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When you build an army which is more important?
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Bounding Dark Angels Assault Marine




Downers Grove, IL

Style,

I feel dirty playing with unpainted minis.

1500 (10-3-0) (7thEd)
1850 (2-1-0) (7thEd)
2000 (1-0-0) (7thEd)

 
   
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Ruthless Interrogator





The hills above Belfast

An army is just to expensive an investment for the look and feel of it to be dismissed. Not many people will fork out for an army and not get some element of joy out of the background and look of the army.

EAT - SLEEP - FARM - REPEAT  
   
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Monstrous Master Moulder



Space Cowboy Cruising Around Olympus Mons

I'm not quite sure what is ment by substance? I voted style because well...Skaven models are the cats meow man.

I think substance you mean variety of models and ability to play most units? If that's the case I'd say I'm 50/50 lol
   
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws





KnuckleWolf wrote:


My Tau army has many small things to match modern day tactical things I've seen and heard of in documentaries. My Fire warrior squads are eight man teams, broken down into four, two man teams. The lead soldier of each pair has a carbine to provide suppressing flash-bang grenade salvos and fire, while his partner strikes with precision using his rifle to to hit distant threats. And no that doesn't work in game turns but I do it anyway!

lol. That is awesome, but i'm gonna have to go with substance. If I don't at least give my opponent a run for his money than my army of Fenrisian Wolves is just a big waste of time. But add some Thunderwolf Cavalry and a few other units, and my army of Space Wolves is an effective force that also happens to look good.

To quote a fictional character... "Let's make this fun!"
 Tactical_Spam wrote:
There was a story in the SM omnibus where a single kroot killed 2-3 marines then ate their gene seed and became a Kroot-startes.

We must all join the Kroot-startes... 
   
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On a Canoptek Spyder's Waiting List




Denver, CO

Style. I have to *want* to put it on the table in the first place.


WHFB [Wood Elves]
40K [Necrons]
both [Chaos Daemons of Slaanesh + Nurgle]
 
   
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Yu Jing Martial Arts Ninja






Style - I'd rather my Tyranids had currently useless but very cool and fluffy scything talons, instead of yet more boring but very effective dakka.

Though the correct answer is Infinity, which gives both style and substance in pretty much every model
   
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Stealthy Grot Snipa





 Flashman wrote:
Style every time. It has to look like an army i.e. a focus on troops rather than a random collection of vehicles / monsters.


Style, but the opposite of this^^

It has to look badass with a focus on badassness over everything. (but then im an ork modeller). I'll make and model units based upon whacky ideas of how i'd think they'd look and then i'll build my army to fit em all in.

Favourite Game: When your Warboss on bike wrecks 3 vehicles simply by HoW - especially when his bike is a custom monowheel.

 
   
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Arch Magos w/ 4 Meg of RAM





Republic of Ireland

Style - every fething time!

   
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Lurking Gaunt







Style all the way

http://paintingwh40k.blogspot.com/

Hive Fleet Pyro: 2150 points  
   
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Irked Necron Immortal






Style all the way, I love the necrons background and how they look and their weapons just look cool.

Morat Noob

New Sylvans eventually

10k+

30k

Snowy bases for the snow god!!
 
   
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Noise Marine Terminator with Sonic Blaster





Lincolnton, N.C.

Style and no spam as far as I can help it. I.E. 1 Helturkey, 1 Vendetta, Each Chimera equipped differently, etc. etc.

My beloved 40K armies:
Children of Stirba
Order of Saint Pan Thera


DA:80S++G+M++B++IPw40K(3)00/re-D+++A++/eWD233R---T(M)DM+ 
   
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Skillful Swordmaster




The Shadowlands of Nagarythe

Style, even if unpainted yet.
However, some Redundancy is welcome, and I do find 3 Vindicators rather stylish, but ymmv

"Let them that are happy talk of piety; we that would work our adversary must take no account of laws." http://back2basing.blogspot.pt/

 
   
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain






A Protoss colony world

Style is king. Having a "cool" army is better than just taking the "flavor of the month" spam list.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
 Mr_Rose wrote:
Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
 
   
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Spawn of Chaos





Dreaming of Electric Sheep

I"d go with Style, but I don't view these things as mutually exclusive, since we're assuming Style=Aesthetic whereas Substance=Crunch.

I certainly want my stuff to look cool, but when i comes to playing games I want good rules. Prefering substance need not mean being a powergamer, or "flavor of the month". Rules that make a unit fun to use are beneficial to all. But I think as most people generally dislike losing all the time, well, "good rules" usually mean "powerful". I just personally find units that can actually accomplish something to be more interesting to use.

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Get Some.
 
   
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Crafty Bray Shaman




Anor Londo

Style of course. I have no interest in owning models that don't look great.
   
Made in nl
Longtime Dakkanaut






I love how this adds up


-The majority chooses style
-Centurions and Dreadknights are considered ugly by the majority
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All most everybody who is field and able to afford them owns and fields them

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Hardened Veteran Guardsman





Texas

I like for an army to look like it does in the paintings and the novels. Four MC and some Warriors in a Tyranid army aren't gonna work for me and I won't play with a power gamer. This is why I play Guard, because it's acceptable to make your army look cool and fluffy.

"We have lost the element of surprise, and they do not fear us. Perhaps they will appreciate our devotion to the Emperor and our ruthless efficiency." 
   
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Horrific Hive Tyrant





Style. No point of having an army which I do not like to look at.
   
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Keeper of the Flame





Monticello, IN

Bit of a misnomer in the question asked.

When I CHOOSE an army, I go with style. Everything from aesthetic to theme to lore influences my decision on this, right down to whether a certain chapter/craftworld/kabal/whatever is more attractive to me.

When I BUILD the army ie. buying units for the army, I will get themed units, yes, but I'm also not going to ever run a gimped list because of fluff reasons. My Empire army, which I sold before it could see a lick of paint, and before half the models could be assembled, had 1 unit of Halberdiers and not a single handgun. It was themed off of the Grudgebringers from Dark Omen and Shadow of the Horned Rat. At the same time, even though there were no detachments in that game, you have to be a fool to bypass the severe benefits of the detachment system, so my list was built with the idea of a couple units being able to be split up as detachments for the main units.


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 Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:
Style, even if unpainted yet.
However, some Redundancy is welcome, and I do find 3 Vindicators rather stylish, but ymmv


And here I thought I was the only one. If ever having young kids gets cheaper, that dream will become a reality

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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Its AoS, it doesn't have to make sense.
 
   
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Brain-Dead Zombie of Nurgle





Style, I always loved the kill team style of customization, and flying circus is basically kill team, but with big ol' daemons. Daemons also can have so much fluff and conversion ability, plus bringing nothing but spells and swords to a gunfight is pretty stylish!
   
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Flower Picking Eldar Youth



Scotland

You've gotta get a balance, but style is more important to me than substance. But I wouldn't play a list that was designed to look good over one that was designed to destroy my enemies! Both can exist in happy equilibrium!
   
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Screamin' Stormboy





Woof?

Style. Otherwise, what is life?

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
The racial make up of the Imperium is 100% Australians. Its the reason the Imperium has survived for so long.
 
   
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Sneaky Kommando






style

if you pull out 9 grey rip tides I'm scooping up my army.

 
   
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Waaagh! Ork Warboss




Italy

Style and aesthetics. Everything else doesn't matter.

 
   
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Been Around the Block




New York

100% style. Because life is too short to play with ugly plastic men.
   
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Incorporating Wet-Blending




U.k

Style all the way, that said I include fluff in the style section. Conversions and paint schemes all fit the fluff and the army tells a story.
   
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Sister Oh-So Repentia



Illinois

I have to like how it looks before I'm interested in playing with it.

2k poorly optimized Necrons.
1k poorly assembled Sisters.

DR:90S++G+MB--I+Pw40k16#+D++A+/aWD-R++T(T)DM+
 
   
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Fresh-Faced New User




San Diego, CA

Is it wrong to want to play what wins? I mean looking good while doing it helps too.

"I've missed years. I can't waste minutes now."

The Piper Never Dies.
Never Dies. 
   
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Legendary Dogfighter




england

Style.
I'd rather have the models I want instead of being forced into spamming predators like a lemming
   
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Spawn of Chaos




Style is for pu***es,
it is all about substance.
Ok, i picked an faction for style.

12000p
 
   
 
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