My favourite faction has to be the funny greenskins. The orks are just so chaotic and funny to me, I never get tired of seeing them on screen.
I mean, a bunch of cockney bois slapdashing shit together that shouldn’t work, and ACTUALLY being a threat is a interesting concept to me.
And that they love the simple life of krumpin some gitz.
What about you, you zoggin meatsack, what’s your faction of choice and why?
Salamanders. The ones with the most destructive weapons least interested in destruction
Imperial Guard. Generally speaking, I like stories of mundane people facing down superhuman/supernatural threats through the power of technology and skill. So the idea of good ol’ fashioned regular humans facing down cybernetic supersoldiers, undying robots, literal demons, and the rest of 40k’s menagerie of horrors via overwhelming artillery, tanks, and fortifications is one I enjoy.
Sadly, after a brief time in the limelight, it feels like they’ve gone back to being “those guys who die so we can see how cool the Astartes are”. But there was a time where, both lore- and crunch-wise, IG were the undisuputed masters of large-scale armored warfare.
After them, it’s a tossup of Orks, Necrons, and Mechanicus (do they count as a distinct ‘faction’ now?).
I like the necrons, and the admech since they share a lot of themes.
They have the best tech, their vision of time is completely skewed and they look badass. Plus their story is profoundly sad and makes you think about your sense of self.
Most fun definitely orcs.
Dark Elves Cult of Pleasure.
The Inquisition tends to have the most interesting story lines in my experience.
I find the aeldari super interesting. They have weapons that don’t touch the body but hit the soul. They live on craft worlds which a basically constructed planets and can travel via the webway, a mysterious network of ‘back rooms’ they constructed long ago - and once they fucked so hard they tore a rift in reality and birthed a new god.
Pariahs overall but the Sisters of Silence and the Culexus Assassins specifically. There is something about being repulsive at an astronomical level, even if physically beautiful, that intrigues me. Then come institutions like the sisters and the assassins and they weaponize that lifelong, wholesale and absolute rejection into something fierce and nightmarish.
I loved the Necron Pariahs and were sad when GW retconn’d them :( To me, there’s something very pure about blanks, especially given the preponderance of Chaos in it’s many guises as well as it’s direct and indirect influence on the rest of the 40k setting
100% Orcs
Moar Dakka is how I spent my 20 in the military. I’m with you. ;p
Tyranids for having living ships, spawned lifeforms whose bio mass is reabsorbed into the fleet when their work is done, and solid cosmic horror.
Orks are second for actually carrying forward the original over the top themes of 40k by not taking themselves seriously while the others lost a lot of their original nuance over time by people taking them literally.
