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I just got back into playing and i dont have all the new codes so i dont know points but they are all 3,OOO+ AND THEY ARE LISTED IN ORDER OF MY MAKEIBG THEM.

Tau
Tyranids
Eldar
Dark Eldar

Complete as in playable? or complete as in based and painted?

If playable I have 4+

Khador for Warmachine... Circle Orboros for Hordes... Tons of squads for Star Wars Miniatures... Tons of squads for Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures (RIP)

What's complete?

I guess all painted and when i've stopped changing stuff around so after prehaps 100 wins on the trot

I voted none

For me its around 2k Aurora chapter SMs.

Around 200pts completely painted, another 1500pts about 50% painted.

i collect in, well, you can see for your selvf under this text

I say 0

but i have 5 varying between 1500 and 2000 and varying levels of painted-ness. But my High Elves are pretty close, Just have to paint a unit of Silver Helms and its on

Building, painting and collecting models is the main focus of the hobby for me, so I had no trouble making the 7+ category. And, I'm working on a Space Marine chapter of my own design at the moment, so I'll shortly have another "game legal" army that will grow to massive Apocalypse size.

Three complete:
Crimson Fists - 3500 pts
Orks - 2200 pts
'Nids - 2000 pts
Never really complete though, just got a couple of elites for each...

One incomplete:

Tau - 1000 pts unpainted

This may seem like a stupid question, but when you say armies, is there a restriction to any system or anything, or armies for all games we play?

I only consider my Tomb Kings complete as there is nothing I need to buy for them now (3500).

My Wood Elves, Warriors of Chaos, Tyranids and Death Guard are all incomplete.

My Dark Elves, Lizardmen, Necrons and Dark Eldar were abandoned.

40K:
- Imperial Guard
- Space Marine
- Chaos Space Marine ( Death Guard )
Fantasy:
- Dwarf
LotR
- Dwarf
- Easterling

Currently only one, I'll expand and maybe grab more when I'm "done" with the first one.

I currently have my Tau completed to a playable size of 1500-2000 points. I have 2800 points altogether of them.

I'm currently working on a Demonhunters army and building it up to 1500-200 points. I might grab a thing here or there and expand my tau still.

Next year I'll probably start a Witch hunters army as well. It's in the planning stages and I can use DH and WH together as well as with any other imperium army I decide to play as allies (unless a new codex comes out).

If by complete you mean that I have all of the units that I need to field the army at any points that I'd feasibly want to play them at then I have 5 complete armies. I could use a few more units in each of them to really round things out but I could field a competitive list in any game up to 3k with 5 different armies.

40k:

Orks - 6500++ points painted. Heavily converted. This army will never be finished because I have a tendency to get sick of old conversions and paintjobs and update them.

Salamanders - This army is complete but it's not finished. It's mostly unpainted and I still need more units to fill it out but I have more than enough to field a competitive list up to around 2500 or 3k.

Fantasy:

Vampire Counts - This is another army that'll never be finished. I can field well over 3k fully painted but you can never have enough ghouls/skeletons/zombies. I only have around 60 painted skeletons, 40 painted ghouls and maybe 60 painted zombies. As for the rest of the army, I have everything that I'd ever want to field (in the current incarnation) fully assembled and painted.

Lizardmen - I could easily field a competitive 3k list with what I've got. About half of it is painted. The only thing that I'm really missing is a couple of engines of the gods to put it over the top.

Dark Elves - This is the army that I'm currently working on. I've got everything that I could ever possibly want to field except perhaps a third hydra and maybe a third pegasus riding sorc.

Imperial Guard and Black Templars (separate, not combined)

I find that having a few well organized armies, which you know the rules for, is better than having a lot of armies, as you won't be able to remember the rules of them all as easily

Tau-1650pts
Wood Elves-670pts

But I put 0 anyway because they are not all painted (tau are close though)

I have no completed armies. In fact, I barely own any more pieces than I have in the assault on black reach set. I do however use a ton of 25mm paper discs and I have made a cardboard-box landraider with sharpied on doors. I plan to make a few rhinos next.

I have bits of most things from 40k, WHFB, WM
But I'm too indescisive to finish an army

3 Currently.

Space Marines, Eldar and DaemonHunters.

The first two are my apoc armies (both in excess of 11,000pts). My Daemonhunters are at 3500pts and "finished".

I am working on a IG army, but this will purely be a 1500pt army - if needed I will ally in my inquisition.

I think the poll at the top of this topic only tells part of the story. It would be interesting to compare the numbers of armies people have collected with the number of years they've been in the hobby. According to the poll, the great proportion of people responding only have 1 or 2 armies, but I wonder how many of those have only been in the hobby a year or two.

It would also be interesting to know how many people with only 1 or 2 armies have had others in the past but sold them, because there are a number of hobbyists who ditch a finished army by selling or trading it before starting another.

I don' t think duration makes that much difference - I did the bulk of my painting within the first few years.

I don' t think duration makes that much difference - I did the bulk of my painting within the first few years.

Everyone is different and everyone's hobby is different. I've been in the hobby 20 years and I build and paint just as much in a year now as I did back then, more if I am able. Most of the veteran hobbyists I know, people who've been into GW models for say 10 years or more, all have huge backlogs and we bang away at getting them built and painted constantly. For many people, that is the hobby. For some of us, there's always another project, another fun idea, to build and paint and as soon as we're done one it's on to another.

My 3000pts of orks is no-where near complete
I need to be able to field a green tide (More boyz needed), trukk-rush (More trukks needed), dredd bash (more kanz needed), and I don't have any stormboyz or tankbusters.
Only 20 or so lootas.
Only 3 out of a possible 8 battlewagons!

I also have about 1500pts of Eldar, but this is a mish-mash of assorted pick-ups (A Battleforce, some old harlies, a bunch of stuff a friend was selling etc)

It is with great dismay I say that I haven't completed my Tyranid Army. Several matters take up a lot of my free time, but I try to work on it when I can.

i traded my IG for a 2000 pts tyranid army, so i got a new army!

My sig pretty much says it all...

I've never tallied up my points totals for either army. Both are playable, in theory, in decently sized groups (ok, not THAT big, but I can field a SM force well above the 500pt game I played, and orks outnumber SM by a stretch), but I don't yet have default lists for a 'standard' or 'tourney' setup. I'll go for the easiest way to count 'finished' armies - how much is painted. Right now, I'm at about 8pts of orks (that is to say, I have 3 boyz that are almost done being basecoated).

i have a lord of the rings easterling armyand an imperial guard army

Wow Im a loser with 3. Too much time on my hands. I am surprised the average is this low.

1000pts of Eldar, unpainted... it's a workable list, but I could use more antitank than I have.