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As requested by gretar

Without a doubt, space marines have the most fluff in their codes and in the black library books.
Nuff said.
I have no idea how genestealer cults got so many votes.
Don;t get me wrong, the staeler cults show up in quite a few books, but not nearly as many times as the maintay 40k armies.

Orks easily, their fluff and background is hilarious.

I answered the question based on what I thought was the best and so chose Imperial Guard. There's a lot more fluff about SM, but the IG have the true heroism, squishy, regular guys, standing up and fighting in a galaxy that doesn't care. Love that stuff (especially when Dan Abnett writes it )

Its a bit of a vague question, so I chose Other.

Rebel Grots!

grantosjones wrote:Its a bit of a vague question, so I chose Other.

Rebel Grots!

OMG, I want to change my vote to that too!

All aboard the Cutter, Grotz should have a say in Mektown!

Orks for me, although I love the Heresy story and the old 'Space Marine' game introduced me to 40K. (Well I'd seen some stuff before what became Epic, but that box, and all the stories within dragged me further into 40K, my first proper army was based off the pic of a traitor chapter on the side.)

The old Ork books made me love the universe more than anything else.

Love the whole idea behind them, well maybe there was a slight swerve ball with the spores thing, but other than that, its all gold.

I like IG's

gonna have to go with Orks. there funny but there also kind of serious with the whole destroying entire star systems thing.

Chaos Space Marines, because I dig the whole characterization of the dividing line between Loyalists, Renegades, and Traitors as paved with a succession of good intentions (or bad intentions, deliberate corruption, whisperings from the Warp, etc). I also dig the background of Chaos Daemons because it coheres very nicely with my Gaiman-esque, Moore-esque, Lovecraft-esque deconstructionist preferences about the relation of information to reality, and because it carefully notes that it is metaphorical; kind of unfortunate that most people ignore meaning of the metaphors and just treat daemons like funny looking people. Daemons don't have emotions or cognitive content: they are emotions and cognitive content!

Orks are good when you keep in mind that among themselves they're a bunch of good old boyz (except for Snagga's lot, who are a bunch of thieving blue-faced gits), but they're terrifying to non-Orks as howling green ogres.

The Tyranid background is awful. I ignore it and substitute my own. Ditto Necrons.

Witch Hunters hands down, i mean come on! What more can one ask for?

No votes for squats? I guess getting eaten by Tyranids is a turn off.

The Lost and the damned get my vote because that's where the Blood Pact should go.

I voted Mechanicus. I love the fluff behind them.

The fall of the Eldar. Ok, the controlling your emotions thing was nicked from Star Trek, but GW gave a better reason for it.

Space marines, its the most complete. though Orks as everyone says have the most fun background.

BishopGore wrote:I answered the question based on what I thought was the best and so chose Imperial Guard. There's a lot more fluff about SM, but the IG have the true heroism, squishy, regular guys, standing up and fighting in a galaxy that doesn't care. Love that stuff (especially when Dan Abnett writes it )

So. True. But I voted Eldar, because all the fluff about The Fall is really in-depth.

eldar and dark eldar.

I voted Witch Hunters. I love the idea behind the war inside the church, where IG were fighting IG with out knowing it, and a Madman had control of the Imperium. Then SM and Sisters came a knocking. Its a story I hope GW expands on in the inquisition update. That, and inquisitors are awesome.

Adeptus Mechanicus, the Inquisition and the Imperial Guard are all great, because they are about humans (or nearly humans in some cases), and easier to relate to.

The Eldar fluff is great too, the whole business of the fall, wow!

I would have to say Space Marines

Though Orks come pretty close.

DE `cause they be gangbangin` CRACKA!!

Chaos Space Marines.


I mean come on?! The Horus Heresy is simply EPIC!!!!

Eldar!

I've been a fan of Eldar since I first heard of 40k thanks to the excellent fluff they wrote in the old 2nd ed codex.

CSM, IG come a close second because of "the move".

Yea, I chose Imperial guard as I'm currently reading Gunheads, but Orks and Spacemarines are probably the best together.

Im kinda shocked that orks got so many votes, they have a funny background, but its far from the complexity and uniqueness that is in the Space Marine background.

Everyone knows GW borrows heavily from other sci-fi sources, but the history of the Space Marine Legions, Primarchs, the Emperor, the Horus Heresy, the division into Chapters, and 10,000 years of grimdark combine to create a very unique, rich, and full background that is IMO unrivaled in scope and depth.

Compare the Space Marine background to other multimedia sci-fi sources, Star Trek? Star Wars? Aliens? Predator? Starship Troopers?
My money is on Space Marines having not only more content, but also more interesting and artistic content as well.

Space Marines and behind them the Imperial Guard.

Space Marines actually have books written about their chapters so its kind of unfair to compare their elaborate backgrounds to those of lets say necrons. I love the Space marine backgrounds especially the crimson fists and blood ravens (thank you dow), but codex to codex i'd say orks have the best background

It is kind of unfair when you think about it, after all, SM have the most fluff, which gives you more to go by. Most people know more about the SM than any other army.

Not that their fluff isn't good.