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I've had this discussion with friends previously. If you could build a 40k army, and money was no object whatsoever, what would it be? Try not to think just in terms of size. GW is handing you a blank check here. +2 for coming up with conversion ideas.

I've always wanted to do a full traitor guard force led by small clusters of Alpha Legion. I would want to model them like a terrorist/insurgency force rather than professional soldiers, with each model looking as though he had looted his equipment from a Guard armory. Tanks and air cavalry would look much the same, and I'd want to have some sort of technical truck conversion standing in for chimeras. Alpha legionnaires would be stand-in squad leaders sprinkled through, with a couple of dedicated Alpha Legion squads. The mortal component might be led by some sort of cult magister type, reminiscent of Kane from Command and Conquer.

A Tau army consisting solely of a Manta.

Giant hells biker army consisting of doom rider and daemonentte (the 3rd? edition sculpts not the current one or the first one)biker chicks riding the B seat all in leather and what not.

or 1 sisters of battle army

I have always wanted to build a BA DreadPod list.
But it's way to expensive in my opinion, you'd need 45 Euro per 100 points.

The idea is very simple:
Take as many droppods and dreadnaughts as possible > thrown them in his base in the first turn > Use your flamers and fragcannons to annihilate his troops and the meltaguns to kill his vehicles.
Next turn assault with your Blood Talons <3

Forge World Cadian's in Hazardous Environment Gear blob squads with Sabre Defense Platforms.

 Wilytank wrote:
A Tau army consisting solely of a Manta.

Get out of my head! Exalted

I always wanted to try an Ork Biker list with Wazdakka. Ypu could get 108 bikers, 30 nob bikers, a boss bike, and wazzdakka in one army if you had the money... but Ork bikers cost 40 bucks for 3.

A titan legion. A WHOLE titan legion.

Fluffy 2000 points of DKOK would be awsome

Waaaghpower wrote:
I always wanted to try an Ork Biker list with Wazdakka. Ypu could get 108 bikers, 30 nob bikers, a boss bike, and wazzdakka in one army if you had the money... but Ork bikers cost 40 bucks for 3.

That's a lot of points right there. 2700 points just in your bikers before Nobs.

An Elysian guard army, full of venerators, Deep striking guardn and drop sentinals.

Well there is only one army I would build then, and that would be a Sister of battle army, the thought of some hundred and fifty to two hundred Sisters on foot backe up by a hundred or so mounted in rhinos. With full support from those nice tanks of theirs and a few pentincence machines makes me drool. Also I would use the Knights Hospitaler emblem and paint them after such a scheme.

I'd recreate the entire Luna Wolves Legion. So that's about 170,000 marines, plus vehicles, and 1 one lifetime spent painting models.

 beej138 wrote:
A titan legion. A WHOLE titan legion.

I know I said don't focus on size, but this is so awesome I'm surprised the idea didn't strike me too. Put me down for Legio Mortis too!

Pre-heresy SW 13th Company.

This is easy!!! I would build an entire company of grey knights!!!!

4x10 terminators
10 paladins
2xinterceptors
2xpurgators
10 purifiers
1champion
Brother captain
2librarians and a master librarian
Grandmaster
3 dreadnaughts
2 landraiders
2 storm ravens
3 dreadknights

One ordo maleus inquisitor with retinue and chimera
Vindicare assassin
The anti psyker assassin

The ENTIRE Ultramarines Chapter.

or

An entire regiment of Imperial Guard, with support from Artillery and Tanks.

It would be a big mech army for me. Most likely blood angels predator and razorbacks everywhere

Complete my DKoK army, with proper fortifications:

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Warhammer_40,000_Terrain/IMPERIAL-FORTRESS-WALLS.html as the main fortification.

http://www.ifelix.co.uk/images994/IMG_0020.jpg (the OOP trench system) surrounding the primary fortress.

The army would consist primarily of veteran/grenadier squads in Vendettas, with heavy artillery and a Sabre platoon to hold the fortifications, and Vultures and Avengers for air support. Oh yes, and an entire squadron of Marauder Destroyers for Apocalypse (in addition to the superheavy tank squadrons I already have).

A proppa Orky army - several thousand points of Orks with all tribes represented, but the majority being footslogging Boyz.

Daemon flying circus

Bloodthirsters
Fateweaver
Deamon Princes



oh and some troops

SQUATS. A WHOLE PLANET'S WORTH OF SQUATS!!

The Ultramarines Chapter, with all the Imperial Support it could call upon.

A crusade, essentially.

Boyz. Thousands and Thousands of boyz.

A freakin' diorama of the 3rd War for Armageddon.

Space Sharks. Lots and lots of Space Sharks in Forge World PA.

A proper Iyanden army. Lots of Wraithguard, a Seer per unit, with a smattering of Wraithlords - but only minimal Aspect Warriors and *NO* Guardians. I'll actually be looking to do this if plastic Wraithguard turn up at any point.

Crux of the army would be former special character Iyanna Arienal - the Craftworld's leading Farseer, with her own Wraithlord companion. I'm planning a counts-as-normal-Wraithlord conversion that has her riding astride its shoulders.

A full Regiment of Shadowswords.

1. All of the forces from the first war for Armeggedon. All of them.

2. A Titan legion

3. A salamanders, SW, GKs, and Sisters of Battle Company.

4. An entire IG regiment.

5. An entire DE Kabal.

6. An entire Tomb World

7. An entire Hive fleet

8. An entire craft world

9. An entire WAAAAAAGH!

10. An entire Tau Sept

11. A ravenwing and a death wing army.

Entire Wolves chapter as described in the codex per the wolf lords on the annulus.

Wolf Scout army with scout sentinels as dreadnoughts? Yes please. Bran Redmaw's company with Apoc data sheets? Yes please.