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Hey all...pick a 40k and Fantasy, army would you? Gimme a hand!

I have currently...

8,000pts of Black Templar, which I have to a RTT best painted standard, though the newer items I think could stand the test at a GT level event. This is my single favorite all time army, and one that I will continue to build and paint and work on no matter what. I am going to finish painting all that I have for this over this deployment, and hopefully break the 10k points mark.

My heresy era Imperial Fists - I have started to work on some test sculpt projects for them. (Expect pics in a bit). But this is more a passion project. The army will be based off the current Templar book.

1000pts of Nurgle Chaos - Including heavily converted/GS'ed models. But with the new book and the fact that EVERYONE is playing them, even though I want to I really can't enjoy them. That said I am probably going to keep working on them, for the same reason as my BT, they are my favorite fantasy guys, for their looks. Also, these models are all that remains after selling close to 3000 points of Nurgle Demons that I had back in the Storm of Chaos.

I REALLY want to do a couple of new armies. But I would really hate to be the "Johnny Come Lately" if you get me. I would love to have great big blocks of Warriors. Or a huge Vostroyan army, I have wanted to do them since those models came out, and figured that I would wait till the codex cause I would hate to build something and then have it obsoleted. But of course now IG seems like they are fleas on a dog if you get me. So really I am looking for some advice on what Army I should build next. I have not started any new armies in like 4 years.

I want to do two new armies, about a unit at a time. One 40k and one Fantasy. (My Fists being a passion/hobby project more then gaming, and like I said my Templar are a permanent thing).

Which armies do you see the most of out of the below...I would like to have a more unique army, in that not a lot of people play them. Cause it is boring as hell to only see Space Marine armies, or Daemon armies, or CSM armies.

Fantasy -

Empire - I love the models. Rules are cool.

Chaos - Again, models are awesome, and I could convert the hell out of things, and get opportunities to sculpt stuff and generally go nuts. But everyone has a chaos army. And no matter how nice it looks it becomes "Oh, ANOTHER chaos army..." when ever you go to put it on the board. To compound this is I love Nurgle armies (this is what I have...) because I can seriously go nuts with green stuff and whatnot, converting things. And I have a lot of Chaos bits.

Dwarves - Models are smaller, so they would be "faster" to paint. :p I think that this is more what I am going to be doing, I do not see a lot of Dwarf armies. And I have painted stuff for them, well a unit anyway.

40k

Vostroyan IG - These models are right off of Blanches sketchbooks, to me anyway. I absolutely love them. And as I am 9 months from home, at this point, some of the "OMG new army...." will have worn off them. Maybe. And more of the new codex army builders will get bored and sell of the stuff they bought right off the block, giving access to cheaper Russ for conversions, etc.

Traitor Guard - Ripe conversion opportunities. Eventually GW will come to its senses and release a new L&D list, and if I keep things simple off the bat, tanks and infantry are easy to "counts as", nothing should be obsoleted. And I have a lot of Chaos bits already.

Adeptus Mechanicus - Using the IG rules, or maybe chaos, I dunno. I have been looking a lot at the army Dave Taylor did a few years back. I think that it could be fun to hammer some out.

Orks - Even with them being in AoBR it does not seem that there are a lot of them floating around, at least in my area. This would be a bigger army...I am very much a horde kinda guy. So the AoBR boyz will come in handy. And I could use the above Vossy reasoning, in that there should soon be a glut of IG stuff people lose interest in on Ebay, for the Orky butchering and converting.

So to recap...help me pick my next armies! I love the below ideas, but can't chose between them.

What would YOU like to see across the table from you when you played me?

Tell me what you all think! You all will get to watch me build it too, over in the P&M forum too!
-Eric