You get the leaders when they drop down from the sky to save your ***. i'm afraid a lowly company commander can't tell a space marine captain "no thanks, we just need your meatshields"
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I have hesitations about game balance. And some of the table doesn't seem right. And I too question that Tyranids get cut out completely when saying they now use Genestealer Cults for more than just food would less fluff altering than saying Black Templars are huggy friends with aliens.
But...
I just can't resist bringing my Inquisitor and his Callidus girlfriend back into my Imperial Guard.
Here's something I haven't heard anyone mention:
Why couldn't Tyranids and Necrons ally? There is no reason for conflict between them (now that the Ctan are gone at least.) The Tyranids want to consume all organic material in the galaxy, the Necrons are not organic. The Necrons could care less if their planets are completely devoid of life. The Tyranids are not susceptible to Chaos, and will leave the galaxy once they have eaten everything, leaving the galaxy in the exact state Necrons would like it, completely devoid of life capable of psyking. They may plot to stab each other in the back after the battle, but that is true of every army in 40k, including the Imperial forces with each other.
I find a lot of the alliances allowed rather silly because of fluff reasons. I have Tyranids, Chaos Daemons and Orks. I see that Orks and Daemons can ally and I am all... what lol. It would make my mind ache joining those two together lol.
What I would love to do is have a main Daemon force with some Word Bearer back up. The smaller elite group of WB would be summoning a flood of Daemons from the Warp.
I'm going to stick my hands right into that cookie jar! I will do so cheerfully, with good intent, and for great big fluffy reasons! I love the painting and modeling side of this hobby a LOT and I look forward to the painting a modeling possibilities.
I won't be sticking my hands in the jar to create min/maxed, WAAC reasons. I shan't be treading that road. I imagine most of the guys in my club will take the same approach. Cheers. Cope
OMG Nurgle Orks? I gotta find this stuff!
I was also thinking of the Changeling. Say the Changeling killed the Warboss and then copied his form. Then started ordering the Orks around causing all kinds of trouble lol. If I were to ally my Orks and Daemons together, I would probaly make that special Changeling acting as a Warboss lol.
I would only do ally stuff if I can make it awesomely fluffy. I am not a WAAC gamer at all, hell Tyranids are my main army and that would say enough about that!
Wolfguard + GKs anyone?
Well yeah, but that's mainly just because I'm doing Armageddon. Where the Wolves and Knights legitimately fought together.
I know, just yanking your chain.
Though I think if you read enough fluff you would find most armies have allied together.
In the Blood Angel series by James Swallow you have the Blood Knights allied with the Blood Angels, and while they are a sucessor chapter they are also renegade so would that be a case for BA + CSM?