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What is the worst race or army you just HATE to play against and why?

ie broken, annoying special rules or units that you just hate or spammed units etc etc

Blood Angels. We all know why.

Yup, Blood Angles. Every list just seems to involve spamming assault marines and death company and rushing your opponent. There's no tactical skill involved in playing with or against them, either you have enough firepower to whittle them down before they reach you or you get ~50 FNP FC assault marines in the face.

They're an irritating mess of stupid special rules and forced repetition. Hate hate hate etc.

I hate everyone except imperial armies.

I am a true space marine player. I have nothing but anger and hatred for all xenos and traitors.

Orks, because of kustom force field, nobz, battlewagons and the large horde of boyz.

Deamonhunters, because they allow allies for leafblower lists (I play IG now, and I refuse to take allies) and because shrouding takes away my 72" Panquisher most of the time.

I hate Blood Angels too :(

I haven't had the pleasure of playing the new Blood Angels yet. I want to

another vote for Blood Angels from me.

I'm curious as to why some peopel chose Tau.

Well, while everyone else was voting Blood Angles, the Blood Angle players themselves had to pick a race! They picked Tau because [INSERT GENERIC 4CHAN anime fan MEME HERE].

Space Marines. But MEQ in general. Only armies my friends have are space marines, space marines, Necrons and a fledgling Ork force for the Neccy player. JUST SO GODDAMN BORING. Makes me wanna start a new army, which'd probably be either nids or chaos.

Srs, I don't care how 'broken' the angels are, they're not vanilla! Anything else would be great because my most regular opponant = necrons = me win every time. It really gets boring, and it's not his fault his codex does, well and truly, suck.

Atleast, if he builds up orks, we might actually have some fun.

Then again, I do have some guard lying around... :p

Angels and marines in general, mostly because I'm so fething bored of them.

Cheese Wolves. They are running a 2nd edition codex, effectively, with all the ridiculous amount of gear options. They also have the most underpriced core troop units of any army running. Against Parking Lot Guard I at least get to kill some stuff, especially if I get into close combat. Against Cheese Wolves, even if I make it past the Long Wangs and get the charge off, they still counter attack with ludicrous amounts of CC power. I honestly feel that, unless I am playing mech guard, I stand no chance of even moderatley hindering most Wolf armies (barring the opponent being a total moron) because everything in the list is so damn good for its points.

Second on the list is probably Daemons, but not because of power. Its just the style of the army lends itself to very boring games.

What, no Dark Angels or Black Templars in the list?

Currently it's blood angels but that will change. I HATE playing the "new codex army".

Nothing to do with cries of "cheese and overpowered" but because as soon as an army gets a new book everyone and their brother jumps on and wants to play them so I see over 9,000 counts-as armies. Not to mention that the majority of people who jump the wagon are terrible players who will jump right on to the next one, substituting new codex power for skill. I just want to see people actually stick with their armies.
I'm not saying you should only have one but you should want to play an army & be serious about it BEFORE the new book is announced or even rumored, if that was the major deciding point just please don't play the army.

Without the ranting: I hate people who jump on the new codex bandwagon & that is ALWAYS the army I hate playing.

agnosto wrote: I'm curious as to why some people chose Tau

I started 40k at age 12 & (Insert anime fan boy joke here). Since then I have stopped watching anime but as you could guess from my rant, I'm not going to stop playing the army I love just because they have a bad book.

Shas'O Dorian wrote:Currently it's blood angels but that will change. I HATE playing the "new codex army".

Nothing to do with cries of "cheese and overpowered" but because as soon as an army gets a new book everyone and their brother jumps on and wants to play them so I see over 9,000 counts-as armies. Not to mention that the majority of people who jump the wagon are terrible players who will jump right on to the next one, substituting new codex power for skill. I just want to see people actually stick with their armies.
I'm not saying you should only have one but you should want to play an army & be serious about it BEFORE the new book is announced or even rumored, if that was the major deciding point just please don't play the army.

Without the ranting: I hate people who jump on the new codex bandwagon & that is ALWAYS the army I hate playing.

This^^

Shas'O Dorian wrote:

agnosto wrote: I'm curious as to why some people chose Tau

I started 40k at age 12 & (Insert anime fan boy joke here). Since then I have stopped watching anime but as you could guess from my rant, I'm not going to stop playing the army I love just because they have a bad book.

I didn't mean, choose to play, but chose in the poll because we're a pretty weak codex right now so I can't imagine why someone would choose us as a most hated opponent...

agnosto wrote:

Shas'O Dorian wrote:

agnosto wrote: I'm curious as to why some people chose Tau

I started 40k at age 12 & (Insert anime fan boy joke here). Since then I have stopped watching anime but as you could guess from my rant, I'm not going to stop playing the army I love just because they have a bad book.

I didn't mean, choose to play, but chose in the poll because we're a pretty weak codex right now so I can't imagine why someone would choose us as a most hated opponent...

4th edition nid swarm list players with no money to spare

Necrons, too many rules arguments.

I'm going to say Orks. I can take a nap, have dinner and go on a country drive while Ork players move their 100+ models on the board.

Blood Angels. Mostly because of jealousy over their sanguinary priests than anything, I play wolves, and Wolf Priests were supposed to be chaplain/apothecarys, but they have been roped into being mediocre chaplains with no relation to the apothecary side at all. BA get better bonuses than a chaplain/apothecary would provide for only 50 points, and they can take 3 per slot. LAAAAME.


Orks are a close second. I just cant kill battlewagons, one game I shot 25+ meltas in double pen range, 10+ lascannons, and 25+ assault cannons into battlewagons in a BW spam list, many shots into side/rear armor and I failed to get even a single result on the damage table. Super Frustrating to lose a game like that.

Demogerg wrote:I shot 25+ meltas in double pen range, 10+ lascannons, and 25+ assault cannons into battlewagons in a BW spam list, many shots into side/rear armor and I failed to get even a single result on the damage table. Super Frustrating to lose a game like that.

I suggest you try this again next time you fight that list. Somehow, I have a feeling that barring the terribad dice rolling that plagued you last time you will find that you get an OVERKILZL result.

(^ deliberate spellin' mistake)

I have a general hatred for Space marines, but the furry marines are a special case. They have everything better than vanilla marines but are cheaper, Thunderwolf cavalry, and don't get me started on JoTWW.

chaos demons... because their entire codex is simply a way to break the normal rules of 40k (not necessarily overpowered, just not 40k).

Arschbombe wrote:What, no Dark Angels or Black Templars in the list?

sorry, my bad. Added them in now.

IG. Win or lose, it never seems fun.

Necrons. They just bore the ever loving crap out of me. It's kind of frustrating that they're so hard to kill at range, but once I get my Terminators/Nobz/Boyz/Tactical Marines/Grots into assault, the game is over.

Brother SRM wrote:Necrons. They just bore the ever loving crap out of me. It's kind of frustrating that they're so hard to kill at range, but once I get my Terminators/Nobz/Boyz/Tactical Marines/Grots into assault, the game is over.

Tell me about it. 9/10 games I play are against them, so you can imagine how I feel. I think the worst part of it is, the player is a close friend of mine and it isn't fun to see him not enjoying the game as I thoroughly thrash him every time.

Eldar, it's just like I sit around waiting until turn 5. I get suicided occasionally, and I trash some skimmers, but overall, I hate having to play against myself for a few turns while they hang out as far from me as possible, I mean, why even bother playing?