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Hi

To start with I've never been a huge fan of super heavies. But I got one from my friends at birthday and I must say it have grown on me and I'm really excited now to build and paint it. Problem is I don't know which one to choose from. My army is roughly 5000pts and infantry heavy and is usually up against Marines and Necrons, in rare cases Orks. I will summaries it shortly for you:

100 Guards
100 Conscripts
3 Leman russ
3 Bassilisk
4 Veterans (equiped with total of 6 plasmas 6 meltas)
6 chimeras
3 Sentinels (2 autocannons, 1 Plasma)
1 Hellhound
1 Valkyria or Vandetta
15 Stormtroopers
15 Mortar teams
10 Ratlings
3 Lascannon teams
2 heavy Bolter and 1 Autocannon teams
9 Wyrdvayne Psykers

This is accompanied with options for additional meltas, commissars and of course CCS and PCS to lead them. I will soon also add in some Ogryns and 2 Engineseers.

To my question what super heavy to take?

Stormlord- Might be my favourite; 40men transport capacity anti marine fortress. Sounds really nice and fun but no pie plates :(

Shadowsword- would be fun to use a weapon with D strenght. A great defence if a friend someday turns up with a monster of their own.

Baneblade- Lots of firepower which I think I'm in need of. Good against almost everything from hordes to armour.

And a second question. Any suggestion for my next project? A Deathstrike would be fun or a squadron of Plasma Russes? I usually lack a good punch in my army.

Thanks for inputs.

//Albin

Shadowsword.

The answer is always Shadowsword.

Unless you're looking for an Assault Vehicle. Then the answer is Shadowsword and Friend.

My vote goes to the original badass, the Baneblade.

The stormsword is my favourite Baneblade variant. Also, its really easy to magnatize the volcano cannon/siege gun barrels to turn it into a shadowsword whenever you fancy.

Doomhammer for a few reasons.

1. It's rarer (on the tabletop at least)
2. Has a strong cannon (not quite as strong as the Shadowsword's)
3. Has transport capability (not quite as much as the stormlord)
4. Looks awesome.

I don't have the pleasure of owning one (yet!) but I've long had my eyes set on the Stormsword or even the Doomhammer.

Build the model to be customizable, so you can switch around main cannons, sponson weapons, and also the "build", so transport/non transport variants and hull mounted/turret mounted main cannons. You can do this mostly with magnets. So don't build a single variant, build all of them.

Baneblade is best all rounder. Depends on aim but its a solid tank with capacity to take on most foes.

Just less specialised than the others

Thanks for all input. Would like some more suggestions and consider what works well with my army.

Zsolt wrote:
Build the model to be customizable, so you can switch around main cannons, sponson weapons, and also the "build", so transport/non transport variants and hull mounted/turret mounted main cannons. You can do this mostly with magnets. So don't build a single variant, build all of them.

It seems hard to magnetize all of them. Sure some will work well but seems hard to combine the variants with hull mounted turrets with the 360 turrets. Also the hull mounted turret is positioned differently. Sure I can magnetise all parts but it will not be easy to use it.

I also thinking of building some kind of terrain/fortification with the spare parts.

 alanmckenzie wrote:
The stormsword is my favourite Baneblade variant. Also, its really easy to magnatize the volcano cannon/siege gun barrels to turn it into a shadowsword whenever you fancy.

That is a good point. No one can hide from the Stormsword.

I think the Stormlord looks really good and is more fun to play with and not as OP as the Baneblade, I have a friend though that need some serious ass whopping. But the shadowsword is a really nice model as well. I guess a Baneblade will blast pretty much everything in a 2000pts match? some with field experience with it? And the Stormlord?

If there was one with transport capacity, Strenght D and Apocalyptic blast I would be happy

//Albin