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To start with, assume the following changes to the rules:

1) all armies can now be allies and are now Battle Brothers (even Tyranids).
2) all abilities that currently only affect one race or Codex now affect all.
3) FOC restrictions still apply - so you can still only use two Codexes with one as primary detachment and one allied.

What's the most broken combination you can think of?

I like the fluff-murdering sound of a Farseer Guiding Ork mobs and Dooming their target. Now all those attacks get to reroll misses and failed wounds! What else can you come up with?

(added) or - Draigo or Lysander heading up Wraithguard. All that lovely 4W, 2+/3++ EW goodness - but now with majority Toughness 6.

Farsight + shadowsun + 2x suit commanders + swarmlord + tyranid prime + 2x tyrant guard (Double FOC) could be funny

I might be missing something there - are the Nids capable of podding in, hence not scattering thanks to Farsight? I like it, but trying to find a big enough footprint to safely land all of that could prove tricky.

It does give me an idea though - Belial and requisite Deathwing deep-strike without scattering turn 1. Next turn, BA dedicated transport Land Raiders start dropping without scatter next to him and unload their Sternguard contents - that's a buttload of deep-striking firepower from everything involved.

Tyranids + Daemons MC/FMC Spam

kingleir wrote:
Tyranids + Daemons MC/FMC Spam

only you won't have the points to play both at the same time.

Tyranids +IG. Prime giving an IG blob an ultra tanker with high T many wounds , if synaps works on IG just like it does on tyranids and suddenly auto making Ld checks . At the same time troop tervigons are making more and more termagants who can be ordered by my IG cmds to shot twice or stand up after going to the ground and shoting .

Tau+IG are just as brutal . IG order extra turn of shoting ... cast on an unit of Missle broadsides , effectivly doubling the unit for a turn.

DA + IG. dakka banner . shot twice . even more dakka .

I like how all the replies so far were related to Nids. Shows why they can't ally anyone lol.

Swarmlord + 3 Lash Guard

Tervigon, TS, AG, x3 Powers
10 Gants

Abaddon
Typhus

10 Zombies
10 Zombies

3 Heldrakes

1850

Abbs and Typhus join Swarmy

I presume the Tervigons TS and AG confer over to the zombies?

Dire Avengers + Wave Serpent

Allies in force org simply mean I can bring more of them

Sometime I want to field Terminator chaplain+ deathwing command squad+ LCs+ Champion+ Company banner+ deathwing LRR.

I agree with nids/daemons.... FMC spam would be amusing

 Super Ready wrote:

2) all abilities that currently only affect one race or Codex now affect all.

So you're saying I could have a Daemon Prince with Reanimation Protocols and an Everliving Counter?

Yes please.

I don't think you've quite understood... the models still wouldn't have the rule to start with. I'm talking about rules that buff units or cross over to a unit an IC is with.

Eldar+ DKoK. I heard medusas with perfect timing and prescience are good. WK+DK riders also synergize well as the riders can break the WK out of melee and vice versa. Eldrad's redeployment becomes silly when you bait out enemies by placing artillery out alone then swapping them back to behind your gunline. Doom+Grenadiers' hotshot lasguns= ow. Im trying the army out with just allies of convenience and its pretty silly.

Eldar/Deamons Screamstar becomes spirit council with 2+ rereollable invo and a better amount of attacks/shooting. Heck add the 4 heralds into the council and just laugh at people as your 2 farseers 10 warlocks 4 heralds with 2+ rerollable invo and 30 phychic powers just roflstomp everything out of thier way. Heck with that many powers they could just -ld and terrify everything off the board. The screamerstar is amazing by itself, but if you could substitute warlocks for screams and add 2 farseers there is nothing that could touch it, nothing.

Tau and Tyranids.

Support commander attached to a full squad of jokareos for a barrel of ignore cover twinlinked laughs.

 Desubot wrote:
Support commander attached to a full squad of jokareos for a barrel of ignore cover twinlinked laughs.

...oh, damn, nice one. Don't forget the Jokaero would benefit from markerlights too...!

Land Raiders and Genestealers.

Yeah, you know you would.

Farsight dropping in attached to a forty-man strong unit of Death Company. That'd be cool.

Shoota boys + Markerlights.