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Orks obviously.

Blacksails wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

WItch codex have the BEST fluff.

I have never heard of this 'Witch' codex, nor their fluff. It must be good if you say they have the best fluff.

Clearly it's the Witchhunters codex.

Dark Eldar. It goes into the history very well and answers a lot of questions one may ask. Very good book.

3rd ed Chaos, and 5th ed Orks. Though I still need to read the Dark Eldar one.

I have to go with the Ork Codex its just so much fun to read.
After that, I liked the blood angels, it had a nice sense of being cool mixed with tragedy.
The chaos codex isn't too bad either, the older version was also quite nice with its in depth look into the different gods and their followers.

At the bottom of the list for me though is space wolves, vanilla marines and grey knights. I found the older demonhunters codex to be better than the grey knights one.

Dark Eldar or Orks.

1. Orks
2. Eldar

Codex Daemonhunters. Not realy much fluff but the few bits of fluff it had were good.

Like most others here I'd pick Codex: Orks, though nothing written for the greenskins will ever top the original set of Ork books: Waaargh the Orks, 'Ere We Go and Freebooterz.

2nd ed Nids for me. The attack on Tyran was so visceral and forboding I literally thought about it for months after.

More recently, Im partial to Necrons and Eldar stuff, some great tidbits and teases in both. More recent codexes have been along the lines of "we're the best, pewpew, heres what we've got"

I think ALL the codices are basically *not very good*. All of them skate over the background in a couple of pages and then have loads of interminable and illogical boring battles of note. Is that all that happened in the last 10,000 years to this race? A few dull scraps with Tau/Eldar/etc? Stick to the details of the race and drop the dull dross! In that vein I prefer the older codices as they have less of the drivel and more of the meat.

I have to say Imperial Guard followed by Necrons

Codex Chaos: 2E/Codex Chaos Space Marines 3.5E

Of the current books? DE are the only truly awesome book in terms of fluff for 5E, the Ork book is great though and is late 4E. The IG fluff is "meh, ok", Tyranids aren't great, and the SM books are all total gak. Necron fluff is ok but very sparse. Sisters fluff amounts to "FAITH HULK SMASH WITH FAITHFULNESS". The current CSM fluff is...abominable. Daemons are...boring sadly, they don't really feel Daemonic or truly Chaotic, they feel too...ideological, too much like gross fey creatures with an agenda, not like nightmares of a realm of madness.

Dark Eldar.

Other than that, all codices post 2nd edition have been lightweights.

Gotta love the Orks.

Regular Space Marines.

I got the codex Necrons yesterday.

I liked it. I guess the rules are outdated, but the codex manages to do a good job of balancing exposition and mystery (Although I would have preferred a bit more of the mystery for their history).

The only problems I have are that it's outdated and that it reveals a bit too much. While it's short, none of the space feels wasted. The different formats for several of the entries made it more interesting (Like the Eldar poem and the letters at the back).

Codex Orks is just great fun. I love it when the 40K universe is played for humor.

Molten Butter wrote:I got the codex Necrons yesterday.

Bad timing, a new version should be coming out in the next month or so.

CSM, defiantly not Dark Eldar

KilroyKiljoy wrote:

Molten Butter wrote:I got the codex Necrons yesterday.

Bad timing, a new version should be coming out in the next month or so.

I got it at a yard sale for five bucks, so it wasn't a big purchase or anything.

Molten Butter wrote:

KilroyKiljoy wrote:

Molten Butter wrote:I got the codex Necrons yesterday.

Bad timing, a new version should be coming out in the next month or so.

I got it at a yard sale for five bucks.

You lucky sonofalady. I would, but I'm saving up for this new army (and also a new transmission), and I'm not sure if memorizing the old rules would help when I get the new 'dex. But have fun, I've heard good things about the fluff at least.