Your favorite Xeno faction?

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**VampireDeLaVega**

Whats your favorite Xeno faction?

**fishy bob**

I voted Tau, just because I love how they look.

**DeffDred**

ORKZ! WAAAGH!!!!

**Bobthehero**

Tau, would be my 2nd army choice behind Krieg and other IG stuff.

**Wardragoon**

Tau, they actually use tactics and evolving strategy, fairly hard to argue with that.

**wuestenfux**

The Xenos factions are cooler than those ones based on mankind.
Eldar, DE, Necrons, Orks - in this order.

**chromedog**

Eldar.
From the time I first saw the models in 1987 to this day.

Shame the game sucks, really. The models will eventually get used again, but for now, they are having a break in the "cupboard of shame".

**mcpothead**

Orkz is da best!!!!

**KalashnikovMarine**

Old school 'Crons, hell yes souless murder machines who's only feeling is the need to kill.

New crons are still pretty cool.

Orkz are a close second, shortly followed (possibly chased by) a large swarm of 'Nids painted to look like the Geiger Xenomorph

**Lord Rogukiel**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:Old school 'Crons, hell yes souless murder machines who's only feeling is the need to kill.

This. And Eldar.

**Trondheim**

Dark Eldar, and what in the name of all unholy tings are a Blargian Snagglebeast

**Tadashi**

Orks. The ultimate winners of Warhammer 40,000...if you can't beat them, join them.

**DakotaBlue**

A dead one.

**mwnciboo**

Orks, they've got Style. It's not a pleasant, or aesthetically pleasing one, but "it gets under your Greenskin" and then you really just love their simple minded ferocity and cunning.

**JbR of the Endless Spire**

Dark Eldar or Orks for me, love the look of the new DE stuff but also love the Orks for their sheer random-simpleminded-brutality...

**English Assassin**

The Orks are indisputably 40k's iconic xenos faction, closely followed by the Tyranids (or really just the Genestealers). The Eldar have never really been developed sufficiently to distinguish them from their obvious roots in Michael Moorcock's stories, and the rest are simply deeply dull and derivative.

**Mahtamori**

What English Assassin wrote, although I prefer Eldar over all else. Would be nice if the next codex developed them and further distinguished them from Elves in Space (which they are not - or maybe it should be "which they can become so much greater than").

**Ronin**

Orks, cause they're the army I play, and they give the 40k universe some much needed flavour away from the Imperium. They're also a great as the traditional 'barbarian hordes at the gates' type villains.

also worth a mention are the barghesi, who hang out in the Ghoul Stars (I think?), and are always described as "hyper-violent". Now imagine what's "hyper-violent" within the context of the 40k universe. Would be interesting I think

**Hive Fleet Lazarus**

tyranids, devourers of everything

**Tadashi**

Hive Fleet Lazarus wrote:tyranids, devourers of everything

Except for Orks...

**Tunach**

ORKS WAS MADE FER FIGHTIN AND WINNIN

**mwnciboo**

Ronin wrote:
also worth a mention are the barghesi, who hang out in the Ghoul Stars (I think?), and are always described as "hyper-violent". Now imagine what's "hyper-violent" within the context of the 40k universe. Would be interesting I think

It doesn't bare thinking about, as the Dark Eldar are pretty violent and sadistic, and the Imperium knows of "Khorne" if these guys are worse, then I have no Comprehension of how you can be more violent than Khorne.

EDIT -Found this online....It's Khorne's doing sounds like he copied the Emperor, instead of primarchs he got Barghesi. It kind of figures...

The Barghesi are a race of hyper violent warriors. They are humanoid, although they have wolf-like fur, heads and claws. Their fur ranges in tone from a copperish colour to a dark, bloody crimson.
The Barghesi were created eons ago by Khorne drastically altering the evolutionary pattern of life forms from the planet Haemos, near the Eye of Terror. Khorne infused the still simple organisms with parts of his own essence. These predecessors to the Barghesi were similar, but relied heavily on warp energies to survive. As Haemos slowly drifted away from the Eye, the Barghesi’s need for warp energies decreased over generations. Once the planet was no longer in the influence of the Eye and had fallen into the orbit of a nearby star, the Barghesi flourished and evolved into their current form.
Once they had developed warp travel, the Barghesi travelled around the galaxy, slaughtering and pillaging. For about 4 millennia, the Barghesi were Khorne’s main fighting force. However since the Horus Heresy, they have become somewhat subsidiary, often waging their own wars with other races. Despite this, the Barghesi’s religion still requires them to dedicate every battle to their creator.

**bluefalcon2i**

Orks they are the rednecks of 40k

**Flashman**

Favourite are Eldar, but props to the Nids for not just being a recycled Fantasy archetype. Yeah, I know, "Alien" ripoff but I think they've evolved beyond that too.

**mcpothead**

Ork's iz da best no da weedy elv's!

**Uhlan**

I'd have to say Orks as well simply because it's a FUN army to build and not as tedious as some others like the old school necrons.... talk about BORING.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer the old fluff, but painting and building an army is much less than thrilling...

**Jayden63**

Orks may be my first love, but the Tau are my current favorite. So they got my vote.

**Engine of War**

Dead Ones.

BUt to be honest Orks are just plain fun. Whats better then going nutz with a large caliber gun or huge axe while screaming at the top of your lungs?

**Lynata**

It was a tricky choice for me, but I voted Tau. I just dig their designs - both the technology as well as their culture.

**Ignatius**

DakotaBlue wrote:A dead one.

THIS