How to choose your Warhammer 40k Army (For Beginners)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Welcome to the Warhammer 40000 universe my name is Beeranid and today I’m going to help you decide how to choose your Warhammer 40k army.
This is Warhammer for beginners. Hopefully I help you get started with Warhammer 40k today! With so many factions to choose from this can be a daunting task to those just getting started in the 40k hobby, but today I have 3 considerations you can use whether you just want to collect models, play smaller scale games of kill team, or go all-in and make a giant Warhammer 40k or Horus heresy army.
There is no right or wrong with this process. Use some of these tips, all of these tips, or none of them! Hopefully I help you choose your first Warhammer army but it’s ok if you already have one - maybe it’ll still be useful!
Your first option is just to pick something you think looks cool. Maybe you want grim and dirty mad-max style in which case the orks or Genestealer Cults could be a good pick. Both of these focus on using looted tech and weapons which lend themselves well to that aesthetic.
Or maybe you like a more futuristic look and could go with something like the tau: sleek, shiny and technologically advanced.
There’s also factions that just look badass and tough. Things like chaos demons, chaos space marines - there’s spikes, skulls, chains - these are brutal looking factions and very cool choices.
Necrons look like an army of metal skeletons and that’s a really cool look, too
A lot of you will go with Space Marines and good choice because they are the face of Warhammer 40k. The question then becomes what flavor? There are so many here to choose from and it can be as simple as asking whether you want to lean tacti-cool, or whether you’d be happier with Viking flavor or knight flavor. There are a lot of types of space marines and all can be something you fall in love w/ the aesthetic.
Of course you could just choose a marine faction because it happens to be your favorite color. If you really like yellow for example, the imperial fists look awesome painted up in a big army on the table top. And it’s ok if you paint one way but later decide to use rules for a different chapter because the power levels are always moving up and down in Warhammer.
But looks aren’t the only thing that can guide you. Instead, or in addition, you can look at consideration #2: the lore.
We use a lot of slang in this community and you may see this called the “fluff”. There are mountains of books to explore, lore channels here on TH-cam, blogs, animated series like Hellsreach, Astartes or one of the Warhammer+ animations, and even video games you can play before deciding on a faction.
I fell in love with Tyranids for example after playing a 40k game called Space Hulk. Even though I also play other things this fondness still exists today despite being from my earliest days in the hobby.
But let’s look at consideration #3: playstyle
Odds are you’ve played another game of some kind before getting into Warhammer 40000. If so that’s great because it can help you decide on a faction, too. For example - maybe you played a card game and liked combos, stacks and synergies, where the sum is greater than individual parts.
There are lots of factions that perennially operate like that, such as the tau. They’re about long range shooting, board control, and overlapping auras that interact and stack to make awesome things happen.
Or maybe you preferred a more aggro playstyle. There are so many ways to do that in 40k. Just pick a melee team and rush in. Good options there could be something like orks, or Tyranids. What’s cool about these two is that they are often played as horde armies so you get to play really big collections of models all at once.
But maybe a lot of models isn’t your style - you could go with an elite team like Space Marines that instead tends to have fewer models that are individually more powerful. A great thing about marines is their ability to “flex” and have shooting and melee on the same guy - that’s something I’ve personally really liked as a playstyle over multiple editions now.
There’s just something awesome about being good no matter where you find yourself in-game, and even if you’re not specializing in one area like shooting or melee combat, you’re decent at everything.
I used this a lot in Kill Team tournaments last edition!
You could also go tanky: all space marines are durable but you can take that even further with something like Death Guard that are just able to eat wounds and shrug them off, or iron hands if you want to do that with a loyalist faction. Or you could do this with Necrons if you want to play an alien race. They are cool because they can come back from the dead so even if they die, they might come right back to the tabletops.
So looks, lore or playstyle. Leave me a comment and let me know what you picked and if you used one of these, multiple, or something else entirely!
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Welcome to your first stop on the journey to picking a faction in Warhammer 40000! Rather than list every faction (which I can do in the future!) todays video will hopefully provide 3 things you can use when you look at the factions to help guide your choices! Which of the three matters most to you: Looks? Lore? Or Playstyle? Let me know!
I appreciate a serious player explaining that aesthetics and fluff are crucial.
I’d been painting Dungeons & Dragons minis for a while when the 40K bug bit me. I found a 7th edition Space Wolves codex at Goodwill for $3.00; I told myself at the time I just wanted it to look at the art, but that was just the first act of my lupine saga.
Am excited to jump into the hobby and am still torn between where to start everything looks so good!
Same here, did you make a decision? If so, what did you pick?😊
Great video! This was such a good help because I'm just starting out. I really like the reference to magic the gathering which made sense for me.
First Warhammer thing I ever played was Warhammer 40k mechanicus on PC... Found the snippets of lore super interesting and ended up getting the Warhammer 40k starter pack. So got 10 necrons and 5 space marines.
Enjoying painting it, but can't wait to get some adeptus mechanicus minis to paint!!! They look so cool imo and the lore is interesting too :)
I'm in almost the exact same situation lol. Started with mechanicus on steam and now I wanna play them but might start by painting some necrons.
I got the leviathan box, figured would give me two combat controls to bring friends and family in. I’m loving painting the space marines, but I’m not sure if nids or ultra marines are for me. I think I’m in a toss up between orks or night lords. (Love the lore on both of them and Night Lords is my favorite after reading the omnibus.)
Excited to jump into the lore and hobby
My advice would be start small and play a couple of games to discover your playstyle. Wh40k is expensive and if you have bought, build and painted a whole army and you don't like how they play, you won't have a good time.
If you have played strategy games before, think about how you played and where you were most successful. Be it in rushing, countering enemy plans, being defensive and more ''eco based'' or having something like a general purpose unit like elite cavalry that win you games on it's own.
Consider these things and you will have a better gaming experience because in a video game you can switch your faction just by clicking.
In warhammer 40k it's a much bigger task to do so
I’m thinking Tau because of the teckie look and ranged advanced combat
Was playing 40K for decades. Over the years I have played marines, chaos marines, craftworld and dark eldar as well as Tyranids.
These days I have a tournament sized Tyranid army after they moved my genestealers from troops to elites... so I can no longer play my 120 genestealer swarm.
I am still building a Stormcast Eternals Sacrosanct Chamber. And it is almost to its 2000 pt cap.
Coming from mtg this was very helpful. Thank you.
I went for the looks and Necrons fit right in/
I picked Orks for Kill Team based on looks and Dawn of War and still ended up with more Space Marines... how?
Hardly mentioned most of the factions, not the best guide for picking a Kill Team if you don't say what's available
Hi! Was meant to be more of a “ways you can use to pick” video and not a faction by faction overview. But I can definitely do that in the future.
No love for eldars?
Where Custodes? 😢
Yeah surprised they didn't get a mention in the elite section.
I can do a deeper dive w/ faction overviews in the future. This was hoping to be a more concise video that helps you look at the *ways* you could use to pick your army/Kill Team. Hope that helps :)
@@BEERANID40k that's fair enough just like I said surprised you didn't say something during the elite section "or go very very elite with the gold clad custodes" over all great video (especially happy as a Tau player that you mentioned us twice 😀)