Your 40K army

[AsgeirArnald]

I just started playing 40k a couple months ago and I have 1 complete army with 2 others in progress.

My CSM World Eaters are my complete army. I picked them because I think their paint scheme looks cool and I liked the idea of a bunch of crazy dudes running around growling and snarling and killing stuff (Oh berzerkers how I love you...). The squad of oblits and a couple defilers just add to the killyness.

My CSM Thousand Sons Army is almost complete. Just placed my order for Ahriman and another squad of termys then its done (Except for paint. Haven't even started that yet). After I read these guys' fluff I went out and bought 2 boxes of them right then and there because I thought they were so cool.

Last army is Space Wolves. Just started buying models for these guys. I've always been way into Norse Mythology and they're the next best thing to actual vikings in 40k.

Also thinking about starting an Eldar army so I can play something other than marines if I want...

[Redbeard]

My armies, in order of acquisition:

Sisters of Battle/Witchhunters were my first army, I started in 2004. I've got about 4000 points of sisters and 4000 points of non-sister witchhunters, all painted.

And, since it's not much of a reach to go from Witchhunter inquisitorial units, to Grey Knight inquisitorial units, I picked up a small handful of Grey Knights too, probably 1500 points - also painted.

Ork Speedfreaks were second, I did them for the Armageddon 500 display at Adepticon 2006. They morphed into footsloggers when the new ork codex was released. I've got about 12000 points painted, and another few thousand unpainted as of yet.

After that, things got a bit crazy.

For Adepticon 2007, my college buddies and I did Emperor's Children - I painted them and kept some, one of the other guys kept the rest. Then came the new chaos codex. So, that army got split into Chaos Marines (Still Emperor's Children), and they're at about 6000 points (All painted) - without any daemons. They won 2nd best appearance at GT Chicago last year.

I also did an Eldar army for the 40k championships that year. They're currently standing at about 8000 points (although, with eldar, that's somewhat misleading - just painting the eight special characters puts you at 1500), all painted (I have some jetbikes not included yet)

The daemons from the above army split off into a chaos daemon army, Slaanesh daemons (3500, painted), and were then joined by tzeentch daemons (3500, painted), khorne daemons (5500, painted), and nurgle daemon (3500, not painted yet)

When I finish the nurgle daemons, I've got a Vostroyan army in progress as well. 250 infantry have been started, and enough tanks to mechanize them or run whatever style seems fun at the time.

Somewhere along the line, I also painted about 5000 points of tyranids, but I didn't really enjoy playing them, so they got sold off.

[vman]

I would have to say my favorite and most collected army is Eldar, however it was not my first (Chaos was first back in about 1996). I love the eldar so much for many reasons.

1) models look excellent. The fact that they dont have faces on many of the models allows for even and old mini to still look good after all of these years.
2) very specialised units. Everyone these days is raving on about melta weapons and trying to include as many as possible in an army. Well, Eldar have been able to do this since day one with fire dragons. I could field 30 melta weapons if i really wanted to. But in a nut shell every unit has its true purpose and when used properly does the job well.
3) well balanced force that can take on just about any opponent. Need to obliterate hard to kill units (Nobs) then just take some wraithguard/Fire Dragons. Need to harrass weak units from any point of the table then take Swooping hawks. Need to tear apart an important unit early then Scorpions fit the bill. I feel that this army offers many possibilities to tackle various opponents be it big or small.
4) Opportunities to paint a wide variety of color schemes.

My second favorite army would have to be IG.

After that i love Death Guard Chaos Space Marines.

I love it all.

Nids or Tau are next

[vutall]

I have 4 armies.

2k: Elysian Drop Troops: I am in love with the models, and whats not cool about seeing 6! Valk's on the table.

6k: Daemonhunters: The fluff of the Grey Knights, plus the AMAZING detail on the terminators, I couldnt help but play them. They were my first army. I did go a little land raider crazy for them though, have 7.

4k: Witch Hunters: Sticking with the Imperium of Man theme, plus, it was rather fun to paint a lot of white on models, and the sisters just look fantastic in it.

2k: Space Marines: I love drop pods. With the going halfsies on the Assault on Black Reach Set about 6 times with various ork players, and the relatively inexpensive price of drop pods, this was an army that was fun to play and super easy on the walet.


THats just the army lists I have. If I counted out every model and such, I would have over 15k points, and spent over 5 grand. >.<

Now the challenge: Finish painting everything. Daemonhunters and Witch Hunters are finished, havnt started on the Elysians or Space Marines.

[SkiDog]

Well lets see, I have been playing Spacewolfs for the last 8yrs and just finishing my Nid army. It has been one hard road with all the changes and such with my Wolfs and now in October the will be able to hang alot better with the new Codex

[Lord Sandwich]

I have 2 armies, but I have had three.

My first army, the Black Templars, attracted me for their style, their concept, and their fluff. An army of Crusaders in space? What can I say?

My second army, my Space Marines, cost me the cannibalization of my Templars. I figured due to the fact that I had more bolters than I could count, I would be better served by the basic Marine list. Also, it gave me time to develop my own chapter.

My third and most recent army is my Daemon army. Due to browsing the web, flipping through the Codex, and talking to people, I came to the decision that Daemons are more of a fun army than a competitive army due to the randomness involved. And you know what? I was right! My Daemons have served me well, and serve as a nice break from my Marines.

[Mustakrakish]

I started with White Scars... and gave them p... too many bikes ^^

Now I'm stuck with Emperor's Children... I love the Sonic Weaponry...
they are great for conversions

[CatPeeler]

I've been playing on and off since the Rogue Trader days (every odd edition, as I like to say), and have run the obligatory marine list, an ulthwe list, and now alternate between mechanized Tau and Chaos Daemons.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

Enslavers -
I love giant lovecraftian squids that are few in number/large. I use Eldar jetbike list iwth a few other added things to make it work legally.

Working on other armies as well :

* Hrud/Umbra horde, these will be mostly scratch-made with lots of original sculpts added in.

* A few minor xeno races for campaign specific things, all converted from bitz ect.

[Orlock]

I have two armies - Space Marines and Imperial Guard. The Space Marines are a throwback to the heady days of Rogue Trader - many of my rank and file are the old plastic marines. I am currently adding to the collection with some of the newer models. I have collected the Imperial Guard because I like tanks!