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I'm currently in a escalation league with my FLGS. Every two weeks we add 250 points to our armies and play a game with our ever increasing force. We are currently sitting at 1,000. And have started to allow allies. Currently nothing is banned from play (though Lords of War cannot be taken until 1,500 points).

Looking at my 1,000 point list. I realized I need a significant amount of reference material to run my little army. Even at 1,000 points this list seems ridiculous.

Codex: Chaos Space Marines
Crimson Slaughter: Codex supplement
Imperial Armour 13
Codex: Chaos Daemons
Codex: Space Marines
Codex: Inquisition
7th edition rule book

That's only running a single chaos space marine detachment, and one inquisition detachment.

Units from one book will reference two others. Weapon profiles wont be included in the book that provides a unit. Special rules from various sources. While I miss the days of only needing the main rule book and a single Codex. Its amazing (and pretty fun) to run my army using various sources. Due to limitations in the main codex, using other books feels like I can make a fun dynamic army with a theme that's playable.

2 to 3. Usually I have my space marines, possibly a supplement for them and usually an ally faction.

Most of the time, I run a pure list. Either SM or Eldar.

I have Stronghold Assault, for fortifications as needed (now that my ADL is not in the main rules) and the WD with the assassin in it (I keep meaning to get my Vindicare on the table)

There are a few formations from other sources I might play some day, but for the most part stick with the main ones in the codex.

So to answer the poll, 1 source, with a very rare 2nd.

I only use one, I hate using allies (despite the fact that I play DE) so I usually just run one faction/source

I very rarely use more than two. Most games I just use one.

The one exception to this is my full Imperial army. It's meant more for Apoc. games and uses 5-6 sources.

In most of my Ork games (which make up about 70% of my games) I tend to only need the base Codex and a supplement book if I'm running a formation of some sort. Tau games only really require the main Codex.

My GK games require the GK codex, Inq codex, soon its quite possible that ill be adding the Space Marine codex, and/or Space Wolves Codex to future games. (The List of Four Armies is in the works).

Playing a strong inquisition force + Some imperial stuff / formations I feel like using that day will usually result in a lot of sources.


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When using orks its usually
Codex orks + White dwarf looted wagon (I used to use +IA8 but no longer... ) and perhaps gazkull for some of the Items. I don't like most of the external ork formations that much they just never seemed that interesting.

Three:

CSM Codex
Siege of Vraks
IA 13

Almost always just one - pure Sisters or pure Necrons.

Sometimes two - Necrons + IA12 or IA3se + C:AM.

Rule book

C:SM

never really needed more then that.

occasional Sentinel of Terra

but even then i usually just go vanilla banana flavored.

Depends on the army and setting. My iron warriors are run on their own while my Thousand Sons are built with Daemon Allies in mind and both are casual lists.

SM will vary between 1 and 5 sources depending on how competitive I am being. Daemons get run on their own, knights can be run pure or as Allies, sisters can be pure or with Allies too.

Tau will be generally run on their own, but I have a Firebase from the previous edition before it got nerfed that was exclusively for use as a slot in ally Formation to my SM army for competitive games.

So, 1-2 normally, max of 5.

Usually only 1, but sometimes 2-3. I sometimes take an Assassin with my Dark Angels, and if I take Cypher's Fallen Champions with my Khorne Daemonkin, I actually need three sources (Codex: Khorne Daemonkin, Codex: Chaos Space Marines and Dataslate: Cypher).

Not counting the rulebook, 1-4 (eventually 5)
Eldar
Harlequins
Dark Eldar
Haemonculous Coven
Eventually Doom of Mymeara.

7th Ed rule book
Dark Eldar Codex
Haemonculus Covens supplement
Craftworlds Codex

Frequently used as well:
Stronghold Assault
Harlequins Codex
IA 11 v2.0

Astral Claws:
IA Badab Chapter Tactics
IA Badab Characters
IA 2
Space Marine Codex
Assassin Dataslate/White Dwarf/Mont'ka
Very very rarely, Inquisition Codex but since mine isn't owned or current I try not to bring that model unless I NEED Coteaz.

Tyranids:
Tyranid Codex
Leviathan
Leviathan Rising 3
Rarely the Deathstorm pamphlets

Orks, and I only have about 1000pts of them:
Stormclaw
Orks
White Dwarf

Atleast my Necrons are just the codex...

I run pure chaos marines every once in a blue moon i might run one of the hellbrute dataslates or daemon allies

Warzone: Atlanta gave a breakdown of how many sources were in every army list that every player brought. You might find that data useful.

Just 1. I run a Imperial Navy unit. I wanted to play them like drop troops, but I still wanted enginseers, and autocannons, so I use vanilla rules just the core book and codex for me.

My BA army requires:

7th Edition Rulebook
Codex: Blood Angels
Shield of Baal: Exterminatus

I also attempted to run it combined with Bjorn and some dreads, in which case in addition to the above, I had to add:

Codex: Space Wolves
Champions of Fenris.

After that, I decided to run a mono-army because every time i needed to look up a rule, it took 20 minutes to find it.