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okay im wonder after you played with the french vanilla marines starter kit from the assault on the black reach box, how long did it take you to move on to your next army, i just started wondering this while i was looking at my ultrasmurfs i converted to become khorne dedicated renagades.

Does it count if you never played marines in the first place? If so it took me 0secs to switch to guard.

ehh it dosnt really matter,

I started out with Eldar, actually. A box of Dire Avengers to be specific.

My first 2 armies I started at the same time. It was daemons and daemonhunters.

I started with AoBR, but moved to IG after a battleforce and scout squad. Jumped to Orks after that rather quickly and haven't looked back.

-cgmckenzie

Not AoBR, but after I got the marines from 3rd edition box set, I bought the Dark Angels codex before we played our first game.

Started with Blood Angels when the starter set included the Land Speeder (I think it was 3rd ed.) and never looked back.

Actually I started playing Orks, but they were my brothers models.

Started with Necrons, dabbled in CSM, thinking about a small Grey Knight Force, never touched, never touching Vanilla Marines.

6 days to switch to nids. 5,000p later realized they sucked. picked up BA necrons CSM and didn't know what i wanted to do. mind you those armies all at the same time. I now have tau because I kept winning with CSM and wanted more challenge. Tau seemed like an obvious choice...I still win. And my opponents have placed high in ard boys multiple times..

Started with CSM (the book before this one), about a year to include Tau after inheriting my brother's army that i'd built for him and he'd forgotten about, and then up until now (3 or so years) to start Eldar.

WHFB can be added if you want; started LM about 1.5 years after Chaos, then WoC about a 1.5 years ago, and High Elves a few months ago.

My first purchase was a box of 10 CSM. MEQ can all burn. Death to the false Emperor

I started with CSM, and I've stayed with CSM.

I got AoBR, sold the Orks, and I still have the Marines sitting around, but I never really grew from there. But hell, with 1 CSM army ALMOST all the way painted, a mostly unpainted Tyranid, mostly unpainted Tau, and mostly unpainted Necron army, I'm not too concerned with my Marines at the moment haha

I started with the Orks, switched to the SMs, built up that army (as you can tell from my sig) then shifting focus back to Orks.

Abyssel wrote:6 days to switch to nids. 5,000p later realized they sucked. picked up BA necrons CSM and didn't know what i wanted to do. mind you those armies all at the same time. I now have tau because I kept winning with CSM and wanted more challenge. Tau seemed like an obvious choice...I still win. And my opponents have placed high in ard boys multiple times..

Oh the irony.

Never played loyalist marines. My first 40K army was Orks, starting with the second edition boxed set and a couple of the original plastic Ork boxed sets. I traded all of the marines from 2 AoBR sets for more Orks. Considering trading Orks for space wolves, though.

Well, took about as long as it takes to remove the marine sprues from the ork sprues and hand them over to the person which paid the other half

Started with RT beakies ( Scythes of the Emperor....poor guys) and Punk-Orks from the same era.

Gave the SM to my brother, as the orks were more interesting.

I still play orks I have waay to many orks to paint :(

King Pariah wrote:... Vanilla Marines.

Why do people call them Vanilla?

They should call them Blueberry or Banana, since most of them are blue or yellow.

DeathReaper wrote:

King Pariah wrote:... Vanilla Marines.

Why do people call them Vanilla?

They should call them Blueberry or Banana, since most of them are blue or yellow.

Because Vanilla is the standard flavour.
So Vanilla marines are the standard marines...

I started with a Necron destroyer 6 years ago. Moved to Eldar quickly after that, then got into DA about six months after their codex came out.

I started with Avocado Marines and moved onto Strawberry Marines. Considering starting DE.

Started off as ultramarines, orks and blood angels, then started reading the horus heresy novels and was soon collecting Emperors children above all others

Played marines for about a year before switiching to guard.

Started with smurfs and have since then changed them to DA, then Sons of Medusa, then IF's, then smurfs again, then Ravens. I now don't play loyalists

purplefood wrote:Because Vanilla is the standard flavour.
So Vanilla marines are the standard marines...

Okay, then I have one more question:

Why is Vanilla the standard flavor?

What makes it standard?

I see more people eating chocolate pudding than vanilla pudding, if anything Chocolate should be the standard flavor.

It took me about 3 years to move from Vanilla marines to Blood Angels... and even then I'm keeping the same color scheme to preserve army unity.

started with blood angels back before the codex. then jumped to ig/orks. now i play blood angels again and tau.

i think marines are a good starter army.

well, since I already had a marine army I put the new marines into the marine box and started work on my orks....then got distracted by tau ^^

It took me about 6 months to pick up some Tau after I had started SM. Thats when I won my first game. played my Tau for a little while, then swapped back to playing my Nilla marines.

Then AoBR came out and I started Orks.

Then I leafed through the Daemon Hunter codex. Saw da Shiny Must have da shiny

Went back to using my Nilla marines because GKs were really just for fun. Got a pretty good gunline army going on.

The Codex: Shiny Marines got released

Then I gave away my Tau and sold my Orks so I can have more Shiny

I still use my Vanilla Marines occasionally.