Which 40K race do you side with?

[Undead Dragon King]

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Besides, why would you arm your soldiers with flashlights unless you had more flashlight troopers than enemies?

 

[Combined]

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Besides, why would you arm your soldiers with flashlights unless you had more flashlight troopers than enemies?

Because those "flashlights" are complex laser weaponry that's easy to manufacture and extremely cheap and pretty much impossible to destroy by wear and tear. They're not the space marines and they can't go lugging around big guns that shoot rockets. They're just humans and they can be outnumbered.

Particularly by Tyranids.

 

[koether]

Tyranids. Wonderfully creative biological story arc, infinite customization, and the ability to run across the board and onto the enemy in a single turn. FUN

 

[Hstgonzo]

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Besides, why would you arm your soldiers with flashlights unless you had more flashlight troopers than enemies?

Cause the Bolters cost a hell of a lot more to produce and the Tech Priests need more prayers for anything else.

In theory the Imp Guard are a high level fighting force in any universe. It just so happens the universe they're in is filled with Big green Bio-weapons, inscrutable Elf Ninja, Undead Hell automatons, Gibbering fanged monstrosities from beyond space and Dark Gods who eat souls.
Kinda make you feel a bit small.

 

[Sonicron]

You're a gentleman and a scholar. Now I just need to fund all of these lol

If it helps, "only" the first 12 out of that list have actually been published yet, 13-15 are being written as we type. That should save you 15-20 bucks.

 

[Tiny116]

Black Templars for the win!
When you make them flee, they just CHARGE YOU!
The bad assess of the spacemarines!

 

[Iwata]

It's funny how this kinda reflects the tabletop popularity to a degree.

Where I live (Lisbon), the Space Marines are by far the more popular army, closely followed by the Tyranids. The Imperial Guard, Eldar, Chaos (Marines) Tau and Orks are about on the same level, and it's very rare to see anyone fielding Dark Eldar, Necrons or Chaos Daemons.

Mainly because those last three suck on the table top. Dark Eldar will spontaneously combust if you stare at them long enough, the Necrons will just up and leave if you know what to shoot long enough, and the Chaos Daemons will just sit in a corner crying while getting shot to pieces.

Black Templars for the win!
When you make them flee, they just CHARGE YOU!
The bad assess of the spacemarines!

That was quite scary... for a while. The guy that I play more regularly plays Black Templars, and that whole "charge when shot at" thing usually works better for me than for him, as it just makes him abandon cover to get shot to bits by my 200 guardsmen.

 

[Asehujiko]

Necrons. Respawns for the win!

 

[Undead Dragon King]

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Besides, why would you arm your soldiers with flashlights unless you had more flashlight troopers than enemies?

Because those "flashlights" are complex laser weaponry that's easy to manufacture and extremely cheap and pretty much impossible to destroy by wear and tear. They're not the space marines and they can't go lugging around big guns that shoot rockets. They're just humans and they can be outnumbered.

Particularly by Tyranids.

And that complex laser weaponry is S3 AP-.

The Guard can and do get outnumbered by Tyranids and Orks, but that's pretty much it. Plus, neiter of those armies have the kinds of heavy vehicles like the Guard do, so numbers are their biggest strength. The Guard have plenty of options in their armies, but the most common ones I've played against with my Tau use about twice as many troops as I have.

Numbers may not be all the Guard have going for them, but they outnumber enemies more often than not.

 

[Epitome]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!! SKULLS FOR THE THRONE OF KHORNE!!

 

[Patinator]

Space Marines all the way.
While i like the Space Wolves whole general *feeling*, i fell in love with the Ultramarines since i first got a glimpse of them in one of the old Codex's. I read about how they were the first to achieve victory over the Tyranids on Ultramar. I got hooked and played them.
Never regretted it.

 

[Iwata]

Numbers may not be all the Guard have going for them, but they outnumber enemies more often thn not.

Playing Guard more often than not, that is very, very true. Only games I've ever been outnumbered were, in fact, against Tyranids.

 

[Combined]

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Besides, why would you arm your soldiers with flashlights unless you had more flashlight troopers than enemies?

Because those "flashlights" are complex laser weaponry that's easy to manufacture and extremely cheap and pretty much impossible to destroy by wear and tear. They're not the space marines and they can't go lugging around big guns that shoot rockets. They're just humans and they can be outnumbered.

Particularly by Tyranids.

And that complex laser weaponry is S3 AP-.

The Guard can and do get outnumbered by Tyranids and Orks, but that's pretty much it. Plus, neiter of those armies have the kinds of heavy vehicles like the Guard do, so numbers are their biggest strength. The Guard have plenty of options in their armies, but the most common ones I've played against with my Tau use about twice as many troops as I have.

Numbers may not be all the Guard have going for them, but they outnumber enemies more often than not.

Yes. Yes, it is.

Yes, I know. I'm not saying they're -always- outnumbered, but because they fight a battle against Orks, Tyranids, Necrons and anything else the galaxy throws at them, lore-wise, the Imperium is often outnumbered, because often their Imperial guard are scattered, fighting many different enemies at once. Although, if a WAAAAGH and a hive fleet met an Imperial Crusade, that would be interesting.

On the table-top, it's possible for the Tyranids and Orks to outnumber them sometimes, but rarely.

Indeed. Indeed, they do.

 

[Dexs]

Chaos is my master!

Forever since the beginning of the 40k figurines. I played a little of Warhammer Online, but I have really been looking forward to a 40k MMO.

 

[Undead Dragon King]

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Besides, why would you arm your soldiers with flashlights unless you had more flashlight troopers than enemies?

Because those "flashlights" are complex laser weaponry that's easy to manufacture and extremely cheap and pretty much impossible to destroy by wear and tear. They're not the space marines and they can't go lugging around big guns that shoot rockets. They're just humans and they can be outnumbered.

Particularly by Tyranids.

And that complex laser weaponry is S3 AP-.

The Guard can and do get outnumbered by Tyranids and Orks, but that's pretty much it. Plus, neiter of those armies have the kinds of heavy vehicles like the Guard do, so numbers are their biggest strength. The Guard have plenty of options in their armies, but the most common ones I've played against with my Tau use about twice as many troops as I have.

Numbers may not be all the Guard have going for them, but they outnumber enemies more often than not.

Yes. Yes, it is.

Yes, I know. I'm not saying they're -always- outnumbered, but because they fight a battle against Orks, Tyranids, Necrons and anything else the galaxy throws at them, lore-wise, the Imperial is outnumbered.

On the table-top, it's possible for the Tyranids and Orks to outnumber them sometimes, but rarely.

Indeed. Indeed, they do.

Oh. Looks like we were thinking about two different things there. And indeed, I agree with you lore-wise. They must outlaw birth control in the Imperium in order to keep the Guard at full strength haha!

 

[Zagzag]

Chaos all the way. In any game or in the actual tabletop game from which all the other stuff originated. I even play chaos in other varieties of Warhammer. I really like the Imperium's background but get very annoyed with the ridiculous number of Space Marine armies that get their own codexes, which seems a bit unfair on all the armies with outdated codexes that need redoing. But no GW will do ANOTHER marines codex before Dark Eldar or Necrons get their two-edition-out-of-date codexes re-done!
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Seriously though, I'm more of a Fantasy player {Yes we do play video games as well} but I really love chaos. I even played a whole army of Imperial Guard and modelled them all to look like chaos.

Although tanks do rock indeed.

The number of Imperial Guard Tanks has passed the point of silliness and is now fast approachign the event horizon. Unless you're talking about the video games, in which case this is not quite so true.

 

[tjarne]

I even have an aquila tattoo!

Pics please

Hmm all sons of sagnius are awesome, my favorite however are those that never show their faces Angels Sanguine I belive they are called. Havent got much info about them, but their colors are cool and nice background.

Or Salamanders, the only Astartes that puts defending humanity above gaining glory by slaying the Emperors foes.

Or Vostroyan Firstborn, cool in every way.

Or maybe I should try to stick with one, but its so darn hard.

 

[Combined]

Oh. Looks like we were thinking about two different things there. And indeed, I agree with you lore-wise. They must outlaw birth control in the Imperium in order to keep the Guard at full strength haha!

I think they just make a lot of clones of every born baby. I mean a lot. Several thousand, possibly.

[small]That's why so many models look similar.[/small]

 

[Buizel91]

I'm tied between 3...

Space Marines: Simply because they look Bad ass and have amazing back story, favorite branch of them is the Blood Ravens because of the games.

ORKS: "Look at me Flash boss" The funniest, Craziest and are just pure awesome...DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA XD

and the Tau...because they seem the most...good, in that universe and the fact i love Combat suites.

hmmmm...decisions decisions

 

[Lunar Shadow]

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!