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For my Harlequins, the fact that some of our notable units don't make the codex (Great Harlequins, Mimes) and the lack of any special characters there too. I mean, it would have been nice to get Sylandri Veilwalker as a buffed-up Shadowseer, to give one example.

With Blood Angels the thing that annoys me more than anything else is how poorly our fluff translates onto the tabletop. "Blood Angels are the best shock troops in the imperium? How about +1 strength on the charge and that's it? Raven Guard? Ha! Give them rerolls on HoW and let them use their jump packs whenever they want." It's just terribly off what we deserve. Another thing is how it seems that the Blood Angel codex and supplements have been designed so that we can be allies for other forces rather than our own standalone army. Our overcrowded elites slot. How we have the second most special characters but most of them are crap. I don't have all night so I'll stop now ...........................

I dislike how imperial agents and inquisition just doesn't fit into tournament games where they usually have some sort of formation/cad/allies limit.

Alot of the units are like 1-2 guys and you really need a bunch of formations to field a decent list. Alas, it'll be just an allied in small detatchment in torunaments

By far my least favorite thing about my favorite army is that there are only 1,000 of them in total....

 Rippy wrote:

kpatterson14206 wrote:
I am a Tyranid player, and for me it's the "Hive Mind" aspect of the army. I am currently reading through the Horus Heresey and sometimes I get jealous of all the cool characters involved. Outside of the Special Characters given to us in the codex, sometimes I wish my army wasn't a swarm of mindless killing machines. But then I look at my Tyrannofexes and feel all warm and fuzzy about them again.

>rolls only army with Hive Mind aspect
>gets upset that it has a Hive Mind aspect

Probably because they like other things about the army?

I run Space Wolves.
I hate the naming system that forces me to make explainations like "No, that is a Wolf A, not a Wolf B, C or D like the ones I was just rolling for" and half the time my opponent is just trolling anyway, but the other half who legitimately get confused means I have to take the bait. This next whinge is more a personal issue but it also sucks when my opponent asks how I remember all these Wolfy names but still forgot my Psychic phase.

I also run Nids, I like the way the Hive Mind works, kind of makes me think ants nest.
What I do hate is trying to find storage and transport systems that don't break off all my Nid's spikey bits.
It also rankles that there are MCs far better than anything in the Tyranids' codex.
I got my Tyranids because they were the Big Scary Stompy Army, what do you mean other armies that can spam Bigger, Scarier and Stompier!!? I don't mind other armies having better stuff than the Nids do, I got my Nids to encourage new players, not to win matches - I hate that the better stuff some armies have are Monstrous Creatures - but, but...but that was my schtick!

That I have to take a wraithknight to give battle focus to wraithguard. What drew me to eldar was the shooting and running mechanic being really fun, and the wraithguard models being so cool. Being able to get both is a dream for me, but I always feel cheesy bringing the wraith knight.

Also how ugly most of the special character models are. Eldar have some seriously ugly stuff.

Thousand Sons: Rubrics are still awful.
Dark Eldar: Drazhar and Incubi still don't fit in the army.
Tyranid: Warriors are still meh. Hive Fleet Jagannath with nothing but Warriors will likely never be a thing.

Those are my largest armies that I made an honest attempt at keeping.

I have a smaller army of Eldar where my main disappointment is a lack of plastic aspect warriors (A plastic Karandras and plastic Scorpions for an aspect shrine themed force would be my dream come true). My only real disappointment with my Dark Angels is GW decided to go with flails instead of badass swords aesthetically speaking.

Nvs wrote:
Thousand Sons: Rubrics are still awful.
Dark Eldar: Drazhar and Incubi still don't fit in the army.
Tyranid: Warriors are still meh. Hive Fleet Jagannath with nothing but Warriors will likely never be a thing.

Those are my largest armies that I made an honest attempt at keeping.

I have a smaller army of Eldar where my main disappointment is a lack of plastic aspect warriors (A plastic Karandras and plastic Scorpions for an aspect shrine themed force would be my dream come true). My only real disappointment with my Dark Angels is GW decided to go with flails instead of badass swords aesthetically speaking.

I like your DA Flails.
Some of them needed to have DA insignias melted off but they make epic TWC power mauls.

I'm not a huge fan of the Chaos fluff. I hate playing the bad guy in any rpg, and I try to be a good person in real life. I like some fluff, don't mind other, hate some, but chaos has that overall bad guy feeling. But they suit what I want in an army both play style wise, and painting and modeling wise perfectly

The ancient CSM models with seemingly random weapon options (I'm looking at you terminators).

Nvs wrote:
My only real disappointment with my Dark Angels is GW decided to go with flails instead of badass swords aesthetically speaking.

How can you not like maces of absolution and flails of the unforgiven!? DW knights are the best models in our codex.

 kingbobbito wrote:

Nvs wrote:
My only real disappointment with my Dark Angels is GW decided to go with flails instead of badass swords aesthetically speaking.

How can you not like maces of absolution and flails of the unforgiven!? DW knights are the best models in our codex.

There's nothing more hardcore than a terminator in a robe wielding a terminator sized 2-handed sword decapitating foes as he charges into battle. The models are still cool, don't get me wrong. I just wanted swords

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
I run Space Wolves.
I hate the naming system that forces me to make explainations like "No, that is a Wolf A, not a Wolf B, C or D like the ones I was just rolling for" and half the time my opponent is just trolling anyway, but the other half who legitimately get confused means I have to take the bait. This next whinge is more a personal issue but it also sucks when my opponent asks how I remember all these Wolfy names but still forgot my Psychic phase.

I also run Nids, I like the way the Hive Mind works, kind of makes me think ants nest.
What I do hate is trying to find storage and transport systems that don't break off all my Nid's spikey bits.
It also rankles that there are MCs far better than anything in the Tyranids' codex.
I got my Tyranids because they were the Big Scary Stompy Army, what do you mean other armies that can spam Bigger, Scarier and Stompier!!? I don't mind other armies having better stuff than the Nids do, I got my Nids to encourage new players, not to win matches - I hate that the better stuff some armies have are Monstrous Creatures - but, but...but that was my schtick!

The ONLY army that should match and sometimes outclass your MCs are daemons. Tau, Eldar, and GKs should have their battle suits that are suits of armor actually count as vehicles. They're glorified dreadnaughts. Either make them like dreadnaughts or make all walkers MCs. Simple.
But I digress. Yeah, your Nids should be big and epic. My Daemon lords should be big and epic. No other false MCs should.

Nvs wrote:

 kingbobbito wrote:

Nvs wrote:
My only real disappointment with my Dark Angels is GW decided to go with flails instead of badass swords aesthetically speaking.

How can you not like maces of absolution and flails of the unforgiven!? DW knights are the best models in our codex.

There's nothing more hardcore than a terminator in a robe wielding a terminator sized 2-handed sword decapitating foes as he charges into battle. The models are still cool, don't get me wrong. I just wanted swords

I wonder how Dark Angels manage to not tear their robes every time they move a limb beyond what the robe can take.

For orks, I don't like our rules (power level problems aside they aren't interesting or always fluffy) and our lack of options for different army styles.

Centurions are quite possibly the ugliest models in the Space Marine line. And they are also the one of the best units in the Codex. Wonderful.

I also dislike how internally imbalanced our codex is. While C:SM is top tier there are just so many options within it that are simply not worth taking. You might as well just slap whiteout on 85% of the wargear choices for what good they do.

Str 3, range 18 for hotshots

The lack of some of the normal IG orders

 Pouncey wrote:
I wonder how Dark Angels manage to not tear their robes every time they move a limb beyond what the robe can take.

Clearly ceramite-hardened space-spandex. They've obviously found a better alternative to cotton by the year 40,000.

 kingbobbito wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:
I wonder how Dark Angels manage to not tear their robes every time they move a limb beyond what the robe can take.

Clearly ceramite-hardened space-spandex. They've obviously found a better alternative to cotton by the year 40,000.

I know what "ceramite" is in 40k lore...

Are you saying that they're making their robes out of power armor material?

I wish they went into more detail with the ork klans and crunch to back it up. Klan Roolz or sumfing like dat. Hopefully initiating a proper rewrite of ork codex. Also releasing HQ chars with options would be nice.

 Pouncey wrote:

 kingbobbito wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:
I wonder how Dark Angels manage to not tear their robes every time they move a limb beyond what the robe can take.

Clearly ceramite-hardened space-spandex. They've obviously found a better alternative to cotton by the year 40,000.

I know what "ceramite" is in 40k lore...

Are you saying that they're making their robes out of power armor material?

How else could you make such good looking robes so durable? It's a high poly blend with ceramite fibers weaved throughout to create a material that's flexible and soft to the touch but that won't get torn up or easily caught on fire. Highly resistant to stains as well, heretic blood washes right out.

 kingbobbito wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:

 kingbobbito wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:
I wonder how Dark Angels manage to not tear their robes every time they move a limb beyond what the robe can take.

Clearly ceramite-hardened space-spandex. They've obviously found a better alternative to cotton by the year 40,000.

I know what "ceramite" is in 40k lore...

Are you saying that they're making their robes out of power armor material?

How else could you make such good looking robes so durable? It's a high poly blend with ceramite fibers weaved throughout to create a material that's flexible and soft to the touch but that won't get torn up or easily caught on fire. Highly resistant to stains as well, heretic blood washes right out.

Is ceramite that flexible? I thought it was very rigid.

Thousand Sons and over-cost.

I wish we got FNP for the cost. Suits that keep on ticking.

It probably has to do with the Stormlord's performance on the tabletop.

More so than other characters, his buildup in the fluff is super disappointing in the game. He chops people's hands off, but has no melee options whatsoever. It would at least make sense if his staff had a melee profile, but as it stands he isn't a terribly great force multiplier for 190 points nor is he good at melee. The shooting is really only passable too.

I have a large, G.I.JOE themed Imperial guard army. EVERY guardsmen is painted and modified to resemble a figure from the 1982-1994 toyline.
Whenever I show it to people; they either make village people jokes or remember the goofy episodes of the cartoon.
I kid you not; there was an episode in which Cobra [the bad guys] try to take over the world with mutant fruit. Despite having 95 episodes, that's the only one the people in my area ever seem to remember

 Skymate wrote:
I have a large, G.I.JOE themed Imperial guard army. EVERY guardsmen is painted and modified to resemble a figure from the 1982-1994 toyline.
Whenever I show it to people; they either make village people jokes or remember the goofy episodes of the cartoon.
I kid you not; there was an episode in which Cobra [the bad guys] try to take over the world with mutant fruit. Despite having 95 episodes, that's the only one the people in my area ever seem to remember

I demand pictures of this army

I dislike that Dark Eldar don't have psykers.

I know it's part of the fluff, I just kinda wish they were super powerful psychic users like craftworld Eldar.

 Brutus_Apex wrote:
I dislike that Dark Eldar don't have psykers.

I know it's part of the fluff, I just kinda wish they were super powerful psychic users like craftworld Eldar.

Out of curiosity...

Why aren't they?

 Pouncey wrote:

 Brutus_Apex wrote:
I dislike that Dark Eldar don't have psykers.

I know it's part of the fluff, I just kinda wish they were super powerful psychic users like craftworld Eldar.

Out of curiosity...

Why aren't they?

Best guess?

1.) Using psychic powers requires a very strict training regime and Dark Eldar society really doesn't have that kind of structure outside of the Incubi temples and Haemonculi covens.
2.) The idea that using psychic powers taps into the warp and the practitioner would be a beacon to Slaanesh, something the Dark Eldar try to hide from within the webway.
3.) Back in the day, psychic powers really weren't that developed rules wise so to make Eldar and Dark Eldar different, Dark Eldar had haemonculi and combat drugs to kind of offer similar elements that psychic powers offered at the time.

While I do agree with Brutus Apex that it would have been nice if Dark Eldar had something to do with the psychic phase, my larger gripe from a background perspective is the whole medical vat regeneration stuff. I never much enjoyed the idea of some Archon having a retinue for the sole purpose of finding a leftover finger or toe after he took a melta to the face so he could be regenerated at home. I much prefer my Dark Eldar being space vampires that consume enemy souls to remain youthful and become increasingly strong the more they consume in combat.