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Yet another random thread to pass the time while we all wait...I just have a simple question. Will you switch armies (or change your main army) if 6th edition changes things up?

Would you start a Tyranid army if Monstrous Creatures become crazy awesome? Would you start a Blood Angels army if jump infantry receive a massive boost? Will you quit playing Imperial Guard if tanks become worse? Will you quit playing Eldar if psykers become horrible?

Well for guard I run foot so crappy tanks wont hurt me to much. but a buff for nids would be nice.

It's a little early to say. There is no realistic way to judge how any given army is going to function without seeing the new rules.

That's not really important, would you change your army if something that was bad became good or if your current was nerfed, could replace this question easily.

No, but I'm going to be adding some Blood Angels allies to bolster my Imperial guard forces (Librarian Dreadnought, awww yeaaa) and some more Daemons for my Chaos Legionnaries.

NEVER GIVE UP!

NEVER SURRENDER!




Nah, I actually do like playing space marines. I'm weird, I know.

Well... Since I have s lot of different units for my Blood Angels and therefore always play slightly different lists, I will just adapt to the new ruleset.
Would be nice if am able to use some units more often then now because their rules get better.

Nope, I won't change but I might invest in a third army ...

I look forward to looting even more Imperial equipment and fielding it as allied detachments.

rabidaskal wrote:I look forward to looting even more Imperial equipment and fielding it as allied detachments.

Agreed.

If my Orks can take IG allies I will most certainly take a Lord Commisar (Blood Axe), Conscripts or Ironfist squad (Gretchin) and a LRBT (Propah looted wagon!)

I will finally be fielding my new necrons (still building models).

I have a buddy getting out of the hobby for family and FLGS reasons (no one plays 40K where he lives anymore and there is only one FLGS), so I will be getting 4000+ of IG for cheap.

That'll be my fourth army... so no. I'll stick with me four and hopefully one should work out!

But I see myself getting sucked into the allies pit of despair and making a GK army of henchmen with IG.

I have always played Codex marines and DA. It will definitely stay that way. If I can ally them I might try it, but I have a feeling my lists will be more effective pure. Only time will tell. But I can't see myself grabbing GK (or anyone else for that matter) and painting them, buying their dex, and running them.

Just too much time and money. It might make my list a bit more powerful, but I have a feeling that if it makes it so powerful that by not doing it you are nerfing yourself, my FLGS will just stop playing with people who ally to "power game". Not saying that it is, but I can see people having that problem once people find ways of breaking it.

As far as any other game changes that might make people compelled to change their army... I still run my DA codex (hopefully new one soon), and it doesn't really bother me they are older. I still run my SM even though they aren't the current FotM MEQ. I never once thought about changing. I mean, heck, if three guys at my FLGS can still stick it out with tau, I don't feel like I could ever have anything to complain about.

I'm sticking to the armies I already have, mostly my beloved Eldar.

I'm starting Death Guard with daemon allies, but I'll still play my Word Bearers and Iron Warriors too.

Nah, I am restarting CSM and I may rebuild my Daemons up for an allied force.

Presuming the allies rules are as easily-abused as they appear, I'll pick up a librarian dreadnought and remove the Blood Angels detail to field it with my Red Hunters.

English Assassin, as far as all rumours are saying, an allied force needs at least 1 HQ and 1 troop choice as well as anything else to be legal.

yes i will, quite alot really, im going to be testing each one of my armies to see what has happened to each with the new rules... but i will as always stick with my DA in the end

If at all I'd just cycle through paying more attention to the armies I already have.

That needn't be a problem, however, since - presuming the rules work as anticipated - there's no opportunity cost to saying "That captain's technically a Blood Angel, so are these assault Marines, who can also now hold objectives.".

Then you need another HQ and troop choice. The bare minimum you need for allies is the HQ and 2 troops from the original army, and HQ and troops from the second army. So, absolute minimum is 2 HQs and 3 troop choices.

My point being that isn't really a burden of any sort, particularly when the allied troops come from the primary list's fast attack.

having to take 2 HQ and 3 troops isn't that bad really, depending on the points of the game.
In games => 1500 pts I usually take 3 troops any ways, and above 1800 pts it's not uncommon for me to take 2 HQs. Usually a librarian and then something to buff another unit, unlock bikes as troops and so on.

I won't change my armies at all, I'll just adopt new tactics and ally my World Eaters with my Khorne daemons

Blood for the blood god and all that.

If the power weapon=AP 3 deal is true, I -might- get rid of my Dark Eldar. I really don`t want to do that Venom blasterspam that is popular right now and liked the idea of a shooty and stabby combo with wyched and incubi.

If CC gets that nerfed, I don`t see the point. I`d probably take up necrons or regular Eldar.

Already have gk and some tyranids, might be kean to start a Necron army though

No, I will not change my army/armies.

I will stick with my CSM regardless of what changes come up, I've played them through 3 generations of the game I'm not changing now.

I will have to get into Chaos Daemons to field a proper Word Bearers Army now, but at least I will be able to field marked Daemons

Nah, my Necrons will continue to march across battlefields and squash things, which hopefully will no longer be hide in metal bawkes