Poll: Warhammer 40k Tabletop: Favorite Race
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Space Elves FTW. The basic play style is pretty easy, and the codex will give you the good stuff. Otherwise, you can't go wrong with the new Imperial Guard.
Relictors (renegade Marine chapter, introduced in white dwarf a while back) + Cadians.
The Relictors get some pretty badass wargear, such as the chapter masters demonic flail which insta-kills anything it hits if they fail a Ld test on 3d6.
Tried to keep my Cadian army in-theme rather then go for the best I possibly could, so unfortunately they have a large quantity of autocannons, which while decent against light targets makes them somewhat useless against heavy armour.
Never liked Tau much, just didnt seem to fit in with the other factions particularly well. Everyone else has some form of shadowy past whereas they're just blue space commies with plasma guns.
The Relictors get some pretty badass wargear, such as the chapter masters demonic flail which insta-kills anything it hits if they fail a Ld test on 3d6.
Tried to keep my Cadian army in-theme rather then go for the best I possibly could, so unfortunately they have a large quantity of autocannons, which while decent against light targets makes them somewhat useless against heavy armour.
Never liked Tau much, just didnt seem to fit in with the other factions particularly well. Everyone else has some form of shadowy past whereas they're just blue space commies with plasma guns.
The Eldar rock!
I was always more into painting the minis than I was playing the game, but when I played I would play Eldar. And my army always looked the best. ;-)
I was always more into painting the minis than I was playing the game, but when I played I would play Eldar. And my army always looked the best. ;-)
Favorite 40k race? Hmm... let me think here... Oh yes now I remember! *Ahem*
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I think you can tell where my loyalties lie.
Although recently I've been starting up a CSM army for a local tourny I occasionally go to. It'll allow me to get more done in a game as it takes so long to unpack, set up, and move around my Orks. But rolling a huge handful of dice (and my dice are small) never gets old.
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I think you can tell where my loyalties lie.
Although recently I've been starting up a CSM army for a local tourny I occasionally go to. It'll allow me to get more done in a game as it takes so long to unpack, set up, and move around my Orks. But rolling a huge handful of dice (and my dice are small) never gets old.
I play CSM and love them for just the versatility the army brings. You can make a CC army a gunline army or a mix of both. While it is true that its gunline or CC doesn't stand against the armies built for those roles (IG and nids for examples); with the right strategy CSM can be an awesome race to field.
'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go... Nothing better than the mass charge and start rolling dice way to win a battle.
Tau out of place? Like so many of their allies the people who say the Tau are out of place only see the face the Tau present. All the lives of the people in the Tau Empire are equal, the lives of the actual Tau, however, are just a little bit more equal than the others. Tyranids coming? Get the Kroot to set up some traps in the jungle and wish them luck while the defences are shored up. If they need support send in the Humans. The Tau don't believe in meaningless sacrifice, but do the Imperials not believe that any life given in the name of their Emperor is a life not given in vain? The Dark Eldar want 70 of each Caste and 7 Etherials for a 'cultural exchange'? Well, we can do without 280 of the other castes, but SEVEN Etherials?! The very nerve!
Why is Farsight holed up in the Damocles Gulf, and just how is he getting his hands on the newest kit like Sniper Drones and Special Issue wargear if he's not being supplied by the mainstream Tau? One possibility: As the propoganda suggests, Farsight wants the Fire Caste in charge; 'It's good to be King'. He's getting supplied by defectors and rogue traders. But this is the Tau, and as I've already pointed out you can't look at just the face. Maybe it's not Farsight who thinks it'd be good to be king of the Tau, but the Tau who think it would be good to be kings of the Galaxy. That's the other possibility, those are Tomb Worlds, or something similarly threatening. He's allowing himself to be villified so that some young Etherial doesn't try to colonize those worlds and disturb something that could kill the Tau Empire, and the Etherials (the would-be kings) are too ashamed to admit that Damocles is the sword that could potentially slay them.
I'd like to see Calgar make a sacrifice like that, the closest is Ventris' exile and triumphant return, in a setting where a heroic sacrifice is the way things usually go. The 4th should to be being led by the sargent that tattled on him for breaking faith with the codex, and his mental rigidity should see the 4th wiped out completely, with him having a horrible revelation at the last moment 'Ventris was right'. That's 40k; the good heroes are the dead ones, and the ones in charge are their own worst enemies!
The currently written Ultramarines are more out of place than the Tau. I read the newest Space Marine (and by Space Marine I mean Ultramarines) codex, and glorious victory after glorious victory is just not what 40k's about, ESPICALLY for the Imperials! That book does not convey the 'things can always get worse, and they will, soon' feeling that The Imperium is supposed to have. There is nothing rotten in the heart of Macragge, no desperation, no impending doom, no aincent shames or betrayals, and that's doing it wrong.
At the very least the Uriel Ventris vs Tau novel had the Tau acting like the bastards they really are.
Why is Farsight holed up in the Damocles Gulf, and just how is he getting his hands on the newest kit like Sniper Drones and Special Issue wargear if he's not being supplied by the mainstream Tau? One possibility: As the propoganda suggests, Farsight wants the Fire Caste in charge; 'It's good to be King'. He's getting supplied by defectors and rogue traders. But this is the Tau, and as I've already pointed out you can't look at just the face. Maybe it's not Farsight who thinks it'd be good to be king of the Tau, but the Tau who think it would be good to be kings of the Galaxy. That's the other possibility, those are Tomb Worlds, or something similarly threatening. He's allowing himself to be villified so that some young Etherial doesn't try to colonize those worlds and disturb something that could kill the Tau Empire, and the Etherials (the would-be kings) are too ashamed to admit that Damocles is the sword that could potentially slay them.
I'd like to see Calgar make a sacrifice like that, the closest is Ventris' exile and triumphant return, in a setting where a heroic sacrifice is the way things usually go. The 4th should to be being led by the sargent that tattled on him for breaking faith with the codex, and his mental rigidity should see the 4th wiped out completely, with him having a horrible revelation at the last moment 'Ventris was right'. That's 40k; the good heroes are the dead ones, and the ones in charge are their own worst enemies!
The currently written Ultramarines are more out of place than the Tau. I read the newest Space Marine (and by Space Marine I mean Ultramarines) codex, and glorious victory after glorious victory is just not what 40k's about, ESPICALLY for the Imperials! That book does not convey the 'things can always get worse, and they will, soon' feeling that The Imperium is supposed to have. There is nothing rotten in the heart of Macragge, no desperation, no impending doom, no aincent shames or betrayals, and that's doing it wrong.
At the very least the Uriel Ventris vs Tau novel had the Tau acting like the bastards they really are.
Plus it didn't have as much of the "Tau tech is just so much better than Imperial the pitiful humans are like cavalry charging tanks" business that a lot of the Tau fluff has. Not only do the Tau struggle to take a poorly defended world, even with massive surprise. When a Baneblade turns up, shit goes badly for the Tau. Raliguns? Pfah!Siege_TF said:
EDIT-The entire premise for Dead Sky Black Sun pissed me off. "So Captain, you defied a 10,000 year old book to save a world from a far superior force of an enemy that did not exist when the book was written? EXILE HIM!!!"
My favourite army is the Imperial Guard. I collect Vostroyans myself, they are great models. I have an entire tank company and I am working on getting a full mechanised infantry company to go along with it, though it will take me a while. I've already been collecting this army for several years now.
I also collect a codex Space Marine chapter and Space Wolves, though in much smaller numbers than my Guard. I'm kind of going for an over-arcing Imperial army.
I also collect a codex Space Marine chapter and Space Wolves, though in much smaller numbers than my Guard. I'm kind of going for an over-arcing Imperial army.
I said Eldar, because that's what I play right now, but I have to say the new Dark Eldar Codex is probably my favorite Codex to date (and I'm not just saying that because I've been waiting for it for over a decade) and I'm definitely going to be picking up an army as soon as the models hit the shelves.
There's something to be said for the most evil race in the universe.
There's something to be said for the most evil race in the universe.
Necron's are my favorite race. We'll Be Back rule is always entertaining and pisses my friends off 
Aside from Necrons, I play Blood Angels, and love them as well.
Aside from Necrons, I play Blood Angels, and love them as well.
Between Tau and Space Marines. The tau had exceptional attack range and power which I like personally, but the Space Marines that require enemies to use power weapons to have any hope of damage was also fun.