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I would want to have a massive Tyranid horde. Maybe 60,000pts of gaunts. Maybe only about 3000 points worth of monsters and synapses. I really want to field a never ending tide!

I would make an Iyanden army, with only Wraithguard for troops, three wraithlords, a cobra and revenants. And yriel, but with helmet, and his personal Vampire. Though the main issue with money for this idea is that wraithguard cost so bloody much right now, so if they would come in plastic I may recondiser my opinion.


edit: I know what someone will write... "Yeah, because the FW packs are really cheap."

I would do a Forgeworld Death Korps of Krieg infantry army with some Death Riders and towed artillery. Maybe a few Valkyries, but definitely DKoK infantry.

If Money wasent the issue. i would quite happily forge an army of 9 Reaver Titans and an Emperitor Titan as the HQ

PURE SKINZzz wrote:If Money wasent the issue. i would quite happily forge an army of 9 Reaver Titans and an Emperitor Titan as the HQ

I second this motion.


However id be more inclined to have a massive eldar army with two Type II Heavy Anti Grav Tanks and six wraithlords, four fire prisms, basically lot and lots of everything

I'm actually going to add on to what I said earlier since I've been thinking about it. I've always wanted to make an IG army that was themed after the U.S army during the Indian War time period and the "Indians" would be Orks (I was going to go with Kroot but had an idea that is mentioned later and it makes sense with nick names like Redskin/ Greenskin. No offence ment to anyone). Blue uniforms and all that with the yellow stripe down the leg, convert the rough riders to be based off of cavalry from back then, maybe do the same with Ogryns.

Make a counts as Chimera for my command platoon (or squad or whatever it is, I'm not an IG player ) that would be a base that's the same length and width with some terrain to give it height and then I would have horses on it and I would model my command to be on the horses, then when they disembark I would have the exact same models just on foot and I would replace the mounted horses with unmounted ones.

I would have Penal Legionaires that would be represented as Kroot mercenaries (hired Indian scouts). The best heavy weapon squad to represent cannons. Some veterans with a old west type nickname, probably some Valkyries and Leman Russ Punishers (gatling guns). Probably a converted Commisar Lord in case they came across any "deserters". Not a single unit would be put on the table unless it was heavily converted and 100% painted (probably by someone else. It would also be a Apocalypse force.

Then I would make another Ork army made to be Feral Orks and have them be the "Indians" and they would also be heavily converted to suit their theme and well painted and they would also be an Apocalypse force except the army would be double the size of the guard one.

An entire regiment of FW DKoK

Replace Knight of the realm in my Bret army with Grail Knights, because they just look badass

A rogue imperial guard army using just fw parts where possible.

Ooooooo...I love this topic.

First of all I would finish off buying everything I needed for my marines. I need 6 Rhinos, 4 Speeders, dreadnaught autocannon bits, TH/SS arms for my AoBR termies, and maybe another Land Raider for kicks. I also need various bits and pieces to make everything wysiwyg.

Next batch of stuff I would buy would be the hobbying stuff. I need new brushes and new paints. I like the GW paints, but I know I can get brushes for cheap at the local hobby store.

Third, I would finish off my Eldar by buying the various bits I need to fix various things that have broken.

Fourth, I would buy everything I needed to finish off the vampire counts that I started building over a year ago and haven't really touched. I need a bunch of horsemen and wraiths/banshees (I think, haven't looked at the VC book in a long time).

Fiffth, I would probably start another army for both fantasy and 40k. Most likely Tyranids or Tau and Wood Elfs.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:One Ogre Kingdoms army cast in gold, please. Those would be some damned 'eavy metal models, even before you painted them.

An irriduum/titanium blend for me. Finally, a force I'm williing to allow other people to pick up.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:One Ogre Kingdoms army cast in gold, please.

Pfft. If we're going silly money, then I'll have an all-footy Imperial Guard Conscript army cast in Plutonium, for sale to the highest bidder...

all known 18 founding chapters...Pre-hersey and post Hersey

An all pegasus bretonnian army, 10,000pt Night Goblin army painted up like spartans, and an apoc sized world eaters army with 3 tower of skulls

Well since some of these examples seem to be abandoning all semblance of common sense and good taste (solid gold ogre army? wtf? WIN!!!) . . . .

I would like to feel like I am a real general in 40K! I'd build a stadium or maybe buy the ones the Dallas Cowboys use. Then me and my friends would sit up in the VIP box in full costume and direct our small army of paid servants to move around our huge armies on the pitch. I don't know how many points that is but it has to be enough to fill a stadium. Oh and we play with 30% terrain so there should be man-sized mountain ranges with waterfalls and stuff and smoke machines to simulate fog of war.

rabidaskal wrote:Well since some of these examples seem to be abandoning all semblance of common sense and good taste (solid gold ogre army? wtf? WIN!!!) . . . .

I would like to feel like I am a real general in 40K! I'd build a stadium or maybe buy the ones the Dallas Cowboys use. Then me and my friends would sit up in the VIP box in full costume and direct our small army of paid servants to move around our huge armies on the pitch. I don't know how many points that is but it has to be enough to fill a stadium. Oh and we play with 30% terrain so there should be man-sized mountain ranges with waterfalls and stuff and smoke machines to simulate fog of war.

That sounds... awesome

I would build the largest Waaaaagh! in existance. Led by the fiercest of generals.

I'm thinking:
Ghazgkull
Wazdakka
Grotsnik
Zogwort
12 Big Meks
8 Warbosses
4 weirdboyz

18 mobs of lootas
20 mobs of burnas
16 mobs of kommandos (one with Snikrot)
8 mobs of tankbustas
15 mobs of foot nobs
5 mobs of meganobs
6 mobs of biker nobs

35 mobs of bikers
60 mobs of sluggas
45 mobs of shootas
90 mobs of gretchin

18 mobs of storm boys (one with Zagstrukk)
20 squadrons of warbuggies
15 squadrons of deffkoptas

40 Deff Dredds
30 mobs of Kans
25 looted wagons
30 Battle wagons
10 mobs of flash gitz (one with Badrukk)
25 batteries of kannons
15 batteries of lobbas
10 batteries of zzap guns

That's 9288 models, not including any ammo runts, orderlies, etc.

Let's see a chapter tackle this.

S_P

Pfft. I'll see your Ork mob and raise you a full Codex of Guard.

Hope you like pie...

I do like pie. But there's a full crap ton of storm boys, kommandos and bikers (both regular and nob variety) hitting your lines more or less straight away, and not to mention my own artillery pounding away. The tankbustas will have a field day.

I want this battle to happen.

S_P

I can just imagine 10,000 points of Earthshakers pie-ing your army to death on the first turn... at 75 points for an earthshaker patform that is 133 pie plates per turn

80 per turn if you take basilisks - plus then you get 80 HB shots a turn too

I think I could gain the upper hand.

There will be about 340 rokkits coming from deffkoptas, buggies, kans and tankbustas; up to 810 shots coming from lootas; up to 12 Shokk attack gun plates (depending on how I decide to arm my meks); 25 boomgun shots; and up to 1080 orks reaching combat by turn 1, of which 129 are nobs.

All the while, the rest of my army shoots like crazy or Waaagh!s it's way into combat.

I imagine the battle would be entirely dependant on who gets first turn.
Guard - I take massive casualties from artillery and don't have enough numbers to pull it back.
Orks - Mass charges across the board and your artillery is left with nothing to shoot at.

S_P

You've got 10k models, so we're talking on the order of 100k pts of Apoc, maybe 200k (not sure about points). As Mech Guard I'd be taking at least 50k pts of Pie throwers, for 300+ pies per turn. Probably more. That's an awful lot of pie.

Also, with We're not playing on a 4' deep board. At a minimum, we're looking at more of a 8+' deep board, probably more like something on a basketball court. You're not hitting anything Turn 1.

At the game size you suggest, I think the thing becomes a chore to play.

True, true.

I guess we'll never know until someone does it, so for now, I submit to JohnHwangDD's army of intense pie.

S_P

A pre-heresy chapter of the 1k Sons Legion.



Plus the Egyptian Conversion spares from this website so I convert them to be more, in keeping with their roots.
Infact I'm going to do it anyway, very slowly and I might get 6 Thunder hawks (Epic 40k ones! )
yep that would look really good.