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For the record, I have 10,000 points of Ultramarines, 2000 points of plague marines, 2000 points of Orks

I just used this army selector quiz that's supposed to help you decide what army suits you best.

Turns out 4 out of the top 5 are Eldar Craftworld armies. 100% match with Alaitoc Eldar. The other army was Catachan, which I have no aesthetic interest in.

My beloved Ultramarines fell at 21st place.

Plagues Marines at 29th place. Orks were 12 or something.

What are Alaitoc Eldars?

Should I sell my Ultramarines? Lol

not to derail the topic, but where did you find this quiz?

One would assume that if you’ve gone through the effort to get 10k worth of Ultramarines, you may like them. Internet quizzes at best can give you a vague answer based on their parameters.

But if you want to pick up the Eldar codex and start another allied army, go for it. If it tickles for fancy and you love it, feel free to expand to a full army.

Link to the quiz? I’m kinda curious what it say about me...

http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=40k

This is the one I took, and every single time I get all the Eldar armies, no matter how I answer... I feel it's a bit skewed.

 melkorthetonedeaf wrote:
http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=40k

This is the one I took, and every single time I get all the Eldar armies, no matter how I answer... I feel it's a bit skewed.

Lol, bastards!


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I would like to see what everyone gets for their top 5. See if it's Eldar skewed


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By the way I googled 40k Army selector and it gave me the same quiz. Select smart

Damn, that's some seriously 90's web design. Ick.

It's a random Internet quiz done by some guy who just felt like making it. It might be fun to take for the sake of it, but I wouldn't put much credence in it.

I just took it again and I got completely different results. Of course I did answer differently.

The questions themselves are based on the Eldar.

Question 1 - Shuriken Weapons and "fast: attacks vs Artillery Bombardment.
Question 2 - Crusade vs fight to live?
Question 3 - Eldar Trickery vs umm, non-Eldar Trickery?
Question 4 - this one is actually chaos vs non-chaos...
Qustion 5 - Infantry Platoons vs Striking Scorpions?
Question 6 - Land Raiders or Wave Serpents?
Question 7 - Tac Squad or 20 Guardians?
Question 8 - Psykers, good or bad?

I think you get the point.

Extremely bent towards eldar. there is hardly a way to even avoid 100% craftworld eldar rating, let alone balanced results.

The mere fact there are 6(!) eldar results there, depsite the fact they all share a single codex (the supplement did not exist when that one came out) shows just how biased is this.

At least in the SM and CSM mutliple choices there are minimal in-game differences between them, even if they can be mixed freely.

This quiz is "what eldar are you" more then "what army are you".


Just for the record, 3 of my top 5 were eldar, with the 6th being dark eldar.
The other two were WS and DA, two SM chapters that I dislike the most.
My tau, by sheer luck, came in 7th. though I honestly aimed at it.

Got Eldar as well for my top, nids second, Thousand Sons third, biel-tan fourth. I have a hunch it favors Eldar a bit. (I wouldn't say to trust such things. It doesn't even list Chaos Daemons and out of the armies I really play, it ranked IG and CSM at the bottom. The only real accurate parts were the Thousand Sons mention and Salamanders being on the higher end)

Space Wolves (Space Marine Chapter) (100%)
Biel-Tan Craftworld Eldar (99%)
White Scars (Space Marine Chapter) (91%)
Saim-Hann Craftworld Eldar (75%)
Ulthwe Craftworld Eldar (75%)

Ultramarines (my main army) was down at 13, with a 57% match.

Somehow, despite answering as un-Eldar as possible I got 100% for everyone.

The only reason my top two (and t he only ones in my top 5) are Eldar, is because it posted the list alphabetically.

Ya, I agreed to each one and got eldar as my top.... I woudnt trust this quiz at all

it's only missing several armies, not skewed at all.


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Catachans (Imperial Guard Division) (100%)
Imperial Guard / Imperial Guard Armoured Division (96%)
Craftworld Eldar (Generic / Original) (66%)
White Scars (Space Marine Chapter) (66%)
Biel-Tan Craftworld Eldar (57%)

 melkorthetonedeaf wrote:
http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=40k

This is the one I took, and every single time I get all the Eldar armies, no matter how I answer... I feel it's a bit skewed.

Using that, I got Imperial Guard. What do you know?

Well Space Wolves for No.1 which is my main army (and beard style)

then it was Tau who I wouldn't touch with anything less than a chainsword, then Ultramarines, you know the Bluer Tau

Seriously though, just ignore this selector. It's clunky, has very skewed scores that don't make much sense, and questionable scorings. 6 SM chapters despite White Scars and Salamanders being in the generic SM codices. Even claiming unique style, as much as I like Salamanders, they really aren't quite dramatic enough to get their own segment unless all SM chapters did. CSM get 5 although I guess those 4 legions do deserve some regard? Only 2 IG forces with two distinct IG styles split up with Catachans really only being IG with different models, Orks being split to orks and speed freaks, eldar getting 6 different options despite not really representing any of them in a significant manner, and is missing both Chaos Daemons and SoB.

Yeah just not worth using this for deciding armies or anything.

FYI, I am a confirmed DA player. I do not do Chaos, I'm really not comfortable with the fluff.

1. Emperor's Children (Chaos Space Marines Chapter) (100%)
2. Blood Angels (Space Marine Chapter) (95%)
3. Space Wolves (Space Marine Chapter) (95%)
4. Tau (93%)
5. Ultramarines / Generic Space Marines (Space Marine Chapter) (93%)
6. Biel-Tan Craftworld Eldar (90%)
7. World-Eaters (Chaos Space Marines Chapter) (90%)
8. Dark Angels (Space Marine Chapter) (87%)

I think that was a pretty convincing non-Eldar result.

Silly quiz, it told me Craftworld Eldar and Catachans too. I think it's just disposed to tell everyone to play Eldar.

It did tell me Dark Eldar too, which was fairly correct. That was my third result.

Craftworld Eldar (Generic / Original) (100%)
Alaitoc Craftworld Eldar (84%)
Ulthwe Craftworld Eldar (84%)
White Scars (Space Marine Chapter) (84%)
Biel-Tan Craftworld Eldar (67%)
Iyanden Craftworld Eldar (67%)
Salamanders (Space Marine Chapter) (67%)
Thousand Sons (Chaos Space Marines Chapter) (67%)
Dark Angels (Space Marine Chapter) (50%)
Dark Eldar (50%)

I don't like most of thesse armies. I love BA with all my heart and they were number 24.

Someone really smart should come up with a more reliable quiz. I'm sure there's a dakka dakka guy on here that has both the time, and the know how. Let's do this folks. Let's start our own selector!

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Someone really smart should come up with a more reliable quiz. I'm sure there's a dakka dakka guy on here that has both the time, and the know how. Let's do this folks. Let's start our own selector!

Putting up a statistically valid survey to determine which army you would like best is...Well...Impossible. Or at least not worth the thousands that would be needed to develop it and research it.

So instead of reliable...You should say "fun", because that is all it would be, fun.

Space Wolves (Space Marine Chapter) (100%)
Catachans (Imperial Guard Division) (71%)
Dark Eldar (71%)
Emperor's Children (Chaos Space Marines Chapter) (64%)
Biel-Tan Craftworld Eldar (60%)

my main army are wolves, my second army have been catachans, so fairly accurate for me

I got Catachans. But I'll never get my dream army there because it's not even listed.

1. Ulthwe Eldar (100%)
2. Alaitoc Eldar (90%)
3. Space Wolves (65%)
4. Craftworld Eldar - Generic (56%)
5. Salamanders (54%)

I don't put a lot of stock in quizzes like this. To the point I'm not going to take the time to take this one. I've found many of them can be skewed by asking specific questions that anyone familiar with lore can use to make the result you want.

1. Thousand Sons (100%) - I play Iron Warriors, you!
2. Biel-Tan Craftworld Eldar (80%)
3. Craftworld Eldar (80%)
4. Alaitoc Craftworld Eldar (60%)
5. Chaos Space Marines Generic (60%)

FYI, I like absolutely nothing about Eldar.

My results:

Dark Eldar (100%)
Orks (100%)
Ork Speed Freaks (100%)
Tyranids (100%)
Saim Hann (70%)

1. Salamanders (Space Marine Chapter) (100%)
2. Tau (100%)
3. Ultramarines / Generic Space Marines (Space Marine Chapter) (100%)
4. Alaitoc Craftworld Eldar (88%)
5. Space Wolves (Space Marine Chapter) (88%)

I got tau and ultramarines 100%, then thousand sons 94%.