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What is your favorite primary army to play against? Which army brings a smile to your face when you see it across the tabletop? I am trying to find out which army people enjoy facing the most. With so much focus on the competitive side of the game, it's refreshing to focus on making the game fun for you and your opponent. Thanks for your response!

I like facing Orks because they are so random! Even if I get beat by them its fun!

I like playing against Orks too. I put down Harlequins, even though they have some tricks they seem to bring a fun fight to the tabletop.

I play orks, so my favorite army to play against is Space Wolves. They ain't afraid to have a proppa' fight! They'll charge me, I'll charge them, we'll both die in droves, it's a slaughter all around, just like war is supposed to be.

Good old Orks because there's nothing like Zealous Crusaders trading punches with big, grimy Orks.

I would also say Chaos, and other vanilla Space Marines (even though I often lose to them).

Chaos, killing filthy traitors is fun, so that would apply to players playing Traitor IG or Renegades and Heretics, but they're rather rare.

I love playing against my friends' Chaos Marines and Orks, but I think I like CSM just a little bit more. The different combinations and interestingness of their rules makes them great opposition. And then Orks are just a little bit less so (though maybe that's just because I play against them less).

I voted for Dark Eldar, my friend plays Dark Eldar and I play Tyranids (Nidzilla mostly).

I always enjoy the game as it's just like a fist fight his stuff piles wounds on me and I ID all of his units.

It always ends up in a close and enjoyable game.

I think most people like playing vs orks because they're relatively balanced with every phase, (Ever sat through a Tau shooting phase, or a 14 WC psyker phase? Booooring) straight forward, (No long lists of special rules for every little thing.) and in the grim darkness of the far future, they're the only ones having fun just fighting!

Ork vs Ork games or the best.

As an Ork player I like fighting Imp Guard surprisingly. I love trying to bum-rush a WW1-WW2 style gunline. All I need is one big mean powerklaw and then the chaos spreads. Its like that scene from The Two Towers where they try and fill the berserker Uruk-hai with arrows as he runs the flame to the bomb at the base of the wall.

A lot of Ork choices. There are so few Ork players in my area that I rarely ever play against Orks. It's like Space Marines/Guard/Tau/Eldar/Demons.

Everything else is fun just as a novelty.

Orks and that's usually because the people behind them are fun people not just to game with but hang out in general.

Except one guy I know, who takes the game too seriously...

Da boyz!

Space Wolves, not including TWC spam. Some TWC make for an interesting game though, and promises to get some Assault action. With the Wulfen on the table, there's a lot of bloodlust and I'm more than happy to meet then in close combat.

I'm surprised with the lack of 'Nids love. My second favourite army to play against.

Orks are fun to play against, my vote.
Most armies can be fun to play against, it's usually the opponent or his list who can make a game drag

I like to play against Necrons because I play Tau. My buddy who plays Necrons doesn't hold back so I don't feel bad when I bring ... whatever I want to the table. To add I also like that he can't complain when I beat him, because even when I birng a really gakky list and win I'll still get "Well you *are* playing tau so what did you expect" or attitudes similar to that.

Since I play orks, I voted Dark Eldar.

When they beat you, it actually feels like you got beat by the PLAYER, rather than beat by either the dice, or in the case of your usual Tau/Eldar/Sms...the massive stacks of free rules they get for no reason.

Guard.

 ChazSexington wrote:
I'm surprised with the lack of 'Nids love. My second favourite army to play against.

I like to play against balanced 'nid lists. Lots of fun to go up against with a TAC fluffy Ultramarine army.

But I’d prefer to kill traitors. And orcs are always good for a fun scrap. So 'nids take 3rd on my preference list.

I selected the same army that I did for my least favorite army. I don't care which army I face. . . it is all who my opponent is.

I would choose Nids, but Flyrants suck all the fun out of the game.

I didnt vote orks because I play orks and actually rarely get a chance to play against them.

So I voted chaos space marines. No unbearable cheese to go against and most CSM players arent playing to be rules lawyers. They are playing for the fluff and the fun.

Orks by far.
They are green.
There are lots of them, fearfully so.
They get close to you, prepare to die.
Heck shooting from them "everything counts in large amounts"!.
The laugh at the penalty of "snap fire".
They are the single best army for the "mad" converter."Go fasta red" is a fine excuse for throwing in a contrasting color.
"Looted vehicle" is a great excuse to use other army's vehicles Eldar ones are the funniest.It just seems you need to "enjoy" carnage to play them.
I am sure the Orks think Khorne Berserkers are great buddies to do battle with, I am sure in turn Berserkers hate them because they seem to be enjoying themselves too much.

Ah, it may be my friend just has an ENORMOUS army of them and has played them for years and scares the heck out of the Tau and Eldar armies that expect to rofle-stomp him.

Wow, I'm surprised at these results. Almost half of 40k players feel that Orks are the most fun to play against. excited to see if the trend continues as more people vote.

I have to say, it'd normally be orks, but I've been having a load of fun playing against some nid hordes lately. Obviously not all nid games are fun --I'm looking at you, flying circus-- but a good last stand against a million gaunts is extremely gripping.

Orks. Easy and satisfying to kill in large amounts, even if you end up losing.

CSM because it's an easy win.

Orks!
They are fun. They are not OP but still can give a good fight, they are very characterfull and Ork armies usually have epic conversions.