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I have only ever played Orks (Though I'm starting Necrons as a second army...because Space Zombies/Skeletons). I borrowed Codecies and read through them, but no army struck me quite like Orks. They resonate with me because I'm actually rather weird. And so are Orks. They are goofy, as am I. It's like...I found my Spirit 'Animal' in Orks. They are super fun to paint and build, they have so much freedom when it comes to scratch building or modifying third party models to fit into the 40k Universe, and they have some of the coolest natural models out there. They just clicked with me, and they have been my 40K love ever since.

These bad boys.



The green rods are literally the only reason I play Necrons, if GW continues phasing them out, I will riot.

I like Tyranids because I like MCs and I like CSM because of the Kharn audio dramas and the HH books.

Growing up, I would see these adults moving these awesome models around and waging battles. I knew if I ever got to play 40k, It was going to be space marines.

Years later, when I finally bought my first starter box and was deciding which chapter I was going to use, I did not want what I thought was the popular choice (Ultras - beginners logic, everything Space marine had to be Ultramarines which I thought was cookie cutter) It had to be a different chapter. In the end I went for the Black Templars.

I love their fluff, I love how they "had" their own codex even if they're not a primary chapter. I saw a kitbashed model complete with jeweler's chain which I use on my models also. BUT the highest deciding factor? So easy to paint black, compared to Salamander's green.

That and the idea of having space magic (psykers) in a militaristic future setting seems out of place for me. So... go for the one without psykers then.

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
These bad boys.



The green rods are literally the only reason I play Necrons, if GW continues phasing them out, I will riot.

Holy maccharoni, yes, the green rods are absolutely mandatory for Necrons. Fortunately, even if GW discontinued them, there are a lot of alternatives out there

JuniorRS13 wrote:
I have bought many of the codecies, looked at lexicanum, watched batreps on YouTube, stared at pictures. I cannot decide what army to play. I have been in the hobby for awhile, always just bought the models I felt looked cool and worked on my painting. I finally want to put an army together. What was THE deciding factor when you finally decided which army was going to be "yours"? Just curious to see if this steers me in any direction of what I am deciding.

Thanks for any comments!

I play Nids, 1) Nobody else was playing it, 2) Looked like they would be fun to paint, 3) It looked like I could build an army economicly. (Burn the Heritic! )

My friend knew I liked undead and robots, and showed me Necrons in Dawn of War back in high school. Then, when I started playing 40k, it was a no-brainer.