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Got my Daemons, DE and nids that i run more seriously, but recently ive had the urge to make a more fun / themed army.
I usually play 1,500 - 2,000 point games, so wanted some ideas on weird and wonderful armies i could run.

Not bothered if its competative or not, just wanted something fun and different to play.

Initial ideas:

1: Pure DC - Nice simple idea for this one.
Astowrath and a ton of chappy's with a pure DC army.
Granted i want a unit with packs and lemmy to run with asto, and they cost a fortune in points, but its theme.
Only real questions after that is how many units of DC, what layouts and what transports.

Initially i was going to run a DoA BA list, but cost wise (£) its the same for an assault squad as it is for a unit of DC, which have a ton or more of extra options.

I also want to keep away from GK lists.
Love the models, but hate the way people scream about them all the time.
Kills off any fun i could have running them.


So, thats the general direction i want with an army.
So apart from GK's, any other army is fair game, aslong as its fun to play / themed.

No idea how it would turn out but a Harlequin army? Lots of bright colours leaping around would always be jokes. Also... a gretchin horde would be great fun to play with!

Just some ideas of units to use for lolz from the new CSM

1. CSM Daemon Prince, fully kitted out for 400 pts.
2. Doomrider army with your main warlord being a sorcerer, take lotsa bikes.
3. Deepstrike galore army, take a HQ on a bike or steed and a dimensional key. Take only Termies, Oblits, Raptors and Talons and a Comm Relay. Open the key on turn 2 or 3 whenever you get to your enemy and open up a can wherever you feel like it.
4. Slaneeshi DE/CSM
5. Something my friend is thinking of starting, A Tau-Eldar army with lots of dakka

Panzer army IG.

Take lots of russes. With Veterans as grenadiers in Chimeras.

Or lots of russes, Enginseers and servitors take min veterans and command options.

The all scout vanilla marine list can be fun.

A little more competitive version is a 1st and 10th list, with veterans, scouts, and nothing in between.

A couple 7-10 man bolter guys. 9if you add a chappy. stick em I'm a rhino.
move rhinos up.
when in firing range pile out.
shoot the snot out of whatever it is.
turbo boost rhino to block los.
Run the assult squad up behind the rhinos.
When you are in position dakka and then assault.

chappys are also pro because pms are so good and useful. Those chappies wound most stuff on 2s and get to reroll or just reroll 1s either way you lay down the hurt.

I think it has potential. what points?


Max out bassiliscs and murder turn 1and 2.


Try wolves arjac black ragnar a unit of gh in a lr maybe a wp and comence mudering everything. If you roll well arjack gets like 9 str10 attacks and any unit you touch you pretty mucher murder. khorn would be so pleased. That unit eats 10 man termy. units for breakfast.

A couple I have thought about...

Tzeentch Demon with CSM: 1000 sons allies - basically spamming Bolts and flamers. Small 5-man pink horrors, CSM sorcerer or ahriman with 2 small 1000 sons. Lead the demons with blue scribe and you should have something like 10 bolts. Then you can add some killy with demon princes or something similar.

Wolves are us - Take Canis and 4 or 5 maxed out wolf units add 1 or 2 grey hunters and some fenris wolf riders. Dogs on the run.

The grot war: 3 battlewagons with 4 bolton big shootas and kannon. Stack in 18 grots and 2 slavers. A lot of protected BS 3 grot fire. Or the grot revolt...
180 grots, 9 kannons with maxed out grot crews. Then add some supplementary orks.

Genestealer wars - Limit yourself to genestealers, ymarls, deathleaper, lictors, 1 HQ, and anything that can be deployed by mycetic spores...

Of course you could have some modeling fun... I have been tempted to make a GK army where each of the leaders was modified to look like santa clause. This is to represent showering his opponent with "gift" grenades. You could then do your inquisitor troops to look like santas elves... Kind of make an army look to match the idiocy of the codex rules.

Wolves are us sound fun. Just need wolf riders and a few more wolves.

Tau and with allied dc. Dc chappy with tons of tau shooty. So deep strike some suites and as the dc advance the tau shoot stuff and by turn 2 dc could be in cc or atleast be in double tap range. Kroot too because kroot are funny.
Its silly.

great modeling opertunities

Traitor skitari/ dark mechanicus list. Use ig codex with csm as allies ? lots of development for iron warriors bionic monstrosities and traitor skiratri this would be a ineresting mix of bad ass c/c and useful ranged

Ok, ive decided to make this a 2 part project now.
Run another game with my tzeentch daemons and ended up winning pretty badly, so i see them as rather cheesey (am yet to actually lose a game with them, 7/0/0)

So ive started a sub project to keep me going.

New project: Eldar ghost army.
The idea is simple, i want a pure wraith army to use, so options are a tad limited, but ive yet to see one.

Just ordered 6 box's of wraithguard, 3 wraithlords, 4 warlocks and a farseer. (yes, my wallet is now screaming at me)
However, im liking this project.
It will have a low ish model count, so i can go to town on painting it up to a decent standard, rather than my normal TT models.
Plenty of room for freehand work, so again, i can go nuts with painting.
Granted, the guard are a tad boring and mono-pose, but the lords are amazing kits and seem to be full of possibility.

Funny really, i'd never looked into eldar until i was at a friends earlier playing a game and he had the codex on the floor.
Lovely options, lovely models, only real bad point is the price. (£75 per 10 man unit of wraith guard, plus another £7 for a warlock)

If you are going ghost army... look at the forge world wraithseer model and rules. It could make an interesting add to the army.

It is fun but you will be looking at a small small army. Minimum

3 Wraithlords
20 Wraithguard That in itself is going to be about 1100 points!!!

I would look at some EJB or a JB seer council to provide you some speed otherwise it is going to be point at the objective and hope you can carry the day.

Thanks
EJB and jetseers really dont fit the theme though.
When i said i was planning on having a pure fun/themed army, i ment 100% pure. (unlike the "pure" nurgle armies you see with green flamer of tzeentch added)

Got this roughly so far:

Eldrad
Avatar

10 wraithguard (eldrad goes here)
5 wraithguard: spiritseer
5 wraithguard: spiritseer

wraithlord: laser, SC
wraithlord: laser, SC
wraithlord: laser, EML

Thats just around 1,500 depending on kit, so around the mark im aiming for.

 Jackal wrote:
Thanks
EJB and jetseers really dont fit the theme though.
When i said i was planning on having a pure fun/themed army, i ment 100% pure. (unlike the "pure" nurgle armies you see with green flamer of tzeentch added)

Got this roughly so far:

Eldrad
Avatar

10 wraithguard (eldrad goes here)
5 wraithguard: spiritseer
5 wraithguard: spiritseer

wraithlord: laser, SC
wraithlord: laser, SC
wraithlord: laser, EML

Thats just around 1,500 depending on kit, so around the mark im aiming for.

Just a sad reminder... you need two wraithguard at 10 to qualify as troops. I would add a conceal warlock to each of them so...390 each...

Eldrad 210
Avatar 155
2 x 10 wraithguard 780
Wraithlord 145
Wraithlord 145
Wraithlord 155

I think I would drop the avatar if you are trying to keep it below 1500

Thanks for that
Read that section over and over yet somehow missed the unit size part.

£150 for 2 units, oh well, ill just drink less leading up to xmas

Nidzilla list comes to mind.
You already own nids so some of the models I am sure you have.

2 tyrants 3 small gaunt broods 3 tervigons trygons and carnifex's harpies

I dont have my dex on me and I can probably remember the point costs but you get the idea...
In my current 2500 point list i run 6 but i know i can squeeze in 4 more (with ease) and probably more if i went full nidzilla

works very well against some armies and terrible against others ... dark eldar and blood angels.. well anything really with ap 1 2 3 spam.