Choosing a Warhammer 40K faction

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Danne

I'me leaning towards either the Tau, the Imperial Guard, The space marines or one of their offshoots (Space Wolves, Sisters of Battle, Blood Angles, Ext) Any help?
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Only play Orks if you want the games to be crazy, but you're not concerned too much with winning. I played Orcs & Goblins in Warhammer Fantasy and Orks in W40k. Lots of fun, lots of zany shit happening, but not much in the way of victory. I'd get my ass handed to me by Elves or Blood Angels even as my boyz acted like bowling balls, spraying enemy troops all over.
 
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Danne

I'm really leaning toward either Tau, Imperial Guard or Blood Angels.
 
Terrik

Terrik

Quotemander Prime said:
Only play Orks if you want the games to be crazy, but you're not concerned too much with winning. I played Orcs & Goblins in Warhammer Fantasy and Orks in W40k. Lots of fun, lots of zany shit happening, but not much in the way of victory. I'd get my ass handed to me by Elves or Blood Angels even as my boyz acted like bowling balls, spraying enemy troops all over.
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Frank

Frank

The Sisters of Battles aren't a Space Marine offshoot, they belong to a separate faction of the Imperium. The Tau codex is craaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy out of date.

Also, you forgot about Necrons, the faction I choose before they became the apparent masters of flyer cheese.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

I'd advise against Tau. They don't get updates because no one buys the models... and no one buys the models because they don't get updates. It's sort of like the problem Dark Eldar had for years.

Generally speaking, your best bets for having fun/winning in 40k are by ether buy the most recent Space Marine book or buying the most recently updated army.
 
North_Ranger

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SPESS MEHREENS! WE UUR TEH EMPRAH'S FEWHREE!


NO! KAY-US WILL TAKE THEIR METAL BAWKSES! SINDRIIII!!!


Flashlights, T-shirts and standard issue adamantium balls.
 
Terrik

Terrik

Wot's dis? Youz stinkin 'umies fink uz are betta dan da Orks? Da Boyz is gonna luv dis, dey are. I's fink it's time for a proppa scrap eh, boyz? So git on over dere and give em' a thump.

It's time fer a WAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Normally, I'd be the first to venerate the Immortal Emperor with either my Stygian Marines or the Vicrovian 1st "Regiment of Remnants"

....

But seriously guys.

IRON WITHIN.



IRON WITHOUT

 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Maybe it's for the best. It would just involve a lot of ronery men roleplaying sex as Slaanesh daemonettes and Sisters of Battle.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Pan Fo!

Really my best advice to you Danne is to pick the faction whose models you like the best. Also, I don't know if you're much into the painting part of the hobby but the amount of miniatures you will have to paint in something like a Space Marine (or Chaos Space Marine) army will be far less than you would have to do with Imperial Guard or Orks.
 
Zappit

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Tau will be due for a new codex soon, so I wouldn't get too into that. Sisters of Battle have limited model choices and tend to be quite pricey to field.

This will depend a lot on what you plan to do. Space Marines of any variety will have good support, as it's the flagship, iconic army. Necrons are currently the most dominant force with the changes brought about by Sixth Edition. Orks is Orks, and you betta bring lotsa boys wit' you. Elder and Dark Eldar are solid, with some cool models. Chaos just relaunched, with some major room for a variety of armies.

I'm building a Space Marine and a Chaos army, customizing a bit as I go. That's what worked for me.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Has Games Workshop increased the quality of Finecast (aka, Finecost, Finecrap, etc.) since it was first released? I remember them being extremely bad (bubbles, excessive flash, missing parts, miscast parts, registration errors).
 
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