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So I've played a little before and have a small understanding of the gameplay and am looking to start again... The three most appealing armies to me right now are Tau Eldar and Necrons and I'm stuck on them for various reasons...

I find the Tau appealing because primarily because of they're firewarriors, they're lower point cost than the Necrons and have an insane gun, the only worry is that they're a lot less durable and im worried that I'd get mauled if I can't take advantage of they're 36 range... They're BS is a bit low but marker lights can help solve this... I'd be going primarily for a combination of pinning units like sniper drones and pathfinders with firewarriors and id probably put in some gundrones broad sides and crisis battlessuites

The Necrons are most appealing mostly because of they're durability and overall good base stats. What worries me with they're warriors is that they're gun is 12 inch less and they do have a tiny bit higher point cost, the other guys I would like are the stalker night/doomskyth deathmarks and wraiths with maybe annialation barge and doomsday but I'm not as sure of how effective these units would be especially the wraith cause I'm not familiar with CC and the deathmarks are basically only good for one turn...

Eldar is similar in base stats to Necrons I like they're durability and would probably get wraithgaurds rangers warpspiders and shiningspears and play a fast moving annialation squad and id mayve throw in some support cannons or something

Im kind of just lost as the armies are similar enough but still different... Im mostly unsure because I'm not sure how often the extra 12 inch range will help the taus guns and also they're reliance on marker lights... The Necrons don't have the same range and I'm not sure how effective they're deathmarks doomskythsl and wraiths will actually be and they're troops cost a tad more points but the overall stats are way better and seem to be the most consistent bunch. The Eldar seem really cool in thought but i haven't gotten to look to closly at they're point costs yet and as they're gun range is really small for some units I may run into problems in CC.

Also as a last thought point costs just baffle me I'm not really sure how to tell if it's a lot or not is there any baseline I can compare too?