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Is it because of the fluff, the units,peer pressure or whatever. Which race do you lead and why. Vote for your army and then write a reason why. Also what is cool about that race

Guard and Nids

Guard because they are humans and Nids because they kill everything

Guard for we are but men,tasked to fight with guns and bayonets with alot of courage behined them,we are the men of the Imperuim we stand tall and BRAVE,but I support them mostly because....they make a damn good cup of Tea!

Eldar: Awsome style of war, cool weapons, advanced tech, sweet culture, and just 10 kinds of awsome

Nids: Eat,eat eat oh and kill, plus all bio weapons so cool.

Orks: Who doesnt love endless war and weapons that shoot even though they arnt meant to

Chaos Space Marines.

Not because they're inherently evil, per se. But because they exemplify the faults of Humanity. 'Falling from grace' really appeals to me, and kind of makes Chaos into the strangely loveable anti-hero (something I've always liked is evil that you can connect with). The Horus Heresy is quite possibly the most well-thought-out piece of fiction in the Warhammer Universe.

That, and I just love coming up with modeling concepts for spins on existing Chaos armies, and painting them is really fun. There's not a model range out there I like better than Chaos Space Marines.

I also play Tyranids. I love how all of the fluff kind of looks at the Tyranids like an oncoming nuclear attack from the perspective of something like the Cuban Missile Crisis. That, and anything with a lot of customization tends to draw me to it.

And finally, I also play Witch Hunters. I like the caricature of real Inquisitions throughout history, magnified to a ridiculous degree and placed in the Warhammer universe. And Witch Hunters were kind of what I set my sights on when I first picked up the hobby.

Nids: Starship troopers.
Eldars: Swooping hawks (back 10 years ago, they looked so cool.)
Chaos: for diversity, can do almost anything with a single army
Daemons: different way to play, randomness, deep strike...

Eldar - Powerful, unforgiving of mistakes, I feel like you earn the victory with them.

Salamanders- Black men with red eyes and great with flames... gotta love it.

Bugs - Mindless eating machines.

Chaos - Not supporting the soul-sucking emporer.

Dark Angels - The first and the best. Love the fluff.

Guard, my picture pretty much explains it, but its amusing to have the ability to execute your own men lol

Dark Eldar- everything is ridiculously fast, not just Initiative but all there vehicles are "fast vehicles" plus who doesn't love all those blades!

Orks- Fighty, kunnin', green and just plain funny.

I would take the Craftworld's side
Simply because of the reason their fighting...
its for their own needs, and not some god's or
uncareing general

just my $ 00.02

Space Wolves - My first army back in 2nd ed

Imperial Guard - I love the idea of puny humans up against the worst the galaxy can throw against them

And Tau - Just because I liked the mnis when they first came out.

orks- because building their machines is fun, because you cant be wrong, no matter what you build

plague marines- because i love how discusting they are, i love modeling the boils and nasty stuff

marines- because theres so many great models out there and i love converting, plus theyre kick-butt

Imp Guard, gotta love em. So many regiments to choose from, and every company can have their own unique uniform, the convrsion possibilities are endless. Tanks, cavalry, troops, they have it all.

IG, my Tallarn Terr... err... guardsmen are just too cool

Marines - because who doesn't have a ^%$@ ton of the engineered eunuchs?

Bugs - because swarms and giant heads are bitchin

Orks - because they make me laugh

Eldar - they look nice but are probably some of the most psychologically disturbed races out there.

CSM - All Slaanesh all the time. Because who doesn't want to get drunk, take some good drugs and kill the enemy with hot naked daemon chicks?

Necrons - I gotta use a slow, easy army sometimes.

Deathwing - Sometimes I don't want to move many models.

Daemons - When I only want to use hot nekked chicks.

Tau - they look cool and it is the only army where I move less models than the Deathwing...

damn... can't think of anything else. I may have gotten them all.

Bugs. I have incredible luck at finding bargains for them, and they rate as one of the coolest (Depends on my mood, really)

My very first WAS chaos/SM(Id switch back and forth) but the new Orks dex came out and I say screw the SM
I ALMOST picked Orks as my first army but I think peer pressure pushed me into the first choice a little bit.
I have fallin in love with the savagery and brutal nature of the Orks. Yet at the same time they make me laugh at how ridiculous they are. Besides there are few things that can stand up against the full charge of a big Nobz squad lead by an even bigger boss.

Armies in order from which I first started to latest:

Tau- (my love the mechs, philosophy, weapons, and the conglomeration of different alian races, plus in anything fantasy or sci-fi I pretty much always go for the friendly alians, ie elites in halo, elves and dwarves in lotr, etc.

Orks- I love the humor, warfare assaultiness, and above all the idea of making something out of seemingly nothing (prlly if I had to pick one would be my favorite army.

Space Marines- Raven Guard and Grey Knights- love the lore of both chapters, the armour, fighting style, and devout faith, plus they hate daemons and chaos like me.

Tyranids- I love the whole biological warfare thing, and om nom noming is always fun.

Blood ravens: they were in the first battle report i ever read.

Orks: they the best in CC IMO.

Grey Knight: there awesome nuff said

Crisom fist: cos Sternguard rock

Spaz Marinez: had so many different marine armies its untrue always liked them though, tend to only use them in pick up games that and my first army i had way back when i was 8 years old

Chaos: Marines but evil, whats not to love (apart from all the skulls)

Tau: I Like Gundam and Battletech, enough said really

Orks: Ermm Orks whats not to love?

Guard: Probably my favourite army i like big ass guns and tanks so i'm pretty much sorted with guard

Orks - They're awesome.

Khornate Chaos Marines - They're awesome.

Tau - They're aweso--- wait, I think I took them for the shooty aspect, hmm...

OH!

Tau - Because I had a badass paint-scheme for them.

Khornate Lost and the Damned- Because the normal IG codex is as boring as ! Plus my friend offered to me some Chaos bits and iconography, and some bits to make Aspiring Champions...but it feels so good! Trust me, you don't know happiness until you charge a Terminator squad with 20-something Khorne Mutants and a Khornate Aspiring Champion with a Power Fist...

Eldar- I've always liked the look of the Eldar, to be honest. But the fact that another one of my friends just had a couple of Striking Scorpions and some Guardians lying around made it even better...plus I love to paint little freehand crud even though I'm not that good at it, so Eldar are really fun.

Note that I don't have any models yet, but I will be playing renegade imperial guard and 'nids. Renegade guardsmen: because I read Words of Blood from Let the Galaxy Burn, but also because they have the massed numbers, scary firepower/tanks and gritiness of the I.G as well as the crazed, blood-soaked metalness of Chaos. And I play 'nids because they rip everything to shreds and eat them. And they have some of the coolest models ever.

NOBZ AN' ORKZ IZ BESHT!

orks: when 30 ork boys jump into a squad of space marines, i know theyll learn what hurt is.

CSM - I like the fluff and play style. Because nothing short of a titan can stop deep striking plasma cannons, and there are so many opportunities for conversions, etc. I even came up with a backstory for my own legion.

Orks - I like the aesthetic and I wanted a break from CSM.

SM- I love the fluff, and they are very common and customizable, so I can do a lot with them

Chaos Space Marines and Chaos Daemons

Why?

Because I'm evil that way.

Chaos Space Marines: When I started collecting them I was in a perpetually angry state of mind and I wanted something to focus my evil thoughts on.

Orks:Now that they have so many awesome miniatures and a codex that is the least gakked up of all in fifth edition, I can finally relax and just concentrate on playing the game.

Chaos (every god excpet Tzeentch, but I'm working on that) - To teach the lackeys of the false emperor what true power is.

Tyranids (& Genestealer cult) - The race that got me started on 40k when all I played was night goblins. Squibly death!

Imperial guard - Couldn't resist having a gunline army. Got mostly cadians with a "veteran" platoon of catachan models who act as advance scouts. Also having trouble deciding to make them cadian or green DIY cadian model guard?

Necrons - Couldn't resist these either, and I painted 1500pts over a two week period because of bada(ss)b black wash alone, *and* necron fluff is some of the sweetest stuff gw has made, imo. I just hope any new models that come out with the new book (however far away it is) are less terminator and more ancient alien looking.

Dark Angels - After playing 40k for 9 years, you end up with space marines. If you don't play a marine army, they just sit there, mocking you from your bitz box. So one day, after buying AoBR, I decided I had to do something with them all, got some more termies, an extra dread and a landraider, assembled a few chaos rhinos in imperial fashion and kitbashed a plastic chaplain, and now there's a lot of green marines!

I picked Chaos Marines for a few reasons.

1: I like the idea of a group of soldiers seeing fault in the way their leaders are running things. The emperor as a puppet figurehead while his cronies vying for power use fear and the space marines to control their empire. The people of the emperium must be a depressed and terrified bunch. I like the idea of some marines casting off the emperor's evil clutches and turning to perceived darker beings to gain power to fight against a false god. I kind of looked at it like George Bush is losing favor, so instead of just taking his licks he tells everyone he's god and then he tells everyone that there are a ton of threats out in the universe and that man kind is teetering on the edge of destruction every single day. If man doesn't give him full control over everything, their will, their actions, and their worlds that it will all come to a violent a bloody end. Oh and don't forget that he is god now. So you have a group of very powerful intelligent men that see what is wrong so they damn themselves knowing no one will ever except them again, but they do it for their human brethren to free them

Unfortunately GW doesn't write fluff that is anything like that. After I got into the game I saw some of the books and all of the writing is terribly black and white and incredibly unentertaining.

2: They didn't seem ungodly easy to paint but they looked like they could have a little more versatility than Space Marines and didn't have the complexity of something like Eldar or Tyranids. When I was getting into it I didn't want to be terrible at painting so I was looking for something middle of the road. I almost picked Tau, but a week before I bought a codex my friend went through the armies with me and I picked CSM because of how I envisioned them above.

I was pretty glad to know they didn't suck game wise after I started painting a few squads.