Im curious to hear everyones story as to why they play who they play :)
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Im curious to hear everyones story as to why they play who they play :)
I always go for what appeals to me visually. Always. I've played Tyranids for the last five years because I just love the models. Now I am building a Blood Angel army because I just love the sculpts.
I feel that if I love the models I'll be more likely to keep painting. So I always choose my armies based on how they look.
I play for the models too.
Necrons, my infallible legion of bone coloured warriors.
Storm Wardens, the pride of Sacris, the blue warriors of Calixis. An army of space celts with huge *** swords who are the epitome of honour and justice.
My first army was Eldar simply because I loved the idea of space elves and the fluff behind them but they were soon replaced by my imperial guard armies upon seeing the 'battle for big tooth river' at Warhammerworld as a kid, after that I just had to collect a Praetorian guard army then been hooked on Guard I built two other armies just because I liked the look of them Valhallan and Krieg (Krieg been the best looking army in 40k)
the fluff, love the space wolves ways. but i also enjoy viking history in general and drinking copious amounts of ale
Tau: I loved their culture and their models, both for themselves and for the contrast they made with the rest of the setting. I also liked the idea of playing a more tactical army, rather than one that simply charged into combat.
Blood Angels: I wanted a change of pace, and have always had a thing for doomed heroes.
Blood Ravens: See, I had all these leftover marines models, things like Tactical Marines and Land Speeders and shooty Terminators, things I was unlikely to use in a Blood Angels army, and I wanted to make some allies for my Tau, and then I started reading into the background of the Blood Ravens, how they're into psychic powers and are probably the last remaining loyalist Thousand Suns... Damn you, Games Workshop!
Video Games. Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels for the PC. Never looked back after that. Blood Angels were my first army (and only army in 2nd), and will always remain my favorite; regardless of what GW does to their fluff (I'm looking at you Sanguinor). Now I pretty much just collect what appeals to me visually, or has enjoyable fluff.
I picked the Blood Angels because of their background and the fact that they quite literally Rage. They wade into combat angry and howling for blood.... somehow theyre quite close to the attitude of Chaos Marines in that aspect. I love the color scheme and the lore. Sanguinus has to be the coolest primarch ever besides Lionel for the Dark Angels. The fact that theyre kind of like vampires(not twilight bs) made them even cooler. I just picked up my sanguinor model wednesday lol its not relevant to the thread but i thought you would find that funny. ^^
Just prior to the advent of 5th edition I picked Necrons because a friend said it was a good introductory army and because the idea of a "Terminator" army appealed to me.
Recently I've gotten into Dark Eldar because I liked the models, and generally I'm into crazy chicks in leather. ;) Note: this is also why I've got the Sisters enqueued for my next army.
I usually don't pick them at all. Someone (often Kerstan Copeland) ropes me into playing a new game and gives me a starter kit to get me going for my Birthday or Christmas. That is how I got into Circle Orboros for Warmachine/Hordes. I ended up playing CSM in 40K because Allan and Thomas made me a super friendly deal on some used stuff to get me into the hobby (like I said... I get by with a little help from my friends). The armies, thus, choose me based on availability and how nicely they are already painted so I don't have to do it.
I'm an army whore....I've bought it, played it and sold it.
I LOVE Tau....period.....but am currenlty playing Grey Knights for the 3rd time. I'm not playing for tournies....just fun.
Right now all my time is dedicated to Dropzone Commander by Hawk Wargames.
I started with Nids. My first actual kit was an Eldar Falcon for use with Star Wars miniatures back in the 90s. I started looking into 40k at that time and liked the idea of bugs for both Star Wars minis and to get into 40k. I picked up some metal crons cause the models were cool, and my friends started playing the box set armies (Marines and Dark Eldar). I traded for some 40k stuff and got a bunch of Blood Tigers (Angels with stripes). I eventually liked the idea of the Blood Angels fluff as I read more, and converted them back to Angels.
I used to check the GW site every day back in the late 90s when there was Troll Boss Bob's Bargain Basement (anyone remember that?). I picked up damaged boxed items and tons of other good deals back then, including genestealers and warriors at $5 a box, Old One eyes for $10 each and then they did some special army deals and I got into IG. I've since gotten rid of the Catachan from those deals, but I've gotten stuck in as a tread head, so I have a huge IG Vostroyan army.
Let's see...in order of acquisition:
Necrons: Just getting into 40k, some friends and I were playing DoW (Dark Crusade, specifically). Everyone was trying to master different armies, so I wound up with the Necrons. I came to appreciate them, and made the only natural transition when we started the tabletop game.
Initially I was sold on the silent legions of skeletons - but what really made me start to love the army was how much the Monolith came to be feared amongst my friends (both in DoW and on the table). Ah, good times.
Space Wolves: I wanted to start a second army, and damnit the Imperial stuff looked cool. I didn't want an army that any of my friends had, either...and then I found out that there were space marines who are awesome space vikings! And also werewolves sometimes. Space marines are cool. Vikings are cool. I'm a furry, so werewolves are pretty much always a selling point for me...it was a no-brainer.
Space Marines: Well, I had to buy the 5th Ed. SM codex to play with the old SW codex which was more of an add-on than anything else, so I wound up looking at the book a lot...and there was lots of nifty stuff in there. And I sort of wound up with a bunch of marine stuff thanks to my Space Wolf army, so eventually it branched off and I had both. I decided to take advantage of this to make each army play as differently as possible and create my own SM chapter for the vanilla codex. Fun stuff.
Tau: I'd always liked the look of Tau...the only reason they weren't my first army was because a close friend chose to start with them. Eventually I picked up a handful of models and started a small army which is currently waiting for a new codex before I really flesh it out.
Thousand Sons: I wanted a really "evil" army, and I really liked the idea of having some traitors to fight my friend's Grey Knights. I also wanted a way to bring psykers to the table as in the play group I had they were nonexistent, and it would also be cool as something for another friend's Sisters to fight against...but a lot of the Chaos aesthetic doesn't appeal to me. The Thousand Sons are something of an exception - no mutations! Plus they're super-awesome ghost sorcerer Egyptian space marines. Between the limitations of the old Chaos book and models, however, these guys never got very far. 4 boxes of Thousand Sons and 1 Chaos Sorcerer is all I've got...but in anticipation of a new book some point down the line (and born of a desire for a super kick-*** looking Thousand Sons force) I've been gathering loooads of bitz over the years. I'm sitting on a stockpile of parts from Kromlech, Chapter House, Irina Erst, Scibor, Forge World, etc....and I'm salivating over the thought of a new book fast approaching.
Imperial Guard & Tyranids: I don't really remember -why- I started these armies...they were at the same time though. It was probably just as I got more and more familiar with 40k overall I started to appreciate each of the armies more and more for what they were. Well, I know 'nids were there because I wanted a really alien army to contrast with everything else I had. I made a vow not to use any 'nid guns, though. I dislike those things aesthetically...and I've stuck with that gun ban thus far. Yay for slashy swarms of bugs! Incidentally both my IG and 'nids wound up horde armies - I really appreciate the notion of the IG fielding tons of boots with some tanks to do the heavy lifting. Turns out I looove playing horde armies. These two are horde forces that are polar opposites of one another but they're both loads of fun to play.
Blood Angels: I was eying BA for a while because I love jump infantry - and assault marines in particular. I just couldn't justify it with that terrible old PDF they had, though. Then they got a new book...and it wasn't long before I caved. They've wound up as my most 'elite' army as it's pure jumpers with some Land Speeders and Stormravens if need be. I've been outnumbered by Grey Knights (sans Inquisition) while using them before...which can be a really tough match-up.
Dark Eldar: Are you kidding? Did you -see- the models they got with their long-awaited book?! Between those and the shot at another xenos army (I feel I need to have a good mix among my forces) it wasn't even really a choice. Sadly I don't even have a legal force as of yet (loads of Scourges though), as other armies have required my time and money. But one day I'll expand on them.
Because Space Marines are both BLUE and HEROIC.
Also the Sicarius mini.
1st and 2nd ed.: Imperial Guard, because Heavy Weapon Teams could have five lascannons and were cheap as chips. I've always hated melee armies and swords, so IG were a natural fit. Space Marines because Space Marines are concentrated awesome and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. :) Genestealer Cult because I had a load of spare Genestealers, and in 2nd ed, they were lethal.
5th ed.: Blood Angels because Sanguinary Guard are beautiful. Deathwatch because they can proxy as any marine army with total validity, plus I use the models for roleplay, so it's win-win. Tyranids because I love the old 1st edition Advanced Space Crusade models, plus Trygons and Carnifex look brilliant. Ork Dred Mob because Deff Dreads, Killa Kans and Grot Tanks just look cool as hell, and I hate the Ork Boy models (utterly hate them). Preheresy World Eaters because they were a conversion challenge. Dark Eldar because the new models are great, the army is interesting, and I've always been a fan of "Hellraiser" (which is basically all the Haemonculi are). Necrons because I like the idea of running a Matrix-style AI army (hence nothing but Wraiths and Tomb Spyders. Grey Knights because they look pretty and afford lots of bits for conversions. Also Interceptors are cool.
I'm essentially all about the models; couldn't really care less if they don't play well or if the fluff is bad (because I don't read the fluff any more, and haven't for many years.)
I chose Enslavers because I'm a massive lovecraft nerd and a sucker for tentacled floating extra-dimensional monsters, and also because I felt 40k was severely lacking in the non-huimanoid alien department.
The cover of Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader features a last stand of Crimson Fist Space Marines fighting off a raging horde of greenskins. In the background you see the hulking shape of an ork dreadnought. That image defined 40K for me, and still does. But for some reason I was more excited abut the orks than the valiant Astartes. I bought that first box set of Space Ork Raiders and it was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. They had these evil monsterous faces with fangs and beady evil eyes, but always grinning. I imagined they would be laughing during battle. They were enjoying themselves, but not out of malice or cruelty. The orks were simply creatures in their element. There's something refreshing about that kind of dog's honesty, a lack of pretense.
You got your fancy armour and your whiz-bang vehicles and your twinky mumbo-jumbo aspect-warrior skimmer-tank master-crafted fancy-pants boogity-schmoogity. We got trukks, we got shootaz, sluggaz and choppaz.. and gutz. I also enjoy conversions and scratch builds. I like adding personality to my models. All my Trukks, my Battle Wagon, Killa Kanz, my Deff Dredd, Squiggoths, my Fighta-Bomma... all built from scratch or hobbled together from cannibalized toys. They look awesome and cost me nothing.
Ork players are always behind the eight ball. When making an ork army, you take three of everything because you know two will get killed. Orks are crappy shots. Ork stuff breaks and screws up and randomly freaks out. But an ork player never lets that get them down. It's part of the underdog mentality. It's a point of pride when your ragtag horde of brutes outplays a superior force. It's like, yeah, my guys suck, and I still beat you!
In my experience, it's the ork players that have the most fun, and it seems like my opponents also have fun. I mean, who doesn't enjoy mowing down wave after wave of greenskinned savages?
Tau:
C'mon, really. Look at them. You got suits that are straight out of Armored Core. They can sport guns on their shoulders. They can shoot two different guns at the same time. And they can swing some FUUUUUUUUSION! (it's what's for dinner). They can do macross missile massacre. They can make you "Eat yo' Peas" (Plasma!). Homing missiles? yup. Can't hide behind cover because they'll follow you around those corners and WHAP!
and then they got tanks. not just tanks. but cool tanks (power incarnate). and not just cool tanks but cool HOVER tanks! They have the rule of cool cornered. And then those tanks can take a railgun.
seriously.
a railgun.
nothing cooler than that on the battlefield, and nothing says 'time to meet your maker'' like when the business end of a railgun stares you in the face.
Dark Eldar.
The sculpts. The options. The dakka. The crazy toys. It all combines together to work as the army you want to play, instead of having to choose only a few units and options to prevent being tabled. The option to either be in your face, hanging back to shoot, or to do both works wonders. I don't care that they're made of paper. Their guns can just wreck face and they can get in a ridiculous amount of attacks.
Oh and they have awesome fighter jets.
Because Grey Knights are badass, and are the best looking Marines in the game, both old and new. And with the DH codex, I only had like twenty models in a 2000pt game.
Fluff and Models, Orks are the Comic relief of the Grimdark Universe and GK's are some epic marines that truely stood alone and outside normal Codex Astartes. I started with Space Wolves, because of their fluff, and no one locally played their 3rd ed. codex in 4th. Also at the time i wasn't introduced to Codex DH, and the awesomeness of GK's. The Rebellious Nature of the SW also caught my fancy, as they are Theoretically still a Legion, and one of the few forces that can and will Fight the imperium and not be considered Heretics. CC stories and the heroic saga's that follow GK's and SW have always grabbed my attention, and still do. Although i don't play SW's anymore, they will always have a place in my heart. ;)
Grey knights; because I liked the models, and since they're in plastic now and not metal anymore they were finanally a bit more viable financially.
Dark angels; Actually I play a pure deathwing (painted as Angels of Redemption) because it was cheap to build with all those Black reach termies around on ebay
Orks; I do like post-apocalyptic stuff like raiders and makeshift vehicles/weapons. Orks seems like a perfect fit. The comedy and randomness Orks brings might be another reason
Warriors of Chaos; Cheap army, expensive models (pointswise)... not sure how exactly it translates on table for Fantasy (since I haven't played any games yet; still building/painting). But any army done for cheap (under 200 euro for 1500 to 2000 points as a rough basis; which can be expanded/exchanged with other models in the future) is worth considering in my book.
In the past I did mostly marines just because; they had most plastic kits. And I did chaos because I liked spiky marines. Oh... and Vostroyans... just for the love of those models.
In general I don't care that much for rules... as long as it's easily playable.. that so far works for Grey knights, Deathwing... myea.. Orks works fine (since heading straight in going WAAAAGH! is a tactic).
Chaos Space Marines - Evil Space Marines with awesome aesthetics. The Thousand Sons were the most impressive to me.
Dark Eldar - Every model of many is unique, twisted and superbly designed.
High Elves - I love elves, especially noble ones clad in shining armour, plus Dragons.
Grey Knights - Space Knights. Mech-suits. A simple look.
Ah, yeah, the new DE fluff was part of it too. I picked up the book (I think this was around the point I started grabbing every book that came out to 'collect') in part because the models were awesome, but the background turned out to be really rich too, and that drew me in. It's only a matter of time 'til my handful of models turns into a full army - with 'detachments' from all tiers of Dark Eldar society.
As for the Thousand Sons - Iron Warriors are another Chaos army that holds a lot of appeal for me, and I've been tempted after warming to Chaos at dabbling into others at various points, so I imagine eventually I'll have a bunch of assorted Chaotic gribblies (still find it really hard to see appeal in many of the daemon models), but for now the Thousand Sons hold a special place in my heart - and when the new book drops, I look forward to putting together some really spectacular-looking models.
I play bugs, and the models are just super awesome...thats pretty much it
for the same reason I chose necrons as my secondary army
Dark Angels: I got the 2nd Codex, "Angels of Death" and like both armies in it. The Blood Angels and the Dark Angels. I tried to paint the Blood Angels and failed miserable at it. Read the Dark Angel background and fell in love with them. I have the entire 1st Company and 3rd Company and with the new models I shall start on the 4th Company.
Chaos Marines: Same thing... Liked the 2nd edition Codex and started collecting Chaos marines. I followed
Khorne ever since then. I have strayed into liking the other gods, but with the new edition...
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!
Vallahan Imp Guard: Got an full army from a buddy who passed away and added to it over the years. The Cain novels really make me enjoy them, that and the Tank Company I use in Apoc games.
Orks and Night Gobblins: Chose the Greenskins when I started playing Fantasy because I didn't want a
force that would be like one of my 40k armies. I hate to paint fur, so the Greenskins won out. Night Gobblins are my favorite. I about 400 of the little buggers.
Warriors of Chaos: What can I say... BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
Dark Elves: waiting on a new book and plastic Witch Elves and this will be my next army!
Eldar because when I started to play, I didn't want marines, and eldar were good at killing them. Still my largest army to date.
Sisters of battle. I wanted a new army that no one was playing and still wanted to avoid the marines. Now waiting for a new codex where my 2 hq are legal.
Tau. My friend was selling his for a decent price and I was intrigued by the high power shooting.
Dark Angels. I wanted an all biker army since no one was playing them. I built the army for a "paint or die" challenge which lead to a tourney. Added Deathwing to them just before 6th rolled out. ALMOST felt bad for playing them sometimes. Excited for the starter set and new codex goodies.
Tyranids - My first army when I was... 8 or 9 I think? A school friend and his older brother played, and said older brother showed me a copy of White Dwarf, and on the inside cover was a picture of some Tyranids and their codex cover. My thoughts, at their most basic level, were: ALIENBUGDINOSAURSIMUSTPLAYTHEM. Pretty much the same all these years on. The fluff is great too, but it's the Tyranids themselves and their glorious models which will always be the real reason for me.
Eldar - I wanted a new army, and no-one I knew played them. The shiny, sleek but deadly and crushing look appealed to me, as did everything about them. Their background story is brilliant, I just wish pretty much ever author GW has would stop inexplicably shafting them in all of their writing.
Dark Eldar - As above but spikey, evil and mental. Also Incubi. Incubi are win.
Exodite Eldar - Look two up but add dinosaurs.
Tau Empire - A breath of fresh air in the 40k universe. Some say they are out of place, but I think the massive contrast they show between them and the other races/factions does an excellent job of really making us understand what a brutal galaxy it is. Also their optimism is nice, as is their armour and many many shiny guns.
Warriors of Chaos - I wacnted something completely different in Fantasy, and I much prefer the Warriors of Chaos to Space Marines/Chaos Marines as they seem far less mary-sueish.
High Elves - I was given just under 3000pts of them by an uncle who no longer wanted them, and seeing as I like Eldar and elves in general, I was just fine with that.
Yea, it was a toss-up between Thousand Sons and Iron Warriors with me too. Thousand Sons won out because they seemed to have a more interesting dynamic going for them (plus I love their color scheme), whereas Iron Warriors seemed more like vanilla (codex) marines who just happened to be traitors and like big guns.
Good luck with that DE army! I love them. It's unfortunate that some of their units (Mandrakes et al.) aren't very useful. The entire army has great models.
I started back in rogue trader times. Collected every army I could get. I had Sensei warbands, Space Zoats, Squats, Chaos. 2500 minis and tanks in all. I had larger armies with my Epic Space Marine (15,000 minis) and Fantasy Armies (4500 minis . With Norse, Amazon, Slaan, Zoats, A fully painted Dwarf army with over 300 troops including 2 wizards and 12 warmachines, and everything in Epic.
I sold or swapped the lot back in 1985 for Battletech, then go pulled back into GW in Dec 2006. Since then my collection has steadily risen. 40K only though.
My 40K forces started off with Chaos Marines, specifically Noise Marines. I expanded with all the Chaos Gods and major legions and even the red corsairs. I still prefer noise marines the most. Their bright colours make them stand out on a table, and I can use all the fancy painting techniques I want on them. I have built a Chaos Daemons army, and because they were unpopular a Sister of Battle army. Because they did not get a new codex I took up the Bell of Lost Souls Minidex army Adeptus Arbites (corrupted of course) and gave them a dark purple and lilac colour scheme that looks really good.
I am working on 4 other projects at the moment. A pre- Heresy thousand sons company, a sisters of silence and Adeptus Custodes force with over 80 miniatures in it, a Daughters of Helena Battle Company(2nd legion Primarch) who was caught in a love tryst between Guiliman and the 11th Legions Primarch. Rogue Mechanicus stole their gene seed and started the legion up on a remote planet. It is my fun army. It and my Custodes and SOS have not been put together yet. There is also a collection of Primarchs from either Kabuki, Ronin, Hi-tec minis and other companies. The last project is a lost and the damned army with traitor guard suitable to be used with Siege of Vraaks, and 60 zombies. My apocalypse collection is pretty big as well. I even spent a small fortune building a Khorne tower of Skulls with scenic base (think a field of skulls as in the intro scenes for the terminator movies, but more skulls).
I am a random collector, who starts a new project even before finishing the next. I choose armies that are unpopular, and look good when painted, and I like making them renegades or corrupting them to Chaos (where possible).
2003 - I get introduced to the hobby by a close friend in college and remember always wanting to play it as a broke MTG TCG kid. Being 20 and fond of the drink as well as the whole eye of terror campaign with the 13th company, Space wolves was a natural fit. I bought their starter set, assembled my army and played maybe 2 games where I was dominated by my same friends tau list. I bought a few Eldar models (snipers and psychics) to make an Iyanden themed army (could definitely be wrong about which craft world.) I realized shortly after this that I was a broke college kid and couldn't really afford to keep it up and it fell by the way side.
2007-08 - I get my first job where I get paid decently and just finished a stint being heavily into a certain MMO that will not be named. Because of that MMO, I learned that I am a melee kind of guy and choose to play the only power armor force that was not only poorly represented at my LGS but also specialized in rediculous CC. I started my Black Templars with much zeal and passion, buying way too many models too early (read about 3.5k points worth) and trying to do too much in terms of conversions and green stuff modeling. Eventually I convinced myself to stop buying models but had trouble getting myself to finish the dauting amount of BT I had left to do
To combat this in the most idiotic way possible, I chose to start a Thousand Sons themed army again because I was realistically just a kid with expendable income and I've always liked their fluff (seeing as I originally was into SW). I buy about 1.5k points worth of models but again I try to do stuff far beyond my ability (metallic looking thousand sons via triple washing blue and very watered down yellow on top of a silver base.) and don't get far due to it being over my ability to do well and less free time.
At this point I start to work on my BT's again but at a slow pace and after a while I decide that I really want to play Tau due to the great fluff, the fact that no one in my area fielded them, and because I loved the idea of the crises suits. I buy about a thousand points and assemble it but don't paint. I play about 7 matches with it but then I get a new job which made it impossible for me to play at my LGS during their play times. Shortly after this, I lost my job due to the bad economy in 2010 and even though I had a ton of free time for a very long time, I had so many unpainted models that it just felt daunting to even try to start painting again.
2012 - I end up having to move back home due to financial issues. I sell off my assembled tau to my good friend who originally got me into the hobby back in '03. After the move, I decide to go through my old 40k giant box of bits and boxes. I find that I have about what is now about $400 USD worth of unopened stuff (mostly tau), about 22 unassembled vanilla marine bits (33 if I bought more legs) and I end up selling about 3/4's of it for close to what I originally paid for it all. Shortly after this, I'm finally get offered a new career that pays decently and I still had that money from selling the unopened boxes in my pocket.
After my first paycheck (shortly after 6th drops), I decide that I will start up 40k again the right way. The right way being buying 1 thing at a time and not allowing myself to buy anything else until what I have currently bought is assembled, magnetized, and painted up to my standards. I still feel that my BT collection is too daunting of a task and with my better understanding of the rules and, lets be honest, the changes to their vows. I decided to go back to my original love of the Space Wolves.
At this point I have only bought the starter box but I've cleaned all the bits and sorted them for assembly including throwing in those 22 vanilla marines I found since I can mix and match pieces and still have a fluffy looking army. I also got kind of lucky with my SW battle force because instead of the 20 grey hunters I was supposed to get, I got 4 more sprues of scouts which GW allowed me to keep after my warranty exchange. I will start my paint train this week after work and I'm very excited to do so.
Beyond - I've already planned out my purchase order for my SW's and once my 2k is ready, i plan to just play for a long, long time. However, I really want to finish up my 1k sons army (using more traditional techniques) and will probably throw in tzeentch demon allies for the fun of it sometime after Chaos gets a new codex and my pocket book is back to normal.
TL;DR - 40k is a hell of a drug. Moderation is your friend...
I was going to get a box of terminators for £20 and paint them ultramarine blue. Then I got into the shop and found that for £16, I could get a 10 man death company + a chaplain.
So £4/Terminator or £1.45/DC, simple choices.
I then read the fluff on the back of the box and that was it I was in love :)
Because the choice was space marines or orks in the starter box, and I decided I didn't like painting orks.
So marines it was.
First, it was the CSM, cos i didnt want to play the "goodie-2-shoes" armies, but after copuple of years, i just bought few codexes. First i got the Tau and DE“s, but when i got the Eldar -codex, it was a wrap. The fluff plus the cool look of the models and the versatility impressed me. I“ve always wanted to play armies, people dont usually play and are challenging.
But now, give us the new Eldar-codex! I know the CSM is coming, and i have to get that one...
It's quite simple really:
a) Eldar are wonderful
b) Eldar are pretty
c) Eldar > everyone else
Pffft space dwarfs were so epic they flew off to a different colony, and the imperium cover their absence by claiming they were eaten by nids...
I played a huge amount of Dawn of War and learnt a lot.
And then nearly went with Tau anyway. But my natural affinity to all things Elvy pulled me to the pointy eared folk
I find weeaboo offensive, also i'd never heard the term till last year as I don't go to those parts of the interwebz...