Poll: Warhammer 40k

[SenisterDenister]

Seems to me like the people that have a fondness of the tau stems just from the fact that they claim to be all peaceful and goody goody. They're not. They're manipulative, they're deceitful, they're liars, they're aliens. They come with an olive branch of peace in one hand and a dagger in the other: when planets caught in their spheres of expansion do not immediately submit they are conquered under a swathe of flame, and then the populations are sent through re-education camps where they're told to love the tau and not complain being second class citizens in a civilization they never wanted to be apart of anyway.

Reading the tau codices are like reading their propaganda... but then again that can be said with any codex.

Trust your gut, stick with your brothers. Fight for humanity.

 

[VargRaev]

FOR FATHER NURGLE!

... that or the Eldar

 

[fix-the-spade]

Forward Space Communists!
FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

 

[Spookboy666]

 

[Jark212]

The Imperial Guard is easily my favorite:

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While the Adepta Sororitas comes in at 2nd:

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Hot

 

[BigHandInSky]

Seems to me like the people that have a fondness of the tau stems just from the fact that they claim to be all peaceful and goody goody. They're not. They're manipulative, they're deceitful, they're liars, they're aliens. They come with an olive branch of peace in one hand and a dagger in the other: when planets caught in their spheres of expansion do not immediately submit they are conquered under a swathe of flame, and then the populations are sent through re-education camps where they're told to love the tau and not complain being second class citizens in a civilization they never wanted to be apart of anyway.

Reading the tau codices are like reading their propaganda... but then again that can be said with any codex.

Trust your gut, stick with your brothers. Fight for humanity.

Well tbh from most of the comments/posts about the Tau (including mine) it's not primarily their thought process/politics/whatever that we like its the fact that they have awesome ranged weaponry [And also the way they look for me], eg:

[img/]http://fliiby.com/images/_original/getg6vhlx0.jpg[/img]

EDIT: anyone else notice how many demotivational posters there are of WH40K?
EDIT2: and how accurate they are in terms of how You/I/They/Someone think?

 

[Nohra]

As much as I like the Necron, Tyranids, and Tau, I just think the Space Marines have some of the best backstory. And really, that's what most people get into, at least from browsing some of the WH40K related stuff I've seen.

By extension, I guess this makes me a Chaos fan as well.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Ogre Kingdoms

For the love of god man why?.

I mean sure an Ogre army looks great on the table, but their small unit sizes basically means everyone gets to unzip and piss on them when combat resolution comes around.

I always go with my gut instinct, because otherwise I might be winning (or doing well it whatever I do (not just Warhammer)), but I'll have regrets and I'll keep thinking over what I REALLY wanted to do

Also, the fact I go with "gut" instinct indicates my association with the stomach-driven kingdoms of the Ogres

Ironically, if you're an instinct driven player, Ogres are really really not your army, because they require so much fiddling to get the flanking moves out of the nobblers (get that and the Ogres' tendency to be horribly outnumbered and lacking in ranks due to being massively expensive goes away).

Their biggest advantage is they're strong on the charge, but if your opponent can just put some weaky crap in their way, then they've got to spend time breaking that, and if it's horde stuff they have to really work at it to overcome their disadvantage in ranks and numbers, and because they only move 5" not 6" even if they do with combat resolution they get a 2D6 pursuit not 3D6, so they're not guaranteed an overrun (Ironically this means that despite the apparent power disparity, gobbos are the Ogres' worst nightmare, because the average gobbo regiment will be so damn numerous that no matter how many casualties you cause in combat he's still one or two up on you in combat resolution.

Ah, you misunderstood me

I meant I'm instinctive with my choices. Once I've made them, I stick to them and do things to my utmost

 

[BladesofReason]

Eldar for me, though right now I'm working on a Night Lords army. When I'm done with those I promised I would make a Dark Eldar army.

 

[brucesea]

rasssppppp the last thing I expect is the Impereal Inquisihioafsuhilsd;.....................afkjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjgl help

 

[John Funk]

Zerg! Wait....



In all seriousness, probably the Imperial Guard. Root for the underdogs.

 

[Zannah]

40k wise,

A) Thousand Sons (Magicwielding chaos-smurfmarines)
B) Tau (Space Communists, and tech-wise the best faction by far (we shallt not speak about them overpowered Necron bastards)
C) Imperial Guard (My boyfriend has managed to completely miss the point of the Imperial Guard and form a 3k army and include practically no regular infantrymen, instead playing a mix of artillery-fire-rainy death and ultimate Kasrkin hoedown)

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Seems to me like the people that have a fondness of the tau stems just from the fact that they claim to be all peaceful and goody goody. They're not. They're manipulative, they're deceitful, they're liars, they're aliens. They come with an olive branch of peace in one hand and a dagger in the other: when planets caught in their spheres of expansion do not immediately submit they are conquered under a swathe of flame, and then the populations are sent through re-education camps where they're told to love the tau and not complain being second class citizens in a civilization they never wanted to be apart of anyway.

Reading the tau codices are like reading their propaganda... but then again that can be said with any codex.

Trust your gut, stick with your brothers. Fight for humanity.

The Tau really are the closest thing to "good guys" in this universe. But I like 'em for horrendous fire power and great looks.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

Necrons
Nothing beats endless hordes of souless automatons controled by super advanced star vampires so powerful, that the mightiest requires the energies of four suns to be awakened. And is the machine spirit.
Oh and the whole advanced technology and can never be destroyed, only "buried" I guess.

 

[Eremiel]

The Imperial Guard, the Hammer of the Imperium.

Some people think the Space Marines are the biggest weapon of the Imperium. They are so, so wrong. Against the Guard, the combined might of all the chapters are as nothing.



Runners up: The Tyranids.

 

[Sky Captanio]

For The Greater Good!

Yeah we suck at close combat. Shame you'll never get here.

 

[maninahat]

When I was a kid I had a small Eldar army. Never fought a battle with 'em, and never did any serious collecting. I used to play Space Hulk with my brother occasionally (as the genestealers).

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

I'm in love with the Tau. Their naive optimism is unbelievably heartening in a world where babies are thrown into blenders to make smoothies for the troops and the god of hope is more soul-shatteringly evil than the god of despair.

The Eldar are nice, too, even if they are condescendingly racist.

 

[trooper_xp]

Imperial Guard is the best faction, becuase anything goes
want bad ass infantry? Vostrayan!
want chaos? Renegades!
want USSR? Valhalla!
want Prussia? Kreig!
want Tau? Guev'sla!
unlike the marines who are all 80% identical, with IG is the most diverse faction in the universe