So I was thinking about stratigy today and came to a conclusion that many probibly have before. If you simplify things enough there are basicly to stratigies to building and playing an army. You either play to your strengths or you play to your oponents weakness.
For example. If you play the Tau you play to your strengths. You shoot the enemy, you don't assault them. If you play Blood Angels you assault them you don't shoot them. It's not that the Tau can't assault and its not that the Blood Angels cant shoot its that unless your are using their strengths you can be outmatched and defeated.
If your are playing to your foes weakness then you are looking for where he's weak. For example I take a balance Marine list. If I run up against Guard or Tau I try to assault. Even my most shooty units like Sternguard are going to do better in assualt against a firewarrior squad. If I come up against Space Wolves I'm going to try to shoot them because in Tactical on Tactical fighting i'm going to loose!
I run two armies. Tau and Necron's, with the Cron's i'm trying to play to my foes weakness. I'm adapting to them. With the Tau i'm trying to maximise my firepower and mobility it doesnt matter who i'm fighting.
So what sort of force do you run? Adaptive or Static. Which do you think is stronger? Easier? Obviously some combination of the two is allways in place.