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Help! Should I be good evil or neutral?

Why give up orks, the orkses are da best.

But in all seriousness, what do you want, fun fluff, competitive, fun to paint, to model, cheap, all of these come into play.

Me boyz need some rest. I'm tired of a funny army. I want a relatively easy to paint army that's shooty and fun to field. One that's aggressive and powerful.

Then space wolves is for you, base color wash for armor. VERY aggresive, can be shooty, serious, and powerful.

aapch1 wrote:Me boyz need some rest. I'm tired of a funny army. I want a relatively easy to paint army that's shooty and fun to field. One that's aggressive and powerful.

Well that's space wolves, but you can't get much more easy to paint than Templars (fairly aggressive too, though not so great for competitive tourney lists).

Daemons!

They may not be the most 'competitive' codex out there these days, compared to soem of the recent Limberger, but they hae some awesome stuff, and the HQ's and DP's can be real beasts

Pick Daemons, stay way from Tau.

I guess Space Wolves combine everything you want out of your four choices, but I guess Blood Angels would work, too. GK and Tau aren't exactly agressive, and Chaos daemons are either shooty or powerful, rarely both.

Maybe you should just go a GW, spend an afternoon there watching games and then decide what army looks the most fun to you.

Grey Knights are quite shooty and powerful

That's what I said, right?

I think GKs would be more "aggressive" than Wolves (not in the fluff, but hey). Wolves tend to hang back further to exploit their Long Fangs and Razorbacks. GK's force you more into the mid- to close-range field.

Zweischneid wrote:I think GKs would be more "aggressive" than Wolves (not in the fluff, but hey). Wolves tend to hang back further to exploit their Long Fangs and Razorbacks. GK's force you more into the mid- to close-range field.

Compared to Dark Eldar, Tyranids, Orks, DoA Blood Angels or Khorne Daemons, moving up to midfield and then moving back can hardly be called aggressive.

I was thinking of TWC and wolf scouts when thinking about Space Wolves, and I guess they could do Assault Terminators in a Landraider, too.

aapch1 wrote: I want a relatively easy to paint army that's shooty and fun to field. One that's aggressive and powerful.

How do you define "shooty"?

How do you define "powerful"?

There are a few armies that do both, but they do it in different ways.

Shooty is big guns high bs. Powerful is high saves and ws.

Due the Tau, they are tough learning curve but if played right can still be extremely deadly! Plus they are due for an update sometime soon.

Tau

And the army you just described doesn't exsist

GK-High WS BS powerful in combat CONS:not a lot of long range options
TAU-High BS wicked guns Cons;CC don't let it happen
SW-HIgh WS BS powerful in combat cons: like all marine the lack big guns (however Long fangs are pretty good)
Demons-high WS army wide invuls cons: WEAK SHOOTING

Space Wolves or Tau

aapch1 wrote:Shooty is big guns high bs. Powerful is high saves and ws.

Sounds like you want an SM army of some sort. All SM have BS4, and all of them have access to some amount of high strength ranged weapons. If you're looking for something that has strong choppy components, I'd recommend SW, BA, GK, or CSM, if you're willing to do bad guys.