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 ServiceGames wrote:

 Snake Tortoise wrote:
It's a shame we're at a point where army composition is near enough unbound

I'm not sure if this is where you're going with this idea, but I really miss formations from 7th.

Formations being gone and the army building being really free is one of the best things in the 8th edition. I want to choose my army composition myself, instead of forced to use some ready made bundles.

 Zid wrote:
Definitely Custodes.... the most expensive I would say would be Tyranids

I'd say most expensive would be genestealer cults actually.
Nids have a wide range of builds, and can be made with a fairly low model count.
GSC however is just an infantry horde, with low point cost models that have expensive kits.

Death guard

Dark imperium half on ebay x 2
Knight from box set off ebay
Typhus/special chars or just convert a couple from the box set
Termies for extra points

Done.

 GamerGuy wrote:
I'd actually argue the best value 2k list is a space marine one built around the betrayal at calth box...

I agree but sadly thats getting harder and harder and harder to find.

Utramarines, or any Chapter really. Because as you want to expand you can just ally in fun (effective for some people) units.

BrianDavion wrote:

 GamerGuy wrote:
I'd actually argue the best value 2k list is a space marine one built around the betrayal at calth box...

I agree but sadly thats getting harder and harder and harder to find.

Doesn't that have a lot of bolter marines? I think you'd be better off just picking up Hellblasters on eBay anyway.

At this point I'd not advice new players to get minimarines unless they really, really love those models. Primaris is where it's at.

The question of the thread is a bit weird.
When you build up an army, you will usually test a bunch of units before you decide what goes into the tourney list and what goes not.

 wuestenfux wrote:
The question of the thread is a bit weird.
When you build up an army, you will usually test a bunch of units before you decide what goes into the tourney list and what goes not.

Presumably he's in a meta where they can't just borrow models.

 wuestenfux wrote:
The question of the thread is a bit weird.
When you build up an army, you will usually test a bunch of units before you decide what goes into the tourney list and what goes not.

What you suggest would go against idea of cheap...he isn't looking for tournament dominator. More of army that's cheap to build and doesn't lose all the time(if losing wouldn#t be issue 2 stompas would be pretty cheap army)

Probably some variety of Space Marines.

Alternatively, Custodes, since they're very $-points efficient,

 Crimson wrote:
At this point I'd not advice new players to get minimarines unless they really, really love those models. Primaris is where it's at.

I disagree, Primaris might be the way of the future but for now a good marine list is going to employ plenty of the smaller Marines.


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Stux wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 GamerGuy wrote:
I'd actually argue the best value 2k list is a space marine one built around the betrayal at calth box...

I agree but sadly thats getting harder and harder and harder to find.

Doesn't that have a lot of bolter marines? I think you'd be better off just picking up Hellblasters on eBay anyway.

it does but you can pretty easily build a 2 ten man, 1 5 man tac squad and a devestator squad with that, basic bolter marines aren't a bad place to start. but then again when I start a SM army I like to build up around a demi-company core. it just feels right

Renegade knight box set is selling at all my local game stores for 230 canadian. Buy 2 of those and you have ~2000

I don't know why I didn't mention it before, but you can easily do a cheap Custodes army using AoS Stormcasts from the starter set. There are usually plenty on eBay

Just buy 5-6 Boxes of Custodian Vertus Praetors and you're good. Currently they serve any battlefield role pretty nicely.