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#1 ·
In this thread i'm going to milk all the madness achievable from Unbound list building. It will not be a rant thread or a criticism thread: just stupid, funny, cheesy and rustler-of-jimmies lists.
Also, who said such lists will be fluffless or just-for-win? I'll even provide a background for each one of them.

I'll begin with the " SEVEN SAMURAI (FROM HELL) " - 1500 -
*It was a dark age of grim battles and turmoil. The empire was in flame. Every day, many defenders of mankind died in the attempt of stemming the tide of chaos. However, a hero arose: Kambei Shimada, a great psiker. He took vows of duty and sacrificed his immortal soul in the warp in order to gain enough power to save the imperium. He became a creature of pure warp. Then, he summoned six great beasts from the depth of hell, to help him in his forlorn cause: to fight fire with fire, to crush all the enemies of the emperor! And so, his journey began, an hellish army of seven, sworn to protect umanity in spite of all prejudice and fear they sowed in anyone who saw them...*

Kambei Shimada - Greater Daemon of Tzeentch
ML 3 (full daemonology)
255

Kambei Shimada - Greater Daemon of Tzeentch
ML 2 (full daemonology)
230

Gorōbei Katayama - Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
Wings
Lash of Despair
215

Shichirōji - Daemon Prince of Nurgle
Wings
200

Heihachi Hayashida - Daemon Prince of Nurgle
Wings
200

Kyūzō - Daemon Prince of Khorne
Wings
200

Kikuchiyo - Daemon Prince of Nurgle
Wings
200

-So, ability to spam lesser daemons, 7 monstrous creatures at 1500 pts, 3 of those (nurgle) have a 2+ cover and are still able to charge...
 
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#2 ·
All credit to @SwedeMarine for this list.

"Sons of Anarchy" - 1500
*There is a dire secret amongst space marines. In M.34 a whole foundation went awry. 8 Chapters where lost due to gene seed corruption and all of their Chapter Masters fleed, seeking freedom and self realization. Now they roam the galaxy, riding mighty and ancient bikes, going where they wilth and challenging any opponent they deem worthy. A gang of skilled riders, zooming in to the sunset... Still, they fight for humanity, altough with a different dream: freedom, strenght and honour for their space-faring kin, that are losing hope and soul, day after day.*

(All white scars tactics)

The President - Chapter Master
Shield Eternal
Bike
Relic Blade
melta bombs
(230)

Man Of Mahiem - Chapter Master
Thunder Hammer
Artificier Armour
Bike
digital weapons
(200)

Man Of Mahiem - Chapter Master
Thunder Hammer
Artificier Armour
Bike
digital weapons
(200)

Sergeant at Arms - Chapter Master
Bike
Power Sword
Grav-pistol
(180)

Fire Rider - Chapter Master
Bike
melta bombs
combi melta
Power Axe
(180)

Fire Rider - Chapter Master
Bike
melta bombs
combi melta
Power Axe
(180)

Man at Arms - Chapter Master
Bike
Grav Pistol
(165)

Man at Arms - Chapter Master
Bike
Grav Pistol
(165)


Turn 1: unleash 8 orbital strikes on the enemy. (BOOOOOMMMM!!! FEEL THE FREEDOM!!!)
Turn 2: assault and abuse hit and run.
Jink at 3+ and still able to assault? yes please.
A stupid and nasty list. For more fun you could make a single unit out of them...more realistically 4 units of 2.
 
#3 · (Edited)
And the madman goes on and on and on and on and...

"KREATOR REX WARP CULT" -1502-
*Kreator Rex is the first of Obliterators. Genius, madman, space marine, living armor: he is this and much more. A fearsome creature indeed, he commands countless obliterators and spread the machine virus that creates them. Sometimes, he will even walk the battlefield amongst his subjects, like a god of madness, literally a Deus Ex Machina!*

Kreator Rex - Hive Tyrant (seems an acceptable count as, to me)
Heavy Venom Cannon
Regeneration
(215)

Pride of Kreator - 3 Obliterators
MoTzeentch
(234)

Sons Of Rex - 3 Obliterators
MoNurgle
(228)

The Lone Shredder - 1 Mutilator

Cult of Virus-
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
1 Obliterator
(770)

EDIT: Thinking about it, Kreator Rex could as well be represented by this:
Warpsmith, MoNurgle, Palanquin of Nurgle, Sigils of Corruption (190)
 
#4 · (Edited)
Made a lovely idea somewhere for games of 500pts or any multiple of as a fortress.

3 X Wall of Martyrs Vengeance Weapon Battery + Battlecannon (255pts)
Unit of Horrors 11 models (99pts)
Aegis Defence Line (50pts)
Herald LV3 (95pts) (or just take another squad of horrors)
= 499

Can lose 10pts off by changing down to Gatling Guns is you want, though if you hide for the 2+ cover save it will only hit on 6s, while the battlecannons will just scatter a bit more.

Nothing stops you from using 5+d6 psy dice while also firing the 3 battlecannons and hiding behind that nice aegis for the 2+ cover save rerolling 1s :)
Of course those psy dice can make new heralds or maybe some plague drones or bloodletters or something to stomp up the field.

if you want the alternative version you could have gatling cannons and plague bearers so they don't have to go to ground.
Or BloodLetters as they are BS5 so would be hitting on 2s.

With your SM list though surely this needs to be in a different forum...
 
#6 ·
With your SM list though surely this needs to be in a different forum...
Alas, you are right. However, i'll post mainly chaos related list, so...one or two can pass ;)

How about this: "LAB RATS" -1500-
*Fabius Bile is a cruel scientist. He tries to manipolate the Space Marine gene and to foster a new bred of men, the **** Novus, the Ubermensch. However, results are not so common and more often than not he needs to empty his lab from "unwanted guests" and ghastly mishap or dreadful miscarriages.
When this happens, a small drop ship, filled with untold bio-horrors and raging madmen, will be launched towards an unaware imperial planet. The following carnge will then be observed and studied: even from errors there is something to be learnd...*

The Bloated Thing - Greater Daemon of Nurgle
Lesser Reward
(200)

The Bad Outcomes -
5 Spawns of Nurgle
5 Spawns of Nurgle
5 Spawns of Nurgle
5 Spawns of Nurgle
5 Spawns of Nurgle
(900)

Faulty **** Novus- Haemunculus
(50)

Raging Monstrosities Herd -
10 Grotesques
(350)


-Even with the 12" deployment limitation, this list will throw a stupid amount of multiwound, T5 and T6 beasts, at the enemy. Some lists could be taken by surprise by such a tactic but mostly this great mass of meat will be blasted. Anyhow, thats the way it is intended to be...
 
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#7 ·
I call this FANTASIA

Tzeentch Heralds 45pts a model at LV 1 you could get yourself 22 for 990pts

All can roll to summon stuff and hope for sacrifice and incursion as many times as you can. All starting models are individuals so squads could only kill them 1 at a time unless they template.
Make sure you have some nice cover on your side though to just keep them hidden behind and just try to make an army as you go.
First summon a unit or 2 of horrors/daemonettes/letters/plagues. Then any heralds that got sacrifice can happily kill 1 of the new unit to get another herald (doesn't have to be tzeentch though now but it helps as a theme) and others can turn themselves into greater daemons.
Of course after you have your unit(s) to keep sacrificing from you need to build an army of bloodcrushers/drones/fiends/screamers (players choice) to do your damage.

It will be a little like Fantasia with the mops and buckets.

Of course this is just a slight twist on the traditional summoner army, and the evil maths god will likely make it die horribly but it does lose the weakness of horrors being mana batteries. But with 22 chances to get Sacrifice you should get 3-4 with it, to be able to make them do the fantasia dance.
 
#11 ·
Fantasia is poetry. Spamming taken to the next level. Yo dawg I heard you like spam, so i spammed daemons that spammed daemons that keep spamming daemons...:shok:
 
#9 ·
Com'un Av' A Go If Ya Think Ya 'Ard Enough!

Skarbrand 225 (or a Bloodthirster or SkullTaker on Jugger, Or Warboss of choice)

7 Void Shield Generators 100pts with 3 shields.
1 Void Shield Generators 75pts with 2 shields.

Scatter these shields around the board making lots of overlapping shields.

Move Scarbrand around there picking off enemies who will have to take down about 6-9 AV 12 shields before they can even hit him :)

Probably wont win you many objective based games, but you can have a ton of fun getting first blood, slay the warlord, line breaker and maybe eating some enemies as you go.
 
#10 · (Edited)
lol this is madness!!!
maybe the 7th shield generator could become some hound of khorne?
abou the beasts of nurgle, i was tinking about that, but they cost 50% more...nombers will be hevaily reduced!
 
#13 · (Edited)
OLD GUNS KILLS AGAIN (IN THE NAME OF CHAOS) -2000-
* Yeshaya is a wise warpsmith. He knows that victory is not always with the brand new guns. Sometimes the old way is the best way. He managed to conquer, with his meager forces, some ill defended storages, housing what the imperium now considers junk or at best reserves for dire times. Yeshaya, instead, sees the untapped potential of these great machines of war. He will see them properly used, if the loyalists have no wish to use what they have...*

Helcult Flaming Fist -
Helbrute
16 Cultists, Flamer, 5 autoguns
15 Cultists, Flamer
(259)

Dark Magos Yeshaya - Warpsmith
Sigils of corruption
Mark of Tzeentch
(150)

Techno-Servants - 2 Obliterators
MoTzeentch
(156)

Devil Sting Armoured Group-

Ruin of the Weak - Malcador Super heavy battle tank
Hull autocannon
sponsons with autocannon

Doom of the Fool-Malcador Super heavy battle tank
Hull autocannon
sponsons with autocannon

(520)

Gaze of Chaos Armoured Group -

Carrion Feeder - Malcador Annihilator Super heavy battle tank
sponsons with lascannon

Last Sight - Malcador Annihilator Super heavy battle tank
sponsons with lascannon

Blood spiller - Malcador Annihilator Super heavy battle tank
sponsons with lascannon

(915)

The Malcador is not an alpha super heavy, but can put out an astounding amount of fire. Also, it has 6 hull points. We have 5 of those things with lots of antitank, lots of anti infantry and some large blasts of doom. With some luck the warpsmith can repair some damage. The helcult is there to protect the rear of the Malcadors. Obliterators protects Yeshaya and provide extra fire.
Come and get some!!!
 
#14 · (Edited)
came up with a pretty cool daemon engine list:

Points: 2500

The hellcult of a distant chaos machine world lauches a raid against the main defenses against an imperial world!

HQ:

Warpsmith, MoN - 125

Warpsmith, melta bombs - 115

Elites:

Chaos Decimator Daemon Engine - Siege Claw, Heavy Conversion Beamer - 205

CDDE - Claw and HCB - 205

Hellbrute - fist and plasma cannon - 110

Hellbrute - fist and plasma cannon - 110

Fast:

Helldrake - Hades A/C - 170

Helldrake - Hades A/C - 170

Helldrake - Flamer - 170

Helldrake - Flamer - 170
Heavy:

Forgefiend - Hades A/C - 175

Forgefiend - Hades A/C, Ecto head - 200

Forgefiend - ectoplasma cannonsx3 - 200

Maulerfiend - magma cutters - 125

Maulerfiend - magma cutters - 125

Maulerfiend - magma cutters - 125
 
#15 ·
ah, you robbed me of this one :p
always funny, the engine spam!
no heldrakes? I suggest a 2500 pts version with 4 heldrakes!!
 
#18 · (Edited)
Ahahah nice!! And well, pretty badass army! :eek:k: (altough wallet-raping)
Response:
Link broken @dragonkingofthestars , at least for me!

EDIT: Also, "Brothers in Betrayal" -1500
*If all your Librarius went rogue, it's hard to keep a chapter togheter. With a swift coup, prepared by years of subtle psi-manipulation, the Librarium of the Star Marauders chapter, assassinate every loyal brethren. With their remaining force they now lead many a raid on the Imperium of man. However, there is a bitter enmity between the various bands as the struggle for power is not over yet. No one trust no one...Everyone has its own trusted retinue and many former battle brothers wont' walk side by side...

Chaos Sorceror, 3rd level, familiar (125)
Chaos Sorceror, 3rd level, terminator, familiar (150)
Chaos Sorceror, 2nd level, bike, familiar (120)
Chaos Sorceror, 2nd level, sigils of corruption, familiar (125)


5 chosen, 4 plasmaguns (150)
3 Chaos terminators, 2 combimelta, powerfist (115)
3 bikers, 2 meltaguns (110)
11 cultists, flamer, 1 autogun (60)

SM allies:
5 terminators, assault cannon (220) (iron hands)
3 Assault Centurions (190) (iron hands)
Dreadnought in drop pod (135) (iron hands)

Just for the lolz
 
#19 ·
-Alpha Legion Insurgent Cell- 1500 -
*The Alpha legion is infamous for its galaxy spread cult financing and training. When they happen to set up a well organized riot or terroristic attack, few things can stop them.
This terrorist group, "The Holy Preachers of the Gods of Freedom", has been trained off-planet and inserted in key locations alongside some well instructed Alpha Legion veterans. Such a strike force can overthrow any unprepared governor, with a swift and bloody golpe...*

10 Alpha Legion Chaos Marines
Veterans of the Long War
All pistols and ccw
2 meltaguns, 1 combimelta
Icon of Vengeance
Rhino, dozerblade, dirge caster
(250)

(from the Defenders of Vraks armylist)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Plasmaguns
(70)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Plasmaguns
(70)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Plasmaguns
(70)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Plasmaguns
(70)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Meltaguns
(70)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Meltaguns
(70)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Meltaguns
(70)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Meltaguns
(70)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Flamers
(55)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Flamers
(55)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Flamers
(55)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Flamers
(55)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Flamers
(55)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Granade launcher
(55)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Granade launcher
(55)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
3 Granade launcher
(55)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
Demolition charge
(50)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
Demolition charge
(50)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
Demolition charge
(50)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
Demolition charge
(50)

5 Disciples of Xaphan
Demolition charge
(50)

Since Disciples are Ld 9, BS 4, infiltrating motherfuckers, the game will literally be a blast.
Outflanking or infiltrating in good position the first turn means that the enemy will immediatly feel a strong pressure from small, easily hid and multiple units of insurgents. While the Disciples cannot whitstand a serious retaliation, their unit number is such that any force applied to them will just be overkill. Alpha Leggionnaires should deliver an hard melee blow to any unit too strong for the terrorists to handle.
21 special weapons units and a space marine unit for the glory of chaos!
AA totally absent but..who cares!
 
#20 ·
fixed it @neferhet , hyperlinks for the win!
now, my list!

Squad of ancients 1500

eight 'tactical' Dreadnought
Twinlinked auto
twinlinked auto
extra armor
130x8=1040

one "sergeant" dreadnought
venerable
heavy flamer
Twinlinked autocannon
Extra armor
150

one 'heavy' dread
twinlinked las
missile luncher
extra armor
145

one 'special' ironclad dreadnought
Heavy flamer
heavy flamer (hammer)
ironclad assault
Two hunter killers
175
 
#22 ·
well, you could drop a couple of rifledread and add lots of drop pods...adds tactical flexibility and gives some alpha strike capability. Those dreddy in pods could even get back to multi melta to crush those AV14 tanks that otherwise are impossible to break with current load out (not counting cc)
 
#23 ·
What about: "CONQUERED STRONGPOINT" -2000 -
* "It was all calm on the front. Morale was high as it could be and the Macro-cannon bunkers where safely in our hands. From the camp, i could see my comrades on the battlements under the mighty Aquila Strongpoint shadow...it was all good.
Strangely enough, some power armoured figures appeared on those very battlements i was watching. I wasn't aware we had received Space Marine reinforcements; I almost cheered when i saw the big fucking Macro-cannon rotating towards us.
Suddenly, the old and revered Macharius tank on my left exploded with a deafening noise and autocannon shells reached us, shot by our companions in the bunkers.
I dug into cover and prayed the Emperor: they had betrayed us..."
- From the interrogation of a survivor of the Aquila Gates Massacre (see ref. A 003-40, Magenta Level Access required), later sentenced to death for cowardice - *

Cypher (190)

5 Cypher Chosen, 5 plasmaguns (165)
5 Cypher Chosen, 5 Plasmaguns (165)

Platoon Command Squad, 4 Sniper rifles (38)
3 Infantry squads, 3 autocannon, 2 granade launcher, 1 sniper rifle (192)

Aquila Macrocannon Strong point
Ammo store
Void shield generator
Quad gun on battlement
(625)

Aquila Macrocannon Strong point
Ammo store
Void shield generator
Quad gun on battlement
(625)

A fluffy infiltration and betrayal list. Lots of hurting power with doble D blasts, AV15 to beat and twin void shields before starting to kill the guys, double quad guns to kill flyers, some meatshields with lasguns to boot and always funny sniper rifles for that odd failed pinning test. Ammo stores ensure no one dies due to gets hot plasmaguns
 
#24 · (Edited)
Woha Woha Whoa hear this!
-Lone Survivor- 1500 pts
*Hidden inside his bunker, Librarian Tertullius has survided the enemy invasion and subsequent battles. In fact, he is the last standing Astartes on the planet. All of his comrades died in a hopeless battle. The enemy is advancing and soon will discover him. However he will not die like a sitting duck: he takes a dire decision...gathering the power of the empyrean, he opens up a warp rift and taps from forbidden powers. His body is shatter along with his mind, but the price is small, compared to the havoc he will unleash upon the enemy of the Emperor. With a single gesture of his hand, the whole automatic defence array returns on-line, powered by raw warp energy, and an army of daemons begin to gather at his side...there will be no survivors on this battle...*

Tertullius - Chaos Sorceror
ML 3 (full melefic daemonology)
Prophet of the voices
Sigils of corruption
Spell Familiar
(165)

Firestorm Redoubt
Void Shield
2 Barbed whire section
(235)

4 Vengeance weapon battery (gatling)
Magos machine spirit
(420)

8 Vengeance weapon battery (battle cannon)
(680)

EDIT: Antoher one...

The Dragon Queen... -1995-
*...has awoken! On the doomed imperial planet, she begins to hatch again her terrible spawn. Warp forged horrors roams under the planet crust, waiting for her order to unleash a primal fury on the ignare population*

8 Heldrakes (4 baleflamer , 4 hades autocannon)

5 Maulerfiends (1 lasher tendrils)

And that's it. Pure madness. Slash and burn!!!
 
#25 ·
The Dragon Queen... -1995-
*...has awoken! On the doomed imperial planet, she begins to hatch again her terrible spawn. Warp forged horrors roams under the planet crust, waiting for her order to unleash a primal fury on the ignare population*

8 Heldrakes (4 baleflamer , 4 hades autocannon)

5 Maulerfiends (1 lasher tendrils)
Hahaha oh man, I would almost pay money to see this list in a battlereport!
 
#26 ·
i guess it would be a pretty quick one... :p
 
#27 ·
This one is madness.
-Storm warriors - 1750

*When the biggest guns of the imperial guard betray, the loyalist scum trembles...*

2 Stormlord Super heavy tank
lascannon + heavy bolter sponsons
(1060)

1 Platoon command squad
4 sniper rifles
(38)

4 Infantry squads
4 flamers
4 lascannons
(300)

5 chaos bikes
2 meltaguns
combimelta
(140)

3 terminators
3 combimelta
(112)

Chaos sorceror
Level 1 (biomancy)
bike
Force maul
Aura of glory
meltabombs
(100)

Chaos units act as anti heavy vehicles, while stormlords mow down infantry and imperial platoons stay inside the superheavyes, only deploying if useful.
AA is provided by the static Stormlord, firing 30 Str 6 AP 3 shots (an avarage of 5 hits, even in snapshot)
 
#28 ·
This entire thread fills me with a warm and tingly feeling. That... that there is the taste of spam.

Going to have to seriously consider how I can earn my disgustingly broken place among your ranks, my friends...
 
#29 ·
@Mossy i'll wait for you in this dark corner of insanity, whit open tentacles...ahem, ARMS!

And now, some more spam frenzy:

-Murder and Mayhem, Frenzied Fury and Bloodied Rage
-1500 pts

*A dire and infamous legend through the galaxy during the late 35th millennium, the Champion of Chaos "Maneater" and his terminator warband, where finally defeated by Ultramarines during a bloody raid. Unfortunately, the Ultramarines where later forced to temporarily abandon the field by the Warsmith Kaldon: in the brief moments before the loyalist return he collected the wounded and the comatose from the battlefield and set on a maniacal plan of his own...
Now, in the late 40th millennium, Maneater and his warband walk again, entombed in great machines attuned to the warp and powered by it. The whole galaxy will fear his name again.*

HELFIST MURDER PACK "Bloodied Rage"
4 Helbrutes "Bloodied Fangs"
- 2 Reaper Autocannons,
-replace 2 multimelta with missile launcher

1 Helbrute Packleader "Maneater"
-Power scouge
(540)

MAHYHEM PACK "Killfrenzy"
3 Helbrutes
-1 extra power fist
-1 heavy flamer
(315)

MAHYHEM PACK "Children of Mahyem"
3 Helbrutes
-3 Plasma cannons
(330)

MAHYHEM PACK "Murderous Hyenas"
3 Helbrutes
-3 Reaper autocannons
(315)

14 helbrutes at 1500, 9 of which deepstriking and IWND...go and have fun!
 
#31 ·
it will cost you a mere 602 €. Many hookers are cheaper.
 
#33 ·
@mayegelt now you must do that. bring the list to a game an pst the outcome. you have so many "helbrutes" it is offensive. you can't skip this!!!
 
#34 ·
Due for a game in about 3 weeks time, might throw that army down and laugh. Though without an HQ / character who gets the warlord trait :p I guess it has to be the Packleader :p
I might have to tweek it down 25pts in weaponry though to include my 3 Maulerfiends to get it to 1850.
 
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