What should my first 40k army be?

Space Marines
Hands down, this is the best starter army for anyone to learn and play the game with. It shouldn't surprise folks that Space Marines are the most popular army – and with good reason.
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What 40k army should I start with?

The Space Marines are almost every Warhammer 40k player's first army for two reasons: they're so ubiquitous (there are far more Space Marine models–and rules–for Space Marines than there are for any other army on this list), and they're generally pretty easy to play.
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What is the easiest army to play 40k?

Marines Benefits

They are not the most expensive but most likely the easiest army to get ahold of. It also is going to be one of the few armies you can always find used models for. That's because everyone and their mom that played this game has probably had a Marine army at some point.
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What is the best Warhammer 40k army to collect?

Best Warhammer 40k armies
  • Iron Hands (Space Marines)
  • Adepta Sororitas.
  • Harlequins.
  • Death Guard (Chaos Space Marines)
  • Orks.
  • T'au.
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How long does a 1000 point Warhammer game take?

1,000 – 1,500 Points: This size game usually takes roughly an hour and a half, but could easily take less or more time.
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How to Pick Your First Warhammer 40k Army



Is Warhammer an expensive hobby?

All of these are great hobbies and as long as you don't go overboard with new garden tillers or attending a lot of live concerts you won't be paying Warhammer money for any of them. But if the question is: is Warhammer unreasonably expensive, then the answer, frankly, is no.
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Are Necrons a good starting army?

' appeal of an SC! Box, they build into far better starter armies. The contents of the Necrons patrol box are a good start, especially since, if you build the ten immortals as two units of five, you'll only need one more Troops choice, and a HQ, to get to the minimum for a battalion detachment.
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What is the cheapest 40K army to collect?

10 Cheapest Armies You Can Build In Warhammer 40,000
  1. 1 Adeptus Custodes. By and large one of the most affordable armies that one can play are the Adeptus Custodes.
  2. 2 Chaos Knights. ...
  3. 3 Imperial Knights. ...
  4. 4 Orks. ...
  5. 5 Death Guard. ...
  6. 6 Space Marines. ...
  7. 7 Thousand Sons. ...
  8. 8 Chaos Space Marines. ...
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Why are iron hands so good?

Iron Hands have strong passive defensive buffs, like their Chapter Tactic's army-wide 6+ feel no pain save and protection against degrading profiles, plus a number of truly annoying active defensive buffs like Cogitated Martyrdom, Reject the Flesh, Embrace the Machine, and Souls of Iron. Vehicles.
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What is the strongest faction in Warhammer 40K?

Warhammer 40K: 8 Strongest Factions
  1. 1 Tyranids.
  2. 2 Orks. ...
  3. 3 C'Tan. ...
  4. 4 Chaos. ...
  5. 5 Imperium Of Man. ...
  6. 6 Necrons. ...
  7. 7 Asuryan/Eldar. ...
  8. 8 Tau Empire. The Tau are a young empire that appears to be experiencing growth compared to many of the other sentient factions in the Warhammer 40K universe. ...
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What is the easiest Warhammer game to learn?

The new edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar has the best-ever ruleset. The game is super easy to learn, the new rulebook has a layout that makes it quicker to reference rules, and you can even download the core rules from the Warhammer Age of Sigmar website in a matter of seconds.
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Are Harlequins good in 9th?

Harlequin Elite Choices in 9th Edition

Voidweavers have an impressive improvement – their gun options are substantially better and they have a prismatic cannon option. There's also a transport called a Starweaver, which allows your Harlequins to ride in style.
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How much does a 2000 point Tau army cost?

To go from having nothing in 40K to having the required books, a 2,000pt army (standard size), with some hobby supplies, is $815. It's often joked that they call the game Warhammer 40,000 because it costs $40,000 to play the game. Well, it's not that much, but it's not a cheap hobby either.
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Is AOS better than 40K?

In short, 40K has a greater level of simulation than AOS when it comes to combat: it has different weapon types, multi-damage weapons are actually more valuable against larger targets than they are in AOS, and melee weapons take the strength of the wielder into account.
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Are orks expensive?

Orks are the most expensive army in the game to play. Period. The cost of ownership for an Ork army destroys every other army in the game in the race to your wallet.
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What is the best space marine army?

Warhammer 40K: 6 Strongest Space Marine Chapters
  • 6 Imperial Fists.
  • 5 Space Wolves.
  • 4 Black Templars.
  • 3 Dark Angels.
  • 2 Blood Angels.
  • 1 The Ultramarines.
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Which Necron dynasty is best?

Ruled by the legendary phaeron Imotekh the Stormlord, the Sautekh have long been considered the greatest of the Necron dynasties – a status quo challenged only by the recent surge in power enjoyed by the Szarekhan in the wake of the Silent King's return.
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Why is Warhammer so overpriced?

One, it's a more expensive material to fabricate. Two, it may be harder to glue and to paint. It takes more expensive paints to prime and paint metal. However, the plastic figures of today are plastic and not any cheaper than the metal, and many are even more expensive.
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Is Warhammer 40k still popular?

Warhammer 40k is the most popular property made by its parent company, Games Workshop. Its popularity has helped the company's stock price, which has risen by more than 60 percent in the last two years.
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What is the most expensive Warhammer model?

An all-metal Thunderhawk Gunship, a rare Warhammer 40,000 miniature produced by Games Workshop in 1997, recently sold at auction for $34,882. That's the highest price ever paid for the rare model, which was assembled and painted by Emil Nyström and the team at Squidmar Miniatures.
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How long will 40K last?

That is a list of the Editions of Warhammer 40,000, the years they came out, and the total lifespan of the edition (I added that last one). See anything interesting in there? It's 2017 and with 8th Edition coming soon, it will have a 3 year lifespan.
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