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hypnox posted...

Yeah I can see stuff like that happening a lot.

One big problem 40k has is there isn't a clear cut "This army plays like this" and so I don't think I know many people who still play they army they started with.

I started with Tau because I am a whore for robots, but they kinda fell off with me.

Eh, I knew how Space Marines play. I just found it boring... Not much variety in the troop choices. They're all pretty tough, pretty strong, not exceptional at anything.. Closest to an exception are the terminators, loved those guys. Could recklessly deep strike them behind the entire enemy army and they'd manage to survive for most of the battle all on their own while the rest of my army got into position and wrecked from the front.
But aside from terminators... all the space marine stuff was so overpriced (in point value). key to victory ended up being fielding as few specialist troops as possible to deal w/ the stuff they're needed for (like heavy weapons to blow up tanks), and just max out the number of regular dudes w/ bolters otherwise. I usually just won battles from sheer withering boltgun fire and holding ground from charges w/ tons of basic space marines.... It was effective, but super boring.

I like more specialized or melee-focused armies. Eldar have that craft world where you can use more squads of the aspect warriors and less of the guardians... Chaos just has all sorts of wacky stuff. Tyranids were pretty cool, too.