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I have a deep seated hatred of the human race and psychopathic tendencies...hence I chose the two races who are most devoted to sweeping across the galaxy, eradicating all life before them.

 Maelstrom808 wrote:
I have a deep seated hatred of the human race and psychopathic tendencies...hence I chose the two races who are most devoted to sweeping across the galaxy, eradicating all life before them.

Must be a match made in heaven there

Thatguyhsagun wrote:

 Maelstrom808 wrote:
I have a deep seated hatred of the human race and psychopathic tendencies...hence I chose the two races who are most devoted to sweeping across the galaxy, eradicating all life before them.

Must be a match made in heaven there

Let's see... I play Tervi-spam Nids. Perhaps I want to have a lot of kids?

Hmmm...

I like to paint pink/purple I guess.

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 play Imperial Guard. I'm also a Sadist. I don't think these two have much in common, but the thought of sending 60 guys to death pretty much every game with no punishment (and it's actually encouraged in the 40k world) is a chuckling thought.

I feel like I probably choose thousand sons subconsciously for the personality.

I choose orkz for the konversionz and orkz . orkz orkz orkz orkz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whxcq4I0kAo

So I play Sisters of Battle and the Grey Knights/Inquisition. What does this make me?

I play a CSM army sporting Alpha Legion,Emperor's Children and Death Guard,

So I'm two faced, love music and have herpes?

 reiner wrote:
I play a CSM army sporting Alpha Legion,Emperor's Children and Death Guard,

So I'm two faced, love music and have herpes?

So you're Dr Rockso?

 Griddlelol wrote:
I hate to be the boring rational person who points out that most of this is probably going to be confirmation bias, and that there are likely many dissimilar aspects as there are similar. However I feel obligated to ruin your fun.

Considering one of the recurring themes of 40k is Mass Genocide for most races...this is probably a good thing!

I play tyranids and a squig-themed IG. I try to conserve as many as my troops as possible. This makes me very sad as my armies don't reflect that. At all. Other times I want to sacrifice as many units as possible to kill one unit. I really have a split personality... Either way, when I play, my hormagaunts are doomed.

Guard player primarily, like most guard players I am a military history buff (and a post grad history student on the side, so I guess its a little more than just a history buff). My playstyle tends to be conservative and campy, I like blasting my opponent into submission before moving on. Note, however that I do not gravitate to sniper rifles in video games like other people have said, I prefer battle rifle style guns. in general I prefer to overkill a target rather than balance my whole strategy on one thing going well or one unit rolling exactly what i need.

mate, it basically starts with what someone thinks looks "cool" and then it snow balls from there.
I chose orks when i was like 10 years old . so going back 14 years ago....
reason being ....green dudes that smacked dudes with axes and stuff... and 14 years on.
still only an Ork Man...
nothing to do with personality IMO..
people might look to deep into it....

I have orks that look like grey knights, Necrons that can be played as nids and blood angels which can double as Chaos khone…
So do I have multiple personality disorder? OR am I just F***ED UP? " Check my pics"

All of my Armies before Chaos, were all about Order.

Necrons, Tyranids and Eldar.

Necrons are still my favorite, and I favor Order above all else.

Chaos is a little bit out of left field, but I like the Idea of a Warp Invasion of Daemons and Chaos Space Marines, beings that have been warped from their original Ideas, and now are unfettered in their pursuits.

Undoubtedly true, I've known at least three dark angels players who are tall skinny guys with glasses who are also stubborn as hell. I like evil armies...

 BigJP wrote:
Undoubtedly true, I've known at least three dark angels players who are tall skinny guys with glasses who are also stubborn as hell. I like evil armies...

Heheh, especially the stubborn part seems to be true for Dark Angels players.
Me, I prefer swarm tactics and horde armies. Main army is guard, I've got Skavens, Orks, and managed to make a pretty swarmy Chaos list. Odd man out is Grey Knights, an army I find difficult to play

No one can horde better than skaven. 2pts a model for the skaven slaves. usually ran in groups of 100.

I've got Eldar and Chaos Undivided - so units from nurgle, khorne, Slaanesh and tzeentch - with demons to back them up as allies.

What does that say?

I've noticed that while not all Tyranid players are harcore cheaters, every hardcore cheater I've met plays Tyranids.

Long time browser, first time poster. Couldn't resist with a topic like this. I tend to prefer surprise and terror tactics .. My armies include (my personal favorite first) Necrons that often include two units of DeathMarks, Wraiths + DLord and a lovable mass of chittering bugs. Scarabs and spiders. Just love the feel of surprise snipers combined with wraiths and a nasty lord while bogging armies down in endless tides of armour eating robotic bugs. Used to use FO's before when their rules matched up with Pariahs, but now... ... no more FO's.
Next two armies are sort of tie, CSM Nightlords Legion which has been shelved for quite awhile and a Lictor heavy Tyranid army.... still trying to figure out how to make that one work.

Oh, almost forgot... got to love the feel of an army that just keeps getting back up, THERE IS NO HOPE!

I've took some time to think over this, and I actually think you may be right. I have a pattern, across all the games I play, of going into games with the idea that, the best way to win (Combat games), is to be the one who survives, not the one who puts out the most killing, but the one who can take all the enemy throws at them, and still wade on through.

For MMO's, I was always playing tanks. For RPG's, I always go for resillient beatsticks over spellcasters and such. Same for Roleplaying.

And I guess that mentality, is why I chose nurgle, when I started out playing daemons in the first place. Rather than going for what was "Good" at the time I started, I went for the resillient army, with the unusual way to kill the enemy (Epidemius buildup).

So yeah, this seems to fit my persona across all games I play.

I thinks it's a combination of our real life psyches and of our fantasies and what we want to play. Howeve this may lean more towards one then the other.
For smaller my fort and favorite army is nids. I love the idea of something just to alien to understand (bit too much lovecraft) and using overwhelming numbers. I enjoy close combat much more then range so when I started I had, and still do, massive numbers of hormoguants. Nothing better then a full unit of thity giving over 90 attacks on the charge. I know this mentality is illogical and that it makes more sense to shoot eveything down before it can get in range but I just enjoy the feeling of beating other armies right in their face.
This can also apply to real life as I do a lot with boffers. I use short handled axes and work much better closer to someone then the fencers who have the long swords. This can also apply to my second army, khorne chaos. I do a lot of work making boffers for people. My khorne army is all about close combat again but they heavily convert all their weapons and vehicles. I'm also not too hi of a fan of conformity. So my khorne army is corrupted sob.

Valkenheim wrote:
Long time browser, first time poster. Couldn't resist with a topic like this. I tend to prefer surprise and terror tactics .. My armies include (my personal favorite first) Necrons that often include two units of DeathMarks, Wraiths + DLord and a lovable mass of chittering bugs. Scarabs and spiders. Just love the feel of surprise snipers combined with wraiths and a nasty lord while bogging armies down in endless tides of armour eating robotic bugs. Used to use FO's before when their rules matched up with Pariahs, but now... ... no more FO's.
Next two armies are sort of tie, CSM Nightlords Legion which has been shelved for quite awhile and a Lictor heavy Tyranid army.... still trying to figure out how to make that one work.

Oh, almost forgot... got to love the feel of an army that just keeps getting back up, THERE IS NO HOPE!

Welcome to the boards then!

I thought I felt someone watching me...

ShatteredBlade wrote:

 reiner wrote:
I play a CSM army sporting Alpha Legion,Emperor's Children and Death Guard,

So I'm two faced, love music and have herpes?

So you're Dr Rockso?

If only my life were that exciting

Eldar and some DA.

I like psychic powers to be honest. Mind over matter!

 Jimsolo wrote:
I've noticed that while not all Tyranid players are harcore cheaters, every hardcore cheater I've met plays Tyranids.

All the ones i run into are some hue of SM.

'of course i believe your Thunderfire cannon is Assault 6, large blast, S 10, Ap 2 .... mind if i see your codex though? '

*shrug*

Juggalo17 wrote:
We have all heard the the theory that dogs look like thier owners right? Well I read a very interesting article recently that explored this and studies show that when selecting what breed of dog a person gets they will subliminally select one that they feel is a reflection of thier own personality and or appearance. ..

This article got me thinking about why we play certain armies, I know some competitive people will select exclusively based on the rules but for the most part I think people will select an army that they feel reflects their personality. I know for me this is probably accurate as I play khorne CSM / CD, with a big emphasis on psycho monsterous creatures.... a reflection of my short temper and monsterous ego.... on the other end of the scale my friend who is currently in the military and his career goal is to be a cop, plays imperial guard.

Does anybody see the connection? Have a think about what army you play and what that could say about your personality.... I would love to hear other examples and peoples opinions on this matter.

Note. This is just a theory, ork players im NOT saying you too have an IQ of 6

Awww but i do have an IQ score of 6 when playing orks. i get in theme of the army's mentality i am playing at that time. if i were to play Cron i'd be a heartless and soul-less killing machine much like the terminator.

when i play Nid, i like to make starcraft Zerg vox sounds and "for the brood and for the hivemind" and am generally more thoughtful and generally tend to eat more food.

sometimes though i just play 40k without rhyme or reason beside the fact it is fun and because i can.


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OT but big Up to your handle OP Juggalo17. here have a bottle of faygo on the house