What was your first 40k army?

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**Inquisitive Inquisitor**

I remember it like yesterday, it was a box set of 10 metal Catachans.

God I feel old.

**Element206**

like most everyone else, I was drawn into the game and started collecting SM

**Ixias**

Orks were my first army and they are my only one so far. I've only played for about three months though, and I'm thinking about getting some Necrons too.

**Flashgit**

Orks, Got a Space Ork raiders box because I liked the look of them, then got hooked from there.

**Eura**

mine was almost tyranids but I somehow diverted to dark eldar (not sure how) at the last moment.

**Ultrasmurf_no_REALY**

Marine FTW i started nids and tau but they were reeeeeeeeal boring so i defaulted to the faithful smurfs

**Lokirfellheart**

CSM- I liked space marines, but I wanted an evil army. I went for the obvious, the Black legion because at the time I really wanted Abaddon.

**LordWynne**

Crimson Fists, they were easy to paint until they turned Chaos lol

**Reaper.exe**

Imperial Guard for me. I really liked the looks of them and especially of the sentinel which was my first 40k model

**EXIAN**

My first was and still is Dark angels

**djphranq**

Space Marines here... was thinking Space Wolves but I resorted to Ultramarines. Now I have no army :(

All I have now is a 10 man tac squad and 9 terminators with TH/SS... oh and a rhino that I screwed up.

**Phototoxin**

I think there will be bias as all the starter kits have space marines in them.. so you buy one you haz spaze marines...

**Müller**

Ultramarines back during the shift from RT to 2nd ed.

**davij**

Lost and the damned, cos I'm awesome!

**jordanis**

other: i collected black templars, but hadnt the slightest clue how to play them, so i sold them and got IG, so i count IG as my first real army, but i owned BT before that

**shadeyaces**

I use to love my necrons when it was 4th the glancing rule made them so much fun to play.

**Melkhiordarkblade**

I used to collect Eldar,but they just didn't really appeal to me.

**Sturmtruppe**

I tried something like 3 times to start a couple of Eldar armies and once tried Guard, but none of those attempts ever grew beyond 4-5 models before I went back to WFB. Then I went to Marine boot camp and so the idea of painting up Marines seemed natural. That became my first real 40K army.

**Mattlov**

Tyranids was my first army, but I had a very small collection of Grey Knights before that.

**mytimeprez**

My first was Black Templars. The look drew me in instantly.

**mega_bassist**

Tau my first and only

I'm working on starting a 'nid army though....one day....

**R10T**

Crimson Fists baby!

**dalsiandon**

Space Marines, although I decided to go Imperial Fists, so to this point it remains my only army. Although I have started to get a few 'Nids together. They will be the easier of my two armies to paint for sure.

**BloodAngles_Chris**

Crimson Fists

**Foxtale**

I got the scraps from a third edition starter box. I always got told by the GW employees that my DEldar were painted too bright. Well now look at how they do DEldar!

**guyperson5**

Myne was Marines but the first model I got was an Ork Nob from my cousin (thank you, cousin Alistair)

**DickBandit**

Speehs Muhrines. Blood Ravens to be exact...

SIMOLTAYNEOUS DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP STRIKESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I even made a Davian Thule Dreadnaught. I am still proud of it!

**logg_frogg**

My first army was Chaos way back in the day when 3 man foot slogging untis with 2 support weapons and a champion seemed like a great idea!
It started with black legion and then swelled in Khorne and Nurgle (Because my frind played Tzeentch and Slannesh and we wanted the fluff to fit when we fought)

That army has grown from 250pts to the 14000+ it is today lol

**Goddard**

I hope a GW market researcher doesn't see this thread : (

**logg_frogg**

Goddard wrote:I hope a GW market researcher doesn't see this thread : (

lol!! don't worry they already know!!

There is a reason every second codex released is some form of marines