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What Imperial army do you find the most enjoyable to play as, Or play against? This question has no purpose other then me being curious, But I hope some people will respond to it anyway ^_^

Oh! I should add, This is only for on the table, Fluff dosent count for this question.

I've played Guard and Wolves.

From a fluffpoint, Guard are my favorite. Since they are unaugmented humans. With ordinary equipment. Fighting off Daemons, Superhumans that may or may not be part Daemon now. Giant apex incect Apex Predators and Space Elves.

Space marines!

And by space marines I mean "actual space marines." Of the non-grav variety.

To play with none of them
They are all lessor aied who don't even deserve to exist
To play against guard
I love to make guard players complain about how death guard are op

I'm genuinely torn. Love both of my armies equally. I love playing a bunch of deathwing because it's cool having your army just drop in all over the place and (hopefully) charge something, but at the same time mech guard is a ton of fun. How many tanks can you fit in one list?

Blood Angels because they have the best models.

Guard, especially Vets and Stormtroopers. Especially in carapace. The "best of the normal" has a specific charme on me.
And I love Orders and weapon options, like plasmas heavy flamers and demolition charges.
Also I love Tanks, Flyers and Taurox Primes (if converted).

Adepta Sororitas

They tend to work within their own theme and look great.

I don't like the imperium but i am a huge fan of space wolves, especiallty their typical units and not those SM vehicles they also have. To fight against, with my orks and dark eldars, i'd say blood angels because i like armies that are close combat oriented. With space wolves i don't like facing other imperium armies as they should be allied.

Imperial Fists, all the way; including their successor chapters of BT and CFs.

Mechanicus. Just look at their models. They are gorgeous.
And this decides it, I'm starting to expand my AdMech again. And repaint them.

Imperial Guard!

They were my first army, and still are my secret favourite, both on and off the gaming table

AdMech. I love how, with fewer options per unit, the unit becomes the tool, not the loadout.

I'm having a blast playing sisters. They're quite monobuild but I haven't used them a lot yet and I'm having a blast playing them.

For me, Salamanders.

To play against, infantry guard.

Ad Mech.

Tie between the Black Templars and Imperial Guard/Scions. Love the crusaders in space theme for the templars and I've always liked the IG aesthetic for tanks and FW infantry, alongside the special ops scions.

One which has been crushed under an unrelenting horde of Chaos...something, something Blood God.

I love my Space Wolves but I have to give props to the Blood Angels for having the best looking models and colour scheme.

Favorite opponent is Imperial Guard
Might just be that the guy who runs them is a beast but I've never had an unsatisfying match against Imperial Guard.

Space Wolves probably. I like their lore of doing things their way and not listening to the orders of the general Imperium. Plus they have a cool color scheme and units along with models full of detail

Legiones Astartes. Everything works. The tanks are tanky, the Terminators terminate things, the Dreadnaughts don't spend all game hiding from the big bad Destroyer weapons...

Scion and Krieg, make it rain Arty shells or elite special forces.

Raven Guard and Dark Angels. I like their lore and minis.

Storm troopers! Or Militarum Tempestus.. Because space SAS is so much fun to play as!

I also love the diversity of the Inquisition! One of the most easy on the eye forces you can have as you can kitbash anything and everything!

I actually like playing ultramarines. Tends to be a well rounded fast pace game without too much extraneous gak to dwell on. Colors pop. Might get boring to play as but it's a nice splash of blue in an environment that needs it.

 Traditio wrote:
Space marines!

And by space marines I mean "actual space marines." Of the non-grav variety.

Does that mean the 10-men-with-missile-and-flamer variety?

But gonna say white scars. I fancy those mustaches.

Mostly Mechanicus/Skitarii and IG


I have this crazy hybrid IG Tanks/Skitarii Army going. That and I have Knights, SM, Scions etc if I want to spice it up.

I can't think of a list. But Skitarii Infantry with IA:V2 IG Tanks with a Knight can sometimes throw people for a loop. But I don't play often.

Deathwatch. Even though I doubt I'll ever get to play my army.

 slip wrote:
I actually like playing ultramarines. Tends to be a well rounded fast pace game without too much extraneous gak to dwell on. Colors pop. Might get boring to play as but it's a nice splash of blue in an environment that needs it.

This!

Smurfs>everything else

Alpha Legion.