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Sisters: Dominions

Necrons: Tomb Spyders

Chaos: Thousand Sons

For CSM: Rubrics, Ahriman, Obliterators and a Heldrake

For Chaos Daemons: At the moment, Pink Horrors are the main fixture of my lists.

It might be hard to tell, but I quite like Tzeentch...

Salamanders: assault marines with 2 flamers and vulkan always make it into my lists. And drop pods I guess.

CSM : Core Units - Fire Raptor
Cultists
Disposable HQ or Be'Lakor


Then fill the rest of my army with everything I can from either Daemons or Heretics or simply take my CSM as an allied detachment and not bother with it as a primary at all.

For my guard it's always,

2 min squads of veterans,

CCS, at least at bear bones level.

At least one chimera.

At least one valkaye.

I always start with the Trukks, decide what to fill em with for the coming battle and then flesh out the army from there.

SOB is

1) Celestine. She is the basis for every sister's list AKAIC
2) Dominions: I play super in your face and these ladies are the best shotgun unit outside the astartes
3) Exorcists: Random as hell but usually come through when it's clutch. D6 S8 AP 1 at 48" is no goddam joke.

Space Marines

1) Literally anything grav
2) Seriously Grav is life
3) I like bike command squad...with grav.

I like the look of the (old) stealth suits and the Ghostkeel, so I run the OSC in nearly all my armies.

Before I start I would like to emphasize
that I play in a very competitive meta and I know most people would call me the scum of the Earth if I rocked up with this to a random game in a FLGS...

So before, I loved to bring 3 Crimson Hunters and an Exarch, Crimson Death formation if it was allowed or 3 separate FA slots if not. They look amazing and vector dancing was just too much fun to pass up (looking forward to the new supplement BTW!)

And then Tau happened...

So with some of my regular opponents using interceptor/Skyfire Riptides, Stormsurges and now Supremacy suits, or Whitescar/DA alpha strike marines I usually run 15-18 Windrider Guardians with scatter lasers, scouting Wraithguard in wave serpents and a Seer Council being led by 2-4 Farseers.

Obviously this gets toned down heavily for non-competitive/ non-league games.

My two squads of Sternguard in Drop Pods and my Bolter Scouts in Land Speeder Storms.

The Bolter Scouts/LSS were the first unit that I had completely finished that ever showed up on the table. They have been in nearly every list that I have ever ran for my Crimson Fists. It is what keeps me from running a Gladius/Sternhammer at this time, since I wouldn't have room for them.

The Sternguard are my workhorse unit. They are ObSec and between their Combi-Meltas and Special Ammo, they can deal with most everything I throw them at.

2-3 units of plague marines. Even though they are not the killiest, they usually last longer than anything else, since the enemy focuses on other things he can actually kill.

With Renegades, I just about always bring some sort of artillery. It is super cheap, and super deadly. Mostly I choose a max Rapier laser destroyer battery. It kills vehicles dead! Point and click one dead vehicle (outside crazy jinks) a turn lets the rest of my army do whatever I want.

Other than that, Plague zombies. Lately I find myself bringing a core of a plague zombie blob, usually a single unit of 30 or 40. Big enough to completely block anything from charging the rest of my army until I choose to let it, or 2-3 turns of pile in has happened. Or it serves as the ultimate tarpit. Victims include:
* Riptide squadron
* TWC deathball unit
* Multiple assault marine units in one charge
* 2 TDA units at once
* A dreadnought, 2 tactical marine units
You get close to the blob, it charges, you never leave combat!

Kantor sternguard drop pods and 2 5 man tac squads in rhinos. I have my squads set up in set point loadouts so I can add by increasing a squad and still be in normal game points range for around here.

Crisis. I only have 10 of them, though.

I... NEED... MORE... CRISIS!

Flamers of tzeench.. unless im doing a fluffy list i always have at least 2 units of 4-6 each. I find that they are an excellent fast unit that is really good at hoard controll and even dealing with small elite squads though pure amount of hits/wounds.

No real core.

I try to make all of my units completely disposable.

For my Ultras? Two 15 man tactical squads. They are the anvil for the rest of the army's hammer.

My Dark Angels are a mostly Deathwing force, so two to four units of Deathwing, plus some Deathwing Knightts. I almost always take my Deathwing painted Dreadnought in a Drop Pod.

My Sisters army's main units are two large Battle Sister squads, but the most important is probably one to three Seraphim squads, as my Dominion are catastrophically unlucky (can't roll a 3+ save for them, ever).

My Black Templars lists start with an Emperor's Champion. Always.

My ork lists start with Two 30-boy squads.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Tactical squads. Big, 20-man tactical squads.

They do their jobs and they hold objectives.

Are you sure you are still playing 40k, Ash?

4 squads of 10 Grey Hunters, two units of Long Fangs. Not fancy or flashy, but it works.

Space Marine Scouts for me, all shapes and sizes, but generally some snipers and then a couple of squads in speeders causing all sorts of shenanigans.

For my Imperial Fists there is always the same initial core build.
1st Tac squad is 10 man, No helmets, with one Missile and one Plasma gun, Sgt with combi Flamer(included Rhino is points allow)
2nd Tac squad is 10 man, all helms with the skull, with one Multi-melta, one Melta, and Sgt with a bolt pistol and Chainsword. (included Rhino if points allow)
My final must include for my Imperial Fists is a Thunderfire cannon. (included Drop pod if points allow)

Cardboard cutouts. Because I can't be bothered to paint an army which I'll remove half off in the first turn when facing the imba units

Flesh hounds, maulerfiends, bikers, D-thirster. The rest I switch around. Sometimes spawn, cultists, bloodletters, heldrakes, and allies of various sorts get mixed and matched. 12" movement units are a must for me.

NECRONS:

Decurion. Need I say more?

But in all honesty I have grown to love my lychguard. I run them with warscythe and my overlord with a veil of darkness. There's really nothing special about them but they've always done good by me, and I've never missed on the scatter dice with them on my veil of darkness.

Renegades: Zombies, laser destroyers, quad launchers

Corsairs: Jetbikes, lynx, venoms

CSM: fire raptor or sicarans

Tyranids: Flyrants... I wish it were Genestealers
Dark Eldar/Corsairs: Reaver Jetbikes
Necrons: Heavy Destroyers
Chaos: Chosen
Ultramarines: Tyrannic War Veterans
Astral Claws: Honour Guard
Blood Angels: Vanguard Veterans

I did say jetbikes and the like but recently my core has changed to 10-20 Wraithblades...didn't see that coming did ya

BloodThirster, The idea of a CC monster with a BS10 whip! highly amusing to me
CSM(flamer) in a rhino(havoc launcher) joined by a lord. This group usually doesn't make its points back but always has fresh recruits from its homeworld. Its Lords are strangely promoted to daemon princes. It is considered an honor to serve in this squad and witness khorne's miracles. BFTBG
Soul Grinder, I wasn't sold on this unit until a freind of mine loaned me one. The amount of utility it wields is astounding and i had to get my own.