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So I have a conundrum. I've made a personal promise, for money and storage space reasons, to only own 2 armies at a time. I had a tau and ork army, and recently decided I wasn't enjoying tau in the new edition, i tend to enjoy more mobile armies, and I've been finding the taus focus on gunlines in the new edition frustrating. So I bought a necron army and was planning on selling the tau. However, after I bought the necrons, it occurred to me I could give the tau a few squads of blood angel allies to make them mobile and choppy enough for my taste, so now I'm having second thoughts on selling the tau. So my question is, if you had these three armies, orks, necrons, tau, and you had to sell one, which one would you sell?

Personally I'd lose the necorns, but thats just cos I dont enjoy playing them. They have a great codex but Tau & Orks are just more interesting armies for me

 NinjaStars wrote:
So I have a conundrum. I've made a personal promise, for money and storage space reasons, to only own 2 armies at a time. I had a tau and ork army, and recently decided I wasn't enjoying tau in the new edition, i tend to enjoy more mobile armies, and I've been finding the taus focus on gunlines in the new edition frustrating. So I bought a necron army and was planning on selling the tau. However, after I bought the necrons, it occurred to me I could give the tau a few squads of blood angel allies to make them mobile and choppy enough for my taste, so now I'm having second thoughts on selling the tau. So my question is, if you had these three armies, orks, necrons, tau, and you had to sell one, which one would you sell?

Woldn't getting a bunch of BA mean you were still rocking 3 armies?

 Purifier wrote:

 NinjaStars wrote:
So I have a conundrum. I've made a personal promise, for money and storage space reasons, to only own 2 armies at a time. I had a tau and ork army, and recently decided I wasn't enjoying tau in the new edition, i tend to enjoy more mobile armies, and I've been finding the taus focus on gunlines in the new edition frustrating. So I bought a necron army and was planning on selling the tau. However, after I bought the necrons, it occurred to me I could give the tau a few squads of blood angel allies to make them mobile and choppy enough for my taste, so now I'm having second thoughts on selling the tau. So my question is, if you had these three armies, orks, necrons, tau, and you had to sell one, which one would you sell?

Woldn't getting a bunch of BA mean you were still rocking 3 armies?

allies dont count I think

I wouldn't have bought the necrons.

But as is id sell the Tau you aren't enjoying themm spending even more on allies doesn't make much sense.

How can you sell the orks they are the best army too play? Get rid of the the fish heads

Orks are good at mobile and choppy. Depending on your build. I have Orks and Tau and I really enjoy the difference between the two, and I wouldn't want to sell either of them. My small army of Inquisition/grey knights on the other hand...

Also, The way I've been getting around the gunline problem with Tau is taking Shadowsun + 2 stealth teams to deepstrike, Darkstrider with some FW in a fish to outflank, and allied warp spiders to jump around. It's a lot more interesting than sit and shoot, and the firefights always end up getting up close and personal.

 NinjaStars wrote:
So my question is, if you had these three armies, orks, necrons, tau, and you had to sell one, which one would you sell?

Proxy a few games with the Tau w/ Blood Angel allies. See if you like it / it fills the void you felt with Tau before trying that out.

After that, the one you have the least fun with.

If you dont like Tau + BA, then toss them. If you really like that, then whichever you like least between Necrons and Orks.

If buying BA allies is okay for your arrangement, then you should have no problem keeping the orks, tau, and necrons. They can all ally with each other and it doesn't get much more mobile than necrons.

Get some more mobile tau unit's. Pirahna's, crisis suits, riptide, whatever

OR, use tau with ork allies. Best of both worlds, and I think they make good allies

I'd play test and use proxies, for all armies, and see which ones you're enjoying more.

Sell tau and crons, buy Eldar. Their fast enough

Thanks for the advice so far guys. Just to clarify, with the tau I'm trying find some mobile troops to help them out. I've tried allying them with the orks, but I find the cost of mobile ork troops, when you add in the trucks and battle wagons, is too high. With ba I can just take 2 squads of assault marines and maybe a priest and I'm all set. Also, I have a ton of stealth suits that I can glue sword arms to and proxy them as blood angels, so I wouldn't need to buy more models.

I say it all depends on your play style. If you only play friendly games or competitive.
If you are a reserved player, I would Keep Tau/Necrons
If you are an aggressive player, it would be Ork/Necrons
If you play friendly games with diverse armies Tau/Ork
If you are playing in Tournies lose the Orks.

It's all personal preference. I only play Orks for example. when I walk in to most places where 40k is being played, they know exactly what I'm going to pull out and always it means that the game is going to be a lot of fun. It's what makes playing the Orks worth it. I can test crazy ideas and even help others test their crazy ideas. But an Ork army might not be for you. The same holds for both the Tau and Necrons.

The other method is to look at your armies and just pick the two whose figures you like the best and sell off the one that you like the least, this isn't based on anything in the codex (because they will change).