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I think Eldar/Dark eldar are lame. Their weapons, their fluff...To me, it just falls flat.

Maybe in like 5 years ill go Wow! Eldar are soooo cool!

What is the least appealing army to you, for whatever reason be it fluff or gameworks!

At times I find myself glazing over the propensity of the space marine army. But there really isn't one least appealing army to me. Out of the space marines armies available I think space marines and grey knights are the neatest, but then I look at the other four books and just think "enh" another space marine army, the space wolves are the only other stand out army in my eyes out of the loyalist marine codexes; I feel like dark angels, blood angels, black templars could find a home in the space marines codex, akin to how the craftworld eldar codex had different craftworld units.

.(I'm not lumping chaos space marines into it because we don't have a seperate codex for every famous legion, World Eater, Thousand Son's, Red Corsairs,etc, though if we did I've probably complain about that too.)

Black Templars
Blood Angels
Dark Angels
Grey Knights
Space Marines
Space Wolves

Sisters of Battle
Tau Empire
Tyranids
Orcs
Imperial Guard
Necrons
Dark Eldar
Eldar
Chaos Daemons
Chaos Space Marines

Orks interest me about as much as getting kicked in the face.

You do realize that this thread is bound to descend into bad feelings and butt-hattery?

And now I'll go on and contribute to it. Whee!

*Ahem*

I don't get much from Orks, either. Individual Orks are as dumb as posts, so it's hard to have a heroic individual character in my army with which I can identify. Orks are mindlessly destructive, so they don't even have the epic awesome and tragedy of Dark Eldar or Chaos Marines, but their models don't look as cool as Tyranids or Daemons. I don't find their haphazard aesthetic challenging to paint or model. I know a lot of people have done cool things with the Orks, but I think it would be too easy for me to be lazy. I prefer armies with a strong aesthetic other than chaos. The gothic complication of Blood Angels (and some other marines) or the smooth simplicity of Tau (and, I suppose, Eldar) is a lot more appealing to me.

Also, Imperial Guard. Seriously, if I wanted to paint completely normal looking soldiers, I'd play a Historical.

Sisters of battle, just... lame. Also don't care for necrons. Perhaps in order from least favourite to the point where I would consider an army.

1. Sisters of Battle (nuns with guns, woopee I am being sarcastic)
2. Necrons (fine army, I just like IG and Tau more for shootyness)
3. Grey Knights (Games Workshop needs more Deathwatch loving)
4. Blood Angels (enough gold to make Calgar look like a bum, also there are enough specialist CQC armies)
5. Space Wolves (more marines)
6. Black Templars (yet more marines)

Grey Knights. I liked them in 2nd when they appeared as a singular squad. But I'm not a fan of the way they have evolved.

Gray knights and Space Wolves. Hey look, I'm good at everything, isn't this game FUUUUN?

Anything MEQ really.

I find the oddball races much more fun, tau, nids, necrons, and daemons.

Out of all the races, Orks is the only one that I cannot ever see myself wanting to use. At some point I have looked deeply into the races, their backgrounds, their heros, history, units, ect. except for the Orks.

Tyranids.

Grey Knights, Tyranids and any kind of Eldar.

and maybe tau but thats iffy.

I disdain anything Space Marines. They're such boring models to paint and have become over popular to a fault.

Tau. I actually feel like they're out of place in the setting. The Imperial armies are representative of the current most dominant power in the galaxy. Chaos is the Archenemy. The Eldar are an ominous reminder that others have fought Chaos and lost, with the Dark Eldar serving as the analogue to the Traitor Legions and Lost and the Damned. As an aggregate the two eldar factions are struggling to simply continue existing after the galaxy slipped from their grasp, a warning of what could happen if Chaos destroys the Imperium. Tyranids, Orks, and Necrons represent the ancient, omnipresent dangers of an old galaxy. Tau are cheerful upstarts. I suppose they make for the naive and optimistic faction, but to me that just doesn't really fit with a dystopian universe where idealism is long dead and everything is dying by inches.

In addition, I dislike the general aesthetic of their equipment. It feels like anime Star Trek. It's also quite at odds with the brutal or ancient equipment used by every other faction. Eldar elegance has a more appealing archaic bent that I find less objectionable.

I also dislike their playstyle. Their gunline style has the worst bubblewrap ever, there's only so much room to run on the board, and they lose to Guardsmen in a brawl. Their squads are overspecialized (lolfirewarriors and their no-specials), their mechanized support doesn't let infantry fight from within it. One-dimensional play is never good.

In short, I don't like their place in the setting, their look, or even how they play on the table.

Blood angels, I can't respect someone who wears a breast plate with nipples on it.

Ok for me I do not care for most of the SM armies, They are just over done. Sisters of battle also make the list because they are space Nun SM wannabes. I like just about every other faction, although Deamons and Chaos SM are also low upon the list of armies for me.

The space marine static gameplay and blocky model just makes them boring, and if you've played/seen on MEQ army you've pretty much played/seen all of them. The only ones that doesn't are Grey Knights and I have a far more rage inducing reason to not like them.

Deamons codex. I just hate everything about them. Orginization, fluff, and for the most part the models too.

I agree that tau really seem out of place in the 40k world, but I could in theory see playing them, and some of their models aren't so bad.

I think the least appealing army is tyranid.

Models-wise, what are they, bugs? Lizards? Not only is the concept not really there, but I've yet to see a tyranid army that looks good once the models are completely painted up, and the 'eavy metal ones are absolutely wretched. Blue and red bug-lizards? What 5-year-old's crayon drawing is that based off of?

The fluff doesn't get any better. Why are they in the galaxy? Because they accidentally wound up there. What are they doing? Destroying everything. Why? No reason at all, they don't think, much less are they capable of motivation. I mean, what are you representing with a tyranid army, a battle caused by accidental intergalactic indigestion?

I'd really like to like tyranid, as their game mechanics and play style is otherwise very interesting to me, but I couldn't stand actually owning and playing a tyranid army to make that happen.

I've got to say Necrons, a lot of their new models look stupid and out of place.

Chaos, in both its incarnations.

I can't see myself ever touching the Tyranids. Nothing about them catches my attention at all. I preferred them back in the Space Hulk and space crusade days when they were another incarnation of Chaos, striking from within, instead of a huge mindless horde.

Orks at least have character!

Nids, sob (teenage boys' wet dream), grey knights (prefered them when they were a specialized unit), dark elders (why not have these with the eldar?) and necron (another universe with an Ai seeking to destroy humanity). I don't ever see myself touching any of these.
Space marines and tau are in the "probably not", daemons I can use as part of my csm leaving Eldar and orks as my next possible army choices

I cannot touch Orks, I just don't find them appealing at all, their models or their fluff. A second least favorite would be Tau, soon followed by Craftworld Eldar. The Craftworld Eldar models are hideous to me, especially when compared to the beautiful Dark Eldar models.

And, while I do like the Imperial Guard, the Catachan models are just plain Hideous. Some of their arms just remind me of the 90's Stretch Armstrong.

Tau. I hate their whole idea and execution. The models just look stupid to me.

The kroot are alright though.

I'd probably have to go with the new Necrons.

Why? Because in the old fluff, the Necrons were the ultimate horror in the galaxy and universally feared.

Now they are fancy Tomb Kings in space.


Iranna.

It's almost like the Necrons went from being the original Terminator T-800 model straight to being the T-800 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

I am disappoint :(. I liked the OldCrons, for some strange reason.

Necrons. I never particularly liked them and most of their models, but the Newcron update just took out the implacable horror that I actually found interesting in them.

slaanesh based anything, who wants to field scores of boob-worms?

Tau.

Space COMMIES?

Yeah, no thanks.

Chaos in general, I'll never side with that anywhere. ( thus it goes beyond 40k )

The rest in order from 2nd least appealing upwards:
- nids = not interested in playing the swarm type army
- tau = stupid fluff, too much fanwank if you're with them. They will have to have a few editions to either find their place or get eaten by the above ^
- orks = killed so many in RPG's, seems it has become a part me to oppose them...
- dark space elfs = I liked the whfb character in a book, but I am not a fan of the 40k spiky space elfs.
- Eldar = too far from my ability to paint. If I wanted an army, I had to have it painted..... but here we come into the neutral area as I could see me giving them a try on the TT.
- anything else I already own.

space marines

nothing cool about them.

At least the tyranids cloned something interesting...