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I collect Grey knights and was wondering if they were effective against non daemonic armies and how to use them accordingly

Short Answer: Yes.

Long Answer: Absolutely. Grey Knights have a lot of variety within the codex for dealing with all sorts of enemies. On the whole, you'll want to prioritize transports and anything fast-moving (although GK can keep up to an extent). Shoot non-MEQs. Assault MEQs. Force-weapon-insta-kill MCs and ICs. It's pretty straightforward. GKs are one of the true "small, elite force" armies (although they don't have to be if you build them specifically for MSU Purifiers or henchman spam).

In essence, they're considered one of the top-tier armies right now alongside Blood Angels and Space Wolves. Playing them means you aren't playing with any sort of codex creep/disadvantages. I wouldn't call them OP, but you really shouldn't have any matchups that are too uphill unless your opponent outplays you.

thanks for the sum up

Short: Yes
Long: Yes! yes! yes! They kick ass

Grey Knights are one of the most powerful armys in terms of both fluff and gameplay. or they will untill Necrons are released....

hand banana wrote:Grey Knights are one of the most powerful armys in terms of both fluff and gameplay. or they will untill Necrons are released....

Like DE for a couple months before GK, right? And, the release before that right.

heres a scenario for you, 3 ravagers, 2 venoms, one beast squad, two squads of wynches and a few more things I can't remember. grey Knights two squads of paladins, one with driago, and a dreadknight. They roll for mission and its kill points, dark eldar line up and shoots down everything except for two paladins . The grey knights shot up the squad of beast in the process and a squad of wynches and a ravager and a venom. Grey knights win, with two models on the board. the whole army only had four kill points and the dark eldar player only got two for driago and the dreadknight because there was one paladin from each squad. so to answer your question; yes, very much so.

Cypher's Sword wrote:heres a scenario for you, 3 ravagers, 2 venoms, one beast squad, two squads of wynches and a few more things I can't remember. grey Knights two squads of paladins, one with driago, and a dreadknight. They roll for mission and its kill points, dark eldar line up and shoots down everything except for two paladins . The grey knights shot up the squad of beast in the process and a squad of wynches and a ravager and a venom. Grey knights win, with two models on the board. the whole army only had four kill points and the dark eldar player only got two for driago and the dreadknight because there was one paladin from each squad. so to answer your question; yes, very much so.

33% of games are KP, not really a problem, less so with any other GK build. One low KP army build, dose not make overpowered. It makes a build with no objective holding power. But stick to the only see a tiny part of how something works, or you know your can look at how a build works when it not a perfect set up.

Now on the flip side my Ork 13 KP, GK 5 KP guess who one that. Hint it wasn't the GK and it was KPs. Hmmm... damn overpowered flavor of the month.

Noir wrote:

Cypher's Sword wrote:heres a scenario for you, 3 ravagers, 2 venoms, one beast squad, two squads of wynches and a few more things I can't remember. grey Knights two squads of paladins, one with driago, and a dreadknight. They roll for mission and its kill points, dark eldar line up and shoots down everything except for two paladins . The grey knights shot up the squad of beast in the process and a squad of wynches and a ravager and a venom. Grey knights win, with two models on the board. the whole army only had four kill points and the dark eldar player only got two for driago and the dreadknight because there was one paladin from each squad. so to answer your question; yes, very much so.

33% of games are KP, not really a problem, less so with any other GK build. One low KP army build, dose not make overpowered. It makes a build with no objective holding power. But stick to the only see a tiny part of how something works, or you know your can look at how a build works when it not a perfect set up.

Now on the flip side my Ork 13 KP, GK 5 KP guess who one that. Hint it wasn't the GK and it was KPs. Hmmm... damn overpowered flavor of the month.

I wasn't saying they're overpowered, that was just an example of them doing well against an army thats non deamons. But I totally agree with you, if it was a capture point game against your orks, he would have no way to hold more points than you. In that way the grey knight are sort of like eldar, have to try to tie it up buy doin' a lot of killiing. I knew when the grey knight codex came out that their number one weakness was going to be their small numbers, i can't imagine a foot slogging grey knight army against tau, it would be over at turn one.

even though practically the entire grey knight army could deep strike?