What is a reasonable amount of points to spend on 'fluff' for a casual game?

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**snooggums**

By fluff I mean non-optimized wargear or equipment taken for the sole purpose of mixing it up between units. For example, taking a plasma pistol or single lightening claw on a SM Squad Leader, purity seals even if don't care for them, terminator honors on Squad Leaders without power weapons, banners, switching one missile launcher in a Dev squad to a HB, etc.

Note that this would be used for pickup games, where I would use the same list each time and I don't really expect my opponent to be a great sport. This is aimed at placating cries of cheese and other whining.

Is 10% too much if I am for some synergy, or 5% for totally useless crud?

**sirlotsofpain**

Long as its fun..... 100 percent. No one will ever care about your win/loss ratio

**Godless-Mimicry**

Is any of that stuff listed even in armies anymore?

**Ailaros**

sirlotsofpain wrote:Long as its fun..... 100 percent. No one will ever care about your win/loss ratio

This. So long as you obey basic force org restrictions, it doesn't matter what you take. If you have opponent's permission, then you don't even need force org.

**Brometheus**

Black Templars have it, right?

**snooggums**

Ailaros wrote:This. So long as you obey basic force org restrictions, it doesn't matter what you take. If you have opponent's permission, then you don't even need force org.

As noted in the first post, I'm not expecting the opponent to be a good sport.

**Buttons**

Ailaros wrote:
sirlotsofpain wrote:Long as its fun..... 100 percent. No one will ever care about your win/loss ratio

This. So long as you obey basic force org restrictions, it doesn't matter what you take. If you have opponent's permission, then you don't even need force org.

Yep, for my lists I often waste points on storm troopers, vanquishers, and carapace armour. Not exactly bad, but far from the most efficient choices.