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Imperial guard: patrly beacause i love the idea of illtrained conscripts with shody gear tacking down the various horrors of the universe. The image of a gagle of guards screaming in terror as they blast away at chaos marines is one i approve of.

Also if they ever make plastic valhalans I will be able to make space soviets wich will make me imesurably happy.

Witch Hunters: I have always had a fascination with zealots and their blind fervor for their religious beliefs. Also, after reading the Eisenhorn and Ravenor books I knew I wanted an Inquisitorial type army. I didnt want my army with space marines, so demon hunters were out.

Imperial Guard: "how do I get out of this chicken bleep outfit?"

Tyranids: Starship trooper like aliens that want to eat your face off are pretty cool.

Da umies are too soft.

Da tau talk too much and deys too soft.

Da demons are right cheaty we still give 'em wat's comin'.

Da umies playin wit da demons cheat too much and too soft.

Da pointy headed ones hit 'ard but can't take it.

Da bugs we like em, deys ard and make us arder.

Da cons are a bunch of greedy gits. They dunnot leave anyting for us to loot.

If we ork die, then we die. If we ork win, we win. If we ork run away, we come bak wit more boyz.

Seriously Orks
Build what you want
talk like a soccer hooligan
and making the guy you play against either bust out laughing or pee his pants when you yell for a full fledged WAAAGH!!

I have chosen the pure Chaos force: Daemons

I chose this force because of the Horus Heresy series I have recently finally got around to reading.
The Flight of the Eisentstein and False Gods make a clear message, even the power of Chaos followers (Horus) cannot withstand the power of Chaos.
The obvious reference to Plaguebearers in False Gods, and the slaying of Horus, made an easy choice, Grandfather Nurgle, god of petsilence, decay, rebirth, and love.

I picked Chaos Space Marines but I actually lead Chaos in all it's glory.

In order from fav and most used:
Lost & the Damned Mutants (Eye of Terror Codex)
Emperors Children (Codex Chaos Space Marines)
Traitor Guard (Codex Imperial Guard)
Radical Daemon Hunters (Codex Daemon Hunters)

I love my Chaos and it's form doesn't matter to me what form it is.

Chaos. Because I'm evil. Any type

I play Tau

It's different then what everyone else plays, and I absolutely love the hidden fascism!

Guard because we have Ciaphas Cain the Space Pimp. and BB. mmm baneblades =)

chaos space marines for 3 reasons 1. I HATE LOYALISTS 2. I bought battle for macragge and that had some marines in and 3. I colloct fantasy dwarfs and I like having lots of armour on I also collect orks because I really loved the models and the fact they've got a squad called nobz

My heart tells me I would lead Eldar into battle, as it seems they are the only race that really has the good of the galaxy in mind over their own good.

Orks can't really be described as an evil race because they fight because they were made to fight. It's just something they have to do.

Imperial Guard FTW!! They rule!!

That and they are the army on the front lines most of the time and you can relate to them easyer.
Its just that simple.

Another good reason is that they have laser weapons. So cool!!

Imperial guard because we fight the the good fight across the whole galaxy

We are Human we are weak
But we are Guardsmen
And we will Crush our weakness
With the weight of our pride!

UsdiThunder wrote:

Seriously Orks
Build what you want
talk like a soccer hooligan
and making the guy you play against either bust out laughing or pee his pants when you yell for a full fledged WAAAGH!!

This.

Chaos: You get squads of elite niche troops backed up by some of the best firepower in the game.

For now:

Space Marines: I love painting these guys, and they have possibly the best pose ability of all other infantry models made by GW.
Tau: I thought the mechs looked cool, and liked the image of a well trained and equipped army.

IG: im not dieing alone dark eldar: mosty because of this (THONGS FOR THE THONG GOD)

Eldar.

Because I can.

Everyone else played space marines. I liked the space pirate guys with the pointy helmets, guns that shot shurikens (so pirate ninjas) and had a general attitude of "we're older than you, we've already done this stuff - we know what'll happen if you don't do as we say - because it happened to us. Won't someone think of the children?"

Nids. Nids, nids, nids a thousand times over.
Anything that customizable and versatile instantly draws me to it, purely because my battle plan changes so much.

Plus, the fluff leaves a lot of room for original stuff.

Necrons: because I used to play TK in WHFB, natural progression really. And the fluff is wicked

Starting an Alpha legion army soon probably, for them I like the whole are-we-aren't-we loyalist thing going on.

Space Wolves because I loved the fluff, and the idea of an army of supposed loyalists who really don't give a crap about the rest of the Imperium and pay attention to little other than where the ale is and when they can get into the next fight because they're bored. They're almost Orky in how much they like to fight.

Khorne Berzerkers (with a dash of Nurgle added for flavor. Yum, horrifying incarnations of plague and rot) because BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! They live to maim, kill, and burn more so than just about anything on this side of the warp. I am also loving painting them...my plague marines almost made my fiancee ill, and having a glorious red and bronze feast of carnage boiling up the field has to incite chills in the opponent, no matter how hard their army. The final reason is because my fiancee plays Thousand Sons, and I wanted an army that could fight beside her in combined arms tournaments.

I've realized I'm addicted to assault armies. The confused and horrified look on my opponent's face when I emptied both of my dice containers onto the table preparatory to rolling for a Blood Claw charge, and having to use two hands to roll all the dice every time a unit in my army charges, have burned the joy of assault into my bitter and twisted soul.

dark angels for three reasons
1. fluff
2.fluff
3. more fluff

Chaos - I was actually given half an army by a friend who wanted me to play

Sisters - Originally bought ot convert into Chaos sisters but liked the Models to much to convert so started that army

Space Marines - AoBr me and a friend bought a box each for the small rule book and we tossed for who got what...so imperial fist it was

Typeline, you should check out Legion from the Heresy series, you might like the Alpha Legion's fluff.

Anyway, I play Tau on the ground. I was going to play guard, but I didn't like the weakness of their troops basic weapon. So I wavored for quite a while. When I finaly desided to buy an army I started hereing rumors for the Tau, and liked the idea of an non-marine army where their basic trooper could be quite effective w/o special or heavy weaponry. Later, after they came out, I ended up falling in love with the fluff as well.

In space (BFG) I play Mechanicum, because I love their fluff. That's really the only reason.

Eldar - loved painting the 1st edition guys - space pirates.
now love the tactical complexity
Orks - won a box set in the WD comp when 1st edition came out.
still love em

Biel-Tan Eldar.

Love the high tech of eldar armies and love the aspect warriors

Imperial Guard and Space Marines. Play em' thanks to a storyline map campaign a cousin and I did involing his custom Chaos army invading my Guards' system.

The biggest reason I love em' is that there's a lot of story between my Marines and Guard - The original marines garrisoned there were all dispatched from a collection of some of the Legions. After liberating the 3 worlds in the system, each Legion based it's strike force on the many moons across the system. During the Horus Heresy the Marines helped hold back the Chaos tide that assailed the Capital world. System and Capital held, but were forever scarred. 80% of the Capital world's single continent was reduced to bare rock by Chaos sorcery. All the flora and fauna in the area was turned to solid stone. Now, not a single bit of plant life grows among the sea of grey and black rock. However, thanks to the immense, almost fanatical, faith of the world, and the manufacturing power of it's remaining cities, the world was not deemed corrupted, and further study confirmed this.

When the Legions disbanded, the Marines based around the system were enough to be formed into a Chapter. Feeling that the level of destruction that befell the Capital World was a mark of failure upon their new brotherhood, they adapted a dark color scheme to reflect their shame. The Guardsmen, on the other hand, revere the Space Marines as saviors of the system. After the Chapter was formed, the Guardsmen adapted their uniforms both to suit their environs, and pay homeage to the Space Marines that they believe saved them from their fates. (Hence the color scheme of my Guards' uniforms).

Needless to say, this difference of views can sometimes cause friction between the two groups, though it's rare for anyone outside the Chapter to visit the Chapter Fortress orbiting the Capital on one of it's moons.

So... yea. That's why I like playing my Guard and Marines.

Inquisitors(WH) Because they have awesome hats!

EDIT: And who else has Purgatus? =)

Imperial guard
lasgun
flak jacket
and standard-issue steel balls.

Tau: Intergalactic Communists....nuff' said.

Imperial Guard: The grittier side of 40k combat, also like to play them in Apoc games alongside my Tau, as the fluff "Gue'vesa"

i play orks for the pure killieness and all the custom stuff you can build it makes them very personal and i play templar for the fact the verge on crazed zealotry and there just all around not bad

The Imperial Guard for a couple of reasons:

1. I like the the way they swarm their foes with a ton of tanks, with is awesome.

2. The Imperial guard is so massive they can fight wars of attrition for so long come out as a victor

3. The variety of the imperial guard regiments is awesome and immense, but i cannot deny that the Death korps of Krieg are wicked!