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I am new to wargaming and I have had a lot of use of different armies. All of it borrowed from friends to play and learn how to do stuff.

I do not have an army of my very own yet. So I am wondering. What I should use?

I do not like the idea of people just walking their models over to me and walking all over me.
I hate to have to critical think about strategy for every single step along the way.
I like to have to think as little as possible without giving a **** about what my opponent is doing or what he killed or destroyed.

I want whatever army is best at doing whatever I feel like without regard to safety, Strategy or over thinking things.

What army would best fit that description?

Omega Tank. It automatically kills any unit that engages it, and cannot be damaged by any other unit in the game. It is a no brainer!

Got to be the Rending Pony.

But anyway jokes aside. What about an ork green tide. Waves of troops and bodies that you just walk to the enemy. They can be tactical if you want them to be but by running horde you can play them as just that a horde. Launching them forwards with not a care in the world about casualties. Alternatively an endless swarm of Tyranids may be to your style.

Horde armies seems to be your style. I think you identify best with . . . Orks.

Yep. Sounds like Orks.

Orks, or maybe a turn based, tactical strategy game is not for you? Just a thought seeing as you want to avoid tactics, strategy and much like the honey badger give absolutely no feths about what your opponent is doing. IDk I'm not trying to be a jerk, am I off base here?

You want to play a strategy game without using any strategy or having to adjust the way you play your army to your opponent... I recommend Necrons with Grey Knight or CSM allies, and to reduce thinking as much as possible copy the winning list from Adepticon or something. Have fun being the guy everyone hates.

WAAAAAAAGH DA ORKS!

Tyranids or orks.

Tyranids are ravernous creatures that eat everything in their path and want everlasting feeding.

Orks are a tide of green who build tanks out of scrap. They are an everlasting army that is a very cool army to customise to your liking.

I prefer tyranids because their models are so cool but orks are cool as well because of the way you can customise them to ride lizards or have grots on attack squigs. Waaagh!!!

I like them both but its your decision, not mine.

I concur with orks as your army... at first it's a point and click army, but if you can find a strategy niche, there's still meat on that bone. also you can loot models from other armies

Da Epic Pegasus wrote:
Tyranids or orks.

Tyranids are ravernous creatures that eat everything in their path and want everlasting feeding.

Orks are a tide of green who build tanks out of scrap. They are an everlasting army that is a very cool army to customise to your liking.

I prefer tyranids because their models are so cool but orks are cool as well because of the way you can customise them to ride lizards or have grots on attack squigs. Waaagh!!!

I like them both but its your decision, not mine.

Tyranids require a fair bit of strategy, especially when it comes to positioning.

Well if your aren't going to try, and don't care for strategy, you should just base your army on looks, as people will just walk all over you anyway. Just get a passion for a race and build an army based on that. I started with a HQ I really liked, reading his background, army background etc. and built an army around him.

I hate to be a killjoy but it seems that you really should not start with the gaming ascept. Perhaps painting/modeling? But yes, as others have said Orks seems to fit your bill. But if you do not care at for tactics, strategy and such you will find it very hard to have fun in this game. But by all means, welocme to the hobby

Trying playing horde Tyranids.

What about IG?
They can have swarms of troops, and huge artillery guns to deny the central field
There can be a lot of option and not a huge amount to strategy to an army like that.

Somebody tell the Orks to grab there Big Choppas.
A storm be'a brewin'!!!

You could even consider chaos space marines. While some will argue that they are hard to win with at times, it is simple to make a no-brainer type army that will do decently.

Build an army consisting of the following:

- Nurgle CSM lord
- 3x 7 man plague marine squads with 2xmelta/plasma in
rhinos
- 1-2x helldrakes
- 3x 3 man obliterator squads

It really doesn't get much more simpler than that as you would barely have to move your units. Plague marines move to mid-field/objectives. Obliterators just hang back and shoot while the helldrakes just fly around and kill stuff.

You don't really have to worry about your opponent charging into combat as your units are quite durable with their toughness 5 and mix of FnP and 2+/5++ saves.

I'll put it this way:

Field_gen, Your not ready to start your first army. And other people have alluded to this as well. Your basically asking "Whats the best army at everything, that I can play in my sleep without thinking" and there is no such thing in warhammer 40k.

Take your time, read the fluff and look at the models. Find that army that you can develop an attachment too, otherwise you won't be happy with the army you pick, and spend A LOT more money on an already expensive hobby then you normally would by picking the right army the first time.

You'll spend more time modeling and painting then you will be playing, and that's part of playing the game as well, maybe even a bigger part then actual time with an opponent.

Yeah, Orks, fluffwise have the feel of "charge" and 'I do whatever I want in combat, forget strategy," But if you go with your units and have no strategy, you WILL be destroyed. They are not super resilient if you just have hordes of boyz, and you will be taking them off the table in hand-fulls.

What about this hobby has you interested, and you said you had played with other peoples armies. Which armies did you enjoy playing?

Play the army you like best.
Read through the fluff and if something catches your attention, go for it.

Also am I the only one that smells the hint of troll that came with this thread?

 redkeyboard wrote:
Also am I the only one that smells the hint of troll that came with this thread?

I smell it too, but then again it might be my new deodorant.

I looked under my bridge and there was nothing there...... O where O where can my little troll be?

Okay, you want the most powerful army that will never be tabled and requires no thought at all to use. I will have to say Sisters of Battle w/ Dark Eldar allies. Just make sure to stay away from Saint Celestine (she isn't good) , and use plenty of mandrakes (they are really good ).







I was going to write troll in the dungeon, but thought sarcasm would be a lot more funny. And if he isn't a troll then he better rethink his mindset going into this game, cause that kind of attitude won't work.

 redkeyboard wrote:
Also am I the only one that smells the hint of troll that came with this thread?

1 post saying 'I want an army that will win all my games without any input from me personally' with no further input into the thread.

It basically screamed TROLL!1 right off the bat. As far as troll posts go I give it a 3/10.

I would suggest Imperial Guard. You can line up all your tanks in a nice parking lot on the corner of the table and proceed to roll dice until your opponent is tabled without having to move, assault, or use psychic powers.

You want to play a strategy game without using strategy?
Good luck with that..

 PrinceRaven wrote:
You want to play a strategy game without using any strategy or having to adjust the way you play your army to your opponent... I recommend Necrons with Grey Knight or CSM allies, and to reduce thinking as much as possible copy the winning list from Adepticon or something. Have fun being the guy everyone hates.

Those lists fail hard when you refuse to bring tactics to the table.

Nurgle Daemons Horde. 120 Plague Bearers, 4 Heralds of Nurgle with Feel No Pain loci/ap2 weapon, Great Unclean One, and a couple of flying nurgle princes. . .

field_gen wrote:
I am new to wargaming and I have had a lot of use of different armies. All of it borrowed from friends to play and learn how to do stuff.

I do not have an army of my very own yet. So I am wondering. What I should use?

I do not like the idea of people just walking their models over to me and walking all over me.
I hate to have to critical think about strategy for every single step along the way.
I like to have to think as little as possible without giving a **** about what my opponent is doing or what he killed or destroyed.

I want whatever army is best at doing whatever I feel like without regard to safety, Strategy or over thinking things.

What army would best fit that description?

Space marines are the default do anything, however army in the game. They are decent in melee, decent in shooting, have some of the best armor and weapons available and are very forgiving if you don't want to have to think too much about your strategy every step of the way. Of course even a Space marine army can fail if you don't do any thinking at all in a game.

Skriker