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Just trying to hear everyones opinion what is the best army? What is the most difficult army you've ever faced? Best army to take to a tourney?

Sorry guys might be boring or start arguments but just want to get some different opinions!

Thanks everyone!

Theres no best army. Every army has some things it does well and others not so much

Ok thanks, Obviously this is true what you say but I want to hear what everyone else's ideas and thoughts are..

Anyone else have any other opinions on the matter?

Not to be a jerk but you already have threads answering some of your questions...

"Best Race in your opinion that you DON"T play."

"What army is you 'Big Bad'?"

Neither are cold and dead, and one of them is still on page one in this same General Discussion section...

The "best army" is usually the one the poster is playing, so in my case, DE and necrons.
The "most difficult army" I've faced is Tau, it's always Tau.
If you want the "best army for tourney", I believe It's still necrons and GK? Not big on tourney, so someone else can answer that better.

But really, there is no such thing as an objectively best army, even the "cheesy" wardex aren't completely impossible to beat. Beside, how do you define "best"? Fun? Competitive? Conversion-friendly?

alright to answer your question gave you kind of a mean answer before here it is best army chaos space marines because they are my favorite

Wow im a goof nut sorry everyone! didn't realize that this questions was asked already already.. sorry!

In my opinion, this is how WH40K armies are ranked:
1. Necrons
2. Daemons
3. Grey Knights
4. Imperial Guard
5 Space Wolves
6. Dark Eldar
7. Eldar
8. Chaos Space Marines
9. Tau
10. Blood Angels
11. Dark Angels
12. Space Marines
13. Sisters of Battle
14. Orks
15. Tyranids
*When I say best, I mean armies that are generally the most competitive, cheesiest, etc.*

LASTSOLDIER24 wrote:
In my opinion, this is how WH40K armies are ranked:
1. Necrons
2. Daemons
3. Grey Knights
4. Imperial Guard
5 Space Wolves
6. Dark Eldar
7. Eldar
8. Chaos Space Marines
9. Tau
10. Blood Angels
11. Dark Angels
12. Space Marines
13. Sisters of Battle
14. Orks
15. Tyranids
*When I say best, I mean armies that are generally the most competitive, cheesiest, etc.*

You must have an extremely interesting local meta to come up with that list.

I feel the top armies are:
Necrons, (airforce) Imperial Guard, and Space Wolves.

Daemons can be very competetive, as well as heldrake Chaos lists.

Y'know actually in 6th edition Grey Knights (at least none henchman GKs) have lost some of their competitiveness, they just can't field enough bodies to stay on the board.

And tyranids can actually be pretty strong, though all of their competitive lists are based around tervigons and flying hive tyrants.

Remulus wrote:
I feel the top armies are:
Necrons, (airforce) Imperial Guard, and Space Wolves.

Daemons can be very competetive, as well as heldrake Chaos lists.

Y'know actually in 6th edition Grey Knights (at least none henchman GKs) have lost some of their competitiveness, they just can't field enough bodies to stay on the board.

And tyranids can actually be pretty strong, though all of their competitive lists are based around tervigons and flying hive tyrants.

Grey Knights that go Strike-heavy are pretty competitive with all that S5 shooting they bring to the table. Plus they bring the added advantage of being pretty much impossible to Deep Strike against due to Durp Quake being heinously effective... (thank god there's no more forced Deep Strike deployment for Daemons!)
220pts gets you 20/S5 shots. That's not a bad deal at all. A few more pts can add-on a pair of Psycannons which are easily the outright best upgrade weapon in the game.

Overall it's still pretty scary the amount of bodies a Strike-heavy GK force can put onto the table.
Purifyers & Draigowing on the other hand aren't so hot now.

Experiment 626 wrote:

Remulus wrote:
I feel the top armies are:
Necrons, (airforce) Imperial Guard, and Space Wolves.

Daemons can be very competetive, as well as heldrake Chaos lists.

Y'know actually in 6th edition Grey Knights (at least none henchman GKs) have lost some of their competitiveness, they just can't field enough bodies to stay on the board.

And tyranids can actually be pretty strong, though all of their competitive lists are based around tervigons and flying hive tyrants.

Grey Knights that go Strike-heavy are pretty competitive with all that S5 shooting they bring to the table. Plus they bring the added advantage of being pretty much impossible to Deep Strike against due to Durp Quake being heinously effective... (thank god there's no more forced Deep Strike deployment for Daemons!)
220pts gets you 20/S5 shots. That's not a bad deal at all. A few more pts can add-on a pair of Psycannons which are easily the outright best upgrade weapon in the game.

Overall it's still pretty scary the amount of bodies a Strike-heavy GK force can put onto the table.
Purifyers & Draigowing on the other hand aren't so hot now.

Note that i said lost some competetiveness. They can still be strong, but are no longer the god tier they once were.

The one that you don't play is always OP as feth.

 Griddlelol wrote:
The one that you don't play is always OP as feth.

Ain't that the truth? My win percentage isn't 100%, clearly everyone else's army is overpowered. It can't be my list/playstyle/meta, Games Workshop balances the codexes so there are no "optimal lists".

Just in case you can't tell, that last post shouldn't be taken seriously.

Here's what I am going to add productively to this thread: I firmly believe that every codex author is told by Games Workshop "This is your awesome quota. You can add this much awesome to your book, but no more." Some people decide to spend their awesome all at once (Chaos Space Marines, I'm looking at you) and some people spread their awesome out over the entire codex. Whenever you get a codex where all the awesome gets spent in one place people complain that it is overpowered, and whenever the awesome gets spread out people don't complain as much.

Then there's times that people go over their awesomeness quota and GW has to deduct that amount of awesome from a future book so that the internal balance of awesome in the 40k universe remains unchanged. Not to mention the fact that what people consider awesome might change abruptly and without notice as the game's rules/playstyle continue to evolve.