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I play Eldar and Tyranids presently considering starting Tau been borrowing my boyfriends Tau.

Its quite obvious why I like Eldar since I like elves so they are space elves. The models are really neat and psychic powers are cool.

I like Tyranids because bugs/aliens are cool also its fun to beat macho guys and their macho men with little bugs/aliens. They also are competitive and require a bit less thought then eldar for tourneys where I can just march up the monster line and then charge with the gene stealers, less thinking less likely for me to have a headache by game 3 and play terribly.

I like Tau because Tau is like the anime army with their armored suits and I am somewhat of a fangirl. Currently modding a Commander Shadowsun to have her fusion blasters mounted top side like Megatron and green stuffing her hair the one braid looks dumb.

I play ORKS, because they are fun, I love the brainless destruction, and the look of their teknology (even more since the 3rd edition). I hate all that klan fluff and the happy colours, too pre-teenager for me. I paint my boyz as freeboters, and usually on dirty grey. The 'everything goes' konversions you can do is another factor. If your model stands on his feet, then the surgery was a success. But I lose a lot of times againist the Space Marines and their damned heavy bolters and heavy bolters on attack bikes and tanks with heavy bolters.

I am currently painting a few Tech adepts and their retinue, just for the pleasure of painting techno-monks. I'm collecting models from the best looking armies and painting them as skiitari. Maybe I'll finish with a playable warband. The better thing is that you can mix models from Warmachine, CORVUS BELLI and other manufacturers with a feeeew conversions, and they look awesome in metal, grey and red. The Fluff is really sparse, and they are always secondary caracters. Just the geek guys who fix the things when the real soldiers break them. And I am really fascinated with the idea of the Magos Explorator, the searchers of lost knowledgement. I recommend you to google a bit around and look for the 'experimental' codex they wrote some time ago.

Oh, for all you tau players: check CORVUS BELLI and thei range of power armours. ¡And they are spanish like me!

.alberto
.spain

Necrons- Not a lot of different unit choices, not too expensive compared to other armies, strong, robot army...nuff said

Eldar- Lower quantity more specialized units, fast, need a good well thought out list, either win a solid victory or lose terribly in my own experience

Orks!
Orks are the best. They have a great range of highly amusing and (for GW) innovative background material. They have stayed fairly lighthearted and fun throughout the desperately boring skullification of 40K.
Despite their poor model support for the last decade, they have some of my favourite models (the warboss, boys and mega armoured nobs are amazing.)
They were a lot of fun to play at the start of third, and now they are a lot of fun to play again, with tonnes of tactical flexibility. I'm also very happy about the filling out of the model range. Strangely, although I'm a die hard ork player since the very beginning of third edition, I don't particularly like kitbashing and converting. I'll do some minor work here and there, but it always really bugged me to have to make entire swathes of the range myself (especially when other races had multiple redundancy in terms of releases). Still, they remain my favourite GW faction by a long way.
I also have a Nurgle army. I started that because I had a conversion idea for the plastic zombies and plastic chaos marines, and I was tired of playing orks and fighting uphill all the time. I quite enjoy playing them under the new rules, as they work the way I think they should. I also use the generic daemons as plague zombies, which is cool visually.
I'm plotting a nid army, because I've always liked them and I love the plastics.

I play Black Legion because I will bring ruin to the galaxy
And I play Orks because Dey iz the biggezt an'da best!

I play orks because I finished my tau force on the day of the ork release. I was in the store and they had a huge game. I played on ork team. I loved it, so I started orks.

In 40k:
Ultramarines: They were in the starter box for 3ed and artwork. I had previous knowledge of them from various video games. There color scheme was simple and decent looking. My friend who started at the same time as me was doing blood angels so we had some things in common to talk about and some things that were different when we played just against each other to get a feel for the unit types and armies. After that I just felt that the force I had put together was generally well rounded and had a fighting chance against any army and in any scenario that I have played to date. I think the worst situation I have ended up in was a tournament mission against 'Nids that used night fight and land mines everywhere outside of deployment zone that didn't affect monstrous creatures... and I still pulled that one off although really close. So I've stuck to them.

In Fantasy:
Stunties: Just started playing stunties as my first fantasy army, not sure why I never bothered to play WHF before now though. But I really enjoy it now that I have started. Oh and I picked dwarves cause I love 'em. Drinkin, brawlin, creating crazy contraptions, plenty of explosives, strong headed and honour bound(or grudge bound depending on your view), whats not to love! Oh and because I always wanted to play them in 40k but I missed out on that time period I hear.

i play orks cause orks is da best. for me at least, because normally i like to play structured armies with rigid formations and by the book rules with easy to identify units. (i.e. space marines). but the way the orks fearlessly charge into the face of death howling away and shooting their guns into the sky just amuses me to no end. how the orks will never run away as long as they hae their mates beside them. how they build stuff out of nothing and then make it work with inante 'sykik' abilities. how they really are just giant walking talking mushrooms who rip it up in close combat. there is just so much to love.

also my clan of orks is obsessed with spilling as much blood as possible and therefore they get a bunch of brutal background. like shooting nailbombs instead of artillery and painting things with blood instead of just red paint. they are sooooo awesome!

and being super cheap, i get to make my own tanks for next to nothing and convert anything into anything! ork mechanics = win!

I used to play orks for the same reasons, but then I thought about painting all my stuff and I almost lost it. So I decided to stick to space marines for now, cuz I'm not that good of a painter and I love the space marine fluff. But now that the new orks are here and I've got better at painting I might have to start again after my pimp marines are done

Ill play any army that has both personality and room for me to get creative. For those reasons i have mainly done different chaos armies. My largest army by far are my Beasts of Chaos but my Ork army should rival it once finished.

I play chaos space marines because i like the concept of semi-psychotic, genetically enhanced, daemonic armies. It is also the first time i have played the "bad guys" in a game so I get to look at everything from new angles and get to design my force in a different manner.

Oh, since other people are doing more than one system:
Fantasy:
Orcs- Pretty much the same as the reasons for collecting Orks, plus massive amount of plastics.
Beastmen- Brilliant concept well executed. Really like the background and playstyle.
Lizardmen- I love lizards and dinosaurs, and the book did a lot to make them less silly and more epic.
Dwarves- I love tolkiens dwarves, so I bought a sizable army of GW dwarves. Unfortunately, their playstyle and the steampunk bits don't gel with me very well, so they are mostly unpainted and unplayed. Sad.
LOTR:
Moria- love the models, love the swarm aspect.
Various Mordor factions- Love the models
Fellowship- Great for the odd all hero game.
Warmachine:
Cygnar- My only Good Guy army. I decided to ham it up after years of mostly playing good or neutral factions and play something really straightlaced. Stryker seemed to fit the bill, so I picked Cygnar. A nice foil for my opponent's Pirates.
Necromunda:
Enforcers- Too much judge dredd as a child.

I have three 40k armies right now in various states of disrepair.

My largest army is my Eldar who I play because I like the tactical possibilities of Eldar. The combination of exceptional mobility, highly skilled soldiers, and advanced technology is, in my opinion, the best way to conduct warfare.

My next army is Chaos Space Marines, who I liked for their resilience and their evil manner. Only one of my friends plays an out and out evil race (necrons) so I felt like someone needed to play the bad guys. I haven't played them much since my Plaguemarines crushed a friend's Imperial Guard army with no loses.

My final army and the one which I am hoping will become my main army is my Daemonhunters force. Ever since I read the Eisenhorn novels I have been utterly enthralled by the idea of the Imperial Inquisition. I also love the idea behind the army because it is the one army where you can combine so many of the different types of imperial forces. You can have your genetically engineered super-warriors fighting alongside your regular run of the mill guardsmen and I really like that. Plus the models for Grey Knight terminators are just so awesome I don't know how you cannot field such a force.

Of course I am suffering great temptation right now to start Imperial Guard or Tyranids or to revisit my Chaos army. In most respects its harder for me to find an army I don't like that to find one I do, though there are a few armies I really don't like (Necrons and Dark Eldar).

i play Space marine sbecause of the fluff behind them there is SO much of it
and the horus heresy is the most interesting fluff to me because the space marines got
so messed and how there used to be so many space marines and now they cant even put one on every planet of the imperium
but still they fight on and kill everything and hold the own With COURAGE AND HONOUR!

There are more space marines now than there were in the Horus Heresy:
1000 Space Marine Chapters à 1000 Marines each(not counting exceptions) => 1'000'000 Marines
18 Legions with an average of 10'000 Marines each(some up to 50'000 I believe) => around 200'000 but probably more like 500'000

If my math is correct (probably not) then there are at least twice as many marines as there were in the Horus Heresy. But for over a 1'000'000planets that's still not a lot of marines.

I play Orks and did play fantasy Greenskins because I see similarities between my own personality and their mindset as a race.

I enjoy violence, as odd as it sounds, to me fighting is fun, but since IRL I can't do that whenever I like without being arrested or killed, I let my greenskins do it for me.

If it's allowed to do fantasy I'll write that too.

LotR:
I play Moria goblins, because they have a fun buggish swarmness to them, that I really like. And they have quite nice models. The plastic troll is sadly not one of them.
I also play gondor, so that my little sister will play with me. I like Gondor and all, but for LotR I just like the bad guys a little more.
Last but not least, LotR has such nice minis and I find them much easier to paint than Space Marines for some reason. They are also more fun to paint and their are a more Heros so I can paint more carefully without having to feel guilty for taking so long.

ok i should have said they send space marines to war ALOT less now its very rare for people to see marines on the field and then they would send a whole legion to fight
now they send a chapter. so i was more saying that alot less marines can do so much more. a battle compant now is 100 fighting marines in heresy a company was like 1000 fighting marines. and i was more talking about known chapters like common ones yeah there the random one like mortifactors and stuff but ehh there not important.

Don't Playa-hate the DIY. The reason people don't see space marines as much anymore is because that was the great crusade. The legions went from one planet to the next.
Now the Chapters are used for defense and less to conquer worlds.

Indeed, the Imperium has long since stagnated, they don't go conquering new lands because they rely so much on what they know, and are very inflexible.

I initially started with Space marines back in the day. Not being particularly familiar with 40k or its factions it seemed like a good choice at the time but eventually I felt that they lacked character. I pounced on the Tau when they were launched, being a fan of many a manga and loving the models. Slowly grew tired of them because of the perfect lines and clean finish which was almost a necessity for painting them. It not that I couldnt paint them, it just felt like a chore trying to 'keep inside the lines' and took me a long time to paint each model.
I then ended up on the Orks, undeniably the faction with the most character, no clean lines to worry about, and I have plenty of SM and Tau models to use fer kunvershuns! Hur hur!

I started out playing Marines because it was and still is a solid force for beginners to learn with. I came to love these power-armored hands of the Emperor's Will, a vanilla DIY called the Sunhawks.

When I wanted to try something different, I went with Nids as what's not to love about a force of nature that exists to consume and doesn't wrap that truth in any tissue of lies about its purpose.

I went back to marines (BA) around 8 years ago when I fell in love with an idea proposed on the old igcom mailing list about what would happen if a small group of Emperors Children had not gotten the word to turn coat. The concept of these guys fighting an endless battle to regain their honor against nearly everyone really resonated with me and still does. It's my longest running active army.

I wanted to do something different so when they screwed up the BA codex (it's a good list but it no longer has the berserker flavor that made it perfect to describe my view of the LEC being nearly rabid in their need to redeem themselves), I played Necrons for a while because I've always had a warm spot in my heart for the Undead and the Necrons are GWs 40K analog for the walking corpses. They'd screwed this up so I didn't play them for even a full year.

I started on another marine chapter, an all bike/LS traits chapter called the Storm Riders when I stumbled onto an eBay deal that turned out to be too obscenely good to pass up. The result of this deal is that I started playing the real Emperors Children in an all sonic list. The new codex has forced this to change somewhat. (The Storm Riders are still on hold.)

I'm currently painting an Imperial Guard army with an American Civil War theme. I've been fascinated by the ACW for over 30 years and it was bound to happen eventually that I work them into the game I love; I just needed to work out the details. Finding a source of ACW heads in the right scale for the Cadian figures was all it took.

My wife has finally decided to join me in this pursuit so I'm painting up marines for her while painting up my IG. She's joked about Barney marines for years now and unfortunately they're going to actually exist but I'll never call them that; they'll always be the Imperial Claws to me.

BT, cause every time you kill one of us, we run at you even faster. And of course the obvious Monty Python references

I used to play Imperial Guard, I am a major tread head and I thought all the tanks would be cool. I got fed up with painting 50 million troops so they just sit around now...Maybe I'll get a tank platoon together...hmm.

I play Tau because after looking at the codex I thought their tactics might be fun to try. Plus their look seemed cool to me.

I play Sisters, because I bought them for my wife while I started my "Manly Space Marine Army of Manly Manness!"
Then about a week later I really read through the Witch Hunter's Codex and decided they were about the coolest thing ever, with really cool models and cool bits to make them cooler. So I bought a bunch, and then started playing...
Still, the very nature of the army is great fun, even if they get martyred more often than not. Possibly because religious fanatic is a complete 180 from my personality, so I get to vent the "I am right and I will put a flamer in a bad place if you don't agree!" feelings. Besides, nuns with guns in SPACE! Come on!

My other army is the Marines, because they are just cool. I love Heinlein's Starship Troopers, and just the fluff of the "perfect soldier" is great. Medieval Knights in Space is highly appealing.

I am strongly leaning towards either an Ork or an IG army next. I want lots of tanks and Private Ted Johnson fighting Terrorgasm the Destroyer of Worlds, because everyone likes a good underdog story. Even if the underdog gets taken out behind the woodshed at the end.
Orks are just charming as anything, lending themselves to insane conversions and just fun loving psychosis. If you have ever tried to chop down a tree with an AK-47, built your own functioning trebuchet just because "throwing big rocks far is awesome!" or decided a go-kart isn't powerful enough if it has less than a 150cc dirt bike engine attached, you can appreciate what I mean.

I rather like 'nids because they are the only "alien race" that isn't a human with a birth defect. Or a metal human skeleton. I don't know that I will ever make an army of them though.

But of course, the ruinous powers are always there, whispering seductively in one's ears...

Hmm...I made my Tau army because when I was starting they seemed to be the most visually interesting, I really liked skimmer tanks and at the time preferred the hammerhead/devilfish models to the wave serpent/falcon/fire prism. I also had no idea how to paint anything so I wanted an army with more clean lines and less flesh to paint because I thought (wrongly) that that would be easier.

I started a chaos army because I wanted to do something where I could do interesting conversions without being orks, but then kind of shelved the project after the new codex came out.

I really want to start a witchhunters or daemonhunters army, or some hybrid with them as allies, but with the codexes being 100 years old and no idea what is going to happen if/when they come up with a new codex I'm pretty wary.

I play guardsmen becuase their cool dudes and dont take no bull from anyone.

plus who dos't love the vaguely romantic motion of some guy fighting on a planet he probably cant spell with only a torch and some cardboard as body armor

I play Dark Angels (in all 3 varieties) because I love the story, the imagery, and the way a bunch of dark green army men look.

I play Sisters of Battle because I love their story, and the challenge associated with them.

I plan on starting a 13th company army for the fun of modeling and painting them. I also plan on starting an Elysian drop troop army for the opportunity to play something other than a 3+ save army, and I like the idea of paratroopers falling from the sky to bring the Emperor's justice to the traitor, heretic and xenos.

I play IG because its a big universe and they're just the average joe's, they're not heroic SM comitting countless valorous deeds, they're just doing their job.

and I also play LATD(even the average joe's go bad)

i play eldar because the specialty and i play high elves for fantasy