When you are assembling (or maybe repairing) the model, put a piece of actual metal wire (or paperclip if you can bend it into the right curve) in among the tendrils holding up the skull. It should blend right in and barely be visible.
The wraithknight is pretty iconic for the Aeldari, a giant robot piloted by a pair of twins, one alive and one dead, with a gun that shoots black holes
I started Orks not because of anyone model BUT because back in the day they had no real vehicle models. They ability to just tear apart any model and make it into a Trukk or Battlewagon is what sold me. Other than that I bought epic Nids because I loved the Aliens movie, & Space Marines just came in the box so yep built them too. 😂
Dudes! You missed hard with the Deathwatch. Their mascot has got to be the Corvus Blackstar. Coolest flyer in the game and definitely exudes the ‘tacticool’ vibes of the chapter. BTW, the models you showed were deathwatch Intercessors (which are admittedly lame) not deathwatch veterans.
Deathwatch is probably the Cassius KT since it shows how different their KTs are from regular space marine squads with the mix of terminators, jump packs, and bikes.
Long before I started playing Warhammer 40k, I was into scale models, mostly world war two tanks. And one day, I saw at my local model hobby store, the old plastic ork battlewagon. That was the first Warhammer 40k model I ever saw! I had no idea what it was, but those jolly orks on the cover seemed to be having a good time! Warhammer plushies we need: Imperial Servo-skull. Chaos Nurgling. Tau drone. Tyranid Ripper. Necron Scarab. Ork Squig! What am I forgetting?
I recently was gifted a couple of boxes of minis to paint and to have some fun with, and while looking around RUclips for videos I found your channel. LOVE your format!
Meganobz are my pick for orkz. they have a good combination of having the bulky scrappy aesthetic of the vehicles, shows off some of the crazy weapons, its all attached to a roaring monster and to top it off the tongue and cheek name of the unit shows off the armie's humor
I think for Drukhari, the Ravager is really the best model to represent their evil space pirate aesthetic. It’s also the model that got me into Drukhari originally!
I will never forget my friend convincing me to buy the old dark vengeance box, the second I saw that helbrute I was hooked. Of course that's the one model that got lost in the move lol.
A bit "off-topic" here but what actually got me into GW were the Freeguild armies that I got to see displayed when I was 10 at my local GW store. I wanted my first actual kit to be a Space Wolves one, but I just got regular Ultramarines. In middle school I really got into Eldar though, mostly because of the bikes and walkers, but never actually had Eldar. My first official army is T'au, which I got into cause mechs obviously, but also the piranhas weirdly and their overall aesthetic. Gotta say though, I really love the Ghostkeel's design over the Broadside.
I don't quite know who the mascots could be, but as for the models that convinced me to start collecting each of my two armies, it was the redemptor dreadnought for my Ultramarines army, and it was the new Gazgkhull Thraka for my orks.
There were two Tau models that made me ultimately decide to play them, and you picked both of them. I'm so glad to see the return of Riptide spam recently, that's the kind of list I originally set out to field.
Necron Warriors were the first Warhammer model I saw that made me take interest in Necrons, but it was the Doomstalker that really got me into it. My T’au friend actually got into it for the tanks, specifically the hammerhead. So I find what you said about that quite funny. I too think their battlesuits are cooler though
I gotta agree with the big bird take. Changer of ways is so damn cool. As an Eldar, guard, and Space marine player, I don't have enough chaos to actually make a chaos army, and I definitely want to pick up the big bird.
Funny you guys mentioned T’au looking like a Gundam because the Space Marines looking vaguely like a Zaku is what made me interested in Warhammer. The Tyraniea also reminding me of other space horror monsters really helped as well
The best thing for orks just has to be the oldschool tankbustas. They got the junkyard scavanger look as well as an exploding pet squig and the most glorious and iconic weapon in all of 40k.... the rocket on a stick. It really can't get any more or than that.
My first model was the Tech Priest Dominus, and yes the servo skull broke off. But there’s a picture in the codex of a Dominus holding a severed servo skull in his little claw arm, so I have mine hold it
I was about to buy an astra militarum box and then saw a box of fire warriors and immediately fell in love. By far I think that fire warriors and the xv8 crisis battlesuits are my mascots for tau.
I think Orks can be summed up in a single model- the Rukkatrukk Squigbuggy. You've got a ramshackle vehicle, ork boyz, and squigs, all on one 150mm base!
The humble Hormaguant is what got me into 40k. It all started when I was collecting some WWII models, and wanted a zombie-horde diorama. So they came in perfectly, then I got Hive Tyrant and now just waiting for the Tyranid warriors to be on sale to grab one.
Space Wolves, I believe the correct answer is Fenrisian Wolves. I like the Thunderwolf calvary but have never used them once in a game. That isn't what sold me on wolves. In fact, thunderwolves didn't even exist when I started collecting wolves.Wolves. AdMech, I say it is Sicarian Infiltrators. Or, Kastelan Robots with a Cybernetica Datasmith. Tau, again, been playing these before the manga suits became a thing. The two models you talked about as being not why people play this army, are actually what got me into Tau. Both the Hammerhead and Kroot.
30:00 I felt so attacked because my favourite three aspects of the T'au (in order) are literally the Hammerhead, Kroot, and Fire Warriors. I just love Kroot so damned much. Couldn't care less about the mech suits.
I got into Warhammer 40k, into model making and tabletop gaming, because of the Knight Paladin/Knight Errant. Give me massive chivalrous, gothic, heraldic battlemechs. I saw that and it was the spark to join the community. Its a shame the army only works these days if youre running a dozen of their little buddies...
For Craftworlds I would honestly say the Autarch. It shows off all of the different aspect warriors across the two different Autarch kits, while also nailing the essence of their aesthetic.
idk i feel like you both missed the obvious Chaos Space Marines mascot is the Terminator Lord or any terminator in any color is just plain darn cool and really more iconic than both the raptor and noise marine
I think I am the one person who really likes the tzaangor more than the other thousand sons units (except maybe Ahriman). I would like to see more beastmen in the setting in general.
So I started playing blood angels and they still are my main army but when I was first getting into 40k I watched battle reports where I found my beloved Hellhammer baneblade varrient, I love the gaurd but not cadians so I bought a 3d printer specifically for imperial gaurd to play steel legion, besides yarrick the only model in that army that will be GW is a hellhammer/shadowsword (magnetized)
How could you miss the Monolith for Necrons?! Just a big black floating pyramid with a giant death crystal, a green electric portal with some undead robots stepping out of it (loving the updated model), and an array of energy guns ready to disintegrate those flesh bags on the planets that are rightfully ours (because we called it first)!
For the factions i play: Tau is 100% the riptide no question. Astra Militarum, def goes to the baneblade And for orks, Ghazhghull Thrakka is one of my favorite models in the game
I don't even own it (yet) but void dragon is one of the best models in this game and is a huge part of why I am a Necrons player. (Ophydian Destroyers too tho.. ooooomg)
Sorry for the late comment (just found your video) but how did you edit the animation of the model images in the corners with your voices? Also, I'm building my first and only army in 40k because Tyranid Warrios are so friggin cool. I think they are the epitome of what Tyranids are
As someone who will never bother with a Space Marine force of any type I do kinda like Tzangors more than the rest of the space marines: this time they're Egyptian.
I'm going to say that the Tyranid Warrior is the most iconic model of their line. It's not the leader nor the dime a dozen Gaunts. They stand out the most without going full centerpiece
for orks for me it is big mek with the shock attack gun, or the far cooler german name snotzoga. just embodies ork tech for me. The cannon shooting little orks through the warp and the random effects it can have.
Since you went through the aeldari factions, I'd add that for the Ynnari the best model is the Yncarne imo Though I don't know if it represents the faction well, maybe the Visarch is better in that regard. It's what got me into 40k!
The Yncarne is absolutely the only reason anyone playa Ynnari. I know for sure if I start buying Asuryani models the first one would definitely be the Yncarne
My armies hook models; Tzeentch* (obviously the lord of change) *(i only have a couple models because GW decided to stop making their start collecting, and I really don't want Tzaangors) Craftworld eldar (autarch, banshees, and wrathguard. it's pretty close) Imperial knights (Canis rex)
Nah, TWC is the correct choice. There is nothing more space wolves than those things. The dreads are awesome looking, but they are just melee variants on a basic dread. The cavalry is extremely iconic. When you think Space Wolves, you think those over-the-top and wonderful kits.
I was very anti-space marine for some time, I found them rather boring. I went to my local game store to decide between the Tau and World Eaters combat patrol, and that's when I saw him. Bjorn the Fell-Handed. The most glorious mech suit I'd ever laid eyes on. And here I am, building a 1000pt Space Wolves army, with that man leading it.
The first model I saw of tyranids was the hierophant bio-titan... Then I learned it's expensive as hell, and pretty bad in game, but I was already sold on the idea of bugs that can bombard you from orbit
Mascot of Guard should be the Baneblade, it’s too iconic. Krieg should be its separate thing cause it is a different look, and for them I know I got into them for the Marshal model, the deathriders, and funnily enough the Malcador Infernus. For Admech they have the Cults and the Skitarii and while I like Cawl and the Dominus for the cults it’s hard not to do the Ironstriders for the Skitarii half of the army. And for Chaos Space Marines their most iconic unit in my mind is the Lord Discordant, it’s so uniquely chaos it’s not even funny.
im in tau for the kroot and vespids... unironically i dont even like tau all that much but i dont mind their armor or the big battle suits so i guess ill just have to take em with my kroot and accept it could be allot worse cuz atleast it aint marines.
I'm gonna hard disagree for the Custodes and say Wardens. You tell me to close my eyes and picture the Custodians, I see gold armour, red cape and the banana helm. Allarus have two of these but lack the critical third piece, the part that makes the sillouette that defines a Custodian.
Correct answers for the ones y'all got wrong: Chaos Marines: Khorne Berzerkers. It's legit embarrassing to see you two get this one wrong. Berzerkers are arguably the single most iconic model in all of 40K. There's probably a couple million people on Earth who don't know shit about 40K aside from the image of a Berzerker screaming "Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne". Necrons: Warriors. Even Immortals would've been good. How the hell did y'all go with Bloodletters over the Bloodthirster for Khorne, and then fuck this one up so badly. Custodes: Dawneagle Jetbikes, a choice so obvious y'all had them pictured in the background as you inexplicably picked a different model Daemons: Should've stuck with your gut and picked Bloodthirster for Khorne. Daemonettes are the real answer for Slaanesh.
I'm actually shocked that they didn't go with the Exorcist or the Immolator, since so much of the lore and themes behind the Sisters is that whole 'corrupted Catholic church' motif, with the focus on martyrdom and piety. Neither one of their choices give that across, despite them being a core part of the tabletop armies. Their revival hasn't changed much in their lore from back when they were introduced. The only thing that's really changed is that we (as outside viewers to the universe) can tell there's something supernatural to their faith, when back before it was murky as to if it was supernatural or just stubbornness (barring the living saint model).
The Exorcist is balls to the walls crazy and i love it for it. I started painting 40k last month and after finishing some SM and batlle sisters my next buy is the Exorcist. Flames, Reliquaries and giant pipe organs of death! Its such a fun aesthetic while still being proper 40k grimdark.
As a fellow guard payer I whole heartedly agree. And look at how we identify different regiments. It is the guardsman themselves. All our tanks are interchangeable. But there is no mistakeing the guards man and where he is from.
For Imperial Guard, they would want to show off their pride. It has to be THE BANEBLADE! Even in Dawn of War, if you played IG, you played it to bring 11 barrels of hell on the battlefield.
I’m torn, it would either be the leman russ or the Baneblade, the leman russ takes it for me however… It represents the heavy armoured firepower the faction is known for almost as well as the Baneblade, but is also cheep enough to be disposable… A perfect manifestation of the guard is dozens or hundreds of leman Russ’ moving in armoured formations, absorbing all losses and crushing everything under their unstoppable grinding advance.
The Knight Abominant is so so good, but as much of a joke it is to run a ton of War Dogs instead of a Tyrant or something in a Knight army, I love the Stalkers and Karnivores too much. They give such a great animalistic theme for Chaos as compared to the Imperial Knights
For necrons I always loved the generic warrirors. I think the elevator pitch for Necrons is "zombie robots" and if you are just sold on the robots part you can play ad mech but if your here for the zombies nothing is more perfect than the warriors.
I think my suggestion is to always show people the main Troops choice of an army. Because the Troops choice is the essence of the army boiled down to its most approachable. Not visually busy like the character choices. Just the visual aesthetic of the army in its simplest form. Plus, you'll be painting a fair few of them if you start an army, so you need to know you like their look. Obviously, this shouldn't be taken as a hard and fast rule. In truth, you'd want to show a new 40K-er a variety of units for each army, so they get a representative sample. Seeing the Skitarii might not convey the "vibe" of AdMech as much as a Techpriest. And if you try to show off Tau without showing their mechs, you're not showing what's really cool about Tau. But in other armies, you don't fully "grok" what the army will look like if you don't get a look at their Troops. Imperial Guard always needs its infantry squads, and indeed are half of what differentiates one Guard army from another, aesthetically. Swarms of 'Gaunts convey a Tyranid army's impression of endless hungry hordes. And nothing captures the "you are playing an army of Terminators" quite like Necron Warriors. NOT showing the Troops off can almost seem deceptive.
I almost picked the Lord Discordant and I'm kinda sad I didn't pull the trigger on it. I do love the daemon engines and it's something very unique to chaos.
From the moment I realised the weakness of the servo-skull appendage, it disgusted me.
I craved for the purity and strength of the plastic cement
@@DaBlueIghuana And it didn`t help, so I used superglue. PRAISE THE GLUESSIAH!
My axe heads are the ones that keep falling off
When you are assembling (or maybe repairing) the model, put a piece of actual metal wire (or paperclip if you can bend it into the right curve) in among the tendrils holding up the skull. It should blend right in and barely be visible.
Yup
The wraithknight is pretty iconic for the Aeldari, a giant robot piloted by a pair of twins, one alive and one dead, with a gun that shoots black holes
Jetbike
I started Orks not because of anyone model BUT because back in the day they had no real vehicle models. They ability to just tear apart any model and make it into a Trukk or Battlewagon is what sold me.
Other than that I bought epic Nids because I loved the Aliens movie, & Space Marines just came in the box so yep built them too. 😂
Dudes! You missed hard with the Deathwatch. Their mascot has got to be the Corvus Blackstar. Coolest flyer in the game and definitely exudes the ‘tacticool’ vibes of the chapter. BTW, the models you showed were deathwatch Intercessors (which are admittedly lame) not deathwatch veterans.
Consider: Space Marines with Shotguns
I feel like it was a miss because Kill Team Cassius is a perfect encapsulation of the set.
Deathwatch is probably the Cassius KT since it shows how different their KTs are from regular space marine squads with the mix of terminators, jump packs, and bikes.
Deathwatch aren't a chapter.
Long before I started playing Warhammer 40k, I was into scale models, mostly world war two tanks.
And one day, I saw at my local model hobby store, the old plastic ork battlewagon. That was the first Warhammer 40k model I ever saw!
I had no idea what it was, but those jolly orks on the cover seemed to be having a good time!
Warhammer plushies we need:
Imperial Servo-skull.
Chaos Nurgling.
Tau drone.
Tyranid Ripper.
Necron Scarab.
Ork Squig!
What am I forgetting?
Sisters of Battle Cherub. Gotta have the lobotomized angel babies.
@@Bluecho4 That did come to mind ... but I am unsure if that can be made anything other than nightmare-fuel!
One of those dark angels midgets holding a sword?
@@OniGanon A "watcher in the dark"? That is not a bad idea!
The standard crisis suits are what got me into T’au Empire when they first released as the Tau back in 3rd.
I recently was gifted a couple of boxes of minis to paint and to have some fun with, and while looking around RUclips for videos I found your channel. LOVE your format!
Meganobz are my pick for orkz. they have a good combination of having the bulky scrappy aesthetic of the vehicles, shows off some of the crazy weapons, its all attached to a roaring monster and to top it off the tongue and cheek name of the unit shows off the armie's humor
Exactly right.
I think for Drukhari, the Ravager is really the best model to represent their evil space pirate aesthetic. It’s also the model that got me into Drukhari originally!
"No one is getting into Tau for the tanks"
Me, who saw the hammerhead and just went "I WANT THAT"
I play Imperial Fists…. And having joined the hobby at the height of TTS, I’d have to say the Centurions really got me interested.
8:21 "We don't do that in chaos" is just a weirdly neat quote.
I will never forget my friend convincing me to buy the old dark vengeance box, the second I saw that helbrute I was hooked. Of course that's the one model that got lost in the move lol.
The Canoptek Doomstalker is what got me into Necrons. War of the World-esque alien with a big gun
The Flying Hive Tyrant got me into the Tyranids. For AoS, Light of Eltharion from the Lumineth Realm-Lords got me into that entire system.
A bit "off-topic" here but what actually got me into GW were the Freeguild armies that I got to see displayed when I was 10 at my local GW store. I wanted my first actual kit to be a Space Wolves one, but I just got regular Ultramarines. In middle school I really got into Eldar though, mostly because of the bikes and walkers, but never actually had Eldar. My first official army is T'au, which I got into cause mechs obviously, but also the piranhas weirdly and their overall aesthetic. Gotta say though, I really love the Ghostkeel's design over the Broadside.
I don't quite know who the mascots could be, but as for the models that convinced me to start collecting each of my two armies, it was the redemptor dreadnought for my Ultramarines army, and it was the new Gazgkhull Thraka for my orks.
There were two Tau models that made me ultimately decide to play them, and you picked both of them. I'm so glad to see the return of Riptide spam recently, that's the kind of list I originally set out to field.
Necron Warriors were the first Warhammer model I saw that made me take interest in Necrons, but it was the Doomstalker that really got me into it.
My T’au friend actually got into it for the tanks, specifically the hammerhead. So I find what you said about that quite funny. I too think their battlesuits are cooler though
I gotta agree with the big bird take. Changer of ways is so damn cool. As an Eldar, guard, and Space marine player, I don't have enough chaos to actually make a chaos army, and I definitely want to pick up the big bird.
Funny you guys mentioned T’au looking like a Gundam because the Space Marines looking vaguely like a Zaku is what made me interested in Warhammer. The Tyraniea also reminding me of other space horror monsters really helped as well
The best thing for orks just has to be the oldschool tankbustas. They got the junkyard scavanger look as well as an exploding pet squig and the most glorious and iconic weapon in all of 40k.... the rocket on a stick.
It really can't get any more or than that.
I loved the look of the boyz and I bought a box and the rest is history
My first model was the Tech Priest Dominus, and yes the servo skull broke off. But there’s a picture in the codex of a Dominus holding a severed servo skull in his little claw arm, so I have mine hold it
I was about to buy an astra militarum box and then saw a box of fire warriors and immediately fell in love. By far I think that fire warriors and the xv8 crisis battlesuits are my mascots for tau.
HO. LEE. WOOWW. I always thought having a psyker army could be cool, but those Exhalted Sorcerers look absolutely INCREDIBLE. im instantly sold
I think Orks can be summed up in a single model- the Rukkatrukk Squigbuggy. You've got a ramshackle vehicle, ork boyz, and squigs, all on one 150mm base!
The humble Hormaguant is what got me into 40k. It all started when I was collecting some WWII models, and wanted a zombie-horde diorama. So they came in perfectly, then I got Hive Tyrant and now just waiting for the Tyranid warriors to be on sale to grab one.
Space Wolves, I believe the correct answer is Fenrisian Wolves. I like the Thunderwolf calvary but have never used them once in a game. That isn't what sold me on wolves. In fact, thunderwolves didn't even exist when I started collecting wolves.Wolves.
AdMech, I say it is Sicarian Infiltrators. Or, Kastelan Robots with a Cybernetica Datasmith.
Tau, again, been playing these before the manga suits became a thing. The two models you talked about as being not why people play this army, are actually what got me into Tau. Both the Hammerhead and Kroot.
30:00 I felt so attacked because my favourite three aspects of the T'au (in order) are literally the Hammerhead, Kroot, and Fire Warriors.
I just love Kroot so damned much. Couldn't care less about the mech suits.
My pick is Fire Prisms. To me, Eldar is big antigrav skimmers combining the lasers to punch through an arbitrary thickness of armour.
Honestly, the thumbnail for this made me watch. 👍
Also, The Ork Truck is what got me sold on Orks.
I got into Warhammer 40k, into model making and tabletop gaming, because of the Knight Paladin/Knight Errant. Give me massive chivalrous, gothic, heraldic battlemechs. I saw that and it was the spark to join the community.
Its a shame the army only works these days if youre running a dozen of their little buddies...
I liked all the ones you picked, but I would submit these:
CSM: Defiler
Drukhari: Raider
Necrons: Lychguard
Dang this Podcast helped me find the perfect staff for my 30K stormseer
Funny thing is, the Noise Marine _is_ what got me into Chaos as a whole, so Eric was right xD
For Craftworlds I would honestly say the Autarch. It shows off all of the different aspect warriors across the two different Autarch kits, while also nailing the essence of their aesthetic.
Ork mascot: literally any ork for me, they're such goofy little fellas that even the basic boyz kit was enough to get me collecting
For the armies I collect
Seraphim and Zeypherim (Sisters of Battle)
Various Terminators (Death Guard)
Raptors (CSM)
Tantalus (Drukari)
For me, it was the Ork Trukk. Nothing else that I saw on shelves made me excited as much as the Trukk.
interesting video seeing how 40k is going to the centerpiece model for an army. Most iconic in couple years will be largest model
I really like this episode a lot. Excellent, and fun to see.
You know Gritty is a creature of the Warp because he moved to Philadelphia and ended up thriving there.
For drukhari, I think of the Venom with the fellows hanging off the side
idk i feel like you both missed the obvious Chaos Space Marines mascot is the Terminator Lord or any terminator in any color is just plain darn cool and really more iconic than both the raptor and noise marine
I think I am the one person who really likes the tzaangor more than the other thousand sons units (except maybe Ahriman). I would like to see more beastmen in the setting in general.
I knew i was gonna play custodes the second i saw blade champion, that dude is so damn cool
So I started playing blood angels and they still are my main army but when I was first getting into 40k I watched battle reports where I found my beloved Hellhammer baneblade varrient, I love the gaurd but not cadians so I bought a 3d printer specifically for imperial gaurd to play steel legion, besides yarrick the only model in that army that will be GW is a hellhammer/shadowsword (magnetized)
A humbe gretchin - is the one unit, that brings me into a 40k universe 🍄
How could you miss the Monolith for Necrons?! Just a big black floating pyramid with a giant death crystal, a green electric portal with some undead robots stepping out of it (loving the updated model), and an array of energy guns ready to disintegrate those flesh bags on the planets that are rightfully ours (because we called it first)!
For the factions i play:
Tau is 100% the riptide no question.
Astra Militarum, def goes to the baneblade
And for orks, Ghazhghull Thrakka is one of my favorite models in the game
Personally for me the poster boy for orks should be the warboss in mega armor, because what good are boyz without a boss
If i ever get into Warhammer it's probably going to be sisters or orks just cause i love kitbashing and both are amazing for that.
As a necron player, we disown the doomsday ark. Canoptek doomstalker is are only large vehicle besides silent king
I don't even own it (yet) but void dragon is one of the best models in this game and is a huge part of why I am a Necrons player.
(Ophydian Destroyers too tho.. ooooomg)
Sorry for the late comment (just found your video) but how did you edit the animation of the model images in the corners with your voices?
Also, I'm building my first and only army in 40k because Tyranid Warrios are so friggin cool. I think they are the epitome of what Tyranids are
I’m into Tau for the vehicles *and* battlesuits tho, and fire warriors… idk, I just like most of the army
I know they haven’t really come out yet but no World Eaters?
As someone who will never bother with a Space Marine force of any type I do kinda like Tzangors more than the rest of the space marines: this time they're Egyptian.
I'm going to say that the Tyranid Warrior is the most iconic model of their line. It's not the leader nor the dime a dozen Gaunts. They stand out the most without going full centerpiece
What got me first playing were the XV-15 stealth suits and also were the reason I stopped playing when they were taken out of the game.
The Stormwolf sold me on the space puppies.
for orks for me it is big mek with the shock attack gun, or the far cooler german name snotzoga. just embodies ork tech for me. The cannon shooting little orks through the warp and the random effects it can have.
When I hear about the T'au I first think of the Crisis before the Riptide 😉
I’ve got the 25th anniversary emperor’s champion model it’s so cool
Now personally what got me into khorne demons was skarbrand mainly because tehee big guy with axes go bonkers
Since you went through the aeldari factions, I'd add that for the Ynnari the best model is the Yncarne imo Though I don't know if it represents the faction well, maybe the Visarch is better in that regard. It's what got me into 40k!
The Yncarne is absolutely the only reason anyone playa Ynnari. I know for sure if I start buying Asuryani models the first one would definitely be the Yncarne
My armies hook models;
Tzeentch* (obviously the lord of change) *(i only have a couple models because GW decided to stop making their start collecting, and I really don't want Tzaangors)
Craftworld eldar (autarch, banshees, and wrathguard. it's pretty close)
Imperial knights (Canis rex)
I've always loved blood angels but the death company models and lore sold me on them as my army.
3rd Edition Dark Eldar Raider. Jabbas palace skimmers but with TUDE
For the sisters, I have to give it to the Zepharim. They literally only speak in toungs.
It’s clearly the lieutenant for space marines
I'd say that for Space Wolves, a better choice might be their unique dreads.
Nah, TWC is the correct choice. There is nothing more space wolves than those things. The dreads are awesome looking, but they are just melee variants on a basic dread. The cavalry is extremely iconic. When you think Space Wolves, you think those over-the-top and wonderful kits.
As a Space Wolves player I HATE the Thunderwolf Cav, you couldn't have picked worse IMO. Our mascot is Bjorn, just.... just look at him ok
The one that finally got be buying was Raptors vanguard primaris. Reasonable Marines forever
I was very anti-space marine for some time, I found them rather boring. I went to my local game store to decide between the Tau and World Eaters combat patrol, and that's when I saw him.
Bjorn the Fell-Handed.
The most glorious mech suit I'd ever laid eyes on. And here I am, building a 1000pt Space Wolves army, with that man leading it.
Salamanders is clearly aggressors or the hestan. Adrax is the runner up tho
The Tzangors are extra confusing to me cause I bet 1ksons players would have bought Prospero guard kits in bucket loads if they had made that instead.
The first model I saw of tyranids was the hierophant bio-titan... Then I learned it's expensive as hell, and pretty bad in game, but I was already sold on the idea of bugs that can bombard you from orbit
IG so easy, I remember being real young and seeing my cousins Basilisk
put me on the path to not only IG but also big guns and arty 🤣
Mascot of Guard should be the Baneblade, it’s too iconic.
Krieg should be its separate thing cause it is a different look, and for them I know I got into them for the Marshal model, the deathriders, and funnily enough the Malcador Infernus.
For Admech they have the Cults and the Skitarii and while I like Cawl and the Dominus for the cults it’s hard not to do the Ironstriders for the Skitarii half of the army.
And for Chaos Space Marines their most iconic unit in my mind is the Lord Discordant, it’s so uniquely chaos it’s not even funny.
Whilst big birb is probably the best tzeench model. Something about the changeling just screams tzeench to me
How did you not pick the Triumph of St Katherine as your mascot. That is about as sisters as you can get.
Love the Gritty in the thumbnail
Space Marine mickey mouse is the Rhino, everyone has one (or five) lol
im in tau for the kroot and vespids... unironically i dont even like tau all that much but i dont mind their armor or the big battle suits so i guess ill just have to take em with my kroot and accept it could be allot worse cuz atleast it aint marines.
Big vulture corp has there eyes on GW
Can Harlequins have a little clown car transport?
I'm gonna hard disagree for the Custodes and say Wardens. You tell me to close my eyes and picture the Custodians, I see gold armour, red cape and the banana helm. Allarus have two of these but lack the critical third piece, the part that makes the sillouette that defines a Custodian.
Correct answers for the ones y'all got wrong:
Chaos Marines: Khorne Berzerkers. It's legit embarrassing to see you two get this one wrong. Berzerkers are arguably the single most iconic model in all of 40K. There's probably a couple million people on Earth who don't know shit about 40K aside from the image of a Berzerker screaming "Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne".
Necrons: Warriors. Even Immortals would've been good. How the hell did y'all go with Bloodletters over the Bloodthirster for Khorne, and then fuck this one up so badly.
Custodes: Dawneagle Jetbikes, a choice so obvious y'all had them pictured in the background as you inexplicably picked a different model
Daemons: Should've stuck with your gut and picked Bloodthirster for Khorne. Daemonettes are the real answer for Slaanesh.
The Exorcist is what sold me on Sister. Pipe organ missile launcher tank is 100% the best depiction of the armies aesthetic
That model just screams "Take me to church, mommy!"
Oh yeah, when I think battle sisters, the exorcist is what immediately comes to mind!
I'm actually shocked that they didn't go with the Exorcist or the Immolator, since so much of the lore and themes behind the Sisters is that whole 'corrupted Catholic church' motif, with the focus on martyrdom and piety. Neither one of their choices give that across, despite them being a core part of the tabletop armies.
Their revival hasn't changed much in their lore from back when they were introduced. The only thing that's really changed is that we (as outside viewers to the universe) can tell there's something supernatural to their faith, when back before it was murky as to if it was supernatural or just stubbornness (barring the living saint model).
The Exorcist is balls to the walls crazy and i love it for it. I started painting 40k last month and after finishing some SM and batlle sisters my next buy is the Exorcist. Flames, Reliquaries and giant pipe organs of death! Its such a fun aesthetic while still being proper 40k grimdark.
Man that iron maiden walker thing ... looks so sic lol
The mascot of IG is just the Guardsmen. Every faction has tanks. The IG is defined by being regular joes fighting in this hellscape
I love this take on it.
Absolutely agree with this, guardsmen make them cool. And they also make everything else cool as well. Probably the most important faction in 40k
I also think the Baneblade is quite cool
Nah. The mascot of IG is the Commissar.
As a fellow guard payer I whole heartedly agree. And look at how we identify different regiments. It is the guardsman themselves. All our tanks are interchangeable. But there is no mistakeing the guards man and where he is from.
"I wish that Sanguinary Guard had a modern sculpt"
A finger on the monkey's paw curls
“i’ve won, but at what cost?”
For Imperial Guard, they would want to show off their pride. It has to be THE BANEBLADE! Even in Dawn of War, if you played IG, you played it to bring 11 barrels of hell on the battlefield.
Not true! The only thing that truly represents the guard is the poor cadian trooper with his flashlight (and possibly a comissar at his back).
I’m torn, it would either be the leman russ or the Baneblade, the leman russ takes it for me however…
It represents the heavy armoured firepower the faction is known for almost as well as the Baneblade, but is also cheep enough to be disposable…
A perfect manifestation of the guard is dozens or hundreds of leman Russ’ moving in armoured formations, absorbing all losses and crushing everything under their unstoppable grinding advance.
I love my baneblade, but I think the mascot for me is the cadian guardsman.
Its the Basilisk for me BIG GUNS!!!
@@gregorstamejcic2355 I agree but it needs to be at least a hundred of them to be truly emblematic
T’au pathfinders. Saw some art of them fighting demons and I was sold
Crisis suits for me
White scars being forgotten is the norm at this point but kor'sarro khan's model is too cool to not mention
Same with salamanders too bud 🙁
I mean Adrax Agatone is just awsome with the model and lore
Codex compliant chapters don’t count.
DONT PITY. NO REMORSE. NO FEAR.
The Knight Abominant is so so good, but as much of a joke it is to run a ton of War Dogs instead of a Tyrant or something in a Knight army, I love the Stalkers and Karnivores too much. They give such a great animalistic theme for Chaos as compared to the Imperial Knights
I could easily be argued into swapping to a Brigand or Karnivore for CK.
For necrons I always loved the generic warrirors. I think the elevator pitch for Necrons is "zombie robots" and if you are just sold on the robots part you can play ad mech but if your here for the zombies nothing is more perfect than the warriors.
I think my suggestion is to always show people the main Troops choice of an army. Because the Troops choice is the essence of the army boiled down to its most approachable. Not visually busy like the character choices. Just the visual aesthetic of the army in its simplest form. Plus, you'll be painting a fair few of them if you start an army, so you need to know you like their look.
Obviously, this shouldn't be taken as a hard and fast rule. In truth, you'd want to show a new 40K-er a variety of units for each army, so they get a representative sample. Seeing the Skitarii might not convey the "vibe" of AdMech as much as a Techpriest. And if you try to show off Tau without showing their mechs, you're not showing what's really cool about Tau.
But in other armies, you don't fully "grok" what the army will look like if you don't get a look at their Troops. Imperial Guard always needs its infantry squads, and indeed are half of what differentiates one Guard army from another, aesthetically. Swarms of 'Gaunts convey a Tyranid army's impression of endless hungry hordes. And nothing captures the "you are playing an army of Terminators" quite like Necron Warriors. NOT showing the Troops off can almost seem deceptive.
The first model that got me into not just chaos but really into 40k at all was the forgefiend/maulerfiend
I almost picked the Lord Discordant and I'm kinda sad I didn't pull the trigger on it. I do love the daemon engines and it's something very unique to chaos.
Maulerfriend can give so many hugs in the fight phase!