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Photographing individual models is one thing. What should I keep in mind when I
want to take photos of my entire army?

You're still going to need a lot of light. 2-3 good lamps should do the trick, especially if it's daylight. If you have a nice display board that works, if not find a white sheet or large sheet of white paper for some light to bounce off. I'm by no means a pro when it comes to this, but it's worked alright for me thus far.

I'd like to get a few tips on this too.
Light is always a must as said. My set up in this department is sadly very poor.
Also a tripod is essential given that the camera tends to have to be floating in the air rather than resting on a desk.
Backgrounds are a must to pull the eye in towards the models and hills used as risers tend to help.

I find that my biggest problem is framing that many models.
I'm thinking that the thing to use would be a wide angle or fisheye lens allowing me to get closer to the models whilst still fitting the whole army in the frame?
Any clues?

Here's a few of mine just for lulz. Let me know what you think I could do to improve them.....

If you do not have a displey, prefer something other than pure white (light blue, light brown, or a linear gradient, etc) for the background (for reverbering light on the side it's ok). It will come out far better, pure white is not the best to have a good pictures, too much contrast and loosing a nice aspect (and the white ''eats'' your minis).

If on a display or not, keep in mind it's your army you are showing, not the last uber-ultra-wonderful and detailed display.
Use something nice but simple to give your army a nice highlight.

Make some test depending on your camera, far with zoom, close without, a layer paper on the flash if he want's to go out anyway to smooth it.

You can be original too, like making a scene with the army !

Light might be an issue for mine...Hmm...