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Hi, i play CSM and orks (got the orks from a friend)

Originally, i was looking at these two becuase i heard orks were the best for conversions, and chaos i really liked.

but after playing a game with a friends orks (and watching afew), i don't like their play style. Now, ive flipped through a couple codecies, and im wondering, what "race" plays different from orks, but allow room for conversions?

I have considered Imperial Guard as a choice, but is there another one that plays differently from orks and chaos that allows room for conversions?

I dont want tau (hate their aesthetics) and I dont want a MEQ (seeing as i already play chaos).

I think imperial guard would be a good choice, but i dont know the potential for conversions

The Guard Codex is in my oppion is one of the strongest for diffrent types of play style, want to go hord then you'll have 100+ foot solders, want mech then we have some of the most awesome tanks there are in the game (LRBT), want an all Airborn forces we got the Valk and Vendetta.

Like to field 9 LRBT in the force chart then you can, all in all if you try to max out the FC your looking at 18 tanks (9 heavy slots and 9 fast attack slots,) and 38 Chimeras.
We can out hord Ork, out shoot Tau, out smart Eldar and march power armour in to the ground.

We are the Guard, the first and last line of defence of Man.

Do you still want it to be horde? Tyranid is a horde army that has some nice room for conversions.

Tyranid can function very well as a hoard army and with the needed amount of patience can have untold numbers of conversions. I think that you'd find this army most preferable as Everything has a multitude of customizable limbs allowing for alot of fun mix-and-matching.

Eldar are the polar opposites of orks. Pick your flavor, Vanilla or Dark Chocolate, and see where it takes you.

I second the Tyranid suggestion. I found this one site with Genestealer-ized a Lictor and Trygon. Also every Nid model ever made can be used for something (as opposed to most other armies) so it can be quite diverse.

~~Yzz

I second the Eldar, I love Dark Eldar.

If you want horde go with IG blob IMO, you can convert any soldier to your liking.

Im not a fan of the "good" eldar, but DE look pretty spiffy.


I was thinking guard because they are very shooty compared to Orks.