also used a pringle can that had a space marine scribbled on it and he taped a extra space marine head on it...

I never laughed so hard. When he did a deepstrike with it, I lost it.

I proxied my skaven for a Chaos Dwarves army out of Tamurkhan. Warp Lightning cannons for Deathshriekers, a rhino chassis (with a minotaur ogre loader) for the mortar, a doomwheel for a Skullcracker, and a bunch of rats as dwarves.

I was kind of embarrassed about the rhino...

I used to use a full squad of old-school Striking Scorpions as a squad of lootas. I would inform my opponents that they were REALLY good at looting. At least they were green...

The oddest I've witnessed was a squadron of vendettas represented by a paperback 40k book, a shoe and 3 warjacks of some description standing end-to-end to come to approximately the right length. I try not to play Proxyhammer myself, it can get confusing and is I think a little unfair for your opponent. At most I've had one variety of Marine stand in for another i.e. this Devestator is in fact a Sternguard, the Sanguinor is actually just an Assault Sergeant etc.

This is my 1000pts "proxy" SM biker army ^.^ (there will be two more landspeeders soon)

Cav base ponies count as bikes, big base ponies count as attack bikes, rainbow dash is my commander on a bike and the landspeeder is a landspeeder



Here’s a WIP of dash, I'm yet to add detail to the armour (all the ponies will be in power armour ^_^)

10 warriors in a night sycthe. The night sycthe was porxied by the warriors that were in it. he couldn't disembark till the night sycthe blew up. Which it never did.

@Bellathrom: That is amazing! Those the blind-bag ponies, or something else?

Though I'm not so sure a Pegasus would use a forehead blade- I'd imagine something more like wing edges. And you missed a golden opportunity there- you could have put Dash in her 20% Cooler outfit!

@Bellathrom: That is amazing! Those the blind-bag ponies, or something else?

Though I'm not so sure a Pegasus would use a forehead blade- I'd imagine something more like wing edges. And you missed a golden opportunity there- you could have put Dash in her 20% Cooler outfit!

thanks man ^_^ yeah their the BB ones (though I got them through the gift and collection set seeing as I cant find them in the UK -_-)
and damn, why didn't I think of wing blades :3 I'll have to see what I can do

DPBellathrom wrote:This is my 1000pts "proxy" SM biker army ^.^ (there will be two more landspeeders soon)

Cav base ponies count as bikes, big base ponies count as attack bikes, rainbow dash is my commander on a bike and the landspeeder is a landspeeder

Spoiler:

Here’s a WIP of dash, I'm yet to add detail to the armour (all the ponies will be in power armour ^_^)

I approve of this army.

DPBellathrom wrote:

SO JELLY.

How is this..Bloodletters kinda....oops double post.