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Okay so after a moment of clarity I realised I’ve been spreading myself too thin hobby wise and have decided to limit the number of projects I work on. At the moment I’m working on some DA hellblasters from the Dark Imperium starter set, and going to be be painting up the Inceptors as BA. Anyway they are going to be my two Imperial armies, I’m going paint up the DG from the starter set as my Chaos army and I want do an Evil Suns and Saim Hann army, but need help deciding which to do first. The other will be put on the back burner until some time in the future. Down the track I want to do a Salamanders army, a Goliath gang and some AoS/WarCry Khorne. Anyway as I mentioned I do want a xenos army, and have narrowed it down to either Saim Hann or Evil Suns. Even though their strengths and weaknesses are very different, both armies will be made up of very similar/equivalent units and I will play them in more or less in the same way. The Eldar army would see the army built around units of Windrider jet bikes, HQ and elites to taste (definitely going to included some aspects, starting with some Banshees, and hopefully some Scorpians when they update them), some Vipers and Guardians in Wave Serpents to claim objectives. The Orks would be built around warbikers, buggies, deff kopters, and boyz, burna boyz, lootas and nobz in trucks. Both armies would have fliers and maybe a couple of small, special FW units. The pros for the Eldar are there is very little conversion work needed, this is also a con. The paint recipe is basically the same as my BA, only the Eldar would have less ie no battle damage. No battle damage is also a con as it can be fu, and also can cover up or other wise detract from painting :cuss ups elsewhere on the model. I’d have the chance to do some cool vehicle markings, would be able to paint up some gems and do some cool colour tinted canopies. The Orks allow for SOOO much potential when it comes to individualising every unit and there’s lots of chances to convert/kit bash unique vehicles. Like the Eldar I can do some cool vehicle markings, plus red warpaint on Da Boyz. I’m heading over to 4chan to check the tactica section for both armies, just wondering if anybody can thick of any pros/cons to either army, and maybe share some of you’re experiences playing, painting and modelling with either army.