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There is some question as to the number of Tournament-ready armies the typical player owns.

For the purposes of this poll, "Tournament-ready" will be defined as:
- at least 1850 pts of 40k or 2000 pts of WFB
- all Citadel models
- fully-painted in at least 3 colors
- fully-based with flock or gravel!

That means that an army won't count if:
- not enough points owned / assembled
- requires non-Citadel models to reach 1850/2000 pts
- requires unpainted / unassembled models
- has non-based models

Note also that it doesn't actually matter whether you've actually taken the army to a Tournament. Only whether you have the ability to bring a full-size, fully-painted, fully-based GW army to the Tournament.

You may adress me as "my lord"


Fully tournament capable at 1,850-
40K
.deathwing

.ravenwing hybrid

.tau

.nids


Battle fleet gothic
at 1K (soon to be 1.5)
.grey knight strike force


Smaller armies-
sisters of battle at 1,500

Nids (1850)
Chaos (Not sure how many points. >2500 with last edition codex)
Eldar (2150)
Guard(allies and doctrines push my fully painted quotient up)
Marines (2000+)
Daemonhunters (1850+)

I've got about 5000pts of Marines, and 7500 in IG, plus about 2500 in Empire that I've played all of twice.

Now that I think about it, I could second enough IG stuff to form a Daemonhunter army of tournament size, and still be able to field two good 1850 lists (one all infantry, one armor heavy), and my Marines can support both a drop pod army and a SAFH.

Lets see:

Black Legion: 400+ models all painted
Luna Wolves: 160 models all painted
Tyranids: 136 models all painted
Eldar: 190 models all painted
Grey Knights: 80 models all painted

Darrian

2500 or thereabouts of Orcs and Goblins, 4500 or possibly more of Orks.
I have 1500 points of chaos too, which is standard for tournies over here, but I voted 2 within the parameters of your poll.

If you want to get technical, none of my armies fit your description of tournament ready, because I generally don't flock my bases. I like the black bases, is that really so wrong?

Yes

I'm a two army, two system man.

Everything else I have maybe 1-2 squads painted.

Now if we start talking about PP instead...

Start a thread for pp.

I have right about 2'000 points of Ultramarines painted and based. I also have an unpainted but tournament size chaos army and a half painted smaller(1000-1500p) Black Templars army. Oh, I can't forget my 1000p Ork army. But I only counted my ultras to be fair.

25,000 points of Guard, 25,000 points of Chaos, 10,000 points of Marines and 'Nids and 8,000 points of Necrons.

Painted? Maybe 1000-1500 points worth, combined, from all armies.

I hate painting.

BYE

For IG about 7000 pts and Chaos about 2000ish for the Ig all painted but about 3000pts and chaos about 1900pts


@Mughi3 i see you tau has more suits what is these looks like you dropped some thing

My Eldar are good to go, minus an HQ (want to get FW Avatar).

Lizards not so much. Ditto Everblight.

I much prefer converting/ assembling but I'm now dissatisfied with my mountain of unpainted and am working/ ebaying my way through it.

For those who are curious, I've got something like 3-4k worth of Eldar painted & based.

I like building & converting and I'm OK at painting, but I don't like basing, so there's a good pile of painted stuff that I'm not counting: another 3-4k in Eldar, 3k in SM, 2k of IG, 2k of Inquisition, plus 2k of DoW. When I finally get around to doing bases, I'll be a God.

Well I had an ork army ready to go but the new codex knocked my army points down plus the models that were no longer legal so I need to paint up or build some stuff to get back up to legal status as well as complete a necron army by August.

Once i finish an army i generally sell it to fund my next project so i rarely am ever sitting on a finished tournament ready army. I do have a giant beastman army that is basically fully painted though.

JohnHwangDD: What is DoW? I keep thinking dawn of war. Do you mean Blood Ravens?

snorkle wrote:JohnHwangDD: What is DoW? I keep thinking dawn of war. Do you mean Blood Ravens?

WHFB Dogs of War?

WArhammer 40k (All armys at 1850 or greater, fully painted and based and flocked)

SM Dark Angels
Death Wing
Raven Wing
CSM World Eaters Pure
Tyranids
Imperial Guard Cadian

Total Minis if feilded as one force would be approx 16000pts. (-/+ 1000)

In Fantasy I have Dwarves and Wood Elves of at least 3500 to 4000 points each tournament ready. In 40K I started with Orks, then Necrons, then Cadian Guard, then Eagle Warrior Marines, and now I'm wrapping up Tau and Eldar. Except for the last two unpainted and flocked, I've got anywhere from 2500 to 6000 points of each army in the case and ready to roll.

I can't imagine spending months getting an army ready and selling it. I feel for those guys that have to do it or get bored with their old army...

Krak_kirby wrote:I can't imagine spending months getting an army ready and selling it. I feel for those guys that have to do it or get bored with their old army...

It definitely sucks, its just i get more enjoyment from modeling than i do playing. Its not easy parting with them though by any means, when i did this the most was in college/high school when i needed to recycle the money back into the hobby. Now that i have a good job ill be keeping my work.

Well, I only have one (Chaos) that BARELY fits the bill... but I'm growing the army, so it'll be good.
I have a SM army being painted by now... I should have it by April (it's about 5K points).

My buddy, though...

::shudder::

He has the following:
*Khorne: 5 to 6K
*Nurgle: same
*Tzeentch: same
*Emp's Children: same
*Undivided: same
Nids: 10 to 11K
*Eldar: 6K+ (trickling in from the painter & Ebay right now)
Witchhunters: 4 to5 K
FW Renegades: 3.5 to 5K
*FW DKoK: 6 or 7K
*Black Templar: 4 to 5K
GK (as support units): About 1500 pts
SM's (same): About 1000 points

Everything is assembled and completely/professionally painted.

* Indicates "Currently adding units."

He's looking into Orks, now, too.

B**tard.

If I didn't get to play with the models every Saturday, I'd really hate that guy! LOL


Eric

snorkle wrote:JohnHwangDD: What is DoW? I keep thinking dawn of war. Do you mean Blood Ravens?

Ew, no.

Dogs of War for Warhammer Fantasy.

Yes, we get no love.

@JohnHwangDD, Are you in San Diego or LA? I could help you with basing models if you bring them to Game Empire Pasadena.

Darrian

I have a ready-to-go IW (now just normal old chaos marines, yawn) of 2000pts. I have enough models to field a fully-painted IW army of 8000pts though.

But for tournaments, i have a specific list i like to use.

Heya Darrian:

Thanks for the offer. I'm OC, so if I were to do hobby stuff in a shop, I'd probably go to the Bunker.


I've got something like $50 worth of basing materials that's been sitting unused for years. Eventually, after / as I finish building, I'll get my basing completed.

-looks around- Kind of like some of you have minis.


/John

4 n I'm no god (MI,Liz,Tau,Ork 2000pts each)

So as of today:

25% can't go
25% field 1
25% field 2 or 3
25% field 4 or more

(roughly calculated)

wow pretty spread out there.

Two fully painted 2000+pts for 40k (Eldar, Dark Angels which also has a bunch of models to make it fully functional as a Chaos army)

Two fully painted ~3000pts for Warhammer. (Wood Elves and Chaos)

Also one fully painted Blood Bowl Team (Pro Elves)