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I chose my army cos they're the best army.

Not that I'm biased.

Orks: AOBR and I thought they were cooler looking than regular marines (nob bikes are fun to convert as well)

Grey knights: Because I wanted an elite force with like 30ish models at 2k that was still pretty good vs everything for around 200 bucks.(woot draigo wing)

I chose the Imperial Guard many years ago and I have stuck with them.
I have a military background and I guess I can relate to them.

I also like the way they can either be a massive infantry force trampling the enemy or an elite armoured infantry force with close air support or an artillery barrage with a meat sheild.
4 Basilisk, 2 griffon and a manticore?
A butt load of Leman Russes?

Yes please

I also love (most of) the models.

Chimera - good
Valk - good
Vanilla plastic infantry - samey but OK
Old metal/plastic stormtroopers with berets on - brill
Ogryns - brilliant (if only they lived up to their appeal)
Wierd OOP stuff like the guys hanging off the tanks or the artillery crewmen are interesting too.

The color. Red and black are my jam!

Space Marines: because they are on a noble mission of higest importance - saving Mankind for a certain destruction. There can be no more noble cause + their name is AWESOME ( Adeptus Astartes - The Angels of Death )

Necrons because... oooh cool. Robots.
My tiny Dark Angel army because I had to buy something, and none of my local stores had Necrons. (+ the troop Termies)

Necronboy wrote:Necrons because... oooh cool. Robots.
My tiny Dark Angel army because I had to buy something, and none of my local stores had Necrons. (+ the troop Termies)

Do i know that feeling.
Thats where my entire 2K points of orks came from.

Tau: I had a SM box in my hand and was ready to buy them. I took a last look at everything on the shelf and saw the Hammerhead Tank. I put that box down and bought Tau instead. I never regretted it.

Necrons: Sometimes, you just hate the world and want to kill in silence. The fluff appealed to me greatly, and the soulless, anonymous mass of killers appealed to me. The models were easy as hell to paint (my first fully painted army) and they looked sharp. Had a great back story, too, with a Martian basing scheme (I expected that the next army book was going to release rules for the Void Dragon and the Outsider. HA! Oops.) Fell on hard times and had to sell the army. The person i sold it to in turn sold it on Ebay less than a month before the new book landed. 4k points for $300. Fully painted. I warned him the book would be out soon, but he did not listen...

Space Marines: The 4e rule book allowed me to make my own chapter with it's own distinctive rules. I made "The Brotherhood of Steel" in true Hipster fashion (before it was cool) and went on to have a nearly flawless record with them. 5th ed arrived and with it a new Marine book (immediately, of course.) It scrapped my concept, redid fluff, railroaded me into one design philosphy, and so I have not touched the army since.

Dark Eldar: Who can resist the allure of pretty tanks? New models, new rules, a strong, yet by all accounts very balanced list.... Yep. I think I'll enjoy them. They do everything my Tau do, only better. (Except survive. )