So here’s my situation, I like the HH as a concept but im picky regarding the units I like and the units I absolutely don’t want to have to paint or build. So I have the following pool of units that I enjoy, is it viable to start an HH heresy army picking only from this pool without being guaranteed to get absolutely destroyed ?

• tactical marines (and support and heavy support)
• assault marines
• sky hunters
• leviathan dreadnought
• cataphractii terminators

I could be open to vehicles like sicarans, rhinos, scorpius and predators but I’d rather not as hate building and painting tanks

As for the special characters for now the only generic ones that I truly dislike are the psyker ones and I’m guessing that I can convert legion specific praetors if I don’t like those available so I wouldn’t be too picky

Does it sound worth it to you to start an army on this premise (I seem to understand that vehicles are quite necessary in this game system) ? Which legion would be the most adapted to something as infantry heavy ?

Edit : Legion specific units are an option too, I just didn’t specify them to keep things open to any legion

Hi,

So as the posts title states, I'm looking to start a Militia army for 30k which I plan to use as an allied detachment to my existing Solar Auxilia force. I don't currently have a 3D printer and won't have access to one for a while so that option is pretty much off the table. The force I want to create also isn't gonna be too big (1000 pts maximum and almost pure infantry).

Basically my main questions are as follows: what would be the best options for cheapish kits to use for infantry and Levy's? Are necromunda upgrade sprues and some things like ash wastes units a good pick for grenadiers maybe? And lastly, is this actually worth it or am I delusional?

Edit: as an added question, what would be a pretty decent army list bearing the almost pure infantry style in mind? I'm willing to include a Malcador or 2 as I already have them in my Auxilia army.

As my on going project of making a force for every legion continues, I am curious about the primarchs.

Those you have used them a lot or fought them, what is the best use case for each?

If you think you know a lot about any number of the even just one, please feel free to share!

Thanks lads

I'm looking at allying some marines into my traitor mechanicus force, they will be fulfilling the I4 close combat support that mechanicus lacks. (I'm aware robots do have some cc units that can hit hard, but their low iniative does hamper them badly)

I was ideally thinking roughly about 500-600points of allies (In a 3k list) X2 10 man squads of Ass. Marines and a centurion (or two just for shenanigan's sake)

Now I'm not set in stone one the idea of assault marines, I was toying with a tac squad and then filled out tac support squads with flamers and some termite drills, but this increases the costs and takes out from my robots (salamandering it up of course).

So my dear redditors, what in your opinions would be a good legion to run assault marines?

I was thinking space wolves due to their move, run, charge. But what other options are there? I've not had chance to look at hereticus options at any depth as I don't have the book to hand, so would be interested to see the thoughts on them.

Cheers in advance

Can anyone please tell me what this symbol is?

I’m new to Warhammer and am not really sure how to go about looking up this insignia. I bought a used Land Raider Proteus (think it’s a Proteus). I plan to use it for my Custodes. I wasn’t sure if this symbol belonged to something specific like a Space Marine Legion. I’m hoping it’s a generic Imperium symbol and I don’t need to remove it. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

I am working on as part of my large HH army projects, a Solar Auxilia army but I honestly don’t know much about their lore besides the basics.

What is a good way to fluff out a Solar Auxilia army? Such as name, origins, characters, fighting style and side they fought on?

Can anyone tell me about how you made yours? Or more about them to help me craft a good narrative for the army? I am thinking of having them be Solar Auxilia that fought with the Alpha Legion…

Any help would be awesome!

i've been looking everywhere and i can't find anything! if anyone has information please let me know!

Now that the Malcador is available as a plastic kit, I suppose it won't be insanely expensive to give the idea a go?

I picked up some mechanicum a while ago to ally with my White Scars or SoS. I then sat down to paint and realized that I didn't have a good idea of colour scheme or background; my first thought was something aligned to the Ordo Sinister, but I couldn't get the mostly grey scheme to work out in an interesting way, and I'm not sure if there are supporting automata in the Ordo.

Did anyone have a cool scheme or background that might work?

I'm just making a spitball list in the event I decided to make a Horus Heresy army. I already have a spartan and deathshroud, a chaplain, and a cataphractii HQ model and just wanted to see what the rest of this list looks like for my potential future shopping list

++ Crusade Force Organisation Chart (LA - XIV: Death Guard) [3,000Pts] ++

+ Expanded Army Lists +

Expanded Army List Profiles:: Exemplary Units On, Legacy Units On

+ Allegiance: +

** XIV: Death Guard**

Allegiance: Traitor

+ Rite of War: +

Rite of War: The Reaping (DG)

+ HQ: +

Centurion [140Pts]: (Chaplain) Master craft one weapon to represent a Crozius Arcanum, Chaplain

. Chaplain: Artificer Armour, Meltabombs, Nemesis Bolter, Toxin Bombs

. . Bolt Pistol

. . Power Weapon: Power Maul

Centurion, Cataphractii [145Pts]

. Champion: Cataphractii Terminator Armour, Combi-Bolter, Grenade Harness, Rad Grenades, Toxin Bombs

. . Power Weapon: Power Axe

. Champion

+ Elites: +

Contemptor Dreadnought Talon [205Pts]

. Contemptor Dreadnought: Gravis Power Fist with in-built ranged weapon, Havoc Launcher, Heavy Alchem Flamer, Kheres Assault Cannon

Deathshroud Terminator Squad [340Pts]: Deathshroud, Deathshroud, Deathshroud, Deathshroud, 4x Grenade Harness, 4x Meltabombs

+ Troops: +

Despoiler Squad [160Pts]

. ** Legion Despoiler Sergeant:** Artificer Armour, Heavy Chainsword, Meltabombs, Plasma Pistol, Toxin Bombs

. 9x Despoilers (collective): 9x Bolt Pistol, 9x Heavy Chainsword

Heavy Support Squad [235Pts]: Autocannon

. ** Legion Support Sergeant:** Artificer Armour, Bolt Pistol

. 9x Legionaries (collective): 9x Bolt Pistol

Heavy Support Squad [285Pts]: Lascannon

. ** Legion Support Sergeant:** Artificer Armour, Bolt Pistol

. 9x Legionaries (collective): 9x Bolt Pistol

Tactical Squad [250Pts]

. ** Legion Tactical Sergeant:** Artificer Armour, Bolt Pistol, Meltabombs, Minor Combi-Weapon - Grenade Launcher, Rad Grenades, Toxin Bombs

. . Chainsword: Chainsword

. 9x Legionaries (collective): 9x Bolt Pistol, 9x Bolter, 9x Chainsword

. Rhino Transport: 1x Hull (Front) Mounted hunter-killer missile, Dozer Blade, Heavy Alchem Flamer, Searchlights

Tactical Squad [250Pts]

. ** Legion Tactical Sergeant:** Artificer Armour, Bolt Pistol, Meltabombs, Minor Combi-Weapon - Grenade Launcher, Rad Grenades, Toxin Bombs

. . Chainsword: Chainsword

. 9x Legionaries (collective): 9x Bolt Pistol, 9x Bolter, 9x Chainsword

. Rhino Transport: 1x Hull (Front) Mounted hunter-killer missile, Dozer Blade, Heavy Alchem Flamer, Searchlights

+ Heavy Support: +

Land Raider Spartan [440Pts]

. Land Raider Spartan: 2x Lascannon Array, Flare Shield, Heavy Alchem Flamer, Hull (Front) Mounted Hunter-Killer Missile, Hull (Front) Mounted Twin-linked Lascannon, Searchlights

Vindicator Squadron [125Pts]

. Vindicator: Centreline Mounted demolisher cannon, Pintle Mounted Heavy Alchem Flamer

+ Primarch: +

Mortarion [425Pts]

++ Total: [3,000Pts] ++

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So I ended up trading models for an Age of Darkness box and a half thinking I'd use it to make a 40k marine army, but I'm pretty much not interested in that at all anymore seeing as I built a different army all while trying to decide what to print to make the models into 40k equivalents. In the meantime I started listening to the audiobooks and am obsessed with the Horus Heresy now, and seeing as I have the box just sitting around I'm tempted to get into playing it on tabletop. I looked through the rulebook and it looks way complicated compared to 10th (and what little of 9th I was trying to learn), so I'm worried about not being able to learn enough before building and painting up a whole army. Is there an intro level of points to build first? And are there any traps I should avoid at all costs or is everything viable enough that I can go for fluffy and flavorful ?

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