Faction Guides
Choose Your Army
Every faction guide covers the lore, how they play, how hard they are to paint, and exactly what to buy first. Not sure where to start? Take the quiz.
The Imperium
Humanity's defenders — Space Marines, armies of faith, and towering god-machines. The most common place for new players to start.
Space Marines
Beginner FriendlyHumanity's ultimate warriors — versatile, iconic, and everywhere
Astra Militarum
Ordinary humans holding the line against gods of war — with tanks
Adeptus Mechanicus
Tech-priests who replace flesh with machine and worship the Omnissiah
Adepta Sororitas
Sisters of Battle — faith made manifest as divine firepower and miracle dice
Adeptus Custodes
The Emperor's personal bodyguard — fewer models than any army, power beyond any Space Marine
Grey Knights
Secret psychic Space Marines who hunt daemons — every warrior a sorcerer
Deathwatch
Warriors from every Chapter united in black armour to hunt xenos
Imperial Knights
Noble houses piloting 50-foot walking war machines across the battlefield
Chaos
The corrupted and the damned — traitor legions and daemons serving the Dark Gods. Aggressive, characterful, and visually striking.
Death Guard
Beginner FriendlyNurgle's plague marines — rotting, unkillable, and trudging forward forever
Chaos Space Marines
Traitor Legions who turned against the Emperor ten thousand years ago and never stopped
World Eaters
Khorne's berserkers — pure melee fury, no psychics, no mercy, no stopping
Thousand Sons
Sorcerer Space Marines — hollow armor animated by bound souls, led by Tzeentch's finest
Chaos Daemons
Pure warp entities — choose your Chaos god and embrace the madness
Chaos Knights
Fallen noble houses — corrupted war machines fused with daemonic entities
Xenos
The alien races of the galaxy, each utterly unlike the last — from undying robots to world-eating swarms to grudge-bearing space dwarves.
Necrons
Beginner FriendlyAncient machine gods, awoken and merciless
Orks
Beginner FriendlyFungal alien berserkers who win through sheer overwhelming numbers
Leagues of Votann
Beginner FriendlySpace dwarves who mine the deep void and hold grudges for millennia
Tyranids
An extragalactic swarm that consumes entire worlds — no mercy, no individual will
T'au Empire
Technologically advanced mech-suit warriors united under the Greater Good
Aeldari
Ancient masters of the galaxy, now a dying race haunted by the god they created
Drukhari
Dark Eldar slave-raiders — the fastest and most sadistic army in 40k
Genestealer Cults
Alien-infected insurgents who rise up from within Imperial society