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LunaHound wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:I can, and did, buy all the GW models I ever wanted.
I once bought a Baneblade just to paint it lavender, as a joke.

Aww you people just ruin all the fun. So there is absolutely no army or unit builds that interests you atm?

I still have 30.000 or so points worth to paint!

Maybe I'll get a Space Squirrel army after I'm done with Pretty Marines.

The three armies that I have avoided strictly on price: Sisters, Savage Orcs, and a Throgg big stompy army.

Time = Money?? I think Time is more a limiting factor for me.

If I had the time, I'd do 25,000 ork boyz so that the people running a whole marine chapter could enjoy a game against an entire ork waaagh.

To answer the original question, I'd have to go to FW - sorry Luna, but I've got a real job and can afford whatever GW stuff I want.

If money were no issue, though, and FW was allowed, I'd do a titan legion. 4 or 5 reavers, each with 2 or 3 warhounds as an escort, and a couple of scratchbuilt warlords.

Redbeard wrote:If I had the time, I'd do 25,000 ork boyz so that the people running a whole marine chapter could enjoy a game against an entire ork waaagh.

Good idea but can I just say a waaagh! is described as millions of orks so it would be a rather small waaagh! or atleast thats the scale I'm basing my waaagh! on. woohoo 6,000,000 ork bikes and 500,000 trukks full of boyz this would be epic.

I'd have 2 Full Regiments of IG Valhallan Infantry and a Valhallan Armoured.

And a SOB convent, in it's entirety.

40k:
Foot-slogging IG horde, basically maxed out conscripts and infantry platoons. Everything converted with Pig Iron Kolony heads for that WW1 human wave/meatgrinder feel. An army that could choke an Ork horde with the corpses of dead Guardsmen.

WHFB:
-DE Khaine-heavy army, so LOTS of expensive (IMO) Witch Elves and Executioners.

Epic:
-An entire brigade/division-sized combined arms force. Probably a mix of air assault infantry in Valkyries, mech infantry in Chimeras, the usual assortment of tanks/artillery, and all necessary organic support assets like transport/supply trucks. Plus I'd flesh out my current 14-strong Titan Legion (2 Imperators, 12 Warlords) with another 20 or so Reavers and Warhounds. I have about 1,000 guard infantry on sprues and that's shockingly nowhere near enough for a brigade (3,000+) or a division (15,000-20,000).

Oh, and I'd have these painted professionally, which would be the biggest expense. No way I'm taking the time to paint all of the above.

kirsanth wrote:I would get a Tyranid swarm that had a full sized brood of every unit.
(At least) One brood of each possible configuration that is.



The second part is the kicker, just about done with the first. . . until 2010.

Then I would probably get a BFG fleet done like that same, and get them painted the same scheme and call it a Hive Fleet.

I think tyranid bits makes easy yet great looking BFG hive ships.

I would probably go for a full out 2500pt Vostroyan Guard Army.
Either that or A complete Ork Waagh; bikes, trukks, lootas, burnas, kommandos, tankbustas, flash gitz...

Flashman wrote:I find money is less of an issue than finding the time to paint stuff i.e. I can buy things a lot faster than I can paint them. Infact the very thought of being given a boxed set like "Spear of Sicarius" scares me. All that unpainted plastic! Or worse, all that untrimmed plastic!!

Amen to that one.

In that vein, though I probably would second the various comments about getting a Valhallan army, I would say if money were no option I'd send all my stuff out to highly skilled painters and/or modelers. I'm just too lazy and ham handed to really accomplish some of the truly amazing stuff I get to see all the time that others have done, and I'd want my armies to look that sweet. I wouldn't even care if I had to buy them all myself as long as GD winners were painting them.

Well, for the most part, I'm not as funds-limited as I am time-limited. That is, I own way more stuff than I'm able to finish in a 12-month window. I am thankful that I was able to build and paint a bunch of stuff when I had more time:

- metal Aspect Eldar army
- metal Regiment Guard army
- bitz-heavy Marines
etc.

If I were to *add* anything to my collection of armies, I'd go for a metal Daemons of Chaos Tzeentch / Slaanesh army.


But, as I've said before, if a *big* pile of money arrived out of nowhere, I'd hire a art student to convert and paint my stuff over a summer.

Goliath wrote:I would probably go for a full out 2500pt Vostroyan Guard Army.
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ooh i love those models but they are darn expensive.

If money wasn't an issue, I wouldn't buy models for myself, I'd pay Games Workshop to update all codices to a reasonable level.

Oh and also buy them out. Entirely. Then listen to the community for once.

=D

Marushi wrote:If money wasn't an issue, I wouldn't buy models for myself, I'd pay Games Workshop to update all codices to a reasonable level.

Oh and also buy them out. Entirely. Then listen to the community for once.

And we have a winner!

A baneblade battalion. Nuff said.

I'd buy the dozen Steel Legion and Storm Trooper sergeants I need to make my Imperial Guard army legal in the new rules.

I would buy the old molds to all of the old Rogue Trader models and create a factory in which to create all of the stuff I wanted, and then flood the market.

I would build a DKoK Army so big I would have to dedicate a portion of my house to it's hodlings. I would also pay to have the whole thing painted by someone else so I didn't have to do it.

It would have enough models for an Infantry Horde, Tank Spam of Every Kind, Valk and Vendettas galore, and everything that could fit in an army, would be there.

It would be MAGNIFICENT!

And baneblades. Many baneblades. And a titan. 5. Maybe more.

Without FW?

A massive Eldar Army. Mutliple of every aspect and every single thing. 3x Of all heavy support, 4x of all Fast attack, 6x of all Troops etc... Everything would be painted by someone else and would be magnitized to have all the options.

I'd hand money out to my buds, so they could get into the hobby. (Which they enjoy, but can't afford)

Or build an army of Defilers and CSM's.

Well, I'd go for a pure Night Lord force with every guy made with the bat heads and shoulder guards. I'd be a step up from the 16 heads and guards I have now with over 60 guys.

Well money never has been an issue to me so i'll just name off some of the more costly armies i have done.

1. An all Bike White Scars army, Complete with both a chaplain and a Librarian on a bike as well as a command squad on bikes (at $15-$20 a guy this gets really costly really quickly)

2. My DKoK Guard army (i know you said no forge world but i don't "fit" into the normal theme of this thread)

I have other armies as well naturally, but i would say that these 2 were the most costly when i was putting them together.

Well, with money not being a worry, quit my job so I could spend more time painting, and playing. But otherwise, continue what I'm doing, just faster. Working on Daemons, the same way I did Necrons. Able to max out every FOC slot with any option. So for Necrons I have 120 warriors, 30 immortals, 30 flayed ones, 10 pariahs, etc... Doing the same for Daemons, which means I'm currently hoping for horrors, PBs and nurglings to go plastic. As well as everything else, but particularly any unit that can number 20...

For my Tau, I would add two more hammerheads, both ionheads, another sky ray, two five skimmer strong piranha teams, enough kroot to make the Kroot mercenary force Apocalypse data sheet, three more full mechizaned fire warrior squads, and two more full vespid stingwings. Now for the suits, enough normal crisis suits to make a rapid insertion force, (hey I like the standard suit call me odd), at least 2 of the foregworld XV8s, some more xv25s (about 4 more), 9 foregworld XV-88s, and 9 of the XV-9s when they come out with the different weapon options. While this is dreaming I am not to interested in the flyers, but 2 of each and one Manta would be rather cool to own.

a whole infintry guard army for 3000 pts

I'd build roughly 20k points of DKoK with 2 or 3 Baneblade Companies, approximately 24 Leman Russes, 12 Manticores, probably 1k points worth of Death Riders and the rest of the 20k points in standard grunts.

So many boots I'd have I would need an entire garage floor just to set it all up.

Can't forget a Reaver and 4 Mars Pattern Warhounds.

Oh, I'd also build around 20k of 'Nids (after the new codex of course) featuring at least 2 Bio-titans and 8-10 Heirodules (both Scythed and Barbed).

If TIME wasn't an issue for me, i would...
finish my Tau.
build a 4000pt Kroot army. Not just standard kroot, with lots of conversions like vehicles, custom weapons or extra riding beasts.

A high-tech IG army - not a rivet in sight on the entire army. Possibly halo-themed

A low-tech IG army - probably DKoK. I LOVE the forgeworld stuff.

An inquisitorial-themed DH/SM mixed army.

And a massive Chaos Mortals fantasy army.

Time is the issue more than money.

I'd probably like a Saim-Hann army with lots of bikes and vypers, or an Iyanden army with lots of wraithguard and wraithlord. Other than eldar, I would probably want an imperial guard cadian army, with like 150+ infantry, around 15+ sentinels, some basilisks, and about 30+ leman russ's

We are Legion! 450 boxes of Chaos Space Marine Army would got me enough Iron Warriors for the entire legion, plus transports. I would then only need a few titian legions plus several armies (I don't know what is larger than a regiment) of armour, artiliary, and slaves.


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And by titian legions i mean about 4-6 warhounds, 3-6 reavers, and 3-6 warlords. By Armour and artillery i mean 120+ leaman russ MBT, 120+ griffin, 120+ basilisk, 120 +Medusa, 120+ other bigger stuff, plus 21 super heavies. That would be a good start.

Wait, are we also counting the hire staff to assemble and paint these models full time. I think 5 staff working full time could get it done in about 2 years, probably less.

First: Buy a house for the gaming stuff.

Second: A Traitor Chapter for my Fallen Angels, with Traitor Fellblades.

The Blood angels Chapter. 'Nuff Said.

IG Armies for both of the above. Not too big, maybe 20k Points each?

Chaos Orks. To Ally with the Fallen DA. 20k Points

Eldar: To ally with the BA. 20k Points.

3 or 4 of the Citadel Mega paint sets. (to start off with)

3 or 4 Airbrushes.

And have enough left over to Put some beds, couches, tables, electronics, and food in the house.

A massive sound system, and all the D's I could ever want, all burnt onto a Hard drive attached to the Sound System.

Oh yeah. Let's party

Well I would do that 20,000pt Wood Elf army I've always dreamed about I'm on my third incarnation of the army and that stands at 2500pts ish so there's not long to go.

Also expand my high elves to roughly 30,000 now thanks to Luna and a few others it currently stands at 15,000pts so I'm half way there just need more metal infantry and some reavers
etc, yeh it may seem silly but I like to have really large armies.

Oh and probably finally do a sisters army if money isn't an issue.

Id like to have a real ( well as close to realistic as possible) WAAGH! and Im not talking in pts terms. around 1000 boyz would be a nice start. And since the money isnt a problem anymore, a big ass table to show them all off on would make me happy