A disaster had occurred! Tornado, flood, fire, theft, angry cat! All of your PanO models are gone and need to replaced. For the sake of this argument money isn't an issue. What do you purchase?
Starter, support pack, dronbots and then choose if you want to roll a rectorial and which one. Unless you choose neoterra, pick the starter of that sectorial. If neoterra is your choice, the fusilier box is a must.
Split bundle fk from Ice storm. Hospitaller box. Santiago box Old magister box New magister box. Sepulcher blister. Father knight blister. OS box. X2
Icestorm, fucilier support, support pack, some remote boxes not necessarily the same, beyond icestorm and then you look for what you would like from the rest of the range depending on your playing style.
I get a free excuse to buy new Magisters and Hospitalers? Sold. But who settles for one Faction anyway - Tunguska. Currently still trying to convince myself 4 Factions and 6 Sectorials is enough to finish for this year. Also didn't really like Nomads so far. Then saw the Hollowmen....
Good question. Any other year, I'd rebuild my NCA and Acon from scratch. I love how those two sectorials plug into a broad variety of ITS mission lineups. Given this year's aggressive release schedule though, I'd probably do Tunguska and then Varuna. It would be fun to start fresh with a brand new project, pleased with my past success with NCA/Acon but excited to challenge myself with something new.
I don't. I'm not so emotionally invested in any one army that losing one will affect the rest. I'd continue with one of my other 5 armies and move on. Sure, they were my first infinity army, but I have others now. If this same catastrophe resulted in me losing ALL of them, I'd walk away. There are other shinies out there and there's no gaming commandment of "thou shalt have no other games, period". Back in 1995, I played WHFB and 40k. I had space marines and eldar for 40k and wood elves for whfb My woodies got stolen off my porch during a house move (someone jacked the box with the whole army in it, and some terrain). It was approx 4000pts back then (so not a small army). One army, my only "investment" in that game. Replacing it (even at 1995 prices) was non-viable. So I just gave that game up for 17 years instead and went back to the other. I did some rpg'ing as my "other" game in the meantime.
Starter Acon Starter Dronebots x 3 Bulleteers Peacemakers x 2 Hexas x 2 (one for conversion) Croc Man double pack and single Swiss HMG (old sculpt) Aquila HMG Nisse Sniper and HMG All the TAGs Bagh Mari box Lt Stephen Rao Magisters Box Hospitaller Box Joan De Fersen Garuda Spitfire And a handful of individual split box items.
I'd buy the following in this particular order: Operation Ice Storm (not splitting up because the Alguacils are perfect CSU proxies for me) Beyond Ice Storm Fusilier SWC Box Auxilia Box NCA Starter Box Aquila HMG Hexa Sniper Black Friar Warcor Dronbot Box Steel Phalanx Support Box Bipandra + Angus Uhlan + Tikbalang Box Squalo After that Acontecimento and Vanilla TAGs; MO once the resculpts are finished.
I would buy the same stuff again i guess (2x MO starter, old magisters, Santiagos, PanO-Icestorm) , probably more Order Sergeants.