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Go 40K bro, non-regimented models let you customize each one to look unique and bad-ass without worrying if it's going to be seen in a big block of models and FIT correctly with the models around it. Conversion and creativity madness is what 40K is all about, and let's not forget that the new line of models look absolutely smashing - Flash Gitz are soooo awesome, lol.
Fantasy isnt as modular imo because of the formation thing. Its really hard to make a cool model and have it stand out to be unique....while having it bunched up against 10-15 other models in base to base formation on a tray. Bigger things that stand alone can be customized easily, but afaik (mind you i dont play fantasy i just observe it alot at the flgs) there arent many models that dont adhere to the formation tray rules people actually use.
As for the gameplay itself, i really cant vouche for fantasy. It looks fun, but i dont want to get into another tabletop game. Expensive enough with just 40klol.
An ork with an idea tends to end with a bang.
14000pts Big 'n Bad Orkz
6000pts Admech/Knights
7500pts Necron Goldboys
ATXMILEY wrote: I've been wanting to start a green skin army for a while, but should I do fantasy or 40k? Also, can fantasy orcs be blue?
40K Orks look like they will on top of their game with the new Codex release.
DeathSkulls Clan of Orks are renowned for going into battle with Blue Warpaint.
Spoiler:
The Death Skulls are an Ork tribe or "klan" dedicated to stealing and plundering. The Death Skulls are truly plunderers without equal. They are tremendously good at looting, borrowing, scrounging, scavenging, and stealing things from their fellow Orks, and notoriously bad at returning them. Death Skulls would make capable scientists and excellent engineers if their fascination for new things lasted longer than the time it took to steal them.
The Death Skulls see battle as a two-stage process, often hurrying the killing part in an effort to speed along the scavenging spree that follows. After the battle the Boyz really go to work, feverishly stripping the corpses of the fallen of everything from ammunition to bootlaces. Many Death Skulls will take grisly trophies such as their victim's scalp or skull into the bargain. Only when the loot is returned to the camp does the inevitable infighting break out as the Death Skulls trade, barter and auction off their ill-gotten gains.
Once they have stolen something, they personalise it to establish ownership once and for all. This often involves painting it blue, the colour which they believe attracts the eye of their Gods and protects them from harm. The superstitious Death Skulls even use blue warpaint, sometimes going so far as to paint themselves blue from head to toe the night before battle. They believe the colour blue is lucky and that it attracts the attention and favour of the Ork Gods Gork and Mork, and thus brings them better fortune on the fields of plunder.
This klan has a lot of clever and enterprising Gretchin. The Death Skulls also attract a number of Lootas because of their reputation as a bunch of loose-wallahs, spivs, and wide-boyz. As battlefield plunderers and petty camp pilferers, they often get themselves a bad name among the other klanz for selling dodgy gear that is not good enough for the Death Skull Orks to keep for themselves.
ATXMILEY wrote: I've been wanting to start a green skin army for a while, but should I do fantasy or 40k? Also, can fantasy orcs be blue?
40k Orks can be blue, they can also be purple, yellow or green as their lore has meaning behind these colors for them. One of the reasons I wanted to pick Orks for an army
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Warhammer 40k. Enjoy it or go play something else. Life is too short to complain.
PrehistoricUFO wrote: Go 40K bro, non-regimented models let you customize each one to look unique and bad-ass without worrying if it's going to be seen in a big block of models and FIT correctly with the models around it.
There's no point in making 90 different boyz look unique when they get removed from the table at the rate that they do.
Space Wolves: 3770
Orks: 3000
Chaos Daemons: 1750
Warriors of Chaos: 2000
But the point is, the option is there without the constraints of the models fitting together in a regimented block. So for a hobbyist who is so inclined to, he can do what he wishes without it breaking the functionality of the models.
I decided, I'll just go with fantasy Orks because I'll have more models and when I want to play 40k, I'll just buy my the needed bits and magnetize everything
PrehistoricUFO wrote: Go 40K bro, non-regimented models let you customize each one to look unique and bad-ass without worrying if it's going to be seen in a big block of models and FIT correctly with the models around it.
There's no point in making 90 different boyz look unique when they get removed from the table at the rate that they do.
Oh, but there is. It's fun to customize your orks to look unique. It's even more fun if you realize that the one choppa boy using a stikkbomb as a choppa somehow manages to always be under the hole of any large blast targeting his unit, no matter how far said blast scattered.
7 Ork facts people always get wrong: Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other. A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot. Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests. Orks actually do not think that purple makes them harder to see. The joke was made canon by Alex Stewart's Caphias Cain books. Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor. Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers. Orks do not have the power of believe.
I prefer Ork models on an individual basis, but prefer an Orc army when considered as an entire army. Night goblins I find especially fun, a night goblin army just looks really cool and I love fanatics.
It is true that its harder to make individual models awesome when they're ranked up, but IMO a ranked up unit of Orcs has an aesthetic appeal of its own anyway. Also I shoved a huge warboss in to one of my Orc regiments and IMO it actually looks even cooler than a 40k warboss because his increased size is really noticeable next to his smaller Orc buddies... much harder to rank up though!
I used to play Orcs and Goblins... mostly goblins. When I started my 40K army, I picked Orks. Because they have guns. And there's something about a hulking green brute firing a loud, noisy, lethal weapon on full-auto that just really makes me happy.
An ork with an idea tends to end with a bang. 
14000pts Big 'n Bad Orkz
6000pts Admech/Knights
7500pts Necron Goldboys 
2000+
In the works
