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How many game-ready 40k armies (1500 pts or larger) do you have?
1 army 18% [ 39 ]
2 armies 18% [ 39 ]
3 armies 18% [ 39 ]
4 or more armies 46% [ 99 ]
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Hamburg

Please let us know how many 40k armies do you have ready for game play (painted or not).
I'm interested at the level of 1500 pts or larger.

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Armies: Eldar, Necrons, Blood Angels, Grey Knights; World Eaters (30k); Bloodbound; Cryx, Circle, Cyriss 
   
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Seems kinda weird and arbitrary to say "anything under 1500pts doesn't count, but mountains of unpainted gak does" but, within the parameters of what's being asked: 2.
   
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Bamberg / Erlangen

Two are sitting on the shelf back from 3rd to 5th edition.

Added a third when I started again in 8th.

   
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I have, over 97% painted:

-Speed Freek Orks
-Alternate: All Grots (>3000pts of grots and units converted to be grots)
-Deathwatch
-Admech
-Eldar
-Drukhari
-Harlequins
-Thousand Sons
-Genestealer Cults

<1500pts:

-Guard
-Tau
-Knights
-Tzeentch Daemons
-Inquisiton/sisters of silence/agents etc

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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 Nazrak wrote:
Seems kinda weird and arbitrary to say "anything under 1500pts doesn't count, but mountains of unpainted gak does" but, within the parameters of what's being asked: 2.


This thread was spawned from a poster claiming that having one army with terrible rules isn't bad because the average 40k player has 3 armies and can switch to one of the other armies at any time.

So essentially this question is about who can switch to a different army for playing on a whim.

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7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. 
   
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Italy

Two at the moment, but both quite large for standard games.

I had three (4000-5000 points of Drukhari) in 8th but sold the army 18 months ago, and I wanted to replace it with SoB but the new prices dissuaded me to start collecting them.

 
   
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Fixture of Dakka




Well if that is the case then those are happy people. It would be nice though, if GW warned people about it with some warrning that says, that to have more or less enjoyable time with their armies, one needs to have 2-3 armies. Probably spread over multiple systems in case a core rules changes makes one game unfun.

If you have to kill, then kill in the best manner. If you slaughter, then slaughter in the best manner. Let one of you sharpen his knife so his animal feels no pain. 
   
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I am somewhere between 0 and lots, GW has made some of my army’s unplable without additions since I last used them. And others like my Eldar is probably nearing 15k of points but split into every craftworld.

We also only play 1000 points games so ones like my DE, guard and demons have more points but may not really fit into army of 1500 points. I put down as 4+ but I probably sit as anomaly.
The rules also made my only fully painted army not functional :9
   
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Karol wrote:
Well if that is the case then those are happy people. It would be nice though, if GW warned people about it with some warrning that says, that to have more or less enjoyable time with their armies, one needs to have 2-3 armies. Probably spread over multiple systems in case a core rules changes makes one game unfun.


Not really. During 7th I had only one army, orks, and they were completely unplayable. I simply quit the game.

Nowadays I have two armies which immensely contributed to my enjoyment of the game, but I still think that this isn't the norm.

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7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. 
   
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Under the given limitations, I have 1 army, 2 if you really stretch it, but at 500 points, I have 4.

‘What Lorgar’s fanatics have not seen is that these gods are nothing compared to the power and the majesty of the Machine-God. Already, members of our growing cult are using the grace of the Omnissiah – the true Omnissiah, not Terra’s false prophet – to harness the might of the warp. Geller fields, warp missiles, void shields, all these things you are familiar with. But their underlying principles can be turned to so much more. Through novel exploitations of these technologies we will gain mastery first over the energies of the empyrean, then over the lesser entities, until finally the very gods themselves will bend the knee and recognise the supremacy of the Machine-God"
- Heretek Ardim Protos in Titandeath by Guy Haley 
   
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Battleship Captain





Bristol (UK)

I only have one army.

When expanding, I either expand the one army or buy armies in other game systems.
   
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 Jidmah wrote:


Not really. During 7th I had only one army, orks, and they were completely unplayable. I simply quit the game.

Nowadays I have two armies which immensely contributed to my enjoyment of the game, but I still think that this isn't the norm.


it is hard to judge stuff like this from my perspective. People I know fall in to two camps. People that play for 20+ years who are 35+ years old, have gigantic collections, often recast stuff, sometimes even commercially, and the rest of people between 13-20 having one army. And I just noticed one thing, we don't have any people in their mid 20s that play around here. There is a ton of teens, and some old folks, but no other people.

If you have to kill, then kill in the best manner. If you slaughter, then slaughter in the best manner. Let one of you sharpen his knife so his animal feels no pain. 
   
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Many Ultramarines. I don't even wanna estimate.

Admech is the next biggest, probably 2500 but less than 3k

Grey knights, just skimming 1600 depending on point changes. Terminators makes it easy so it's less then 40 models for the entire faction.

Plague marines skim 1500. From the dark Imperium set I added on 20 pox walkers, a blight crawler, and a squad of marines.
   
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The dark hollows of Kentucky

Does an army whose rules only exist in Legends count?
   
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Lord of the Fleet






London

Marines - approx. 3k
Guard - 5k
Custodes - 3k
Knights - 7.5k
Thousand Sons/Daemons - 1.5k
   
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I have three. Harlequins, Space Wolves, Chaos Knights.

Wolfspear's 2k
Harlequins 2k
Chaos Knights 2k
Spiderfangs 2k
Ossiarch Bonereapers 1k 
   
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lets see, i have my marines and many faction specific kits, they are generically painted so that basically counts for 13 armies there.

cutodes, mechanicum, sisters, guard and knights, so 5 more imperium

for chaod csm, traitor knights, thousand sons so 3 there (need to start a demons army but have not yet)

for xenos main army is orks, also have tau, craftworld, harliquins, and necrons. i have the kits to do Tyranids too, but have not yet asembles so call this 5

so... 28+ armies


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Karol wrote:
 Jidmah wrote:


Not really. During 7th I had only one army, orks, and they were completely unplayable. I simply quit the game.

Nowadays I have two armies which immensely contributed to my enjoyment of the game, but I still think that this isn't the norm.


it is hard to judge stuff like this from my perspective. People I know fall in to two camps. People that play for 20+ years who are 35+ years old, have gigantic collections, often recast stuff, sometimes even commercially, and the rest of people between 13-20 having one army. And I just noticed one thing, we don't have any people in their mid 20s that play around here. There is a ton of teens, and some old folks, but no other people.


I do notice that this kind of thread won't actually tell much on a fan website, even if it doesn't seem like one sometimes, as generally the people here are here because they like the hobby, or used to. Each of my friends, barely have a kill team, but we play 40k online. I'm the exception in my group, but I still mostly prefer small armies for small 40k battles and kill team.

‘What Lorgar’s fanatics have not seen is that these gods are nothing compared to the power and the majesty of the Machine-God. Already, members of our growing cult are using the grace of the Omnissiah – the true Omnissiah, not Terra’s false prophet – to harness the might of the warp. Geller fields, warp missiles, void shields, all these things you are familiar with. But their underlying principles can be turned to so much more. Through novel exploitations of these technologies we will gain mastery first over the energies of the empyrean, then over the lesser entities, until finally the very gods themselves will bend the knee and recognise the supremacy of the Machine-God"
- Heretek Ardim Protos in Titandeath by Guy Haley 
   
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Bamberg / Erlangen

Yep, just look at a PC hardware enthusiast forum and ask for their specs and then compare it with what people are actually using on Steam.

There is quite a big disconnect and whatever the result might be here, it is not representative for the average player.

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a_typical_hero wrote:
Yep, just look at a PC hardware enthusiast forum and ask for their specs and then compare it with what people are actually using on Steam.

There is quite a big disconnect and whatever the result might be here, it is not representative for the average player.


you mean everybody is not running a AMD Epyc or threadripper with dual NVlinked 3090's and 256 gigs of ram with 2 PCIe4 NVME drives running in raid 0 ?

totally agree on polls here for your "average player" being way off. locally there are a few of us who are really into it and then most have 1 army, these fall into 2 camsp usually the ones who have a beautifully painted army that the spend time hobbying and getting just right but rarely play, or the sea of gray who claim its pointless to paint but just play thier (often damaged and full of proxy/counts as models) armies who will not play unless the person agrees to forgo the 10 point deficit for having a non painted army. none are invalid and i am happy to play with either group, drink a few brews, have some fun and throw some dice but mayeb locally 4/20ish active players that i know of have more than 2 armies

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I put 1, but I’m not sure if I even have that.

I don’t own the latest codex and haven’t played 9th edition yet, so I don’t know for sure that I even have 1500 pts. But it is painted. I don’t play with unpainted miniatures. I have plenty of unpainted plastic, but it stays on the sprues. When I build them I paint them before assembling any more.

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Technically several armies. AdMech, Chaos Marines/Chaos Demons, Knights. several smaller armies too mainly Imperium (<500points).

But...:

My Knights would only just reach around 1500points without allies.
The Chaos Marines/Demons would be around 2k-2.5k but it is nowhere near competative options (and it is grey tide) - this was more what looks neat.

AdMech - around 4k ish fairly competative list options, basically fully painted, usually multiple of most options but not more than 2-3 units of each - e.g. 2 onagers fully magnetised, 2 skorpius fully magnetised, 4 ironstriders & 3 dragoons 4 melee & 4 triple phosphor kastellan etc. (I did however invest in Kataphrons - 15 breachers & 9 destroyers...)

Praise the Omnissiah

About 4k of .

Imperial Knights (Valiant, Warden & Armigers)

Some Misc. Imperium units etc. Assassins...

About 2k of  
   
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1500pts+ ?

Dark Angels
Raven Guard
Deathwatch
Eldar
Harlequins (but not at 2000pts yet)
Tau
Iron Warriors (but not quite at 2000pts, need to remedy)

Plus a few odds and ends that I can insert into narrative scenarios...a knight, some guard, inquisitorial retinues

I also don't understand people who claim that their armies were 'unplayable'. What happened, did their bases fall off? Otherwise, you're probably doing tthis whole thing wrong.
   
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Surrey, BC - Canada

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Does an army whose rules only exist in Legends count?


I did...but even if I did not count that one, I have four more all painted up.

Cheers,

CB

   
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 bullyboy wrote:
1500pts+ ?

Dark Angels
Raven Guard
Deathwatch
Eldar
Harlequins (but not at 2000pts yet)
Tau
Iron Warriors (but not quite at 2000pts, need to remedy)

Plus a few odds and ends that I can insert into narrative scenarios...a knight, some guard, inquisitorial retinues

I also don't understand people who claim that their armies were 'unplayable'. What happened, did their bases fall off? Otherwise, you're probably doing tthis whole thing wrong.


i mean 7th edition orks were pretty unplayable. I had one day (same day) where i set up my orks against Imperial guard for my first game of the day. I did not have a model left on the table at the bottom of turn 1, does that mean that I technically played that game? my models were on the table but other than setting up my battlewagons and boyz squads i wasn't involved much. The next game was Tyranids with a biker list to change things up. i again went second and most of my army was gone by bottom of turn 1, i had a biker boys squad and a warboss in combat by my turn who then died in my combat phase so... yay i "got a turn"?

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 wuestenfux wrote:
Please let us know how many 40k armies do you have ready for game play (painted or not).
I'm interested at the level of 1500 pts or larger.


I have 1 faction but I can make at least 5 1,500 point armies out of it without too much effort does that count?

 Tomsug wrote:
Semper krumps under the radar

 
   
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London, UK

I have one playable army currently that I can build multiple 2k lists from although it's very hard to win with Craftworlds right now.

I am working on another army for some variety (Imperial Fists successors) and a third waiting to see some love (Tyranids).

   
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 G00fySmiley wrote:
 bullyboy wrote:
1500pts+ ?

Dark Angels
Raven Guard
Deathwatch
Eldar
Harlequins (but not at 2000pts yet)
Tau
Iron Warriors (but not quite at 2000pts, need to remedy)

Plus a few odds and ends that I can insert into narrative scenarios...a knight, some guard, inquisitorial retinues

I also don't understand people who claim that their armies were 'unplayable'. What happened, did their bases fall off? Otherwise, you're probably doing tthis whole thing wrong.


i mean 7th edition orks were pretty unplayable. I had one day (same day) where i set up my orks against Imperial guard for my first game of the day. I did not have a model left on the table at the bottom of turn 1, does that mean that I technically played that game? my models were on the table but other than setting up my battlewagons and boyz squads i wasn't involved much. The next game was Tyranids with a biker list to change things up. i again went second and most of my army was gone by bottom of turn 1, i had a biker boys squad and a warboss in combat by my turn who then died in my combat phase so... yay i "got a turn"?


oh right, so you just kept on playing the same 'ole 2000pts, let's have at you, games and expected a different result? If GW deems that your army is the trash tier one of the edition (cue Karol), then you have to find opponents who are willing to try something different, home-brew scenarios, pre-determined lists, unbalanced scenarios, etc. There are so many ways to enjoy this game, but people just pigeon hole themselves in 2000pt only games.
   
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The dark hollows of Kentucky

Well, if Legends armies count, then two: about 5k of Night Lords and 2000-2500 points of Renegades and Heretics. I'd have to look at the points in our Legends "rules" to be sure of the actual count.
   
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I mean not the same 2000 points game to game, tried a lot of different builds btu that was basically the worst codex gw ever made.
If you mean 2000 point games, then yea that is basically the format here people don't often have interest in different scenarios. They see anything outside of codex and tournament rules play to be not worth their time. So unless i wanted to play alone the only real option was to shelve the orks for a few years. If i wanted to be something other than being wiped turn 2 or 3 in most games that is.

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