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Does Chaos count as a single army? I’ve got 3-4K points of EACH of the gods’ daemonic servants. So...between 12-16K of Daemons. Then I have a small pile of Space Marines, mix of 30K style and Black Templars.

The Daemons combo with AoS, but I also have mortals for that; so a big Chaos army there too.

I have at least 2,000 points of every army I have. I forget the exact totals but the last time I added it up I had over 7,000 points of Blood Angels and over 12,000 points of power armor in general.

Blood Angels
Craftworld Eldar
Deathwatch
Grey Knights
Ultramarines
Tau
Catachan
Space Wolves

I also have kill teams of Drew Carey and Harlequins.

I tend to focus on infantry and dreadnoughts so I still need some armor for my Imperium armies.

I also plan on buying the new Sisters of Battle when they are released. I had a sizable metal army about 10 years ago but sold it to pay rent.

Er…

Armies? Meaning what? North of 5k?
Nids
D Eldar
Craftworlds
Astra Militarum (inc Tempestus)
Grey Knights
Death Guard
CSM
SM (probably not got 5k worth but a substantial detachment)
Some knights (again maybe not 5k worth but I've got 5 knights, 4 warglaives)
AD Mech
GSC

I could do a Daemons army but I use them mostly with CSM/DG

I have detachments of inquisition, Custodes.

5K+ each of Space Marines, Tyranids and Chaos (mostly Black Legion, some TS, some Daemons)

Edit:
Oh and a bit of Eldar. Haven't counted recently, maybe 3K.

Just one. Imperium. Working on some Xenos though so I have a second force.

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My main "army" is a tiny force of T'au. Actual armies would be Germany and America, with some USSR; but that's in a different game.

Welcome to the club.

As mentioned, it's perfectly normal to develop 'shinny model syndrome' and it seems like you may be seeking validation for your desire to start other armies.

Well... We're enablers here so sally forth and buy it all.

I think everyone's post here should start with #HumbleBrag. Anyway... I have (though I only play AdMech at the moment):

-AdMech
-Astra Militarum
-Blood Angels
-Craftworld Eldar
-Dark Angels
-Death Guard
-Grey Knights
-Imperial Knights
-Orks
-Space Marines (My own chapter)
-Space Wolves
-Tyranids
-Ultramarines

The Chessonator wrote:
I am brand new to the hobby, building and painting my very first SC box for AdMech. And even though I’ve yet to even play a full game I can’t help but look at other armies and think of eventually building and playing one. Don’t get me wrong, I love the choice I made and if I went back in time would choose AdMech again. Models look great, lore is cool, seems to be a moderately powerful faction when used right. I just can’t help but see other armies and think that they are also cool and might one day down the line start building a new army.

So my question to the group is: how many armies do you have?

I own 11 distinct forces. All of them are far too large to justify.

 oni wrote:

I think everyone's post here should start with #HumbleBrag.

There is absolutely nothing humble about my brag.

Current Armies:
Assembled and 75% painted except for the Squats

Craftworld Eldar
Exodite Eldar
Dark Eldar
Harlequins (less than 2K)
Squats
Blood Angels
Tyranids
Planetary Defense Force

Past Armies

Thousand Sons
Sisters of Battle
Original Squats

Next Army

Looking to grab some Grey Knights while they suck and people are selling.

1 black legion.

~4000+ points of almost fully painted Guard
- most Guardsmen have headswaps or are converted, line infantry has longcoats made of GS
- most vehicles are converted, mostly based on German WW2 stuff

~1000 points of AdMech, 60% painted.
- Some are converted

Had about 850 points of Sisters, that I'm currently giving away.

Planning to get Ork killteam
Maybe tiny force of Eldar exodites, possibly made of Wood Elves

What I have:

Dark Angels (no Primaris; I still have about 1000EUR to spend before I finish this project)

What I really want:

Salamanders (Primaris only)

Genestealer Cults

What I also kind of want:

Khornate Blood Angels (World Eaters)

Word Bearers

Thousand Sons

Mixed Inquisition/Assassins/Scions/Sisters/Grey Knights/Deathwatch

Combined Ad Mech/Imperial Knights

Tyrannids (Swarms of Hormagaunts)

Orks (Hordes of Boys)

Necrons (Masses of Warriors)

Tau (Horrible static gun lines & Kroot!)

Dark Eldar

What I don't really want at all:

Imperial Guard (most of the range looks too dated to me)

Eldar (same problem as guard)

Space Wolves & Deathguard (just never liked the aesthetic)

Everything else I haven't mentioned.

As nearly everyone else has mentioned, it is quite normal to have and want multiple armies.

For me part of the hobby is collecting, building and painting and I really struggle to part with anything that I've put lots of time into.

I have the following:

Blood Angels/Space Marines - Huge force.
Imperial Guard - Large
Chaos Daemons - Very Large
Chaos Marines - Large
Admech - Medium
Deathguard - Medium
Deathwatch - Medium
Imperial Knights - Small
Inquisition - Medium
Custodes - Small
Sisters of Battle - Tiny
Sisters of Silence - Tiny
Assassins - Tiny

Plus various single models from a variety of factions.

I consider a 2-3K force a medium collection.

 WisdomLS wrote:
As nearly everyone else has mentioned, it is quite normal to have and want multiple armies.

For me part of the hobby is collecting, building and painting and I really struggle to part with anything that I've put lots of time into.

I have the following:

Blood Angels/Space Marines - Huge force.
Imperial Guard - Large
Chaos Daemons - Very Large
Chaos Marines - Large
Admech - Medium
Deathguard - Medium
Deathwatch - Medium
Imperial Knights - Small
Inquisition - Medium
Custodes - Small
Sisters of Battle - Tiny
Sisters of Silence - Tiny
Assassins - Tiny

Plus various single models from a variety of factions.

I consider a 2-3K force a medium collection.

When I see in his sig that the BA alone are 30,000 pts, this response is the true #humblebrag

Been playing for around 20 years, only have two armies. Guard and Necrons. Guard is almost 12,000 pts and Necrons around 5,000.

Now my girlfriend also has two armies, around 5,000 pts of Orks and 2,000 pts of Slaanesh Daemons.

Oh and my son has 8,000 pts of Dark Angels.

But me... only two armies.

I own in various sizes of 3k upwards

Orks (Goffs)
Wolves
Eldar (Ulthwe)
Crons (personal tomb world)
IG (Mordians)
Nids (personal hive scheme)
IKs (two in Wolf livery, one personal freeblade)

and have a KDK/WE army in boxes. But not impressed with them so will likely sell them and pick up something else.

UGH... this hurts to think about (all the money and time put into these). Please keep in mind that not all models in these armies are fully assembled or painted. Most are fully assembled... or assembled to the point to where painting would be difficult if I further assembled. And, I only have like two armies painted, and two close to being painted (several other armies are in various states from bare plastic to based to some detail painted). Also, I might need to move some vehicles (like Rhinos) around between armies to make up the full point values.

BUT...

Adeptus Custodes - ~1000 points
Astra Militarum - ~2000 points
Dark Angels - over 4000 points (mostly painted)
Deathwatch - I believe 1000+ points if not closer to 2000
Grey Knights - 1000+ points
Imperial Knights - ~2000 points when allies are included (mostly painted)
Chaos Daemons - Probably over 2000 points but all models bought for Age of Sigmar instead of 40K
Death Guard - ~2000 points
Craftworlds - ~1200-1500 points
Drukhari - over 1000 points
Genestealer Cults - Probably around 750 points
Necrons - ~2000 points (mostly painted)
T'au - ~2000 points (fully painted)
Tyranids - ~2000 points (fully painted)
Ynnari - combining Ynnari-specific, Craftworlds, Drukhari, and Harlequins... 3000+ points

Ugh... hurts again to see how much money and time has gone into just the hobby part of 40K for me (and that doesn't include AoS). My Warhammer New Year's Resolution is to SLOW DOWN so that I don't burn myself out assembling or painting models (as I prefer my models be painted before they hit the table).

Now, of all the armies listed above, Ynnari (or more specifically Drukhari) have been the ones that I've wanted to paint and play on the table the most over the past few years. So, I intend for my 1000 point Drukhari army to be my next painting project.

SG

Dark Angels
Generic CSMs
Night Lords
Death Guard


....for the Dark Gods!

From 3.5 edition to 6th Edition my main army was Chaos Marines/Demons - I have about 7k ish which I rearly use now.

since then I have been playing AdMech/Skitarii/Knights and have about 5k of AdMech, and a Warden, Valiant & several Armigers of each flavour.

Oh and a smattering of various other Imperial forces, e.g. Marines, Deathwatch, Custodes, Scions, Inquisition, Rogue Trader (generally enough for a Kill team or a bit more).

Hrm..

I've got two Guard armies, almost as much Iron Warriors CSM stuff, Eldar, GK, Tau, Sisters, Tyranids, and potentially Custodes here shortly. Used to have Orks as well, have enough loyalist SM stuff to run a 2.5/3k list if I ever got it all coherently put together and painted.

At the moment, two. A pure BA army, and a smattering of whatever Sisters I hadn't sold off to pay for college textbooks.

Primarily collecting the pure BA, might sell the rest of the Sisters off to get new minis once they get released. Depends on finances.

Technically I "have" some Guard, but they're my nephew's infantry-based cadian regiment. Though he wants to expand in to some vehicles. Wants valkyries and vendettas, mostly, I'll grant.

Technically I only own "Vanilla Space Marines". Of course "Vanilla Space Marines" can be seven or eight different chapters at this point, and can be another three if I include DA, BA, and SW (although as stated I don't own any of their specialty models). And also Death Watch with barely a "this counts as that" to be had.

And by nature Marine models can easily stand in for Custodes, Grey Knights, or Chaos as well.

I did stick to one army for a while when I started (40k Orks) but then the addiction kicked in and I now have added 40k Necrons, AoS Sigmar, AoS Khorne, 40k Admech/Knights, 40k Tau ... I'm thinking AoS Skaven might be next

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Death Korps of Krieg (using their Krieg rules) and a Scion army I accidentally started.

 Bobthehero wrote:
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~ and a Scion army I accidentally started.

I love those "accidently started" armies. It's how I ended up with both Italians & a Russian tank destroyer/SPG based force over in WWII Flames of War & Russians in FoW: Team Yankee.

Yeah, bought a few models that I though looked cool and boom, GW releases a Scion codex that actually lets me field 500 pts from those models.

2000+pt
Fearcall 314th (AM) W/p/b
Praetors of Orpheus (SM) W
Cult of the Rusted Claw (GSC) W
1000pt
Dark Mechanicus W
Orphans of P (1k Sons) W
Brothers of Pox (DG) W
500pt
Killteam Cantos (DW) W/p/b
417th Alphic Vipers (MT) W
Sculpters of Flesh W
Ventrillian Nobles
I don't have a problem....
also, many kill teams and several fantasy armies and LOTR armies

Ultramarines (maybe 5 companies worth?)
Deathwatch (maybe 2 companies worth?)
Imperial Guard (enough to do regular Guard, mechanised Guard, air cavalry, multiple armoured companies and a full company of super-heavies, all at once).
Inquisition
Adeptus Mechanicus
Imperial Knights

Chaos Marines
Death Guard
Daemons

Craftworld Eldar
Harlequins

Necrons

Tyranids

Orks

Tau

30K Mechanicum
30K World Eaters