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Hello all. Now I'm not asking for the overall best army currently is cause I don't really care as much about that. While I do want a "winning" army I want it because I am mainly winning my way. In glorious slaughter by killing everything. Objectives don't care.
I want to pulp all my opponents forces into salsa. Now I know that certain lists for most armies can do this to varying degrees but I want to know whose army is generally geared for it the most. I am going to be picking a new army as I get back into the game and this is what I want to know before I start.

Tir Mcdoul wrote:
Hello all. Now I'm not asking for the overall best army currently is cause I don't really care as much about that. While I do want a "winning" army I want it because I am mainly winning my way. In glorious slaughter by killing everything. Objectives don't care.
I want to pulp all my opponents forces into salsa. Now I know that certain lists for most armies can do this to varying degrees but I want to know whose army is generally geared for it the most. I am going to be picking a new army as I get back into the game and this is what I want to know before I start.

Orks

Really? I have played vs many Ork players. Its a popular army here as about 8 times out of 10 I have tabled them. usually within the first 2 or 3 rounds. Now not saying they are not aggressive but they don't seem to have the slaughter part down very well.

Tir Mcdoul wrote:
Really? I have played vs many Ork players. Its a popular army here as about 8 times out of 10 I have tabled them. usually within the first 2 or 3 rounds. Now not saying they are not aggressive but they don't seem to have the slaughter part down very well.

Check out the new codex and the new supplements.

Warboss on bike with lucky stikk, painboy on bike, bunch of war bikers with them.
Then spam trukks with boys and a pk/boss pole nob, add a set of tankbustas in a trukk, and a couple loota units. No upgrades on any vehicle. Should be points left in a 2k list for a couple deff koptas or something.

On deployment, line up like you're at the races, and go forward at max speed. Bike unit and any trukks' units that make it through a turn of flak should be able to assault, especially with a waaagh!! activated.

Take normal cad for objective secured just in case. Place objective in middle of table. Use empty OS trukks to park on them late game.

Borrowed my friend's orks a few times, and this is what I came up with. So far, it's tabled everything AND held many objectives. Great at maelstrom.

Try that out and see if that's not more what you're looking for.

Daemons can be super aggressive with builds revolving around multiple units of Herald-led Hounds/Seekers, Karanak-led 'Curshers, some summoning to bring in added bodies, Telepathy for Invis abuses...

A LoC w/Boomstick + re-rolled 2++ can savage pretty much everything short of a Knight in combat as well.

Dark Eldar are super aggressive too. Gotta kill everything before our cardboard boxes melt. Love to play them.

Necron warrior spam with ghost arks and res orbs. Just plain mean and tons of fun haha

Tir Mcdoul wrote:
Really? I have played vs many Ork players. Its a popular army here as about 8 times out of 10 I have tabled them. usually within the first 2 or 3 rounds. Now not saying they are not aggressive but they don't seem to have the slaughter part down very well.

No offense to your local meta, but you are either ace-captain-super-pro-am-top-notch-military-genius player, or your opponents just don't know how to play Orks (it is a confusing army to play, to be fair). The Ork codex is just about as good as any other codex this side south of Eldar, and can be devastating in the right hands.

You could definitely go with orks but you could also do one of two marine lists either drop pod vulkan/armies or a full biker army I think either are fun to play for the aggressive style

To your question, and how you put it, I'd say Imperial Knights.

Space Wolves. A couple units of TWC with FW screening them for some utter carnage.

Rushing forward and chopping stuff to bits aggressive or flying around and drowning everything in dakka aggressive?

You can also try chaos sm I had real fun with all da depstriking and biker lord + spawn . Or spacemarine biker and centurion. And if you ready to sweat and go hard mode orks ( I just love orks ) but mobile csm army was way esier to play with!

Depends what you mean by aggressive. By and large if you want absurd firepower and in your faceness, I'd take Eldar. If you just want in your face aggression, SW all the way. BA are also on that list, but due to changes in the game, they're pretty sour until their new codex comes out.

Unbound Greater Daemons.

FTW (and I don't mean "for the win" here)

 jasper76 wrote:

Tir Mcdoul wrote:
Really? I have played vs many Ork players. Its a popular army here as about 8 times out of 10 I have tabled them. usually within the first 2 or 3 rounds. Now not saying they are not aggressive but they don't seem to have the slaughter part down very well.

No offense to your local meta, but you are either ace-captain-super-pro-am-top-notch-military-genius player, or your opponents just don't know how to play Orks (it is a confusing army to play, to be fair). The Ork codex is just about as good as any other codex this side south of Eldar, and can be devastating in the right hands.

None taken. I am a mediocre player having played a lot in 3rd/4th edition a little in 5th none in 6th. The players with Orks are relatively new to the game but the fact that the last battle we played they failed to inflict even a single wound on any of my guys has kinda colored my impression.

Orks require to have a focused army.

Well, all assault based armies of course and particularly all cc units out there.
In particular, this concerns Orks, Nids, and Daemons.

My Karanak/Bloodcrusher unit has a reputation for wiping entire space marine units before they can even strike back.

Eldar, outside Davu and Wraiths, are aggressive but careful. Full frontal aggression gets them killed.

What do you currently play? Tau?

My first thought is that Nids are probably the right army for you.

If you're winning so many of your games (>60%), you probably don't need to worry about competitiveness.

Orks have basically always been the most overpowered army in the game. It's not fun moving 200 models around the table though.

Full drop pod space marine is much more relaxed - super aggressive - and also one of the most versatile armies in the game.

No one says Nids? What about there swarm?
I mean ,run at your enemis and drown them in bodys tactic.

Well, definitely Nids and Orkd, but also Daemons with fast moving units.
Playing this way often has a flaw since the units move at different speed and thus hit the enemy front ranks at different turns, making it the enemy easier to deal with them.

Aggressiveness is a philosophy; you can accomplish it with most any force. Pick fast units, units with Deep Strike, and favour Assault weapons over Heavy weapons and play it aggressively and you will have an aggressive force.

Drop Pod Space Wolves, Ravenwing, White Scars, drop-oriented Daemons, and Speed Freeks off the top of my head, though the list is much longer.

I have a very powerful aggressive army. It doesn't work too well on the defence or messing about.

The best way to win is to literally take as many special weapons and extra bodies as you can and shove them down the enemy's throat. You want to ideally end up about 2-6" away from the enemy before unleashing maximum firepower and shredding, incinerating or outright melting everything that stands in your way.

Daemons flying circuis is incredibly aggressive.

Daemons with a focus on slaanesh infantry and cavalry have to be aggressive to work, but if done right, work it does.

 Xenomancers wrote:
Orks have basically always been the most overpowered army in the game. It's not fun moving 200 models around the table though.

Full drop pod space marine is much more relaxed - super aggressive - and also one of the most versatile armies in the game.

Orks? Overpowered? Wut?

Though I have to disagree on moving a lot of models. I get a thrill moving so many dudes around. I also love the looks on people's faces when they see how many guys they have to wipe off the board. Some players feel overwhelmed and play sloppy. But my favorite opponent is the one who grins as I set all of them up, and high fives because he gets a chance to paste as many greenies as he possibly can. Some people even enjoy helping move em. It's not often the more elite army players get a chance to move so many dudes, and it can be really fun and enthralling.

Orks are da best!

Play Deamons.

They're basically just Orks but better.