Horus Heresy: 3000pt Army for Under $500USD 

"Dark Age of Boxness" sums up everyone's Pile Of Shame.

Unfortunately there is only 5 of the support squad weapons in the box. But this is vid is excellent, well done!

Thank you for this reference. Really good points on this.

That sounds like a great collection for a helluva price. Thanks for the heads up.

About to get into Heresy with Night Lords but haven't been able to find the battle group box set anywhere unfortunately, so I guess it'll be Age of Darkness for me 😅

Great post, thanks. If cheapest 3,000 point list from this box is the goal, here's what I'd do: - Take five of the marines in this box and build them as a Praetor with Plasma Pistol & Power Fist and a four man Command Squad. Attach the Land Raider Proteus as a Dedicated Transport - Make the Praetor your Warlord and take Pride of the Legion - Build 3x 5 man Veteran Squads (one for the Compulsory Troop slot, the other just Troops) - Build 2x 5 man Support Squads, one with Plasma Gun, one with Rotor Cannon - Build the Deredeo Dreadnought With options etc, that comes out to a massive 1,682 points just from this box alone. So buy another one. That's a second Praetor (not a Warlord) with Command Squad and Praetor, bulk the Veteran & Support Squads up to ten men, and another Deredeo into the Deredeo Dreadnought Squad. $336 (assuming 20% discount). Done. Far from optima, but an amazing starting point for adding and customization.

Slightly off topic but with the box containing MkIII Marines and 5 plasma weapons you can make plastic Interemptors from the Dark Angels’ Dreadwing to fill one of those support squads instead of buying the resin kits. Ordered the box as soon as I was able, still torn between adding it to the AoD starter box for DAs or painting this as Iron Warriors, but the fact using this box for a fledgling Chaos marine army for 40K would fill my troops slots is leaning me towards IW.

Only $500? Wow... gold for plastic?.GW thanks you ...

Really nice video! Would totally watch more like this focused on the other legions. Particularly the 3d printing portions.

Great video and 3d printing stuff is a great way to spice up /outfit your legion for much cheaper. I am debating whether to pick up this to go along with my AOD box but that would be a ton of tact marines

For the special weapon sprew (3:40). Iirc they clarified in the reveal stream that it is one sprew (5 of each). *Edit: On the GW product page it is listed as having one sprew.

Thank you!

Assuming 3d printed goodness a Company of Bitter Iron List is a good fit if you're using the BattleGroup as a starter. You can get a big block of Immortals, I am no Ebay scalper but i managed to get a NOS spartan for a very good price to put them in. Grab a frame of Cataphractii for some Morlocks, i did a surprisingly effective conversion using the Shrek Ears harvested from a Levi grav Bombard (add them to one of the Volkite guns or whatever, everybody has about 5 billion Heavy Flamers which you can snip the cone barrels from) to make grav shredders or just 3D them i guess. Then you should have enough to outfit the Morlocks and the Immortals. The Morlocks and a Praetor/Character model of some description can go in the Land Raider. That's already some real punch and serious pointage and you can do whatever you wish for the rest and you'll have a bunch of bits to outfit other infantry with.

I managed to get one outta it by only adding one 5 man squad of termies, two HQs and an extra landraider

are you going top make a traitor space wolves from this yourself cause id love to see some hobby videos on making this army great vid

Kimble's fanny pack would be for 2 and 5, since traditionally mk3 doesn't get assault marines because it's considered too heavy or some shit. They'd look sick with them though.

Curious if anyone can run down a list like this but starting with age of darkness box.

Could you suggest some 3D printer imperial fist helmets?

I've got about 6k points of heresy night lords, gonna use this to start a loyalist dark angels army because i want to run a "corswain and 10 deathwing companions in the battlebus" list, and this will be the perfect start considering i already have corswain and the companions, I just need the battlebus and the rest of the army. Though it's already way more expensive because these are genuine deathwing companions

how can I find the 3d print? I go to Etsy

With the amount that you end up printing, why not print it all?

No 3d printed arms for the cataphractii? The kit only has 2 sword arms that could hold the axes.

Sorry to save, unless you chop up those Deathsworn Terminating helmets, they wont work because of the size of the head socket in the plastic kit. You would have to cut off the back and cut it in half vertically

Loyalist space wolves already serve chaos well enough though. Will chaos space wolves end up helping the imperium instead? 😮

Printy Boiz UNTIE!!!

Traitors!