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dislike most necrons, an OK army idea but poorly realised. so bland. also dislike the tau for the reasons stated above, that they don't fit with the rest of the setting, but at least GW made a bit more effort, gave them a respectable lineup, and they do look pretty cool.

individual model - as an 2E eldar player, i fiercely hate the new (new to me) eldar guardians. i hate the way the shuriken catapult looks with the sickle magazines and the stupid tubes they have going over the shoulders. i buy up all the old guardians i find on ebay.

sisters of battle could have worked if they just stuck to the original idea of the "imperial agents" codex. What they should have done is taken inquisitors, grey knights, SoB, assassins, tech-preists, wicth hunters, all those crazy, miscellaneous guys the imperium has, and printed it up as one codex. Allow imperial players to field them as allies or as one, big diverse army.

why the hate for helmetless space marines? i think they look cool. and i don't care about "realism", what part of this game is realistic? besides, they're static minatures, they scuplt individual space marine characters without helmets to make them look heroic, there's no reason to think they walk around all the time like that. space marines with helmets look bland and grunt-y.

although, i can believe that heroic leaders would go to battle without helmets so the rank and file can see their face and show they're not scared in the face of the enemy. in history, leaders would remove their helmets to show their troops they were still alive.

Least favorite Race: Tau..Anime fan bait..pure and simple.

Least Favorite Character/Model:..Most recently..the DE muppet show reject "Wereratthing"...
Followed by Ghazzie...the model just puts me in mind of a schoolyard bully coming to steal lunch money,not a rampaging Ork Warlord.

Barrington wrote:I was looking at the new Grey Knights on GW website and came across the Jokaero Weaponsmith Monkey thing. It made me laugh.
I wondered what other peoples least favourite Model or race were?

this just shows that gw are running outof ideas!

Most armies have some models/elements that I like but I'd say the Necrons & Sisters (possibly Tau too) have the fewest.

Least favorite race = Eldar - Tau don't fit grim dark?????? Eldar have soooo many models that prance around including clowns and the Tau don't fit?

Personally I don't like Anime much, but I love the Tau stuff.

Worst model EVER = Aun'Va - come on! Space Pope, really?

My least favourite race - Space marines, they're so boring too me. What i don't understand why people don't like the Tau.

Least favourite Character: Abaddon the Despoiler. Complete waste of space and utter fail.
Least favourite Model: Any Marine without a helmet , etheir bold or just stupid looking.
Least favourite Race: Tau. They lack the Grim Dark feeling.
Least favourite Codex or Rule Set. Grey Knights apper to be the most Cheesy army yet. X10

Da-Rock wrote:Least favorite race = Eldar - Tau don't fit grim dark?????? Eldar have soooo many models that prance around including clowns and the Tau don't fit?

But eldar have an ancientness to them that fits the gothic feel of the 41st century. Tau are all positive and energetic, eldar are a dying race.

Da-Rock wrote:Least favorite race = Eldar - Tau don't fit grim dark?????? Eldar have soooo many models that prance around including clowns and the Tau don't fit?

They don't prance, they float. They aaaaalllllllllll float!

Clowns were grimdark before 40K was.


Least favourite race are Necrons - when I first heard GW had done a race of automatons I thought great! AI gone wrong wiping out living organisms due to corrupt programming, sci fi cliché #251; but no, they're undead in space.

Least favourite character - dunno, although Mephiston seems daft from what I've heard.

Least favourite model - space marine bikes, they just look ridiculous, very clunky. Corvus Belli have done some great bike miniatures for Infinity and show how it should be done.

Least favorite character: Cato Sicarius for being the biggest douchebag in existance.
Least favorite model: Ragnar Blackmane rubbish model and so static it hurts...
Least favorite race: Probably Tau... though for different reason than other people have said.

least faverite model: O'shovah: this model needs to be alot more dynamic, this is more the fault of the battlesuit model though
least faverite character: Abbadon: reasons stated elsewhere.
Least faverite race: none, i feel they all fit in some way, even tau to some extent, they are a new race yet to understand how the universe works, this alows us the players to see the universe from another perspective.

I like all the races to be honest....

Favourite Model: Either the Imperial Cruiser kit, or the Lord Commissar....I just love how customizable and how detailed the cruisers are, and for some reason, I absolutely adore my Lord Commissar.

Least Favourity Model: While it does get boring painting a hundred fifty Cadians, I'd have to say the model I shook my head most at was the Ibram Gaunt model. I don't know about you, but Ijust found his model to be too thin....the other Tanith models seemed fine though.

My least favorite race is Eskimo. I mean igloos, WTF?

But seriously, I have a love hate relationship with orks. I like them because they are goofy and slowed, but then I hate that retards who cannot even spell can somehow make weapons out of scrap as good as the most intelligent humans using fabricated parts.

least favorite model(s):looted or chaos Imperium vehicles such as baneblades

I also hate the warp beasts

I especially hated nurgle versions


race:anything Chaos related but I also hate dark eldar

Least Favourite race: Dark Eldar, doesn't help that we have a TFG at our club that plays them, but I just don't like them, just plain chaotic stupid.

Least Fav Character: Abbaddon. Chaos should really do performance reports.

Khorne: "On the plus side your attendance is good."

Least Fav model: Ragnar Blackmane, I feel for SW players.

FITZZ wrote: Least favorite Race: Tau..Anime fan bait..pure and simple.

I find this complaint always hilarious, given that Eldar visuals are far more anime influenced than Tau.

As for the "grimdark", Orks are not very grimdark at all (I'd argue that less than Tau), with their general goofiness and if they were added to the game now, everyone would hate them for not fitting in. But they've been essential in the game universum so long that one can't imagine game without them anymore.

Least favourite race is Necrons. Their fluff is so poorly done that rewrite can't come soon enough.

Fiends....they burn my eyes with their hideousness......The Lucious the Eternal fig also makes me retch..

for the character id say the sanginuator.

model... the razorwing beast pack thing, purely because it just looks like a bunch of magpies

I seriously don't get why everybody is giving out and having a go at the new GK's and who cares if the Jokaero is a monkey, he was in Rogue Trader and he will be now plus would you rather a servitor or some monkey with a lascannon/multi-melta/flamer digital weapon

Least Favourite Race -- Chaos Space Marines (simply for fluff reasons not because of the minis) or Ultramarines (again, simply for fluff reasons)
Least Favourite Character -- ??????

Btw why would you hate SM's JUST because they don't wear helmets, if they don't want to wear one they don't want to wear one as simple as that.

Least favourite Race....; Nurgle stuff, can I do that?, I like both Khorne and Tzeentech stufff for me to hate chaos daemon

Model: Beast of Nurgle

Hate Nurgle stuff.

All types of nugle deamon look stupid to me.

I don't like the new direction GKs have gone in either.
AS a long time player of the DH book I dislike it.

Backfire wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Least favorite Race: Tau..Anime fan bait..pure and simple.

I find this complaint always hilarious, given that Eldar visuals are far more anime influenced than Tau.

As for the "grimdark", Orks are not very grimdark at all (I'd argue that less than Tau), with their general goofiness and if they were added to the game now, everyone would hate them for not fitting in. But they've been essential in the game universum so long that one can't imagine game without them anymore.

Least favourite race is Necrons. Their fluff is so poorly done that rewrite can't come soon enough.

I wont dispute that Eldar too have an Anime-ish look about them,though I'd argue the anime theme is more previalent with Tau,also from a marketing perspective ,it appears that the Tau were released to coincide with the increase in popularity of anime.

Concerning Orks lack of "grimdark"...meh,sure Orks have a certian comedic goofieness about them,but it's a "laugh as you comrades get blown up or go racing off the edge of a cliff in an out of control vehicle " sort of comedy,which is certianly "gimdark" from a given perspective.

As far as Necrons..I never was a huge fan of The Terminator films.

You should always have things that aren't the same. If every race was, "Grimdark" it would be the same as painting the inside of your house all white and have all white carpet, furniture and then slap some white paint on the kids and dog = boring

When I look at Tau I see some nice contrast with all of the "Grimdark" so many talk about. How many Space Marine on Chaos Space Marines on Space Marines on Space Marines do we need? Space Wolves, Blood Angels, Black Templar, Dark Angels, Bob's McNugget Clan Angels, Vulcan + Imperial Fists etc etc etc..................

Thank the heavens Imperial Guard got popular or we would be stuck with 3 guys who don't play SMs. You can have Grimdark and I'll take the rest.... :-)

winnertakesall wrote:Easy, Ragnar Blackmane, the mini is just so outdated, even with the recent SW release, they never bothered to update it.

Except that with all the nhew plastics, you can basiacally build a better Ragnar.

Play it as either Ragnar or your Lone Wolf in PA, or even a Wolf Guard Battle Leader.

phantommaster wrote:Abaddon.

beat me to it... FAILbaddon... seriously, Lord of Chaos Undivided and he stands smaller than a Blood Thirster's axe.

Space_Potato wrote:Race - Tau. They just don't seem to fit in anywhere.
Mini - Dreadknight. Just... just... eww.

S_P

Tau fit where they were designed to fit... and they draw in the anime fanbois... you know, the guys who wanna play with Appleseed mechas.

AvatarForm wrote:

winnertakesall wrote:Easy, Ragnar Blackmane, the mini is just so outdated, even with the recent SW release, they never bothered to update it.

Except that with all the nhew plastics, you can basiacally build a better Ragnar.

Play it as either Ragnar or your Lone Wolf in PA, or even a Wolf Guard Battle Leader.

phantommaster wrote:Abaddon.

beat me to it... FAILbaddon... seriously, Lord of Chaos Undivided and he stands smaller than a Blood Thirster's axe.

Space_Potato wrote:Race - Tau. They just don't seem to fit in anywhere.
Mini - Dreadknight. Just... just... eww.

S_P

Tau fit where they were designed to fit... and they draw in the anime fanbois... you know, the guys who wanna play with Appleseed mechas.

The closet I get to Anime is the old Robotech cartoons I watched as a kid. No desire for modern day Mecha/Anime - yet I still like the look and style of Tau. Its funny how one person will say something like - "Tau are for Anime fanbois" and then the lemmings come out to regurgitate the same line over and over.

FITZZ wrote:
I wont dispute that Eldar too have an Anime-ish look about them,though I'd argue the anime theme is more previalent with Tau,also from a marketing perspective ,it appears that the Tau were released to coincide with the increase in popularity of anime.

I doubt there was much, if any, conscious attempt to "cash" on anime popularity. Remember, Tau was only one potential concept studied for all-new race, other candidates we know of (Kroot, Vespid, Demiurg) had no 'anime feel' whatsoever. If anything, Tau are an inception of more typical, Star trek-ish scifi stereotypes into 40k universum.

And even if the Tau were designed to "draw in anime fanboys", so what? Orks & Eldar were designed to draw in fantasy fanboys, Space Wolves were designed to draw in Viking fanboys, Necrons were designed to draw in Terminator fanboys...the list goes on and on.

The ork flash git with targeter squig. Aren't flashgitz supposed to have aweseome tricked out guns? The GW one has a 1840's double barreled musket thing.

Backfire wrote:

FITZZ wrote:
I wont dispute that Eldar too have an Anime-ish look about them,though I'd argue the anime theme is more previalent with Tau,also from a marketing perspective ,it appears that the Tau were released to coincide with the increase in popularity of anime.

I doubt there was much, if any, conscious attempt to "cash" on anime popularity. Remember, Tau was only one potential concept studied for all-new race, other candidates we know of (Kroot, Vespid, Demiurg) had no 'anime feel' whatsoever. If anything, Tau are an inception of more typical, Star trek-ish scifi stereotypes into 40k universum.

And even if the Tau were designed to "draw in anime fanboys", so what? Orks & Eldar were designed to draw in fantasy fanboys, Space Wolves were designed to draw in Viking fanboys, Necrons were designed to draw in Terminator fanboys...the list goes on and on.

Again..no argument here,various 40k factions obviously have there appeal to various "types",I for example love the zombie genre,hence my choice to collect Death Guard,I Enjoy the idea of hordes of barbaric savages who kick the gak out of everything they encouter...so I collected Orks,and most recently my love of the film Zulu (as well as the idea of a regal yet insane army) has spured me on to collect Praetorian IG.
The fact that I dislike anime (as well as the " Rah Rah go us!!"theme) is why Tau fall into the slot of MY least favorite 40k race.

I always disliked Space Marine models with beakie heads.
I also kind of dislike the Dark Eldar, Space Wolves, and Robert Guilliman.

I hate the Space Marines, the newer the more I hate them. They're about as bad as Dragon Ball Z and older comic books in terms of how it boils down to a never ending pissing contest of who can be the most over-the-top. Primarily the reason why I hate most of the 40k fluff.

In terms of looks... I'd have to go with the Necrons.