Last chance to beat the 5th Edition’s most expensive armies

Last chance to beat the 5^th Edition’s most expensive armies

We’re on the verge of moving out of the 5^th Edition, and Gamesworkshop are about to rip the nice safe, warm blanket of a simple Force Organisation Chart away from us and replace it with complexities like allies, terrain slots and the doubled-down FOC at 2000pts.

Whether that is good, bad or ugly remains to be seen, but a side effect of this change is GW will be taking away from us a completely useless game people have played over the last few years:

How many points can you legally spend from a single FOC?

Here’s your last chance to have a go. It’s a simple game; you take your favourite codex and make a single army with every single force organisation slot stuffed with the most expensive units and equipment known to man. 

Festoon upgrades and pointless options anywhere and everywhere, don’t worry about performance or sanity –or even whether it would fit on a 6x4 tabletop at all. Everybody who can have a gun gets a gun, everyone who can have a ride takes a ride. If buying them a hat costs even a single point, the entire army goes into combat in golden bonnets. If their armour is upgradable, they march into battle in full-length ball gowns covered in sequins and blind the opponent with luxury.

Chaos Space Marines are sadly not invited to this party, since they get an infinite amount of summoned lesser demon squads. 

Below is an entry from Arclite, who did a very impressive job with the Imperial Guard codex. On a side note, did you know a single guard Command Squad can run 700pts? What were they thinking!

After that comes a version I fine-tuned with Blood Angels packing in as many twin-thunderhammers and dedicated transports as possible. If the lists can be beaten, beat them. Otherwise these excesses can stand as monuments to a simpler past while we are all padding out our future FOCs by building Fortresses of Redemption.

The Emperor sits on a golden throne, and this King demands His Bling!

Imperial Guard (by Arclite)

HQ

Company Command Squad....700
+Medi-Pack
+Kell
+Creed
+Heavy Flamer
+Plasma Gun
+Plasma Gun
+Krak Grenades
+Carapace Armour
+Camo cloaks
+Astropath
+Officer of the Fleet
+Master of Ordnance
+Bodyguard
+Bodyguard
+Nork Deddog
+Chimera
+Pintle-mounter storm bolter or heavy stubber
+Hunter-killer missile
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armour
+Camo netting

Company Command Squad....510
+Straken
+Medi-pack
+Heavy Flamer
+Plasma Gun
+Plasma Gun
+Krak Grenades
+Carapace Armour
+Camo Cloaks
+Astropath59
+Master of Ordnance
+Officer of the Fleet
+Bodyguard
+Bodyguard
+Chimera
+Pintle-mounter storm bolter or heavy stubber
+Hunter-killer missile
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armour
+Camo netting

5 Ministorum Priests.... 300
+Eviscerator

2 Enginseers....350
+Melta Bombs
+5 Servitors
+Heavy Bolter Servitor
+Multi-Melta/Plasma Cannon Servitor

Total: 1860

Elites

Ogryn Squad...530
+7 Ogryn
+Chimera
+Hunter-Killer Missile
+Pintle-Mounted Storm Bolter or Heavy Stubber
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armor
+Camo Netting

Ogryn Squad...530
+7 Ogryn
+Chimera
+Hunter-Killer Missile
+Pintle-Mounted Storm Bolter or Heavy Stubber
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armor
+Camo Netting

Ogryn Squad...530
+7 Ogryn
+Chimera
+Hunter-Killer Missile
+Pintle-Mounted Storm Bolter or Heavy Stubber
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armor
+Camo Netting

Total: 1590

Troops

Infantry Platoon 1....2840

Platoon Command Squad...325
+Commissar
+Melta Bombs
+2 Plasma Pistol
+2 Power fist
+Medi-Pack
+Heavy Flamer
+Plasma Gun
+Plasma Gun
+Krak Grenades
+Chimera
+Pintle-mounter storm bolter or heavy stubber
+Hunter-killer missile
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armour
+Camo netting

Infantry Squad....300 x 5
+Melta Bombs
+Commissar
+2 Power Weapon
+2 Plasma Pistol
+Vox-Caster
+Plasma Gun
+Lascannon
+Krak Grenades
+Chimera
+Pintle-mounter storm bolter or heavy stubber
+Hunter-killer missile
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armour
+Camonetting

Heavy Weapon Squad....110 x5
+Lascannons
+Krak Grenades

Special Weapons Squad....95 x2
+Demolition Charges

Conscript Squad....275
+30 Conscripts
+Send in the Next Wave

Infantry Platoon 2....2840
Same as Infantry Platoon 1.

Infantry Platoon 3....2840
Same as Infantry Platoon 1.

Infantry Platoon 4....2840
Same as Infantry Platoon 1.

Infantry Platoon 5....2860
Same as Infantry Platoon 1, except changes to Command Squad.

Platoon Command Squad....345
+Commander Chenkov
+Commissar
+Plasma Pistol
+Power fist
+Medi-Pack
+Heavy Flamer
+Plasma Gun
+Plasma Gun
+Krak Grenades
+Chimera
+Pintle-mounter storm bolter or heavy stubber
+Hunter-killer missile
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armour
+Camo netting


Infantry Platoon 5....2880
Same as Infantry Platoon 1, except changes to Command Squad.

Platoon Command Squad....365
+Captain Al'Rahem
+Commissar
+Plasma Pistol
+Power Fist
+Medi-Pack
+Heavy Flamer
+Plasma Gun
+Plasma Gun
+Krak Grenades
+Chimera
+Pintle-mounter storm bolter or heavy stubber
+Hunter-killer missile
+Dozer Blade
+Extra Armour
+Camo netting

Total: 17100

Fast Attack

Hellhound Squadron....648
+3 Hellhounds/Bane Wolves
+3 Multi-Meltas
+3 Searchlights
+3 Pintle-mounted storm bolters or heavy stubbers
+3 Hunter-Killer missiles
+3 Dozer Blades
+3 Extra Armour
+3 Smoke Launchers
+3 Camo nettings

Hellhound Squadron....648
+3 Hellhounds/Bane Wolves
+3 Multi-Meltas
+3 Searchlights
+3 Pintle-mounted storm bolters or heavy stubbers
+3 Hunter-Killer missiles
+3 Dozer Blades
+3 Extra Armour
+3 Smoke Launchers
+3 Camo nettings

Hellhound Squadron....648
+3 Hellhounds/Bane Wolves
+3 Multi-Meltas
+3 Searchlights
+3 Pintle-mounted storm bolters or heavy stubbers
+3 Hunter-Killer missiles
+3 Dozer Blades
+3 Extra Armour
+3 Smoke Launchers
+3 Camo nettings

Total: 1994

Heavy Support

Leman Russ Squadron....980
+3 Executioners
+Knight Commander Pask
+3 Lascannons
+3 Plasma Cannons
+3 Pintle-mounted storm bolters or heavy stubbers
+3 Hunter-killer missiles
+3 Dozer blades
+3 Extra Armour
+3 Camo Nettings

Leman Russ Squadron....930
+3 Executioners
+3 Lascannons
+3 Plasma Cannons
+3 Pintle-mounted storm bolters or heavy stubbers
+3 Hunter-killer missiles
+3 Dozer blades
+3 Extra Armour
+3 Camo Nettings

Leman Russ Squadron....930
+3 Executioners
+3 Lascannons
+3 Plasma Cannons
+3 Pintle-mounted storm bolters or heavy stubbers
+3 Hunter-killer missiles
+3 Dozer blades
+3 Extra Armour
+3 Camo Nettings

Total:2840

TOTAL: 25384 POINTS

Take a deep breath. That was twenty five thousand three hundred and eighty four of the emperor's finest squishiest points.

But wait, somewhere out there is another army that laughs at all those cheap rides and powerfists, because everyone and everything in it gets a personal Landraider and a pair of Thunderhammers.

Blood Angels INXS

The Sanguinour-275pts
Honour Guard - 4 x Melta Bombs, 4x Twin Thunderhammers - 395pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts

Astorath The Grim-220pts
Honour Guard - 4 x Melta Bombs, 4x Twin Thunderhammers - 395pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts

Troops
Death Company Squad-Jump Packs, All with Twin Thunderhammers -2850pts
Death Company Squad-Jump Packs, All with Twin Thunderhammers -2850pts

Death Company Squad-Jump Packs, All with Twin Thunderhammers -2850pts

Death Company Squad-Jump Packs, All with Twin Thunderhammers -2850pts

Death Company Squad-Jump Packs, All with Twin Thunderhammers -2850pts
Death Company Squad-Jump Packs, Twin Thunderhammers, Lemartes Guardian Of The Lost-3000pts


Elites
Terminator Squad-Assault Cannon, Cyclone Missile Launcher, 9 Chainfists-505pts
Terminator Squad-Assault Cannon, Cyclone Missile Launcher, 9 Chainfists-505pts
Terminator Squad-Assault Cannon, Cyclone Missile Launcher, 9 Chainfists-505pts
Dedicated Transports
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts

Fast Attack
Vanguard Veterans - 10x twin Thunderhammers, 10x Melta Bombs - 850pts
Vanguard Veterans - 10x twin Thunderhammers, 10x Melta Bombs - 850pts
Vanguard Veterans - 10x twin Thunderhammers, 10x Melta Bombs - 850pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts


Heavy Support
Devastator Squad-4 Lascannons, Sgt with Dual Powerfists-320pts
Devastator Squad-4 Lascannons, Sgt with Dual Powerfists-320pts
Devastator Squad-4 Lascannons, Sgt with Dual Powerfists-320pts
Dedicated Transports
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts
Landraider Crusader-Extra Armour, Searchlight, Pintle-mounted Stormbolter, Hunter-killer missile, Multi-melta-296pts

Total 25,816

That squeezes even more from the FOC than the Guard army above it. Beatable? Does your codex even come close?