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If that was my total budget I would likely go for a Betrayal at Catch box, and then use the leftover money to round things out. Perhaps a Storm Talon.


Back when 4th edition came out my local gaming store still had a bunch of 3rd edition starter sets (the one with marines and Dark Eldar). They were selling them for $29. Also, on Tuesdays all GW items were 10% off sticker price. I bought all three sets they had remaining for $79. That's 30 marines, 3 Land Speeders, an 60 Dark Eldar Warriors. That formed the cores of Dark Angels and DE force that cost me next to nothing to make.

Maybe this (This is about $300*0.65=$200)
2 * Start Collecting Blood Angels
2 * Death Company
Terminator squad
Razorback

You get
2*Term captain
2*full squad of tacticals, other get rhino
Terminator squad
2*Death company with jump packs
2*Baal Predator


I just bought two boxes of Deathstorm So I have a start of BA. I think I will sell tyranids, other term captain and other squad of terms.

I'd get a Battle for Vedros so all my wildest dreams can come true.

Then I'd get a couple more for the younger kids in my family so when they are old enough they can have a nice miniature wargame to play with their parents .

Can nobz still be troops? If so, my army would have to be CAD orks and allied detachment space marines. Maybe some Deathwatch and some blood axes working together so they can better learn how to defeat each other?

1 box of renegade, followed by a trip to ebay to get another two regular knights at a heavy discount.

I say this, because that's exactly what I did

Eh, if someone gave me $200 and told me to go buy a GW army...

Tau start collecting
Stormsurge (or maybe a Riptide + Broadside)
Sky Ray (switchable to Hammerhead or Devilfish as needed)

Not the most effective list, but it's what I would want.

Assuming I didn't have 3500pts of Dark Eldar already I'd get:

DE start collecting box.
Reaver jet bike box
2 Venoms
3 Sslyth
Lhamaen
Medusae

A Purge Cotorie formation that comes in at around 760pts and I think under budget.

A new Army, eh? First, i had to exchange 200$ into € - i.e. 177€, including the 65% it'll be 292 €.. lemme see;

1x Start Collecting! Flesh-eater courts 65€
1x Heldrake 59€
2x Crypt Ghouls 70€
1x Putrid Blightkings 44€
1x Typhus 20€
1x Space Marine Drop pod 29€

Conversion work for Weeks, but in the end it could be one sexy looking, fluffy list with approx. 1250 points.
In the end, it'll look like this:
Typhus, 5xChosen, 50 Nurgle Zombies, 2 Heldrakes, 3 Spawn & 1 Dreadclaw as dedicated support for the Chosen

I know this is the 40K fourm, but I could use those $200 for another game.

 Capt. Camping wrote:
I know this is the 40K fourm, but I could use those $200 for another game.

Amen brother. Realistically speaking, if I found $200 in cash on the doorstep of a gaming store and HAD TO spend it... it wouldn't be on 40k stuff. At full retail, you could get the below. With discount from places like Amazon, you'd get quite a bit more.

Option #1 - Enough Star Wars X-Wing for two players to have a variety of options in building lists.
Star Wars X-Wing Force Awakens Starter Set $40
Imperial Aces Expansion Pack $30
Imperial Veterans Expansion Pack $30
Lambda-class Shuttle Expansion $30
Rebel Aces Expansion Pack $30
Millennium Falcon Expansion $40

Option #2 - FFG's Decent Board Game with expansion options - seriously, I play this more than 40k these days. Can be played as 1-4 players Coop including solo or 1 vs. 1-4 players.
Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition Core Game $80
Lair of the Wyrm Expansion $40
Dice Pack $10
Oath of the Outcast Heroes and Monsters Collection $35
Crown of Destiny Heroes and Monsters Collection $35
Descent: Road to Legend App $0 - Free for iOS/Android/Steam

Option #3 - FFG's Imperial Assault game with expansion options. This can be played as either a 1 vs. 1-4 players campaign or as a 1 vs. 1 skirmish game.
Star Wars Imperial Assault Core Game $100
Twin Shadows Expansion $40
General Weiss Villain Pack $20
Royal Guard Champion Villain Pack $10
IG-88 Villain Pack $10
Han Solo Ally Pack $10
Chewbacca Ally Pack $10

Option #4 - Age of Sigmar, which at this point is basically fantasy skirmish with simpler rules and army construction than 40k.
There are several armies where $200 retail will get you the General's Handbook and ~1,000 points of models. AoS Matched Play has three tiered army sizes. 1,000 points is the first tier.

I think one major issue with 40k lately is that it's harder and harder to justify spending money on more models when there are so many other alternative, yet similar, forms of entertainment that cost far less. I've just listed 3 games where $200 retail isn't just a small buy in... in 40k terms, it's the equivalent of buying multiple 1850 point armies with full rules and additional sideboard units to give you options in list building. The 4th game I listed, Age of Sigmar is more like 40k, but without the need to spend your first ~$100 on rules.

Maybe a starter box for a AoS Sylvaneth army. Those models are so dope

 Capt. Camping wrote:
I know this is the 40K fourm, but I could use those $200 for another game.

Well, yeah... That $200 buys an awful lot of boardgame, for example.

Or a pretty nice little RTR RC car/truck/buggy.

Not sure you could get a decent drone for that much. I kinda want a FPV drone, but those are still spendy.

If you changed that into pounds it'd come to roughly £155.
With that much id probably go for the Tyranid swarm and start collecting boxes.
That's 109 miniatures!
If you have a 35% discount on top of that you still have £50 to spend. Add what you like you still get a lot of minis

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Capt. Camping wrote:
I know this is the 40K fourm, but I could use those $200 for another game.

Well, yeah... That $200 buys an awful lot of boardgame, for example.

Or a pretty nice little RTR RC car/truck/buggy.

Not sure you could get a decent drone for that much. I kinda want a FPV drone, but those are still spendy.

Even without the 35% discount, I can pretty much buy every single card I needed for Netrunner with 200 bucks.

which I intend to do, considering I already have most of them and am only at the 60 dollar mark.

There are a lot of games out there.

Dropzone Commander almost 1500 points:

Scourge plastic Starter $44
Desolator/Overseer $24.40
Intruder Alpha $12.80
Screamer $23.20
Prowlers $11.20
Prowlers $11.20
Intruder beta $12.80
Reavers $15.60
Rulebook $18.40
Reconquest 1 $18.40
Scourge deck 6.40

or you can buy the two starter box and sale UCM to someone.

If we're going off the topic of the original post and spending that 200 on something else, mine would go towards college. The boring answer, yes, but that's 200 less out of the thankfully already small amount of debt I'm going to have to start paying off a year after I graduate, which will help cut down interest costs immensely. But the thing is, the OP very clearly indicated minis, so let's get back on topic yeah?

Let's just assume that people interested in the topic, in a 40K forum, aren't really interested in what non 40K stuff your interested in.

Kill Team just added a new angle to this challenge.

$65 Kill team leaves you about $235 left to buy additional kill team combinations.

 adamsouza wrote:
Let's just assume that people interested in the topic, in a 40K forum, aren't really interested in what non 40K stuff your interested in.

Kill Team just added a new angle to this challenge.

$65 Kill team leaves you about $235 left to buy additional kill team combinations.

200 not 300 ;D

Yeah it's 200 bucks but you get minis at 65% price.

Ecdain wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
Let's just assume that people interested in the topic, in a 40K forum, aren't really interested in what non 40K stuff your interested in.

Kill Team just added a new angle to this challenge.

$65 Kill team leaves you about $235 left to buy additional kill team combinations.

200 not 300 ;D

This game is just less math intensive when you use the MSRP and assume you have $300 to spend, instead of $200 and you get a 35% discount.

$300 retail at 35% off is $195.

 adamsouza wrote:

Ecdain wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
Let's just assume that people interested in the topic, in a 40K forum, aren't really interested in what non 40K stuff your interested in.

Kill Team just added a new angle to this challenge.

$65 Kill team leaves you about $235 left to buy additional kill team combinations.

200 not 300 ;D

This game is just less math intensive when you use the MSRP and assume you have $300 to spend, instead of $200 and you get a 35% discount.

$300 retail at 35% off is $195.

Makes sense. I just ignored the absurd discount and went with retail price xD, it's a couple pages back. Honestly got way more than expected.

1) Assume the 65% discount applies to all models purchasable from GW's direct site, even though I have no idea where I could find NIB/NOS models that cheap.
2) Assume a 1.25 USD per GBP conversion (because let's be fair, the only way I am going to get a discount on Forgeworld conversion kits is if USD gains or GBP drops, and since the conversion rate has not been below 1.25 USD per GBP in my lifetime, I am going to cap there and round to whole dollars).
3) Assume taxes, shipping and handling, and other extraneous expenses do not count.
4) Assume building an army on fluff is ok under premise.

What I would get with the afformentioned $200, provided the above assumptions:

- 1 Start Collecting Eldar Box $56
- 4 boxes of 4 Guardians $26
- 1 Venom $20
- 1 Corsair Heavy Weapons Team $24
- 1 Corsair Conversion Kit $26
- 1 Corsair Jetbike Upgrade Kit $15
- 1 Eldar Autarch $17

That leaves me $16 for bitz, and I would have the parts for 1 Jetpack Corsair Prince, 1 Void Dreamer on Jetbike, 9 Jetpack Corsairs, 13 Infantry Corsairs, 3 Jetbike Corsairs, the Venom, and the Fire Prism. I am not sure what the points are off the top of my head, but Corsairs have a lot of upgrades that do not necessarily need to be modelled, so those models could get points heavy pretty quick.

If it did not have to be models, I would be buying a $40 photo light box kit, a set of modcubes for $32, some $7 brush masters' brush cleaner, a $9 brush organizer, and two metal wall-mounted display/organizer racks for paint pots for $65. Throw in some painting peripherals like thinning medium, micro-sol, and micro-set and that would probably be it.

1 command squad ( i have two) - $18
(I have infantry for two platoons)
7 Heavy Weapons Boxes - $182

Three Getting started Tyranids boxes:

3 Flyrants with TL Div EG 240x3=720pts
3 Broods of 3 Warriors 2 for melee 1 for range=360ish pts
2 Broods of 12 Gargoyles with Toxin sacks = 270pts
3 Broods of 3 Rippers with deep strike (I think they still come with the warriors) 45ptsx 3 = 135pts

Total: 1485 pts and a dam good Hive fleet Levithian army. With a touch of modding and a large flying base you can turn a Flyrant into a Crone to make this a normal Cad as well :-)

Timeshadow wrote:
Three Getting started Tyranids boxes:

3 Flyrants with TL Div EG 240x3=720pts
3 Broods of 3 Warriors 2 for melee 1 for range=360ish pts
2 Broods of 12 Gargoyles with Toxin sacks = 270pts
3 Broods of 3 Rippers with deep strike (I think they still come with the warriors) 45ptsx 3 = 135pts

Total: 1485 pts and a dam good Hive fleet Levithian army. With a touch of modding and a large flying base you can turn a Flyrant into a Crone to make this a normal Cad as well :-)

In US prices, you have an extra $52 at MSRP to spend after the 3 , $85, getting started boxes to play with, to stay within the $200 with 35% off.

 adamsouza wrote:

Timeshadow wrote:
Three Getting started Tyranids boxes:

3 Flyrants with TL Div EG 240x3=720pts
3 Broods of 3 Warriors 2 for melee 1 for range=360ish pts
2 Broods of 12 Gargoyles with Toxin sacks = 270pts
3 Broods of 3 Rippers with deep strike (I think they still come with the warriors) 45ptsx 3 = 135pts

Total: 1485 pts and a dam good Hive fleet Levithian army. With a touch of modding and a large flying base you can turn a Flyrant into a Crone to make this a normal Cad as well :-)

In US prices, you have an extra $52 at MSRP to spend after the 3 , $85, getting started boxes to play with, to stay within the $200 with 35% off.

Guess I have enough to add a crone or something. If I could find somone to split the deathstorm box with I could add 600 pts of genestealer cultists. Or maby a box of Zoanthropes for the extra warp charge.

I just did an empirical observation. It turns out with about $200 I get three Harlequin halves of Death Masque (minus the Eldrads) and have around $30 left over.