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Blood Angels. I just liked the idea of an army that can jump across the battlefield and beat the living snot out of just about anything. Plus I love the look on the persons face when I tell them what my Death Company unit is packing.

Necrons, I got into them in Dark Crusade, the whole "tide of pitiless robots" thing seemed really awesome.
I picked them up around the time the new 'dex came out, and I had the money to do so, and it turns out I actually liked the new fluff.

I play a Schola Progenium force using the IG codex because I am a brutal authoritarian. : )

Kind Regards,
Vladsimpaler

This (Space Marines Vanilla) is my first army and I had either orks or SM from the starter set. Also it doesn't help me choose another army when "GW <3 SM"

I have quite a few 40k armies but my current main army, and one missed out on the poll, are my Black Templars. Main reasons being: 1) I hate to paint, so spray black and add some simple colours.
2) Fluff, sword wielding crusaders charging into battle heedless of the danger.
3) As a long term member of St John Ambulance, they share the same colours and pretty much same insignia.

Heavy power armor GK, I mean, hey. who doesn't think the idea of power armor,a storm bolter and a power weapon would be fun to kill some daemons in, right!?

When I first started I asked which army had the most tanks. That's the one I went with.

I got into Imperial Guard because of the basilisk, and I hated MSM tau suits. While I came for the artillery, I stayed for the infantry. Foot horde guard has a LOT of options, and because you're dealing with a lot of minis, you have very high-resolution durability (as in, you lose a smooth, regular amount of forces, rather than having a single set of rolls make or break your entire army), meaning that a guard foot horde lends a little bit of predictability to the player. This means that I can calculate odds more shrewdly than with other armies with fewer minis, which means I can be more brutally cold, calculating, and callous to my casualties and still come out victorious.

They may not be the most tactical army, but they are the thinking man's 40k army where it counts - in a game of dice, they have the precision ability to play the odds.

I've also played eldar (my first army) because they looked cool, but I did very poorly with them (as mentioned, my first army). I've also collected, but have yet to field CSM, I like troops, and CSM has always had a trump suit here, plus I like the insanity of the fluff and wouldn't feel too bad about losing with them, once again, for fluff reasons.

I decided to do Necrons because of their ease to paint and their play style. All those cool extras they can do is just a bonus since I started playing them.

Eldar, because as a martial artist, their discipline and dedication to the path's.

The Imperial Guard for three reasons.

1. They are standard humans fighting against all odds in a galaxy full of super powered beings. Homo Sapian Sapian ftw.

2. They are the most heroic imo. They lack a 3+ save and hypno indocternation to be fearless so when they stand and fight it takes more courage to do so.

3. Closest to a real world army. (Still not very close.)

Eldar.

I also liked elves in any fantasy setting, finesse and deadly elegance. Always cool. They're my first army and I'm returning to them now after having built my DA army. I'm best at playing with my eldar and I love the way they fight. Also, painting them again with my much improved painting skills is very pleasing.

I've played pretty much every 40k army except for Tau, but always come back to my chaos forces. I currently have 3 different chaos marine armies (Slaanesh, nurgle and khorne), but also have a chaos renegades army, plenty of chaos daemons, plus still have units from my Eye of Terror chaos forces as well. Currently also building a new Dark Eldar army, and considering redoing a new ork army after many years. No matter what else I play, though, chaos is my usual go to force 80% of the time. So out of 5 games I'll play with a different army once while playing chaos the other 4 times. Right now all I can play is chaos since I've sold off my non-chaos armies, except for the new ones I am working on now, but they aren't ready for table top time yet. So right now I am 100% chaos all the time.

Skriker

I play lots of armies.

My primary is Imperial Guard, I like tanks and huge guns


My second most favorite army is Chaos Space Marines, the concept of the bitter traitor of ancient myth is super cool.

I also have Tau, Eldar, Tyranids, Grey Knights and Sisters of Battle.

I play Eldar currently.

I used to play Space Wolves in 2nd edition. Then I won a local tournament and six different people bought space wolves that very day. I played them all the way through 2nd, 3rd. 4th. and some of 5th edition. Then a guy showed up with a new space wolf force painted and converted better than I can hope to do. He opened a game store and displayed his massive space wolf army. For years now people have been coming in and looking at his force and wanting to play Space Wolves because of how he makes them look.

So with all of the people in my area jumping on to Space Wolf mania I decided it's time to quietly exit and get into something no one around here plays...Eldar. So I've been playing Eldar for almost two years now.

Imperial Guard. Who needs fancy gimmicks when all it takes is a few good bodies and some bad-assedry tanks to achieve victory?

I play BA/Flesh tearers purely because I sucked at painting reds and loved Gabriel Seth as a model though I still have rather large Ultramarine and Ork Armies =)

Crimson Fists, cause they be fuffy. :3

Dark Angels (for their style) and Black Templars (for their RAAAAAWR! close combat tactics). If I had to name the one faction that impresses and excites me the most, however, it would be the Tyranids.

Tyranids.

Monsters, by their inhumanity, tell us what it is to be human. Did I mention that I write horror?

WAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHH!!!
Orkz all the way!

Orks- Because when i first read their codex and saw that painting red hot-rod flames on my "road warrior" style monster trucks made them go faster...that was all the motivation i needed.

I started with Eldar, but went to Chaos Daemons because I loved the models and have come to love the playstyle. There's just something awesome about watching a Bloodthirster with Fateweaver backup chew up GK paladin units.

Dark Eldar. High mobility, potent firepower. Maximum force brought to bear at any point of the battlefield you wish at any point you desire.

I'm lucky in that the group I've put together other the years plays with armies they think are cool rather than going into uber competitive army lists. Which is great as the armies I play are for their fluff rather than how good they are. I voted for Space Wolves as they were the first 40k army I began to collect back when I started in third edition, they're my biggest army points wise plus their just plain kick ass, and I play them how they're meant to be played i.e. getting stuck in and killing with the ever faithful chainsword.

I also play chaos renegades which are my close second favourite army, I use a meld of the undivided renegade list from the seige of vraks imperial armour books and the nurgle list for the zombies, with a few daemons dotted through the army. I'm hoping to get some pics up on Dakka of the force as just about every model in the army has been custom built out of various kits, and I love showing them off.

And Finally I have horde tyranids for their OM NOM NOM and an inquisitorial army that I don't play very much any more as I built them based on rules from the witch hunters codex, with indoctrinated forces and I don't like how the army has crossed over to the rules for the inquistion in the Grey Knights codex, so they're in dire need of a revamp.

I voted Chaos Space Marines as that is what my current art looks like. However it is actually a Fallen Dark Angels list with Deathwing and Ravenwing components. Since Dark Angels didn't get a choice I went with my looks.

Blood Angels. This was actually accidental. When I first started playing 40k and knew nothing about the fluff, my friend painted his marines blue. Not wanting to copy his color choices, I painted my marines red. I was informed that my red marines were Blood Angels. It sounded kinda cool so I went with it.

I have mainly played Angels of Absolution because of secret, secret. I've played since 1st ed. Started with Vanilla SM, then went Space Wolves and Eldar in 2nd ed, then started the AoA in 4th.

Stopped playing for a few years but now I'm back and I'm developing my first IG regiment (501st Nightside! Check out my P&M blog!), simply because I like the idea of hurling untold hundreds of men to their doom backed up with guns that don't really care WHO they kill. It's exhilarating because their general is a megalomaniac and they're just ordinary guys who have no choice - they can either die fighting for the emperor or in the saccharine mines of Deneb Secundus

I wish I knew some local ork players. I've NEVER fought Orks. Kinda like Orks.

Also - have begun collecting diseased Nurgle marines - won't paint them for ages. Too much guard to sort out.

Space Wolves, Just cause I love Wolves.

Eldar, because they looked cool when I was starting out.
Dark Angels, because I had a large pile of the models after a couple of starter boxes and a relative with limited knowledge of 40k got me a Battleforce for Christmas one year, so I decided to do something with them.
Regular Space Marines, because the Scouts and the Assault Marines don't fit in with my plan for my Dark Angels (and I have two Dreadnaughts and two Deathwing squads, so no Elites space left for the Scouts).
Dark Eldar, because I liked the new kits and because the concept of shooting from an open-topped skimmer appealed to me.
Grey Knights, because I wrote a kickass Inquisitor back in the hairy days of the 3e Codex and I didn't want to shelve all the old metal Grey Knights I've got lying around. Also because the concept of an aerial assault force in Apocalypse (flyer-Valkyries laden with Stormtroopers with homing beacons that deliver Deep Striking Grey Knights) was awesome.
Chaos Marines, because Tzeentch.