Best Current Codex For Fluff?

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**Manchu**

It can be for "best written," "most engaging," "least number of typos," etc. I look forward to seeing the first "Awww! Where's The Lost and the Damned?" or "Chaos 3rd isn't on here!"

**jack1995**

I'm gonna have to say space marines, mostly cos it has the most in it. And some of its pretty good. (Except the ultrasmurfs bits!)

**Emperors Faithful**

I have to say guard.
There are so many armies to choose from. So many backrounds! Tallarn, Pretoria, Vostroya, Valhalla, Cadia, Mordia, Krieg, and (amidst a sea of monsters and superhumans) they have always been the most (sniffle)...human.

**warsmith pyrus**

jack1995 wrote:I'm gonna have to say space marines...some of its pretty good. (Except the ultrasmurfs bits!)

lol that codex is like 90% ultrasmurf.

Hmmm come to think of it so is like 90% of what GW is focoused on aswell I feel a conspiracy coming on.

(the majority of GW staff can only recognise blue and black and all other colours are invisible to them)

**Ciaphas-Cain**

I'm really enjoying the new guard fluff its a HUGE improvement over the old one

If i could vote a 2nd time i'd be Dark Angels that fallen fluff is really interesting

**Archonate**

I voted Tau. Gives a nice narrative that starts with their origin and details everything up to their current state, including the spheres of advancement and the cultures of Kroot and Vespids. It's a very encompassing codex.

**Milquetoast Thug**

Eldar, hands down. I don't like Eldar tanks or units or characters AT ALL, but damn, after reading that codex, I seriously was all like "holy feth these guys don't feth around; they are badass."

Granted I was ALSO kinda like "man, these guys are complete dicks! Seriously, what the hell!" but it was more of the former than the latter.

**Fresh**

I don't know about fluff but my favourite battle reports was for tyranids. honestly - the story of the eldar getting owned by the winged hive tyrant was awesome and the imperial guardsmen officer who go impaled by the ravener(?) ahh, good times

but fluff wise, probably orks - it shows alot about their way of life, how they fight, orgins etc. (then again i only own like 3 codexs)

**Lord Chiasson**

Id have to say Space Marines, even tho yes it mostly bout Ultramarines, My favorite part tho is the small story it gives in the unit section bout the Legion of The Damned kicking butt, awesomeness on a stick

. If you wanted more fluff all round I would just go with the 40k rulebook. Most in depth tho is the Space Marines IMO

**Gwar!**

Dur, It's Space Wolves. That Codex is the best written current codex GW has ever made IMO.

Also, Why isn't Chaos 3rd on here!

**Manchu**

Gwar! wrote:Also, Why isn't Chaos 3rd on here!

Gwar! wins!

It's PARTY TIME!

**Orkeosaurus**

Got to be the orks.

Badrukk is awesome.

**1xx700007117**

I say Eldar because they are fighting for survival and have good allies...

**Emperors Faithful**

oh yeah, they're such GREAT allies! ESPECIALLY when they stab you in the back for no apparent REASON!

**Lukus83**

There's ALWAYS a reason!

**Emperors Faithful**

'I don't like mon-keigh' is not really a great reason.
Neither is 'I felt like it'.

Actually, a have yet to hear a REALLY good excuse for eldar betrayal.

**Jon Touchdown**

Emperors Faithful wrote:oh yeah, they're such GREAT allies! ESPECIALLY when they stab you in the back for no apparent REASON!

Lol got stab them in the back first before they can flee

**Emperors Faithful**

I think they stab them in the back becuase if they don't pretty much anything can pwn them head on.

But backstabbing you're friends? That's just...NASTY.

If you survive an Eldar backstabbing then I would advise AGAINST kicking them in the balls. Becuase they obviously don't have any.

**Manchu**

Emperors Faithful wrote:Actually, a have yet to hear a REALLY good excuse for eldar betrayal.

To redirect a course of events that would transpire otherwise.

**Emperors Faithful**

I meant from the BETRAYED's point of view.

Also I do not count 'sorry dude, but bad stuff will happen in the future if I don't do this now' as a REALLY good excuse.

**Manchu**

The Inquisition uses that excuse all the time.

**Emperors Faithful**

With the inquisition the bad stuff is pretty obvious about when it will happen. With eldar they would kill an old lady now to prevent her grandson mugging an autarch 100 years later.

**Manchu**

Yes, but it would be a mugging of the spirit stone containing the consciousness of Eldrad himself, whose knowledge would be essential to turning back a Black Crusade powerful enough to smash the Cadian gate! See--you've got to think beyond the now!

**Silverthorne**

Manchu wrote:Yes, but it would be a mugging of the spirit stone containing the consciousness of Eldrad himself, whose knowledge would be essential to turning back a Black Crusade powerful enough to smash the Cadian gate! See--you've got to think beyond the now!

QFT-- it isn't the fact that they can see the future with high degrees of accuracy that makes the eldar so alien. It is how craftworlders eschew all emotion and morality. The ultimate consequence of all things in the skeins of fate is all that matters to them. It is not really touched on enough in the fluff, since it is a major reason they are cool.

**Emperors Faithful**

They are just a little bit...RANDOM!

In any case they are not to be invited around for tea and cookies. Or milk, or coke, or at all.

**infernus1986**

The sm codex takes the case by sheer quantity even tho i could care less about the ultra marines

**Toxxic**

I like the guard. The orks are cool as well. The bit in the burnaboys entry about taking a mek to keep them in line so they won't get bored and flame other orks just to watch them do "the burny dance" cracks me up.