hey guys jay here welcome dion's a battle why do we choose the armies we choose well it's because
we like how they look and that's true but i have a hunch that it's also true that the decision comes
down to one or two key models the models that jump out to us and are the deciding factor on starting
a collection they're usually the models you start out with or excited to build up too i know this
is how i've made my decision to what armies to collect over the years and i want to talk about
the models that made me start armies starting off with my first army the necrons i love the space
egyptians and having hordes and hordes of necron wars and worlds was always my goal but there is
one unit that reigns supreme over the collection and that is the canaptec wraiths i love these
models it took me a little while before i actually purchased them i remember i i had a full necron
army and then one christmas i got these for myself and i absolutely love them i made them bursting
out of the ground they stand on kind of prehensile tails they're kind of like an upside down scorpion
which is an okay look i don't mind how they naturally look but i kind of like the bursting
out of the ground more because now every single one has a really unique pose i just think they're
so awesome i like the necron canoptic constructs a lot it kind of makes sense i mean there's billions
of necron warriors but in between the necron warriors is just a sea of their living technology
the necrodermis constructs and i really really get a kick out of them and these guys are my favorites
they're uh they there's one way you can build them which looks a little bit goofy with the whips
uh the whips have always been really really good in game i don't know if they're still good but i
know i've seen hundreds and hundreds of canoptic wraiths with the whips with the whip snapped also
but i just went for the classic claws and you know maybe they're invisible whips if i actually
want to use the whips i remember back in sixth edition these guys had a three up invulnerable
save which made them unbelievably survivable and difficult to take out and maybe part of the part
of that is why i love them so much i remember charging into a humongous blob of orc boys
and just ravaging them and then on the strike back the orcs did like nothing ah canoptec wraiths
the crown jewel of my necron army my second army the space marines the black templar the worst
possible good guys i like the space marines a lot basically every kid is a banger but there are two
models that i love above the others one the space marine dreadnoughts the model everybody loves and
the second probably the most hated space marine unit the model that was the precursor to all
the primaries hate the space marine centurions everybody loves the dreadnoughts and i have five
of these suckers i think i actually have a couple more need that uh need to be built and painted but
the i just love there's something so macabre about the dreadnought it's very grim dark i i in my
perspective of the dreadnoughts i think that the space marines like it's horrible and awful
and evil to take a nearly dead space marine and then entomb them in one of these sarcophaguses
and i like to think that the reason that it's it's such an honor for space marines it's been built up
in their minds their psycho-indoctrinated mind so much is because it's actually
misery but it's such an effective weapons platform that they kind of
force space marines into loving the idea of being entombed into dreadnoughts when in reality it's
a pretty miserable experience all around i mean and it makes sense that it would be really hard
for a human being to pilot a dreadnought i mean you have to pilot two legs and two arms
and it's you know it's impossible to do that with joysticks and pedals but if it's literally your
spine is drilled into the machine then it becomes an extension of your body i love the dreadnoughts
but speaking of big giant stompy guys i think i might love the centurions more i love centurions
so much i know when they came out in 2012 they're they were much maligned people really did not
like them i don't know if that still holds true or people have gotten over it but i have always loved
these guys i have done a tiny bit of conversion to make their legs a little longer i think that's the
only flaw really but i just love the centurion so much i mean imagine you've got space marines and
they're pinned down by by enemy fire and so a draw pod slams into the ground a space marine runs up
to it and then he hops out in a suit of centurion armor and then all of his battle brothers
gather behind him and then he walks across the battlefield like a walking aegis defense line
just blasting with guns from every single direction i like to think that at the end of
a battle the centurion war suits completely shot up and destroyed are scraped off the battlefield
like draw pods at the end of a battle i really like the centaurion war suits i remember the the
moment i graduated college i bought myself two boxes that was my that was my graduation present
was two boxes of centurions one box is built and painted and i have one more box to go next up the
orcs also known as the army of the kit bashers the orcs of the army where kit bashing is basically
mandatory and they have by far the largest range of any 40k army as every single games archop kit
ever made is secretly an orc kit it just hasn't been looted yet and by far my favorites have to be
the orc war bikers these models are the reason i have an orc army although i've sort of always had
an arc army i've always had orc models around and the inclination to start an arc army but
really it's not until i went bowls deep in the orc war biker kit that i fell in love with the orcs
i have about 30 of these orc where bikers i actually painted an elder army from my cousin
on commission and in exchange he gave me about 10 boxes of orc war bikers he had a friendly
local game store at the time so he was able to get get the stock in the numbers i wanted but
i love these every single one i have kit bash and converted to make them completely unique
i have them on custom tournament illegal bases i believe these are supposed to be on the long
cavalry like tic-tac-shaped bases but i have them on actually attractive good-looking bases
but i love these models i mean seeing the whole horde of 30 of them pushing up the battlefield
they take up so much room they're so big they have their redonkulous daca guns and they're
pretty good in close combat too because you've got an orc on there and orcs are no slouches
in combats i i also adore the movie mad max fury road i think it's one of the most beautiful and
amazing movies ever made and that is my theme for this orc army just orcs driving these ramshackle
vehicles across the golden yellow deserts of whatever planet that they have decided to take
ah i love the orc wire breakers so much i might need more i should just go ahead uh forge world
sells a orc war boss on on uh bike i believe it was customly uh wazdaka wazdaka grut smack
something like that but they renamed it when the you can no longer take that character in 40k
and the orc knobs on bikes i should just go ahead and buy them but they're so
expensive maybe maybe i'll just do a little kit bashing and converting to have those units and
finally my last army the mysterious jean sealer cult one of the armies i consider to be the most
difficult to paint and full of some of the most interesting sculpts in all of 40k i was drawn to
this faction because of the intricate models but my favorites are the aberrants and the sentinels
i have always loved the sentinels but i've never had that much interested in the imperial guard and
so i never had a good excuse to buy any but then when the jean steeler cult dropped boom i had a
perfect excuse to buy a lot of sentinels i actually want a lot more i love that
their shameless atsd rip ops and i don't mind because i love the ats these from star wars
and they just look really good their proportions are great they really do look like they could
scuttle around on those legs and i'm sure it is a miserable experience to pilot one of these
because you're just you're just bouncing up and down with the crazy chicken gate that these things
can walk at and they've just got that great weapon hardpoint so you can attach basically whatever you
want missile launchers multilaths laz cannons anything you want i really like the sentinels
and i kind of want to get three more and make the open-topped scout version so that i'll have three
armored sentinels and three scout sentinels with the chainsaw you gotta have the chainsaw
but speaking of the gene sealer cult the gene stealer cult is a brand new army
that happened right in the middle of my wargaming career with death watch overkill and i bought i
bought two copies of deathwatch overkill and then i think i bought two more just the average models
on ebay because i love the average so much they're grotesque they're mutants they're just sickening
monsters and i absolutely love the sculpts i love them so much that even though i already own like
10 i bought two more boxes when the plastic kit came out because there were different poses and
different sculpts so now i have far more average than any sane person should but it doesn't matter
because i love them so much the only flaw with these guys is i think that they're maybe 50
percent too small i mean these are supposed to be giant hulking brutes that can kind of go toe
to toe with like space marines but they're almost smaller than orcs i think i think it totally would
have been fine if they were upscaled just a little bit but i'm fine with that because they're still
they're still the hulking behemoths that i've always wanted and one day i'll have 20
of them and i'll lose every game that i ever take them in because that's ridiculous but
i love the aberrant let me know in the comments below what are the models that made you
collect your army or armies did you buy them right off the bat or did you build up to them
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