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So I was thinking back to when I first started playing my Eldar and I realized that a large part of the decision to start playing was due to the Ranger and Wraithlord models. I thought they were awesome, and wanted to start an army where I could employ a large amount of them.

Did anyone else decide to play an army based on one or two awesome models?

I loved the spikey, over the top demeanor of Chaos Marines. Haters gonna hate.

Shadowbrand wrote:I loved the spikey, over the top demeanor of Chaos Marines. Haters gonna hate.

Gotta say I liked it too. When I started playing they still had an upgrade called "spiky bits" I remember thinking that that was kinda funny. I guess that was probably 3rd edition. I have a hard time keeping track.

I vaguely recall that as well. Bloody shame I've long since traded off my CSM. I'd kill to get 'em back. Oh well maybe a new fellowship of the damned in black will arise.

-AFTER- I get my Beastmen to 2500 and Finish my Grand Army of Harad project.

For me it has to be the Strom trooper moddels for IG, alongside the Guardsmen

I was -very- impressed with the Guard in Winter Assault.

One made up word:

Gue'vesa.

I always like the Mordian Iron Guard models. They look really goofy to me, especially when you consider their fluff. It always made me laugh. Too bad the mordians are so expensive.

The nemisis dreadknight made me jump on the GK bandwagon, although i havent officially started it yet, its next on my list.

please correct OP title "play" not "pay"

My first army was Eldar.... Asurmen did it. Believe it or not, 3rd edition chaplain is what drew me into UM.

Skal098 wrote:The nemisis dreadknight made me jump on the GK bandwagon, although i havent officially started it yet, its next on my list.

They remind me of the old Eldar war walker models. I always thought that having the pilot hanging out in the open was a terrible idea.


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Lobukia wrote:please correct OP title "play" not "pay"

I would, but I can't for the life of me figure out how.

No single model did it.
There were a few models, all eldar with huge mohawk hairstyles that pushed me towards them.
The eldar models back in RT had more character than the marines, so I got a few packs of them to start with. Over time, I had enough to form an army.

<-- That one

The battlewagon and Captain Badrukk are probably the two biggest reasons (aside from the codex itself) for me to start WH40k.

IG and their tanks made my desision.

Nothing like walls of steel crushingeverything in a hail of fire.

Jidmah wrote:<-- That one

The battlewagon and Captain Badrukk are probably the two biggest reasons (aside from the codex itself) for me to start WH40k.

I've always loved the ramshackle look of Ork vehicles and tech. I love the bit in the codex that says that their technology only works because they believe really really hard.

This model got me into space marines.

ill, just umm ahhh, ill just leave this right here...

GimbleMuggernaught wrote:
I would, but I can't for the life of me figure out how.

EDIT your first post. You should be able to edit the subject line as well. I can for the threads I have started, so you should be able to also.

Go to that first post and click that 'edit' button on the top right of it.

I could see playing a apoc game with that and just have it standing just off the table, peeking over the top because putting it up would either break the table or leave no room for any other models.


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chromedog wrote:EDIT your first post. You should be able to edit the subject line as well. I can for the threads I have started, so you should be able to also.

Go to that first post and click that 'edit' button on the top right of it.

Ah. That is surprisingly simple. Thanks.

Kaptin Badrukk and Meganobz.

Too bad for kaptin badrukk being so bad on the table.

This guy and Howling Banshee's are the whole reason I wanted to start an Eldar army. It's a shame that HB's aren't great at the moment, but I still get a lot of use out of my Farseer

Nemesis dreadknight. didn't even own a dex before i bought it. now it collects dust on my desk looking awesome leaving the fighting to the psyfledreads that looks....meh

if i could only find a good looking fist ala the vendreads left arm for the right arm, i could make them autocannons wristmounted instead of looking like walking flakturrets.......but i digress.

Babycarrier didn't bother me....took me back to the lifter/loader from the alien movie.....with a sword and a gun

I'd collected them about four years prior, but the Trygon/Mawloc model got me back into Tyranids after swearing off Warhammer altogether.

This guy got me into Dark Eldar:


Originally I bought him because Finecast had just been released, I loved the model and it would be my first Finecast model. But one thing led to another...

That's not a Dark Eldar, but whatever.

Skal098 wrote:The nemisis dreadknight made me jump on the GK bandwagon, although i havent officially started it yet, its next on my list.

Please tell me you're joking, that's one of the worst models ever produced by GW. It's also an AWFUL idea for a battle suit (hmm, I guess I should just kill the squishy guy in the baby-carriage on its chest). Seriously, anyone who had a hand in designing that model, as well as anyone who purchases it, should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Omegus wrote:That's not a Dark Eldar, but whatever.

It could be. Harlequins are recruited from both Dark and Craftworld Eldar.

VarguardObrien wrote:

Omegus wrote:That's not a Dark Eldar, but whatever.

It could be. Harlequins are recruited from both Dark and Craftworld Eldar.

I'm pretty sure (correct me if I'm wrong) the fluff says Harlequins are mercenaries in the codex, so that was my link. They're in the codex, so they're Dark Eldar to me.

There is guy I know at the LGS that started CSM because he loved the Typhus model.
I was initially drawn to Blood angels (WD dex period) because of the Dante model but I never bought it.

GimbleMuggernaught wrote:So I was thinking back to when I first started playing my Eldar and I realized that a large part of the decision to start playing was due to the Ranger and Wraithlord models. I thought they were awesome, and wanted to start an army where I could employ a large amount of them.

Did anyone else decide to play an army based on one or two awesome models?

The Thunderwolf cavalry figures have me putting together a 1000 point Space Wolf army for modeling and painting. Don't really need yet another army for 40k, but I like those models even though the concept of hard core mechanized space marines riding into battle on wolves is kind of silly.

My chaos marine armies are long based on a love for the various chaos champion models from earlier citadel days and I have converted and incorporated many of them in to my armies through the years.

Skriker

I got into tau because of the Crisis suits. then I got into Eldar because of the ladies (banshees and female farseer)

I got into Daemons because I loved the Daemon Prince model and wanted to paint one. That led to the purchase of an entire army and the shelving of my Eldar.