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I've been enjoying the 5th Edition Dark Eldar Codex, a lot of fun and a variety of ways to play the army. Drugs, sex and rock n' roll!

I always liked the old Craftworld Eldar. Played alot of games as Alaitoc, Ulthwe and Iyanden. They were quite characterful.

Codex: Chaos (2nd edition)
Codex: Tyranids (2nd edition) is a close second.

Eldar craftworld codex.

Biel-Tan.

Aspects as troops = awesome. It was the only time my has ever army played exactly how I wanted it to.

As a bonus I got the court of the young king - an exarch bodyguard for my Avatar. He had a harem of four howling banshee exarchs. There was a fire dragon exarch too.

I miss that dex.

Haight wrote:
... i played a looong time ago. The old combined Dark Angels / Blood Angels codex. 3rd ed, i think ?

That would be 2nd ed... Codex: Angels of Death. And it's my pick too. That, and the 5th Ed BA Codex actually using 5th Ed rules. Then I can keep my all-deepstriking all-jumppack army.

So cool to see so many players from the oldschool days showing up

I feel the 6th ed codexs are just so generalized, nothing stands out unit wise. They are balanced which is good but you don't get to fall in love with crazy genestealer's or strng 10 ap1 broadsides or flavoring up Imp. Guard armies with doctrines in the same way.


So cool

Daemonhunters and Witchhunters codecies were some of the best from my standpoint. Armies could be so varied from them, especially if you added guard of marines to the mix.

Skriker

Eldar, 2nd edition. It was the last time they played in 40k how they are portrayed in the fluff.

Witch Hunters. I loved the funky retinues you could make and offered a blank check for modifying. Repentia and Penetiant engines added the fanatic feel of the army.
Second place is the third edition Chaos. I had a khorne army back then. With this new codex I can't use my berserkers anymore without losing IQ points. They failed to capture the feel of chaos completely. Tzeentch, weak at sorcery? Really?

At least they have a codex though.

I know Rogue Trader isn't a codex, but I wore my copy out. It fell to pieces. :(

Space wolves

Nids

And sisters (if you can call a W.D a codex that is, most people call that toilet paper)

My favorite Codices have to be Orks.

They are the most barbaric race in the galaxy, but actually have the Know-Wotz to create new technologies. Not only that, but they are the least racist race in all of 40k. They'll fit with anyone,against anyone, including Orks. They are the only race that can take another race's vehicles, slap some glyphs on it, and make it theirs. You never see a "Marine-y" Deff Dredd, but Orky Dreadnoughts are in 4 out of 5 Ork Hordes. The Orks don't need fancy armor, technology, weapons, money, Titans, or even any Air to breathe! (Thee was a caption in a GW article saying that Orks are so robust they could fight in a vacuum with no helmets) In a galaxy prone to casting once-great civilizations into the rotting cesspool of forgotten lore and lost glories, the Orks have been dealt the best hand- they simply don't need any of what life has to offer. They're in it for the fun!

Waaargh!: The Orks

I'm an old, old man.

My all time favourits has to be the Daemon hunter codex alongside the 5th Eldar codex from a pure feel, if one aims for gamingwise I dare say the current SW and GK. So much cheese

The Guard codex before this one. I miss the doctrines, yes. But most of the nostagia is about my now illegal 12 sentinel list (You could get a sentinel squad to support your HQ)

I bought my Tau codex what must be atleast 5 years ago now and it's the only codex I've bought.

I got really into 40K when I was 12, had a promising Tau army then it just stopped and I lost my mojo.

 Zuul wrote:
HH:Betrayal

Within the pages of this book are the means to make the army I always wanted right down to almost the smallest detail. None of the vanilla dexes have ever really been able to meet the vision I have had for my army.

Really? I'm interested in it. I'm guessing you would recommend it, but can you give me some of your favourite aspects of Betrayal?
Thanks,
Venser

For a while it was 4th edition Tyranid.
Now it is the 4th edition Orks.

Both armies are "close combatants" that are pretty good and effective at shooting.

We actually tested once if I could run my 5th ed scout army without actually opening the codex from counting points to finishing the game and naturally this idea came up randomly so I did not have the chance to go through the rules before this (which would have made it less fun). There was a third guy there checking the codex constantly to see if I was right about the rules and all and during the game I didn't do a single mistake. I counted the points right and remembered all stats and rules from the book correctly. I've spent a lot of time with my scouts.

Old necron book, was so mysterious and evil for me, till ward

I started with the 4 ed Eldar codex, during 5 ed. rules. I loved the challenge, and most times the only reason I beat my friends was I knew my codex better they knew their own. The new one is awesome but I want a challenge again. So I am starting up Dark Eldar.

Witch Hunters for me. I loved it all in it's glory and badness. I only started at the beginning of 5th, but it was my first codex. I learned the game playing with that awful codex and struggled uphill with it, but it made me a better player. I got it because it had Sisters of Battle which had fascinated me from before I started playing 40k.

Daemons 4th edition, and daemons 6th edition.

My codex is the current Tau Codex.

Every unit in this codex can potentially be useful. Even the so-called graveyard of the codex, fast attack, harbours three or four options that - if pathfinders didn't exist - would be autotakes.

Furthermore, Vespid are underperformers in the tau codex, and yet they have a similar role to Dark Reapers in the Eldar Codex. The Difference in range is mitigated by speed, and the output might as well be the same. (sure, dark reapers are BS4, but 3 dark reapers is the same price as 5 vespid.)

Current Ork codex.

Love the Orks. And I'm at about the point where I can pretty much put together an Ork list without having to reference the Codex for points.

VensersRevenge wrote:

 Zuul wrote:
HH:Betrayal

Within the pages of this book are the means to make the army I always wanted right down to almost the smallest detail. None of the vanilla dexes have ever really been able to meet the vision I have had for my army.

Really? I'm interested in it. I'm guessing you would recommend it, but can you give me some of your favourite aspects of Betrayal?
Thanks,
Venser

Above all else it has flexibility with builds. Most vehicles can be taken in squadrons, HQs have a cheap base cost which goes up as you add on equipment/consul templates. There are four troop choices...Overall it's a sandbox as far as how you want to make your army. On top of all this when you choose a legion to run under it unlocks a couple more units and some a couple special rules. Oh, and it has an Admech army list.

Overall it is probably the best Warhammer 40k book printed to date IMHO.

CSM 3.5 and Lost and the Damned.

I also miss my 'Bayonet with some guts behind it' Mordians with Close Order Drill from old IG along with the Honorifica.

Those were the two armies that became me.

Blood Angels.

Its not that great anymore, but I don't care.

Ultramarines...
I know they don't have a "codex", so obviously just vanilla Space Marines.

2nd Edition Chaos Codex.

2E Eldar. Man I miss the amount of firepower I could put downrange with that thing.