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Last time I looked into this Eldar jetbikers and Tau with massed Krootox were pretty high up there in terms of expense.

Blood Angels - Again just using a full Force Org (not got codex with me so no idea of points)

HQ

Librarian Terminator Armour - £12.50
Honor Guard - £.20.50
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41

Astorath the Grim - £.12.50
Honor Guard - £20.50
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41

Troops

30 x Death Company - (6 x £20.50) £123
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
30 x Death Company - (6 x £20.50) £123
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
30 x Death Company - (6 x £20.50) £123
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
30 x Death Company - (6 x £20.50) £123
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
30 x Death Company - (6 x £20.50) £123
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
30 x Death Company - (6 x £20.50) £123
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41

Elites

10 x Assault Terminators - (2 x £28) £56
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
10 x Assault Terminators - (2 x £28) £56
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
10 x Assault Terminators - (2 x £28) £56
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41

Fast Attack

10 x Vanguard Veterans - (Using Assault Marine Kits 2 x £20.50) - £41
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
10 x Vanguard Veterans - (Using Assault Marine Kits 2 x £20.50) - £41
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
10 x Vanguard Veterans - (Using Assault Marine Kits 2 x £20.50) - £41
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41

Heavy Support

10 x Devastators - (2 x £20.50) £41
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
10 x Devastators - (2 x £20.50) £41
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41
10 x Devastators - (2 x £20.50) £41
Land Raider Dedicated Transport - £41



Grand Total of £1915 with not a single metal model, its the 30 man Death Co Squads and all those land raiders that let you do this

Roughly 11,295 Points with not a single upgrade

Footdar Wraithdar

Uthran $20.75
Avatar of Khaine $38.50

Wraithguard x10 $150
Wraithguard x10 $150

Dire Avengers $37.25

Wraithlord x1 $44.50
Wraithlord x1 $44.50

$485.50

is this illegal? I am not super familiar with the eldar codex

darkcloud92 wrote:Footdar Wraithdar

Uthran $20.75
Avatar of Khaine $38.50

Wraithguard x10 $150
Wraithguard x10 $150

Dire Avengers $37.25

Wraithlord x1 $44.50
Wraithlord x1 $44.50

$485.50

is this illegal? I am not super familiar with the eldar codex

You need warlocks with the spiritseer upgrade to make the wraithguard squads troops and make it a legal army.

While Wraithguard cost $15 per model they cost 35 points each so you get more than 2 points per dollar. Jetbikes cost just as much per model but are only worth 22 points per model and their maximum unit size is bigger. A full jetbike squadron with four shuriken cannons costs $200 even without a warlock.

Raxmei wrote:

darkcloud92 wrote:Footdar Wraithdar

Uthran $20.75
Avatar of Khaine $38.50

Wraithguard x10 $150
Wraithguard x10 $150

Dire Avengers $37.25

Wraithlord x1 $44.50
Wraithlord x1 $44.50

$485.50

is this illegal? I am not super familiar with the eldar codex

You need warlocks with the spiritseer upgrade to make the wraithguard squads troops and make it a legal army.

While Wraithguard cost $15 per model they cost 35 points each so you get more than 2 points per dollar. Jetbikes cost just as much per model but are only worth 22 points per model and their maximum unit size is bigger. A full jetbike squadron with four shuriken cannons costs $200 even without a warlock.

oh thats right I forgot the warlocks. But ya jetbikes are really expensive, more per point. But I was trying to make it expensive pointwise and $$$ wise, which is why I went with the wraithdar. Plus I find a wraithdar footdar army far more silly than a jetbike army. Though if they get fixed up a bit in the next codex I would gladly go with wraithdar lol

Hoo boy, full Black Tide is expensive as gak.

£18.50 for the two Upgrade Packs you need for each foot squad, then £23 for the marines and £31 for the two boxes of scouts. That's £72.50 for one troop choice. Multiply by 6 and we're at £435.

Having done that, we move on to HQ:

Emperor's Champion: £9.50

Generic Space Marine Captain to use as Marshal: £14

Chaplain Grimaldus, bought once to get Grimaldus and once for the cenobyte servitors: £20.50x2=£41 (If we use some leftover bitz from the Marshal, we can use "Grimaldus 2" as a generic Chaplain too, saving some cash)

2x Command Squad (cheaper than getting 1 and a box of normal marines+chapter upgrade): £41

Elites:
10x Sword Brethren Terminators (that's "tactical Terminators" for our less devoted brethren in other Chapters): £56. Multiply three times and we're at £102

Fast Attack:
9x Land Speeder Typhoon. That's £18.50x9 or £166.50

Heavy Support:
Omitting Land Raiders, since they wouldn't add much, we instead go for 3x Vindicators. That's £93.

Thus we get a grand total of £902.


HOWEVER:

If we start adding in dedicated transports, as well as taking silly choices, the following happens:

HQ:
+£82 for Land Raiders for HQ choices.

+£(14+41) or £55 for another Marshal and Command Squad for the "Grimaldus 2" to join

+£(41x6-15.5x6) or £153 for Land Raiders for Troop Choices (cost of 6 scout boxes removed to allow squad to take the LRCs)

Elites:
+£123 or Land Raiders (only 8 terminators in each squad, 8x3=24, which saves a box of Termies if not for the fact that we need the CMLs from all the boxes...)

Fast Attack:
Replacing the Land Speeders with Bike Squads with Attack Bikes gives us an additional £7.5

Heavy Support:
"Upgrading" the Vindicators to Land Raiders of any kind gives us an additional £30.

This brings our jolly list up to £1352.5.

If we were allowed to take Dedicated Transports for stuff that can't fit in like certain other Chapters in this list *cough*BloodAngels*cough* we'd have an additional £107 from additional scouts in the troops and Helbrecht getting us 5 scouts in a Command Squad.

All in all, not too shabby for what should be the TRUE horde Marine Chapter (what, me ticked off? No way!).


I also want to nominate the Chaos Space Marines for their Infinity+1 cost thanks to spawns being unlimited.