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Basically as the title says, Im starting a new SW army after doing a 3790 point Marine force, I've decided to do a new SW army specially as they were my first army, so kinda going back to my roots. My only problem is that now I like to do 2 forces together so that I can fight them against each other or other people.

What I would like to do is a non-Imperial force and non-Marine force, as CSM v SM just gets annoying, specially when most of the guys at my FLGS play marines and Imperium v Imperium just looks odd.

I do prefer plastics because it allows for more flexibility in the models and keeps my case light, but I dont mind metal models.

So what guys do you think, any suggestions are welcome (I have pretty much all of the codex's, except Witch and Daemon Hunters, Templars, Daemons and Dark Eldar). Would prefer if you give some reasons to why think I should go for that force.

Thanks in advance!

Stiyx

I'd think as SW is a highly armoured, toughness 4 mobile assault force, you'd want a weaker, shooting force for some variety. I'd recommend either Tau, Eldar or Dark Eldar.

You know, just because you use an imperial codex, doesn't mean you have to use imperial models. Search around this board for some of the stellar Traitor Guard armies that have been made. Also, some folks like to argue that the SW (or possibly the upcoming BA codex) would make for an awesome book to play a World Eaters legion off of.

Well, if you don't want to go up against Imperium (And believe me, I hear you on that one) try a Xenos army. Orks can be a good match-up, though I've found it's tricky to find a good Ork list to counter a good Wolves list - mostly because a few Wolves can easily take on dozens of Orks (Once saw a 7-man Wolf Guard squad take on an entire tankbustas squad, shoot out both a trukk and the boyz inside, and then take out about a quarter of a shootas squad - all in 3 turns).

If you're into spending lots of money on models, you could also look into Eldar, as they could be a great challenge for your Wolves. Eldar have a decent counter for just about anything, and the Biker Council can be extremely treacherous with 4+ rerollable invulnerable saves. You could also look into starting up Tau, who can usually match up pretty evenly with marine lists. Just don't expect a huge variety of different lists to run as Tau - there are really about 3 major ones (Tau, Hybrid and Kroot), with a sublist being the infamous Farsight Bomb.