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I saw a batrep between necrons and tyranids that had a 2000pt nid army weigh in at 13 models. It was a "tyrzilla" army as the guy described it, with like hive tyrant variants, carnifex variants, one brod lord psyker and a death leaper or something like that.

Needless to say it was the lowest model count nid army i've ever seen. I think we mostly expect swarms of nids with some heavies mixed in, or medium units like warriors in the mix.

The necron army was a little more balanced by topheavy with heavies, with a seraptek and a vault. Plus nightbringer and deceiver. But there were some troops. And even a tomb spyder! A rare army in that it was devoid of destroyers.

If you want to see how a totally grossed out on heavies vs an army that had at least some elements of balance it in went, here: https://youtu.be/5A7qEKSg94U


It made me wonder just how small a 2000pt army can be in terms of model numbers.


So hey, just for fun, if you feel like, post a 2,000 point army with as few models as you can manage. I know a pure knight force is gonna be pretty low in model count, obviously. I'm curious to see the results from various factions.

Maybe some people will start a small model number tournament to see what faction can field the best low model count army.

One Warhound Scout Titan. 2000 points on the nose.

It's going to be some kind of armour list for most factions, nothing else is as expensive per model. Custodes can get to 2k within the Rule of 3 with 16 characters (three each of three kinds of Shield-Captain, two kinds of Vexilla, and Trajann), but do an air wing of Ares/Orion and you're down to five.

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
One Warhound Scout Titan. 2000 points on the nose.

Well that was quick. Does the 2000pts cover weapons?

 Matt Swain wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
One Warhound Scout Titan. 2000 points on the nose.

Well that was quick. Does the 2000pts cover weapons?

Yup. All available weapons options are included in the units price.

Three necron seraptek heavy constructs plus canoptek tomb stalker. Four khorne lord of skulls. We should exclude LOWs, because those armys will have the smallest model numbers.

Does it have to be Forged? One Ghazghkull, two Stompaz, one Badrukk.

Ultramarine list without going legends/FW/LoW can do 7 models at 2k.

Mix and match Land Raiders and Repulsors varients to taste, you get 6 of them. Calgar rides in one and Cronos drives another.

Battleforged, using 2 of whatever the HQ+ Heavy Support detachment is called. Chronos lets you keep your model count down by not needing another HQ with points density less then a MBT.

And honestly? Might not play that badly. It’s a LOT of T8 wounds to chew through, and you get a good variety of firepower on the tanks. Calgar helps make up for the lack of CP from detachments, and there are a few that can be used.

Edit:
I forgot you could take repulsors as dedicated transports. So you can drop Calgar and get it down to 6 models in one detachment. Because last I checked, you could take DTs for tanks.

A 2000 point imperial knight army can be like 4-7 models give or take.

This one is just four models, I picked the house at random though.

++ Super-Heavy Detachment +6CP (Imperium - Imperial Knights) [95 PL, 1,924pts] ++

+ Configuration +

Household Choice: Questor Imperialis
. House Terryn

+ Lord of War +

Knight Castellan [30 PL, 704pts]: Character (Knight Lance), Plasma Decimator, Volcano Lance, Warlord
. Two Siegebreaker Cannons and Two Shieldbreaker Missiles: 2x Shieldbreaker Missile, 2x Twin Siegebreaker Cannon

Knight Crusader [25 PL, 452pts]: Heavy Stubber, Thermal Cannon
. Avenger Gatling Cannon w/ Heavy Flamer: Avenger Gatling Cannon, Heavy Flamer

Knight Gallant [20 PL, 384pts]: Meltagun, Reaper Chainsword, Thunderstrike gauntlet

Knight Gallant [20 PL, 384pts]: Meltagun, Reaper Chainsword, Thunderstrike gauntlet

++ Total: [95 PL, 1,924pts] ++

Created with BattleScribe

Ok. Hope someone dopes some small number of models batreps, be interesting to see who wins. I don;t have a giant model in any of my armies, no chaos knight, no imperial night, no vault or seraptekh so I'm out .

I know the tau don't actually have 'knights' but I seem to remember a really huge batlesuit or something that just looked like a gigantic pair of thighs with missile pods stacked on top.

Its called Nidzillia lol. Who every said tryzillia doesn't go on line at all, its been said Nidzillia for 20yrs now.

These are without knights, but you can have 1 model 2k armies if you included knights/titans.

CWE can have 5 or less models easily with their large vehicles (300-900pts) not counting Knights. Then there is Wraithlords, Avatar, etc.. they have a lot of large pointed units.

DE/Ynnari can have a spearhead of 1480pts of 4 models (then after that 3 flyers) for 7 models.

Custodes have a lot as well, with heavy tanks, dreads, etc.. I believe they can be as low as 6 (Going off memory).

Nids can also be super low, 3-4 models b.c they have some large bugs (300-600pts) Harridan, Heriodule, etc.. they are not knights, but many consider them knight EQ. Without them they still have 200+ point sigle models. Flyrants can be 280pts.

Basically any army with large high point costed units can do it.

Now let me think of what a IG Low Model Count army looks like...

Nope, I give up.

Lowest I can think of without Lords of War and within Ro3 is still like a dozen tanks.

Most of the examples are not real lists IMO, besides the knights, but it ain't hard to make a 4-5 knight strong army.

this is a GK army

Draigo
Chaplain

2x5 strikes
1x10 termintors

Librarian
Brother captin
1x10 paladins
1x apothecary

3x5 strikes

4 heroes, 5 including the apothercary and 45 infantry. But if someone wanted to go crazy they could go 4 heroes, 3x10 paladins, 3 apothecaries, 1 ancient.

Edit: eh, it says units in the title, but models in the OP, let's try again:
Daemon Prince with sword+spitter
Daemon Prince with sword+spitter

5 Plague Marines, sword, 2 blight launcher
5 Plague Marines, sword, 2 blight launcher
5 Plague Marines, sword, 2 blight launcher

3 Foetid Bloat-drones

3 PBC

Mortarion
24 models. It's even a 'real' list that I play from time to time