Every time i go to the gaming store i see the same armies fighting. Obviously because the same locals show up often, but some armies are much more underrated than others which really bums me out because i think they're all pretty cool,but i digress. Because of the few underrated armies i don't get to see some of the fights that i think would be really awesome to simply watch. For example, iv'e never seen Tyranids vs. Necrons, and i think it would be a great fight because the armies are both evil, yet they look completley different. So i would to know what the rest of dakka thinks. What two armies would you like to see clash and why?

I rather expected this topic to be about what armies that you would like to see fight an actual battle, like watching a living army of Space Marines drop in against a living army of Eldar.

I'd like to see Guard vs. Orks. In some areas that might be pretty common, but we have no regular Ork players in our group at this point, and two regular Guard players (counting myself). A battle of Imperial Guard vs. Orks seems like it would be entertaining based upon sheer body count alone.

I've watched IG vs Orks before, and you're always in for a cool game. The play styles are so different, it leads to some really funny situations, like when an IG platoon is trying to backpeddle away from a mob of boyz, only for the boyz to get stuck in difficult terrain

As for me, almost all our armies in my store are spess mehreens, so anytime its two armies that aren't those, I get excited. Orks vs anything is cool, but I also want to see some wierd matchups like DE vs nids or eldar vs tau.

And finally I always wanted to see a game of tau vs black templar, because that would be hilarious to watch

Dark Eldar vs Necrons

Two evil empires that hate each other and are KoS.

Plus the idea of Razorwings zipping around and chasing Scythes, while Archons clash with Overlords is badass.

Tyranids and Tau. Slaughter at range, then slaughter at melee.

Either way though, Blood for the Blood God and all that.

Necrons vs Tau. I'd love to watch the response of the Crons when the Tau ask them to join the Greater Good.

Good matchups, keep it going! i Find it weird that i haven't seen DE vs. Eldar.

I would love to see Dark Eldar or Eldar Vs Chaos Daemons.

dark eldar vs grey knights.

King Crow wrote:Every time i go to the gaming store i see the same armies fighting. Obviously because the same locals show up often, but some armies are much more underrated than others which really bums me out because i think they're all pretty cool,but i digress. Because of the few underrated armies i don't get to see some of the fights that i think would be really awesome to simply watch. For example, iv'e never seen Tyranids vs. Necrons, and i think it would be a great fight because the armies are both evil, yet they look completley different. So i would to know what the rest of dakka thinks. What two armies would you like to see clash and why?

I have fought nids v necrons several times. Crons really have the whip hand, largely because nid weapons have pants AP and it is hard to drop enough cron warriors fast enough, although the MCs can do a lot of damage to crons. Given a choice of any nid forces to take on necrons I would definitely opt for a nidzilla army. It looks quite cool though as nasty lizard-things grapple with robots, the clash of colours and body styles is good to see.

Two painted armies.

I'll never see it.

-Loki- wrote:Two painted armies.

I'll never see it.

Oh my god that's terrible. I once saw someone playing a game with legs glued to a base. I wanted to cry. Why won't you ever see two painted armies?

Tau vs. orks/IG

Eldar vs. Dark Eldar.

Nids vs. orks

Nids vs. Tau

Orks vs. Necrons

GK vs. Necrons

GK vs. SOB

ork green tide vs nids hormogaunt spam

Ultramarines v. Grey Knights v. Blood Angels v. Necrons.

Let the ultimate Ward-rior be decided!

Black Templars versus Black Templars.

Gaming Tables weren't meant to hold that much awesome at once.

Miniwargaming.com is somewhat good with this. The guys on their videos usually mix things up and don't just have Space Marines vs Space Marines. I've think there's been Tyranids vs Necrons on there.

-Loki- wrote:Two painted armies.

I'll never see it.

If this guy lives in an area like mine, I can see why. We have two guys who have been playing for over 10 years apiece who just recently finished their first fully painted armies Although I can't talk, I haven't painted a single one of my models yet... Gotta get that paint tomorrow

The thing is, some people only care about the gameplay aspect, and could care very little about modeling (I was this way at first, until I found the joy that is conversions/kitbashing). These are the guys who are always tweaking their lists and preparing for tournaments. Not saying its right, just why it happens. It's kinda hard to paint a guy when you're constantly changing your mind about what he's going to have on him...

Also, to keep it on topic, any two horde armies fighting each other always looks awesome. Orks vs IG, Nids vs, mass footcrons, whatever. It just looks so awesome to see literally hundreds of guys on the table and realize that they're gonna slug it out in a good old fashioned brawl. I get so tired of seeing metal boxes, but I have a feeling we won't see a change in this till next edition

GK vs SOB would be interesting

Space Wolves Vs Sisters of Battle

Would love to see 2000 points of Daemons face down a 1000 point GK army.
still an uphill battle, but maybe the daemons could pull it off?

Eldar vs. Daemons
Necrons vs. Tau
Tyranids vs. Orks

GK's as few models as possible with max upgrades vs a horde army goin for pure body count no upgrade like 2k worth of grots lol

-Loki- wrote:Two painted armies.

I'll never see it.

Movie Marines vs Movie Marines would be hilarious.

Especially if you houseruled that they had to share their stunt doubles between both armies.

Failing that, Movie Marines vs anything that's NOT MEQ (say 1k movie marines vs 2.5k of anything non-MEQ).

nidsv ersus demons who will win

iv'e seen that a lot of people want to see nid vs. orks. It's the ultimate fight yet very few have ever seen it. It's so sad.

Slaaneshii army versus SoB, much rape would occur

Je suis2 au hazard wrote:Slaaneshii army versus SoB, much rape would occur

oh man....

I suppose anything with NO marines is a good fight.

They are so oversaturated it is sad.

Guard vs Chaos guard would be nice =]

I played nid v nid the other day, even with very similar paint schemes! It was brutal and amusing, two hive tyrants hurling psychic abuse at each other over a rock and stealers v stealers. All good fun!

Isengard wrote:I played nid v nid the other day, even with very similar paint schemes! It was brutal and amusing, two hive tyrants hurling psychic abuse at each other over a rock and stealers v stealers. All good fun!

Sounds like a great brawl!

Tau vs Purifier Spam

Tau vs DoA

Tau vs Tau

Tau

My Pre-Heresy army vs Inyaden Eldar.

BlapBlapBlap wrote:Tau vs Purifier Spam

I've done this (with 1k Purifiers). Went pretty badly for me, managed to scrape draw only barely, and that was because we both had 2 objectives on our own deployment zones.
He killed all my troops on one of my objectives and I managed to contest one of his.

I'd like to see Tau v. anything at my local shop. We currently have no Tau players here anymore. I don't like the force personally, but whenever I've played them, I've had lots of fun.

BlapBlapBlap wrote:Tau vs Purifier Spam

Tau vs DoA

Tau vs Tau

Tau

My Pre-Heresy army vs Inyaden Eldar.

I agree, tau are very, very awesome and very, very rare.

Today I went to my FLGS and asked if they had piranhas, and they were confused, and pointed me towards the pet shop in the mall, because they had never heard of it.

The awesome thing about Tau vs. Tau is that it means someone is an enclave-themed army, which is amazing

I've never ever seen an enclave army. That would be a great fight. Tau vs. Tau. I actually think Tau vs. Space Marines would be a good fight despite the over usage of Space Marines, because the Tau have weapons that can really hurt Marines.

King Crow wrote:I've never ever seen an enclave army. That would be a great fight. Tau vs. Tau. I actually think Tau vs. Space Marines would be a good fight despite the over usage of Space Marines, because the Tau have weapons that can really hurt Marines.

For the most part, tau weapons are S5 AP5 though, so are more suited to killing light infantry.

I do agree though, plasma is widely available to tau, and I make good use of it (all my suits, except broadsides, have Plasma rifles.)

I beat a nid player with my orcs a few weekends ago. I didn't know how lucky I am to have such variety in the armies my group uses. We have every army except SOB being played. Not all at once of course but I've seen all the match ups mentioned.

Tyranids vs. Chaos Daemons, particularly Khornate. Bloodletters fighting genestealers, Greater Daemons fighting Hive Tyrants, Daemon Princes vs. Carnifexes, and Bloodcrushers charging a group of Tyranid Warriors.

Bloodletters vs orks is always fun.

Genestealer heavy nids versus blob IG is glorious to watch.

It makes me think of Aliens, with the marines cautiously advancing and then suddenly xenomorphs out of fething nowhere.

Big blobs supported by armor marching up the board, the armor trading shots with tyrannofexes and hive guard, and then suddenly genestealers popping up all over the place, charging into the surprised and unprepared guard. I'd like to see that match again, it was really fun to watch.

Lokas wrote:Genestealer heavy nids versus blob IG is glorious to watch.

It makes me think of Aliens, with the marines cautiously advancing and then suddenly xenomorphs out of fething nowhere.

Big blobs supported by armor marching up the board, the armor trading shots with tyrannofexes and hive guard, and then suddenly genestealers popping up all over the place, charging into the surprised and unprepared guard. I'd like to see that match again, it was really fun to watch.

The best is blob guard vs:

Shas'O R'alai
Death Company dread with Blood Talons. Gobble gobble, melon-fether.
Purifiers
Orks (watching guard get overrun once the orks reach their lines is golden)

ShatteredBlade wrote:I would love to see Dark Eldar or Eldar Vs Chaos Daemons.

Played my DE vs Daemons. Was very interesting, and enjoyable. DE won with 2 objectives out of the 3 in control. Poor Plaguebearers got mauled by the Razorwing .

-Loki- wrote:Two painted armies.

I'll never see it.

I know that feel.

In other news...

Dark Eldar vs. Eldar
Orkz vs. Tyranids
Tau vs. IG

Apocolypse Tau vs IG
Apocolypse Ork Vs IG

Necrons vs. Chaos Space Marines? i don't know if it'll be good, but i know iv'e never seen it before.

Engine of War wrote:Apocolypse Tau vs IG
Apocolypse Ork Vs IG

Apocalypse tau vs. anything.

Mantas are the absolute coolest models ever released for anything, ever.

Bloodpact Vs Orks
DE Vs Necrons
DE Vs SoB

Blob DE vs Orks
Sons of Horus vs Blood Angels
Khorne Marines vs Blood Angels
Black Templars vs Dark Angels
Grey Knights vs Exorcists
Inquisition (Inquisitor as HQ, Guard as rest) vs Orks

TheAngrySquig wrote:Blob DE vs Orks
Sons of Horus vs Blood Angels
Khorne Marines vs Blood Angels
Black Templars vs Dark Angels
Grey Knights vs Exorcists
Inquisition (Inquisitor as HQ, Guard as rest) vs Orks

Black Templars versus grey knights.

Black Templars versus khorne anything.

Horde Orks vs Horde Orks.

Hopefully both players have their armies unpainted, much hilarity ensues when they get into close combat.

Grey Knights vs Horde Orks

Here are my top three favorite games to watch (in no particular order):

Orks vs Gaurd

Chaos vs Marines

Tau vs anything (and the tau are winning)

Lot's of Tau fans in this thread! i like this!

King Crow wrote:Lot's of Tau fans in this thread! i like this!

I think it's the fact that vanilla space marines have no place here that brings out the more obscure fan bases

Je suis2 au hazard wrote:

King Crow wrote:Lot's of Tau fans in this thread! i like this!

I think it's the fact that vanilla space marines have no place here that brings out the more obscure fan bases

hahaha!, i think you're on to something there!

BlapBlapBlap wrote:Tau vs Tau

Done that. Almost mirror lists. Absolutely boring. Ended in a draw.

Highlights were his Kroot outflanking in front of a Hammerhead which proceeded to tank shock them the next turn. They didn't regroup. Also 2 of my Crisis Suits pummeling the enemy hammerhead to death in CC after cover-hopping across the table.

WolfBrother916 wrote:Space Wolves Vs Sisters of Battle

I actually played against Space Pups recently, went pretty well for my Sisters

GK vs Tau.

"YOU CAN MOVE 30 INCHES WITH THAT ONE TURN 1? AND HAVE ASSAULT WEAPONS?"
"Yes, yes I do."
"FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU"

GK vs Nidzilla

"YOU ALL GET FORCE WEAPONS? AND YOU CAN MOVE 30 INCHES TURN 1? AND YOU MAKE YOURSELF S5?"
"Yes, yes I do."
"FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU"

Avatar 720 wrote:

BlapBlapBlap wrote:Tau vs Tau

Done that. Almost mirror lists. Absolutely boring. Ended in a draw.

Highlights were his Kroot outflanking in front of a Hammerhead which proceeded to tank shock them the next turn. They didn't regroup. Also 2 of my Crisis Suits pummeling the enemy hammerhead to death in CC after cover-hopping across the table.

Mirror lists is almost always boring, for 90% of armies. An infantry heavy vs. Suit Heavy list would be interesting, same with a vehicle heavy vs. either infantry or suit heavy list.

That would be interesting. Take the same army and make 2 completely different lists.

Pro painted GK vs pro painted DE would look the best, and the match up wouldn't be terrible

TheAngrySquig wrote:Pro painted GK vs pro painted DE would look the best, and the match up wouldn't be terrible

Best look would be pro painted BA versus pro DE I think, or maybe Eldar vs DE Pro painted.

Lots of people want to see IG vs Tau.

As an IG player who has played Tau a few times since two of my close friends each have a Tau Army, I have to say it's nothing special.

The Tau get tabled pretty quickly. Tau have weapons with a big punch but they just can't deal with the numbers.

I've never seen Sisters of Battle or Dark Eldar so that would be cool to see.

Silentway wrote:Lots of people want to see IG vs Tau.

As an IG player who has played Tau a few times since two of my close friends each have a Tau Army, I have to say it's nothing special.

The Tau get tabled pretty quickly. Tau have weapons with a big punch but they just can't deal with the numbers.

I've never seen Sisters of Battle or Dark Eldar so that would be cool to see.

That would be a good match. Sisters vs. DE. Also, (and i don't want this to distract from the topic) I have to disagree with that the Tau don't have the means to deal with numbers. Now i'm not an expert on 40k but I play a Tau army and the Tau have the means to fight a horde army with the right list. Rail guns have the sub munition rounds that uses a large blast marker, That would be devastating to Imperial Guard. Tau also have flamers and missile pods for their battle suits. Wouldn't these things handle pretty well in a Tau vs. Imperial Guard?

King Crow wrote:

Silentway wrote:Lots of people want to see IG vs Tau.

As an IG player who has played Tau a few times since two of my close friends each have a Tau Army, I have to say it's nothing special.

The Tau get tabled pretty quickly. Tau have weapons with a big punch but they just can't deal with the numbers.

I've never seen Sisters of Battle or Dark Eldar so that would be cool to see.

That would be a good match. Sisters vs. DE. Also, (and i don't want this to distract from the topic) I have to disagree with that the Tau don't have the means to deal with numbers. Now i'm not an expert on 40k but I play a Tau army and the Tau have the means to fight a horde army with the right list. Rail guns have the sub munition rounds that uses a large blast marker, That would be devastating to Imperial Guard. Tau also have flamers and missile pods for their battle suits. Wouldn't these things handle pretty well in a Tau vs. Imperial Guard?

Flamers = Close Up = Dead Tau.

Missile Pods = OK...

Railguns = BINGO!

Imperial Guard (Catachans) vs Dark Eldar would be fun to watch, especially if it was an artillery heavy IG list

Sisters of Battle vs Sisters of Battle.

The most rare army in the game, fighting itself. You have to have not one, but two SoB players! In the same room! At the same time!

always wanted to bring a big Iyandon list against a big nids list, something like 15 - 20,000 points a side so could really do it up right. true masses of wraithguard and wraithlords with a couple of titans and all the trimmings against the hordes of bugs.

Orks vs IG, 5,000 points a side, no vehicles allowed. The true meaning of hordes will be learned

Fluffy pre-heresy themed Imperial Fists vs. Iron Warriors.

Planetstrike.

Imperial palace, anyone?

Je suis2 au hazard wrote:Fluffy pre-heresy themed Imperial Fists vs. Iron Warriors.

Planetstrike.

Imperial palace, anyone?

Ahhhh, my friend, you have introduced a new factor into this thread!Location!

What two armies do you want to see and where!

Crazyterran wrote:Sisters of Battle vs Sisters of Battle.

The most rare army in the game, fighting itself. You have to have not one, but two SoB players! In the same room! At the same time!

Its the most boring battle ever, I've played it and me and my opponent were both bored and we could both predict each other moves. When I was back in Richmond we had lots of sisters of battle players and they all said the same thing for sisters verse sisters, it is a boring battle that they will refuse to play.

My IG Apoc Army against Every Nid player in the world.

Apoc Battle Royal.

IG vs IG

Renegade IG vs Renegade IG

IG vs Renegade IG Apoc

True to form Inquisition (IG, BT, SoB, GK) Vs Chaos

Age of Apostasy - IG + an angry mob of crusaders (loyalists) vs Inq + IG & (radical/heretical/ecclesiarchal)

All fully painted in my dreams...

Red Corsairs Vs Space Wolves
Black Legion Vs IG
Dark Eldar vs White Scars

King Crow wrote:

Silentway wrote:Lots of people want to see IG vs Tau.

As an IG player who has played Tau a few times since two of my close friends each have a Tau Army, I have to say it's nothing special.

The Tau get tabled pretty quickly. Tau have weapons with a big punch but they just can't deal with the numbers.

I've never seen Sisters of Battle or Dark Eldar so that would be cool to see.

That would be a good match. Sisters vs. DE. Also, (and i don't want this to distract from the topic) I have to disagree with that the Tau don't have the means to deal with numbers. Now i'm not an expert on 40k but I play a Tau army and the Tau have the means to fight a horde army with the right list. Rail guns have the sub munition rounds that uses a large blast marker, That would be devastating to Imperial Guard. Tau also have flamers and missile pods for their battle suits. Wouldn't these things handle pretty well in a Tau vs. Imperial Guard?

Flamers are close range which means the Tau Die. Missile mods are just ok. The Railguns with sub-munition would be helpful except they are focused w/ Solid shot) on the Leman Russ the whole time.



Mechanized IG vs Footy IG would be interesting.

A horde of Space Wolves vs an equal horde of Black Legion would be great. A classic ice board with hundreds of marines and dozens of tanks swarming it

I would like to see apoc tau vs. apoc space marines.

Taros theme!

specifically, the point where FW assault failed and a massive battlesuit assault was launched against the space marine lines.

Or even better, The war of Dakka. Shooty orks vs. horde tau (stealth cloud/kroot blob). Orks would obviously win since horde tau is terrible and shooty orks are scary but...

Codex Wars!

That massive 2 page spread of GK in their book vs the WS list in the SM book

TheAngrySquig wrote:Codex Wars!

That massive 2 page spread of GK in their book vs the WS list in the SM book

Or GK+khorne daemons vs. SoB

What about BT vs Canadians? That would be hillarious. Cadia rolls out the big tanks and hundreds of bodies, BT take out their swords

TheAngrySquig wrote:What about BT vs Canadians? That would be hillarious. Cadia rolls out the big tanks and hundreds of bodies, BT take out their swords

Do you mean Cadians?

...you wrote Canadians...

SoulGazer wrote:Necrons vs Tau. I'd love to watch the response of the Crons when the Tau ask them to join the Greater Good.

I'll second this, it'd be a fun one, certainly interesting at least. both are shooty, and you get rails vs. quantum shields. this would be a hell of a shoot out.

Plus 1 to Necrons vs. Tau

Je suis2 au hazard wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:What about BT vs Canadians? That would be hillarious. Cadia rolls out the big tanks and hundreds of bodies, BT take out their swords

Do you mean Cadians?

...you wrote Canadians...

Sorry, my iPod must have autocorrected

Two Dark Angels armies, both doing Deathwing Assault......

Deathwing vs Ravenwing

-Loki- wrote:Two painted armies.

I'll never see it.

Beat me to it..

That, and less Space Marines.

I think we all want to see less space marines as cool as they are.

I want to see BT vs DA. Both the lower down subsidiaries of the Big Book, and both awesome

TheAngrySquig wrote:What about BT vs Canadians? That would be hillarious. Cadia rolls out the big tanks and hundreds of bodies, BT take out their swords

Speaking as a Canadian, I can assure you that in the event of the Black Templars invading Canada, the RCMP (our national police force) would unleash a swarm of caribou, beavers, and polar bears upon the unsuspecting Astartes, followed by wave after wave of Hockey players and lumberjacks, screaming our national war cry of "Canada, eh!"

If that failed, we might actually get to use our army for once.

Haha yeah, I got autocorrected from Cadians to Canadians

King Crow wrote:

Je suis2 au hazard wrote:Fluffy pre-heresy themed Imperial Fists vs. Iron Warriors.

Planetstrike.

Imperial palace, anyone?

Ahhhh, my friend, you have introduced a new factor into this thread!Location!

What two armies do you want to see and where!

Tau (Pre-Split Farsight) vs Orks on Arkunasha. Make the board into either a network of canyons for Farsight's guerilla campaign or a natural fortress for when the Orks finally trapped him and laid siege to his remaining forces.

Alternatively Tau vs IG at Koloth Gorge.

Eldar and Dark Eldar vs Orks on a true scale craftworld table

If we're adding in the play type i'm going to go with the Maldebe scenario ( it's mentioned in the BRB)

Ultramarines vs Tau, with necrons popping up mid fight. ( it's a tomb world)

TheAngrySquig wrote:

Je suis2 au hazard wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:What about BT vs Canadians? That would be hillarious. Cadia rolls out the big tanks and hundreds of bodies, BT take out their swords

Do you mean Cadians?

...you wrote Canadians...

Sorry, my iPod must have autocorrected

I have to admit, BT vs. Canadians would be something to see

I can tell you though, that I am a Canadian and will beat all your toys in a fight


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A Town Called Malus wrote:

King Crow wrote:

Je suis2 au hazard wrote:Fluffy pre-heresy themed Imperial Fists vs. Iron Warriors.

Planetstrike.

Imperial palace, anyone?

Ahhhh, my friend, you have introduced a new factor into this thread!Location!

What two armies do you want to see and where!

Tau (Pre-Split Farsight) vs Orks on Arkunasha. Make the board into either a network of canyons for Farsight's guerilla campaign or a natural fortress for when the Orks finally trapped him and laid siege to his remaining forces.

Alternatively Tau vs IG at Koloth Gorge.

Two of the most epic battles of the 41st millenium. That's what most tau battles would look like if they weren't so limited by their doctrine, and allowed to use the most brutal of tactics.

Fluffy Urban Imperial gaurd vs Blood Axe orks in a massive city of death... carnage in its purest form.

Iron Warriors (FULL CHAPTER) vs Emperors Children (FULL WARBAND)

World Eaters vs. Emperor's children (I mean, come on, they need preferred enemy)

Tyranids vs. parking lot guard (oddly enough, have never seen it)

Ork Footsloggers versus Tyranid Gaunts.

Necrons, Bled Ravens, Cadians, Ulthwe, Orks, Tau and Word Bearers in a campaign on Kronus.

Belexar wrote:Ork Footsloggers versus Tyranid Gaunts.

Nidzilla vs. Ork horde would be fun to watch

I don't understand why it's so hard to find an Ork vs. tyranid game!

Necromunda hive gang vs a titan

Pre heresy EC vs post heresy EC. In the words of effie trinket, let the games begin!!!

-Loki- wrote:Two painted armies.

I'll never see it.

I giggled in real life, but I'll never see that battle either, much as I'd like to. It's mainly because I generally dislike the painting aspect of wargaming, and I supply miniatures for both sides of my games. So most of my miniatures aren't painted, or at least aren't finished.

I'd like to add to it, "on a board with painted scenery," because my scenery is almost entirely just raw foamcore/plastic, apart from the board/battlemat itself and the trees that came in the value pack from Woodland Scenics.

-Loki- wrote:Two painted armies.

I'll never see it.

This guy wins the thread

I agree, Loki wins everyone!