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If time and money were no issue, I'd probably start both Sisters and Astra Militarum. I've had my eye on doing up an Astra Militarum army in the style of British WW1 Desert troops (with Pith helmets and stuff) for a while now. I'd have to get third party models for that (looking at Anvil Industry currently), but it would be cool and much more unique than the ubiquitous Cadians you see everywhere. As for Sisters, I'm confident the upcoming plastic ones will be awesome, and Raging Heroes does a pretty nice line of "not-Sisters" with equivalents for Battle Sisters, Repentia, and Crusaders, plus a lot of characters that are really awesome if I wanted to go that route. I like what I've seen from the beta Sisters book, so I'm sure the full codex will be pretty awesome even if it's not top tier competitive.

I voted SoB meaning, the new plastic SoB.

The most expensive one that I can get the most money for after painting them

Then sell them and buy the stuff I actually want.

Space Wolves for me. I’m currently looking at trimming what I do possess for marines, but if I had the time, space and money - Space Wolves would be what I reach for.

For me, I'm already going to put all of my time and money into Sisters of Battle when they come out, but if I could do something ON TOP OF THAT, then I'd do Genestealer Cult. They're getting such a cool update and everything looks awesome. I'd probably convert them to be regular freedom fighters rather than alien madmen though.

T'au, with all the FW gubbins thrown in and because I have never collected them.

I'd love to do my own custom IG regiment, using loads of 3rd party bits and whatnot.

Alas my time and money are limited so that is a distant dream

If I had no money problems, I would probably buy a PC, but if it had to be a new army, I would buy eldar. They are never a bad faction, FAQs and errata come out and their best units stay the best for an entire edition.

leopard wrote:
What are Eldar called these days?

Craftworlds = Eldar
Drukhari = Dark Eldar
Harlequins = Harlequins
Corsairs = Corsairs (FW-only army that don't seem to be available anymore)
Ynnari = a mix of all Eldar factions introduced in Gathering Storm (three supplements that started moving the story forward for the first time in 30 years at the end of 7th edition). Ynnari = a mix of Eldar, Dark Eldar, Harlequins, and Corsairs.

Hope that helps

SG


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 ZergSmasher wrote:
I've had my eye on doing up an Astra Militarum army in the style of British WW1 Desert troops

May I suggest DKoK for WWI-style armies? They look much more like WWI armies where current Imperial Guard seems to be leaning more toward WWII. That said, I have seen some excellent conversions of current IG models to make them look more like WWI troops.

Using Green Stuff to make IG models look more WWI-ish

SG

The Newman wrote:
If money and time weren't a consideration I'd pick up Skorne and Retribution. And Minions. And also Cygnar, Khador, Legion, and Rhulic Mercs. And then try to convince my local group to switch to a game that doesn't have appallingly poor interfaction balance.

*David Attenborough Voice*

Here, we see a rare example of a species once thought by science to have finally been driven to extinction, a veritable living fossil...the WMH wargaming snob. Its natural habitat has nearly been destroyed by a disastrous new edition, terrible and overpriced plastic/resin miniatures, lackluster fluff and the killing of official community support.

We may be among the last humans to witness it in its majesty. Let's see if we can record its elaborate mating call and dance.

I already play Sisters of Battle, which would obviously be my first choice of "armies I'd play with a infinite budget." $10 an infantry model makes my wallet cry! It's nice to see SoB at the top of the "if I had money, I'd play them" list, though.

But, since I already am a Sisters player, if I were to make another army with a bottomless wallet, I'd play Elysian Drop Troopers.

If I were to pick up a new army considering my real life budget, I'd buy Grey Knights.

I have a dream of making a highly converted, every-model-customized Word Bearers army. I'm actually, very slowly, accumulating bits when and where I can (cheaply) to this end, but it's going to take ages to get to the point where my modeling/sculpting skills are where they need to be to realize it in a manner worth doing.

Not the mention the time and money to work on it...

Might be a little easier if these teases for new Black Legion models actually pans out.

Tau, I really want to make a mobile Tau army with Breachers, Ghostkeels and Kroot, static gunlines are both really boring to play with and against.

Well, as I already have Orks (though there's enough stuff I'd love to do but will never get around to that it might as well count), I'd probably say IG. I've always wanted one of the more "40k" regiments that really leans hard into the ridiculous gothic-ness of the setting , but the toll in time and money would be insane. DKoK, Vostroyans, or an army based around a mountain of Cawdor boxes and bits (so many candles) would be amazing, though.

Alternatively, I've always had a couple of runner-ups in the back of my mind (we all sit around thinking about this, right?). The first, a massively converted Carcharodon army with heavy Polynesian themes (armor painted with intricate black and white "tattoos", toothed weapons, the whole nine yards). Primaris only (models, at least - I know they'd be among the last to receive/trust them), but I'd be torn between taking them in a more traditional, gritty direction or going whole hog on the 40k-ness and running them as Custodes stand-ins with converted AoS Deepkin sharks as jetbikes. The freehand work alone would be enough to make either effectively impossible, though.

Secondly, a complete daemons army themed entirely around Tzeentch. Tzaangors for Bloodletters, the Gryph-chargers from the Stormcast Vanguard-Palladors as juggers, gryph-hounds as hounds of khorne, mounds of brimestone horrors as nurglings, etc.. Not sure it'd ever see much playtime, but it'd look great.

the_scotsman wrote:

The Newman wrote:
If money and time weren't a consideration I'd pick up Skorne and Retribution. And Minions. And also Cygnar, Khador, Legion, and Rhulic Mercs. And then try to convince my local group to switch to a game that doesn't have appallingly poor interfaction balance.

*David Attenborough Voice*

Here, we see a rare example of a species once thought by science to have finally been driven to extinction, a veritable living fossil...the WMH wargaming snob. Its natural habitat has nearly been destroyed by a disastrous new edition, terrible and overpriced plastic/resin miniatures, lackluster fluff and the killing of official community support.

We may be among the last humans to witness it in its majesty. Let's see if we can record its elaborate mating call and dance.

Worth it just for this response.

[slow clap]

If I'm being completely honest Warmachine had plenty of issues of it's own. It's core rules make WH look like it was written by a spastic baboon, but it definitely had issues with model bloat and balance issues within each faction. Whatever other complaints I might have with GW, 40k has never made me as angry as Warmachine did when I was playing it.

Honestly, Grey Knights. I *love* the models, and if the investment in time and money wasn't an issue I'd definitely give them a go. We don't play competitively enough for their currently poor rules to be that much of a big deal. Besides, I have my Drukhari army (that I started collecting back in 7th edition) if I want to kick arse...

 ServiceGames wrote:

leopard wrote:
What are Eldar called these days?

Craftworlds = Eldar
Drukhari = Dark Eldar
Harlequins = Harlequins
Corsairs = Corsairs (FW-only army that don't seem to be available anymore)
Ynnari = a mix of all Eldar factions introduced in Gathering Storm (three supplements that started moving the story forward for the first time in 30 years at the end of 7th edition). Ynnari = a mix of Eldar, Dark Eldar, Harlequins, and Corsairs.

Hope that helps

SG

But what of "AEldari"?

Sisters, no surprise. But Orks are a close second.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 ServiceGames wrote:

leopard wrote:
What are Eldar called these days?

Craftworlds = Eldar
Drukhari = Dark Eldar
Harlequins = Harlequins
Corsairs = Corsairs (FW-only army that don't seem to be available anymore)
Ynnari = a mix of all Eldar factions introduced in Gathering Storm (three supplements that started moving the story forward for the first time in 30 years at the end of 7th edition). Ynnari = a mix of Eldar, Dark Eldar, Harlequins, and Corsairs.

Hope that helps

SG

But what of "AEldari"?

He's out of date. The correct terminology is

All Eldar = Aeuuuhhghghlduhhrieieyei.
Dark Eldar = Drew Carey
Eldar = Asseryanny
Harlequins = Haerleequnz
Corsairs = Squats

Get your terminology right.

Bigot.

I have a GK army I need to finish, but I'd also really like to build a Custodes army at some point.

A World Eaters army has also always been a back burner project id love to try.

FW's lack of support for rules and some kits has rather soured my desire to transition my DKoK and build out a full infantry army of 'em unfortunately, as that would be my next fantasy project.

It would easily be Harlequins. They require the most time to build amazingly and paint amazingly.

the_scotsman wrote:
He's out of date. The correct terminology is

All Eldar = Aeuuuhhghghlduhhrieieyei.
Dark Eldar = Drew Carey
Eldar = Asseryanny
Harlequins = Haerleequnz
Corsairs = Squats

Get your terminology right.

Bigot.

Literally made me laugh out loud at work!

SG

I clicked on "other" because, if I had the time, since I have the money, to paint an entire 40K army I would find "other" better things to do with my time and money.

 Tokhuah wrote:
I clicked on "other" because, if I had the time, since I have the money, to paint an entire 40K army I would find "other" better things to do with my time and money.

Thank you, genius.

If you don't consider your hobby to be worth your time and money, go find a different hobby.

Chaos renegades.

Or Emperor's Children.

I voted Genestealers because their model range is new and all works exceptionally well together aesthetically.

 Tokhuah wrote:
I clicked on "other" because, if I had the time, since I have the money, to paint an entire 40K army I would find "other" better things to do with my time and money.

You mean to say you collect 40k because you don't have the time to do anything else? What could possibly take more time than miniature wargaming?

Necron army with expensive stuff like a tesseract vault.,

 Wunzlez wrote:
Chaos renegades.

Or Emperor's Children.

You do realise that with some fantasy you could get an army easily and cheap that is to your liking.

Nids all day. The sheer "otherness" of this faction makes them interesting to me and the larger models are downright intimidating on the tabletop.

 ServiceGames wrote:
Let's make a hypothetical situation... neither money nor time are an issue, which new mono army would you buy and paint (no soup)? It doesn't have to be for competition... could just be a fluffy army you've been wanting to build (you'll see some that appear to be doubled up on the list, but they are only there if they have a specific set of armor for all of their models for example)

I"m curious which you all would pick.

SG

Drukari, evil space elves are cool. I play Tyranids, otherwise it would be Orkz.