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Hey guys!

I play space wolves. They're my favourite army, I've got a fairly decent sized army of commission painted wolves, and loads of novels!

But I wanted to play a second army that I built myself, and tried to improve on my painting skills and modelling skills .. As I'm well aware I'm not the best.

I'm trying to find an army that won't get stomped every match (I don't mind if I lose... As long as it's close) I just don't want to get wiped.. By tau and skitarri. I'm not wanting Eldar... And trying to avoid a marine equivalent.. So am I left with anything that stands a chance?

Any help will be great! Thanks

Kdk/demons or necron?

I was thinking daemons.. I love the FMC, and some of the models look awesome!!!

Well, Daemons are definitely still one of the game's top armies...

While Tau can blow the living daylights out of them, Daemons have the cheapness in their Troops and certain specialist units, (Dogs, Seekers mainly), to horde it up and simply overwhelm gunlines with bodies.
We're also the best psychic army in the game hands down, and Tau have 0 defenses in that regard. Between access to the likes of Telepathy, Divination, Malefic and the newly expanded God lores, there's plenty of amazing augments/hexes & a few damage dealing spells to sling about.

We've also received some nice toys in the new CotW expansion, from new Hellforged Artifact lists and Warlord Traits for each God, (and expanded psychic lores), to the Daemonic Incrusion detachment which has a few possible ways to go.

The only thing we're really lacking in is our allies pool, as you either need access to IA:13 and a Forgeworld friendly group, or else you're stuck with CSM's who really won't add anything of relevance beyond cheap Cultists, Helturkies, Oblits, min/maxed Bikes, Spawn, Sorcerers and perhaps an AoBF Jugger Lord.

If you want to win, you want Eldar.