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Space marines also work well. Points dense, infantry pack well, and boxy vehicles take up less space then others.

I’m a big fan of KR foam for moving my marines and eldar around. Although getting more into magnets for newer armies. Mostly because things like tryanids do not like to slot nice into foam.

Think of why you want to play the army, what units call to you. Take the top 3-5 off your list. Figure out what they need to be supported. Take that. Are there any jobs that need to be done that aren’t covered? Get units that can do that.

You should be able to take and hold objectives. Some you need to get to first, others you can camp from the start of the game.
Some missions require units to take actions. Sometimes in odd places. Having cheep units that can get places and do things is nice.
There are giant robots and tanks out there. Can you kill them?
There are hordes or gribbly things that want to eat your face and/or put a axe into your skull. Can you thin them out before they get to you?

Characters need specific units to join in this edition. Make sure they pair up.

Make sure you like your army. Make sure you have fun.

I thought about suggesting Eldar. The tanks actually don’t pack that poorly, amd the infantry is elite and gets the job done.

But the new plastics, like many modern minis, do not pack tight. Graceful, swooping motions, yes. Lovely sculpts, yes. Pack nice? Nope.

How competitive do you want to be?

The old Force Org Chart is dead. It’s a wild world out there. The only real rule for army building is you can’t take more then 3 of a unit, unless it is battleline, then you can have 6. Might be an exclusion for dedicated transports; I’d need to check.

That’s pretty much it. So the question of “can I do...” is yes. Even in skew lists, taking 3x max squads of most thinks will get you close to the point cap if you have more then one datasheet for your theme.

They way armies are structured in 10th is via detachments. Most of them don’t put restrictions on what units you can take, but do have stratagems and bonuses that promote certain units or play style.

 Quixote wrote:

ccs wrote:

On transport options:
Find something you're willing to carry around.
Then build the most effective force that will fit in that.

Build for the bag? That's a really good idea. Because the experiment is to not carry a bunch of stuff on the busses/trains with me.

Anyone know how big a Ballistus Dreadnought or Invader ATV is? I think those might be the largest models I'm looking at.

Ballistus is on a 90mm round base and stands about 90mm tall. I don’t have an ATV to check.

I’ve built armies to fill cases before. Mostly when I’m mostly done choosing units, and know what slots are left to fill in the trays. For example, my Land Raider tray also has slots for 2 old dreadnoughts, so they tend to be picked together. And if I can get it down to one KRU box, that’s my goal.

 Jidmah wrote:
I'm surprised that so many of you guys still use classic foam trays. The only reason why anyone in my area is still using them is because the bought them a long time ago. Most modern models have fiddly parts that get snapped off why you put them into foam trays, so you lose a lot of spikes, antennas, and cables over time. I mostly use them to transport gretchin or boyz, because I don't really care about them being damaged, and they are neigh indestructible anyways.

Almost everyone else either uses magnetized trays or boxes (Duncan style) to transport everything standing up. If they don't want to spend that much money, they use acoustic/egg tray foam (no clue what the correct English term is) to just lay the models on top and keep them from tumbling around while transporting.

I’ve got 2 KR bags and about 8 boxes worth of foam. I love it. For some armies. I’ll admit, if I was starting over, I’d probably be 100% magnets.

Maybe.

They have a few issues.

They work best in one direction, holding minis down Less good for lateral shocks and torque. If you are just carefully carrying it, not a big deal. But it wants to be upright and not dropped/shaken. I would not want to have to stow a mag box in an overhead compartment, checked luggage, or have to dash across traffic with it.
For minis not on bases, where do you put the mag? Things on flight stems, vehicles, etc. That’s like half my Eldar army.
I don’t have a lot of faith in them holding metal models fast, which is an issue for those of us with older models.

As I’m rebooting my fantasy army, I’m noticing the drastic change in how minis have evolved. This is more extreme then most, as they’ve gone from a rank and flank game with you had blocks of skeletons on movement trays to a skirmish system where they don’t need to worry about lining up. But the new guys are just not built for the foam. Some of that is also the change in material. There was a limit to how fiddly things could be in metal (and early plastics) But they are all getting magnets now.

I had started magnet bases for my Tyranids. That many spikes and claws everywhere is not the best for foam. My Nighthaunt joined them, as wispy bits feel the same about catching on things.

But my Ultras and Eldar will stick with the foam. Not only because I’m already vested in the system, but it suits their models well.

(If there is an English word for egg crate foam, I don’t know it. I have a few sheets of it myself from before I got custom foam. Useful stuff.)

 Overread wrote:
Yeah a lot of people who fly and such will still use foam for their transport of models because magnets are not going to take a lot of bumps and jolts. Plus don't forget the risk that the bumps and jolts could sheer the magnet from the superglue and then you've got a model bouncing around.

Material is also important - magnets are great for plastics and good for smaller resin models. Big heavy chunky resin models and especially anything metal REALLY wants to be in foam not magnets. Small infantry model might be ok but yeah you're dealing with more weight for the magnet to hold and also more potential damage if something comes off and bounces around (no one wants a classic metal dreadnought bouncing around!)


And yeah there's a bunch of models that don't have good spots to put magnets and honestly I've seen 1 creator do some supports that allow you to put a non-magnetizeable model into a magnet tray. They did some neat slots for flying models; but honestly we should have way more options from 3D printing. Fliers should have custom cradles that you magnetize the cradle to the sheet and then the model sits in the cradle and is secured

I still have no idea how I’d ever get my nid gargoyles to the store. I maged the flight stems to the bodies (something I also did with my Eldar jetbikes) because those things do not play well with foam. If I had it over again to do, I’d not use the bottom of the flight stem, and just a normal 32mm base with a lip I could hide a magnet under. And just glue the bug to the top. But now I’ve got the worst of both worlds. The base had no space for a magnet, and the smaller mags holdding the minis to the peg are not the strongest, and probably not up to the jolts of transport.