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Nice, I am debating between a few things for my next army and guard is up there

TheAngrySquig wrote:Nice, I am debating between a few things for my next army and guard is up there

For God sakes don't play Guard and redunantly play leaf blower list....

I picked first army of WHF Chaos frankly because they looked great and I could use the models for D&D afterward. No one got into 40k or WHF for the game mechanics. They got into it because the mock battles on the Battleforce boxes and white dwarf pictures looked cool.

I play Bretonnians because I absolutely love knights and think they rock. And i play guard in 40k because i love tanks and the idea of throwing hundreds of guys at the enemy in an unstoppable wave!

@aosol: woah! be careful when insulting the guard!

dajobe wrote:
@aosol: woah! be careful when insulting the guard!

Guard are lower than Tau!

aosol wrote:

dajobe wrote:
@aosol: woah! be careful when insulting the guard!

Guard are lower than Tau!

Heresy detected, an Inquisitor has been dispatched, repent for tommorow you die

TheAngrySquig wrote:

aosol wrote:

dajobe wrote:
@aosol: woah! be careful when insulting the guard!

Guard are lower than Tau!

Heresy detected, an Inquisitor has been dispatched, repent for tommorow you die

There is no repenting only purification through dismemberment!

Very well, your crimes are to severe to be forgiven by repentance. BURN HERETIC!!!

I'm uh going to be repeating myself in my introduction post.

I chose Orks because of the freedom I get with the army. From converting to fluff. I like that I can take this Sherman tank, and convert into a battle wagon. I like that I have my warband have it's own goal and fighting for some greater cause written by someone else because the codex fluff says so.

I don't treat my Orks as comedic relief, sure they're orks and they say funny things but what they do is far from comedic relief. BUT frankly, the very first day I started Warhammer 40k and looked up fluff and armies to be, Orks appealed to me the most because they were less serious than the rest of the races.

aosol wrote:

dajobe wrote:
@aosol: woah! be careful when insulting the guard!

Guard are lower than Tau!

lol

I picked Imperial Guard because I liked the idea of playing numbers. It seemed to me that I should do better with my dice spread out than all in one basket. I think it was watching my first game, where a Sanguinary Guard got wiped that put that image in my head.

I was gnashing about whether to play Orks or IG, but when I saw an IG sniper in a ghillie suit, I immediately bought Guard. I'm happy to find out that they are well-rounded and can take any tactic and run with it!

When I started there were only two armies not being played, Necrons and Eldar. Necrons seemed kinda cool and Eldar did too initially until I looked closer. At that point Necrons seemed like an unstoppable silver wave of nihilistic destruction and Eldar seemed like... arrogant "happy" clowns. Stayed with Necrons for a while then fiddled around with Chaos Space Marines for a bit, then I returned back to my Necrons.

King Pariah wrote:When I started there were only two armies not being played, Necrons and Eldar. Necrons seemed kinda cool and Eldar did too initially until I looked closer. At that point Necrons seemed like an unstoppable silver wave of nihilistic destruction and Eldar seemed like... arrogant "happy" clowns. Stayed with Necrons for a while then fiddled around with Chaos Space Marines for a bit, then I returned back to my Necrons.

i just played a game with my guard against the necrons, the guy brought 3 monoliths and like 80 warriors. I took down the monoliths by turn 3, but so many warriors...i couldnt hold them back...so many glancing shots...oh well, it finished close at 9-8 in kill points but a good game. Overall, the unstoppable silver wave can still be used, darn T4 against S3 lasguns!

dajobe wrote:

King Pariah wrote:When I started there were only two armies not being played, Necrons and Eldar. Necrons seemed kinda cool and Eldar did too initially until I looked closer. At that point Necrons seemed like an unstoppable silver wave of nihilistic destruction and Eldar seemed like... arrogant "happy" clowns. Stayed with Necrons for a while then fiddled around with Chaos Space Marines for a bit, then I returned back to my Necrons.

i just played a game with my guard against the necrons, the guy brought 3 monoliths and like 80 warriors. I took down the monoliths by turn 3, but so many warriors...i couldnt hold them back...so many glancing shots...oh well, it finished close at 9-8 in kill points but a good game. Overall, the unstoppable silver wave can still be used, darn T4 against S3 lasguns!

Yeah, I used to have over 100 warriors which was fun to throw against my opponents. In hindsight I shouldn't have sold my Necron army to go dabble in CSM... Sigh, so stupid especially since I came back to Necrons

I used to play Space Crusade which I don't think was released in the US. Blood Angels were my favourite in that because of their close combat options. When I moved up to 40k it just seemed natural to choose them.

During one of our P&P evenings when we play the german equivalent of D&D, one of my friends had his ork codex lying around and I was flipping thorugh it. If found the story about the warboss going back in time to kill himself, so he could have his favorite gun twice, then I found the description of the shock attack gun, followed by the trukk and it's kareen! rule. Even though I had no idea what any of the rules actually did, I was close to tears of laughing by the time I reached Badruk. I so had to see the model of that pirate-ork and while searching sumbled across the awesome battlewagon model. That pretty much had me sold on orks already.

I was still unsure of the hobby, because I was never good at painting and didn't know whether I had any fun doing it, so I got a box of AOBR together with a friend and painted them up with that painting starter set. The first game we played was on a horribly wrong sized table with Lego-Terrain and we got slaughtered by a perfectly tailored Mech-Eldar opponent.

Then somehow a gaming table apeared in my living room with enough orks to cover the entire playing area.

Well, the 2nd edition box set came with marines and orks in it, so there you have it...

I've been playing pretty much every race in 40k so far, but I keep coming back to the astartes for some reason, I suppose I'm just addicted in some way...

My first army, Tau, I bought because they looked like proper science fiction.

I bought SMs because they came in the AoBR set and I had lots of classic Beaky models from the late 80s to early 90s. The vehicles are all conversions historical kits.

I bought Tyranids because the new codex came out and I have the idea of challenging myself to make an entire army of snake creatures in time to go to a tournament. This worked out quite well and it is my most complete army.

My final army, IG, I started because I got back into making historical model kits and decided to make the entire army from non-GW, historical models.

My first army was Necrons, after playing Dawn of war Soulstorm I liked having an implacable wall of death marching across the board.

After playing them on the tabletop and discovering that they were not at all like the computer game army, I got offered loads of orks from the AoBR box. I took them and have had loads of fun with them! I like their unpredictability, I love painting and modelling crazy vehicle conversions, and I like having a massive horde of guys!

At the moment though, I'm working on a Forge World army: Red Scorpions. It was a toss up between them and the Imperial Fists (For no other reason than I like yellow marines). I chose them because I think they look great, and fluffwise, in the far flung future of an extremely right wing universe, they are the most right wing of all the chapters. (Which is not my own political view I feel I should add!)

So are you using all FW models? If so thats really cool

I have no FW models myself, but when I get a job, I am going for a Reaver with Meltacannon and Fist, a Thunderhawk, or a caetus Assault Ram.

I might be getting a reaper for xmas this year

For me, looks draw me to the army, but if I dislike their game style/background I will leave.


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aosol wrote:

dajobe wrote:
@aosol: woah! be careful when insulting the guard!

Guard are lower than Tau!

NO! no no no!

Deadshot wrote:I have no FW models myself, but when I get a job, I am going for a Reaver with Meltacannon and Fist, a Thunderhawk, or a caetus Assault Ram.

what you should get is...CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT!!!! lol, its been a little while since i have seen that meme

Check my location

TheAngrySquig wrote:So are you using all FW models? If so thats really cool

I'm only a little way into painting my Red Scorpions, just finishing my 2nd Tac squad!

I am using all FW conversion bits: Shoulder pads and Rhino doors. I have a set of the FW Red Scorpions vehicle symbols to create a bit of variety on my Rhinos/Razorbacks. When I get to the Dreadnoughts and Land Raiders, I plan to go completely FW. I'm loving the New (Old school) Land raider models. And it was the look of the FW veteran squads that first got me looking into the chapter.



And the Sevrin Loth model is perhaps the nicest looking Space marine model I have ever seen. His rules in IA9 kick ass too.

Those look intense, good job

dajobe wrote:

Deadshot wrote:I have no FW models myself, but when I get a job, I am going for a Reaver with Meltacannon and Fist, a Thunderhawk, or a caetus Assault Ram.

what you should get is...CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT!!!! lol, its been a little while since i have seen that meme

CRASSUS ARMORED ASSUALT TRANSPORT!!!

TheAngrySquig wrote:Those look intense, good job

Alas, they are the ones from the FW website, I can't take credit. I just wanted to show how cool they are.



These would be 5 of mine. I should really get round to updating my gallery with the rest of them.

Especially as I finally finished my Rhino about 5 minutes ago!

Oh, yours are also really good. My painting is definitely nowhere near that good

Went Chaos when my brother went SM, had a friend who played Orks, so It fit at the time.