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I've been making a small squat army to have a brake from my orks and now that I'm close to have a legal army I was wondering which codex would be the best codex to represent squats.

The idea is that my squat belong to border patrol unit to watch out for invading orks but as they were patrolling one side the other was invaded by nids which ate squats' homeworld. Orks betreyed them, Imperium failed them, Bugs ate them and now it's time for some payback.

Because army aren't miners they don't have mining equipment but instead focuse on mobility so having an army focused on deepstriking and flying stuff (skimmers and flyers).

Units that I have/think of getting

Heartguard (terminators)
basic troops (they look like having 4+ armor save, but 3+ aint a strech)
thuddguns
dreadnought(s)
Iron eagle (a squat gyrocopter)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-11783-29612_Squats.html (pick of the models if you are interested)

Codexes I have thought of using are C:SM and IG allied with DA. SM have pretty much everything even though it isn't a perfect match (model or rules wise). IG has very cool units (vendettas, stormtroopers and veterans) that would suit the models and rules wise but they don't have everything (termies or dreads or a badass HQ). DA has troop termies(better gear customization, +1 A) , dreads (ironclad would be better, av 13) and a cool HQ (belial, for SM I was thinking Lysander). The only thing that really sucks with IG+DA is that they don't have thuddguns. Vanila SM does (thunderfire).

I'm open to all suggestions including FW stuff.

I have thought of doing a squat army using orks I was gonna take wazzdakka and take mainly bikes as troops and use mega nobz as heartguard

I have also thought of IG if you take allied DA they would make awsome heartguard and they can score

If you take DA as your main or as an ally and deck them out with terminators you could take Space smurfs as an ally or the main to get the thunderfire cannon you could also the storm talon as your gyrocopter if you take space smurfs you can take the master of the forge as your HQ and load up on Auto-Cannon Dreads as well. Either way it should be a lot of fun an f89 you'll get some cool comments

P.S. Lastly its rumoured that squats will be back in the Tau codex only they are now called Demiurge or something like that

Ok looking through my friends dexes I was thinking something like this:

IG:
Command with straken
10 stormies with flamers
5 meltaside stormies
2x10 vets with maxed plasma and carapace
3xvendetta

DA allies
THSS belial
5 man termi squad

Isn't that about 1500?

Idea is to reserve everything and on turn 1 deedstrike termies and belial and hope I won't lose. Rest of the units pop out where they are needed.

Thing that worries me is that there is almost no anti infantry killing power and orders from straken are next to useless (if I even get to issue them). Also I think the army could work much better in 1750 range.

Thoughts?