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Was playing around with Battlescribe and I found that a twelve-clown, fully-geared Harlequin Troupe can hit a maximum of 513 points, not including dedicated transports. (583 including dedicated transports, by the way.)

Is there any other troop choice in the game that can beat this? What's the most potentially expensive troop choice in your army? I'm curious to see what happens when we all go crazy with upgrades and wargear.

Imperial Guard Infantry Platoon- Command Squad, 5 Infantry Teams, 5 Heavy Weapon Teams, 3 Special Weapon Teams, a Commissar and 6 Chimeras. Plus a tonne of upgrades.

diepotato47 wrote:
Imperial Guard Infantry Platoon- Command Squad, 5 Infantry Teams, 5 Heavy Weapon Teams, 3 Special Weapon Teams, a Commissar and 6 Chimeras. Plus a tonne of upgrades.

You know, I'd totally forgotten about that being a thing.

Just played around with it there and got to 3693 points without forgeworld...

Well, given that we have a clear and obvious winner here, what's the most expensive troop every other army has?

Kataphron Destroyers maxed (12 units) is 720 points?

In 3rd edition there was an Eldar Seer Council that allowed an unlimited number of warlocks.

So that's ∞ right there. Anyone have ∞+1?

But it shouldn't count since it's no longer current.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In 3rd edition there was an Eldar Seer Council that allowed an unlimited number of warlocks.

So that's ∞ right there. Anyone have ∞+1?

But it shouldn't count since it's no longer current.

Wait seer councils were troops in 3rd? Woah. Eldar OP.

Also, for my input, a maxed-out Castelax troops choice from the Mechanicum.is 880 points. If there was a way to make Thanatar-Cynis troops they'd almost certainly be the best at 1455 for 5.

Armoured Battlegroup troop tank squadron could also be pretty expensive.

170p for a tank + all that upgrades could make around 250 points for single tank, times three.

So roughly 750p for 3 tanks.

I mean, if you're just talking compulsory choices for an army, you could build a heresy army to be 2950 points with one model.

My personal best is 1075 points for my one compulsory model.

Well, if you take maximum upgrades on a Crusader Squad (5 Neophytes, 1 Sword Brother with two Thunder Hammers and melta bombs, 1 Initiate with a Gravgun, 1 Initiate with a Grav Cannon) and give them a Land Raider Crusader with ALL THE UPGRADES and every single Legacy of Glory possible, you can get a 975 pt squad.

5th ed Blood Angels could take a 30 man squad of death company with JP and dual TH for 95ppm. The squad could also include Lemartes for another 150, bringing the grand total to 3,000 pts for 30 DC + Lemartes in a troop slot.

 Mulletdude wrote:
5th ed Blood Angels could take a 30 man squad of death company with JP and dual TH for 95ppm. The squad could also include Lemartes for another 150, bringing the grand total to 3,000 pts for 30 DC + Lemartes in a troop slot.

Thank that takes the bacon

Yeah that sounds like it, aside from being 2 editions out of date. If we allow that, then the 3rd Edition Eldar is still better.

That comes surprisingly close to the Guard platoon.

Can anyone else break the 3000pt mark?

 Unit1126PLL wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In 3rd edition there was an Eldar Seer Council that allowed an unlimited number of warlocks.

So that's ∞ right there. Anyone have ∞+1?

But it shouldn't count since it's no longer current.

Wait seer councils were troops in 3rd? Woah. Eldar OP.

Also, for my input, a maxed-out Castelax troops choice from the Mechanicum.is 880 points. If there was a way to make Thanatar-Cynis troops they'd almost certainly be the best at 1455 for 5.

Good point, I think that was HQ.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In 3rd edition there was an Eldar Seer Council that allowed an unlimited number of warlocks.

So that's ∞ right there. Anyone have ∞+1?

But it shouldn't count since it's no longer current.

Wait seer councils were troops in 3rd? Woah. Eldar OP.

At the other side, Alaitoc with a few min-sized squads of Rangers has allowed to apply the disruption table to all non-mounted infantry units. This table was mean.
Back to the topic, my armies (Necrons, Eldar, and whatnot) don't have such expensive troop choice, don't they?

Maxed out Rampart Shield formation is around 800 points for 15 models.

 wuestenfux wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In 3rd edition there was an Eldar Seer Council that allowed an unlimited number of warlocks.

So that's ∞ right there. Anyone have ∞+1?

But it shouldn't count since it's no longer current.

Wait seer councils were troops in 3rd? Woah. Eldar OP.

At the other side, Alaitoc with a few min-sized squads of Rangers has allowed to apply the disruption table to all non-mounted infantry units. This table was mean.
Back to the topic, my armies (Necrons, Eldar, and whatnot) don't have such expensive troop choice, don't they?

Most expensive thing I can come up with is a fully upgraded Storm Guardian squad with fully-upgraded Wave Serpent at 490, but most of the points come from the Serpent.

1,076 for 10 deathwatch veterans with twin thunderhammer + blackshield + fully upgraded corvus.

Dark Eldar Wyches, because they are 10 points for literally nothing.

/s

As a single troops choice? Unlikely you'll touch the Infantry Platoon.

It won't have a commissar, by the way (technically he's HQ, even if he needs no slot) but I think it can have a conscript squad instead?

As a single unit? The Warlord Titan or Green Tide get close.

Maxed-out Castellax(5 with all the stuff): 880 pts.....
Put a Magos Dominus in it.....

locarno24 wrote:
As a single troops choice? Unlikely you'll touch the Infantry Platoon.

It won't have a commissar, by the way (technically he's HQ, even if he needs no slot) but I think it can have a conscript squad instead?

As a single unit? The Warlord Titan or Green Tide get close.

If we're going for any single unit then the Kill Team formations form a single unit from an unlimited number of choices for a score of infinite points.

Tau (Farsight Enclaves): 943p
18 Gun Drones
9 Crisis suits (Bonding Knife Ritual)
8 Shas'ui
- 2 Missile Pods
- Shield Generator
1 Shas'vre
- Multi-Spectrum Sensor Suit
- Shield Generator
- Iridium

 Vector Strike wrote:
Tau (Farsight Enclaves): 943p
18 Gun Drones
9 Crisis suits (Bonding Knife Ritual)
8 Shas'ui
- 2 Missile Pods
- Shield Generator
1 Shas'vre
- Multi-Spectrum Sensor Suit
- Shield Generator
- Iridium

isn't this 3 troops choices ?

No, that's one squad of suits, everything else is upgrades.

 Robin5t wrote:
That comes surprisingly close to the Guard platoon.

Can anyone else break the 3000pt mark?

I've got 4,217 for an Elysian platoon, their Dedicated Transports are more expensive.

A Grey Knight Terminator squad caps out at 790pts including the Land Raider. An Inquisitorial Henchmen warband may not be strictly speaking a Troops choice, but twelve Eviscerator/plasma gun Priests comes to 1,006pts including the Land Raider. I don't think I can do much better without going into the Heresy.

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Robin5t wrote:
That comes surprisingly close to the Guard platoon.

Can anyone else break the 3000pt mark?

I've got 4,217 for an Elysian platoon, their Dedicated Transports are more expensive.

A Grey Knight Terminator squad caps out at 790pts including the Land Raider. An Inquisitorial Henchmen warband may not be strictly speaking a Troops choice, but twelve Eviscerator/plasma gun Priests comes to 1,006pts including the Land Raider. I don't think I can do much better without going into the Heresy.

I'm not sure even the Heresy could break your 4217! That's the biggest I've seen so far aside from the whacky Deathwatch insanity.

Quick scan of the options in the Heresy has produced 1,455 for a Veletaris/Dracosan platoon in the Solar Auxilia list and 1,355 for a Fulmentarus Terminator squad in a Spartan (Troops under Pride of the Legion), will do a more in-depth check later.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Robin5t wrote:
That comes surprisingly close to the Guard platoon.

Can anyone else break the 3000pt mark?

I've got 4,217 for an Elysian platoon, their Dedicated Transports are more expensive.

A Grey Knight Terminator squad caps out at 790pts including the Land Raider. An Inquisitorial Henchmen warband may not be strictly speaking a Troops choice, but twelve Eviscerator/plasma gun Priests comes to 1,006pts including the Land Raider. I don't think I can do much better without going into the Heresy.

I'm not sure even the Heresy could break your 4217! That's the biggest I've seen so far aside from the whacky Deathwatch insanity.

Deathwatch only have one Troop choice, and I maxed it out at 1071 pts. Still pretty good though.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Robin5t wrote:
That comes surprisingly close to the Guard platoon.

Can anyone else break the 3000pt mark?

I've got 4,217 for an Elysian platoon, their Dedicated Transports are more expensive.

A Grey Knight Terminator squad caps out at 790pts including the Land Raider. An Inquisitorial Henchmen warband may not be strictly speaking a Troops choice, but twelve Eviscerator/plasma gun Priests comes to 1,006pts including the Land Raider. I don't think I can do much better without going into the Heresy.

I'm not sure even the Heresy could break your 4217! That's the biggest I've seen so far aside from the whacky Deathwatch insanity.

Deathwatch only have one Troop choice, and I maxed it out at 1071 pts. Still pretty good though.

Oh I thought someone said it was infinite! My mistake.