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I've never been able to really appreciate Eldar.  Dark Eldar for sure, I love their brutality and asthetics, but their "better" halves just don't pack enough grimdark for me.


I love the Guard though — the Imperial Navy even more so.  
 
If fists put out a call wouldn't Black Templars come calling too? The overpop chapter of Marines crazier than IF. 


Props to anyone who can find that old early 40k Eldar artwork and not start giggling a bit. 
 
@Bone2pick An almost entirely extinct ancient empire that feels the endless need to contain every emotion because of what they did to the Galaxy and must live with that guilt forever, while forever having to contain and deploy the souls of their fallen brethren as weaponry or She-Who-Thirsts gets to have a meal? Potentially being caught up so thoroughly in your way of life that you simply become a living weapon of war? Killing thousands of other sentients simply because it'll save one of your own? I sorta like their grimdark, the DE feel more grimderp in some ways. Plus, Ceogorach and the Harlequins man. Can't beat them trolling Ahriman. 

Navy does the flying, Guard does the Dying. Bloody flyboys.

@Teh Frixz Yeah, BT came at the call. No pity, no remorse, no fear. 
 
Galactic guilt ridden elves draped in rainbow colors?  No thanks.  I'll take the space witches and webway pirates who actually look like they belong in the setting.


And footslogging lasrifles into battle is no substitute for glorious void war.
 
That's why I painted Ulthwe with a bit of muting to the Aspect Warrior colours. With a nice focus on Warp Spiders. Because maniacs throwing themselves through the immaterium where a god wants to chew their soul apart is right up my alley. 

Bah, the thunder of my guns and the grinding of treads brings more glory than the silence of space. 
 
 
There is no greater glory than breaking an enemy fleet apart, ship by ship, and then orbital striking their home world into a dead orb of ashe and rubble.  The spectacle of an offensive strike on that scale makes tank tread tracks in the mud insignificant by comparison.
 
Y'all can all bite my chitin covered ass.


Assuming you can get past 8 million gaunts to get to it that is.
 
Nah, Kriegers take it too far and just wind up being kinda derp.


Iron Guard or one of the Penal Legions is where it's at.
 
Wait, did everyone forget about the space marines?


Nonetheless, my favourite would indeed, be the imperial guards.


They're cool.
 
Elephantom said:
Wait, did everyone forget about the space marines?
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They're the very faction that kicked off this conversation.  I prefer my eight foot tall power armor soldiers to serve the ruinous powers, but several loyalist chapters appeal to me as well.  
 
Couldn't help but jump in before I even get my sheet done. I always had a soft spot for both forms of eldar. True some of their earlier art was pretty lame but I found in later works they got some artists who really knew how to work with them and gave them some sleek designs. Plus when the lore was handled well the tragedy of a race facing down its own extinction and desperately hanging onto the last bits of beauty in the grim darkness really hit me. I think that's why I always liked the Beil-tan craftworld best, both for their colour scheme and the sense of defiance they had. Though I admit never much caring for the whole individual colour schemes for the aspect warriors, I like a nice uniform in my armies.


Then the dark eldar... well who doesn't love a bunch of mad mafia space pirates?


I have to agree with Bone on the above, I always preferred chaos marines. I had a Night Lords army when those winged helmets came out and always liked the Iron Warriors. 


I only started appreciating loyalist space Marines relatively recently. I got put off them when I first started since in my old club 9/10 players had them, which just got boring, and they were usually really obnoxious to anyone who played anything different. Last I looked at the Gw website the other armies may as well not even exist for all the emperium stuff being pushed over them.
 
Yeah, GW's endless push for the SM is rather annoying. I was into sisters for a while, but they're so goddamn neglected that it just ain't worth it. 

But hey, at least we don't need to deal with Matt "Khornate-Knights" Ward anymore. 
 
I personally thought the Eldar were a bit far up their own arses and sort of deserved the fall. I'll give them one thing though, the Harlequins are amazing, best dancers of the 41st Millennium. So, you can keep your Grimdark Tolkein Elves crossed with Buddhist Monks and Grimdark BDSM Elves. I'll take mad clowns and thespian extraordinaires.
 
The Glass Ninja said:
Yeah, GW's endless push for the SM is rather annoying. I was into sisters for a while, but they're so goddamn neglected that it just ain't worth it. 

But hey, at least we don't need to deal with Matt "Khornate-Knights" Ward anymore. 
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Ward and the kind of player he enabled made me truly empathise with the forces of darkness. 
 
SpiralErrant said:
I have to agree with Bone on the above, I always preferred chaos marines. I had a Night Lords army when those winged helmets came out and always liked the Iron Warriors. 
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Don't tempt me to put up pictures of my old triple Legion (Alpha Legion, Iron Warriors, & Night Lords) warband!  Because I'l do it...
 
You know you want to, you've already decided :P


Aw man alpha legion had such a cool colour scheme that I could never hope to paint well.
 
SpiralErrant said:
Oh god I'd blissfully forgotten that the grey knights had ever existed up to now.
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I actually liked the Grey Knights. Before Ward. Before the Draigo and the bloodtide and all that other crap. Extra monk-y warrior monks. 

And hell, I'd forgotten the Alpha's were a thing. Brilliant legion, but we'll never find out anything because advancing the timeline is heresy.
 
I treat 40k canon like I do all other extensive fandom lore: I take what I like, reimagine what I feel needs to be reimagined, and leave out the unpalatable bits.  


Admittedly that does end up making collaborative writing a tricky undertaking. 
 
Bone2pick said:
I treat 40k canon like I do all other extensive fandom lore: I take what I like, reimagine what I feel needs to be reimagined, and leave out the unpalatable bits.  


Admittedly that does end up making collaborative writing a tricky undertaking. 
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Speaking of which, is anything lore wise being house ruled?
 
The Glass Ninja said:
I actually liked the Grey Knights. Before Ward. Before the Draigo and the bloodtide and all that other crap. Extra monk-y warrior monks. 

And hell, I'd forgotten the Alpha's were a thing. Brilliant legion, but we'll never find out anything because advancing the timeline is heresy.
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Well look at what they did to the fantasy universe. :(
 
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