*Armies* (as they talk about them) --------------------------------------------------------------- 02:55 Astra Militarium / Imperial Guard (My army is Traitor Guard!) 04:49 Orks 08:25 Space Marines (in general) 09:33 Black Templars & Dark Angels 11:42 Chaos Daemons 12:11 --- Mono Chaos God Daemon Army 13:03 Chaos Knights 13:59 Imperial Knights 15:52 Adeptus Mechanicus 17:48 Genestealer Cults 19:52 Tyranids 21:50 Adeptus Sororitas / Sisters of Battle 23:27 Blood Angels 25:03 Drukhari / Dark Eldar 26:52 Aeldari / Craftworld Eldar 27:58 Chaos Space Marines (in general) 29:59 Death Guard 31:35 World Eaters 33:22 Thousand Sons 34:23 Grey Knights 37:00 Necrons 39:04 Adeptus Custodes 40:52 Tau? Nah, Imperial Fists 42:14 Tau 44:06 Agents of the Imperium / Imperial Agents 45:00 Deathwatch (RIP) 46:38 Space Wolves 48:12 Leagues of Votann 50:27 Space Marines (All other unmentioned) 51:12 Chaos Space Marines (All other unmentioned; brief) 51:46 Warhammer Players (in general)
it was fun listening to you describe nearly every single army with positive notes, but its kind of ironic and hypocritical that you took the most basic and over-done possible take on SM players. as someone getting into the hobby late, I felt like picking up the faction that got me interested in the hobby and it gets so old listening to people like you guys whine about it. Some of us also want a faction that receives regular updates and new models as thats exciting. My eyes roll into the back of my head when people think theyre being cute and edgey complaining that the faction GM pushes the hardest is actually popular.
@@AdamTheCoop1 it makes sense when you think about it. it’s the same toxicity and over-competitiveness that’s making people run from online gaming some newcomers pack it up and bring it to this game because they never learned to have fun with friends
The tyranid comments hit me alittle to personnel. Yes I have a painted norn emissary and yes his name is Steve and he is reading this over my shoulder on my nightstand
Harry (my Haruspex) and Bob (my flying Tyrant) both say hi! My kitbashed Maleceptor/Emissary is sadly nameless; she's usually goes by "the Hydra", but I'm having a hard time settling on a name... Maybe Lena? Actually, no, after looking around a bit; Momo, written with the character for "hundred"! I also need to name all of my gaunts; that's a project though, I don't want to just call them "John 1" through "John 1000"....
World Eaters players are also the most hardcore motherlovers on the tabletop. There's that one guy who had some sort of head surgery, and had to have part of his skull removed. He kept the piece of skull and used it on his Daemon Angron model. Khorne get excited whenever that dude plays.
@@Bolters_And_Banter Khorne shall definitely be the first Chaos God to happily exist in the near future just from the sheer basedness of this action alone
"If you play guard you're boomer" HEY! "You probably wanted to play bolt action and have a thousand hours in War Thunder" HEY! "You probably joined the Army" *sitting here in my uniform listening to this before work starts* Aight you got me.........
Personally, I'm doing T'au because the range is good for strategic advantages, although I do need to make something for incase enemy units are faster than normal units (I know there's some space marines legion thingy that rides on speeders and stuff so yea) im also new to all the Warhammer stuffs so ye
@@Bolters_And_Banter *I look over at my spare room full of like 10 chaos space marines with the rest being hundreds and hundreds of skaven units* uhhhh….. I like killing my own units I guess
Jessica the haruspex, Emily the hierophant, and Rodger (the little hormagant that could) all say hi to the friends. (Rodger killed an angron. I am so proud of him)
T’au are my favorite in 40K. And what that says about me is that the Ankylosaurus is my favorite dinosaur, because they’re good and peaceful, but can fight if they have to.
I also love how insanely faithful they are to the point that devotion manifests miracles potentially from the warp itself in the name of the God Emperor
i got an army of Blood Ravens. So I guess I'm either a thief stealing everything when no one is looking or I'm just a nerd who liked dawn of war I and II (There is no III)
You've now met a Lamenters player, he's subscribed to you. We like the tragic aspect of the Blood Angels. We tend to have a lot of Death Company in our armies, and use our canonically bad luck to justify our terrible rolls. Also, I know two Space Wolves players. They're both furries in denial. Edit: we're also INSANELY gay for Sanguinius, that's consistent with BA
@@LordCrate-du8zm unfortunately, the rage showed up in the Lamenters, and when it showed up, it was uh...particularly bad, as things generally are around them.
@@LordCrate-du8zm white dwarf wasn’t wrong. the black rage incident was from one of the badab war IA books a good while after that, so a lot more recent on the timeline
As someone who both plays Warthunder, has too many hours in Arma 3, and is currently working on finding WW2 proxies for my Guard army, I hate how spot on this was. An easy addition for the guard stereotype is you were in literally any branch of the military. Thanks for giving me a new warhammer channel to follow alongside Poorhammer lol. Always need more in my life!
World Eaters player here. I saw big red beefy boys with chainaxes brawling and I said, "These are my boys!" What gets me is the love of the charge, rolling all those dice in melee, and just seeing the bodies hit the floor. The MVP is a Master of Execution as in one game he single handedly wiped out an entire squad of Ksons. I love him more than any other model I own. If I don't win meh. If I offered Khorne a bounty of skulls then all is well.
Hey, brother in Khorne, I feel you! My favorite game of 40k was a mirror match, my opponent brought Angron AND 2 KLOS, I played more standart rhino+zerks and Angron list. I cant remember who won, but we both resurrected Angron 2 times, killed an entire board but for jackals before turn 4 and had an awesome match. Blood must flow, and oh boy it was a bloodshed. I too get excited when I roll 40 chainsword attacks from zerks, yeah, they might bounce off AoC terminators, but at least 1 of them will give his skull to Khorne.And MoE is a MENACE, people still roll their eyes when he kills a 9w shield captain with 4+ FNP.
Dang, you nailed it with this Tau player. New to the setting and liked their look the most. I'll also add that for me specifically, there were a few more requirements I was looking for: -Not human (or posthuman), not elf or dwarf -Not chaos -Not mindless killing machines Those restrictions don't leave many factions besides Tau, surprisingly.
You know what? As a Craftworld Eldar fan, you hit the head on the nail. I name every single one of my Exarchs and stuff, and I know some of my fellow Craftworld players are grey blob sweatgoblins that ruin the fun for everyone else.
I got my agents of the imperium stuff cause I like rogue traders and inquisitors. Yall did me dirty 😂😭 Btw, I like that we are sort of like an alternative genestealer/guardsman army, but currently we are nothing without armigers/knights to help fight toughness 10+ enemies
The Tyranid section is so accurate lol. I love my Nids so much, that I don't do 1 paint scheme. Every model gets a unique paine job that won't be duplicated. Hive fleet Chameleon
As a world eater player myself, I can in fact confirm I have no brain, only smashy smashy run up the midboard turn 1 and get straight into engagement range with anything I can touch. Objectives? What’s that?
Back when I started the Sanguinary Guard didn't exist. I went into my local GW to start playing fantasy but they convinced me to go with 40k instead. They asked me my favorite colour. I said red so they told me all about the Blood Angels and I painted my first marine. This stuff said the space Vampires who are caused to rage but do so to kill evil. That ticked all the boxes for me.
Iron Warriors, it says we no longer exist in the lore (a few editions ago, when GW decided Perturabo couldn't exist, so neither could my legion). Haven't paid any attention to 40k since then but this popped randomly and I was waiting for my angstybois.
heavy on admech, I don't care as much about winning a game, as long as I pulled off my whack-ass combo that nobody saw coming, it was a good game of 40k.
I am a votann player. Am I a little bitter that we're often ignored? Yea, i guess, but i am definitely more of the Silly Guy. I blast Wind Rose's whole discography, i rock and stone to the bone, i remember when Diggy Diggy Hole first came about as a bit in the Shadow of Israphel Minecraft Series by the Yogscast and became my mental hold music when the burnout hits. Id also argue theres one other kind of Imperial Fists player(Because its my category as someone who had Fists as my first army): We watched a lot of "If The Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device" and felt seen by TTS Dorn's "oops autism" characterization.
World eaters player here. You nailed it, I love Orks players, we are brothers in slaughter. I love WE one-dimensional gameplay and how deep at the same time it could be, it is not the hardest army, but has enough depth to be enjoyable(especially when the rest of the army will be released). Also raptors or T-rex are my favorites
I’m a Necron player, started in 6th edition. I was drawn to them due to the colours and culture. I paint mine in the 7th edition Mephrit dynastic colour scheme and I’ve painted a few space marines over the years. I’d say painting a normal Space marine intercessor is so much easier than painting a very detailed Necron HQ. The Necron lore is insane and the book “The Divine and The Infinite” is a great book. My favourite Necron quote is between a guardsmen and a Necron Lord “Remove yourself from my battlefield before I remove you” On another note. My friend bullied me with his range back in 8th edition so I picked up a Tau army and painted them as the Vior’la sept . I was drawn to tau because of their similarity to Borderlands Hyperion faction design. The range difference in 8th with titans was brutal.
As someone that has just models and is currently trying to suck down as much information as possible, it’s cool seeing that even without having played Orks yet I got clocked so hard.
as an agents of the imperium fan I am slowly facing out of existence (I wished that the inquisition had an army but what we got was a small infantry team)
Enjoyed the vid, spot on with CSM, growing up my dad played blood angels, I thought it was a little bland and ten years later here I am with a world eaters army
My friends and i thoroughly enjoyed this one. One (a BT lorehead) was consoling me (Ork player) and insisting i wasn't stupid. I was not crying or arguing. You guys are right. I love my glue-sniffing melee armies. I also deeply identify with wanting to touch my grubby, kitbashing hands all over other armies models.
I'm working on my TSons army, and you're mostly right: I play Sorcerer in D&D, I love spellcasting in games, I got into the game after the lore, but I plan to have a front line of scarab occult terminators pushing forward slowly as daemons and spellcasters back them up.
As a thousand son and space wolf player. . . I Loved playing thousand sons because of as you said, I open my book of 18+ powers and roll for what I want and it made them feel special and not just an other power armor demon looking army. Also, egyptian looking. But 10th edition. . . I don't even have a line of spells, just some friging range weapons instead. . . Thousand sons of 10th aren't Thousand sons, but Nikea Sons. Space wolf. It felt good playing vikings, their unique weaponry in 8th, the frost weapons avaible to all wolfguard and characters. Weapon more powerfull than regular marines because they were made to fight astartes and it felt like I was playing the executioners in 9th... I lost the frost weapons. Becoming normal powersword and limited to one frost weapon because it became relics, I lost the most situational psychic power as well, but by the All father did I LOVE to use it. Jaws of the world wolf. Living lightning as well was awsome to play, casting elemental base powers was cool. Now. . . Except for the canine units, they are just some blueberry copy paste whit the primaris crap... where are my Chainsword on all my intercessors GW!? Where are they!! And where are my melee weapons? Where did you hide the glorius melee combat! Only got one friging weapon profile now. Whit all the same crapy stats 5, -1, 1. . . . Sorry for the rant. When I start it is hard to stop. I HATE 10th edition. The baby, no flavor, no options edition.
So my three armies are SoB, Tzeentch CSM, and crons and you guys hit 2/3 for me. I love the lore aesthetics for SoB. I got into Necrons because of Twice Dead King and Infinite and Divine, but the ease of paint accelerated my interest. Im not even a bad painter, but its satisfying having an army I can bust out quickly. I love CSM for their homebrew freedom. You arent restricted to the Codex Astartes, and you can freely kitbash in cultists and Daemon Engines
I started Guard as a history buff and as an infantryman in the army. I had a phase as an AdMech player, because I love the religious steampunk bois, but I've been evolving into a T'au player. I don't like the battlesuits, so I don't play them. With fire warriors and hammerheads and pathfinders marking targets, they can play like Guard with better tactics. Also, raptors. Cliche, yes, but I love the idea of killing machines that operate as hunting packs...or, hunting cadres, if you will....
I find that the deeper I get into necrons the more their philosophical angle interests me, like the question whether you’d want to be an immortal robot with the instincts of a being of flesh or not. But ofc GLORY TO THE INFINITE DYNASTIES! Also Therizinosaur, I like the claws
as an older sisters of battle player, i definitely love them because they have the 'quality' feel of space marines, with the underdog feel if guard, which is what you called out. and i totally feel called out for being somewhat of a boomer, as my second and third armies are guard and death guard
I've barely started on my little Tyranid army and I feel so called out. I haven't even painted all the critters yet and I've already shown each and everyone one of them off to all my friends and family. They're just so gosh darn cool! But I don't think giving them all names is really my thing...
From a long time necron's player - Eventually we'll get a codex where they proof-read the dang keywords. Until then, it's just nice to make "Well, this isn't the first war we've lost but this isn't the last you'll see of us wwowoowowowowowowsoisoisoisoi"
I got into Thousand Sons many years ago because everyone around me was playing Space Marines. So I wanted something different. The magic was the first draw. The elegance and lack of mutations was the second draw. The fact that may Thousand Sons hate Tzeentch, and he likes that was what clinched it. (Every time Magnus gets new lore I get annoyed or sad)
Necron player here, i grew up on terminator, and T2. I also love the beyond the board conceptualization of long drawn out conflicts. "Big brainisms" if you will. 😂
i am a t'au fan, it was moreso the hard sci-fi that hooked me, as that is far more appealing to me than the more gothic look of most of 40k. i played in 8th edition, and with the custom sept rules, even as a brand new player i was able to figure out some whacky shit like having a second detachment dedicated purely to having a custom sept rule of increasing weapon range, allowing me to have a squad of crisis suits with triple flamers each that had 12 inch range and could deep strike to within either 8 or 9 inches, i don't quite remember. i remember that and stacking huge swathes of kroot warriors with some fire warriors and rail rifle pathfinders and those kroot warriors somehow taking down a triarch stalker, a couple units of necron warriors, a unit of canoptek wraiths and 3 heavy destroyers single-handedly, all while one of the kroot units got knocked down to 2 models left without losing any leadership tests. i still have no idea what the fuck kind of dice roll drugs those kroot took, but they won me the match.
Not mentioning iron warriors despite the perfect set up after votan is the most lore accurate way to forget iron warriors Sincerely, A bitter iron warriors player
As someone who plays both T'au and Votann. I will say the embracing of rock and stone as the Votann identity is real for me. But also the home Depot theme constantly playing in the background as you paint your dwarves in whatever color scheme you please. For me it's iron warriors because "Stone within, Rock without."
Imperial Knights was my first army because I love big robots and hate losing dudes. And you're right, LOVE Dune and LOVE painting! And I'm an Ork player too, you're right I'm a party guy lmao
My first army was Grey Knights. I almost immediately decided I didn't like how they played and that the other knights were really cool, and now own 6k points of Imperial Knights
I started with Dark Angels because I love the aesthetic, I like that shade of green AND the Lion just came back and he's amazing. I started my guard army because death Korps were what made me interested in the universe. And I have no one to play Bolt Action with.
I'm currently collecting Night Lords, Tau and ordo hereticus (battle sisters and various inquisition things, especially stormtroopers themed after the 3rd edition ones). I've read up and down on the lore, played Arma 3 with 40K mods and I love me a good war crime. I also don't exist, I guess. I'd say the stereotype with Imperial Agents would be: You have a horde of shelf decor with =][= symbols and no datasheets, and the IA codex drives you up the wall.
I started Eldar way back in second edition because i loved how they were an army of very specific tools (that was amazing at on thing terrible if it needed to be used for something else) that had to wielded like a surgical scalpel. But then again my army switched more towards Ad mech as the decades went on
As a tyranids player I can tell you that y'all are spot on lol, I don't care if I lose the game hell I might not even play I may just bring my models to a game shop just to show them off and then just leave I love my baby bugs so much
I can tell that you guys are destined to make it big on the YT 40K podcast scene. May The Emperor guide you to glory. 14k views and less than 600 subs? It won’t take long for your subs to explode
Got my ork army as my first real army and then got into chaos space marine. I agree so much that orks are a silly army, and that's the same idea I bring with my chaos as the whole concept is just my orks but with like you guys said more range.
Dilophosaurus. It's one of my favorites and I think it should have been dubbed "the king of the dinosaurs" reasoning being; it was one of the theropods. When it was around in the Jurassic, it was the top predator and the only thing that would kill a dilophosaurus was another dilophosaurus. So it literally ruled the Jurassic. It wasn't the smartest dinosaur but for creatures being around during this time it was smart for the era. It has a crown so it can be a king.
ROCK AND STONE!! I do also love the simple 'evil' of the Leagues being hyper capitalist and just consuming entire planets for their resources sort of like a comparison to the Tyranids (or the Bane as we call them), I also enjoy the tiny lore stuff of commerce between the Leagues and the T'au
Hey I just subbed so looking forward to more Edit: I remember wanting to build Inquisition way back in 7th edition and trying to convert Skitarii into Inquisition(spoiler alert it didn’t work) I am very happy to get a book now tho!!
i just finished painting my first tyrranids and i was literally holding it in my hands admiring it then the tyrranids part came on lol. I love my boogies
Bitter Votann players are just role-playing normal dwarfs and never letting a grudge go Also Diplodocus and Allosaurus are my favorite's, Walking with Dinosaurs Big Al had a huge impact on my preference
Bro I was sitting here so nice and patiently listening to all the nice takes about other players being like "wow they sound nice, I can't wait until they get to my favorite, the Grey Knights!" Only to get ABSOLUTELY OBLITERATED like bro what did I do...😢
I started with the guard because i was at the flea market with my mom like 7 years ago, and i found like 20 guard and a command sqaud for 20€ and 2 basilisks for like 5€ each, and they looked cool
My starting army was Demonhunters back in the day and it never a powerhouse. However they did us dirty with the IA codex. I’m still going to build an army of proxies for a love of the lore and aesthetic.
I really like the Necrons not only because I lowkey cheer for them to return to flesh and run the galaxy but also just because every artwork/table top setting they’re in looks in some way like an Iron Maiden album cover and I can’t get enough of that energy
I like how the thumbnail is supposed to be a contrast between two vastly different players, and then I'm sat here with 2 equally large armies of both terminids and space marines going: ":D" Edit: After watching the video I feel like you nailed the Tyranids but missed two space marine niches. Namely the two reasons I got into space marines as a first army. 1. They are very approachable. If you are like me and want to do everything, but kinda don't know where to start, space marines is just the easy pick. You'll likely have a different main army at a later point, but if you only have one army, your starter army is also your main army. 2. If you're into lore, they are one of the easiest factions to write your own lore/chapter for. There's just something about having your own paint scheme and style that just hits home for a lore nerd like me ^^ Also, I feel like you missed a category for sisters as well. Because sisters is one of the most over the top factions in the game. I mean your tank is a literally organ that shoots missiles, with stained glass on the sides. It's ridiculous and awesome at the same time. Where 40k turns everything up to 11, sisters break the knob. and finally, that was the most heartfelt "hit the like button" I've heard, so of course I'm liking the video ♥ P.s. Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus
Personally, I started with tyranids because the flyrant and demonically-possesed zoanthrope from the “All Guard Party” fan series was the coolest things ever - I love them (especially my special swarmlord and flyrant) but am somewhat disappointed with the old warriors, gargoyles, and carnifexes aince I was spoiled by the 10th edition range refresh - I’m still upset we lost the Unending Swarm reinforcements, since “endless waves of small bugs supported and led by a few giant monsters” was the faction fantasy for me. My second army was Orks, because they have fun lore, creative aesthetics that encourage kitbashing, and a generally good-sports vibe where whacky fun comes before winning since “orksies never beaten.” - customizing 80 boyz has been an exhausting task, but I loved kitbashing my lootaz’ deff guns and I’ve been using them as my learning to play faction. Then I got admech because I love the dunecrawler (looks like an M3 Lee mech and you can get them super cheap on ebay) and the whole tech-thralls obeying monstrous cyborg mechadendrite masters - I think the conformity of their units is a nice pallet cleanser art project after the random clutter of an ork army - I’ve fallen head over heels for Forge World Ryza’s legions and want to get a couple of admech-themed knights painted up as House Sidus to match. Then a local person sold me their Genestealer army - I love the mutant cult mass uprising theme and was enthusiastically customizing the models but lost steam after the codex launch… might look into them later on in the edition if they start to feel more horde-like or aberrants get buffed enough to make “muscle beach” a fun way to play again. My drukhari army is the result of Brad from Poorhammer’s video on how much fun you can have kit bashing - specifically the grotesques and cronos - but now I have way too many custom wyches, kabalites, and archons - I took a lot of inspiration from jetblackraider’s art of the Obsidian Rose and Kittokatsu1987’s kitbashes (I’m excited to post my attempts since I’m really happy how Aestra Khromys turned out) Finally, I got into T’au because I like the utopian idealism angle of the faction’s lore, think that hammerheads are awesome (maybe because I was a World of Tanks player for five years and they resemble the Star Wars prequel hovertanks I loved as a little kiddie), and to speculatively invest in kroot… specifically, because I’m super hype for the eventual, inevitable plastic knarloc resculpt and would love to see a big kroot hawk model eventually (lean into the James Cameron Avatar stuff). And that’s about it. Oh, my favorite “dinosaur” was never specific, but I always loved how mosasaurus looked, though I also bounced between Utahraptor, Quetzalcoatalus, and Therizinosaurus - though now I adore Spinosaurus because the meme of it constantly being reinvented is hilarious. Pour one out for Troodon. No longer a real species, but hella boss RIP … If it isn’t already apparent, I’m the kind of autist who gets hyper-invested in their interests but has trouble picking favorites lol
I started with Tyranids because cool big space bugs. Then I got some Necrons, pretty much because I liked the terminator movies and necrons had the "we'll be back"-rule. And now that I started to just collect and paint them again, gw decided to remove the Hierodules from the store
Got into guard when I was 16, though the point still stands on age because everyone thinks I'm old even if I'm not talking to 40K players The back and knee problems also don't help deny that
My two armies got hit first Orks and BT, I could have stopped watching but I liked the content when it kept going. Quite accurate analysis for them IMO. But I will say you forgot the secret third option which is I have no friends and wanted to play lore accurate games with someone (myself).
I play grey knights for 3 reasons. Because teleport strike force is funny af, because i built my whole army for like 500 dollars new, and because i like silver more than gold.
Ill give my takes too cos why not, enjoy the engagement. Ill also quickly preface with I own 15 of the armies with some I've double dipped in factions like I am doing both Ultramar Auxillia Guard and Armageddon Steel Legion. So ill be heavily biased towards interpretations of armies I love. Codex Space Marines - You've either been playing since Rouge Trader and are deathly loyal to your army or you just fucking love big dudes in power armour. Bonus is also that you are new to the Hobby and took the sensible route in. I have an Ultramarines Army mostly because my dad played UM in Rouge Trader so when he showed me how to paint with my brand new Assault on Black Reach box he bought blue paint, I'm still very loyal to these boys in blue. (I do wish I could give a take on each major Codex Space Marines chapter or at least the First Founding legions but that would take forever so ill just go with armies that get rule books) Black Templars - You are either super religious, a medieval history buff or hate Matt Ward Space Marines and went as far from Ultramarine as you could. I personally started to gain a liking for them because I'm a medieval history buff writing my dissertation on swords AND I'm very religious. Blood Angels - You either like Vampires as a tale of a cursed Noble doomed to a tragic fate or you like just demolishing shit fast and brutal, which one you lean more towards may lead you to successors like the Flesh Tearers. I also have a BA army but theyre Flesh Tearers, I like the tragic angle but love the Brutality of the Flesh Tearers. Dark Angels - More medieval history buff but of a later period, big fans of mystery and the idea of Knights as a fraternal order as opposed to a Crusading force of warriors. Deathwatch - You love the tacticool shit, you also couldnt decide on a space marines army so you wanted them all. youre also very upset (and rightfully so) that you dont have an army anymore. Grey Knights - You love Paladins and other types of magically enhanced warriors, you also made a sensible choice since they're very cheap. Space Wolves - You REALLY got into the viking trend and have probably made mead, you also might just really dig wolves. Sisters - You're either religious, like the whole "warrior woman" thing or are really into Gothic themes. I also own Sisters, Nuns IRL are already really inspiring and cool people BATTLE NUNS are HARDCORE. Custodes - all 3 of you left playing Custodes just really like your Golden boys, you saw space marines and thought "what if they were more skilled" you also really like Henry Cavill or like having a cheap army. I have custodes mostly because my dad bought me them one Christmas, theyre cool models and fun to paint. Mechanicus - I've gotta just agree with the video, you're big brain, like cyberpunk and steampunk and are also LOADED with cash. Agents of The Imperium - Refugee Deathwatch players or want to fuck around with a silly army. Imperial Guard - You love 80s and 90s action movies and sci fi movies, you probably quote Starship Troopers multiple times a game, You either love modern history or 20th century history, you may have also served in the Armed Forces yourself, The warthunder thing is also almost certainly true, You also play Hoi4. Bonus: if you play Krieg you're sick of people thinking its WW2 inspired. This is also an Army I have. I started guard cos tanks are cool, I fell in love with the guard because the Indomitable Human Spirit will make me roll that 4+ and tanks are cool. I chose Ultramar Auxillia because they have that Roman Legionnaire feel even more than the Ultramarines do also because I was in a GW shop and was eyeing up the old Start Collecting! Imperial Guard box but was apprehensive because i didnt want to buy more paints than i already had (I only had Ultramarines at this point) and the staff member asked what was stopping me buying the box, I told him the paint thing, he asked what paints I have, he told me about the Auxilia, I bought the box. I also like Steel Legion because mechanised infantry with a ww2 desert look fucks so hard. Knights - I agree with what you guys said, you got a knight to attach to your army or as a project and then realised the little knights do better in game then all of a sudden you have a knights army. The same goes for Imperial and Chaos knights, though Chaos Knights players love the thematic Kitbash where Imperial Knights players love the thematic paint job. I only have one Imperial Knight but thats because i took my other two and made them Chaos knights with some kitbashing because i love the build. Daemons - again i agree with you guys either AoS player forced to play 40k or its similar to Knights, you got some Daemons to support your CSM force and accidentally ended up with 2000 pts of Daemons too, the latter is more likely to be mono-god, the latter also happened to me with Khorne Daemons and my World Eaters. Codex CSM - You almost certianly didnt start out this way, you were slowly corrupted over years of service to a loyalist force and now love the freedom of being openly evil, you also HATE trim. Codex CSM is my largest army and what id call my Main, my warband is a hybrid Night Lords Word Bearers warband, I was Loyal for so long the temptation of Chaos took me and led me to the most evil cunty CSM possible, the Night Lords. Emperors Children - They have an index they count. You're Salty about being last of the 4 specific legions, your humour is either super refined or "haha funny sex", unsuspecting body horror is a big thing for you and you probably like to show off a bit. Death Guard - You either got in with a buddy during 8th or are into more traditional body horror, you love the tough resilience of a never ending pestilence and are probably a more traditional wargamer. Thousand Sons - It's Wizard time motherfucker, Fireball! You love mages, you aren't super fussed about the Tzeentch look either way you just fucking love magic, you play fantasy games pure mage. World Eaters - you already know, World Eaters players are ork players for Chaos. The Nails are biting. I also own World Eaters, Charges are fun, Angron is a sad character, give Lord Invocatus his fly keyword back, Eldar - You either are a meta chaser or really like clean sleek looks. You like that your race is this snobby but absolutely fucked faction just trying to maintain reputation and survive. Dark Eldar - Get help. You might also be a Goth or really like Pirates and Pirate Ships. Genestealer Cults - You are big brain but like guerrilla warfare and insurgency tactics, you might also be a fan of reading into revolutions and collectivist action. I own GSC because what better way to basically play guard but insurgents. Leagues of Votann - you played too much deep rock galactic. Necrons - You started in 9th, you want an easy to paint army, you like the undead, you are grouchy. I have a necron army because i saw a Sithcron paint scheme and wanted it. Orks - you already know what an ork player is like so i wont waste your time. I have an Ork army, they are themed off Coalition forces during the 90s and 2000s in the middle east, i got orks because theyre very 40k and very fun and easy going. Tau - You like anime and mechas. You might also be a user of r/Sigmarxism... You also might like Halo and see them as the Covenant in 40k. I got into them as an army because the Farsight model fucks and im a sucker for anything that has a feeling of traditional Japanese art. (as a side note do yourself a favour and look up traditional Catholic Japanese art, some of it goes so hard) AND FINALLY NIds - You started in 10th, or REALLY love the bug thing, like you think bugs are cool and that the gaunts are cute.
I started guard because of dawn of war dark crusade when I was like 10-11 because 400 guys spamming grenade launchers was absolutely hilarious. I also have tended to notice a lot of military veterans just so happen to also play guard. (Like me and 3 other military friends of mine and then my store LGS like 6 veterans all who play guard).
*Armies* (as they talk about them)
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02:55 Astra Militarium / Imperial Guard (My army is Traitor Guard!)
04:49 Orks
08:25 Space Marines (in general)
09:33 Black Templars & Dark Angels
11:42 Chaos Daemons
12:11 --- Mono Chaos God Daemon Army
13:03 Chaos Knights
13:59 Imperial Knights
15:52 Adeptus Mechanicus
17:48 Genestealer Cults
19:52 Tyranids
21:50 Adeptus Sororitas / Sisters of Battle
23:27 Blood Angels
25:03 Drukhari / Dark Eldar
26:52 Aeldari / Craftworld Eldar
27:58 Chaos Space Marines (in general)
29:59 Death Guard
31:35 World Eaters
33:22 Thousand Sons
34:23 Grey Knights
37:00 Necrons
39:04 Adeptus Custodes
40:52 Tau? Nah, Imperial Fists
42:14 Tau
44:06 Agents of the Imperium / Imperial Agents
45:00 Deathwatch (RIP)
46:38 Space Wolves
48:12 Leagues of Votann
50:27 Space Marines (All other unmentioned)
51:12 Chaos Space Marines (All other unmentioned; brief)
51:46 Warhammer Players (in general)
so you play CSM
it was fun listening to you describe nearly every single army with positive notes, but its kind of ironic and hypocritical that you took the most basic and over-done possible take on SM players. as someone getting into the hobby late, I felt like picking up the faction that got me interested in the hobby and it gets so old listening to people like you guys whine about it. Some of us also want a faction that receives regular updates and new models as thats exciting. My eyes roll into the back of my head when people think theyre being cute and edgey complaining that the faction GM pushes the hardest is actually popular.
@@paulsalterego8700 In spirit, haha! I just use the Astra Militarium ruleset. My guys just have some spiky bits for good flair.
@@AdamTheCoop1 it makes sense when you think about it. it’s the same toxicity and over-competitiveness that’s making people run from online gaming
some newcomers pack it up and bring it to this game because they never learned to have fun with friends
Thousand sons
I LOVE TRIM
I LOVE PAINTING TRIM
I LOVE SPENDING WHOLE DAYS ON A SINGLE MODEL
I LIKE TRIM
I think half of TSons for me was just trying to figure out ways to cheat and not paint trim
@@catholicpatriotusa1507and like Ahriman's efforts, they haven't bear fruit, or more precisely they backfired?
try painting gold first, i got down to like 30-40 minutes a rubric that way.
@@SantaTrooper-ig6bz no
I will paint metallic reds with trim
@@Jfk2Mr My early attempts backfired. However I've actually created a way of painting Rubrics that works pretty darn well.
The tyranid comments hit me alittle to personnel. Yes I have a painted norn emissary and yes his name is Steve and he is reading this over my shoulder on my nightstand
I would love to see that norn emissary bud!
Aw what a distinguished gentleman. Steve sounds nice.
Harry (my Haruspex) and Bob (my flying Tyrant) both say hi! My kitbashed Maleceptor/Emissary is sadly nameless; she's usually goes by "the Hydra", but I'm having a hard time settling on a name... Maybe Lena? Actually, no, after looking around a bit; Momo, written with the character for "hundred"!
I also need to name all of my gaunts; that's a project though, I don't want to just call them "John 1" through "John 1000"....
i am not saying i agree whit the statement but Þór Dad the Danes and Sverir along whit the rest of Hivefleet Iceland say hy to Steve
Terry the titan-slaying termagant, Psycho Mantis the kitbashed maleceptor, and Austin Powers and Johnny English the Norns all say hi!
World Eaters players are also the most hardcore motherlovers on the tabletop. There's that one guy who had some sort of head surgery, and had to have part of his skull removed. He kept the piece of skull and used it on his Daemon Angron model.
Khorne get excited whenever that dude plays.
What does he use the skull chunk for? Basing?
That is the most based khorne thing to do.
@@Bolters_And_Banter Khorne shall definitely be the first Chaos God to happily exist in the near future just from the sheer basedness of this action alone
Literal skull for the skull throne
Its true. All my workouts revolve around the number 8 whether it be reps, sets, weight thats divisible by 8 etc
"If you play guard you're boomer"
HEY!
"You probably wanted to play bolt action and have a thousand hours in War Thunder"
HEY!
"You probably joined the Army"
*sitting here in my uniform listening to this before work starts*
Aight you got me.........
My starting army of chaos marines says that I like spiky edgy things
Yes. Yes it does.
Like a cats peepee
Also you're à masochist that likes painting waaaay too much trim
Personally, I'm doing T'au because the range is good for strategic advantages, although I do need to make something for incase enemy units are faster than normal units (I know there's some space marines legion thingy that rides on speeders and stuff so yea) im also new to all the Warhammer stuffs so ye
@@Bolters_And_Banter *I look over at my spare room full of like 10 chaos space marines with the rest being hundreds and hundreds of skaven units* uhhhh….. I like killing my own units I guess
Jessica the haruspex, Emily the hierophant, and Rodger (the little hormagant that could) all say hi to the friends.
(Rodger killed an angron. I am so proud of him)
I never name anything 🤣
"last episode we got 2.2k views" this one is sitting at 11k now and popped up in my homepage, so good job lads
T’au are my favorite in 40K. And what that says about me is that the Ankylosaurus is my favorite dinosaur, because they’re good and peaceful, but can fight if they have to.
As a sisters player. Pipeorgan missle launcher and massive warcrimes is what got me into them
SAME. The organ tank goes so hard
I also love how insanely faithful they are to the point that devotion manifests miracles potentially from the warp itself in the name of the God Emperor
Penitent engines are metal as fuck.
i got an army of Blood Ravens. So I guess I'm either a thief stealing everything when no one is looking or I'm just a nerd who liked dawn of war I and II (There is no III)
I think you’re just the main character
No ,you are just Romanian at your core , I speak from experience .
You're the strategist. You make plans on how to nick everything that isn't nailed down in detail.
@@johndane9754 and then steal nails and whatever was nailed
I play Necrons for 2 reasons: 1. I like the look of metallic paint, 2. The concept of "What if Robots but also Mummies" is cool af.
You've now met a Lamenters player, he's subscribed to you.
We like the tragic aspect of the Blood Angels. We tend to have a lot of Death Company in our armies, and use our canonically bad luck to justify our terrible rolls.
Also, I know two Space Wolves players. They're both furries in denial.
Edit: we're also INSANELY gay for Sanguinius, that's consistent with BA
Why a lot of DC? Don't the Lamenters have shockingly low amounts of them because of their unique Geneseed?
Lamenters are bae. Heroic and tragic at the same time.
For those we cherish, we die in glory!
@@LordCrate-du8zm unfortunately, the rage showed up in the Lamenters, and when it showed up, it was uh...particularly bad, as things generally are around them.
@@jcollnorm damn. According to White Dwarf they had more control over themselves, but this sounds more true.
@@LordCrate-du8zm white dwarf wasn’t wrong. the black rage incident was from one of the badab war IA books a good while after that, so a lot more recent on the timeline
As someone who both plays Warthunder, has too many hours in Arma 3, and is currently working on finding WW2 proxies for my Guard army, I hate how spot on this was. An easy addition for the guard stereotype is you were in literally any branch of the military. Thanks for giving me a new warhammer channel to follow alongside Poorhammer lol. Always need more in my life!
Imperial Navy enjoyers, rally around this commentary!
Big fan of the navy, adding in assassins and inquisition is cool too, but sad that the deathwatch had to die for the navy to live.
World Eaters player here. I saw big red beefy boys with chainaxes brawling and I said, "These are my boys!"
What gets me is the love of the charge, rolling all those dice in melee, and just seeing the bodies hit the floor. The MVP is a Master of Execution as in one game he single handedly wiped out an entire squad of Ksons. I love him more than any other model I own. If I don't win meh. If I offered Khorne a bounty of skulls then all is well.
Hey, brother in Khorne, I feel you! My favorite game of 40k was a mirror match, my opponent brought Angron AND 2 KLOS, I played more standart rhino+zerks and Angron list. I cant remember who won, but we both resurrected Angron 2 times, killed an entire board but for jackals before turn 4 and had an awesome match. Blood must flow, and oh boy it was a bloodshed. I too get excited when I roll 40 chainsword attacks from zerks, yeah, they might bounce off AoC terminators, but at least 1 of them will give his skull to Khorne.And MoE is a MENACE, people still roll their eyes when he kills a 9w shield captain with 4+ FNP.
@@Stalldragon God termnies are really tough to deal with I feel you. And hell yeah brother!
Spinosaurus. I’ve named all my Tyranid models, down to each ripper in the swarm. They’re my precious little lizards and I love them.
Dang, you nailed it with this Tau player. New to the setting and liked their look the most.
I'll also add that for me specifically, there were a few more requirements I was looking for:
-Not human (or posthuman), not elf or dwarf
-Not chaos
-Not mindless killing machines
Those restrictions don't leave many factions besides Tau, surprisingly.
You know what? As a Craftworld Eldar fan, you hit the head on the nail. I name every single one of my Exarchs and stuff, and I know some of my fellow Craftworld players are grey blob sweatgoblins that ruin the fun for everyone else.
I got my agents of the imperium stuff cause I like rogue traders and inquisitors. Yall did me dirty 😂😭
Btw, I like that we are sort of like an alternative genestealer/guardsman army, but currently we are nothing without armigers/knights to help fight toughness 10+ enemies
The Tyranid section is so accurate lol. I love my Nids so much, that I don't do 1 paint scheme. Every model gets a unique paine job that won't be duplicated. Hive fleet Chameleon
As a world eater player myself, I can in fact confirm I have no brain, only smashy smashy run up the midboard turn 1 and get straight into engagement range with anything I can touch. Objectives? What’s that?
Ork players not following instructions when building models is like Drukhari players cutting themselves on their models: it just fits so well
Gotta anoint the models.
Back when I started the Sanguinary Guard didn't exist. I went into my local GW to start playing fantasy but they convinced me to go with 40k instead. They asked me my favorite colour. I said red so they told me all about the Blood Angels and I painted my first marine.
This stuff said the space Vampires who are caused to rage but do so to kill evil. That ticked all the boxes for me.
Iron Warriors, it says we no longer exist in the lore (a few editions ago, when GW decided Perturabo couldn't exist, so neither could my legion). Haven't paid any attention to 40k since then but this popped randomly and I was waiting for my angstybois.
heavy on admech, I don't care as much about winning a game, as long as I pulled off my whack-ass combo that nobody saw coming, it was a good game of 40k.
I am a votann player. Am I a little bitter that we're often ignored? Yea, i guess, but i am definitely more of the Silly Guy. I blast Wind Rose's whole discography, i rock and stone to the bone, i remember when Diggy Diggy Hole first came about as a bit in the Shadow of Israphel Minecraft Series by the Yogscast and became my mental hold music when the burnout hits.
Id also argue theres one other kind of Imperial Fists player(Because its my category as someone who had Fists as my first army): We watched a lot of "If The Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device" and felt seen by TTS Dorn's "oops autism" characterization.
World eaters player here. You nailed it, I love Orks players, we are brothers in slaughter. I love WE one-dimensional gameplay and how deep at the same time it could be, it is not the hardest army, but has enough depth to be enjoyable(especially when the rest of the army will be released). Also raptors or T-rex are my favorites
I’m a Necron player, started in 6th edition. I was drawn to them due to the colours and culture. I paint mine in the 7th edition Mephrit dynastic colour scheme and I’ve painted a few space marines over the years. I’d say painting a normal Space marine intercessor is so much easier than painting a very detailed Necron HQ. The Necron lore is insane and the book “The Divine and The Infinite” is a great book.
My favourite Necron quote is between a guardsmen and a Necron Lord “Remove yourself from my battlefield before I remove you”
On another note. My friend bullied me with his range back in 8th edition so I picked up a Tau army and painted them as the Vior’la sept . I was drawn to tau because of their similarity to Borderlands Hyperion faction design. The range difference in 8th with titans was brutal.
As someone that has just models and is currently trying to suck down as much information as possible, it’s cool seeing that even without having played Orks yet I got clocked so hard.
as an agents of the imperium fan I am slowly facing out of existence (I wished that the inquisition had an army but what we got was a small infantry team)
As a sisters player, hit the nail on the head. All of these seemed to ring home too. Great podcast guys.
Once again, us Deathwatch players are forgotten 😭
You just love the knights watch 😆
@@robainsworth2014 What's that?
Unfortunately with what GW is doing, it’s looking like Deathwatch may not be around for much longer other than as just reskinned space marines.
Lore accurate moment
@@Bolters_And_Banter Tell me you didn't actually read what changes were there without telling me that
Enjoyed the vid, spot on with CSM, growing up my dad played blood angels, I thought it was a little bland and ten years later here I am with a world eaters army
“If you play Adeptus Mechanicus, you have a Masters Degree”
Me: looks at MEC degree on the wall, “…yep”
as a Dark Angels player, I was the edgy quiet kid in the back
same and same lol
The Dark Angels Black Templars thing cracks me up as those are the two armies I love and play lol
subscribed! but timestamps would be useful i like to jump around the factions
Noted! We’ll make sure to include them in the next episode!
Update: Ask and ye shall receive.
~Nick
My friends and i thoroughly enjoyed this one. One (a BT lorehead) was consoling me (Ork player) and insisting i wasn't stupid. I was not crying or arguing. You guys are right. I love my glue-sniffing melee armies. I also deeply identify with wanting to touch my grubby, kitbashing hands all over other armies models.
I'm working on my TSons army, and you're mostly right: I play Sorcerer in D&D, I love spellcasting in games, I got into the game after the lore, but I plan to have a front line of scarab occult terminators pushing forward slowly as daemons and spellcasters back them up.
As a thousand son and space wolf player. . .
I Loved playing thousand sons because of as you said, I open my book of 18+ powers and roll for what I want and it made them feel special and not just an other power armor demon looking army. Also, egyptian looking. But 10th edition. . . I don't even have a line of spells, just some friging range weapons instead. . . Thousand sons of 10th aren't Thousand sons, but Nikea Sons.
Space wolf. It felt good playing vikings, their unique weaponry in 8th, the frost weapons avaible to all wolfguard and characters. Weapon more powerfull than regular marines because they were made to fight astartes and it felt like I was playing the executioners in 9th... I lost the frost weapons. Becoming normal powersword and limited to one frost weapon because it became relics, I lost the most situational psychic power as well, but by the All father did I LOVE to use it. Jaws of the world wolf. Living lightning as well was awsome to play, casting elemental base powers was cool. Now. . . Except for the canine units, they are just some blueberry copy paste whit the primaris crap... where are my Chainsword on all my intercessors GW!? Where are they!! And where are my melee weapons? Where did you hide the glorius melee combat! Only got one friging weapon profile now. Whit all the same crapy stats 5, -1, 1. . . . Sorry for the rant. When I start it is hard to stop. I HATE 10th edition. The baby, no flavor, no options edition.
So my three armies are SoB, Tzeentch CSM, and crons and you guys hit 2/3 for me. I love the lore aesthetics for SoB.
I got into Necrons because of Twice Dead King and Infinite and Divine, but the ease of paint accelerated my interest. Im not even a bad painter, but its satisfying having an army I can bust out quickly.
I love CSM for their homebrew freedom. You arent restricted to the Codex Astartes, and you can freely kitbash in cultists and Daemon Engines
I started Guard as a history buff and as an infantryman in the army. I had a phase as an AdMech player, because I love the religious steampunk bois, but I've been evolving into a T'au player. I don't like the battlesuits, so I don't play them. With fire warriors and hammerheads and pathfinders marking targets, they can play like Guard with better tactics.
Also, raptors. Cliche, yes, but I love the idea of killing machines that operate as hunting packs...or, hunting cadres, if you will....
No iron warriors? I will bear this bitter grudge for eternity without letting it compromise my combat effectiveness
I find that the deeper I get into necrons the more their philosophical angle interests me, like the question whether you’d want to be an immortal robot with the instincts of a being of flesh or not. But ofc GLORY TO THE INFINITE DYNASTIES!
Also Therizinosaur, I like the claws
as an older sisters of battle player, i definitely love them because they have the 'quality' feel of space marines, with the underdog feel if guard, which is what you called out. and i totally feel called out for being somewhat of a boomer, as my second and third armies are guard and death guard
Agents of the Imperium is the army you get if you're a kill team player and want to try "bighammer" with models you already own
You guys actually sold me on imperial guard tbh, Im old and always routing for the underdog, never heard of bolt action though.
I laughed at the middle plug, but still appreciate the video. Love from a nid player!!
I've barely started on my little Tyranid army and I feel so called out. I haven't even painted all the critters yet and I've already shown each and everyone one of them off to all my friends and family. They're just so gosh darn cool! But I don't think giving them all names is really my thing...
From a long time necron's player - Eventually we'll get a codex where they proof-read the dang keywords. Until then, it's just nice to make "Well, this isn't the first war we've lost but this isn't the last you'll see of us wwowoowowowowowowsoisoisoisoi"
To be fair, I do love the new chaos kits that came out with Dark Vengeance.
I got into Thousand Sons many years ago because everyone around me was playing Space Marines. So I wanted something different.
The magic was the first draw.
The elegance and lack of mutations was the second draw.
The fact that may Thousand Sons hate Tzeentch, and he likes that was what clinched it.
(Every time Magnus gets new lore I get annoyed or sad)
Necron player here, i grew up on terminator, and T2. I also love the beyond the board conceptualization of long drawn out conflicts. "Big brainisms" if you will. 😂
i am a t'au fan, it was moreso the hard sci-fi that hooked me, as that is far more appealing to me than the more gothic look of most of 40k. i played in 8th edition, and with the custom sept rules, even as a brand new player i was able to figure out some whacky shit like having a second detachment dedicated purely to having a custom sept rule of increasing weapon range, allowing me to have a squad of crisis suits with triple flamers each that had 12 inch range and could deep strike to within either 8 or 9 inches, i don't quite remember. i remember that and stacking huge swathes of kroot warriors with some fire warriors and rail rifle pathfinders and those kroot warriors somehow taking down a triarch stalker, a couple units of necron warriors, a unit of canoptek wraiths and 3 heavy destroyers single-handedly, all while one of the kroot units got knocked down to 2 models left without losing any leadership tests. i still have no idea what the fuck kind of dice roll drugs those kroot took, but they won me the match.
For honor?! My man!! I got over 3000 hours. New to warhammer 40k tho
Not mentioning iron warriors despite the perfect set up after votan is the most lore accurate way to forget iron warriors
Sincerely,
A bitter iron warriors player
My sweet bug bois, I love them all dearly, togetha we shall devour the very universe
As someone who plays both T'au and Votann.
I will say the embracing of rock and stone as the Votann identity is real for me. But also the home Depot theme constantly playing in the background as you paint your dwarves in whatever color scheme you please. For me it's iron warriors because "Stone within, Rock without."
Rock and stone fellow dwarf, rock and stone.
"Tyranids player who watched Alien a few too many times"
*Me looking at my tyranid army of proxied Xenomorphs*
"Heh..."
Imperial Knights was my first army because I love big robots and hate losing dudes. And you're right, LOVE Dune and LOVE painting! And I'm an Ork player too, you're right I'm a party guy lmao
My first army was Grey Knights. I almost immediately decided I didn't like how they played and that the other knights were really cool, and now own 6k points of Imperial Knights
I started with Dark Angels because I love the aesthetic, I like that shade of green AND the Lion just came back and he's amazing. I started my guard army because death Korps were what made me interested in the universe. And I have no one to play Bolt Action with.
I'm currently collecting Night Lords, Tau and ordo hereticus (battle sisters and various inquisition things, especially stormtroopers themed after the 3rd edition ones).
I've read up and down on the lore, played Arma 3 with 40K mods and I love me a good war crime. I also don't exist, I guess.
I'd say the stereotype with Imperial Agents would be:
You have a horde of shelf decor with =][= symbols and no datasheets, and the IA codex drives you up the wall.
Yeah I’m starting to realize we missed a lot of factions, perhaps we’ll redo this video in the future and break it into segments to cover everything.
Additionally for Custodes players: you really like Stormcast but no one in your area plays AOS
I started Eldar way back in second edition because i loved how they were an army of very specific tools (that was amazing at on thing terrible if it needed to be used for something else) that had to wielded like a surgical scalpel. But then again my army switched more towards Ad mech as the decades went on
As a tyranids player I can tell you that y'all are spot on lol, I don't care if I lose the game hell I might not even play I may just bring my models to a game shop just to show them off and then just leave I love my baby bugs so much
I can tell that you guys are destined to make it big on the YT 40K podcast scene. May The Emperor guide you to glory. 14k views and less than 600 subs? It won’t take long for your subs to explode
Damn dude called it. I love AOS 4th and I play Chaos Daemons competitively 40k because there are no AOS tournaments
Got my ork army as my first real army and then got into chaos space marine. I agree so much that orks are a silly army, and that's the same idea I bring with my chaos as the whole concept is just my orks but with like you guys said more range.
Dilophosaurus. It's one of my favorites and I think it should have been dubbed "the king of the dinosaurs" reasoning being; it was one of the theropods. When it was around in the Jurassic, it was the top predator and the only thing that would kill a dilophosaurus was another dilophosaurus. So it literally ruled the Jurassic. It wasn't the smartest dinosaur but for creatures being around during this time it was smart for the era. It has a crown so it can be a king.
I (Alpharius) just started the game and collect/play CSM. I can confirm that I decided on CSM after going deep into the lore of 30k/40k.
ROCK AND STONE!!
I do also love the simple 'evil' of the Leagues being hyper capitalist and just consuming entire planets for their resources sort of like a comparison to the Tyranids (or the Bane as we call them), I also enjoy the tiny lore stuff of commerce between the Leagues and the T'au
Rock and stone, brother. Luck has, need keeps, toil wants.
Hey I just subbed so looking forward to more
Edit: I remember wanting to build Inquisition way back in 7th edition and trying to convert Skitarii into Inquisition(spoiler alert it didn’t work) I am very happy to get a book now tho!!
i just finished painting my first tyrranids and i was literally holding it in my hands admiring it then the tyrranids part came on lol. I love my boogies
This is ridiculously accurate but you forgot the part of Tyranids where we like dinosaurs
I wasn't expecting much, but this was an entertaining podcast.
Bitter Votann players are just role-playing normal dwarfs and never letting a grudge go
Also Diplodocus and Allosaurus are my favorite's, Walking with Dinosaurs Big Al had a huge impact on my preference
47:52 I feel actively attacked as a Space Wolves player who's actively encouraging his friend to build and paint his Death Guard army!
I play Flesh Tearers, because I want to play loyalist World Eaters, but hate painting white.
Bro I was sitting here so nice and patiently listening to all the nice takes about other players being like "wow they sound nice, I can't wait until they get to my favorite, the Grey Knights!" Only to get ABSOLUTELY OBLITERATED like bro what did I do...😢
I started with the guard because i was at the flea market with my mom like 7 years ago, and i found like 20 guard and a command sqaud for 20€ and 2 basilisks for like 5€ each, and they looked cool
As a necrons player, I like them because the "spooky scary skeletons" song is always playing in my head. 💀
My starting army was Demonhunters back in the day and it never a powerhouse. However they did us dirty with the IA codex. I’m still going to build an army of proxies for a love of the lore and aesthetic.
As both a dark angel and blood angel player, this is 100% correct.
Good personality, good energy, good content. Subscribed. Proud to be your Fifth hundred follower guys. Keep going!
Orks as first faction, dark angels as second, and guard 3rd. I feel adhd when in reality I really like green
I really like the Necrons not only because I lowkey cheer for them to return to flesh and run the galaxy but also just because every artwork/table top setting they’re in looks in some way like an Iron Maiden album cover and I can’t get enough of that energy
I like how the thumbnail is supposed to be a contrast between two vastly different players, and then I'm sat here with 2 equally large armies of both terminids and space marines going: ":D"
Edit:
After watching the video I feel like you nailed the Tyranids but missed two space marine niches. Namely the two reasons I got into space marines as a first army.
1. They are very approachable. If you are like me and want to do everything, but kinda don't know where to start, space marines is just the easy pick. You'll likely have a different main army at a later point, but if you only have one army, your starter army is also your main army.
2. If you're into lore, they are one of the easiest factions to write your own lore/chapter for. There's just something about having your own paint scheme and style that just hits home for a lore nerd like me ^^
Also, I feel like you missed a category for sisters as well. Because sisters is one of the most over the top factions in the game. I mean your tank is a literally organ that shoots missiles, with stained glass on the sides. It's ridiculous and awesome at the same time. Where 40k turns everything up to 11, sisters break the knob.
and finally, that was the most heartfelt "hit the like button" I've heard, so of course I'm liking the video ♥
P.s. Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus
Personally, I started with tyranids because the flyrant and demonically-possesed zoanthrope from the “All Guard Party” fan series was the coolest things ever - I love them (especially my special swarmlord and flyrant) but am somewhat disappointed with the old warriors, gargoyles, and carnifexes aince I was spoiled by the 10th edition range refresh - I’m still upset we lost the Unending Swarm reinforcements, since “endless waves of small bugs supported and led by a few giant monsters” was the faction fantasy for me.
My second army was Orks, because they have fun lore, creative aesthetics that encourage kitbashing, and a generally good-sports vibe where whacky fun comes before winning since “orksies never beaten.” - customizing 80 boyz has been an exhausting task, but I loved kitbashing my lootaz’ deff guns and I’ve been using them as my learning to play faction.
Then I got admech because I love the dunecrawler (looks like an M3 Lee mech and you can get them super cheap on ebay) and the whole tech-thralls obeying monstrous cyborg mechadendrite masters - I think the conformity of their units is a nice pallet cleanser art project after the random clutter of an ork army - I’ve fallen head over heels for Forge World Ryza’s legions and want to get a couple of admech-themed knights painted up as House Sidus to match.
Then a local person sold me their Genestealer army - I love the mutant cult mass uprising theme and was enthusiastically customizing the models but lost steam after the codex launch… might look into them later on in the edition if they start to feel more horde-like or aberrants get buffed enough to make “muscle beach” a fun way to play again.
My drukhari army is the result of Brad from Poorhammer’s video on how much fun you can have kit bashing - specifically the grotesques and cronos - but now I have way too many custom wyches, kabalites, and archons - I took a lot of inspiration from jetblackraider’s art of the Obsidian Rose and Kittokatsu1987’s kitbashes (I’m excited to post my attempts since I’m really happy how Aestra Khromys turned out)
Finally, I got into T’au because I like the utopian idealism angle of the faction’s lore, think that hammerheads are awesome (maybe because I was a World of Tanks player for five years and they resemble the Star Wars prequel hovertanks I loved as a little kiddie), and to speculatively invest in kroot… specifically, because I’m super hype for the eventual, inevitable plastic knarloc resculpt and would love to see a big kroot hawk model eventually (lean into the James Cameron Avatar stuff).
And that’s about it.
Oh, my favorite “dinosaur” was never specific, but I always loved how mosasaurus looked, though I also bounced between Utahraptor, Quetzalcoatalus, and Therizinosaurus - though now I adore Spinosaurus because the meme of it constantly being reinvented is hilarious.
Pour one out for Troodon.
No longer a real species, but hella boss RIP
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If it isn’t already apparent, I’m the kind of autist who gets hyper-invested in their interests but has trouble picking favorites lol
I started with Tyranids because cool big space bugs.
Then I got some Necrons, pretty much because I liked the terminator movies and necrons had the "we'll be back"-rule.
And now that I started to just collect and paint them again, gw decided to remove the Hierodules from the store
Got into guard when I was 16, though the point still stands on age because everyone thinks I'm old even if I'm not talking to 40K players
The back and knee problems also don't help deny that
Ok the blood angels thing is mildly accurate
As a necron player I'm happy with this.
Just got recommended y'all and instantly subscribed. Can't wait to binge your vids.
My two armies got hit first Orks and BT, I could have stopped watching but I liked the content when it kept going. Quite accurate analysis for them IMO. But I will say you forgot the secret third option which is I have no friends and wanted to play lore accurate games with someone (myself).
I play grey knights for 3 reasons. Because teleport strike force is funny af, because i built my whole army for like 500 dollars new, and because i like silver more than gold.
AdMech/Ork player: I painted the machine spirit red
Ill give my takes too cos why not, enjoy the engagement.
Ill also quickly preface with I own 15 of the armies with some I've double dipped in factions like I am doing both Ultramar Auxillia Guard and Armageddon Steel Legion. So ill be heavily biased towards interpretations of armies I love.
Codex Space Marines - You've either been playing since Rouge Trader and are deathly loyal to your army or you just fucking love big dudes in power armour. Bonus is also that you are new to the Hobby and took the sensible route in. I have an Ultramarines Army mostly because my dad played UM in Rouge Trader so when he showed me how to paint with my brand new Assault on Black Reach box he bought blue paint, I'm still very loyal to these boys in blue. (I do wish I could give a take on each major Codex Space Marines chapter or at least the First Founding legions but that would take forever so ill just go with armies that get rule books)
Black Templars - You are either super religious, a medieval history buff or hate Matt Ward Space Marines and went as far from Ultramarine as you could. I personally started to gain a liking for them because I'm a medieval history buff writing my dissertation on swords AND I'm very religious.
Blood Angels - You either like Vampires as a tale of a cursed Noble doomed to a tragic fate or you like just demolishing shit fast and brutal, which one you lean more towards may lead you to successors like the Flesh Tearers. I also have a BA army but theyre Flesh Tearers, I like the tragic angle but love the Brutality of the Flesh Tearers.
Dark Angels - More medieval history buff but of a later period, big fans of mystery and the idea of Knights as a fraternal order as opposed to a Crusading force of warriors.
Deathwatch - You love the tacticool shit, you also couldnt decide on a space marines army so you wanted them all. youre also very upset (and rightfully so) that you dont have an army anymore.
Grey Knights - You love Paladins and other types of magically enhanced warriors, you also made a sensible choice since they're very cheap.
Space Wolves - You REALLY got into the viking trend and have probably made mead, you also might just really dig wolves.
Sisters - You're either religious, like the whole "warrior woman" thing or are really into Gothic themes. I also own Sisters, Nuns IRL are already really inspiring and cool people BATTLE NUNS are HARDCORE.
Custodes - all 3 of you left playing Custodes just really like your Golden boys, you saw space marines and thought "what if they were more skilled" you also really like Henry Cavill or like having a cheap army. I have custodes mostly because my dad bought me them one Christmas, theyre cool models and fun to paint.
Mechanicus - I've gotta just agree with the video, you're big brain, like cyberpunk and steampunk and are also LOADED with cash.
Agents of The Imperium - Refugee Deathwatch players or want to fuck around with a silly army.
Imperial Guard - You love 80s and 90s action movies and sci fi movies, you probably quote Starship Troopers multiple times a game, You either love modern history or 20th century history, you may have also served in the Armed Forces yourself, The warthunder thing is also almost certainly true, You also play Hoi4. Bonus: if you play Krieg you're sick of people thinking its WW2 inspired. This is also an Army I have. I started guard cos tanks are cool, I fell in love with the guard because the Indomitable Human Spirit will make me roll that 4+ and tanks are cool. I chose Ultramar Auxillia because they have that Roman Legionnaire feel even more than the Ultramarines do also because I was in a GW shop and was eyeing up the old Start Collecting! Imperial Guard box but was apprehensive because i didnt want to buy more paints than i already had (I only had Ultramarines at this point) and the staff member asked what was stopping me buying the box, I told him the paint thing, he asked what paints I have, he told me about the Auxilia, I bought the box. I also like Steel Legion because mechanised infantry with a ww2 desert look fucks so hard.
Knights - I agree with what you guys said, you got a knight to attach to your army or as a project and then realised the little knights do better in game then all of a sudden you have a knights army. The same goes for Imperial and Chaos knights, though Chaos Knights players love the thematic Kitbash where Imperial Knights players love the thematic paint job. I only have one Imperial Knight but thats because i took my other two and made them Chaos knights with some kitbashing because i love the build.
Daemons - again i agree with you guys either AoS player forced to play 40k or its similar to Knights, you got some Daemons to support your CSM force and accidentally ended up with 2000 pts of Daemons too, the latter is more likely to be mono-god, the latter also happened to me with Khorne Daemons and my World Eaters.
Codex CSM - You almost certianly didnt start out this way, you were slowly corrupted over years of service to a loyalist force and now love the freedom of being openly evil, you also HATE trim. Codex CSM is my largest army and what id call my Main, my warband is a hybrid Night Lords Word Bearers warband, I was Loyal for so long the temptation of Chaos took me and led me to the most evil cunty CSM possible, the Night Lords.
Emperors Children - They have an index they count. You're Salty about being last of the 4 specific legions, your humour is either super refined or "haha funny sex", unsuspecting body horror is a big thing for you and you probably like to show off a bit.
Death Guard - You either got in with a buddy during 8th or are into more traditional body horror, you love the tough resilience of a never ending pestilence and are probably a more traditional wargamer.
Thousand Sons - It's Wizard time motherfucker, Fireball! You love mages, you aren't super fussed about the Tzeentch look either way you just fucking love magic, you play fantasy games pure mage.
World Eaters - you already know, World Eaters players are ork players for Chaos. The Nails are biting. I also own World Eaters, Charges are fun, Angron is a sad character, give Lord Invocatus his fly keyword back,
Eldar - You either are a meta chaser or really like clean sleek looks. You like that your race is this snobby but absolutely fucked faction just trying to maintain reputation and survive.
Dark Eldar - Get help. You might also be a Goth or really like Pirates and Pirate Ships.
Genestealer Cults - You are big brain but like guerrilla warfare and insurgency tactics, you might also be a fan of reading into revolutions and collectivist action. I own GSC because what better way to basically play guard but insurgents.
Leagues of Votann - you played too much deep rock galactic.
Necrons - You started in 9th, you want an easy to paint army, you like the undead, you are grouchy. I have a necron army because i saw a Sithcron paint scheme and wanted it.
Orks - you already know what an ork player is like so i wont waste your time. I have an Ork army, they are themed off Coalition forces during the 90s and 2000s in the middle east, i got orks because theyre very 40k and very fun and easy going.
Tau - You like anime and mechas. You might also be a user of r/Sigmarxism... You also might like Halo and see them as the Covenant in 40k. I got into them as an army because the Farsight model fucks and im a sucker for anything that has a feeling of traditional Japanese art. (as a side note do yourself a favour and look up traditional Catholic Japanese art, some of it goes so hard)
AND FINALLY NIds - You started in 10th, or REALLY love the bug thing, like you think bugs are cool and that the gaunts are cute.
I started guard because of dawn of war dark crusade when I was like 10-11 because 400 guys spamming grenade launchers was absolutely hilarious. I also have tended to notice a lot of military veterans just so happen to also play guard. (Like me and 3 other military friends of mine and then my store LGS like 6 veterans all who play guard).