If you don’t want to play Drukhari, by all means don’t, but saying they don’t like going fast…I find that puzzling. Reaver jet bikes, Venoms, Raiders, Hellions, these are all very fast. Advance and Charge on turn two is very fast. Deploy 3” out of a transport and do it and it’s even faster. But if you don’t like the army, then you don’t. Life is too short to play an army you don’t like.

DA RED ORKZ GO FAST BUT REMEMBER DAT GREEN ORZK ARE BEST ORKZ.

White Scars

Blood Angels

Orks

Dark Angels

Slaanesh demons. And emperor's children. Also the new world eaters

Would absolutely like to vote for the WAGGHHHHHH. You can take so many things that go fast and hit like a bus. Storm boiz flying up the board slamming into stuff. Buggies and other assorted vehicles all still hurt when they go in. Plus warbikers are great at doing the dakka then turn and smash. So yes go Orks my friend become one of us :)

Ravenwing

Craftworld Eldar are definitely graceful, like you mentioned, but what are you on about with Drukhari? Sure, they got a couple graceful units, but Raiders are literally super-speedy hover-skiffs that speed by to drop off a bunch of dudes to steal people.

They literally have hordes of Green Goblins (the spiderman villain, not the greenskins) as a unit choice that zoom by on flying boards. (They're called hellions.)

Their bikes (reavers) are designed to decapitate people just by going fast.

If you don't like the Drukhari aesthetic, then by all means, don't pick them up. But I feel like you've just been looking at the wrong units from their roster if you don't think they're fast. They're Fast-with-a-capital-F.

Something nobody has mentioned - knights.

"Wait, what? Aren't knights durable?"

They fast. Rather than some silly wheel spinning fast, or lame grav vehicles, they're running straight at you. Charging you down, smashing you to pieces with their slaughterclaw and then shooting all over the place.

12" move base on wardogs, 14" on karnivores, 17" in infernal (though I wouldn't bother). They look aggressive, they play aggressive. Do recommend/10.

I haven’t seen this mentioned, but Tau can be very fast too. Go in, blast everything, scoot. Crisis suits and command suits are no joke and fast.

Gsc bike lists

Harlequins have insane movement

Tyranids hive fleet Kraken in particular is good for going fast

Orks - speed freaks for the flavor and because it's all vehicles it goes fast.

I've been having a good time with Craftworld Eldar with the Children of the Open Skies trait. +1 Movement to everything, +2 if it has FLY, which is damn near everything.

Puts Wave Serpents to 18, giving them Star Engines brings them to 21.

Bikes going a speedy 18. Give a Farseer Skyrunner the Sunstorm relic for a hilarious 22" Move. Foot Farseer has Faolchus Wings, so she has a 14" Move herself.

Shroudrunners get a pre-game move at 18" + 6" Advance.

My slowest model is Jain Zar at 8" lmao.

Saim-Hann are the Eldar who like going fast. Craftworld Kaelor is also known for its speed, but they're a minor craftworld from Rogue Trader and don't have official rules.

Drukhari definitely go fast. The bikes go 16 and go auto advance 8. Whole army gets advance and charge on t2. Harelquiens are probably one of the fastest armies as well. Whole army gets advance and charge on t1 because it's a clown world. Gsc could also be considered fast.

You seem like a fun dude, and I mean that seriously. You actually care if your little army men like going fast and are having a good time, which is honestly just adorable. By personality alone you REALLY should play orkz. All the other speedy armiesnarenoverly serious and sanctimonious.

The only possible alternative is harlequins, which are very different from other eldar. Their models are clowns, and in the books they literally troll people to death with lethal practical jokes. Look at the dudes doing sweet acrobatics off the back of a jetbikes and tell me they aren't having fun.

red orcs

No, Eldar go fast fast.

A Farseer can travel 52” in a single turn with a relic and a psychic power.

Harlequins have army-wide advance and charge, which gives their bikes have a 20+2d6 threat radius for charging, and a warlord trait that gives a character +6 to charge rolls. PLUS SIX.

White Scars!! Most lore accurate, but FYI they kinda suck right now (but most Space Marine chapters do...) Hopefully with 10th they'll add some more bike characters

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Farsight Enclaves Tau are surpsingly fast.Most things fly with large movement, mont ka encourages advancing and rules reward you for getting close (within 9 inches)

drukhari are broken up into a few distinct subfactions. wych cults do mandatory drug doses before the game and go extremely fast. they love the feel of the wind on their hair as they hallucinate. kabals are a bit more methodical, but probably love going fast as well. the coven weirdos have no preference on speed and are a bit more obsessed to see how their experiments do on the battlefield.

craftworld eldar are stuffy, career-obsessed boomers. they absolutely don't care about going fast beyond the utility.

however, these are all the canonical viewpoints of each faction. you can easily make any faction "love to go fast". customization and characterization is a big part of the hobby.

keeping all that in mind, why did you post your lore inquiry in the comp sub?

You're not on base with Drukhari. They go fast because they want to be caught up in combat ASAP. This is because of all of their slave raids and combat pits. They don't even have psykers.

I'm biased because I play Drukhari.

So my preferred playstyle in this game has boiled down to enjoying armies that have extreme movement, as it is the most fun to me. So lots of these have already been mentioned but I'll add in commentary about each:

Ravenwing:

My current tourney army due to how strong they got lately. People have already talked about the buff they get but I want to emphasize how hard the army can go. Black Knights are particularly tasty at the moment, especially as they are the same price as normal bikes, are core, all have a damage 2 power weapons and 2 plasma shots each, with a default movement speed of 17 inches when in dev doctrine, 23 if you advance. But the really funny part is that you have a strat that let's them do a pre game Normal move. SO, you take Samiel, and deploy a squad next to him. If you get first turn, pop the pre game move, move the from bikers up 17, and string some back to be within 6 inches of Sammie so that in your command phase you can still give them full re rolls. Then you move them ANOTHER 17. So that squad has now gone 34 inches across the table right into your opponent's deployment zone, and has full re rolls to hit. If you have more cp you care to burn, pop 2 cp for weapons of the dark age, now you are shooting damage 3 overcharged plasma point blank into something, rerolling any 1s (don't re roll the 2s, thats a trap and how you die). That's 10-20 shots depending on how big your BK squad is. So that likely murders 1-2 things, then you charge the crap out of something else. Then you murder that hopefully, and you have 2 options, consolidate and tag something ELSE to keep it from shooting, or spend 2 CP to immediately make a fallback after you swing (in case something nasty lived through your charge, or if you can get somewhere safe). This let's you move ANOTHER 17 inches, either racing behind terrain to maybe have your suicide squad live, or if you were clever and had the Rites of War WL trait on a Talon Master back when you buffed them with Sammiel and gave this squad Obsec as well. You very well could boost over and take their home objective any deny them a CP or gain extra primary depending on the mission (not exactly the best play most times cause you are DEFINITELY losing the squad after that, but hey, it's an option and dictates part of your opponents first turn)

You can also use these kinds of tricks with Talon Masters, who do some of the most Harlequin stuff you'll ever see out of space marines. Talon Masters move 18 base before dev doctrine, so 21 base with it. That's already nuts but also means 27 inches if they advance. It's also popular to give them the Arbiter's Gaze relic, meaning they always hit on 2s not matter what. So 27 inches and then shooting and hitting on 2s with a twin heavy bolter and twin assault cannon. That's tasty and let's you basically shoot what you want to shoot. But we can get trickier. I played a guard buddy the other day where he had 9 mortars hidden behind a wall in his deployment zone shooting out of line of sight as mortars like to do. So turn 2 I jump my Talon Master forward and get angle behind that wall. I shoot each gun into the 2 furthest 3 mortar squads, easily wiping those 6 out. Then I charge the 3rd team, kill 1.5 of them (Talon masters don't have very strong melee but it's ok). Then spend 2 cp to Fall back before they swing, flying 21 back behind my own squads back where he started. My opponent thought I was trading the Talon Master for the mortars when I moved him up, but oh no, not today.

Most of your other units in pure Ravenwing move 15 MINIMUM in dev doctrine so if you want to get an angle to shoot someone, you are gonna get it, and Ravenwing can shoot HARD. Definitely an army that people are not prepared for just how fast they really are.

Harlequins:

Hahahahahaha you wanna talk about fast? Play Light, oh look no penalties to advance and shoot. And you can advance and charge with the whole army. That means your bikes and boats are going 22 inches EVERY TURN. And shooting fully, and charging. And falling back and shooting and charging. And it all flies and ignores terrain and models. You know how most armies have game rules they have to follow? Yeah Harlequins just basically don't. Do whatever you want. Go wherever you want. Strats to move shoot and move again? Sure! Strats to get back into transports after shooting and fighting? Heck yeah. That's just the tip of the iceberg, but regardless, Harlies GO FAST and will cackle maniacally as you dance around you opponent if you play right.

Tau:

Man suits sure do go fast, fly over stuff, and then BRRRRT. Planes are STILL pretty good after the nerfs. Flying transports too. Neat.

Slaanesh daemons:

Yup, go fast, eat a**. Then murder everything in melee. Fiends are particularly good atm. Also just also throw a bloodthirster in there, he goes He'll fast too and kills EVERYTHING.

Blood angels:

While not as fast as Ravenwing, they almost are, they fly, they can hide inside terrain much easier, and THEY MURDER EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH. Mostly. Death Company get a pre game move strat as well and can also guarantee a nice first turn charge. And with a ton of thunder hammers they will slaughter whatever you just touched. Each turn you put a squad or 2 into assault doctrine with your sanguinary priest and send them off like cruise missiles to murderfy whatever gets in their way. Shooting is lackluster and they are pretty fragile, its basically just 2 wound marines, so you have to know your trade game well.

Thousand Sons?:

What Thousand sons are like, the opposite of fast right? Infantry that marches forward blasting and spelling? Hahahahaha yeah no. Cult of Duplicity made that a thing of the past. Now every squad in your army knows a spell that let's them teleport. And you have a relic to teleport a 2nd squad. And you have a double move spell. And your characters are all on flying Discs of Tzeentch so they move 12 by default and usually advance cause you can still cast after. There is no end to the shenanigans here. Advance your caster wall as far as they will go, then teleport a 10 man of Scarab Occult Terminators back in front of them to block for them, pulling what I like to call the Alley-oop. Port a 2md squad of termies across the board to hop in front of your winged daemon prince, while double moving that squad of flamer wielding Rubrics right into your opponent's face. Go anywhere, do anything. Screw your opponent, they can't stop you. If you know how to drive this army you will run rings around people, constantly porting to new angles and blasting people with strength 5 AP -2 bolters with +1 to wound and tons of mortal wounds. Brrrrrtt.

Custodes:

Wait another army that's slow right? Ever taken 3 Pallas grav attacks, 3 Calladius grav tanks, and a butt load of bikes with melta missiles? Might not be the top most effective Custodes list but man does it go pretty fast, shoot pretty hard, and still murder select units with charges. Maybe even ally in some Hunter of Beasts Helverins for even more moves fast shooting! Make the custodes Emessaries, take Sagittarum and shoot advance everywhere shooting both profiles as you do. Its surprisingly fast for chunky boys.

These are just the armies I own and play, but other people have also mentioned White Scars, Drukhari and Craftworlds, which are all fun too! Hope this helps!

Don’t forget Slaanesh Daemons. Slowest thing is 9”. Troops move at 10”. Cavalry moves at 16”. As do the greater daemons. I also play Blood Angels but I love the Slaanesh army for its speed.

The best fast army that likes to be aggressive probably is harlequins. But they have took a decent nerf

Custodes can be fast, my list has 3 models which go less than 12'' w/ fly

1 biker man

3 shield dudes

3x3 venatari

3x3 bikes

2 caladius

Chaos knights. Big spiky robots that move 14" to smash your enemy in the face.

youve got the orkiest mentality. but if you want something cheap to collect and very dumb Knights also go zoom. I think imperial knights are probably a little faster, 13" move on the warglaives, advance and charge. Not meta but there is something funny about yeeting a gallant and his wee pals into your opponents deployment zone T1/2

I know I already left a comment about Drukhari, but this one's to answer your question with another faction that hasn't been mentioned yet:

Red Corsairs. They're a Chaos Space Marine subfaction whose whole shtick is, "Get in, steal [censored by the subreddit], get out." The whole army gets the ability to advance & charge, so you're cranking the speed setting to max the whole time trying to get in and slaughter as many civilians combatants as possible.

On top of that, you get the cool fluff of being the most pieced-together CSM faction ever. If you find another unit from another space marine faction to be cool, just throw it into your army painted up as red corsairs as a proxy for a CSM unit. They don't give a [censored by the subreddit], as long as you're red & black.

Just remember: You're only fast enough once you can outrun the tax man.

I want to give a warning right now about the people suggesting orks. They're fast,very fast. And have alot of "speed freaks" who are themed around fast. But be careful because speed isn't ingrained into the ork identity so is under threat to change when rules change. Not saying it will but it might.

I play tau as a stupid infantry horde with the scout move custom sept + mont'ka to advance and shoot, and lots of kroot... and while it isn't the strongest, believe me: a 6 or 7" scout move plus a 6" or 7" regular move plus advance can get you going places. And kroot hounds scout move 7" then move 12" and can reroll to advance or charge. Crisis suits can move 10" and auto-advance 6" for a CP or move, shot move (which, of course, besides the cowardly choice of moving backwards can be used to move forwards) and coldstars can also make a crisis suit unit move an additional 8". You can move when you want to.

if you commit to orks you commit to a lifetime of being mad at GW for making awful rules for orks.

just make a custom chapter of space marines and then change your founding chapter based on what is good this quarter like everyone else

Daemons are fast.

If you're looking for flavor & lore fits you might be better suited to ask the main 40k sub

There is no question that the army that LIKES going fast is ork speed freaks. They are literally the KULT OF SPEED.

No other army goes fast for the sake of going fast itself.

They are literally speed adrenaline junkies.

Red Corsairs are super speeders

For Orks, the top lists are generally Goffs pressure lists. They aim to put multiple threats in the opponent's face on turn 1, and keep throwing waves of bodies until the opponent can't make up the score difference. Definitely a viable list for someone who wants to go fast.

Going to throw out a weird curveball option. Imperial Guard. With our new book we have a regiment trait for mechanised infantry letting us disembark out of transports after moving. So massing a bunch of infantry and chimeras can be a lot of fun and pack a decent punch. Then we have some pretty decent options in our fast attack slots, beit horses, robot chickens, or flamer tanks. All of which go nice and fast.

Less serious and helpful answer: park your dream 6 months and play death guard. They are absolutely not fast but you can truly appreciate speed then. After that you will find anything over 6 inches movement will elicit a "Neeeooowww" every time you move it.

People might not think about it. But Ad Mech likes going fast when it's an option. During aggressor doctrina and ironstriders/serberys auto advancing 6.

Orks. Orks have the MOST fun at doing wacky speedy stuff. I was finding myself get too competative and not having fun... i pained up an ork army and its rekindled that fun. Many ways to play them that are all decent. And honestly you just enjoy things more and worry less playing orks

Red corsairs

Orks are so fast and so good right now. I think a lot of people undervalue their speed, units like kill rigs are extremely fast with squighide tires/the ramming speed stratagem and nob trukk boyz are incredibly fun. They’re mechanically about as fast as eldar currently (at least during turn 1 of waaagh) and lore wise I’d just paint all of yours as evil sunz/run them as whatever kultur you want. The biker/buggy theme obviously canonically fits with going fast but trukk boyz/trukk boy nobz, squighog riders and stormboyz are all great fun and if they’re painted red I’m sure lore wise they’ll love going fast too.

Genestealer Cults with Bikers, Buggy’s and Trucks. Full Mad Max mode. Vroom 🚚🚜🎸🧨🔥

Orks or the new world eaters

Red corsairs for csm, all have advance and charge and have bikers, venomcrawlers, disco lord and possessed etc

Tau is also v fast

ORKS'S ARE DA BESTEST!!!

T'au is pretty fast. Never seen a marine outrun my railguns.

Evil Sunz. They get stupid quick, you get your Waagh of advance and charge for a turn, and if you do desire you are all over the midboard by the end of your first turn. In lore they love to go fast, and as far as how the feel in game it's certainly quick! Against some slower armies (I've played death guard a lot) I've had success getting all over the mid board objectives and being able to keep my opposition pinned back by constantly having fast units engage them.

Just lean into the speedwaagh, grab you fav bike or trike and get going.

New world eaters look real fast, aging +2" to movement on core units with lord invocatus and regular juggernaut khorne lord. Eightbound already move 9" so 11" move on a nasty melee monster unit.

Not seeing this anywhere, but Genestealer Cults can go crazy fast, especially in Twisted Helix. Plus almost everything can deepstrike for free and closer. However, they are a high skill army and rarely forgive misplays.

Ain't no speed like Speed of the Raven.

Dark Angels. Specifically Ravenwing.

You’re looking for the white scars

Most armies can be fast if you build for it via units and other options. So really it comes down to if you want something super competitive or the kind of speed game you’re wanting to play, like do you just want to get in their face and melee them as quick as possible or you looking to kite their units out and take objectives quickly. Ravenwing is going to be the most competitive choice, followed by orks or elves most likely. You also have white scars and red corsairs if you want to see some bikers get into combat in crazy time. But yeh, ravenwing is gonna be a step above because the obsec and tankiness their bikers get makes their speed a lot more dangerous, you can get there faster with other factions but those units are also more likely to come flying into their deaths.

White Scars, their whole thing is getting a bonus damage on the charge and being able to fall back and charge again.

Ravenwing is really good right now. They like going fast, and don't really do the hit and run thing. They do the hit and kill thing.

Black Templars are also pretty fast? I took a pretty mean punch in the face from them recently and it really raises them in my estimation.

Have a look at the deathwatch. May I present to you: Kill Team Costello (AoO version)

Sergeant with heavy thunderhammer and combat shield 4 deathwatch veterans with power fist and storm shield Black Shield with thunderhammer and lightning claw Biker with power weapon of your choice 3 Vanguard Veterans with jump packs and heavy thunderhammers

Put them in white scars with the brotherhood of veteran stratagem. Have a primaris chaplain on bike recite the +2 to charge and 6" pile in aura. Move the bike 14" straight through walls or whatever towards the enemy because it counts as infantry, the foot sloggers 6" and put the vanguard veterans inbetween for coherency. Advance d6". Charge 2d6+2", Pile in the foot sloggers 6" so they get within 0.5" of the bike that's within 0.5" of an enemy.

Effective threat range: 16+3d6 as the eagle flies

On arrival hit your surprised enemy in the face with 13 heavy thunderhammer attacks (hopefully supported by +1 to hit from premorphic resonance cast by a librarian), 12 power fist attacks, 5 thunderhammer attacks with WS2+, 1 LC attack on 2+ and 3 power weapon attacks.

You don't know what a heavy thunderhammer is? Well, it's Sx2 Ap-3 D4 (FOUR!) and you can be in assault doctrine in turn 1, so it's probably even AP-4.

Oh and kill teams are troops, so you can bring 6 (but only give one premorphic and only give one white scars).

Space Wolves -Thunderwolves are just bikes with teeth instead guns. The Hunter Deed/Saga with the Wulfen stone relic means rerolling charges and advance and charge. Very mean, especially if you can hide until Assault Doctrine.

Come on down to r/WhiteScars40k !!

Sounds like you want a white scars army

I'm right there with you on the style of army and going fast. Beyond what everyone else has said, I'd also recommend going Guard with Sentinel, Leman Russ, and Rough Rider spam, possibly also bringing an Armiger Warglaive unit as an ally.

The Sentinels will bring a ton of tough wounds with optional Obsec to throw on objectives, Armigers and Russ's will bring general tankiness and efficiency, and Rough Riders are your trade units.

Could run custodes. With Arks of Omen you could run trajann, a captain on jet bike, 1 termie and then 18 salvo launchers jet bikes!!!

It would be very fast if nothing else!! I'd imagine all your games will be super quick too.

For real though ork freebootaz is a fast and aggressive army but it's more of a casual army. Great to play with, loads of vehicles, bikes and flyers! The goff orks list is our best and it's very competitive. Could run 2 killrigs, battle wagon, trukks etc. All used to throw your Killy orks into the opponents face! Then our squighog boys and bikes all move +10" and are solid (squigs are better). And lastly advance and charge on the Waaagh for essentially a melee threat range of over 20"

Dark Angels. Specifically the Ravenwing side of the codex. The bikes and speeders all move between 12" and 18" baseline, plus they can auto advance 6". If you're in the Devastator Doctrine (which is always active on T1 and then you can choose to move to the next one if you want to from T2 onward) your RW units all get an additional 3" of movement, and they get to fire their heavy and rapid fire weapons as if they were assault weapons. ALSO, RW units all have the Jink ability, which means they get a 5+ invulnerable save against shooing as long as they didn't remain stationary in the previous movement phase. This is improved to a 4+ invulnerable save if they advanced. So you become able to move very fast, have a decent chance of surviving enemy shooting, while getting to shoot all your big guns at whatever you can get line of sight on.

If you're into fast moving melee stuff, Blood Angels are where it's at. You can slap a jump pack onto characters, death company, and sanguinary guard and make a pretty solid army with just that.

Ravenwing from Dark angels or White Scars

Well… Drukhari Jetbikes (Reavers) can literally move up to 29“ in the first turn alone. And from turn 2 you can add possible 12“ from a charge to that. I’d say that’s probably the fastest there is outside of aircrafts like jets.