I know a common point of conversation in the warhammer 40,000 community is that when a new codex is coming. You should wait until that codex drops before you start collecting that army. Well kind of, as in you should wait the couple of months for the codex, as for the models. Well I believe this the perfect time to get the models, because by the time the codex drops, you will have a small built and painted army. As I include the start collecting boxes, these will disappear when the combat patrols drop.
With the astra militarum codex very much around the corner, here are some armies you can build for around £100. These are not meta forces just a couple of armies to get you started in the sledge hammer of the emperor.
First is start collecting box, with a command squad and a tech priest enginseer. So what you would get a leman russ, cadian shock troops, or you could build them as an infantry so you can use the heavy weapon base, a company commander, a command squad, a comissar, and a techpriest enginseer. If you make the shock troops into infantry, you will have enough bits to add a heavy weapon to the command squad too. You can do the shock troops and the extra heavy weapon in the command squad too, if you wish . There is a couple of ways you can build this force.
Next the militarum tempestus or scions to everyone else. I doubt games workshop is going to delete a full sub faction of astra militarum. So this is really easy for a starter force. The start collecting militarum tempestus box, and a box a box ox scions. With this you can make a either a taurox, or a taurox prime. I would go with the taurox prime for the pseudo heavy support. The transport can provide, a tempestus prime with their command squad, a 10 man scion unit, and finally a commissar. So you have most of the unit types. There different head options too, so helmets or berets.
Finally catachans, my favourite of regiments. The burly 80's action hero looks. Totally cheesy looks wise. Any way no start collecting for this force. So you are buying the individual boxes, luckily catachans are one of the cheapest forces to buy. The squad of ten is £21. First the command squad this is the hq and elite choices for your army, next a ten man squad of guardsmen, use the spare special weapons to boost this box, a heavy weapon squad, and finally a sentinel. This army comes to £92 so it is just over the price of a combat patrol box.
There are many of other small armies you can build using guard. This is just the tip of the iceberg for now. Guard are great army to get started into . They have a diverse model set, with more coming, can be full of tanks or full of vehicles. It is entirely up to you.
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