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Out of random curiosity, why did you choose your army/armies.

Space Marines, because they came in the AoBR box.

Necrons, because there's something awesome about them...and they'll be updated before Tau.

Dark Mechdar's pretty funny to play against CC armies with, and there's a lot of them where I play at.

Chaos space marines cause they fit my play style of up close and personal and aggressive, my longest range weapon is 24".

I picked Space Wolves, Like 8 years ago i had a buddy that was into this hard core and he played CSM. He had some regular marines and all the marine codexes, i remember Wolves looking the coolest. We played one game and i got DECIMATED. After that i started to read the novels and just fell in love with Fenris and all the fluff, so here i am.

Heh, which army?

I play SW as a main army, because I like their aesthetic. Sure, the fluff sucks, but then again, I don't read the fluff in Codexes.

Necrons, because of the terminator feeling you get from seeing hordes of warriors marching. Also there were many IG players which discouraged me from playing IG.
Dark Angels, after the 5th edition turned the Necrons into scrap metal, I decided to play a marine army and DA fluff, Deathwing, Ravenwing, Sammael made the choice easy for me.

Blood Angels, because I love the color red and the AOBR box can be used to make Blood Angels. Also I love my fast vehicles.

Orks, because theyre ORKS!! No really, I collect them for their background.

Space Marines... because I like blue.

Eldar: They're highly advanced magic wielding elves....in SPACE! Really the only thing they're missing is a dragon in some form and they'd be completely set.

I started them after playing Dawn of War for a long while, and would always play Eldar in that (I loved howling banshees and the seer council).

Necrons, mostly because I loved their cosmic horror-themed fluff, and I enjoyed their aesthetic.

Space Marines because I was young and foolish.

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Chaos, because my brother played vanilla marines.

Space marines were my first army back at the beginning of 4th edition. I decided on them because I had heard they were the best for beginners and I loved the dreadnought models. Second was orks because of their fluff and orky style. My third army I just recently started was dark eldar because I wanted something really evil and more of an expert army. That and the models look incredible.

Chaos marines because the cover of the 3.5 codex was cool. Plus, spiky bits, ya know.

Eldar.

I like Ninja Stars.

Iranna.

Deathkorps Of Krieg, with later became bloodpact. I never liked CSM/SM due to the sheer amounts of armies you see that looks almost the same. I also likes the background of the IG, and the sheer amount of conversion options you have with a standard squad. And having lots and lots of tanks dont hurtt either

Space Marines because the "big guys in big armor with big guns" thing appeals to me. Crimson Fists specifically because I got a whole bunch of RT Marines and that was the colorscheme they had on the box and rulebook back then.

Orks because they came in AoBR.

IG because Catachans are awesome, and I just went from there and got more and more tanks. I ended up getting Cadians and Steel Legion as well, due to Dawn of War and the great Steel Legion mod I used to play in Dark Crusade.

My Iron Warriors are mostly because of Storm of Iron and the totally fly caution stripes.

Tau because I like the idea of playing the underdog, the small fish in a very big Pond.

Daemons because I wanted an army that was just complete and utter Chaos (both on TT and ingame) and the way Daemons work just seemed to fit it just right( never know what you'll start on the board with.....)

Death Wing. Because our Chapter is completely loyal, we have no idea what you're talking about

Orks because I went in on AoBR with a friend and didn't want Marines. I also wanted them because I knew I'd have a ton of fun building, painting and converting them. I don't regret my choice at all.

Necrons.

To quote Sovereign...

"You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."

I started with Chaos Space Marines (in 3rd edition) because they are badbottom killers. I then stated collecting Tau when the new CSM codex (4th edition) came out and pissed me off. After going on a three year hiatus without 40k I went to Blood angels because chaos hadn't been updated yet and my Tau went missing (found them later on but I alread had a BA army). Now I'm back to my Chaos withing that the codex would get updated next summer.

Orks, because of their casually bloodthirsty attitude. And now my interest in them has been rejuvenated thanks to Imperial Armor 8. (Unfurls and begins to read the scroll of protection against the Daemon Alpharius...)

Orks, cuz they are fun to play and because im getting alot of them for very cheap

Back in the early 90's we bought the box set with Marines and Orks. Brother Dave turned the Marines to Chaos, and I got the Orks. Got out of it for like 15 years, and then everybody started playing again. My brothers and friends were fielding Chaos, Daemons, Blood Angels, Imperial Guard, Tau, and Eldar. I wanted to play something different, so I excavated my Orks from Mom's attic, blew a hundred bucks on the internet, and inherited everybody's AOBR leftovers. The Ghenghis Jon WAAAGH! was born.

Space Wolves. Because we got the stabbin' and the Dakka' And we got power armor!

And were vikings in space. Mind you we -now- have a wolf obsession bordering on the furry.

Bordering however. Space Wolves are Vikings. Not furries.