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Greetings Dakka!

So with 2013 beckons the call of a new army. To give you an idea of what I currently have, these are my armies:

-Black Templars (been collecting for nearly 15 years, have a LARGE army

-Eldar- An army of 30 wraithguard with other elements added in such as harlequins/wraithlords etc

-Blood Angels - A small sang guard army which I took with me to paint while I travelled with work (including dante, priests, sanguinor)

-IG - Mechanised Cadian list with Leman russes + vendettas

-Space Marines - My space marines are a drop pod list which has been heavily converted

-Orks - Actually Gretchin! 120 Cyber gretchin double force org list led by Grotsnik!



So i've got a reasonable spread of armies, and most of these are well on the way to being fully painted (if not there already - my IG, Blood Angels, Eldar and Space Marines are all 100% Painted). I've experimented with a double force org list (with my gretchin), but now I want to try a list that uses allies. I consider myself a competitive player, but for this army theme is more important to me - and also that the army is as close to 50/50 in terms of points as possible. I.e., I want a "true" allies list as opposed to just lifting the best units from a codex. So with that in mind, fire in your suggestions! Fluff justification is welcome but not mandatory. The only Caveat I have is that I do not want a chaos army of any description - I have a long standing joke with my gaming group that im a Chaos hater, and actively ridicule Chaos players (all in good humour of course). Some Ideas which i had were:

-Dark Eldar/Eldar alliance - Venoms, Jetbikes, Seer council, shining spears. The idea behind this is that its a corsair jetbike army (and anything that isnt on a jetbike is in a venom). I was planning to possibly use forge world corsair kits and high elf bits as well to give the army more character. I want this army to be piratey and FAST above all else

-Black Templar Assault Marines/Blood Angel Assault Marines - Not very original, but I thought it would be cool to have jump marines from 2 chapters kicking around. Some scoring, some with rage, all nasty.

-Space marine Scouts + Eldar Pathfinders - not exactly the best army in terms of competitiveness, but the theme will be strong. Almost everything will infiltrate, which I think is pretty neat.

So thats my ideas - are they any good? Share your thoughts for ideas as well please Dakka!

The obvious one that you don't mention is space marine (of any flavour) plus IG with the space marines in to bolster the planetary defense force.

I 2nd the SM IG combo. I play a dominion fleet in BFG and it just fits for me. That being said have you thought about Eldar and Tau? I'm not experienced with either but the thought of Tau keeping the back field with Eldar advancing would be kind of cool to face.

I put my vote in with SM/IG

Personally would like to see a big mech army moving up in a big line with lots of russ razors and vinds.

SM w/ guard ally

3 vindicators
3 Russ in squadron
guarded by hell hounds, razor backs, chimera with vets

would be cool

What if the Orks were unsuspecting allies to the Eldar? Like the Eldar are using them to defeat a more powerful foe.