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So I have a 2000+ point Tau army (I usually play a Farsight Bomb list) and I've been wanting to start a second army.
I've checked out most of the armies and a few builds and/or models of each have caught my attention, so I was wondering which army you guys would suggest.

So the armies that I've been thinking about getting their codex and a few things I like about them are...

Deamons, I love the DP and Soul Grinder model, I like having the opposite feel of Tau being almost all melee.

Space Marines, I really like Termies and LRs, or I would want to play a bike army or a jump pack army. I'm not sure which Codex I should get but I like the Dark Angles and the White Scars fluff. Though one of my friends plays SM so I might avoid them.

CSM I love the look and almost all the units, I would also try defiler spam, but as with SM my other friends plays them so I might stay clear.

Eldar I started collecting and bought the Codex and I would either play a super heavy jetbike army, or footdar

'Nids If I played nids I love modeling and the looks of all the MCs, and I'm less inclined for swarms

IG Tanks tanks and more tanks, as with nids I wouldn't like swarms of troops

So any and all help and comments are welcome. Also if anyone who plays these armies can offer advice and popular strats/builds

Grey Knights are getting redone early next year, so if they've got some way of getting TAGKs into Troops that would get you a really small, really elite all Terminator and LR army.

Personally Nids are my favourite, I like playing the bad/worse guy.
Rolling the field with a bunch of MCs seems to worry most opponents, that's always fun.
However I seem to always have a problem with always wanting 3-4 things at once, and not knowing what to get.

Multi Trygon nids might be a good way to go. With warriors + prime or Tervigon + gants to provide fodder and screening in front of the big stuff. Maybe some zoanthropes for more synapse/anti armour and your set to go!

Ah thanks for the help guys, I'm starting to lean towards deamons, I was wondering if anyone uses the same army for WHFB and 40k. Would you just need to make the bases interchangeable or can you just use square bases in 40k?

In 40K the only constraint is that you have to use the base the model was supplied when you bought it, as the square bases come with deamons then you technically can play with them, but it might be frowned upon. I'd just magnetize them. Deamons are fun, I just started Khorne mono-god list. But a lot of their success can depend on luck (lots for scattering deep strikes, randomly selecting what units enter play on the first turn ect) but they can be hilarious fun.

AlexHolker wrote:Grey Knights are getting redone early next year, so if they've got some way of getting TAGKs into Troops that would get you a really small, really elite all Terminator and LR army.

Yeah! go GK! Grey Templar has insider info, and he said that TAGK's will be troops. GK get around a lot of problems:
you want LR's and Termies? TAGK will be troops!
you might not do SM because your friend does them? do GK instead!
don't like the standard SM model? GK models look awesome!

No matter how much the idea of Deathwing Terminators appeals to you, DON'T PLAY DARK ANGELS! They suck really badly in their current form, and (correct me if I'm wrong) they aren't likely to be updated in the near term. At the moment they are like a bright, shiny land mine; luring in unwitting players (including myself) with the promise of an all-terminator army and then sucking epically versus modern marine codices (and basically everything else too).
Note: I don't know anything about the GKs, so I'm no help there.

I do really like GKs and thought about converting regular termies (I read a sweet article about converting the Black Reach ones to GKs.) I

I was wdonering about GK how do they play differently than SMs? I know currently they are super expensive for a normal PA marine but they also have +2 str right?

Not a fan of threads like this as I dont see how we can really help. Everyone has their own likes\dislikes and playstyle.

Think about the armies playstyles, the types of units you need to paint and how many mini's are required (the more you need like IG, the more money you need to spend). Maybe that will help you?

This is helping me out a bit, since I'm not really sure what to expect from each army. I'm also at that point where I'm not sure which codex to pick up. Though I'm not opposed to picking up other codexs for "knowing your enemy" and I enjoy the fluff.

I think you must choose the army of which you like the models most. Or at least that is how i start a new army

Hido wrote:This is helping me out a bit, since I'm not really sure what to expect from each army. I'm also at that point where I'm not sure which codex to pick up. Though I'm not opposed to picking up other codexs for "knowing your enemy" and I enjoy the fluff.

If you have any specific questions about the armies you're trying to choose between, I'm sure somebody here will have answers for you. Maybe that will help you figure out what to expect from them.