Let’s talk through each and every faction in Warhammer 40K and how cheaply you could build a 2000pt army list from their minis…
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0:00 Intro
1:02 Rules to Build an Army
2:55 Space Marines
4:35 Space Marines with Leviathan
5:20 Divergent Chapters Units
6:19 Imperial Knights
6:58 Adeptus Custodes
7:42 Adeptus Mechanicus
8:46 Adepta Sororitas
9:39 Grey Knights
10:40 Astra Militarum
11:33 Chaos Space Marines
12:31 Chaos Knights
13:43 Death Guard
15:01 World Eaters
15:40 Thousand Sons
16:40 Chaos Daemons
17:38 Aeldari
18:28 Drukhari
19:38 Tyranids
20:49 Tyranids with Leviathan
21:25 Genestealer Cults
22:23 Orks
23:17 Necrons
24:33 T’au Empire
25:21 T’au Empire (using Tactical Drones)
26:30 Leagues of Votann
27:35 Overall Leaderboard
30:00 Outro
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Guard All krieg is the most expensive. AT $3930.
3 platoon command squads with a heavy weapon each. $110 each
6 infantry squad with 2 heavy weapons each (krieg resin models obviously) $256 each.
3 cyclops demolition vehicles at $29 each. (Laughs in 25pts for a secondary scorer)
3 deathrider squadrons at $310 each.
3 heavy weapons teams at $132 each
1 medusa carriage batter with required crew $199
3 heavy quad launchers (thud gun) with required crew $79 each
3 heavy mortars with required crew $75 each
1985 points = $3930. Would be viable as hell too. Tons of wounds, objective control, 24 lascannons and lots of artillery.
"We made the Tau and Votann terrible, what should we do?"
"Cut the points price of everything by 20%."
"Won't that also increase the price of buying an army by 20%?"
"$$$$"
The Tormentbringer suggestion is incorrect. You would need two kits in order to make the Tormentbringer on Exalted Chariot.
If you wanted to bend the "counts as" rule a bit…
What you would actually do with a single Slaanesh Chariot kit is to either make a Hellflayer and then replace the main rider to use them on foot as a Herald/Tranceweaver/Viceleader (which will put you at 165 points) or make a Seeker Chariot and use the remaining two Daemonettes as Heralds (185 points).
Additionally the Burning Chariot + Changecaster can additionally take two of the included Blue Horrors and kitbash them as Blue Scribes (use the extra bits you're not using, including the extra Disc and the decorative bits like the books) to bump the points value of the kit from 175 to 250.
wild to me that Chaos Knights still get 35 point nurglings. good for them
What about if I want to add a norn emissary?
I managed to get a 1990 point guard army for $561. It consists of 1 tank commander, a platoon command squad, lord solar, 2 DKOK marshals, 2 units of 20 kriegsmen, 2 field ordinance battery teams, a leman russ demolisher and an exterminator, a scout sentinel, and an allied knight crusader. Granted, the only official GW models in this army is the 10 kriegsmen i got from octarius, the tank commander, and the knight, everything else was proxy printed. This video really shows how 3D printing can save quite a bit of money, especially if you are going infantry heavy.
As someone just getting into the hobby, this was amazingly helpful. Not many good listing videos that aren't focused on competitive or take an hour for 1 list.
You need to remake the CSM list. That's not the units you get for that amount of money.
Love this section already! Would like to know more lists of this type looking at the price of the armies!
I've been eying up Grey Knights as a cheap FUNCTIONAL army, 3 combat patrols and a character or two for ~$600 AUD. Seems pertinent after spending about a billion on my 3.2k Ad-Mech.
The Marines and World Eaters list is strong for it's cheap price point especially the horde of Hellblasters and Berzerkers but dear god….that Necron list is whack as fuck.
If GW ever made Stompas competitive then I would forgive them for how garbage 10th Ed is.
Man I picked an expensive army to focus on this year. Thank God I didn't pull the trigger yet. Rip tau
British youtubers focusing on US Dollars, guess that shows where the income comes from. Shame though.
so dwarfs are the most expensive
For World Eaters i can say that is not 100% true.
I bought 1 Combat Patrol and the Christmas Box and 1 Deamon Lord, 2 MoE and 10 Bloodletters. 375€ 😀 for 1.995 Points
Interesting, point cuts feel like a good thing, but they do make your army more expensive to collect. Double edged sword.
Any chance you do this for orks without stompa?
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POORHAMMER MENTIONED!!!! WTF IS A BORING VIDEO?!?!?
Some end up being a bit odd (like the 4 model Orc army), though some are not really bad or even far off from optimal sets (like Chaos Knights or Gray Knights):
$Cost – Faction – number of points
$380 – Adeptus Custodes – 2000
$415 – Orks – 2030* (have to cut 30 points), only 4 models in the entire army! (Combat Patrol not bad alternative)
$480 – Gray Knights – 2010* (have to cut 10 points)
$480 – Genestealer Cults – 1965
$513 – Thousand Sons – 2000
$517 – Aeldari – 1975
$520 – Tyranids – 1955 / $370 if going halves with someone on Leviathan 1985 pts
$530 – Space Marines – 2020* (have to cut 20 points) / $310 if going halves with someone on Leviathan 1990 pts
$535 – Necrons – 1960 (might be better off just getting Combat Patrols…)
$540 – Chaos Space Marines – 1970
$570 – World Eaters – 1990
$570 – Chaos Daemons – 1980
$575 – Chaos Knights – 1960
$631 – Death Guard – 1975
$635 – Imperial Knights – 1990
$660 – Astra Militarum – 1970
$700 – Drukhari – 1975
$700 – Adeptus Mechanicus – 1955
$750 – Adepta Sororitas – 1985
$800 – T'au Empire – 2000 / $550 alternative build for 1970 points, though overcosted Drones…?
$820 – Leagues of Votann – 1990
Custodes: You can buy a Rhino at MSRP and still have money left over. You should never buy a Rhino, GW doesn't want you to know this, Rhinos are free.
Votann was surprising as I've got like 3k of Votann and paid nowhere near that – although it's mainly because they had quite a few good value limited boxed sets and I sold off a bunch of excess stuff from those in order to get free units – for instance when the Combat Patrols came out I bought two, flogged nearly everything and got 10 Beserks for nothing. Also got two of the Christmas boxes which were super good value and got rid of the excess stuff from those for very cheap stuff too. The worst value thing in Votann I think is the Thunderkyn as they're really not very big models and you only get 3 of them in a full-price box, plus I don't think they've ever featured in any kind of value box.
The Ork list is scrap Knights. 🙂
Just as an experiment I thought I'd see how 30k compares – 2x Age of Darkness boxes equates to a 2,800pt army before adding ANY additional wargear, and counting 3 of the 4 Praetor models and base model consuls. So it's interesting how 30k is considered the "expensive" system when you can actually get a full 3,000pt army for £370 RRP. Although admittedly you'd probably have more fun adding the Astartes Battle Group or some of the more flavourful units in place of a second AoD box.