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Your army, your reason? I wanna know, me boyz iz gettin restless, and we wants t'know what armies da uvva boyz iz playin.

I play Sisters of Battle. Though far from my only army they are my first. I got involved with Sisters becaused I liked the look and theme to the Sisters. Its cool to me that these ordinary women can stand against the vilest of foes and hold their ground even against overwhelming odds with just their faith, power armor, and a bolter. It makes them cooler than space marines in my eyes

Tau. I loved the idea of running an army of battlesuits across the field and popping open tanks with railguns.

Vanilla. SM.
They are simple to start out on. Both modeling wise(all are main stream) nd you can leanr new ways to paint.

Eldar. They look really good, are generally freaking awesome space ninjas, and are hard to play (thus fun and challenging).

Guard, i'm human and proud to lead my kin to victory

IG all the way. Tanks, Tank, and more tanks, alogn with giant tanks, and tanks with artillary cannons strapped to them, and tanks with giant flamer throwers or chemical weapons etc.
oh and lots of people with guns. with other vehicales thrown in.

Imperial Guard are my favorite and most played army, though I have Dark Eldar, Necron and Tyranids waiting in the wings. I choose Imperial Guard because of the modelling/converting opportunities, and because there's just something damn near elemental about an army of men and tanks. In a game of super-soldiers, unspeakable horrors and high-tech aliens, winning the day with riflemen and big guns is uniquely satisfying.

Dark Eldar:

New range of models were too good to miss. Very different playstyle to my previous Marine and Tau armies and thoroughly enjoyable to play.

Blood Angels! I want to bathe in the blood of my enemies. You know, the other side of khorne.


*Edit: Corrected a Misspelled Word.

Chaos Space Marines primarily. I love the Alpha Legion. Plus daemons are just plain awesome. And nothing, but nothing beats The Three Stooges (my Obliterators).

Imperial Guard. I always found the *smartest* way to wage war was to sit back miles behind the lines shelling the crap out of the enemy. "I'm great at close combat," you say? Run your 30 men a mile forward to get to my tank lines first. Then if you blow past those, there are 125 entrenched men waiting with various forms of heavy weaponry pointed directly at you. even if you manage to survive long enough to hack your way through them, the artillery is still pounding... And you've still got a good 10 miles left to run.

Best of luck to you.

My main army is Tyranids. I always liked the movies alien and starship troopers, and I like the idea of an ocean bugs evolved solely for war.

SkaerKrow wrote:Imperial Guard are my favorite and most played army, though I have Dark Eldar, Necron and Tyranids waiting in the wings. I choose Imperial Guard because of the modelling/converting opportunities, and because there's just something damn near elemental about an army of men and tanks. In a game of super-soldiers, unspeakable horrors and high-tech aliens, winning the day with riflemen and big guns is uniquely satisfying.

Feth yeah. Couldn't have put it better myself mate

GK Henchmen, no power armour. I wanted something different, a unique army to play, and I wanted the challenge of fielding a glass hammer force. Oh, and I wanted an army that at 1500 pts could reasonably fit in a dreadknight

mayfist wrote:

SkaerKrow wrote:Imperial Guard are my favorite and most played army, though I have Dark Eldar, Necron and Tyranids waiting in the wings. I choose Imperial Guard because of the modelling/converting opportunities, and because there's just something damn near elemental about an army of men and tanks. In a game of super-soldiers, unspeakable horrors and high-tech aliens, winning the day with riflemen and big guns is uniquely satisfying.

Feth yeah. Couldn't have put it better myself mate

Indeed those things are what made me want to build a Guard army. And i simply was dying to make some decent looking tanks

Tyranids. We loves our gribblies, yesssss....

Space Wolves, for their pre-5th Edition background and their image.

Tau. Love playing the underdog army and love actually having a draw back in an army.

I chose chaos originally. But after all the black library books, I've decided I'm much more loyalist than I thought. with how Whiney and douchey the traitors are depicted as haha.

I started in the late second edition. First with lend armies, than I bought a used, painted Ultramarine Army (I liked the Ultramarines and their blue colour) on Alando (was bought by eBay later).

2000 points for 100 Deutsche Mark (~50€) for a TT-painted army, codizies, and 100 White Dwarfs was not bad.

However the Ultramarines were just to coulourful, almost clownish (like most things in 40k that days) for me (blue, wiht yellow rims and red bolters).

As soon as I saw my first Black Templars in the Codex Space Marine I decided to field them instead (nearly went for White Consuls or something like that) and that was a very good choice.

A lot of Templars players came when the Codex Armageddon came, and many also left with the bandwaggon. I am very satifsied. They fluff is great, their look is appealing, their style unmatched.

However I went for Tyranids too, because bugs are a nice army and a classical opponent for my Marines.

Later I started a small Imperial Fists detachement, because they are my facvorite Legion and that of my Templars. I like their fluff, style and look too.

Last but not least I started a Thousand Sons Army, because they are the most orderly Chaos Marines, some of the few Chaos factions that have a goal not just some random destruction or just decay.


Next on the line is a fluffy 1750 points Raven Guard jump army, in which every Marine shall be ,,perfect".


From the days of allowed allies, I still have 2 squads of Grey Knights, Sisters, Deathwacht and some Inquisitors.

Orks!
I've been in love with the common green skin (in all it's forms) for near 20 years now. Though Warhammer is my latest delving in to their particular culture.
I've always really enjoyed the simplicity of their approach, how pure of an experience they are, and how little B.S. Orks/Orcs have in their life paradigm.

Chaos Space Marines. I've gotten a little fed up with playing T3 armies with my current tactics. With my guard I just sit back and pummel the enemy with a ridiculous number of heavy weapons, but as soon as the bullet start flying their way or they're charged en-mass, their weakness shows. My sisters are similar too, they can pack a punch, yet their age really shows against new armies like Nids (and well that one game when I was facing 50 Termagaunts spawning a turn didn't do much for my confidence). With Chaos I can get away with my need to plod towards the enemy with a gun line without the fear of losing all my men to incoming fire. They don't such in assault, and their added level of craziness (two units of daemons plus two dreadnoughts) make them a fun army to play. The number of models that I have to paint is much lower than other armies, but not so low that I get pulled up for bentness either, and the fluff behind the characters means I can have fun converting them too.

Oh and the perverseness of having an army of heretics covered in purity seals and the hanging corpses of priests also does something dirty to me. ^^

There are so many armies i like, but i chose to play Tau. Huge guns and long range! i love being the underdog as well.

Space Puppies! I TRIED Dark Eldar, but their style didn't suit me (couldn't take decent beating and stay standing) so now I'm playing the Space Wolves!

I play Space Wolves because I am a goddamn Viking badass.

I run them forward, head on, and pummel the gak out of anyone in my damn way. That's how you do it. None of this sitting in the back with Long Fangs nonsense!

IG - Krieg They're shooty, humans and their models are awesome.

Eldar - they look cool

Grey knights mainly because I love the look of the models.

Also play daemons because they are awesome too.

and blood angels!

Chancetragedy wrote:I chose chaos originally. But after all the black library books, I've decided I'm much more loyalist than I thought. with how Whiney and douchey the traitors are depicted as haha.

Heresy!!! Wait but I'm chaos so to most I'm heretical... Ah screw it BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

So yeah I'm chaos marines mostly because I like playing the bad guys in a story and I find the BL books favourite the loyalists too much. Also I have 4 gods, you have only one so I win.