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 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
Probably Death Guard. I started haphazardly with Chaos and Tyranids but I ended up really liking deathguard.

Same, mine was ad Mech and space marines, but settled on death guard.

If everything I had just went poof? I would struggle with the idea of building another army up from scratch, since I have just finished doing that for two armies of almost all OOP models (Tallarn and metal Blood Angels).

If I HAD to pick, it would be Steel Legion (again).

I currently play Death Guard and Space Wolves, but I'm not sure I'd restart either if my collection got destroyed for some reason. I like both armies' aesthetics, but I have issues with both gameplay-wise. I love DG's toughness but they're just so goddamn SLOW. I LOVE both terminator type models but I just can't for the life of me find a way to get them into CC against a shooty army (and even Warptime isn't going to solve that if you want to field 3 or 4 units). SW kinda has the same problem but a bit less. Still feels a little too sluggish for me though. I guess I'm just looking for a hyper-aggressive highly mobile army that can get stuck in quickly and neither of the ones I play are like that really. I'm kind of hoping that SW will get a similar treatment to BA in their codex as far as melee goes but if they don't I'm actually considering playing them with Blood Angel rules (Wolfy paint job (and heads for infantry), BA rules). SW just kind of feel too "tactical" for me while I just want to play a bunch of crazy berserkers and raiders.

On the topic of what I would choose if I had to, maybe I would choose Drukhari. I was completely uninterested in them at first until I played Dark Elves in Total War: Warhammer 2 and liked it a lot, and then started to look up their 40k kin. Now I like them a lot actually xD I don't know their exact stats but from what I've gathered they're a pretty mobile and aggressive army that is both good at melee and ranged offense but has paper-thin defenses, which is kind of what I'm looking for. So yeah, depending on how their codex turns out I might actually start a Drukhari army anyway xD