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Hey all, I'm finishing up buying everything for my Crimson Fists and I've noticed that I have an awful lot of characters/ HQs. Does anyone else find this? Now that I look at it, I have a similar thing for my Orks but to a far smaller scale. My Crimson Fist officers include:

-Pedro Kantor
-2 Captains on foot
-a Captain with jump pack
-a Captain on a bike
-a Terminator Captain (Lysander model)
-a Chaplain on foot
-a Terminator Chaplain
-a Chaplain on bike
-2 Librarians
-a Terminator Librarian
-a Techmarine

My Orks aren't near as bad, but still include:

-2 Warbosses
-Dok Grotsnik
-2 Pain Boys
-a Big Mek
-3 Meks
-loads of Nobz

How about everyone else? How top-heavy are your armies?

I don't have a single HQ in my entire army. Because I'm just that hardcore and I play Harlequins.

I’ve got more captains then are allowed in a chapter. Plus extra support staff. I’m working on painting my way through the full matrix of HQ options, with each in TDA, PA, JP, and bike.

Now, I’ve also got a ton of troops (and elites/FA/HS) but I’ll admit to having way more characters then I need.

They just look so cool!

 Nevelon wrote:
They just look so cool!

Yeah, I'm guilty of buying any metal Space Marine character I find that I don't already have. The best part is finding second-hand ones and paying less than I would for the "Fine"cast or plastic versions.

I have1 of each character from the Eldar codex except the sniper dude. I also have 10 warlocks on bikes that I custom made and 2 farseers on bikes that I custom made in addition to 5 farseers on foot and 10 warlocks on foot.

I can have 4 heralds in one HQ slot, so yes.

I have:
Lord of change (305 points)
2 DP's (2x 325= 650 points)
2 heralds (2x 95= 190 points)

Makes 1245 out of 1500 points.
Though my DP's become heavy support they are still "top" I think, but without them it's still almost a third of the pionts.

At 1850 I have more heralds and some extra upgrades for the DP's, so the percentage gets bigger.

I have

Ghaz
2 Warbosses
1 Painboy ( I know sad right)
2 Big Mekz (One with Sag, one in MA)
1 Weirdboy
Thats about it, unless your counting nobz, in which case I have dozens.

Well Even though i have so many of the HQ models for my army I have more points in my HS section I believe... I have 4 Vauls wrath batteries, 5 Fire Prisms, 6 Wraithlords, 30 Dark Reapers, and 4 War Walkers. When Wraithkinghts were HS i had 4 of those as well.


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Although fast attack might come close as well. I have 30 Swooping Hawks, 18 Warp Spiders, 7 Vypers,and 3 Crimson hunters. If we want to go all the way to LoW I have 2 Revenant, 2 Scorpion Superheavy Tanks, 1 Phantom, 2 Avatar of Khaine and 5 Wraithkngiths

The issue is that HQ's are just too much fun to design.

I have:
Mechanicum:
-Archmagos Reductor
-Generic Archmagos
-Magos Dominus
-Magos Malagra
-Magos Ordinator
-Magos Reductor
-Generic Magos

Militia:
-Force Commander

AdMech:
-Dominus

Inquisition:
-Inquisitor

AM:
-Count-as-Lord Commissar

Most of the stuff converted/kitbashed. Sometimes out of need, sometimes out of sheer boredom.

Guard and Grey Knights not so much, but for Daemons I have:

Fateweaver
Lord of change
Be'lakor
3 princes
2 Tzeentch heralds
2 nurgle heralds
D Thirster

At 1850 I usually have to run a second detachment so I can fit all of my HQ's... They are by far the most fun though.

For my Exorcists I have:

- My Chapter Master with JP, SB and Relic Blade build from the PA GK box and DA parts
- A second version of him on foot with SS and Axe, this one is one of the old metal Masters of the Chapter
- A five man honour guard
- A Termi-Captain with dual LCs for the 1st Company
- The Black Reach Captain of the 2nd
- Silas Albarec of the 3rd
- Waite Ryder Master of the Fleet and Captain of the 4th. He is build from the limited edition Captain with PF and SB they gave out after they redid their online store. I play him with the rules for Kantor
- Erin Laros of the 5th with a telescopic heavy flamer to play him as Vulkan Hestan
- The incredibly beautiful Chaplain in Termi Armour
- A Chaplain with JP and PF
- The Chaplain from BaC
- A libby in TDA with sword and shield
- A libby with staff
- A libby with axe
- The libby from DV with sword
- A MotF with Conversion Beamer
- And lastly a Techmarine

The last time I looked it made up roughly a third of my SM army and as you can see I don't like bikes

Im the total opposite my list has
Knight Commander Pask...
Thats it...
But it really does come down to preference. To me some armoes have really cool characters to play and Skitarii have none and I like armored companies so there I am. I think having cool characters running around adds a lot of fun to the game for sure

My actual armies don't tend to be very character heavy but I do have a weakness for making characters. Thus, a couple of year ago I came up with this list:

Marneus Calgar
Armour of Antilochus

Honour Guard
2 Relic Blades
Standard of the Emperor Ascendent
Drop Pod

Captain Sicarius

Chief Librarian Tigurius

Captain
Artificer Armour, Relic Blade, The Shield Eternal

Terminator Captain
Thunder hammer, Storm Shield

Captain
Bike, Lightning claw, The Primarch's Wrath

Captain
Jump pack, The Burning Blade

Chaplain
Jump pack, Digital Weapons

Librarian
Mastery 2, Bike, Force Axe

Librarian
Mastery 2, Terminator Armour, Force Axe, Storm Bolter

Librarian
Mastery 2, Force Axe, The Armour Indomintus

My Blood Ravens


Lysander (Gabe Angelos, Chapter Master)
Tyberos the Red Wake (First Captain)
Calgar (2nd)
Pedro Kantor 3rd
Vulkan 4th
Helbretch 5th
Khan on bike 6th (tba)
Cpatain with Burning Blade, Shield Eternal, Armour Indom 7th
Shrike 8th
BAC captain (9th)
Sicarius 10th
Emperor's Champion (Apollo Diomedes, Chapter Champion, using Sigismund, tba)
Captain with thunder hammer/stormshield (Emperor's Champion [blood ravens have their own version], tba
TDA libby
Tiguirius (chief libby, tba)
Cassius (master of sanctity, tba)
Grimaldus (BAC chaplain)
Plasma pistol chaplain (DV)
Sword libby from Deathwatch (in mail)

Krieg Colonel, Krieg Commissar Lord (custom model), Krieg Quartermaster, Tempestor Prime (custom model)

HQ Matrix:


Captains:


Pics are a bit out of date. A few more painted/built/acquired since then.

Techmarines: on bike, foot w/harness, foot w/arm
Librarians: Bike, TDA, JP, 2 on foot (one deathwatch) (I have another old TDA and foot one that need to be cleaned and primed)
Chaplains: Bike, TDA, JP, Foot. (JP is magnetized, and can swap out his BP for a c-flamer to be Cassius)
Captains: Bike, 2xTDA, JP, 6 basic PA, (one more 2nd ed captain not pictured)

Calgar, Chronos, Talion, Counts-as Sicarius

In addition, I’ve got 30k Master of Signal and Primus Medace on the bench getting assembled.

Not really, except for daemons, but that's how they're designed.

CSM (~6k)
Ahriman
PA Sorceror
Termie Sorceror
Juggerlord
Warpsmith

Daemons (~3k)
Fateweaver
LoC
Belakor
Tz Prince
2x Tz Heralds on Disk
Tz Herald on foot

Tau (~2.5k)
Commander
Darkstrider

Marines (~2k)
Termie Chaplain

Sisters (~1.8k)
St Celestine
Cannoness

I also have a single Commisar from IG (and I don't own any other guard stuff), just to paint because I love the model.

I think I have 23-24 SM HQ's, an Inquisitor, and an IG Tank commander.

I have a Tech-priest Dominus, Commander Farsight, a regular Commander, and an Ethereal. That's about 4 HQs for my entire force. (Which is about 5000 points total)

For my Dark Angels, I have:
Azrael (although he's now a LOW I still tend to think of him as an HQ)
Belial
Sammael (in Sableclaw)
Ezekiel
DV Company Master
Company Master with Relic Blade and Storm Shield
DV Librarian
Librarian with Staff (the clampack one)
Librarian with Axe and Plasma Pistol
Librarian in Terminator Armor (the Finecast one)
Interrogator Chaplain from DV
Chaplain on Jump Pack
Interrogator Chaplain on bike (kitbash)

For my Khorne Daemonkin:
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage
DV Chaos Lord
Chaos Lord on Juggernaut (old metal model)
Daemon Prince
Herald (unassembled)
I also sometimes use one of the DV Chosen as a Chaos Lord since they look more fancy than regular CSM.

For my Tau:
Commander (the Finecast one)
Ethereal (Finecast)
Ethereal on Hover Drone
Cadre Fireblade
Darkstrider

For actual Chaos Space Marines:
Be'lakor
Dark Apostle
Cypher
Others are shared with my KDK

My wolves are mostly troops 50 grey hunters and the same number of bloodclaws.

I have
Ork hqs
-Zhadsnark (counts as)
-Snikrot (though technically not an hq)
-Kaprain badruk (counts as)
-Zagstruk (counts as)
-2x Warboss (1 aobr and 1 kitbash)
-Warboss MA (aobr)
-Warboss warbike
-4x Mek (1 official model, 3 kitbashed)
-Bigmek MA
-Bigmek warbike SAG
-Bigmek warbike KFF
-Painboy x2
-Painboy warbike
-Kustom meka dread (made from riptide)
-sad thing is I still have more ork hqs on the kit bash back burner

Non ork hqs
-2 x tau etherials w/ honor blades and drone (the limited edition Starter box ones)
-planning on buying a tau suit camander, as well as kit bashing a Coldstar suit comander
-Tech priest dominus

Lol with necrons I've wanted to take every single unique HQ(though ID rather take 0 if I could, I like all their formations so much better). Same with Eldar and seer councles(I have enough guys to run 2) librarians in GK(4 (2 CADs). Skitarri doesn't have an HQ though, and I personally have the DE HQs... With GW I know people love those wolf Lords, but meh, I just take them for TW and allied drop pods hehe... Also Logan Grimer is a boss.

At one point I had way more librarians than I needed, finally sold them off a while back to DA players in need. At one point I had:

Zeke
3x terminator librarians (the finecast and 2 custom)
3x bike librarians, custom made
6x basic librarians, the DV, 2 modified DV, 2 custom and a finecast

I've now narrowed it down to Zeke, 3 basic, 2 terminator, and 2 bike, but can always borrow my others from the guys I sold them to since the keep their stuff at our club and gave me the required approval.

On top of that, I do have 6 company masters (3 custom) that I almost never use because I have a librarian fetish.

Inq: Lots of HQ's
Orks: Almoost no HQ's when I field them
But I do have tons of Hq's for them including 3 warpheads 3 Big meks 4 6 warbosses but no mega :\ 4 pain boyz and a few regular meks

For my Daemons I have a fair amount, I think something like;
-Lord of Change
-3x Heralds of Tzeentch
-1x Herald of Slaanesh
-1x Herald of Nurgle
-3x DPs
-Fateweaver
-Blue Scribes

Apparently, I don't like Khorne...

My other armies aren't that top heavy though. I've only got two HQs for my Tau and Dark Eldar, three for my Eldar, and I guess my Guard are actually somewhat top heavy with seven.

I generally try to limit the number of Characters in my armies. This is partly because I find that a few well-painted characters have a much greater impact visually than a large number which just blend into the rest if the army, but it's mostly because centering your tactics around a few key buffs will generally lead to more interesting games.

Also, as codices and editions change, I've found that line units are the more dependable investments of time and money. In two editions' time I'm more likely to find a use for another Assault Squad than I am five identical Biker-Techmarines or something.

If we include the guys in bits, I have for my marines:

3 Librarians
1 TDA Librarian
1 SHulk TDA Librarian
Tigurius
4 PA Chaplains (1 metal, 2 Calth, 1 Deathwatch)
1 TDA Chaplain
Cassius
1 Techmarine in full Harness
Chronus on foot
Telion
1 Bike Captain
1 TDA Captain
4 Foot Captains (TH/SS captain, 2LC metal guy from Medusa campaign, a PA Sword/Plasma Pistol counts as Sicarius, 1 counts as Pedro done up as a UM)
Marneus Calgar

That's all I can remember...

i find hqs to be the least interesting part of an army. If they suddenly became optional then its unlikely you'd see me using one that didn't change army composition.