Favorite Warhammer 40k Faction

[Ultrajoe]

I love the Tau because they're the only race who seems decent and humane; good is a relative view, but, for example, whenever the Tau invade a planet and wish to depopulate it, they restrict reproduction and do it over generations rather than slaughter the inhabitants in one big holocaust.

Besides, for every Tyranid, we have a plasma rifle. For every Ork, we have a Krootox. Tau soldiers die trying to get off a final round. I call that dedicated.

Furthermore, the Tau Shas'O is the most commando of the military leaders, being pimped out with all sorts of heavy weapons, jetpacks, and cloaking devices.

Im sorry, i just spotted an inconsistency.

For every million Tyranids you have one Plasma rifle. its a small numerical error but you can see how it might make a difference in a tie breaker.

Not that i dont like the tau, brainwashing (oho yes) and mind control aside (they murdered the Vespid leaders in secret assassinations to gain control of the race, nice guys my ass) They seem nice.

But i must say, tau seem to fall short against the 'Nids on a tabletop, its almost as if their firepower works against them, when we reach and smash those lines they have nothing to fall back on. And i will reach those lines damn it, these are Tau not some infuriating IG wall or SOB Deathtrap.

Powerhouses on the battlefield... but not within 5 meters...

 

[Mister Ash]

thats why i love Space Wolves, as eager to get into combat as 'nids, but they have bolters aswell! and having 20 wolf guard in terminator armour with mastercrafted lighning claws, and a dozen other things (obviously in huge games only) suddenly appear behind your main battle-line (dunno if they still can, havn't played for a few years) was just a bonus.

if i had to play any other race, i'd be going with the orks too. because i've got a ton of Gorkamorka stuff i could convert and they are just kinda awesome.

 

[Wargamer]

Oh don't get me wrong, I love the Astartes, and the Orks are so damn fun (Gorkamorka rocks, solely for the fact that I played 12 games in a row, sent my Nob's shoota off for "Kustomizin'" each time, and each time it just came back painted a different colour). However, the Guard are most definitely the underdog, and everyone loves the underdog.

Tau I hate. Not because of the race (although the inconsistency of their background does piss me off), but because of the slack-jawed Fanboys who honestly think a race whose "Empire" is so small you could piss over it are actually a threat to the galaxy as a whole. I swear, you can tell which of my club's newbies play Tau by yelling "Who loves Halo!?"

 

[Smoochy]

Imperial Guard; Any army which figures men < tanks is great. They form a human-wall, to hold of the attackers, so their big tanks can operate safely.

Necrons; bad-ass robots on a quest to destroy ALL life.

 

[Mister Ash]

my Brother is a HUGE IG fun, but also has Space Marines, Eldar, and i think, a Tau army (he's got about 14 armies, in total)
the Tau to me, just seem... well, tacked on... Ok, so i've not really paid that much attention to it, and i'm sure Tau fanboys will point me at all the Lore and such, but i don't think it'll ever compare to The Imperium, who've been fighting the same fight for 10000 years

 

[curlycrouton]

I know I'm contradicting myself here but:
Daemonhunters
or Chaos

 

[Azhrarn-101]

Im sorry, i just spotted an inconsistency.

For every million Tyranids you have one Plasma rifle. its a small numerical error but you can see how it might make a difference in a tie breaker.

Not that i dont like the tau, brainwashing (oho yes) and mind control aside (they murdered the Vespid leaders in secret assassinations to gain control of the race, nice guys my ass) They seem nice.

But i must say, tau seem to fall short against the 'Nids on a tabletop, its almost as if their firepower works against them, when we reach and smash those lines they have nothing to fall back on. And i will reach those lines damn it, these are Tau not some infuriating IG wall or SOB Deathtrap.

Powerhouses on the battlefield... but not within 5 meters...

Well the Tau are the closest thing the 40K universe has to good guys, sure they're fascists with a brain wash fetish and a lethal allergy to close combat, but compared to anything else in the universe they're practically saints, which is what I guess Kikosemmek meant.
To quote the TV-Tropes website on 40K: "Opinions vary between whether 40k is black and grey, or black and black."

 

[GloatingSwine]

Well the Tau are the closest thing the 40K universe has to good guys, sure they're fascists with a brain wash fetish and a lethal allergy to close combat, but compared to anything else in the universe they're practically saints

Actually, the only power who loves and cares deeply about all His followers on an individual basis is Grandfather Nurgle. So he's probably the closest thing to unequivocal "good", just with a mildly evangelical bent.

 

[Eyclonus]

Imperial Guard die with their boots on, cursing the eneimes of man with their last breath

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!

Most signifcantly they die in droves with their boots on, cursing the enemies of man, if their unfortunate enough for their deaths not to be instant.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Tau I hate. Not because of the race (although the inconsistency of their background does piss me off), but because of the slack-jawed Fanboys who honestly think a race whose "Empire" is so small you could piss over it are actually a threat to the galaxy as a whole. I swear, you can tell which of my club's newbies play Tau by yelling "Who loves Halo!?"

To be fair, if you paint them up in proper olive drab UNSC marine colours, the Tau look pretty sweet.

Also, Tau are getting a major upgrade in 5th Edition as well, so they don't look quite so much like a rabbit in the headlights in the 40k galaxy at large.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Most signifcantly they die in droves with their boots on, cursing the enemies of man, if their unfortunate enough for their deaths not to be instant.

The most significant Difference between Imperial Ablative Armour and Chaos Cultists is that the cultists have to be chained to the front of the tanks, and the Guardsmen stand there FOR THE EMPEROR!

 

[Ultrajoe]

to Tyranids, It's all flavor.

 

[anNIALLator]

I haven't played or painted in ages, but my favourite is Orks and Eldar.

 

[Rogthgar]

Theres something to love about them all for me, well almost heres a few of them:

Space Marines- Shiny Knights
Chaos Marines- Shiny Knights had a wakeup call (personal favorite)
Orks- Green, simple, funny as hell
Imp Guard- Tanks...
Necrons- Army of Arnold's

 

[Martenzo]

I'm fond of most of the factions, and my only sorting system is "like" and "don't like". So I don't really have favorites. The ones I don't like are Dark Eldar and Chaos. Tyranids are there on the border, they're not lame enough to be classified under "don't like", but they don't fit the genre well enough to be classified under "like"...When I think about the Tyranids, it just feels that they're not making the WH40k world better than it already is. But they also don't make it any worse. So yeah, there's my opinion

 

[Eyclonus]

Most signifcantly they die in droves with their boots on, cursing the enemies of man, if their unfortunate enough for their deaths not to be instant.

The most significant Difference between Imperial Ablative Armour and Chaos Cultists is that the cultists have to be chained to the front of the tanks, and the Guardsmen stand there FOR THE EMPEROR!

Either wayz me Boyz getz lunch!!

 

[GloatingSwine]

to Tyranids, It's all flavor.

The flavour of hot laser death you will recieve, foul xeno scum!

 

[exocel]

i like tau, the empire seem like oppressive, tyrannical dicks by comparison.

 

[Kikosemmek]

Tau I hate. Not because of the race (although the inconsistency of their background does piss me off), but because of the slack-jawed Fanboys who honestly think a race whose "Empire" is so small you could piss over it are actually a threat to the galaxy as a whole. I swear, you can tell which of my club's newbies play Tau by yelling "Who loves Halo!?"

Ah, no, not really. The only legitimate threats to the universe are the Necrons, Tyranids, and the forces of Chaos, because their resources are virtually inexhaustible. The Tau, Eldar, Humans, and Orks are fucked in the big picture, but I'm not talking about that.

Im sorry, i just spotted an inconsistency.

For every million Tyranids you have one Plasma rifle. its a small numerical error but you can see how it might make a difference in a tie breaker.

Not that i dont like the tau, brainwashing (oho yes) and mind control aside (they murdered the Vespid leaders in secret assassinations to gain control of the race, nice guys my ass) They seem nice.

But i must say, tau seem to fall short against the 'Nids on a tabletop, its almost as if their firepower works against them, when we reach and smash those lines they have nothing to fall back on. And i will reach those lines damn it, these are Tau not some infuriating IG wall or SOB Deathtrap.

Powerhouses on the battlefield... but not within 5 meters...

I don't know what propaganda you're talking about, though I'm aware of the assassinations of the Vespid leaders. Rest assured that those leaders were assassinated only after being carefully determined by an elected council to be a threat to their own people. The Tau are much more fitting to lead the Vespid into the future through a rigorous program of naturalization and honorable military service.

The inconsistency was noted, and while there was a slight underestimation of Tyranid numbers in my previous post, I failed to mention that this ratio holds water *after* the bombs drop

Tau can always fall back to their Kroot comrades who serve gallantly in combat against those who dishonor the greater good.

---

Edit: I always wondered about the reason why sodium hydroxide wasn't brought to bear against humanity's contrived biological antagonists (Tyranids, namely). Acids dissolve metals, but bases dissolve tissue. Drop a load of NaOH on a hive and you can probably see it melt within two hours. Neutralize all that with a bit of corrosive sulfuric acid and you'll pretty much have dissolved the Tyranids into lifeless liquid.

 

[Ultrajoe]

to Tyranids, It's all flavor.

The flavour of hot laser death you will recieve, foul xeno scum!

When your a soulless vessel, you cant really die.

And every Tyranid death is temporary, not only do we consume you, but our dead... after every battle except for total human or galaxy-native victory... we come out the better.

You know how long it has been since a total galaxy-native victory? And Those were exterminatus, so nobody wins.

...except we survived them anyway...

Ok enough, race-penis comparison, we are all brothers here, brothers of 40K.