<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Ideas for counts-as armies / My next army"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Ideas for counts-as armies / My next army MEQ land. My latest thinking on the army-front, is that it would be cool to own several different armies with different playstyles and colour-schemes, but none of them too big. So, as with my DoA army, my next army will probably be 1500-2000 points only and it's gotta have a strong-theme. I'm also pretty keen on making a counts as army, as I'm up for the modelling challenge and I think it would be pretty visually impressive.

So, here are my requirements in a way:
  • Not MEQ

  • Competitive (I'm a keen tourny player so I'm not too interested in playing Tau, Necrons or Witch Hunters)

  • A good counts-as army

    • So I guess, narrowing it down, I've got a choice from Dark Eldar, Deamons, Eldar, Guard, Orks and Tyranids. Here are some of my ideas so far:

    Chaos Kroot using the Dark Eldar codex: Using a combination of War Skiffs (skimmers), carnivores (warriors), vutures (hellions) and more I'd go for a lightly armoured, fast moving kroot raiding force. With the added twist of these kroot being influenced by Chaos, Khorne in fact. I figure this would make sense as Kroot are primal, savage creatures and i can imagine Khorne extending his blessings to them so they can go forth and spill blood in his name. I could have some witch-doctor /shaman elements to represent the more funky side of DE wargear. I think this could be very competitive, and it's certainly not MEQ, but do you think it'd be a confusing counts-as? E.g. too confusing to play at a tourney, because 80% of the army would be made form the plastic Kroot boxed set?

    Skaven in 40k: Ok, so they've been done a lot before, but I still think it's an awesome idea. I'd go with the Guard codex and probably make my rat-men be a cursed guard regiment. That way I could keep the big, hulking IG tanks that I love, and seriously skaven it up. I'd say this is fine on all counts, it wouldn't be too far off guard for it to be a fine-counts as.

    Lizardmen in 40k: So this has been done a lot too, but I think they'd make a good ork army (perhaps not fitting the Lizardmen fluff from Fantasy, where they're pretty clever) but going with a rather brutal look. skinks as grots, big tall, rumbling Meso-American-looking crawlers as battlewagons. What do you think?

    Anyhow, aside from comments on my ideas, I'm also really interested to see what cool counts as armies you've seen or thought off. Inspiration all around please!

    Thanks
    Lunarman

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    Other alternative ideas thrown around a lot are:

    IG Ad Mech armies
    Traitor guard armies (beastman most commonly)
    Squats count as IG
    Khorne counts as SW
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    Empire as Orks?]]>     http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/352094/2540058.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/352094/2540058.page GMT     Ideas for counts-as armies / My next army
    helgrenze wrote:I like the Skaven idea... though you could incorporate some of the bigger fantasy pieces... Doomwheel as a walker, Warp cannons on the tanks.... that kind of thing.


    I'd love to do that! It would be awesome to have warplightning cannons as the turrets for tanks!
    How do you mean, Empire as Orks? You mean, a sort of renaissance abhuman army?
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    Engineer as big Mek or Empire General as Warboss (maybe on scenic bases to make up the size difference).
    Knightly Orders or Mounted Pistoliers with Shootas for Bikes
    Greatswords, Free Company or State Troops for Boyz. (Maybe mix so Great Swords are Big Choppas)
    Griffon mounted characters as Deffkoptas.
    Handgunners/Crossbowmen with guns as Shoot Boyz
    Cannon for 'Kannon'
    Converted BW or Steamtank for BW
    Hellblasters for Zapguns or Lootas

    etc Take a lot of bitz and conversions, but good counts-as, always do that. Fluff would be a pre-imperial world.

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