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One of the reasons I went DE was because my friend was starting up IG and I love raiding those poor unexpecting humans

TheAngrySquig wrote:One of the reasons I went DE was because my friend was starting up IG and I love raiding those poor unexpecting humans

One of the reasons i chose Dark Eldar is because they dont take gak from noone. Imperial gaurd hunting you down? Cut off their arms and send them parading through the streets!

Jollydevil wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:One of the reasons I went DE was because my friend was starting up IG and I love raiding those poor unexpecting humans

One of the reasons i chose Dark Eldar is because they dont take gak from noone. Imperial gaurd hunting you down? Cut off their arms and send them parading through the streets!

Orks got your STC? No they fething dont.

Deadshot wrote:I have no FW models myself, but when I get a job, I am going for a Reaver with Meltacannon and Fist, a Thunderhawk, or a caetus Assault Ram.

A bit of advice - start small. Big Forgeworld kits are extremely complicated, requiring a lot of pinning and green stuffing to fill joints or repair minor miscasts. Don't start on a Thunderhawk or Reaver titan - you'll hate yourself for trying.

I was about 11 or 12 when I started 40k about 94. I wanted to play imperial guard because the tanks were AMAZING and no one really played them being 50 bucks per 10. I couldn't decide on ice warriors of vallhala, or cadians, or chatachan, or talleran. So I told my parents to surprise me. Poof Mordians, thought wtf seriously? But 17 years later I still have them... And they sure as heck turn heads at games. Then I got into dwarfs cause I didn't need to buy the magic box add on so there was 50$ saved... and I still play them too.... I now am also collecting tyranids which I picked because there the opposite of guard. And dark elfs since there the opposite of dwarfs

Mordians are great for turning heads

Black Templars, because they're CRAZY CRUSADERS IN SPACE!!!!!

I flipped through the How to Paint Space Marines book and thought that the Black Templars looked bitchin'.

I bought AOBR and then went with a SM army

Ill be honest
I started of with £12 in my lgs (I knew what 40k was at the time and everything and had a few minis lying around) and the only thing I could get was a box of the new ork boyz. And it all went from their

I'm not 100% what my first army was. I have a touch of ADD when it comes to GW, well in the past more so. All I remember was picking up random things from GW from 1988, Space Hulk, Blood Bowl, Space Marine (Epic) the fantasy box with ten of each of six bad races, with this horrible white plastic.

At some point in 89 I got Rogue Trader, the Classic Space Orks box with the oval shoulder Plasma Cannons, a RTB01 and various metal figs followed.

Within the year of 1989, I starting to put my first army together, the problem is I had three armies before 2nd edition came out, and I'm not sure which was done first. I've tried to state one or another in the past in similar Dakka threads, but if I sit here and really think about it I'm honestly not sure.

My guess would be the Thousand Sons, I had a Space Marine (Epic) Traitor force of them, liked the red/orange paintjob I was doing on them at the time. (This was back when the Thousand Sons where red and had a black M on the pad, as per the side of the Space marine box. I believe another chapter took that scheme on the big Space Marine chapters poster BL released ages back, but originally it was the 1KSons scheme.)
I also had Siam Hann Eldar, with most of them being the cool metal Eldar Pirates figs, the guy with the huge melta pistol, the one holding a Missile Launcher on his shoulder and so on.

Finally I had a Death Skull army, which was larger than the other two, converted an old Action Force (GI Joe) Snowmobile into a Battewagon, and had a Borg'th Mnthrog 'Howitzer' model acting as the Warlord, with a Dark Elf Marauder Witch Elf conversion as his second in command. Odd looking back, but it was a fun army.

So there was no real rhyme or reason behind the choice, at the time I was a young man who discovered GW and was mightily impressed with the world, story and figures, and just picked up bits of everything.

I chose Tau because I love the battlesuits and the clean lines they have. Yes, they have a few aesthetic flaws (tiny ankles and bunny ears, anybody?), but to me, contrasting lightly colored armor plates with darker non-armored/soft parts just makes for a sweet-looking model. Not to mention that Tau have some awesome long-range firepower, despite their being outdated, and CAN win with the proper application of said firepower.

Next armies I'm looking at: Gray Knights, followed by a heavily mechanized IG army.

I am waiting to get 2000 points of my DE finished and get my Inquisiton of the ground. I do quite enjoy painting the DE, but the problem is, i can never decide on a color scheme

I started with the 3e box set in 98. It came with Marines and Dark Eldar, so I went with marines as most new folk do. They were definitely a lot more forgiving. I changed chapters so many times the base coats were getting goopy and detail on the models were lost.

I started Orks as a fun army, and they were. I also started the Necrons because I loved their fluff and appearance. I quit the hobby right after 4E was released.

I just recently got pulled back in when I was looking for a way to releave some stress. I loved the new Necron codex, so I dug out my old models. My orks were hit or miss because a lot of my old units didn't work any more and my marine models are just in crappy condition. The 'crons were in the best shape, so I decided they would be my first project. I love them as the hyperlogical space robots who slew their gods with science.

I was going to go to one of my old armies after the necrons, but I've been sucked in by the DE now: awesome fluff, awesome models. The DE being a fast, highly skilled, finesse army with close combat power will make a nice contrast to the slow, durable wall of necrons who can get steam rolled by cc nutters.

Banzaimash wrote:Black Templars, because they're CRAZY CRUSADERS IN SPACE!!!!!

Or... um... Knights, knights are kewl

@ Phaeron
I'm gonna go ahead and guess you have a wych cult

TheAngrySquig wrote:@ Phaeron
I'm gonna go ahead and guess you have a wych cult

Is that a bad thing? I picked up the megaforce, which seems to be pushing me that way. I haven't actually built or played with the army yet. I realize wychcult is not as popular as kabal warrior venom spam, so I'll probably end up starting wyches and then adding kabal and coven elements to balance it out eventually. Is pure wych cult at all viable for a passable army? (I hesitate to use the word "competitive" because I doubt I'll ever play in a real tournament)

It is quite viable. Wyches are great CC troops and the Succubus is freakin top-notch. Don't bend to the Kabalite venom spam, it's horribly boring. I personally run a Kabalite list, but if I apoc the DE instead of starting =I= then I will blend with a wych cult

Playing the DoW Games got mke attracted too Chaos loved the Fluff and everything about them every unit was awesome so when me and my good friend decided to get into it We figured we'd get the AoBR cuse it was cheaper and better then buying boxes until we were able to play a big enough game sort of deal... i got stuck with orks i didn't mind i read that codex back to front all summer and painted like a fiend i still love my orks (GF's now) But i decided to get a chaos army that i always wanted... I wanted an Iron Warriors theme after Reading Graham McNeill's Storm of Iron... But i decided to make a custom colour scheme as you can see my lord <-- but now thinking about it i think ill start to work on Iron Warriors Army = D

Iron Warriors are my favorite chaos legion

I started with Tau, because, well you can't say no over 1000pts plus codex for £30 especially for a first time army.

Pedro88 wrote:I started with Tau, because, well you can't say no over 1000pts plus codex for £30 especially for a first time army.

How did you get that deal!?

I started with Dark Angels because I loved the fluff behind the Chapter and they were green, which is my favorite color. After playing them for a while i knew i wanted to start a Xenos army and the undead robot zombies were calling to me, that was in august when everyone was saying the new codex was going to be out for Halloween, so i waited, loved the new codex, and am well on my way to building my Undead Necron Army of Doom, resistance is futile!

I collect dark eldar because I love some of the models. Not the wyches though, so I convert Kabalite Warriors for them.

I also collect Necrons because I think they look amazing, and the fluff is pretty awesome. The fact that they work like some giant clock, all in unison and with undying loyalty (no pun intended), is epic

I chose tau because of their cool tanks and battlesuits- unluckily my friends play tyranids, orks and daemons. Didn't do well and now do DE. I wanted to do these before Tau, but was advised not to as a first army.

TheAngrySquig wrote:

Pedro88 wrote:I started with Tau, because, well you can't say no over 1000pts plus codex for £30 especially for a first time army.

How did you get that deal!?

Forgot to say it was second hand and sadly without a Dfish, before anyone gets the idea that GW does amazing deals like this.

Drazhar_Incubus2512 wrote:I chose tau because of their cool tanks and battlesuits- unluckily my friends play tyranids, orks and daemons. Didn't do well and now do DE. I wanted to do these before Tau, but was advised not to as a first army.

And someone advised Tau as a first army? Heh.

Pedro88 wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:

Pedro88 wrote:I started with Tau, because, well you can't say no over 1000pts plus codex for £30 especially for a first time army.

How did you get that deal!?

Forgot to say it was second hand and sadly without a Dfish, before anyone gets the idea that GW does amazing deals like this.

That's pretty neat! I wish GW did sales, it would make sense, especially around Christmas when they seem so Bah Humbug-ish for not having any. Just 'free shipping' which they have 24/7 anyway...

Commander Jimbob wrote:

Pedro88 wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:

Pedro88 wrote:I started with Tau, because, well you can't say no over 1000pts plus codex for £30 especially for a first time army.

How did you get that deal!?

Forgot to say it was second hand and sadly without a Dfish, before anyone gets the idea that GW does amazing deals like this.

That's pretty neat! I wish GW did sales, it would make sense, especially around Christmas when they seem so Bah Humbug-ish for not having any. Just 'free shipping' which they have 24/7 anyway...

If they do sales,theyre usually things like the megaforces, which are a great deal, but theyre still also 200 dollars. And half the units i dont want either.

Like most people here, I started my first army (eldar) because of the models and to a only slightly lesser extent, the fluff. It turns out that making an army based solely on what models you think look cool is a good way to lose a LOT of games, especially when you're just starting out.

My second army (guard) was only slightly more sophisticated. I picked up a guard army for one reason - the basilisk. Basically, I wanted something that could wipe the floor with MSM tau suits, and the basilisk seemed basically THE way to do it.

I stayed with guard (unlike eldar) because I think the guard codex is probably the best one out there. It fits my troops-heavy play style, while also having a HUGE range of options. It's versatile, well balanced, and doesn't need cheese to win. I could play several different types of army and still be playing out of the guard codex. Other codecies are also good, but I'll never abandon the guard so long as they are such a well put together army (well, that and I have like 250 guardsmen...)

My choice of a third army (KHORNE!) was incredibly nuanced. Firstly, I wanted something that played to my love of close combat, which limited my choices quite a bit. Secondly, I wanted something that I could use my newly minted scratchbuilding skills with to really make each model a work of art. Not a horde army, I simply wouldn't have the patience to spend another 4 years on an army before playing it. Thirdly, I wanted to prove a power armor foot horde viable.

That still left a lot of options though, including codex marines, space wolves, blood angels, jetbike eldar, etc. What got me to chose chaos was in part my love of strong troops and HQ choices as per my preferred style, and CSM still has the best troops choices in my opinion. Also, I was starting to feel the call of running a "bad guy" army after spending years with a "good guy" one (eldar don't count, as they're just an "emo" army).

What got me to khorne was spending a lot of time with math, and finding that the numbers are just more favorable to an army full of berzerkers and MoK units than an army of nurgle stuff (especially in my prized close combat). Plus, I never liked nurgle's fluff.

What sealed the deal was that this was going to be a chance for me to do penance. I feel like I was a competitive jerk when playing my guard army, so I was going to start an army of competitive jerks to remind myself to be civil.

Plus, the turnaround time for a brand new khorne army would be a lot shorter than my guard army, and, due to my scratchbuilding stuff, it would be a heckuva lot cheaper too.

I think the odds of me having another army are very small. Perhaps I might at some point in the far future run tau (have a choppy army, a balanced army, and a shooty army), or strip down my old eldar models and bulk them up if they ever get a codex that I like.