8th Ed. Which 40K army do you enjoy collecting and why?

It's funny I am considering life after old world as our club is quite tenuous

I find it interesting that nearly all rankings of supported GW games has 40k at the bottom.

 

I think it's mostly a case where the more you branch out into other tabletop games the more you're likely to see the flaws in vanilla 40k as a game. Likewise if you've been in the hobby-space long enough.

 

Never actually collected it but I wanted to put together a Lost and The Damned force when Eye of Terror was released oh so long ago. I love kitbashing and converting, which is why I wanted to do that.

 

I did that... and then I got to watch as GW slowly pecked the army list to pieces over several editions... Vraks was a decent substitute for 2 editions and then it all fell apart

 

Maybe The Old World will bring them back.

 

If there is one thing that I absolutely do not want to see return as-is to TOW, it's the Dogs of War. A horribly-executed idea from GW back in the days of 5th Edition, that gave birth to the worst non-End Times Warhammer Fantasy lore to exist.

However, if you're really itching to try it, the recent War of Settra's Fury Arcane Journal for TOW has introduced a sandbox Border Princes-themed army list that allows Empire and Bretonnian units to be mish-mashed together and for Mercenary units from various main faction army lists to be added in too. To be honest I think this is a much better interpretation of the concept in the first place, as it's more creative and allows you to kitbash your own army that follows the wargear guidelines of the different units.

Unfortunately the list even includes a nod toward the horrible Dogs of War lore by allowing you to choose to theme the army around a Tilean Merchant Prince (which is great if you actually like that side of the lore).

 

But don't they have a loyal following? I have seen several people on here speak very fondly of them. It might draw more people into The Old World.

 

A very small but strangely loyal following. If the army is their thing, good for them, they can play it in 5th Edition or use it with the Border Prince Army of Infamy in TOW. Though I personally think that reintroducing them back as a whole faction, with their cheesy premise and lore included, would lower TOW's quality as a serious setting just as the original idea did.