The worst army ever

[sneakyben]

I am after ideas for a new project:


I want to make the worst army I possibly can... because I reckon I can still have loads of fun with it


What is the most ineffective army from the most ineffective codex?

I want to use units that no-one ever takes etc
Sort of like anti-power-gaming...

[Xelkireth]

Necrons with no monoliths and no destroyers.

[Lord Azaghul]

I am after ideas for a new project:


I want to make the worst army I possibly can... because I reckon I can still have loads of fun with it


What is the most ineffective army from the most ineffective codex?

I want to use units that no-one ever takes etc
Sort of like anti-power-gaming...

C:SM. With nothing but tact squads and assult troops. I know, I have this force -well mostly
Gw would be very proud of you.

[Hive Mind]

Nothing but Termagants and Pyrovores against a Mech army.

[L192837465]

I think you'll have to delve into the realm of the truly awful.

1x chaos marine lord, no upgrades
2x5 marines, no upgrades
17x spawn

(that's for a 1500 point army. for 2000, make that 22 spawn)

Space marine captain
60 scouts with no upgrades
as many Storms can fit in the leftover

warboss
180 gretchin, no upgrades
30 tank bustuz

[L192837465]

Two special characters from the GK book, 2x5 GKSS, 3x giant walker things

[Xas]

just take any of the netlists you can find and take it against a really competent person...


If you want somehing strange/hilarious go and build a Tau "wildlive park" focusing mostly on aliens (kroot and most importantly vespids!).

Get a squad of firewarriors with carbines (your "rangers"), prolly an eathereal. for crisi HQ (mandatorry) you can take him with flamer and fusion gun.

then get some 1-3 vespid squads, 1-2 kroot "gun" squads (with krotox), 1-2 "assoult" squads (with hounds) and a plain squad if you want.


if you dont want to be THAT awfull you can scatter in suits for anti-tank.




other bad armies:
footslogging close combat non-ork/nid (really only orks & nids can even remotely pull it of efficiently)
nidzilla
mono-god deamons (can be quite good if you know what you are doing)

[Michael_maggs]

I think you'll have to delve into the realm of the truly awful.

1x chaos marine lord, no upgrades
2x5 marines, no upgrades
17x spawn

(that's for a 1500 point army. for 2000, make that 22 spawn)

Space marine captain
60 scouts with no upgrades
as many Storms can fit in the leftover

me and my mate once played a gamekind of like this; we each chose to write our opponents list so it would have been the most crappest lists possible (BA vs CSM)
very fun especially when the spawn gobbled up the captin in one close combat phase

[L192837465]

Oooh, I think I just thought of this.

Chaos sorcerer with no psychic powers purchased.

6x10 Thousand Sons, no upgrades, no sorcerers.

Fill in the rest with spawn.

I honestly don't know what that list could ever beat.

[Chexmix282]

You've got to take a Space Marine Company to the tabletop. It's possible at 2000 points, I believe.

Captain
-Jump Pack and Relic Blade

4 x Tactical Squads
-Flamer, Missile Launcher

3 x Assault Squads

3 x Devastator Squads
-4 Missile Launchers

I don't have the codex in front of me but this should be right around 2000 points. It's not exactly super competitive, but dropping 100 marines on the table is never easy for opponents to deal with. This isnt exactly the "worst" army, but its very thematic and would be great looking on the table.


If you want a very terrible army that is also incredibly thematic, play Footdar:

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10 Stiking Scorpions
10 Howling banshees
10 Fire Dragons

2 x 10 Dire Avengers

5 Shining Spears
10 Warp Spiders
10 Swooping Hawks

5 Dark Reapers


I have the exact list somewhere, but after putting Exarchs and upgrades in ever squad it comes to 2000 points. Paint this well and it will definitely turn heads but wont lay a scratch on optimized 5th ed armies led by competant generals.