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Anyone got a massive 40k army, 3000pts or greater? Lets have a look! Heres my 4000pt + space marine/inquisition army.

Over a year old, I should get a new pic. And maybe on the table, rather then the shelf.

~13k worth of Ultras.

I don't remember what the points level of this game was. 4 or 5K I think. But it wasn't the whole collection.

 MegaDave wrote:

Which legions/warbands are present here?

It's a few years out of date, and it's not the best pic, there's some additional Sentinels and a Shadowsword not pictured, but this is most of my painted Imperial Guard.

^Big Guard armies are so cool.

I think there's a little under 8000 points here. Since I took this photo a couple of months ago I've added another unit of warriors, and done the first batch of what will become unit of 30 devilgaunts. So probably over 8k now.

 Insectum7 wrote:
^Big Guard armies are so cool.

Bonus points for if you need to find something in the picture to tell if it’s 40k or epic scale. Becasue you need that for some armies. Epic or just crazy? Looks like crazy! Get this guy a fancy hat, a swagger stick, and point him at that tyranid swarm!

 Vaktathi wrote:
It's a few years out of date, and it's not the best pic, there's some additional Sentinels and a Shadowsword not pictured, but this is most of my painted Imperial Guard.

Hydras...
There is no better way to distinguish a true hobbyist from a power gamer. I don't think hydras have ever been genuinely good in their entire existence.

My marines



It's just tabletop standard and a couple of models are still "in progress", but if you want a closer look:


My guard



Again, it's just tabletop standard and a couple of models are still "in progress", but if you want a closer look:


Don't have a good pic of the now-painted Tyranid army (big enough to eat the guard above) or my Tau force (just a tad smaller than the guard).

and sadly, that's isn't all of my armies (also Necron, Admech, Genestealers, Eldar, AT-43 Karmans, WW2 Americans & Germans, Dust Americans & Germans, High Elves & Vampire Counts)

3500 points of classic metal Sisters... I pushed hard to get them done before plastics arrived. The army is growing as we speak...

Very nicely done everyone. You make me envious of your paint jobs.

really shocked there are no orks yet lol

Oh im defenetly gonna show my big semi painted army heheh.

Well i have some really old pics of my dark angels circa 4th ed. much of it is gone now,









It was used in this little thing we called apocalypse

Full army shot of my various Nurgle forces for 40k. Uploaded this exactly a year ago to the day apparently, not much has been added since then so it's pretty accurate.

Deleted.

^I know we're supposed to be admiring armies but I'm like oOO00oo I like those low profile bases!

Nice amies too though

Very impressive stuff everybody - I love a huge army photo. You can really see how much time effort and dedication people have put into them.

The last time I took a full army photo of my Biel-Tan. It was about 7K points when I took this photo, up to about 8.5K now.

 BlaxicanX wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:
It's a few years out of date, and it's not the best pic, there's some additional Sentinels and a Shadowsword not pictured, but this is most of my painted Imperial Guard.

Hydras...
There is no better way to distinguish a true hobbyist from a power gamer. I don't think hydras have ever been genuinely good in their entire existence.

Eh? Hydras were a very common tournament choice in 5th ed.

Looking at what everyone is calling "massive" I'm starting to think I have too much stuff...

nemesis464 wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:
It's a few years out of date, and it's not the best pic, there's some additional Sentinels and a Shadowsword not pictured, but this is most of my painted Imperial Guard.

Hydras...
There is no better way to distinguish a true hobbyist from a power gamer. I don't think hydras have ever been genuinely good in their entire existence.

Eh? Hydras were a very common tournament choice in 5th ed.

Yeah because they were good
4 shots twin linked at 72", decent armor, not open topped, cammo netting, and the abiiltiy to choose to skyfire or shoot ground targets without penalty at the start of the shooting phase....oh and air tracking so no jink save for aircraft.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Looking at what everyone is calling "massive" I'm starting to think I have too much stuff...

It’s a sliding scale. Always someone higher up then you are.

I honestly don’t think of my collection as massive. It’s just my Ultramarines. I’ve been collecting them forever, and they have grown. They are also fairly points dense, as armies go. But a huge chunk of that is in all the random HQ options. Horde armies can put down half my total model count in a playable list if they put their minds to it.

Here is the last breakdown I did, last fall
Ultramarines. 13,104 points about 363 models

HQ -- 3,196 points, 24% (31 models)
Troops -- 1,979 points, 15% (130 models)
Elites -- 3,019 points, 23% (70 models)
Fast Attack -- 1,068 points, 8% (40 models)
Heavy Support -- 2,186 points, 16% 50 models)
Flyer -- 502 points, 4% (2 models)
Dedicated Transport -- 815 points, 6% (8 models)
Lord of War -- 350 points, 3% (1 model)

HQs are less then 10% of the models, but make up a quarter of the points.

By pure model count, I’ve got a third of the chapter. And a point level that lets me put multiple distinct and viable armies on the table simultaneously. I think that meets the commonly accepted definition of “Massive Amry”.

But I don’t have any world breaking superheavies, FW centerpiece models, or anything like that. Just a lot of the Emperor’s Finest, ready to serve.

There is a lot of crazy on display here

Awesome crazy. The best kind. Thanks for sharing all.

Also hydras used to be awesome against light skimmers and eldar grav tanks. So many shots with no negative modifiers.

 Nevelon wrote:
Here is the last breakdown I did, last fall
Ultramarines. 13,104 points about 363 models

HQ -- 3,196 points, 24% (31 models)
Troops -- 1,979 points, 15% (130 models)
Elites -- 3,019 points, 23% (70 models)
Fast Attack -- 1,068 points, 8% (40 models)
Heavy Support -- 2,186 points, 16% 50 models)
Flyer -- 502 points, 4% (2 models)
Dedicated Transport -- 815 points, 6% (8 models)
Lord of War -- 350 points, 3% (1 model)

HQs are less then 10% of the models, but make up a quarter of the points.

That's a lot of Marines. I know I have about 2 companies of power armour, a full company of Terminators and probably a full Scout company.

Just going on what I remember, my Tyranids hit roughly 16,247 points, but this assumes that I don't own more than 120 Genestealers (I might!), and that I have around 57 Tyranid Warriors (again, I might have more). 3,846 of that is HQ. Might have something to do with the 10 Hive Tyrants (plus Ol' Swarmy) though.

i have a Bigger company worth in foot legionaire /csms for one warband:


An auxiliary force to my 31. mechanized traitor guard of rabble, about company strength because rabble , not a good pic atm.

The 31. itself which is 70 infantry models and a bunch of transports and tanks to which i am adding atm bit more.

Then there's my cursed, which i am expanding right now again a bit so this is outdated but still mostly valid:

I'll be a filthy cheat and throw an ~8000 points Epic army out there, just because it's larger and currently more painted than my modest ~2500 points of taller DG

oh that is cheating.....my epic army has 3 thunderhawks as well.
in 8th ed rules i think it is around 10k points.

My friends epic guard army is even more impressive. along with thunderbolts, a marauder destroyer and such it has an entire artillery battery-9 basalisks, 3 bombards, 3 manticores, some preators, hydras, loads of russ's, chimeras and hell hounds, then all those infantry....so much stuff

Do Marine armies usually have Stormhammers and Baneblades?