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Tyranids were what drew me in. I was a big starship troopers/aliens fan and the idea of a true, undecipherable, unknowable alien got me hooked. I've been drawn to eldar since, and dabbled with chaos, but its always been the foreign-ness of the xenos races that inspire me.

Don;t get me wrong, IG and SM have their own attraction, but it's never gripped me the way they have. I think I'd have been a little more enthusiastic in my earlier days had my whole case of Nids not been stolen from McDonalds when I was about 12. Took a long time to come back from that.

I was going to pick Orks, but was talked out of it because EVERYONE said they sucked so bad back then. So my first was Chaos.

I started with a friend's Tau, but he sold them so I went to AoBR. A played a bit w/o a codex, then traded the ork half for some Tau again. Then, I got some more AoBR Terminators and a Dark Angels codex, but got bored of them really fast. So, I built up my Tau to about 2000 Points. Now I'm building up my Dark Angels again; I'm at about 2250 Points. So which army got me into 40k? I'm really not sure...

Black Templar, mostly because It seemed to be a lesser represented chapter (according to the website) but it still had its own chapter upgrade kit.

Bugs. I took a glance over at the Battle for [space marine world of no particular importance], and saw those cute, cuddly little red guys... Dropped sixty-five right then and there for the set.

The chaos land raider and khorne bezerkers. Not so much an army as the models.

Black Templar. Although I started with Nids, then Chaos and now IG and DoC. Ah, the ever changing mindset of a 17 yr old boy

Melissia wrote:

timetowaste85 wrote:I'm surprised nobody said Daemons: I started out in fantasy, had a Daemon army and thought to buy the 40k book for them and a soul grinder. 2 soul grinders later (for a total of 3) I was hooked

Daemons are relatively recent though, is why. At least daemons as their own army, they were always part of CSMs, but CSMs are boring to many players, so eh.

If by recent you mean the 2nd ed Daemon World list, yeah.

For me, Eldar got me into 40K.

IE, for all of third and most of fourth edition, there was no pure daemons list?

Melissia wrote:IE, for all of third and most of fourth edition, there was no pure daemons list?

Sorry, forgot my [humor][/humor] tags. I just found it funny you said recent, because 40K has had pure daemon lists in the past. I remember early 3rd ed days on Dakka bemoaning their loss.

Orkzez.

Necrons, they looked cool and were easy to paint.

Necrons

Undead robots in SPAAAAACE!

Melissia wrote:IE, for all of third and most of fourth edition, there was no pure daemons list?

I'll be honest, I did mean tail end of 4th edition Daemons that were designed for 5th edition: I've only been playing 40K for 2 years now. Fantasy...almost ten. I have no idea what existed back in 2nd edition other than what my oooooooooooold rogue trader magazines, that were given away as freebies, told me.

For me it was Dark Eldar, back before the new codex. It was a fun army to play cause it was challenging and really taught me alot about tactics and the game. I sold them to a friend a couple years back and I've really gotten some inspiration to pick them back up again cause I've heard the new codex is great and the models look amazing.

When I was a young lad, no more than eight, I walked into a GW on a street in Cheltnham. And I thought it was one of the best places in the world.
My mother said O could start 40K when I turned twelve. I was buzzing with excitement, and I was hoping to start up a Tau army.
Then, my aunt sent me a Chaos Terminator Lord for my birthday.
Three years and far too much money later, I've got Orks, IG, Space Marines, and of course, Chaos.

KingCracker wrote:I was going to pick Orks, but was talked out of it because EVERYONE said they sucked so bad back then. So my first was Chaos.

I presume you know the meaning of irony? If not just read this sentence again.

Necrons here. My first ever game played was with some borrowed Necron Warriors. Ironically, of the two armies I do not have, Necrons is one of them (the other being Dark Eldar).

I liked Sisters of Battle from Dawn of War so they ended up being my first army.

Ailaros wrote:Eldar.

I think I must have been emo in high school or something.

Lol'd

The Dark Eldar. I've always been a fan of fast and hard hitting tactics while enjoying the risk of the glass hammer. Plus they were so enjoyable to play with the first game I had.

Eldar, about 11 years ago I was at a friends house and saw an open White Dwarf. The page it was on was a battle report with some of the old Eldar models (before they got their update) and I asked him what they where. He explained the game, I went with him to the local gaming store and was going to get Eldar but then I found Space Wolves I didn't do an Eldar army untill much later but but in the end it was the Eldar that got me into the game.

IG, when i was young i always dreamed of controlling a million soldiers in the future, IG let me realise my dream, until i met the BA's

My dad got me the Battle for Macragge set when I was between 5th and 6th grade. I instantly got hooked on tyranids, though they are definitely not my favorite army today I still have a soft spot for them. I always loved the look of genestealers, especially with 60+ on the battlefield.

Imperial Guard. I just loved the feel of massive hordes of infantry, with unending rows of tanks all supported my massive hails of artillery. It's almost the old romantic school of warfare....

Tyranids, I only knew of about two other teams at the time. My neighbour owned some and they were aliens and looked weird, which was very appealing to my ~10 year old mind. 10 years later... yeah, they still look weird and cool.

The local GW also had a large Genestealer hanging out of one of the ceiling tiles, that sealed the deal.

Superscope wrote:
My love affair began with Tau Empire. I mainly loved tau because i'm a huge lover of giant robots, and their battlesuits looked awesome. Also loved the crisp clean look of all the tau units and them being one of the lease addictied to the policy "Hate everything thats not you".

Back during the Armageddon campaign, I got into 40k because of the Steel Legion. Now if only they made them in plastic...

The second time was almost four years ago and I went with Space Wolves, it was because I had a friend who played BA, one who play DA and one who played BT.

IG! I was awe-inspired by the idea that guys like you and me with just a gun and some crappy armor stand against all the horrors of the 40k universe.

Space Marines. Is there any other? ^^ (I feel dirty) Yeah, but I matured a little, got rid of the gaudily painted "Golden Phoenixes" (¬¬) and bought a proper guard army instead-though that army didn't come to much at the time, but I am now recycling those models for my current guard army-don't have the heart to throw out things that other people bought for me.