Jason and I have been working on some micro-campaign rules for 40k. Among these are some alternative force organization charts, missions, and rules. Critical to the design of these has been discussion about how many points different HQs may cost. I thought I’d share the results of the “research” so far (research meaning flipping through the codexes I have or know about):

• Daemonhunters: Characters ~150–200, generics ~50–200
• Space Marines: Characters ~125–250 (most ~200), generics ~100–175 tricked out
• IG: Characters ~ 150–200 (most ~150), generics ~50–100 tricked out
• Black Templars: Characters ~175–200, generics ~ 100–200
• Chaos Marines: Characters ~ 160–275, generics ~ 90–150 tricked out
• Tau: Characters ~ 170–225, generics ~ 50–150 tricked out
• Necron: Characters ~ 200–360, generics ~100–200 tricked out

Somewhat surprisingly, there’s less spread there than I expected, though most of them are fairly similar. Big questions are Chaos Demons and Eldar lists, though I expect they’re probably not too different.