What army do you hate playing against?

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**Ed_Bodger**

Ok Dakka just wondering what armies people dislike playing against. To try to encourage debate and make the posts easy to read if you are proposing an option please put it in this format:

1) What army you are using
2) The army you hate playing against
3) Why?

For example: (this is not my serious point)

1) Space Wolves
2) Imperial Guard
3) They blow up my nicely painted models by the end of turn 2.

My real example:

1) Imperial Guard
2) Blood Angels
3) They manage to circumvent my fire power particularly well and I am yet to adopt the right tactics to consistently beat them.

Over to you guys...

**Tyranid Horde**

1) Tyranids
2) Vanilla Marines
3) I'm sick of playing them all the time.

**Tarkand**

1) Vamilla Space Marine
2) Space Wolves
3) Despite SW players swearing on their life it isn't the case and I just haven't figured out how to handle them, playing against Space Wolves really just feels like playing against 'Space Marines +1'.

**Makenshi**

Dont hate a particular army just whatever army "that guy" happens to be using at the time

**Gorechild**

1) Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Deamons, Eldar
2) Mech IG
3) I don't like that you have to basically tailor you entire army to have a chance against them. A ballanced fun list for fighting amost anything else just can't contend with that much armour.

**Thunder555**

Tarkand wrote:1) Vamilla Space Marine
2) Space Wolves
3) Despite SW players swearing on their life it isn't the case and I just haven't figured out how to handle them, playing against Space Wolves really just feels like playing against 'Space Marines +1'.

And I thought Space Wolves were "Space Marines +2" and Blood Angels were "Space Marines +1"

**Ed_Bodger**

Try advancing Space Wolves into 30 Sternguard with Pedro...that hurt.

**Laughing God**

1. Eldar
2. Daemons
3. Just dont get to play them very often so every time I do I dont really have and experience to fall back on for beating them.

**purplefood**

1)Necrons
2)Orks
3)They are both the most widely played at my local GW and it gets boring playing them.

**Mr Nobody**

I don't like playing against vanilla marines because I've just played against them too much and they feel stale to me now.

**tekk_45**

1) Black Templars

Gorechild wrote:
2) Mech IG
3) I don't like that you have to basically tailor you entire army to have a chance against them. A ballanced fun list for fighting amost anything else just can't contend with that much armour.

**General Seric**

1) Imperial Guard
2) Imperial Guard
3) I do not like playing non-objective based games against another Guard player because it is just line them up and shoot.

**Samus_aran115**

Necrons. They're just a general pain in the ass

Er..scuse me:

1. Chaos Marines, maybe tyranids or Guard
2. Necrons
3. Just a general pain in the ass

**timetowaste85**

1) Salamanders, CSM, Blood Angels
2) Mech IG, Tau
3) For Mech IG I agree with the guys above-my friend gets P.O'd when I take a list with lots of melta, but when facing 9 tanks in 1850pts, what else can I do? You have to list tailor to beat it without just getting lucky! And as for Tau, I just hate the helmets and shoulder pads of fire warriors, and I hate the anime/gundam look of battle suits. The rules don't bother me, just the appearance. (yet I have no issue with nipples on blood angels)

**bigmeklover**

1) orks, nids, mec vanilla sm
2) eldar
3) just can not pin them to one spot.. then suddenly my hq's head blows up.

**Luco**

1)Dark Angels
2) Daemons
3) No chance for me to really do much tactically, they show up in my face and kill me or die trying. No satisfying tactical decisions, just pure luck when they mishap or the marines hold. Doesn't help any that I have little experience with them and the guy that plays them at our store has been playing Dark Angels before I'd even heard of the hobby and thus knows them inside and out.

**Skalk Bloodaxe**

1) Chaos Space Marines
2) Tyranids
3) Because I can visualize the fluff text of what *exactly* living ammunition does. Or what happens when you are engulfed by a barbed strangler. Shoot me, burn me, crush me... but those things (and other 'Nid bio-stuff) just give me the creeps.

**cyrax777**

1) What army you are using?: Orks or Chaos space Marines or Nids
2) The army you hate playing against: Imperial Guard.
3) Why?: way to much template spam.

**Punisher91090**

1) Eldar
2) anything with FnP
3) Eldar don't have too many weapons to negate it other than starcannon and Brightlance and they are expensive.

**MekanobSamael**

1) Orks.
2) Necrons.
3) They're boring.

**Samus_aran115**

MekanobSamael wrote:1) Orks.
2) Necrons.
3) They're boring.

Very true

It's like you're battling against robots or something..owait.

**juraigamer**

1: Imperial guard
2: More imperial guard
3: A monkey could play them, they are boring, they always get a hold of 3+ cover saves when I play against the infantry version, they can have more lascannons in a single infantry squad than my tau can field in a normal game, and finally: I consider them op. I'll play against ANY OTHER race anytime if I have the option.

**VikingScott**

1: Eldar, Wh, SM.
2: Khorne Daemons.
3: My take all comers list means nothing to daemons, armour means nothing to them

**SumYungGui**

1) Tyranids, Eldar, Probably soon Dark Eldar
2) Anything marine
3) There's just way too many space marine armies and every codex is so much like the others that it makes me want to gag.

**Chaos Lord Gir**

1) Chaos, Imperial Guard
2) Orkz
3) Lootas, triple battle wagon rush, and the underlying emotion of me wanting to one day play them, but fear my rationality would beat me to death for such a decision!

**Cambak**

1)Imperial Guard
2)Tyranids
3) Drop podding MC's into the rear of my tanks with their god be damned venom cannons and crusher claws.....

**Raptorkid**

tekk_45 wrote:1) Black Templars

Gorechild wrote:
2) Mech IG
3) I don't like that you have to basically tailor you entire army to have a chance against them. A ballanced fun list for fighting amost anything else just can't contend with that much armour.

By the Golden Throne this. I've only beaten my IG playing friend twice with BT, both of which were extremely lucky rolls on my part and appaling rolls on his. Wrecking a Russ with my Emperor's Champion, for example, while every pie plate he fired scattered miles.

**GamzaTheChaos**

1: blood angels because they look stupid and every BA player i ever met was cocky too the max.
2: orks because I hate being out numbered by a large amount while I have to kill and take objectives.

I play vanilla marines that happen to be Americans.

**liam0404**

GamzaTheChaos wrote:1: blood angels because they look stupid and every BA player i ever met was cocky too the max.
2: orks because I hate being out numbered by a large amount while I have to kill and take objectives.

I play vanilla marines that happen to be Americans.

I actually love playing against orks - win or lose, you know some crazy s**t is going to go down!

**rzsanguine**

Space Wolves
Demons.
Tau.