psychology of army selection

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**Mr Nobody**

My first army was Tyranids. Always loved nature shows, I guess the "ultimate predators" concept was attractive to me.

**Orkimedes1000**

Rustgob wrote:
Psychologically; I suffer from multiple mental disorders which tend to turn my decision making into a flurry of self-doubting inner-monologues.

As such, I have about 60 orks, some unbuilt chaos plastics and no standing army.

I can never decide!

I feel your "pain"....i am completely opposite, i have 100's if not several thousand models and i am still unsure what to collect (might collect them all to 750 pts beside the apoc ork/chaos armies i own)...and better yet a good 50% have been repainted so many times that people refuse to play against them they say "you can't use that" i ask why, to that they reply "paint isn't in a codex, so you can't use it"

**Jancoran**

ClassicCarraway wrote:
Since its a game, most people probably play armies that really don't represent their true personality. Instead, the probably play armies that are quite different, as it enables them to live out a fantasy of sorts and behave in a different manner. Who wants to play the same way they live?

For example, I am, by nature, not an overly aggressive person, but my first army was Orks from RT to 4th edition, and I played them very aggressively. I ended up selling the army since I took a long hiatus, but I kept enough Space Marines that I had collected via boxed sets and one-off trades to cobble together something just in case.

My personal nature is a bit methodical, so one would think that Marines would be a great fit. Well, I tend to get bored with them, and be overly aggressive since we have started back in the game. As a result, my win/loss record has greatly suffered as Marines are not really designed to play that way. Now I'm building a Chaos Daemon army, and I love it! Insanely aggressive, crazy randomness, and great big monstrous models to build and paint!

Since the CD codex came out in early March, I've painted 54 daemon models, with several more in the works. My Space Marines I've been painting since last August, and I've painted 24 models fully with about 6 others halfway painted. Wonder which army I'm more enthusiastic about

Could be some truth to that. I'm a very ENTJ personality, pretty much to a T. Yet my favorite army is Tau, and I learned to play them in an intirely sneaky, indirect way that is FAR more subtle than i am capable of being personally. I play a style that is decidedly more patient than I am, making heavy use of reserves and ambushes.

So i suppose we could use the game to aspire to what we wish we were or to our better natures too.