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So since 6th edition (which gave us Imperial Knights) we've gotten an amazing amount of armies, I'm curious which one is everyone's favorite?

BTW I had to think long and hard about including Ynnari on this list as they're only 3 models and modifers to soup, but I figured that I'll be generous. I didn't include sisters of battle because despite only being plastic now they where actually always here. and thus technicly are not a NEW army

It's a close tie between costed and DG. Considering how I only play the later, I voted for them.
I really never gave Death Guard a second thought beyond "damn those stupid bikers" - I wouldn't even have been able to name their primarch before he got a model.
Then a friend wanted to get into the game with Dark Imperium and was looking to split the DG part with someone.
Reading up on the fluff and their rules the became more and more interesting, both from a game perspective and their lore. Mind you, not the parts about fluids leaking everywhere, but more the odd mindset that convinces the followers of nurgle to be doing the one thing that is right despite their endless suffering. Mortarion is bad-ass, relatable, rational and bat-gak insane at the same time while Typhus is perfect mirror of him in being a charismatic, manipulative and arrogant guy who is very aware of where he stands in the universe.
The army itself feels like a large number of tiny interlocking gears, which makes them very interesting to play.

Custodes have the charm of every single being a one-man army, more knowledgeable and powerful than anyone one else. I also like how they tend to treat marines as insolent children.

Adepta Sororitas which are criminally missing in the poll!!! They were in the catalogue since decades but only in 6th they became a real faction, they were part of a larger Witch Hunter codex before.

Finally in plastic, awesome models and kits with tons of bitz to differentiate and well equip the miniatures.

I actually don't like any of the factions listed in the poll, maybe Ad Mech but they still not impress me. I'm talking about how they look and their style of playing, not if they are competitive or not.

I went with Death Guard, because I gotta vote Chaos, and zombies are cooler than ancient Egyptian themed sorcerers, and the only other chaos faction is an army of super heavys, and as much as I love super heavys, an entire faction of them....well, let's just not drag this off topic.

BrianDavion wrote:
I didn't include sisters of battle because despite only being plastic now they where actually always here. and thus technicly are not a NEW army

Well, DG aren't a new army by that definition, they existed since 3rd edition... I started them at the end of 5th and merely expanded on the army with 8th edition.

I wouldn’t count genestealer cults as a new army either. I played against them back in 2nd Ed.

Aash wrote:
I wouldn’t count genestealer cults as a new army either. I played against them back in 2nd Ed.

I think with them it's a little easier since they didn't exist from 3rd to 7th edition DG simply got expanded and outsourced, SoB got a complete replacement with additional units.

Btw. one should probably include Primaris Marines because they got more kits than all the other new armies mentioned

Ynnari.

Really made the whole Eldar (as a whole)/Aeldari lore interesting for once, giving them a stake / story / reason to exist in the actual "current" 40K instead of the tired Tolkien-knock-off story of "they had stuff happen thousands of years ago and a few still hang around without much consequence".

Also love the Yncarne. One of my favourite models ever.

I have both a Deathwatch army and a Genestealer Cult army. I voted Deathwatch.

I understand and actually agree with the argument that 40K is too Marine focused. Still I think the background of Deathwatch is super cool, and pretty much how Marines should be represented in 40K. I waited for them for as long as I can remember (were they mentioned in 2nd edition?) and when they were finally released I wasn't disappointed.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:

Aash wrote:
I wouldn’t count genestealer cults as a new army either. I played against them back in 2nd Ed.

I think with them it's a little easier since they didn't exist from 3rd to 7th edition DG simply got expanded and outsourced, SoB got a complete replacement with additional units.

Btw. one should probably include Primaris Marines because they got more kits than all the other new armies mentioned

It's more like they have been re-invented rather than expanded. The overlap between a typical DG army before 8th and a current one are fairly slim.
I'd very much say it's a new army under an old name,

Genestealer Cults, easily.

El Torro wrote:
I have both a Deathwatch army and a Genestealer Cult army. I voted Deathwatch.

I understand and actually agree with the argument that 40K is too Marine focused. Still I think the background of Deathwatch is super cool, and pretty much how Marines should be represented in 40K. I waited for them for as long as I can remember (were they mentioned in 2nd edition?) and when they were finally released I wasn't disappointed.

There had been Deathwatch Kill-Teams floating around in the rules before. Imo that's how they should've stayed, similar to the Inquisition now where you 'can' but probably won't take a full roster of them in your armies. That, or they did Codex: Alienhunters like originally planned but that got scrapped for whatever reason.

The most unique army they made out of them, i.e Genestealer Cults; some are just too similar gameplay-wise to what's already existing whilst others were just expanded a bit more

Ynnari here too. It gave us Elf players a way to go lorewise, but of course we need better rules.

Mechanicus or DG.

Hmm... hard choice.

Genestealer Cults, Adeptus Mechanicus and Deathwatch are all so very near and dear to me, so much so that I had a Deathwatch and AdMech armies before it was cool GW even made models/rules for them (outside of the odd piece here and there).

So... I have to pick AdMech. To me they were the holy grail of 40K forces, something that I thought we'd never see (along with Adeptus Custodes). Amazingly we got both.

As someone who actually played Genestealer Cult in 2nd ed (and lost every single game) I am over the moon with the new models and the fact the army is more real and unique then it ever was before as an appendix in Codex: Tyranids.

That said I am voting Ynnari. I have never been an Eldar player but the lore implications and potential there are amazing and make me interested in a faction I have mostly disliked for decades now. Here's hoping GW develops it into an actual army sometime this decade.

Custodes and AdMech are up there in cool factor too but I think they were fine as factions to exist in the background.

It was close to a tie for me between the AdMech & The GSC.

In the end I went with the GSC as I like more of their models/range.
But GSC is not technically a NEW army. We've had rules for them in 2e, & 3e. The 3e rules also functioned 4e+ until the codex & new model range arrived.
But the GSC of today is quite different/greatly expanded vrs what came before. As well as being leaps & bounds better model wise.

Genestealer Cults for me. I say this, not actually having any of the above forces, so my criteria was simple - if I was given a few hundred quid to get the Codex and a small army of one of these, which would I choose?
AdMech came very, very close.

No contest:

IMPERIAL KNIGHTS!

NEVER before could you play Battle mech in 40K.

Second place would be GSC.

I really think SoB should have been included, for all intents and purposes they are pretty much a new army. Would have had my vote.


Thousand Sons is the army from this list that I play, and I really enjoy them. All of these are great armies though, and I'm glad are a part of the game now.

Custodes.

I love gold and their playstyle. You just have to spend crazy amounts of money on forgeworld.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Hmm... hard choice.

Genestealer Cults, Adeptus Mechanicus and Deathwatch are all so very near and dear to me, so much so that I had a Deathwatch and AdMech armies before it was cool GW even made models/rules for them (outside of the odd piece here and there).

So... I have to pick AdMech. To me they were the holy grail of 40K forces, something that I thought we'd never see (along with Adeptus Custodes). Amazingly we got both.

yeah I choose admech myself. the models are gorgous, and finally brought an army into 40k that REAAAAAAALY needed to be brought in.

GSC by a mile. Look good, conceptually interesting.

Four of those I wish they hadn't done at all.
2 because they're the wrong scale for the game

1 because the fluff says they shouldn't be in the game (and should only be equipped with spears, helmets and leather pants)

and the last because GW introduced them and then utterly failed to do anything with them.

Wait: how can the TS be so low while the DG are so high ?
They were both already existing Chaos warbands that got expanded.
Is it because DG is better (and thus more played) or has way more models / exposure ?
Yanni for example are higher than TS in the poll but have what, 3 models ?
Just curious


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Voss wrote:
GSC by a mile. Look good, conceptually interesting.

Four of those I wish they hadn't done at all.
2 because they're the wrong scale for the game

1 because the fluff says they shouldn't be in the game (and should only be equipped with spears, helmets and leather pants)

and the last because GW introduced them and then utterly failed to do anything with them.

Quoted for Truth

 godardc wrote:
Wait: how can the TS be so low while the DG are so high ?
They were both already existing Chaos warbands that got expanded.
Is it because DG is better (and thus more played) or has way more models / exposure ?
Yanni for example are higher than TS in the poll but have what, 3 models ?
Just curious

I can't speak for anyone else on this - but I've never really liked the Thousand Sons that much. It's mostly to do with their appearance, I just don't think the Egyptian theme fits power armour, and I hate the way the colour scheme looks. Blue and gold? Fine. Blue and yellow? Fine. Blue and yellow and gold? Get out and don't come back.

I suspect Death Guard being so popular in comparison has a lot to do with their much wider model range. Let's face it, Thousand Sons did get an update to go with their Codex, but only a handful of units.

 godardc wrote:
Wait: how can the TS be so low while the DG are so high ?
They were both already existing Chaos warbands that got expanded.
Is it because DG is better (and thus more played) or has way more models / exposure ?
Yanni for example are higher than TS in the poll but have what, 3 models ?
Just curious

I can think of multiple reasons for the difference between DG and TS.
- The DG range consist of nurgly tanks, daemon engines and marines as terminators, characters and rank&file. Many people have exclaimed their dislike for how TS got a bunch of AoS models instead of a "real" 40k range.
- Despite the limited range, DG actually have multiple ways to play them before even adding daemons, while TS always revolve around casting the same powerful psychic powers.
- DG were in the starter sets of 8th and the conquest magazine, so they were cheap to get, their lore was everywhere for some people this might even have been their first army.

Death Guard ultimately feel like a distinct army with a distinct play style. 1k Sons... mostly feels like you're playing a CSM variation that "really didn't need it's own codex" I hope GW's got a plan to expand on 1k sons though as they're a neat faction.

Custodes having a criminally low showing!!

Show the golden boys the love that deserve

I love my Admech Taghmata and have many things to add, mostly from 30k(whenever that happens).

Ynarri need a specific unit or two to really feel like they have something the other 3 branches of Aeldari don't.

what they need to do is put out a Ynnari Codex, that is distinctly it's own thing, that runs a mix of CWE and DE units as well as some of their own stuff and yes this means not ALL the DE and CWE stuff, the only way ynnari will work is if they are willing to make them their own codex with their own faction.