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An IG Commissar would be my 40k life. The right to shoot on sight any cowardness, or gross incompetence. Yup a fanatic at heart, but a simple mortal human in the end.

After reading what everybody has said. I still gotta go with the Sisters.

Chaos...as in a renegade space marine rather than one who actually worships Chaos.

Freedom to do whatever the heck I want without mutations and the risk of turning into a chaos spawn? Hell yes!

'Nids

I love the idea of never really dying, and if you managed to distinguish yourself you would be reborn for real.


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'Nids

I love the idea of never really dying, and if you managed to distinguish yourself you would be reborn for real.

Chaos, as a Daemon. Any Daemon except a Fury or Soul Grinder. Furies are too weak and I don't like the idea of being bound to a machine like a Soul Grinder is.

I would say Tau, probably the Farsight Enclaves if I had a deeper choice.

It just kinda makes sense. Not actively trying to start wars, but still be competently strong enough to win them when people attack us. The stuff about the Tau being mind controlled is debatable. I think it to be more like intense propaganda like the Imperial Guard is given, since it's obvious that there is still a lot of dissent in the ranks of the Tau (like the Farsight Enclaves and the supposedly numerous supporters).

Maybe it has to do with my consumption level right now..

But somewhere between sisters and orks.. if not both I couldn't decide.. Sisters aren't fighting right now because nobody plays them.. so I could be gawkin.. and orks are all the glory houndin awesome die for a cause excuse I need to sound like a soldier.

Space marine duh. Probably an ultramarine or a black templar. Or even a chaplain like the one in damnation crusade. Did you see his face?

The guard obviously.

 Guardsmen Bob wrote:
The guard obviously.

I feel like I've seen your name on a server named Coilfang in WoW

Orks have life figured out in an open galaxy, in contact with dozens of other races. No other sentient race has managed that in their own self-contained environments.

ANUVVA WIN FER DA ORKS!
WAAAAAAAGH!

The Inquisition (so I guess GK).

You disagree? Kiss your planet goodbye.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Dark Eldar. In a universe with no real promise of an afterlife, they are the army that offers the best balance of A) quasi-immortality and B) my own free will.

Seconded. Plus, guns that fire tiny shards of poison infused crystal.

And black holes in boxes.

And if you get bored of being a Warrior, you can always get some wings attached to you. Or go ride jetbikes/skyboards.

And if you do get killed, you can usually just respawn back at base later.

I thought only eldar could respawn

I thought the typical Dark Eldar's goal is to live as long as possible and sow as much carnage as they can without dying.

IG, so I'd get away from that terrible universe­

I would say a space marine. A Blood Angel or a Crimson Fist!

ORKS!!
Mostly because when you die you'll come back, just in a new body!

No Necron option?

Who doesn't want to be a faint echo of a soul trapped inside a unrelenting immortal 9 foot robotic body, armed with the galaxies most advanced weaponry, filled with insane hatred for all living organisms on a endless quest to purge all life.

Sounds tip top to me.

raiden wrote:I thought only eldar could respawn

The Phoenix Lords kind of do I believe. Their soul lives on in their armour/spirit stones. When they 'die', a new eldar wears the armour/stones, and the phoenix lords consciousness assimilates and overrides them. Normal eldar just get their soul transfered from their spirit stone into the infinity circuit of their craftworld. Or into the world spirit if they're an exodite.

Dark Eldar can be completely regenerated. If even a scrap of their flesh is recovered, they can be brought back to a haemonculus, who tortures victims in front of their sarcophagus, and they absorb the pain and suffering which regens them.

Wilytank wrote:I thought the typical Dark Eldar's goal is to live as long as possible and sow as much carnage as they can without dying.

Its mainly jsut to live. And do whatever they want. And gain more power, mainly I guess. They love to inflict pain, and thats in no small part due to the fact that causing pain and suffering is what regenerates them and causes them to stop ageing, and even grow more youthful.

Aspect Warrior. Eldar.

Considering that none of the Inquisition's military resources are listed, nor the Ecclesiarchy's, I went with Orks. Because Orks are also awesome.

 HerbaciousT wrote:

Dark Eldar can be completely regenerated. If even a scrap of their flesh is recovered, they can be brought back to a haemonculus, who tortures victims in front of their sarcophagus, and they absorb the pain and suffering which regens them.

I'm bending my head to try and make sense of this. At what point of their apparent death does the Dark Eldar's soul finally get claimed by Slaanesh?

Imperial Guard plasma gunner - whats the worst that could happen?

barring that Orks do seem to have a good time regardless of rank...

 Wilytank wrote:

 HerbaciousT wrote:

Dark Eldar can be completely regenerated. If even a scrap of their flesh is recovered, they can be brought back to a haemonculus, who tortures victims in front of their sarcophagus, and they absorb the pain and suffering which regens them.

I'm bending my head to try and make sense of this. At what point of their apparent death does the Dark Eldar's soul finally get claimed by Slaanesh?

Well the Dark Eldar in questions needs to have an agreement with a Haemonculus to regenerate him if he dies. And he needs his kin to be behind him enough to rely on them recovering what they can of him/her. If the body is too risky to get, and the dead eldar in question is not important enough, then its unlikely any of his comrades will risk their own neck trying to get him.
The contract for regeneration can either be part of the Haemonculus service to the Archon (so includes the Archon himself, and anyone else he deigns to include in that contract), or the Dark Eldar in questions may have to pay some for of price or tribute to the Haemonculus in return for the promis of regeneration. They may also have made a specific pact with the Haemonculus previously.

As long as a scrap of flesh remains, they can be regenerated. Even just a few strands of tissue, sometimes just a few cells. The less that is recovered, the longer the regeneration takes, the more difficult it is, and the more suffering must be exacted upon any victims to aid the eldar's regeneration.

If the eldar has been dead for too long (usually no more than a day) then the process will not work. This threshold can be longer in extreme circumstances, but generally after more than a day the eldar is beyond recovery.

Also, sometimes there is nothing left to collect. The body is destroyed completely. Or there is no way to recover the body.

If this is the case, the Dark Eldar experiences True Death (as they call it) and their soul is claimed by Slaanesh.

Guard,

Give me a house sized tank to command, a good crew, and a bunch of things to blow up and I would be happy.

'Nids.

I like food.

Guard because I would want to be a Commissar... or a tank captain.

I'm still curious as to why not all the armies are in the poll.

No Grey Knights (or at least Inquisitors), no Necrons, no Sisters...

I could see myself happily living out the life of a Mek boy, it would be just one big long episode of Junkyard Wars.