What would you say is your favourite unit in the game, excluding FW units and named characters?

Deathwing Terminators

They look awesome and being able to field an army of the best of the best infantry in the game is what got me playing 40k 12 years ago. No matter how weak they are depending on the edition, I always try to work a squad or two into my list.

Intensely tough question! There are so many good choices.

Right now I'd say Kaballites, but Sternguard are a top choice as well. Assault Termies would also have to top my list. But if I only get one, it's going to have to go to the Inquisitorial Warband. So much diversity! So much opportunity for horror!

Leman Russ executioner. It will never fail to impress.

I love the noise marines fluff/artwork/and their painting theme. Absolutely beautiful models.
I love the Deathwing too. They are Badass.
Though due to my love for chaos models apart from unit specific, I find anything painted in the Night Lords theme lovely!

Swooping Hawks.

So much utility and they can be so annoying for my opponents. The models are a bit meh, but they are so enjoyable to use that I just love fielding them.

To hell with the no FW restriction.

Death Korps Grenadiers, first models I had, pretty at that, average rules, but I really like the idea of veteran guardsmen with guns that punch through Power Armor like its not even there. Always the ones to lead a Kriegsmen charge, not meant to survive but at least 20% does.

SAG Big Mek for me.

No-one else gets a man portable ordinance wormhole generator that shoots small goblins through hell with a vacuum cleaner attachment....

No-one else would WANT one, but that's beside the point....

Failing that, Battlewagon. I just love that kit, and the conversion possibilities.... they do well for me in play too...

Annihilation Barges.

Ravenwing hands down. Truly the most bad ass biker gang in the galaxy. White scars who?

Carnifex. Never leave home without it.

The humble Imperial Guard Infantry Squad.
Line them up against a squad of anything else in the game and they're more than likely to end up on the bottom of the matchup, but it's clear which side has more intestinal fortitude. Guardsmen die standing.
Also, combined squads are cool...

Actually against me DE they generally die running away, shivved in the back...

But i do agree with your point. Ordinary men with balls of adamant are very very cool. Trying to resist collecting a Guard army next

Chaos Terminators.

Take an über-badass Space Marine, give him super-armour, and then give him spikes.

Carnifex, whatever you need it provides.

Wow, this is a tough question...

Uh, well.

I'd have to see I really like the Necron Overlord models. They have that elegance and poise attached to them, a long with a the fear they impose of going up against a 9 ft tall homicidal robot.

Most of the Necron range are pretty awesome.. aesthetically for me.

As for competitive choice, that always impresses, the humble annihilation barge. Nothing beats rolling 9 hits from a single volley, of a single weapon.


I know you said no Forgeworld, but I also really like the Nightshroud and Tesseract Ark. Both of them aesthetically, and the Tesseract Ark is pretty awesome competitively.

Seraphim.

For me, there are two contenders for the 1st place:
- Noise Marines: rock/metal-playing drug-addicts with awesome paint scheme and bass cannons. What's not to like?
- Chaos Terminators: small, bipedal tanks with intimidating tusks and lots of very nasty weaponry.

Vanquisher Command Tanks.

I'll say Dominions. Five scouting meltas that ignore cover can do a lot of good. Their fluff is cool too.

Also, with this Escalation and Stronghold business starting up, they're more important than ever to help an SoB army succeed, it seems.

Based on only of played my first 2 games of 40k in the last few days -

1. My Big Mek with KFF - Gotta love always rolling 5s and 6s
2. Lootaz with Deffgunz, lots n lots of Deffgunz

My Lord of Change.


Change we can believe in.

Modelwise: Sternguard Veternas

Gamewise: Sternguard Veterans 5th edition

BEASTS OF NURGLE! Attention starved puppies who hug people to death!

Ogyrns.

Lictors, no matter how hard GW nerf them in every codex, the models I will never not have a soft spot for. Plus the fluff about them is brilliant, brutal assassins that could be 2 meters away from you and you wouldn't even know they were there. Plus feeder tendrils, those things are just nasty

Tau Fire Warriors. I always bring all my Fire Warriors when laying my Tau, 3 max groups. They can deal with most targets in the game, Not all, but most.

spartiatis wrote:
Modelwise: Sternguard Veternas

Gamewise: Sternguard Veterans 5th edition

This. . With the addition of 5th ed Lysander ( gotta love Bolter Drill on Vengeance rounds,but thats gone now ).

I've only got 1 army at the moment (Tau) so my functionality choice has to goto the Riptide but I decided to collect them because I like the way Fire Warriors look and wanted a whole mess of them. More specifically I'd have to go with Cadre Fireblade.

The next army I collect is going to be Tyranids (as soon as the new codex drops) because I think almost all their models look awesome.

I have to go with reaver jetbikes, they have a cool background, awsome models and they are fun to use in games, what could be more fun than beheading people at hypersonic velocities?

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Guardsmen die standing.

Or they fall off the board because of failed morale checks.

Anyways, Space Marine Chapter Master. Just because melee rape train with orbital bombardment.

Obviously, the CRASSUS ARMOURED TRANSPORT.

Tough question...

But I'd say ratlings, I never leave home without my inbred space midgets , other than that, the normal infantry platoon for guard, everything beats them in a straight up match most of the time, but balls of steel they have .

A trygon, especially if it's a prime.

Lookswise it's a draw between the Dark Vengance Chosen and the new Sternguard.

Gamewise it's a win for the sternguard. They served me well.

Game wise its my Dire Avengers. I find my 10 man squads with PW/SS have served me so well. I also dig they way they look.
The model I always pick up and want to play the most are my Striking Scorpions. I love how they look. My absolute favorite GW model. Game wise however not so much. Hard to field a S3 T3 assault unit in 6th.

okay, Im gonna go out and say Ork Kommandos.

Not necessarily in game-terms, but fluff, application, and models. I love the Blood Axe tribe, and when I play orks, I always include a full unit of Kommandos.

 ChakLong wrote:

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Guardsmen die standing.

Or they fall off the board because of failed morale checks.

Personally I don't roll morale for shooting casualties, so I don't know what you're talking about.

Commisar. True symobl of IoM.

My favourite unit is my Storm Eagle. I think it looks cute and it is about the only flyer my SW can field.

Daemon Prince. I absolutely adore to model, and has taken me from playing C:CSM to C:CD Tzeentch flying circus. I have a very vivid imagination and when he gets into combat with a squad of Fire Warriors (my main buddy plays Tau exclusively) I just imagine him ripping apart the entire squad one by one... It's very therapeutic.

My favorit is without a doubt my Grey Hunters, no other unit has ever come close to rak up the amount of kills these lads have done.

Master of Ordinance - That boy has knocked out tanks, squads of infantry and buildings, its very fun to call in indirect fire at will

In terms of actual physical model, Grey Knight Terminators.

In terms of gameplay, either Sternguard or Broadsides.

Combination of both, Plague Marines.

Sternguards. They have a lot of options, are fun to make and are totally badass

Ravenwing Black Knights!

Models: DV CSM Chosen

Fluff: Deathwing. The best of the best of the best.

In game: IG infantry Platoon. Not only sheer versatility and the awesome feel that others have mentioned, but if anyone else who can being a troops choice with a potential of 15+ heavy and special weapons, 100+ bodies and more small arms than you can shake a bayonet at, all in one FOC slot, I'd like to see it....

Before drowning it in Guardsmen bodies...

Those Ork Cheerleaders which cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

For cool, looks, and overall love factor, I would have to say Deathwing Terminators. They are the reason I play Dark Angels. But they are also incredibly mediocre.

In terms of favorite unit, I would probably say burna boyz. I tend not to field them a lot right now, but I used to have a great time. They have resulted in some of the most overkill hilarious moments I have ever had.

Tie between Farseers and Tac Marines. For both fluff and gameplay.

 tomball0706 wrote:
Lictors, no matter how hard GW nerf them in every codex, the models I will never not have a soft spot for. Plus the fluff about them is brilliant, brutal assassins that could be 2 meters away from you and you wouldn't even know they were there. Plus feeder tendrils, those things are just nasty

Lictors for me too. Still have my talons crossed that they'll be a good unit a couple of weeks from now. I'll make sure they hit the table from time to time even if they're not, but it would be nice for them to actually be badasses on the board and not just in my head.

The techmarine with the Thunderfire cannon is one of my favorite looking figures ever and their game play isn't too shabby either!

Excorcists. I love those things. They never fail me.

 lobbywatson wrote:
The model I always pick up and want to play the most are my Striking Scorpions. I love how they look. My absolute favorite GW model. Game wise however not so much. Hard to field a S3 T3 assault unit in 6th.

S4...Scorpion Chainsword is +1 S AP6

(And they're going to start looking a lot better in January with bugs coming out.)

Scorpions by far.

If I was in the 40k universe I would aspire to be a Scorpion Exarch. Lost in the way of the shadows.

I also love a 10-man squad of Dire Avengers with PW/SS. They always get the job done and look cool doing it. But my absolute favorite has to be the good old Kabalite Warrior. "Oh you have a T8 wraithknight? Here is some poison in your face"

The only problem I have with Kabbies is I rarely actually get to SEE them on the field.

Chimera (IG troop transport)
An humble tank, but if look great, it's a tough little thing.

I love it.
I have sold model, given armies. But those I keep. Forever

Chaos Lord! Doesn't matter what mark. So versatile and great wargear options.

Ten man squad of Sternguard with eight combi-flamers, two heavy flamers and a LC, led by Chaplain Cassius. Fluff wise, it's awesome, games wise, still awesome. Model wise? I used converted Tyrannic War Veterans, the plastic Sternguard and a converted Chronus, heaped with Tyranid trophies, DW pauldrons, a spare TWV pauldron and some cool scopes and stuff.

Very tough question...
However, I'd have to go with Heralds of Slaanesh, so cheap yet so killy! Make 'em a bit more expensive and bam, you have an assassin that buffs an entire squad!

I would have to say either rail broadsides or rail hammerheads. How do solve your problems? Railgun. What problem?

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The Doom of Malan'tai. I have been destroying people with it regularly recently, in light of the nerf it will most likely get in the new codex.

Personally, I'm hoping/thinking it'll still be usable, though I imagine it'll suffer a steep price increase and that its soul leech power thing will only work in your own shooting phase.

Lychguard. Can't beat the ol' sword and board

Over all: Big Mel w SAG
Fluff: probably Lucius the Eternal


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Or maybe BA DC

 Lucarikx wrote:
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Don't kill me.

Lucarikx

I absolutely love XV15 stealth teams, I field a unit every battle and although Riptides and XV8s are better I just love the models.

For me its the Seer Council in all its flavors, on foot or on jetbkies.

I'm going with sternguard, space marines as they should be!

^^ this. I also like how fluffy the crusader squad is.

Gargoyles

Black Knights and Interrogator-Chaplains!

My newly purchased wolf scouts with sniper rifles! Kit bashed em with some sw heads, what can I say I'm a sniper at heart.

Tyranid Broodlord. For 60 points you get a super genestealer with stats that put some HQs to shame. With 2 free biomancy powers you could have a S8 T8 genestealer or a I10 A7 blender. Plus the model is perfect for a "come at me bro!"

For fluff and models, Eldar Harlequins. Blood thirsty clowns that use sharpened tubes to fill your insides with microscopic razor blades, all while prancing about in a giant cloud of psychoactive drugs. Just way too epic.

For gameplay (breaking the forgeworld restriction here) Eldar Hornets. Becasue WTF OMG 10 POINTS FOR 2 PULSE LASERS? Also being able to fire snap shots even after moving flat out.

Trygon prime, love deep striking an mc.

 Ascalam wrote:
SAG Big Mek for me.

No-one else gets a man portable ordinance wormhole generator that shoots small goblins through hell with a vacuum cleaner attachment....

No-one else would WANT one, but that's beside the point....

Failing that, Battlewagon. I just love that kit, and the conversion possibilities.... they do well for me in play too...

Amen to that!

I've got to go with Thunderwolf Cavalry. Love the models; love what they can do.

Obliterators for me, Hitech saved me from the bizarre leeringfleshyface GW version. They probably get MVP in half my games.

They might have terribly old models that really need a remake, they might be one of the worst units in my codex, they might have the worst psyker table in the game.... but Thousand Sons. The fluff to me is simply that good

I'd say Thousand Sons both in rules and model. First off they look unique compared to every other Marine unit (Chaos or loyalist.) Then they have great rules for bolters and inv saves. Then no matter how you paint them no questions need be asked what they are. I also like the sorta Eqyptian look as well.

Autarch w/Fusion Gun, Laser Lance, Motlg

Twin handflamer wielding Seraphim

To build: XV8s, such a nice model.

Looks: DA vets (not deathwing, the power armour guys). Uselss on the table, such nice models.

Fluff: hammerheads. Tanks that can fly, and possibly the best non-super-mounted anti-tank gun in the game.

Tabletop: the humble sister of battle. FOR THE EMPEROR

C'tan, before they got turned into Pokemon.

Either:

A Legion Praetor with Iron Halo, Archaeotech Pistol, and Paragon Blade; because he's just such a beatstick, and the Paragon Blade's 'murderous strike' rule makes challenges so exciting, which is how they should be.

or

A Legion 20 man Tactical Squad with Vexilla, Apothecary, and Extra CCW's on all of them. I call them my mini-deathstar; they just march across the board engaging tiny units with double-volleys of bolter fire, or drowning them in CC attacks. Oh, and FNP on 20 dudes in Power Armour is so delectable.

I'm going to be boring and say the Humble Tactical Squad. They form the basis of any marine force, can drop in from orbit in drop pods, or roll across the field in a metal box. from a modelling stand point they can be as ornate or plain as their owner desiers and the Veteran Sgt can become a character in his own right.

The new rules make them all the more diverse with the abilty to take spec. and heavy weapons in 5 man squads (why that was ever dropped is beyond me!) and all kinds of ways to customise the Sgt. Plus new chaoter tactics allowing them to scout (Raven Gurad) re-roll 50% of misses (Imperial Fists) or get a FNP save (Iron Hands) makes them one of my favorite units above all else. Never leave home without one.

Throughout the current meta, my favorite unit is the Crisis Suit. Though I do not play Tau, I do love those crisis suits, going so far as to make some for my brother who does play Tau. I just love their versatility.

As for the armies I do own in the current meta (chaos space marines and Necrons), I'd have to say that my favorite unit is the (heavy) destroyer. Been loving those things since 4th ed and though with the new codex I initially dropped them from my list, I recently came back to them. They always have and always will be my babies.

Now, if one asked what has been my favorite unit throughout my time playing 40k, oldcron lord with Nightmare shroud, veil of darkness, and warscythe. That loadout has brought me many a win and even more moments of straight up hilarity (like playing ping pong against a commissar with an IG squad). I wish I could make that loadout in the newcron codex (Despairteks attached to an overlord just isn't the same...)

I have to say it's my Daemon Prince.

He started my army, there's a whole story to it.
In 5th ed he wrecked face so badly I once asked my opponent to redeploy his entire army, and ended up tabling him twice.

I now plan to use him as Be'lakor, 'cause I've gotten sentimental (with opponent's agreement, ofc).

Ork Nobz. The unit has character in spades, awesome models, a powerful set of rules and they fulfill a fun and useful role. I named all mine (along with all other character level models in the army) and took great pleasure in 5th rolling around the place and krumping stuff. When so many models can be relatively faceless, this group of wannabe warbosses stand forth as a bastion of individuality.

Not so keen on the biker version, mainly because I never owned them.

I love the daemon prince (at least CSM version)

Fluff: Deathwatch. Anything Deathwatchy!

Model: New Sternguard Veterans or Cadian Shock Troopers

It's a tie between Seraphim and Basilisks. One descends from heaven with a chorus of angels and burns the unworthy, the other can shoot tables on the other side of the room, and that's funny.

Imperial Fists Chapter tactic devastator's. They have served me well.

Big Mek.
Something about a overexcited Tinkerer who just welds and hammers together his insane creations is just so Orky.

Performance wise deathwing, aesthetically incubi. Going through a dark eldar phase, but i'm pretty average even with my dark angels so not sure if i want to up the difficulty by getting into dark eldar lol

I like the Dreadnought Walkers myself, even though I've never really played around with a proper one. They have good fluff, I like how the have to be deactivated and kept in a storage shrine, and even just the regular Dreads are highly prized artefacts.

I wonder why there aren't more named characters in dreadnought form? Sure there is Bjorn, but you'd think the other chapters would have at least a special character dread. Especially chapters like the BA who get the furioso.

I'm also very partial to the Predator tank.

I've got to go with Rubric marines here. Such a cool concept. Such a shame they've pretty much always been such a bad unit, or at least, far too expensive for what they do. (I still have a 1K Sons army though.)

I'm also really fond of Grey Hunters -they're just badass-, and various Eldar aspect warriors (Dark Reapers are my current favorite, but it varies from time to time).

And Praetorians (the Guard army). They're also badass.

Heldrakes (at least three of them)

Despite the unimaginable diversity of the 40k range, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, will ever come close to being as brilliant as ork boyz.Its just a fact.

 WE Drake Man wrote:
Despite the unimaginable diversity of the 40k range, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, will ever come close to being as brilliant as ork boyz.Its just a fact.

What about a close encounter of the daemon kind?

Black Knights. Love the idea of elite bikers with an awesome weapon zooming up and blasting/bashing something to death.

Thunderwolf Cavalry are the coolest, most ba thing in miniatures wargaming, IMHO. I can't wait for something to bring back some assault to the game. Wolf cav were my fifth edition staples, and I really haven't had much fun with the game since 6th invalidated them.

Ork Nobz with big choppas. I love their kit and they just look like they are coming to wreck your life.

 Selym wrote:

 WE Drake Man wrote:
Despite the unimaginable diversity of the 40k range, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, will ever come close to being as brilliant as ork boyz.Its just a fact.

What about a close encounter of the daemon kind?

Haha unfortunately I wasnt talking about in game effectiveness (although this is not something and Ork Boy unit lacks) I simply meant that Ork Boyz are the heart and soul of their race, and I challenge you to find someone who doesn't find them great.

 WE Drake Man wrote:
Haha unfortunately I wasnt talking about in game effectiveness (although this is not something and Ork Boy unit lacks) I simply meant that Ork Boyz are the heart and soul of their race, and I challenge you to find someone who doesn't find them great.

That's quite easy...now finding someone who doesn't find them hilarious is another question.

*raise hand*

 WE Drake Man wrote:

 Selym wrote:

 WE Drake Man wrote:
Despite the unimaginable diversity of the 40k range, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, will ever come close to being as brilliant as ork boyz.Its just a fact.

What about a close encounter of the daemon kind?

Haha unfortunately I wasnt talking about in game effectiveness (although this is not something and Ork Boy unit lacks) I simply meant that Ork Boyz are the heart and soul of their race, and I challenge you to find someone who doesn't find them great.

Far too many SM players that have been taking too much bolter porn :/
I cannot convince any of them that n Ork boy can be awesome.

Ah, well. At least I still have these Orkmoticons:

Blitza-Bomma. It's useless and expensive but the model and the idea behind the rules is so cool. Zoggin 'eck!