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I understand most of what I said was totally subjective and most will disagree. I didn't say the other races were original, but original doesn't equal cool. There's some really original ideas in the war game industry that seem extremely lame to me. There's also some very derivative models/armies that are extremely badass (eldar, tyranids). I was in the military, so were most of the people I play with. I think space marine varieties are much more common among veterans than guard, mostly for the reasons I mentioned. Given the choice between an M1 and a Mk14, I know what any 20 something soldier would take to the battlefield. Perhaps that's a better analogy than cars. Space Marines are the Mk14 mod 0 with a trijicon ACOG, guard are the M1 garand with iron sights. IG seem to be more common among the older 40k players though.

You talk about WW2 in space as if it isn't fething cool. I don't understand.

 Las wrote:
You talk about WW2 in space as if it isn't fething cool. I don't understand.

"And so the time for retreating is over. Not one step back!"

Honestly, I've been considering getting rid of my massed Cadians (horray for GI-Joe #5034) in favor of Mordians using these badboys!

http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/pages/tannenberg

They also have an awesome line of 'not Praetorian' Victorian space-era English troops that have their own 'Captain Caine'.

 Frankenberry wrote:
Honestly, I've been considering getting rid of my massed Cadians (horray for GI-Joe #5034) in favor of Mordians using these badboys!

http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/pages/tannenberg

They also have an awesome line of 'not Praetorian' Victorian space-era English troops that have their own 'Captain Caine'.

Please do!

Down with the Cadians!

 martin74 wrote:
Catachans for the win.

Why I like the IG?

1. I can relate to the idea of an infantry man in the universe
2. Special characters are great, but not OP. Wish they would make a Commissar Caine and Gunner Jurgen.
3. I can bring more at any game than any one else. Plus, old metal catachan just look cool.

Exalted sir, Catachans FTW!

I picked guard for the diverse range in fluff and the fact that there are an infinite number of ways to write fluff and build your army. I've had so much fun coming up with my own thing... Designing a command structure, creating a paint scheme, etc. The best part is that these are regular humans facing down and beating the horrors of the universe. There is a certain poetry with the army that has just drawn me in. To date it's the only sent I have completely painted (and it's not my first army but has as many models)

 Frankenberry wrote:
Honestly, I've been considering getting rid of my massed Cadians (horray for GI-Joe #5034) in favor of Mordians using these badboys!

http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/pages/tannenberg

They also have an awesome line of 'not Praetorian' Victorian space-era English troops that have their own 'Captain Caine'.

Wow. Ive never seen those models before, they're amazing! Please do it! 19th century Prussian landwehr... IN SPACE!

 Insane Smile wrote:

 Selym wrote:

Toofast wrote:
I'm not sure why people like IG. Ever since I was a 10 year old kid first looking at all the races, I wondered why anyone would play a boring human army when there's so many cool things to choose from. It's like having your pick of any car at a high end dealership and picking the corvette you see everywhere over a 458 italia or a Ford GT. Also, I can't imagine painting a zillion little plain looking army men for a 2,000 point force. Even though I usually rolfstomp them, seeing IG on the other side of the table just makes me yawn. It's like someone took a WWII army, put them in a time machine and set it to 38,000 years in the future. *yawn*

Not all guardsmen are created equal
http://www.wargamesfactory.com/webstore/alien-suns/shock-troops-sci-fi-greatcoat-troopers

These are actually the models I use. They're really awesome!

I'm about to get 4 boxes of them


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 Vaktathi wrote:
IG have by far the coolest models (even if they aren't all part of the basic range), and no other army lets you field 14 tanks and 85 infantry in 1750pts

"Where is that fething artillery!!"

Tanks...tanks everywhere

IG is easily associated with, great models and variety of play style; hilarious fluff, my favorites are among the air support crafts.