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So I just completed painting my first army ever, and I'm already chomping at the bit for my next one. I kind of want to do something unbound, with counts-as models, if necessary, to represent something cool in the fluff or just something fun and a little strange that most people haven't seen.

I need your help! I'm just spitballing, but here were some criteria I wanted to work with-

1. Unbound
2. Not Imperium- or at the very least nothing typical. I might consider trying to make an Officio Assassinorum list for example.
3. Fun, rarely used units. I'm not looking to win tournaments here. I just want something fun. I always loved Inquisitor Karamazov's rules, for example...something about bombing your own guys just appeals to me.
4. Preferably low model count.
5. Something I can spend a lot of time converting/painting

Any suggestions? Go nuts, people.

I'd go Orks.

they're definatly not a low model count army, but IMHO they fit all your other criteria.

Chaos is really fun, as you have access to Daemons and tons of unique guys, depending on what upgrades you throw on them. Dark Eldar and Tyranids are also fun and kinda wonky, as DE are very glass cannon and Nids is all about swarm, but thus need lots of models.

Try out an Inquisitor warband. You can make up some unique lists out of the grey knights codex.

SYKOJAK wrote:
Try out an Inquisitor warband. You can make up some unique lists out of the grey knights codex.

if you're inclined this way pick up codex inqusition, don't but codex grey knights to run Inqusition. given we're rumored to be getting a GK codex drop in 2 weeks or so that'll remove the Inq

BrianDavion wrote:
I'd go Orks.

they're definatly not a low model count army, but IMHO they fit all your other criteria.

Orks would definitely be my pick, but my closest friend in the hobby (and most frequent opponent by far) plays Orks and is proud of his looted stuff. Wouldn't want to steal his thunder.

If you want to do a lot of converting and detailed painting with some cool, not-always-used models. I would take a look at doing chaos daemons/marines.

or even traitor guard. Use the codex for AM, but paint them up like a chaos army, and then you can even tie in some Chaos Allies.

Plenty of chances for conversion there.

Chaos Demons or Nids, if you don't want Orks, I think.

Both have a lot of conversion options and a lot of odd rules.

There's a lot you can do with CSM, in part because they have a bunch of different kinds of units and you can go crazy with conversion work for them.

And they have some neat options.

For example, you could run a night lords army. Lord with pack, a few units of warp talons, and then everything else as raptors. You could run a dark mechanicum army of a warpsmith with terminator retinue in a land raider and then spend all the rest of your points on maulerfiends. You could make a hellbrute cult with a dark apostle and then as many hellbrute cult dataslates you could take, swarm of cultists rushing forward serving their living gods.

Or you could always do juiced up versions of a god list. Play 1ksons but take an HQ sorcerer for each squad so each of them have two sorcerers in them, a master and an apprentice. You could play the ultimate brass tide with a bunch of berzerkers and several juggerlords, etc.

I am having great fun building a CSM army.

Although I didn't go Unbound, I'm creating my own suppplement based off one of the non-Legion chapter fluf sentries in the Codex, where the Chapter Master has turned into a Daemon Prince, and an Inquisitor attached to the chapter has turned into basically a "counts-as Ahriman", and his inquisitorial subordinates have become Sorcercerors in "counts-as 1k Sons" units (fluff and rules here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/608989.page). Anyways, I'm forgetting about competiveness for the moment and trying to go where my imagination takes me, and in my experience so far, the CSM codex is a good vehicle for this type of thing.

My vote is for Chaos Daemons... I'm just getting into them and they have some interesting units... Right now I'm delving into 'Khorne' stuff... I'm working on a list that utilizes Skarbrand. That unit is a good subject for modding/conversion/kitbashing since he doesn't really have an official model.

An unbound army list idea - a herd of Bloodcrushers led by a Skulltaker on juggy.

CHAOS!

MC based daemon lists

Berserkers/Noise Marines/Plague Marines/Thousand Sons CSM are pretty low count too

Lots of CSM and Daemon models that go un-used because they are deemed too weak

 jasper76 wrote:
I am having great fun building a CSM army.

Although I didn't go Unbound, I'm creating my own suppplement based off one of the non-Legion chapter fluf sentries in the Codex, where the Chapter Master has turned into a Daemon Prince, and an Inquisitor attached to the chapter has turned into basically a "counts-as Ahriman", and his inquisitorial subordinates have become Sorcercerors in "counts-as 1k Sons" units (fluff and rules here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/608989.page). Anyways, I'm forgetting about competiveness for the moment and trying to go where my imagination takes me, and in my experience so far, the CSM codex is a good vehicle for this type of thing.

That sounds awesome. I did always wonder life would be like for a marine post-ascension.

You could run an Eldar Foot Melee army >.>

Striking Scorpions, Howling Banshees, Storm Guardians, Harlequins.

 Colpicklejar wrote:

 jasper76 wrote:
I am having great fun building a CSM army.

Although I didn't go Unbound, I'm creating my own suppplement based off one of the non-Legion chapter fluf sentries in the Codex, where the Chapter Master has turned into a Daemon Prince, and an Inquisitor attached to the chapter has turned into basically a "counts-as Ahriman", and his inquisitorial subordinates have become Sorcercerors in "counts-as 1k Sons" units (fluff and rules here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/608989.page). Anyways, I'm forgetting about competiveness for the moment and trying to go where my imagination takes me, and in my experience so far, the CSM codex is a good vehicle for this type of thing.

That sounds awesome. I did always wonder life would be like for a marine post-ascension.

It's a whole lot of fun. As others have said the CSM codex has a lot to work with.


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You can also use most any extra bits and bobs of Space Marine stuff for your conversion projects, if you or your buddies have spare bits.

I worry that Chaos may be a bit too over-the-top evil for me though. Maybe Nurgle is semi-nice enough.

Added bonus for Nurgle is that for CSM he's regarded as the most competitive god your dudes could worship. You're right, him and IMO Tzeencth are the "lesser evil" of the four gods in the fluff.

Something to consider for Nurgle is whether you will enjoy modeling and painting guts, sores, corrosion, decay, earth tones, etc.

I believe the current Plague Marine models are failcast, so there's that to consider, too, if you don't like GW's resin stuff, which I expressly do not personally. A friend of mine told me when he was building his Marines and Chaos Marines, most of his screw up paint or modeling jobs got thrown into a "Nurgle bin" for retreatment and conversion later, and that is how he created most of his Nurgle/Death Guard force.