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Castellan Crowes model made me get grey knights

Lelith Hesperax got me to play DE. Now my favorite army to field.

Chaplain Grimaldus. He not only has a fantastic model, he is also a phenomenal badass in Helsreach.
For Chaos, it had to be Kharn the Betrayer. Funny that I ended up playing a Tzeentch-oriented list. Also the Metal Daemon Prince helped to stoke the fires.

The LRBT

Be'lakor made me start a Hordes of Chaos Army.

For 40K Bjorn the Fell Handed made me want to start a Space Wolves army when I was a kid.

nuff said

This (except in Ravewing Black ) got me into the game and Dark Angels.


This got me into Imperial Guard.

The Mad Tanker wrote:This (except in Ravewing Black ) got me into the game and Dark Angels.


This got me into Imperial Guard.

Ah, the Leman Russ. Arguably the most iconic of Warhammer tanks. I've always liked them as well, though not enough to start a Guard army.


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The Mad Tanker wrote:This (except in Ravewing Black ) got me into the game and Dark Angels.


This got me into Imperial Guard.

Ah, the Leman Russ. Arguably the most iconic of Warhammer tanks. I've always liked them as well, though not enough to start a Guard army.

The Necron army in the 4th ed. minibook which showcased all the armies is what caused me to originally start them. Flashforward to now and it was a mix of the CCB and the Wraiths that got me to restart.

Originally I wanted to start Tyranids and that was because of the hormagaunts

Personally I ended up going with tau because of their battlesuits. I absolutely love the 80's era mecha feel. So much infact that im worried with the transition to finecast of model designs heading towards a sleeker more organic look like the shadowsun suit etc.

Most of the armies I've started playing were due to 1or 2 models. I've always found one thing I've really enjoyed then filled in the rest.

Chaos
Abbadon, kharn

Eldar
Jane zar
Striking scorps
Swooping hawks

Vanilla marines
Dreadnoughts
Vulkan

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/AlternativeFW/large/hivetyrant1.jpg This got me into tyranids

and this for Guard
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2620129_99120105038_IGValkyrie1MPPK_445x319.jpghttp://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1251723_99110105165_IGKasrkinSqdmain_445x319.jpghttp://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2620114_99120105035_IGSentinel1MPPK_445x319.jpg

For me, just the simple Guardsman. There isn't much to him. He's just a soldier, straight up. That's something unique to the guard. Everyone else has their warriors and fighters, but the Guardsman is just a soldier, soldiering on. He's little and there's a lot of them.

when i first started in 2004, my brain busted a vessel when i saw the space marines at a GW store.

i started IG for the leman russ

I started bretonnians for the grail knights

Bjorn the Fell Handed. Hands down my favorite character in the game, and one of the best models upgrade kits.

hellspawn22 wrote:For me, just the simple Guardsman. There isn't much to him. He's just a soldier, straight up. That's something unique to the guard. Everyone else has their warriors and fighters, but the Guardsman is just a soldier, soldiering on. He's little and there's a lot of them.

Eldar guardians are just militia. Sometimes they barely have any training at all. They're just a soldier as well, though a soldier with better technology.

No, they aren't soldiers. You said it yourself: they're militia. There are a lot of differences between soldiers and militia, and foremost among those is mindset.

Got me into 40k years ago.

A friend of mine handed me a ratling sniper and told me i played guard.

A lot of people started Tau because of the Battlesuit/Gundam connection.

I personally started a Catachan army because I was such a fan of 80s action movies. Predator/Commando/Rambo/etc.

Terminator Chaplain got me to play Space Marines... but more than that Typhus got me interested in Death Guard which lead to my obsession with Chaos.

I think Typhus is probably my favorite model in 40k but close on his heels is that Chaplain...

hellspawn22 wrote:No, they aren't soldiers. You said it yourself: they're militia. There are a lot of differences between soldiers and militia, and foremost among those is mindset.

Fair enough, though many of them would have had experience with at least one of the warrior paths, so while they're a militia, they're a militia that largely has the training of soldiers.

GimbleMuggernaught wrote:

hellspawn22 wrote:No, they aren't soldiers. You said it yourself: they're militia. There are a lot of differences between soldiers and militia, and foremost among those is mindset.

Fair enough, though many of them would have had experience with at least one of the warrior paths, so while they're a militia, they're a militia that largely has the training of soldiers.

Still not the mindset though. The mindset of warriors, definitely. But not soldiers.

Macross/robotech for me