Best close clombat army

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**namegoeshere**

Which is it? Nids? Demons? Deldar?

**Devastator**

tau

**Nulipuli2**

Devastator wrote:tau

+1

**jdjamesdean@mail.com**

Daemons, however there are some drawbacks/advantages to the dex.

**nsdocholiday**

Devastator wrote:tau

+ infinity

**Vaktathi**

Space Wolves, Daemons and Orks I'd say.

**Blacksails**

Best close cLombat army eh?

I'd probably have to agree with the Tau answers. With regards to clombat they're the best.

For close combat armies though, probably space wolves and orks. Blob guard does the trick too these days.

*Edit* I just noticed you used Deldar...I will never get used to that term.

**Shas'O Dorian**

I can't say daemons because of their DS rules allows your opponent to either RF into you or charge you at their choice, which hurts.

I'd say Orks, wolves or BA all tie for second, Tau bring it up at #1.

**Eldar Own**

Orks, because when they come on in a big tide are unstoppable. Space Wolves also have some great CC units though, so while they will be better at orks in CC generally, they lack the numbers and will likely be overwhelmed.

**Footsloggin**

Some armies are better than others at CC, and while no one soldier comes down to defining the Army, I find that SW and BA are very good melee armies, I have just recently seen DE, and they are quite effective in CC as well. Run-on's, you gotta love em

**Noir**

Orks, if they get the assualt, there is no question. Now if they get assaulted this can change fast, but if they assault even Elites need to fear the 29 strong Choppas and 1 PK.

**Radical**

I'd say Chaos Daemons and Space Wolves. I don't know enough about the Orks or Dark Eldar to include them.

**FUUUUDGE!**

Eldar,And i`m being serious,ws 4,cheap as IG power weaponry,and a full squad of harlequins,well,let`s just hope it does`nt last long...........

**EmilCrane**

Blood Angels can hit like a ton of bricks, you can very nearly give your whole army furious charge and with FNP bubbles they're actually going to make it to combat intact. Yeah, I reckon BA are one of the best cc armies.

The downside? They're bloody expensive.

**Maelstrom808**

Meh, for pure CC, Nids stomp BA. BA only pull ahead when you factor in their fire support.

**Mr Nobody**

What, no votes for Tyranids? Because that's my vote.

**Space_Potato**

I vote Orks, closely followed by Tyranids.

Orks are cheap as chips and naturally pretty awesome in CC, with the rest of the combat choices being even meaner. And there's a lot of wounds to chew through before you're touching the heavy-hitters (174 basic boyz for troops comes to mind).

Tyranids are pretty damn awesome in CC, but I think things like Synapse and the fact that the bigger beasties can be on the slow side (Swarmlord/carnifex needing to walk, waiting for Trygon to DS; Flyrant is the exception here) are what puts orks on top.

S_P

**namegoeshere**

I imagine lots of scenarios of big groups of orks getting owned by monsters or dreadnoughts.

**MechaEmperor7000**

The humble Hormagaunt with Toxin sac is one of the best non-vehicle hunters in the game. With a stunning 3 attacks on the charge, poisoned weapons, improved fleet, rerolling 1's and Initative 5 it's insane up against any target. Even Terminators will fall to the amount of attack a swarm of these guys can dish out. And because of their low cost, you can field tons and tons of these bugs. Failing that, a Tervigon-buffed termagant unit can be just as devastating, for almost half the cost.

**jdjamesdean@mail.com**

Still gonna rock with Daemons, sure the fact their codex is aging a bit is evident. DS'ing hurts them alot as they're CC oriented as an army almost through and through more so than any other imo.

With a bit of smarts when DS'ing and a lil luck on the dice to land properly daemons on the charge eat almost everything.

Fiends of slanessh, GUO, plaguebearers, the lil red dudes w/ hell blades, Freakin Juggernaughts zomg these monsters on the charge alone make me wanna pack up my models

**chobarba**

da orks are green which makes dem better

**Brother SRM**

All of them. All of them are the best.

**undivided**

Devastator wrote:tau

+ infinity x 2

But really, Orks.

Cheap as dirt, as effective as large mounds of dirt which, of course, can kill.

**Brother-Thunder**

Blood Angels, Orks, and Dark Eldar.

Blood Angels can outlast you with quality, Orks win through attrition, and against Dark Eldar, one implies that the unit assaulted will even be around to strike back.

**thedarkgeneral**

Well, just a lil' prejudiced here...but I run the Khornate Daemon Army...and there's nothing I haven't been able to chop up into lil' pieces!

Not the most powerful Army per say because of the varying victory conditions from Tourney to Tourney (or Leagues) but easily the most scary.

**liam0404**

Black Templars can all take 2 CCW and have preferred enemy - nothing to be scoffed at.

Nothing is as deadly as pathfinders though!

**Pen≥Sword**

**Maurin**

Orks is da meanest and killyest!

**4M2A**

Suprised no one has said this yet, but chaos marines can make a list thats very good in CC.

Not much beats world eaters in close combat- they still loose but thats because they can't do anything else well.

**scubasteve04**

Gonna have to say Orks on this one. Although DE, BA, SW, nids, BT, Daemons all have their merits, Orks live and breath CC. You can't go wrong with a S4 T4 WS4 4 attacks all on the charge for a mere SIX POINTS each.

I fear Orks in CC the most by far.