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?
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?).
Orks have the best theming and get a lot of love in games.
I like the idea of Tau, join us for the greater good or die for it. Also it’s basically Gundam suits.
Moar Dakka is how I spent my 20 in the military. I’m with you. ;p
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.
Most fun definitely orcs.
The Inquisition tends to have the most interesting story lines in my experience.
My faction always hungers and we do appreciate that the emperor thought to put his space marines’ biomass in cans for preservation. That’s just convenient.
Orks are more fun to be around though, I like the spirit of orks more and they’re also technically vegan which is nice.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.
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.
Salamanders. The ones with the most destructive weapons least interested in destruction
