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Necrons were my first army. Started collecting CSM, but in the midst got a good jumpstart deal on Tyranids, and I'm having so much fun modeling the Nids that the CSM project has gone back to the To Do list.

It's funny how if you put Blood Angel, Dark Angel and Space Wolf players together, this would be the most played army on the entire list, surpassing generic Space Marines

 Sir Arun wrote:
It's funny how if you put Blood Angel, Dark Angel and Space Wolf players together, this would be the most played army on the entire list, surpassing generic Space Marines

It goes like this:
Space Marines (all of them): 41% [324] (1/4 of them being Chaos)
Imperial Guard 13%[ 106 ]
Orks 8%[ 63 ]
Tau Empire 7%[ 58 ]
Eldar 6%[ 51 ]
Tyranids 5%[ 42 ]
Necrons 5%[ 39 ]
Dark Eldar 5%[ 36 ]
Chaos Daemons 4%[ 31 ]
Sisters of Battle 3%[ 24 ]
Imperial Knights 2%[ 15 ]

Another One:
Imperium: 49% [392]
Chaos: 14% [108]
Xenos: 36% [253]


But there is something I don´t understand: I voted for five different armies. If people vote for many options, the amount should be higher than 100%. Captain?

Nope because even if you each vote for multiple armies, then all your votes end up in the same category. The same as if 5 different people voted for the armies you voted for.

Orks and (Codex) Space Marines. Started with AoBR and expanded both armies, but tend to start factions in other games instead of a new 40k army. Or "finishing" any of the existent ones in any game system...

Also forgets the 30k players, they spend money too, different setting but same core came mechaniccs

IG, Wolves, Nids, Eldar and Orks.
Would love to start either Crons or Imp Fists but not enough time currently.

Interesting poll in that 10% of players have Chaos, 3rd in the poll. Would not have thought them that popular.

 Inkubas wrote:
Couldn't find my Astra militarum so o choose imperial gaurd

There is no astra militarum, there's only IG.

I'm primarily an Astra Militarum/IG player, but I've also got a sizeable Dark Angels force, and very small Inquisition and Ultramarines armies that are just starting up. I'm considering CSM with Traitor Guard as a future project.

My girlfriend is mainly an Eldar player, but she's also got about 2000 points of Grey Knights/Inquisition.

 da001 wrote:

It goes like this:


But there is something I don´t understand: I voted for five different armies. If people vote for many options, the amount should be higher than 100%. Captain?

Because it counts each vote you made as a seperate vote, giving the % out fo number of votes placed, rather then number of voters.

Several of my armies are not even useable anymore, so that's a bummer.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Several of my armies are not even useable anymore, so that's a bummer.

Define not usable.

Unless you have squats, your army is usable.

All of the mentioned minus Chaos (Marines, Daemons, 30K).

IG/Sisters/Orks.

Not sure about the total points any more, tbh. Smaller than it used to be to be sure.

 BoomWolf wrote:

 da001 wrote:

It goes like this:


But there is something I don´t understand: I voted for five different armies. If people vote for many options, the amount should be higher than 100%. Captain?

Because it counts each vote you made as a seperate vote, giving the % out fo number of votes placed, rather then number of voters.

Thanks

 Kommissar Kel wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Several of my armies are not even useable anymore, so that's a bummer.

Define not usable.

Unless you have squats, your army is usable.

Genestealer Cult, Lost and the Damned (do not mistake with Traitor Guard), Arbites, Kroots, Zoats, Squats & Chaos Squats, Slann, Mechanicus & Legio Cybernetica. I am most probably missing some. Not counting stuff like Enslavers and one-model armies.

Also my main army during 5th, Chaos Undivided, my first army ever: Flesh Eaters (just a chapter, I know), and my second: Mutants.

Kroot Mercs from Chapter Approved, and my Space Wolves 13th Company army that aren't just fielded as standard Space Wolves after I have to buy vehicles and shelve my metal Wulfen.

Also my Legion of the Damned from the Cursed Founding would have to turn into codex marines that just like flames and skulls.

I am with the 49% Imperial


Adeptus Astartes:
- Blood Angels
- ( Dark Angels ) successor
- Raven Guard
- Iron Hands
- Salamanders
- Black Templars
- ( White Scars ) successor
- Codex adherent SM ( 2x )
- Grey Knights
- ( Space Wolves ) just a few models
- ( Deathwatch ) small killteam

Adeptus Sororitas
- SoB

Astra Militarum:
- Armored Company
- mobile infantry
- air cav / jungle fighters

Allies & Auxillia:
- ( Inquisitors )
- Imperial Knights
- SHV company
- Necrons


Some of these may not function as an Army now thanks to GW.

I have Eldar and Tyranids.

I also have a few Dark Eldar, Dark Angels, and CSM (last 2 only because I bought the starter set). Plus I have my brothers SM and Tau. As it is I only checked Eldar and Nids, as I don't really collect the othars.

Just SoB, at the moment. Though one day I plan on starting Space Marines/Inquisition to be allies for my Sisters.

Just Imperial Guard.

Used to have 10s of thousands of dollars worth of the things. Broke the bad habit and now im down to a reasonable army along with one army for each Game system.

I have some converted and 3rd party grey knights im incredibly slowly building up for my first allies, but im in no rush for that.

So just imperial guard.

 da001 wrote:

 Kommissar Kel wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Several of my armies are not even useable anymore, so that's a bummer.

Define not usable.

Unless you have squats, your army is usable.

Genestealer Cult, Lost and the Damned (do not mistake with Traitor Guard), Arbites, Kroots, Zoats, Squats & Chaos Squats, Slann, Mechanicus & Legio Cybernetica. I am most probably missing some. Not counting stuff like Enslavers and one-model armies.

Also my main army during 5th, Chaos Undivided, my first army ever: Flesh Eaters (just a chapter, I know), and my second: Mutants.

Cult soon doable with unbound, lost and damned pretty doable with allies (as long it wont change), arbites never WERE an army AFAIK, and could stand-in for vet-based IG army rules, kroots never had enough to be stand-alone, never heard of slann in 40k, mechanicus&legio got rules in 30k.
Enslavers dont NEED an army, just take one as "enslaved", and one-model armies were never...armies?

 BoomWolf wrote:
Cult soon doable with unbound, lost and damned pretty doable with allies (as long it wont change), arbites never WERE an army AFAIK, and could stand-in for vet-based IG army rules, kroots never had enough to be stand-alone, never heard of slann in 40k, mechanicus&legio got rules in 30k.
Enslavers dont NEED an army, just take one as "enslaved", and one-model armies were never...armies?

Genestealer Cults are not doable with unbound actually. They included a great many units which GW got rid of- you can make a crummy cult list by combining guard with Tyranids, but that wouldn't have any of the character and function that the old Genestealer cult list had. Genestealer Cults had Genestealer Patriarchs, the Magus, Hybrids, and Blood Brothers.

Kroot had a fairly fun stand-alone list that was part of WD as far as I remember. They actually would make a good force- probably as part of a dataslate or FAQ and not a full codex.

Slann used to be a full army- because their equipment was a mishmash of random stuff and they never really got a large following, they went away. I don't really miss Slann much.

Arbites were from Necromunda, maybe he's confused? The only Arbites that were in 40k was the option to include a squad of them in your army, and they were identical to modern vets with shotguns.

 BoomWolf wrote:

 da001 wrote:

 Kommissar Kel wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Several of my armies are not even useable anymore, so that's a bummer.

Define not usable.

Unless you have squats, your army is usable.

Genestealer Cult, Lost and the Damned (do not mistake with Traitor Guard), Arbites, Kroots, Zoats, Squats & Chaos Squats, Slann, Mechanicus & Legio Cybernetica. I am most probably missing some. Not counting stuff like Enslavers and one-model armies.

Also my main army during 5th, Chaos Undivided, my first army ever: Flesh Eaters (just a chapter, I know), and my second: Mutants.

Cult soon doable with unbound, lost and damned pretty doable with allies (as long it wont change), arbites never WERE an army AFAIK, and could stand-in for vet-based IG army rules, kroots never had enough to be stand-alone, never heard of slann in 40k, mechanicus&legio got rules in 30k.
Enslavers dont NEED an army, just take one as "enslaved", and one-model armies were never...armies?

Codex Imperialis (1993, second edition) got rules for Arbites, Squats, Adeptus Astra Telepathica, Mechanicus, Slann and many others. Rogue Trader (first edition) got some stuff too.

30k Mechanicus is quite different from 40k Mechanicus. An odd decision by FW that perhaps hints at the possibility of a 40k Codex: Admech. Just about every iconic unit is no longer there. Same applies to the Legio Cybernetica. Not that I complain at getting more Mechanicus stuff, but I am missing Electropriests, Skitarii and the rest.

Genestealer Cult and The Lost and the Damned (not Traitor Guard) are unique armies with a distinctive feeling. An answer like "just imagine they are Imperial Guard" can be applied to Marines or Tyranids too.

Kroot got a almost-official full codex by Andy Hoare at the same time Hoare wrote the first Codex: Tau.

There were rules for Enslavers in Rogue Trader. It is somehow a one-model army because, as you said, the rest of the army is enslaved. Also Marines, Orks or Demons do not "NEED" an army neither. But a lot of people like them. Less people like the Enslavers, but then again it can be easy to give rules to a single unit.

You skipped Mutants (well, they can be considered part of the Lost and the Damned I guess; like beastmen), Zoats and one of the most recent armies retconned to oblivion: Chaos Undivided.

And I would like to add Independent Daemons (who got rules like 'build up your own Greater Daemons'), Adeptus Astra Telepathica, and Assassins (without GK or Inq).


The setting is quite rich, yet we get mostly marines and marines and more marines.

BT, IG and Orks, as well as a small Hereticus army on the way.

kroots never had enough to be stand-alone

The Mercenary codex from Chapter Approved would argue that. Granted everything but Carnivores, Hounds and Krootox needed to be converted, but they were a fully realized army with decent options for every slot. Sniper units, Snipers on Cavalry, special elite Carnivore squads, their commander could take powers from the minor psychic tables, army-wide ability traits, etc.

I have a decent sized force. All the conversions were a blast to make, back when you could buy from the Bitz service.

Wow I forgot Chapter Approved.

Kudos to you, that seems like quite a cool army!

There were also rules for Enslavers, the Kult of Speed, Feral Orks, some Abhumans for IG and the Cursed Foundation, I think.

 da001 wrote:
Wow I forgot Chapter Approved.

Kudos to you, that seems like quite a cool army!

There were also rules for Enslavers, the Kult of Speed, Feral Orks, some Abhumans for IG and the Cursed Foundation, I think.

You know if GW continued it's relation with Chapter Approved, between CA and FW I think we'd have enough lists and add on units to let anyone play any faction or find rules for any unit they want to so long as it exists in the 40k setting.

 da001 wrote:
Wow I forgot Chapter Approved.

Kudos to you, that seems like quite a cool army!

There were also rules for Enslavers, the Kult of Speed, Feral Orks, some Abhumans for IG and the Cursed Foundation, I think.

Did someone say Cursed Founding?

http://redelf.narod.ru/w40k/ia/w40k_ia_cf_0.html

 Sir Arun wrote:

Waaaghpower wrote:
Why aren't Inquisition on the list?

"armies" that are only made up of 1-2 units like Stormtroopers, LotD, Inquisitors etc werent included and instead are assumed to be part of the current "full fledged" codex they are part of (IG, SM and GK/SoB depending on what ordo your Inquisitor hails from, respectively).

I only included Knights because of their sheer battlefield presence that would warrant this to be an exception to the "one-unit" codexes.

Not that it's a big deal, but Codex:Inquisition has more than '1-2' units. They don't have the versatility of most codexes, sure, but depending on how you count it they have either 6 Units (3 Types of inquisitors, 2 special characters, and a Henchmen warband,) or a whole lot more than that. Even if you discount all their HQs as being pretty much the same, merely with gear limitations (Which is fair enough,) their one 'Troops' choice has 7 vehicles and 10 types of Infantry. They can totally be run as their own army, with lots of different options, many of which aren't available in the other places where similar armies can show up. (Grey Knights don't have a lot of vehicle options and are missing at least one infantry type, if I recall.)


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 liquidjoshi wrote:

 da001 wrote:
Wow I forgot Chapter Approved.

Kudos to you, that seems like quite a cool army!

There were also rules for Enslavers, the Kult of Speed, Feral Orks, some Abhumans for IG and the Cursed Foundation, I think.

Did someone say Cursed Founding?

http://redelf.narod.ru/w40k/ia/w40k_ia_cf_0.html

I've seen that before, and kind of want to try out a super-elite biker army with the Sons of Antaeus and Iron Hands, run as a nurgle-based army. An army of T6, unkilleable, FNP, regenerating beasts! To get the full use of the benefits you'd have to double down on characters, so I'd probably double up on Iron Hands using Rukaanan for two Chapter Masters with Eternal Warrior. (And maybe, just maybe, one Chapter Master who merely has T6 and a 3++.) You pay a hefty tax to upgrade your troops, so taking a lot of characters is important, but overall it seems worth it. Is it tournament-level strong? No, but most tournaments probably won't allow Chapter Approved from 3rd and 4th edition. Would it be fun and cool? I think so.

 Kain wrote:

 da001 wrote:
Wow I forgot Chapter Approved.

Kudos to you, that seems like quite a cool army!

There were also rules for Enslavers, the Kult of Speed, Feral Orks, some Abhumans for IG and the Cursed Foundation, I think.

You know if GW continued it's relation with Chapter Approved, between CA and FW I think we'd have enough lists and add on units to let anyone play any faction or find rules for any unit they want to so long as it exists in the 40k setting.

That would be awesome. It is the way I think the game should be. The setting is there and it is full of cool factions to play.

@liquidjoshi: yeah that one!. With Abominations and Cursed Knights and everything.