New player, question about Grey knights and the orange monkeys

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**Tebs**

Greetings all,

As someone who enjoys the fluff and lore immensly I finaly decided to start an army.

My first stop will be a dark vengeance set. I like the dark angels but was thinking of the grey knights as well
I realy dont like the orange monkeys I saw in the codex, so two questions:

1. How much of a disadvantage would I have if I never included them ?
2. Is it worth getting a second army or would you sugest beefing up the dark angels from the box set first (get a dreadnaught and maybe a rhino as well)

**Matthew Snelson**

Hi there, can't comment about the orange monkeys, but I've made my Dark Angels from Dark Vengeance a Codex Force with addition of Camo Cloaked Scout Squad, I back them up with a Razor Back and for extra oomf use a Predator with Auto Cannon and Heavy Bolter Sponsons. I would suggest another tactical squad and you've got a very useable force coming in at around 1400pts on a full load out.

**Tebs**

Indeed,going for dark vengeance, it might be more logical to go with buffing the DA's

**Matthew Snelson**

Ps. If you like fluff and lore have you read 'descent of angels'? DA must!

**Tebs**

Hah indeed thats a realy good one, very distinct feel to it.
The only reserve I had going full DA was the green colour but looks like there are other schemes posible as well, like black or bone.

**radioaktivemann**

Hello, and Welcome to DakkaDakka!

**Knightley**

Hi,

Welcome to Dakka

**Byte**

Hello and welcome to Dakka Dakka!

**Tebs**

Well well, People actualy stopped by and said hi.
Thanks everyone!

More OT I have decided to start with the DA first. But the question is still of importance.
Ill try and generalise it:

Do all armies have a fixed set of unit types:

For instance in a chess game both armies have knights, does it mean that if I decide not to use these monkey's I will be throwing out a type of unit that my opponent would have or is it like tanks where you have several options.

**dbs101**

welcome to dakkadakka :-)