Help me pick a faction

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**ArmchairArbiter**

Honestly what I would do...

Is sit down on the 40k Wiki page and read the stories/background/lore for each main faction. Whichever theme/look/story you love best, look into the subfactions, bada-bing-badaboom you've got yourself an army that you'll love even while you're learning how to play it.

The story should also give you an idea of how that armies tactics are supposed to work... which they've tried to recreate on the tabletop this edition. So you'll kill two birds with one stone.

Just one mans opinion though.

**meleti**

TechnoWitch wrote:
I think you would really like blood angels.

All their infantry and dreadnoughts have the red thirst that give them +1 to wound in melee. They specialize in jump packs which gives them very good mobility and lets you place most of your guys in deepstrike They have a strategem for 2 command points that lets a jump pack unit charge 3d6 inches out of deep strike which gives you a really high chance of making the charge and another one for 1 cp that lets you take a jump pack unit off the board at the beginning of the movement phase and deepstrike again at the end of it, which is good for moving around characters or taking objectives. They also have some pretty decent psychic powers and can shoot about as well any other space marine chapter.

This is also true. They're kind of a glass cannon, but they sure hit hard and their psykers (especially Mephiston) are nasty.