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Yes, I am sure it has been discussed before but lets talk about it again! Myself for some reason even in 1500 Point games do not like taking less than 4 or 5 units of troops. I always take the max 6 in 2000 Points if possible. I am actually building up a 1500 Ork Trukk list and am not sure weither to have 6 Trukk Mobs or 4 and Lootahs.

What about you DakkaDakka? What kind of Troop/Point Ratio do you have?

Normally its around 3-4 in the standard 1500-2000 point games I play, however that is deathwing so points are rarther stretched as it is.
For my group the average is around 2 per 1000 points with the exception of the space marine player who has 3-4 at 1500 (thats his max)

Really I wish I could take more, however the points always escape me.

for space marines, I take 1 tactical squad in a rhino per 500 points. (I don't play smaller than 1000 pts)

Horst wrote:for space marines, I take 1 tactical squad in a rhino per 500 points.

Same for me.

Troops are the mainstay of my army in every game. I take as many as is reasonable without weakening my other choices, so I have at least 4 at 1,500 pts.

1 per 500. Except if I play a Pedro list where Ill take 2 scouts and 2 Sternguard.

With my 1750 Ork army, I take 5 troops. 4 squads of 30 boys and 1 squad of 29 grots.
With my 1500 Marine Bike army, I take 4 troops -- all bike squads and combat squad them for objective missions.

When I face people who only play 2 troop choices in a 1500 point objective game, I focus fire on the troops and greatly increase my odds of winning the game.

1 per 750 here

and they are usually set up like this
1st HQ Ven dred
1st Troop Grey Hunters
2nd HQ Killy Battle Leader
2nd Troop Powerfisty Blood Claws
3rd HQ Killy Battle Leader
3rd Troop Powerfisty Blood Claws

In my orks I take all 6. 2 Trukka mobs, 3 shoota mobs and 1 grots mob.

Demogerg wrote:1 per 750 here

and they are usually set up like this
1st HQ Ven dred
1st Troop Grey Hunters
2nd HQ Killy Battle Leader
2nd Troop Powerfisty Blood Claws
3rd HQ Killy Battle Leader
3rd Troop Powerfisty Blood Claws

A Battle leader? I I normally have a Ven Dread as my First HQ then have either a Rune Priest with a Drop Pod Grey Hunter Squad or a Wolf priest with a Drop Pod Blood Claw Squad or Blood Claws in a LRC. Never saw the use of Battle Leaders outside 4AC WGT Killydeathmaim.

CSM player, so troops are expensive, but a real strength. I fill out 3 troops choices first - make them solid, strong, and usually special purpose. Always a 1ksons - (occasionally a squad of 18 of these walking down the map is great fun), normally 10 zerkers, and then its a toss up between all round Vanilla CSMs or Plauge marines (PMs are winning at the moment).

I then fill out the rest of the army, and occasionally go back to add 2 or 3 smaller, special purpose units. These are almost always Vanilla CSMs and/or lesser daemons.

As mine are both very effective and fragile (dark eldar) I generally try to take at least 5 (4 are the bare minimum).

Starting from 1500:
Minimum is three.
At 2000:
Minimum is four.

My 7 Cents.

1.5K I go for three usually, at 2K I take 4

For orks I always try and do at least 4 truck boyz units for my Mech Ork list even in a 1000 pnt game. I also usually field 1 warboss in addition to my KFF Mek so I'll have a truck or BW of nobz (depending on my remaining pnts) as a troop choice. Then I start thinking about toys.

I take as many troops as is feasible for me to take. not too many, gotta have some heavy support in my armies. usually one or two per 500pts, plus whatever else will fit.

1 troops per 500 pts, roughly. I play SoB.

I usually aim for 1 for every 500 points or part thereof. If my Eldar could squeeze in a 5th though, they would.

Eldar: 2, sometimes a third at 2000+
Space Marines: 3
Daemons: 6
Chaos Space Marines: Usually about 5-6, though I have taken as many as 9

It depends on my Army:
Eldar, I run 3 at 1500-1750, 4 at 1850-2k
Dualwing, I run almost pure troops, minus my HQs
Orks, minimum 4 at 1500...usually more

Gwar! wrote:

Demogerg wrote:1 per 750 here

and they are usually set up like this
1st HQ Ven dred
1st Troop Grey Hunters
2nd HQ Killy Battle Leader
2nd Troop Powerfisty Blood Claws
3rd HQ Killy Battle Leader
3rd Troop Powerfisty Blood Claws

A Battle leader? I I normally have a Ven Dread as my First HQ then have either a Rune Priest with a Drop Pod Grey Hunter Squad or a Wolf priest with a Drop Pod Blood Claw Squad or Blood Claws in a LRC. Never saw the use of Battle Leaders outside 4AC WGT Killydeathmaim.

Yea, run Battle leaders cheap, Frostblade, Stormshield nothing else. they rock face, WS5 S5 I5 with 5 power weapon attacks.
11 blood claws with 3 power fists, Battle leader with FB/SS, Pack Leader with Thunderhammer in a LRC with Extra armor+MM
605 points of awesomesmashface
do that X2 and use the rest of the points to play around with the GH squad, Ven Dread, Wolf Scouts, etc.

Also, I do not own any Drop Pods, and I dont like rhinos because you cant move, disembark, then assault with them.

I think it depends greatly on which army you're playing, and by extension how good the troops choices are.

With my armies, for example:

IG: 3 in 2k pts
Chaos: 4-5 in 2k pts
Orks: 6 in 2k pts
Eldar: 2 in 2k pts

IG and Eldar have the transports and speed to protect small numbers of troops while the more specialized selections KILL DEATH MAIM.

Chaos and Orks have powerful enough basic troops to not lose out significantly by taking lots of them.

My 2 cents.

I normally take six. i play tau and nids. I normally play games 1850-2200

Really depends on what you are playing. I take enough troops for them to do what they are suppose to do. Objective capturing is secondary imo.

If your army sucks because you have a ton of bad troops, then you aren't going to win anyways.

I take troops for what they are in each list.
Tau - 1 firewarrior squad (cause you have to)
2 kroot squads for utility

Space Marines- depends on the army, usually 2 10x squads. They aren't great but they provide solid anti infantry fire. Any more than 3x squads up to 2k points is gimping your list usually.

Same thinking goes with most armies.

As far as orks, it doesn't really matter how many you take, your going to get beat by any decent army anyways.

Timmah wrote:As far as orks, it doesn't really matter how many you take, your going to get beat by any decent army anyways.

Lolwut? Orks are one of the best armies around atm.

Gwar! wrote:

Timmah wrote:As far as orks, it doesn't really matter how many you take, your going to get beat by any decent army anyways.

Lolwut? Orks are one of the best armies around atm.

Well at least you are good with rules Gwar!.

*rolls around in the inflamatory goodness*

Im gonna go for 2-3 @ 1500pts for my imperial guard. But that could scale from 20 men to easily over 300men. Its subjective.

As a rule of thumb at 1500pt, I take three.. If I find myself two troop choices down mid-game I play to protect the third otherwise its buisness as usual.

I just think that troops should contribute as much to my army as any other unit. They should not just be objective takers.

(Fire warriors are an exception because 1 squad is forced on you)

4+ troop choices aren't going to help you if you get tabled.

Timmah wrote:

Gwar! wrote:

Timmah wrote:As far as orks, it doesn't really matter how many you take, your going to get beat by any decent army anyways.

Lolwut? Orks are one of the best armies around atm.

Well at least you are good with rules Gwar!.

Huh? Since when did KFF meks, 30 Stron Boyz, Nob Bikers and Lootas suddenly become crap?

with my two armies I have to play them completely different......

Witchhunters......
.- I never take less than 3 troops as the basic sister is better then most units in the list

Eldar
- I never take more than 3 unless I am doing a spam list, as my troops are increadably weak until an aspect squad clears a path for them first.