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Tau: Because I like the look of the Tanks

Steel Legion IG:Will be starting when I get enoguht Tau to make an all devilfish mounted HQ and Troop Blitzkrieg.

Orkz: (After Steel Legion) Because you can have a whole squad of 30 boyz with none of them looking alike.

GGUUAAARRRRDDDD. Beause they're just humans in a big universe.

Tau - I like the fluff of being a young, optimistic race in this hellhole of a galaxy. Plus with as little fluff as they have I can invent my own. (I like fluff)

Chaos Space Marines, because they're the most metal army there is. Word Bearers cause they still get Chaplains.

'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go!
What's not to like?
Green Skin, nails and rivets, too many models to paint, mandatory model-conversion from anything you find in the garage/trash/charity shop, red paint,

Waaagh! Da Orks!

They're just FUN!

I used to play Epic Scale Orks, and load my army up with Weird Boyz, Mad Boyz, Pulsa Rokkitz, Shokk Attakk Gunz and anything else that was unpredictable!
How can my foe discern my plans if I can't even discern them myself!
Advantage Ork!

I play chaos, because I like playing the badguys lol... And Slaanesh in particular because I like the elegant, beautiful aspect of him. I personally do not agree with my army, they're just fun to play.

Another factor as to why I choose chaos is because I abhor the imperium... A bunch of fanatical hypocrites, the way I see them. I'd rather be evil and know it than be evil claiming to be good. lol

I also love the Eldar, fluff-wise. I know it's rather ironic, seeing as I play Slaanesh, but in my eyes, the Eldar are one of the only 'good' races out there. I get so emotional when reading up on what they're going through that I feel bad that I play slaanesh...

lol so yeah XD

Ork

1: fun to paint
2: fun to convert
3: fun to use
4: so many fun weapons
5: everyone else is either pink or squishy!

Karoline Dianne wrote:

Another factor as to why I choose chaos is because I abhor the imperium... A bunch of fanatical hypocrites, the way I see them. I'd rather be evil and know it than be evil claiming to be good. lol

Not to mention that they worship a dead guy on a golden toilet for a god .

CSM I played Chaos in fantasy and already had the demons (in 4th ed), I love the models though highlighting all those spikes can be a pain sometimes.

Orks. AOBR made it possible to start a second, non-SM army cheap. The conversion possibilities are a plus and the models are top-notch. I love their view of warfare too (in a miniature war-gaming sense only of course).

Thalor

Karoline Dianne wrote:I also love the Eldar, fluff-wise. I know it's rather ironic, seeing as I play Slaanesh, but in my eyes, the Eldar are one of the only 'good' races out there. I get so emotional when reading up on what they're going through that I feel bad that I play slaanesh...

lol so yeah XD

Actually I'd say the Tau are the most "good" race out there. I have no pitty for the Eldar, they're pansies who oppose my gods. Well I guess the Eldar are pretty cool, depending on which world they're from.

I'm also planning on doing a Chaos Cult of Khorne (led by a Renegade Battle Sister) because Traitor Guard make for awesome conversions.

Eldar armies are good at spamming good units.
e.g. you can have 10 dark reapers in a squad.
take a biel-tan list and you take them as troops,
that gives a possible 60 dark reapers

Krellnus wrote:Eldar armies are good at spamming good units.
e.g. you can have 10 dark reapers in a squad.
take a biel-tan list and you take them as troops,
that gives a possible 60 dark reapers

I dont mean to burst your buble but the reapers can only have 3-5 in a unit, sad i know

Also the whole biel-tan taking aspects as troops died a few years back as well as other good things like black guardians

Nurgle CSM - primarily fluff, fluff and a little more fluff. Also helps that they are rock hard on the battle field and a good look is achievable even with my shockingly bad painting skills!

Space marines and IG

Space marines just because I like the look and feel of the army

I play Guard because.......well......... Who doesn't love the imperial meat shields!

Dark Eldar cos they are so fast and a whenever i assault out of a raider on the 1st turn i get a warm feeling inside.
Also cos theyre old and therefore cheap as chips.

I started with Space Marines in '89 because: 1) I was in the military and that side of it appealed to me and 2) It was my very own, customizable Storm Trooper legion.

Then in about 91-92 I switched to Orks (and started a WHFB Orc Army as well). Something about the controlled Chaos and Raging Horde of Barbarians (ala Huns) appealed to me. That and I really like the personality in the old RT Ork/Orc line. Funny yet tough. Ruglud's Armored Orc Rangers was my first Orc/Ork set. It's been Orks ever since in 40K.

I picked Tau for my first army before I knew anything about any of the races because the idea of being a ranged shooting army appealed to me.

Since then, I've found out how uncompetitive Tau are on the battlefield, and have been using my wife's Orks to great fun and success.

Orks - Lulz

Sisters - Hawt

Spase Mareenz - HURR!1!

Chaos.

They're bad azzes. They don't fight for some stupid patriotism to a dead old guy on a toilet.

They do what they want.

They're experts compared to everyone else.

Chaos Space Marines have been fighting for hundreds/thousands of years, meaning no ork or space marine should stand a chance against a "Traitor."

They can surpass the power of a mortal person. A daemon prince or chaos lord/sorcerer can surpass a loyalist goody-good.

The fact that pretty much any basic trooper is decent in melee combat. Tactical marines don't get a bolter + pistol/CCW at the same time.

CSM and Plague marines and Noise marines all get bolters and close-combat gear at the same time.

Excerpt from the Book of P4NC4K3, Chapter 21 verse 16
"And Lo, the great P4NC4K3 did come unto the nameless world, and there he did find the Necrons, and he pitied them for they were beset on all sides by holiday-makers looking to build second homes on the sandy beaches they had inhabited for 9 billion years. He did take them, and give them good paintjobs, and set them upon the world to reclaim what was theirs, thus no holiday homes were built and the pensioners of the corpse god had to move to Spain"

I chose Imperial Guard and Tau for two reason;

1. Both are cool races with the differences in technology but not in ideals.

2. They look good and work well together (especially in Apoc)

Oh wait and the Imperial guard are humanity's last hope if thats destroyeed there is nothing else to live for.

Imperial Guard. Basic grunts with basic kit, solving problems by throwing more men at them. What's not to like? That and the variety you can get when modeling and painting them has me hooked.

Orks, because I have loved the fluff every since Ere We Go and Freebooterz, and the models finally do the fluff justice. (Madboy modelz were always awesome though)

Eldar, because I had loads from when I last played (2nd Ed) (2500+ what I have recently bought from EBay.) The models have always been frikkin' awesome (plus Jes Goodwin and I share the same surname) and the fluff is half-decent.

Space Marines, because I have a bunch of spare SMs (enough for almost exactly 1000 points) from here and there and wanted to paint a bunch of unimportant models before I get back onto more important models. Plus, when I buy a couple of AoBRs I'll easily get up to 1750, if not more, as long as I shell out for a Master of the Forge model too.

Tau- because they appeal to the anime fan in me, I like their look, their interspecies cooperative fluff, their potential for variety, how their playstyle naturally meshed with me philosophically, and because at that time people told me that you couldn't win with them so it was a challenge(that was back in their first codex). It's now at least 10,000 points later and I haven't once regretted or hated my army once.

Eldar- because my lovely wife actually encourages my hobby and helps paint my armies. When asked which army she just wanted to paint she chose the eldar because she loves how they look. I also like the specialist style of warfare. Once again, its about the challenge and the variety of builds.

I play the Orks beacuse they are fun and I get to have a field day with conversions. As far as the fluff, it proves to be interesting and I am on the lookout for any time of literature that features the Orks [ya know, like the Blood Angels omnibus so if anyone knows anything, let me know].

Orks. Screw the fluff, I came into this game as blind as humanly possible. Never heard of the Nob Biker group, nor of the Lootas. I chose them because of how goddamn stupid they are. There's something endearing in how thick they are.

That, and I enjoy walking up a Warboss to tell the opposing player he wants to solve the matter using nonviolent means.

I play Imperial Guard because I love the underdog. Guard is what got me into 40k.

Space Marines. They just look so cool and are tough as nails in game.

Orks. I love the kid-like stupidity of the Orks. They have a simple credo: Smash 'em!

Orkies cuz dey is da stompyest and da killyest of em all. Also I love their fluff.

TheBloodGod wrote:Chaos.

They're bad azzes. They don't fight for some stupid patriotism to a dead old guy on a toilet.

They do what they want.

They're experts compared to everyone else.

Chaos Space Marines have been fighting for hundreds/thousands of years, meaning no ork or space marine should stand a chance against a "Traitor."

They can surpass the power of a mortal person. A daemon prince or chaos lord/sorcerer can surpass a loyalist goody-good.

The fact that pretty much any basic trooper is decent in melee combat. Tactical marines don't get a bolter + pistol/CCW at the same time.

CSM and Plague marines and Noise marines all get bolters and close-combat gear at the same time.

Yeah and they're totally metal. Whenever I think Chaos Space Marines I hear Cannibal Corpse, that's how awesome they are. Besides, the Emperor is a woose.

i gots the orks cause i likes the boys the best.

Honestly, i picked up some ork models to paint after the place i bought warmachine at closed, and just sort of built up models. Didn't really like the models for most of the other armies.

the art minor in me also likes being able to scratch build random stuff