What unit got you into 40k?

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Tau.

I started when they came out. Sadly, I never actually made a Tau army, but I love those models. I left a couple years ago due to ridiculous pricing from GW.

I'm back now to make some KoS Orks. I can get AoBR orks from ebay cheap and I can scratch build my own vehicles to boot. Orks are fun, relatively cheap and there's always a lot of 40K players.

**WhiteWolf01**

The first unit I ever bought was a Cadian Heavy Bolter team. I didn't know anything about the background of the game or how to play it. I just bought it because it looked so b.a. A few months later my brother got into 40k with grey knights, which helped bring me into what the entire game was actually about.

**Eura**

well origionally it was chaos space marines, I changed my mind and bought the tyranid codex. Somehow I ended up having a dark eldar army. I would be lying if I said I knew how in the hell that happened.

**Element206**

I think the first unit I ever purchased was a 2nd edition space marine tactical squad for the blood angels. All 10 models were pewter. It was only after this first purchase that I realized the red spray paint citadel offered back then left you characters in a neon orange hue, nothing even close to red!

**gaovinni**

Battle Sisters. I saw them and then came the "I want an army of those" moment.

**Thrain**

I started playing in 1993. My first GW purchase was the original Space Hulk. So, it was Space Marine Terminators that hooked me.

**AlmightyWalrus**

Dreadnought and Grey Knights in Dawn of War.

The Warriors of the Inquisition are yours to command!

**Murdock129**

It was the greater daemons in a catalogue a friend owned, since then I've been obsessed... BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

**PxDnNinja**

Necrons in general from the Dawn of War PC game. That was my first instance of anything warhammer. A couple years later some friends get me into WHFB since therewas a Vampire army, and then they shifted to 40k. When they did, I stuck to what was cool in the PC title, the Necrons. Still my favorite army to this day.

**Maenus_Rajhana**

For me it wasn't actually a 40k unit that got me into the game, but rather my Escher gangers from Necromunda. ENjoyed the hell out of that game and then fell in love with the eldar model line and dove into the larger fray.

**BeefCakeSoup**

Bruteboss wrote:Crisis suits. mecha battlesuits of death ftw. Seriously, that "Dynamic Entry" picture someone posted on this forum awhile back cracks me up everytime, as that is exactly how I envision crisis suits working.

lol me too.

I always envisioned a Battlesuit grabbing a space marine by the arm and jumping 50 feet into the air and dropping him for CC haha

**TheMuffinMan98**

That would defintely be the Stompa. It was this truly massive and seemingly unstoppable warmachine, I just couldn't resist. Then I saw the Bio-Titan for 'Nids and that really put the rest of the game in perspective.