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This is something that's been gnawing at me for quite some time, is it possible (and worthwhile) to get a good IG army on a budget of $200? A Leman Russ alone's $40, and three seems to be what people tell me is good for 1000 point or so army. So, is it worth it?

eBay, baby. It's the only way you're going to make $200 work and still get an army.

The only way you can do any signifigant IG on a budget is to get lucky and buy an army from someone at a discount. That will be more difficult now with the surge in popularity caused by the new dex.

In three to six months when the bandwagoners get tired of the guard you will see lots of guard models for sale.

Wait for that. If you are looking for budget armies at retail the only two good options are Orks and Marines due to the Black Reach set.

halo3uber wrote:This is something that's been gnawing at me for quite some time, is it possible (and worthwhile) to get a good IG army on a budget of $200? A Leman Russ alone's $40, and three seems to be what people tell me is good for 1000 point or so army. So, is it worth it?

Want to work out purchase on my IGs? we'll both benefit i think!

Check to see if have anything to trade that really helps as well.

I would try to find some old Cadian Army boxes that is good start over the current ones.

Gotcha.

I put together 1500 points for about £150, so...

this is a really good point to bring up. for 1000 points IG is the most expencive money wise of all the armys. it always has been and always will be.

on ebay you maybe able to get a discount on some things like the basics. troops sentanals and leman russ.

but the realy cool IG stuff like orgryns and a few of the more intresting leman russ varents are still very expencive.

i personly have been looking out for orgyns and rough riders for a while to give some much needed close combat support balance.

i did miss a chance to get a baneblad for cheep though bums.

halo3uber wrote:This is something that's been gnawing at me for quite some time, is it possible (and worthwhile) to get a good IG army on a budget of $200? A Leman Russ alone's $40, and three seems to be what people tell me is good for 1000 point or so army. So, is it worth it?

Hey halo, I just started the Guard. It depends on what you want to do with your Guardsmen as to whether $200 will be worth spending on them. I'm very lucky in that money is pretty easy right now as I just sold off years worth of M:tG cards and just pushed that over to IG. Things you'll need, at a bare minimum, to meet the FOC:

1HQ $35
2Troops (if veteran squads, you can be really cheap and just run vets). A 10 Guardsmen box retails for about $25, and will include 2 grenade launchers and2 flamers as special weapons. You will have to beg or buy things like plasma guns and melta guns, as you only get one of each in the command squad.

Additional good things:

Regimental Advisors: I think $15 for all three
Valkyries: $60
Chimaeras: $35
Leman Russ, basic: $40
Leman Russ Demolisher: $45
Heavy Weapons Squads: $35

So, just getting the bare bones will cost you $85. If you want to run mech vets, just getting the barebones into Chimaeras can run you another $105. Equip everyone with meltaguns, assuming you can find the bits, and you only come up to... mental math:

CCS 50pts + 40 for melta
Vet Sqd1: 70pts +30 for melta
Vet Sqd2: 70pts + 30 for melta
3 dedicated Chimaeras: 165

Totaling 455 points.

Obviously, if you're going to build your army for a less than competitive environment, or to just play for fun and add variety, you're going to pay even more for IG as you're going to need to buy a lot more models than you would running the cuthroat meltavets style list.

Personally, I've dropped a lot of cash, likely close to $1500, and there's still more stuff I want to get (=I= models, maybe start a second Army that's NOT a horde as painting all this IG is insane)