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Mooseworks822 Nov 2014 5:05 a.m. PST

If mass armies as well as skirmish warbands then 34 painted and field ready.

FusilierDan Supporting Member of TMP22 Nov 2014 5:07 a.m. PST

I counted only the armies I could actually put on a game with. But with the exception of one or two most could be added to and for those I have the unpainted additions :-)

Who asked this joker22 Nov 2014 6:36 a.m. PST

At least 16 ready to go.

redbanner414522 Nov 2014 6:46 a.m. PST

I have numewrous units that appear in more than one army, especially ancients & medievals.

Cerdic22 Nov 2014 7:38 a.m. PST

As a historical wargamer, I do not accept the concept of a completed army. There are ALWAYS more troops you can add. Unless, that is, you have EVERY unit represented in EVERY uniform on a ratio of 1:1! Well? Do you? Punk……

Personal logo miniMo Supporting Member of TMP22 Nov 2014 7:46 a.m. PST

Way more than 30, I'm sure I could never get a complete census!

GildasFacit Sponsoring Member of TMP22 Nov 2014 7:53 a.m. PST

My numbers are in armies for 15mm DBA & 6mm HotT so quite small sets of bases per army – about 20 separate armies for those together.

Then 200+ generic ancient elements in 2mm so that I can do pretty well any ancient army pair-off for DBA (and most for double DBA too) – that probably could be fielded as about 15 separate armies at one go.

2mm Reniaissance for RPoW – 4 largish armies, again fairly generic as are the 6mm Renaissance armies and they have fielded 4 moderate-sized armies at once.

10mm WW1 – 1 Inf & 1 cav Divn of Germans and about a Reinforced Brigade of each for the Brits. In Bloody Picnic terms that's two armies.

Zulu Wars in 6mm – biggish force for both sides (100 bases of Zulus and more than enough Brits to cope with them.

2mm Napoleonics – French and Austrians intended to be used for Revolution period. Lots of bases currently organised as about 2 Inf Div and 1 Cav Div (even though they didn't organise that way that early – just did it that way for simplicity) each side with artillery to boot.

Small force of Infantry and Armour for VBCW in 20mm – in our games it is easily big enough to count as one player's forces in the game.

3mm WW2 – will be some divisional sized forces here by next year, all the armour is done but still have a load of infantry to paint and base. Probably doesn't count as it isn't really playable yet.

Plus some quite large fleets in 1/3000th

Adds up to 50ish – that really does surprise me, never quite thought of them in that way before.

goragrad22 Nov 2014 11:45 a.m. PST

As Gildasfacit notes DBA allows one to hit a pretty good 'army' count without needing that many figures.

And then if you consider the 'multi' use aspect of some ancients you can easily pad that quantity.

Pictors Studio22 Nov 2014 3:40 p.m. PST

Not including skirmish "armies" and only including historical armies that meet some decent sized battles OOB or sci-fi/fantasy armies that meet the standard size for that game I have 41 armies in various scales.

That also doesn't include naval or space ship stuff.

Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP22 Nov 2014 5:03 p.m. PST

Warmaster: Orcs, Dwarfs
Bo5A: Two full sets, total four more armies.
Copplestone: "Rohan", enough to be a small WM force.
Ogre/GEV: one full force, unless you also count a lone Ogre as an army-- which, thematically, it is.
Hive space fleet.

I assume we aren't counting prepainted figs.

Personal logo Stosstruppen Supporting Member of TMP23 Nov 2014 10:32 a.m. PST

Currently I have 10 all 15mm.

Sassanid Persian
Classical Indian
Fuedal French
Italian Wars Imperialist
Generic ECW
AWI Brtish
AWI French
AWI American
ACW Confederate
ACW Union

Frederick Supporting Member of TMP23 Nov 2014 6:00 p.m. PST

I have a lot of armies that could stand some more figs, but in terms of armies painted up enough to paint – I think about 29

- Ancient Romans
- Ancient Barbarians
- Ancient Greeks
- Generic Medieval
- War of the Roses Army (generic)
- ECW Parliamentary
- ECW Scots
- 7YW Prussians
- 7YW Austrians
- 7YW French
- 7YW British
- Napoleonic French
- Napoleonic Austrians
- Napoleonic Russians
- ACW Union
- ACW Confederate
- Mexican Revolution
- British Colonials
- Chinese Civil War
- WWII Germans
- WWII British
- WWII Russians
- WWII Canadians
- Modern Special Forces/SWAT
- Fantasy Empire
- Fantasy Dwarves
- Fantasy Orks
- WH40K Marines
- WH40K Tau
- WH40K Guard
- WH40K Orcs
- WWII British Naval
- WWII German Naval
- WWII Japanese Naval
- WWII US Naval
- Wings of Glory WWI – French, British, German, Austrian, Russian, Italian

Martin Rapier24 Nov 2014 4:58 a.m. PST

As I do things in multiple scales I have 20+ WW1 and WW2 armies alone, once I add in all the other periods, it is way more than 30.

I have been doing this a long time though.

Personal logo Saber6 Supporting Member of TMP Fezian24 Nov 2014 10:55 a.m. PST

WW-II:
Soviet
German
US
British
French
Rumanian
AK47 Republic: 3
ACW:US and CS
Napoleonic:
French
British
Spanish
Prussian
Russian
Austrian
Dutch-Belgian
Brunswick
Bavarian
Wurtemburg

FPW:
Prussian
French
WW-1:
British
German
SF:
Several Platoon to Company forces
Modern:
US
British
Soviet

Fantasy:
Human
Orc

WW-II Naval:
German
Japanese
US
British
Italian

There's more if you count MechWarrior Clix

Great War Ace24 Nov 2014 6:08 p.m. PST

More than I thought until I counted them up. I didn't know/remember I had that many complete armies….

Alfred Adler does the Hobby25 Nov 2014 4:38 p.m. PST

Actually thinking about getting rid of a couple of Napers (15 – 18's)

Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP26 Nov 2014 11:32 a.m. PST

Depends on what counts as an army and what counts as complete.

Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut28 Nov 2014 2:59 p.m. PST

I have sold all of my finished/playable armies from the Before Times. I have just finished a DBA army in 28mm, and am working on a second. I have two remaining DBA 1.0 armies in 15mm, but they are not playable under the new rules. And I have a large mass of fantasy 28mm abd sci fi 15mm for RPGs, but nothing like a coherent force.

So, 1.

Baconfat29 Nov 2014 11:02 a.m. PST

If you count only "large" forces, I have at least twelve. If you count smaller skirmish forces, no clue.
Napoleonic: Prussian and French
Medieval: Hussites and Hungarians
Ancients: Byzantine
Fantasy: GW Empire
Sci-Fi: Imperial Guard, Eldar and 2 space marines
WWI: late War Germans and British

Wulfgar30 Nov 2014 6:31 p.m. PST

Like many people, I tend to paint matching armies. If we're talking about completed eras, then three:

Sengoku era Japan and Korea (with three Japanese secular warlord armies, an Ikko-Ikki army, one Korean army and one Manchurian army).

11th century Britain and Ireland (Stephen's army, Matilda's army, King David's Scots, Owain Gwynedd's Welsh, and a Norse-Irish army.

Penninsula War French and Anglo-Portugese.

So I'm not really sure. Is that three armies, or three collections? If collections . . . Ohmigosh! Thirteen armies! I'm a lucky guy.

Old Contemptibles30 Nov 2014 10:39 p.m. PST

Depends on what counts as an army? I don't think this applies to historical miniatures. When do you have an army?

1. You have all the figures to do every scenario?
2. You have the entire order of battle of one or both sides?
3. You have one unit of each army?

Nope this is a question for point based armies not historical armies.

Fantasy armies are fictional. It is up to the publisher to tell the customer that this is what you need to have a complete army. Not so with the historical genre. I agree with prior comments, you cannot have a completed army. If someone tells you they have an historical army of some kind, they don't know what they are talking about. This entire poll in not applicable.

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