A different type of army ranking

It is nice with controlversial views sometimes, makes you think a bit more..

I agree on alot and interesting to read other people´s subjective (mostly?) ideas. Feel tempted to comment and add some of my own (which probably provokes more..) - after your rankings.

1. I like the 6th Ed stuff, models, that popped in - but Chaos has in virtually any game system I have played from GW always been held hostage by the worst kind of gamers. The unwashed arseholes with no skill, no tactics and those always min-maxing some WAAC lame shit. Which is a shame I think.
Well, there was one guy, the fastest and best converter & painter. but he never played unless it was a 2 on 2 game with me, in 40k (he did not read the rules much). I wish I had played with him and teached him because his armies looked fantastic.. He converted, painted and later sold them to fund a new, similar one..

But due to this, Chaos often gave me a bad taste in my mouth, hard to get an objective view on them., game wise. Moelwise, they are solid. And maybe GW focussed a little too much on them, but I am not all into pushing the setting with apocalyptic events that much either. I´m fine with have the slumbering threat from within and the north. Talk about previous Chaos incursions and do camapigns around smaller ones, previewing the next big one. I am 100% fine with that.. GW was not..

2. They are pretty cool, sometimes felt like better, brown Orcs, but I think they found their place. Remembering one of my classmate´s brother getting the army deal from 5th Ed, those metal gors and ungors and we looked at it in awe..
never played them myself but been thinking about a warband in Mordheim. But others have picked them up so I stayed away.

3 Not a fan of the 5th Ed stuff but 6th Ed - yeah, they look good! Was about to start an army, but same as with many others, never got far. I was all over the various armies but we were more of a 40k group so often got sidetracked..

4. Kinda agree here.. The fluff and the game kinda don´t add up.. Magic and gadgets gets a bit too much. I have seen some cool, fluffy lists in a campaign setting though and that was fun.

5.Kinda like WoC.. The arseholes took them udner their wings. But they were never successful not very common around me. And frankly, I preferred them in WoC armies, a couple of units. Doesn´t interest me at all to play myself. Feels boring and a bit one (or two?) dimensional. On their own.

6. I love their fluff, grumpy fucks.. And i really liked the 5th Ed 6th Ed models, mainly by Colin Dixon? The Grudge of Drong releases in late 5th Ed, the hammerers, Drong, Skag, the cannon.. Then the Longbeards - those alone made me finally jump into actually getting a WFB army (people had played WFB but we were all into 40k, but at the 6th Ed release new players came in, some old vets and I took the plunge). I kinda enjoyed it but game wise, it was no really me. I could enjoy it,but I am too aggressive to always feel at home. (I played Space Wolves and orks in 40k)
I still miss that army though, those models. I ddid not like the 7th Ed release really. Too "busy" and different style. Ruleswise, they got better it seemed. But you could not really play the Longbeard army I had (perhaps a bit bordering cheesy with missile core and 2 Longbeard units as the main fighter units because I loved the models.. Had that limited Ed BSB, The White Dwarf, 200 issue one as my characters along with Drong)

7. Kinda started them at the same time as Dwarfs when i got a pile of old models from one of those veterans from 4th Ed or so.. But lost interest as I wanted the newer models, heh.. And I spent more time with the dwarf. I really like them however! Still. Some mix of 5th Ed and 6th Ed lore and models. Did not get to play them much but they, on the table, was more my thing than Da Stunties. But I am not really an elf player, but Wood Elves, I can almost accept, being quite the guy in the woods..

8. Kinda agree here too. Just for the looks, I bought some of the Perry´s models, I especially liked the Knight Errants.. Never really got to play much but I think I would have enjoyed them as a secondary army, not always playing them, as that would have been boring.. Not sure I would have been able to paint them nice however... A little sad they never got more army books.

9. An army that was always popular so never really got into them but I loved the 5th Ed, late release.. White Lions and Korhil especially. Not into elfs, fluffwise, that much. But i liked those models and was about to mkae something out of it too, but it never happened. Would have loved to have that big unit still and paint it though.. Those Ellyrean Reavers of late 5th Ed as well as the Shadow Warriors were ace models too. That with some core and chariots I could have enjoyed.. Maybe.

10. Agree here. Loads of good models though, especially 6th Ed I think. The Mordheim dudes/Free Company was fun to play with, using in conversions etc.

11. Well, they became my main army and still is. These days I only play Greenskins in any system.. I was a bit reluctant at first.. My first thing with Greenskins in GW games was when I was assigned the orks & battlewagons from Epic when my brother bought that box.. They were okay but I wanted Beakiez.. Later, when I started playing 40k, I joined in with a buddy in his biig ork army, getting a small piece of it.. Until I went 1005 Space Wolves.. But the exposure had started to win me over and I picked them up in 3rd Ed 40 as my second, proper main army and then after the Dwarfs in WFB.. I was quite competetive with my other stuff before that, not OTT - but i made hard lists of stuff I LIKED the LOOk of. But when I started to play orcs (and orks) I played more relaxed and had waay more fun. That just took over and I care less about BS these days, I do my Orcs, laugh at the fluff and make up my own..
It is just fun... Laughing at that, konvert some shit, play, get beaten up but getting some smaller victory and telling your opponent you will be back fer anuvver go..
It feels kinda nice being the udnerdog (orcs often have a little lame rules, pwoer wise..) - I like it more than playing the latest bullshit, jumping the bandwagon.
If they screw up, you can just laugh, if it works - ah, you feel proud of them - it was THEM working, not you/me..
I love them to death (orcs more than Gobbos, everyone wlese whinges about Gobbos, I am firmly the orc palyer!)

12. Awesome models, never got to play against them. Saw the 6th Ed release with awe and heard they were shit in 8th Ed? Atleast when the power creep kicked in. What a shame..

13. Kinda agree here, though I LOVE the feel of the 6th Ed book, the gothic style. Not a fan of vampires either, don´t really care - i don´t dislike them. But theyw ere kinda taken by the WAAC arseholes in Mordheim here.. And I played them briefly, goofing aroind witha Young Frankenstein version..
Cool feel, I don´t mind ffacing them, not sure I would enjoy that super character and weak troops either.

14. I kind of agree but I don´t hate them - as I have not been on their pointy stick end that much. But they feel a little OTT and.. Strong? But I do love many models.. From 5th Ed - Kroxigor, some metal skinks. Then it just got better. But I can´t paint a good-looking army otherwise i might have bought some and tried to make a fun list.. I like the skinks and the tough Saurus but they feel quite good..Maybe a little too much good rules? That ticks me off.

15. Same for me, still the new army. Felt a bit BSy.. They ruined the old look and fluff for me, those Golgfag´s ogres and the Mordheim Mercenary... That is my Ogres. This new, stupid bullshit is still some bandwagon crap I never liked and had pushed deep and hard down my throat in White Dwarf at the time. . No thanks. One of those armies that push the rules a bit much for me, with that kind of monstrous infantry. A full army of them gets too much, for ME. I much more enjoy the traditional stuff. There is plenty enough variation in the old WFB armies thank you very much!

16. No opinion really... Never saw them on the battle field. But some old vets never playing any more had them displayed at the club.. Cool, different - and they invented the Black orcs? That is kidna all I know... they don´t tempt me but they make me interested as they are rare..

I like this. Nicepointswundapantz I agree on the many "meant to lose and win"..

And it also reminded me to watch Excalibur, which i have never seen, a shame indeed..Tonight? (And was I the only one who liked Guy Ritchie´s King Arthu?)

Did not rank them, I just replied to chronicallychaotic66´s list in order, should have ranked them. Ah well.

I do have it now atleast. Been aware about it since the early 90s.. it was suggested ina local role playing game as something you should see.. But i never did. And some buddies whinged about the incorrect armour for the period (eh who cares if it is a good story! ,) ).. Will fix that omittment.

I also kidna saw Ulthuan as the uk, a bit, due to location and the way they high Elves have a strong navy and a small but professional army (?).. But then this Albion exists.. But so much of the stuff draws inspirations from so many things?

Yeah, those stuntie models are amazing. For the Hammerers I don´t care they are similar, they have character and details, not anywhere near the monopose plastics anyways. And the Longbeards.. Mmm.. the ale keg for the champion, is it? Just great.
The Knights Errant models really caught the fluff I think, I can see those young, impetious Knights with that flailing hair charging straight in! As much as i like the more Advanced Knights with all their gubbinz, those plain knight with a lance, shield and sword is just cool too.