Poll: Warhammer 40k
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Depends on my mood, but I switch between various incarnations of Eldar (mostly Harlequins and Dark Eldar though) and Tau.
Harlequins because, well, they're just awesome.
Eldar in general because... When push comes to shove, Eldar step out of the way.
Tau because of an epic unit of Fire Warriors who became legends.
We were playing a match where a Tau world was under attack by a combined Impeium invasion force, and a Space Marine vanguard was intercepted on their way to a major city. It was the opening battle of a map-based campaign set before direct contact between Humans and Tau.
In the second turn a Terminator Chaplain with a 10-man squad of Marines got into hand-to-hand combat with one of my 8-man Fire Warrior squads. Two turns later they'd only managed to kill two of us, and lost everyone but the Chaplain. Alongside this evidence of Tau superiority in close combat (no really), my Broadside Battlesuits and Hammerhead Tank had eliminated all vehicle support while suffering no casualties of their own. My other Fire Warriors had been hurt by heavy weapons fire, but were holding the line.
At this point, the Chaplain's armour finally cracked under desperate point-blank Pulse Rifle fire.
With no chance of a victory, and even a close defeat looking unlikely, the Space Marine player called for Exterminatus. We ruled that each unit had to roll 7+ on 1D6 to not die when the planet blew up, so he could at least see my Fire Warriors fall. We counted it as a clear victory to me in the campaign we were playing, but removed the planet from the game. Along with all the invading forces.
A perfectly sized and shaped flake of plaster fell from the roof perfectly timed and placed to look like a 7th dot as my first roll stopped on 6.
He conceded that my remaining 6 Fire Warriors were in fact invulnerable. And to this day, nobody has managed to kill off any of those 6 survivors. Inlcuding the time they got charged by three Carnifexes which managed not to land a single hit in 3 consective rounds of combat.
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Depends on my mood, but I switch between various incarnations of Eldar (mostly Harlequins and Dark Eldar though) and Tau.
Harlequins because, well, they're just awesome.
Eldar in general because... When push comes to shove, Eldar step out of the way.
Tau because of an epic unit of Fire Warriors who became legends.
We were playing a match where a Tau world was under attack by a combined Impeium invasion force, and a Space Marine vanguard was intercepted on their way to a major city. It was the opening battle of a map-based campaign set before direct contact between Humans and Tau.
In the second turn a Terminator Chaplain with a 10-man squad of Marines got into hand-to-hand combat with one of my 8-man Fire Warrior squads. Two turns later they'd only managed to kill two of us, and lost everyone but the Chaplain. Alongside this evidence of Tau superiority in close combat (no really), my Broadside Battlesuits and Hammerhead Tank had eliminated all vehicle support while suffering no casualties of their own. My other Fire Warriors had been hurt by heavy weapons fire, but were holding the line.
At this point, the Chaplain's armour finally cracked under desperate point-blank Pulse Rifle fire.
With no chance of a victory, and even a close defeat looking unlikely, the Space Marine player called for Exterminatus. We ruled that each unit had to roll 7+ on 1D6 to not die when the planet blew up, so he could at least see my Fire Warriors fall. We counted it as a clear victory to me in the campaign we were playing, but removed the planet from the game. Along with all the invading forces.
A perfectly sized and shaped flake of plaster fell from the roof perfectly timed and placed to look like a 7th dot as my first roll stopped on 6.
He conceded that my remaining 6 Fire Warriors were in fact invulnerable. And to this day, nobody has managed to kill off any of those 6 survivors. Inlcuding the time they got charged by three Carnifexes which managed not to land a single hit in 3 consective rounds of combat.
I like the Eldar in that they seem to be the least macho/savage race that I've encountered, but still have personality and a sense of nobility.
Having said that I don't really want to spend money putting together an Eldar army for the tabletop game, so right now I just have a small bunch of unpainted Space Marines (the ones from the Asssault on Black Reach set, for those of you who know what I'm talking about).
Having said that I don't really want to spend money putting together an Eldar army for the tabletop game, so right now I just have a small bunch of unpainted Space Marines (the ones from the Asssault on Black Reach set, for those of you who know what I'm talking about).
Couldn't find the exact quote but somewere in my Deathwatch rulebook it says something about the Tau measure time in decades while the emperium measures it in centuries. And when the time comes, when the Tau have become a real threat THEY WILL BE CRUSHED!!crimson5pheonix said:It's because we are the gods of ranged combat. If you can't hit us, you can't win.Alpha Centauri said:It would be epic but....crimson5pheonix said:But it would have to end with the Tau coming down and killing everything.Alpha Centauri said:Possibly, ecpically on table tops, but if you imagine, like a CG battle between the two(if made well), daaaaammmmm!crimson5pheonix said:Mostly long and drawn out.Alpha Centauri said:Amen! Exactly what I sayUltrajoe said:
I've always wondered what would happen if the Tyranids and Necrons (2nd fav) did battle. One things for sure, it would be epic.
Necrons own the Tau, because a lot of the heavy stuff for Tau is vehicals, and machines, and a lot of the Necron's wepons are anti-tank/machine suff.
Also I dont understand how the Tau aren't wiped out yet... I mean the Space Marines, could wipe then out easily since the Tau empire have like 2 stars acording to the 40K map, and the space mariens have like 50.
Favorite? I would have to go for IG although it's the baneblades and titan legions that warms my heart the most.
For me it's a tie between Tau and Necrons. Both have awesome lore and interesting mechanincs, SPESS MEHREENS are just to generic for me and do most certanly not deserve like five different codexes for minor variations (IE vanilla space marines, Black Templars, Blood Angels, etc), when there are other codexes more then a decade old.
Space Orks. Any army that has a rule about sending in runts (read: children) to clear a minefield by making the mines super-effective gets my vote.
Well, I never got into the tabletop side of things, but I'm a huge fan of the setting. Fluff-wise, the Imperial Guard is my favorite. There's something compelling about the bravery of ordinary humans fighting in the face of a galaxy of horrors (admittedly, a fair amount of said bravery is bolstered by fear of the Commissars). As a history buff with special interest in the World Wars, it's perhaps no coincidence that my favorite army would wield military hardware that is strongly reminiscent of World War II.
I play the race of BUGS that seems to have ALL of you peoples beat and is going to close its teeth and eat the galaxy eventualy so , stop poking at us with your waepons and let us eat you because if you go quietly ,you go painlessly...
HAHAHAHA go tyranids!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHA go tyranids!!!!!!!!!!
The old Chaos Codec version of the Iron Warriors. I had a mean tabletop army with a Basilisk which would hammer everything on the table.
With the new one making my army obsolete (to my knowledge, they haven't revised. I stopped caring after that) I developed a fondness for Tau, so they are currently my fav.
With the new one making my army obsolete (to my knowledge, they haven't revised. I stopped caring after that) I developed a fondness for Tau, so they are currently my fav.
