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Many of the factions within the 40k universe have multiple groups which make up that faction be it Craftworld, Cabal, Chapter, Sept, Hive Fleet, Clan, Warband etc.

So what is your favorite group from each faction (if you don't have one for a certain faction that's ok) and why?

Mine are.

Eldar: Saim Hann, I love that they are still wild and slightly Feral. They're probably the only good Eldar that can be called barbaric and barbarisim is what I like plus they have a great color scheme.

Space Marines: Space Wolves followed very closely by the White Scars. Again it's the whole tribal barbarian thing, the fact that they are super advanced savages who are willing to do things differantly is what I like best.

Imperial Guard: Vostroyan Firstborn, probably the coolest looking IG in my opinion. Their fluff is cool, their nicknames are cooler and what's not to love about space Cossacks.

Chaos Space Marines: This could either be the Iron Warriors or the Word Bearers. The Iron Warriors are good with machines and have that "don't take no BS from anyone" attitude while the Word Bearers look cool and have the twisted faith.

Tyranids: Probably Hive Fleet Jormungandr, 1 because it attacked the Imperium and 2 it's named after the creature from one of my favorite Norse legends.

Orks: Da Goffs, my first greenskin army was for Fantasy and the Goffs are the closest to that mindset then any of the other clans (except for the Snake Bites who are maybe just closer on a technology level).

Space Marines - white scars, lots of bikes. Otherwise dark angels for being goth.

Elder - white and green color scheme.

CSM - thousand sons for being spooky and egyptian. Plague marines are also cool for being guerilla. Word bearers for demons.

Chaos - Tzentch, for being full of gak.

Eldar - Ulthwe, probably a doomed fate, but still they fight, and daemons at that.

Space Marines - Blood Angels because they are brutal clsoe combatants, special units

CSM - Plague Marines, i just like the whole Nurgle theme

IG - anything sneaky

Eldar: Ulthwe. I like their color scheme and the whole seer-thing with them is pretty cool.

Space Marines: Death Company, gone but still there.

Chaos Space Marines: Thousand Sons, 'cuz I love the fact that there is no flesh within their non-psyker marines.

Space Marines: Iron Hands; Love the models and colors
Chaos space marines; Iron Warriors; Love the colors , fluff and models
Tyranids; Kraken; Colors and models

ALAITOC

Space Marines: Space Wolves, Blood Angels (except the new codex), Salamanders, Crimson Fists, Ultramarines

Orks: Blood Axes, Goffs, Red Sunz

CSM: Night Lords, Iron Warriors

Eldar: Ulthwe - Easy to paint well and I like playing Eldrad as he's meant to be played

Chaos: Pretty much all of them not a fan of Red Corsairs though

Dark Eldar: Anything Wytch Culty, lots of wytches, hellions and reavers

Chaos Daemons: Khorne, because you can never have too many skulls for your skull throne.

SM:Space Wolves.
Orks: Blood Axes
IG: Praetorians
CSM:Night Lords and Alpha Legion

Mechanicus of the Imperium

Eldar, Biel-tan

CSM- Worldeaters!
SM- Blood ravens because tzeentch made them

Eldar
Biel-Tan, cool colour scheme with the white vines and there is loads of aspect warriors and thery;re the most warlike

Space Marines
Dark Angels, they get hoodies and feathers+deathwing and ravenwing

Chaos Space Marines
Cool bat wings on helmets

Porcupine el Josh wrote:Eldar
Biel-Tan, cool colour scheme with the white vines and there is loads of aspect warriors and thery;re the most warlike

Space Marines
Dark Angels, they get hoodies and feathers+deathwing and ravenwing

Chaos Space Marines - Night Lords
Cool bat wings on helmets

Fixed

The Dark Angels - liked the fluff and to my mind the only old chapter that made sense on a futuristic battlefield. Mind you the robes are not but dark green combat armor at least seemed more practical than stepping onto a battlefield in blue, red, yellow or any other non-natural colored armor. It may be super armor but it seems practical not to waste good superhumans by asking for a lascannon to target you by going out there like a neon sign.

Agree on the night lords - like the mentality - The soul-sucking emporer is worthless but only a moron dedicates himself to a chaos god. Obviously we are the only sensible people in the universe and so others exist only because we don't waste the time on them... yet.

Biel-tan / Ulthwe, for their tenacity and resolve

Vostroyans / DKoK, space cossacks are indeed awesome, and i've always been interested in WWI and trench warfare

Raptors, common sense marines

Vior'la, for being the military center of the Tau empire

Space marines.
Raven Guard/Imperial Fists.

Orks.
Death Skull.

Eldar.
Ulthwe.

Imperial Guard.
Cadians.

Daemons.
Khornate Daemons.

Chaos Space Marines.
Night Lords/Iron Warriors.

Pre-Heresy Legion.
Emperor's Children.

Favourite charater.
EREBUS...

Space Marines:
Imperial Fists got the best colour sceme but overall I'd go with Blood Angels, with Dark Angels comming in second, I preffer my Marines to have a flaw/secret.

Orks:
Blood Axes, cause orks in blue and pink camoflage is awesome!

Eldar:
Ulthwé, nice colours and I like their fluff

Imperial Guard:
Death Korps of Krieg, pure ace models and nukes! Just what I want for my grimdark galaxy-wide army.

Chaos Space Marines:
Black Legion or possibly World Bearers

Tau:
The Sa'cea Sept

SM: I like them all. I seriously cannot choose just one, which is why I don't have an SM army.

Eldar: Proud, sad Iyanden -- the very pinnacle of romance (as far as it's possible) in 40k.

CSM: Word Bearers are the scariest, nastiest, meanest bastards in all of 40k. That's saying a lot.

Tyranids: Behemoth, because of their epic invasion of (and epic defeat at) Ultramar

IG: DKoK for penance and grimdark; Tallarn are pretty cool

Tau: Farsight Enclave -- the Tau without Farsight's rebellion are superbland, IMO

Orks: Am I bovvered tho?

I prefer the following:

Eldar: the Harlequin

Space Marines: Black Templars and their Templar Knight feel followed by the Crimson Fists.

Imperial Guard: Gaunts Ghosts strictly for the fluff Abnett created for them. Praetorian Guard for their colonial English look and Space 1889 feel

Chaos Space Marines: None, cowardly, traitorous scum that they are, I can never like any of them and frankly I think the whole idea of the Chaos "gods" and their "gifts" combined with the marines falling for them is ridiculous.

Orks: the Deathskulls and their looting of technology kind of appeals to me.

Tau, Tyranids and Necrons have no good units or background that appeals to me. For the later two it is like asking which is your favorite cockroach or screwdriver, and the former just seem like a rather bland group to me.

Tyranids: The Ghorala Swarm. Most exemplary of what the 'Nids Truely are. Adaptable. Where there's a will there's a...FOOD FOR THE 'NIDS' TUMMIES!!!!

Eldar: Harlequins, I like their clown models...

SM: Dark Angels, mind your own damn business + plasma or Ultramarines, for setting the curve and getting work done since M31

Orks: Goffs; an Ork's Ork.

Eldar: Iyanden; Soul City Survivors

Tau: None. Space anime fan.

Tyranids: Not an entomologist, sorry.

Chaos: Night Lords; because F*ck You, thats why.

IG: Krieg are cool dudes, but Catachan is the only way to go. Space Vietnam is the way to go.

All mine change, depending on what I'm doing at the moment.

Marines: Deathwatch

IG: Probably Steel Legion

Eldar: Probably Exodites

Chaos: Khorne - Blood for the Blood God and all that.

Orks: Bad Moons.

'Nids are all the same to me, as are Tau, as are 'Crons.

'nids- seldom known-of hive fleet moloch.
IG- DKoK/tanith/praetorians.
SM- guess.
Eldar- don't know. not the red ones.
Orks- blood axes.
Chaos- Khorne (fluffwise).
Inquisiton- deathwatch/malleus.
Tau- Khaki/white ones.

Chaos :
- I don't like turncoats. And Demons? Just ban them.

Dark Space elfs:
- not my cup of....

Eldar:
- the least arrogant, which may share knowledge before things go downill

ImperialGuard:
- anything mechanized, big guns also help.

Inquisition:
- their specialists, GreyKnights, Death Watch, Sisters ( could be moved to ecclesiarchy, no?).

Necrons:
- if Gw ever gives them groups ( not faceless hordes of undead ). Generally nice and easy to paint

Orks:
- a dead ork is a good ork

Space Marines:
- Raven Guard, Salamanders, Iron Hands ( coming back from nearly fatal losses ), Black Templars ( crusader theme ), Dark Angels ( could be the shooty marines),
Blood Angels ( not to turn into a beast needs selfcontrol ), this may be in order of most fav down to like them somehow.

Tau:
- annoying little brats. May be if they grow up, but still maybe..

Orks: Blood Axes

SM: Dark Angels, Crimson Fists

Eldar: Inyanden

Deldar: Haemonculis (SP?)

Guard: Elysian

Chaos: Night Lords

Necrons:.... lol

Tau: Farsight Enclave

SM: Salamanders then Crimson Fists

Orks: Good ol' Snakebites

CSM: None really, although slaanesh ones are pretty slick.

IG: Death Korps of Krieg, nuff said.

Tyranids: Behemoth for having the guts to go for maccrage.

Hmm just wondering but you guys do know it's supposed to be like your main favorite group not your top 5 for each catagory I mean even I only put 2 for SM. And if there aren't any you like from a certain faction you don't even need to mention that faction.


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Oh and I put 2 for the Chaos Marines to

Eldar- Harlequins
IG- Tallarn Desert Raiders
SM- Space Wolves
CSM- Night Lords
Orks- Deathskullz

Space marines - Blood Angels
Guard - Tallarns
Chaos - Alpha Legion
Eldar - Biel-Tan
not coincidentally I play all of those armies, but my BA are actually a successor chapter and wear mostly black armor. I've never changed due to having all of my models one theme already. I thought that if I did it again though I'd probably do Crimson Fists (at least for the color scheme)

Space Marines: Salamanders (who doesnt love all the fire)
Inquisition: Ordo Xeons Deathwatch (I love killin in black armor)
Guard: Cadian (you have to be a tough sob to live in a system by a chaos spewing warp ripple)
Chaos: Deathgaurd (it was a hard choice between them and IW)
Eldar: Iyaden
Orks: Speed Freaks (do i have to explain why)