I never actually played as the space marines; though I spent 4 years working in the a comic shop/game store the only game store in a city of 600,000 that had tables with terrain that they would let you play on for free. So I saw a crap ton of people come in and Space Marines and Chaos Marines were by far the most popular races to play. I disliked Marines because everything about the game was so focused on them.SpaceCop said:
I've been on and off with the game for the last 13 years. Originally I played as Dark Eldar, even got some little awards for my minis (worked in a place that sells them and encourages you to make Rad pieces on your down time)
After a couple editions where they were skipped over or barely improved Dark Eldar my feelings got hurt and I stopped playing. Hell for a period they discontinued them in the states altogether.
I also had a smaller force of SOBs/Witch Hunters though slow accumulation has made them the much larger army that I have.
edit: interestingly when it came to Fantasy WH I'd say it was pretty close to even across the board as to which army people played as.
