Bigmar Plans, Grey Plastic, and a 2000-Point Challenge
We had one of those very good hobby conversations recently: a simple idea, a specific deadline, and just enough chaos to make it exciting.
Michał threw out the challenge for our next nerdy weekend: let’s play some bigmar. Proper games, 2000 points, no overthinking, just get the armies ready and put them on the table.
And honestly, that was exactly the kind of motivation we needed.
Models? Optional. Games? Mandatory.
The best part was the approach from the very start: lack of models is not an obstacle. If something isn’t built, painted, or even owned in the exact right form yet, that’s fine. We can play with bases, we can proxy, we can make it work.
That kind of energy is always great for army-building. Sometimes the hardest part of getting a game in is the feeling that an army has to be “finished” first. But in practice, a playable list often matters more than a perfect collection. The goal here is simple: make a 2000-point list and get a game going.
Ender’s plan: Votann becoming Kharadron
Ender immediately came in with a wonderfully dwarfy solution. The plan is to finish assembling the entire Combat Patrol Votann, which should proxy pretty well for the missing 1000 points needed to field a full Kharadron Overlords army.
And, to be fair, there is a certain logic to it. If everything is still in grey plastic, the visual gap between one kind of sci-fi/fantasy dwarf and another starts to feel… negotiable.
As Michał pointed out, it helps even more when the whole force is uniformly unpainted.
Which, really, is the true language of ambitious hobby scheduling.
Ender also shared a photo that really sells the idea. These are dwarfs that, let’s say, are not exactly fighting against being used as other dwarfs. And honestly? Why would they.
Army-building by deadline
This is our favourite kind of list-building prompt: not theoretical, not for some distant future event, but for an actual weekend when we want to roll dice.
That changes everything.
Instead of endlessly tweaking, the question becomes:
- what can we realistically put on the table,
- what can be proxied without confusion,
- what still needs to be assembled,
- and what kind of 2000-point list will actually lead to a fun game.
There is something very healthy about accepting that a temporary solution is still a solution. A half-built collection can become an army. A box from one system can help stand in for another unit if the opponent is on board. Grey plastic is still plastic, and plastic still fights.
See you on nerd weekend
So that is the current mission: everyone sort out some 2000-point lists for bigmar, and we will make the rest work however we need to. Bases, proxies, suspiciously familiar dwarfs — all acceptable.
Because at the end of the day, we mostly just want to get the big games in.
And if some Votann accidentally spend a weekend as Kharadron Overlords, we are not going to be the ones complaining.