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I have Tau and Astra Militarum, and I want to know how you'd convince me to get your army.

Chaos? I wouldnt. Ever. Not even for fluff reasons because too many people will bitch about how inconsistent GWs Lore Department was in their redundancies throughout the codecies.

Daemons and CSM as a faction Id tell you to buy, if there were more Kin-Type dex's or Faction Chaos were to come out. Until then, I'd simply suggest sticking to gunline armies and their respective playstyles (Ie Tau, AM, Eldar)

Orks, because they're Orks and its fething fun

Dark Angels, because they're super secret Space Marines.

Daemons, because feth it, crazy gak happens.

Orks. Everyone will love you. If you want to make friends and have a good time everytime you go to play (assuming you are not focused on winning and neither is your opponent) then Orks are the way to go.

My Eldar and Necron armies are almost unbeaten over the years. Played GTs with my Eldar and lots of RTTs with both. You'll make no mistake buying them.

Simple math and logic will tell you that Orks = Orky, Non-Orks = Unorky, Orky > Unorky. If you not easily persuaded by logic and reason then good news so are the Orks so clearly its a good fit. If that isn't enough then see all the loud shootas, killy klawz, stompy walkers, fast trukks, and orky Orks we have. If your still not convinced then you might be a grot

Because rerollable 2++ Jink saves make the nerdrage come out hardcore.

Also Lorewise Deathwing is awesome and the DK Knights are some of the best models in the game... Terminators kind of suck now though, so meh.

Remember about that part of history where the Vatican was actually a real power in the various warring states inside of Italy? When obscenely rich Popes hired renaissance artists to bling the hell out of stuff? How about mixing this with an healthy dose of extra obscurantism and fanaticism? Let's then surgically remove that nasty thing called common sense.

Welcome to the Sororitas, girl. We'll make a Sister of Battle out of you.

I hope you like some of the sexiest models known to Man.

Lionheart713 wrote:
I have Tau and Astra Militarum, and I want to know how you'd convince me to get your army.

I wouldn't. I would encourage you to go for whichever other army you're interested in, rather than trying to convince you to like the same things I like.

 insaniak wrote:

Lionheart713 wrote:
I have Tau and Astra Militarum, and I want to know how you'd convince me to get your army.

I wouldn't. I would encourage you to go for whichever other army you're interested in, rather than trying to convince you to like the same things I like.

While I strictly speaking agree with this, I see no harm in showing what I like about the faction I play. I see it less as convincing, and more as a representation and reasoning behind the choice I made. Being well informed makes it easier to choose, after all.

So yes. Listen a little bit to us, look around a lot yourself, and consider all options before picking one.

Play Tzeentch Daemons. You don't need a "Plan 'B'" (everything IS killed by fire!), and we never lose (everything simply went 100% according to "The Plan"!)

Play them or don't like I give a damn, I like them.

You would be amazed how often this works on people when selling something.

Space Marines: We're not the best at anything, but we are second best at everything.

Space wolves servitor horde.
This army is great
Lots of conversion, options, no one is expecting it and it is the ultimate MSU.
All you need is a fun HQ a dread would be fluffy, a single Space wolves Iron priest and as many servitors as you want to.

Daemons!

You can do so many things with this army; you can use these models for all the Warhammers (just get movement trays for the square base games), you have 4 different (sometimes opposed) sets of fluff and aesthetics to choose from or combine and a variety of flavours to run the army in.

Also random FUN* means that you can have entirely different games playing with and against the same list.

Not to mention that the conversion opportunities are almost endless and the painting stays interesting.

TL;DR is that the money you spend on daemons just gives you more opportunities.

I play Tau, you play Tau, I win.

 Ashiraya wrote:
I hope you like some of the sexiest models known to Man.

Spoiler:

Filthy Word Bearers, everyone knows Black and White is the sexiest colour scheme (and not the newfangled templar one)

2000+ points of the Sisters is generally assumed to indicate you make at least six figures a year.

Space Wolves. Do you like Vikings? Like to ingest an insane amount of ale and proudly roar into battle? Do you have a love of manly beards? Than the sons of Russ are for you!!! We even ride giant wolves!!! So yea check it out!

That there would make me try them in a heartbeat.

Dark Angels:

Cool models
Army of bikers IE Ravenwing
Nice looking Heraldry
Re-rollable jink sv
Robes over armor is cool

Tau: http://i.imgur.com/qo4Dw1W.gif

 Cptskillet wrote:
Space Wolves. Do you like Vikings? Like to ingest an insane amount of ale and proudly roar into battle? Do you have a love of manly beards? Than the sons of Russ are for you!!! We even ride giant wolves!!! So yea check it out!

That there would make me try them in a heartbeat.

Either that or you're into leatherdaddies.

Me recommend an army to you?

oh please...you ain't on my level of difficulty unless you can win at wh40k using the over costed and dysfunctional Chaos Space marines. Nothing in there dex is good. They have no synergy. They have no speed, power or finesse. You can't handle playing CSM. you are wasting your time trying to learn CSM. CSM is not for a casual gamer like you. You just cant be like dman137 with his OP eldar by sitting back and lettjng the op imba power house units win for you.

To Play Chaos Space Marines, You have to work hard for it. You are going to lose and lose many tines before you get gud. You are going to have to dig deep and find true grit because you dont have powerful formations like gladius demi company, necron decurion, ad mech war convocation, eldar 12 wraith knights etc...Having daemons help because no angel will come to save you.

I dont think you should play Chaos because you are just casual gamer.

Jaxler wrote:
Tau: http://i.imgur.com/qo4Dw1W.gif

Yes. Also tears. We harvest them more efficiently than any other race. Tearcups come standard on all of our suits. The stormssurge was designed with this in mind so we could have the tears drop directly into the pilots to feast and nourish them. It only makes us stronger.