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Whether Unbound, Battleforged, ITC-hammer, etc?

Currently, my favorite "Worst Army" for 1850 points unbound is:

1 Imperial Guard Servitor with Servo Arm...copypasted for 185 units.

Why is this bad?

The model is toughness 3 with a 4+ save, has ONE unwieldy close combat attack, and at the start of the player's turn, you have to roll a D6 to see if it can do ANYTHING that turn. So that's 185 rolls at the start of your turn for individual models to see if you can use them, or if they just stare slack-jawed at the opponent while they take objectives and kick your ass, meaning for most intents and purposes, you're playing with a 50% point handicap.

What is your "Worst Army" you can think of?

Spam only flyers (any kind). You will lose turn one for not having any units on the table.

Better IG list: one Valkyrie, nothing else. Automatically lose the game at the end of turn 1.

Actually, that's a pretty strong army since it has so many individual units. It may be one of the most frustrating to play with or against, though!

I was in a friendly tournament where everyone made the worst 1000-pt battle-forged army they could think of. No allies allowed. Here was mine:

Tau CAD
2 Ethereals - 100
9 Crisis Suits - velocity trackers, drone controllers, and shield generators - 675
3 Crisis Suits - velocity trackers, drone controllers, and shield generators - 225

You've got a solid 336 points straight wasted, and you have to remember that this was constructed in the context of facing other awful armies, so shield generators are essentially wasted points on models with a 3+. That is, nobody was going to bring any AP3 or better unless they absolutely had to. The Ethereals are just there to feed your opponent some victory points and otherwise do nothing.

An entire Legion of the Damned army. Can't start on the board so you lose turn 1.

For on the table bad there is dark eldar Ur-ghuls. 15p each in units of 12. They have T3, no save, no shooting, no special move (FnP and fleet thou) and a wooping LD3. They will run of the table before even getting close to assault.

An army of Repentia. No ranged capabilities of any sort, they die easier than Imperial Guardsmen since they never stay in cover and a 6+ invulnerable save is utterly pathetic, and they're expensive enough in terms of points you will not be fielding a horde capable of surviving the losses.

Nothing but Pyrovores.

The awfulness burns.

Inisitorial warband:

61 inquisitors in an 1850 point game. No upgrades. Just stock.

Old one eye as a hq choice. Fill every othrr slot with non synapse. Watch instinctive behaviour play the game for you.

FSE Tau
Commander
-4x Shield Generator

Fill troops with all Crisis Suits with 3x shield generator

GG.

Entire army of Conscripts. Basicly a Red Army in Stalingrad.

Oh and an ugly commissar, for flufiness...

Ws2 Bs2 S3 T3 I3 A1 Ld6 Sv5+, Lasgun, Frag grenade, Flak armour.
They hit nothing, wound only thanks to sheer numbers and panic easily.

 Hawky wrote:
Entire army of Conscripts. Basicly a Red Army in Stalingrad.

Oh and an ugly commissar, for flufiness...

Too bad Commander Chenkov's not a thing anymore.

This isn't exactly relevant, but I remember back in 5th edition you could make a single unit of Blood Angels that cost something like 2500 points, and everyone in it still just had Power Armor levels of defense.

Dude, that Servitor list wins.

But anyway how about 1850 points of Eldar Guardians and nothing else to try and bring down a powerful Codex?

That servitor list can just be made in bound ; )

Take space wulfs and unlock the unlimited servitor madness with an oldstyle wulfy tech priest in that you need only an Hq + 2 Elites detachment.


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I love converting servitors so I might just build it one day just for the fun of it. My guess is that it can actually be quite good as long as you figure out a fast way to do the mindlocks.

NIDS
Death leaper
6×9 deep striking ripper swarms (810)
3×9 sky slasher swarms (486)
3×3 pyrovores (360)
1 biovore
1826pts
all subject to instinctive behaviour nothing tougher than t4.
might be fun to try but no just no.

DE - plain Archon, everything else is a stock Wych unit. Footslog the lot and let the tears flow.

Technically, if I write an army list, but leave it blank, is that not the worst army possible as it has a total of zero capability of winning the game as it contains no models of any sort?

Or is that the smartass answer that disqualifies me from entering the "worst army" competition?

All Grots? No armor, slow, weak and terribad LD.
Although I'd put them up against that conscript list for fun

Zounds of the Ethereal Council formation.

Min 3 ethereals (including aun'va/shi), max 7
They're Fearless (quite a bonus to make the game longer)
They're all part of one, indivisible unit
They don't have any ranged weapon
They don't have any dedicated transport
They invoke all auras at once, within 24" (the only one helpful is FnP 6+)

Each little group is like puckling berries from a tree: 3 to 7 VPs for each! You don't even need to care about cards!

Codex: SPESS MEHRENS:

FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
.... and suchforth. Auto-lose, and even if you houserule that away you still have an army of immobile Storm Bolter platforms.

I think the Servitor or Ur-ghul armies are "worse" though; they can move, but are easier to kill.

 BBAP wrote:
Codex: SPESS MEHRENS:

FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
.... and suchforth. Auto-lose, and even if you houserule that away you still have an army of immobile Storm Bolter platforms.

Half would come in turn one, and can lock your opponent down while they try and bust through to any objectives you have under more drop pods.

 Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:

 BBAP wrote:
Codex: SPESS MEHRENS:

FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
.... and suchforth. Auto-lose, and even if you houserule that away you still have an army of immobile Storm Bolter platforms.

Half would come in turn one, and can lock your opponent down while they try and bust through to any objectives you have under more drop pods.

"OUR DROP PODS WILL BLOT OUT THE SUN!"

"And then the Space Marines emerge and wipe out the survivors who were not crushed in the barrage?"

"N-no. It's just the drop pods. They're all empty."

"Is this that famed Space Marine cunning battle strategizing bewildering me as to some hidden aspect of the plan?"

 Pouncey wrote:

 Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:

 BBAP wrote:
Codex: SPESS MEHRENS:

FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
FA - Drop Pod
.... and suchforth. Auto-lose, and even if you houserule that away you still have an army of immobile Storm Bolter platforms.

Half would come in turn one, and can lock your opponent down while they try and bust through to any objectives you have under more drop pods.

"OUR DROP PODS WILL BLOT OUT THE SUN!"

"And then the Space Marines emerge and wipe out the survivors who were not crushed in the barrage?"

"N-no. It's just the drop pods. They're all empty."

"Is this that famed Space Marine cunning battle strategizing bewildering me as to some hidden aspect of the plan?"

Land them in a cunning maze lay out that rings every objective and win only using dozens of drop pods

Someone should try that drop-pod list and let us know how it goes. You'd have what, 52 drop pods? Or a few less if you took some missiles on them.

 Lance845 wrote:
Old one eye as a hq choice. Fill every othrr slot with non synapse. Watch instinctive behaviour play the game for you.

You'd be surprised, man. I did this once. I had OOE, Deathleaper, Lictors, mucolids for troops, a Crone, an Exocrine, 2 Mawlocs, a Dakkafex in a pod, and one or two spore mine clusters. I lost, but not to IB. I was going against an equally stupid Renegades and Heretics list of nothing but cultists and I just couldn't kill them all, plus some bad rolls in combat. I only failed like 1 IB check, though. No synapse Nids certainly isn't going to win you any tournaments, but it isn't a terrible idea.

Trying to do this without joke/shenanigans builds I've got pure-Khorne Daemons Codex only (no Daemonkin/supplements), CSM un-Marked mechanized/armoured (no Forge World), and foot Dark Eldar as good candidates for the 'worst possible army'. Foot Battle Sisters, pure GK without Dreadknights, and Gaunt-heavy Tyranids are in my runner-up bin.

As many fully upgraded 15 man Wych squads as you can possibly fit.
Just try and lose to that!

StevetheDestroyeOfWorlds wrote:
As many fully upgraded 15 man Wych squads as you can possibly fit.
Just try and lose to that!

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I'm thinking...

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...Hormagaunts?

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...(They outnumber you 2-1 (or a bit more, depending on how 'fully-upgraded' we're talking), but you've got a 4++, Power from Pain/Combat Drugs, and a Shooting phase)