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I thought I'd ask everyone out there what they field in games or on army lists. I bet we find a lot of similarities.

To do this, state your army and tell what models you always take, take some of the time, and never take. No need to explain why.

Tyranids:

(nearly) Always take: Termagaunts, Ymgarl Genestealers, Tervagon, Mycetic spore, Hive Guard, Zoanathrope, Hormagaunt

Sometimes take: Hive Tyrant, Tyranid Warriors, Gargoyles, Warrior Prime, Tyrant Guard, Raveners, Genestealers, Shrikes, The Doom, Venomthrope (I think he has potential)

Rarely if ever take: Carnifex, Tyrannofex, Mawloc, Lictor, Biovore, Pyrovore, Harpy, Ripper swarms, Spore mines


Orks:

Nearly always: Shoota or slugga boyz, Killa Kans, dekkkopta, Loota, Big Mek

Sometimes: Battlewagon, Trukk, Warboss, Nob squad, Meganobz (I like them even tho they're not competitive), Burnas, Kommandos, Grots, Looted Wagon

Never: War trakk or buggy, Warphead, Bikes, Deff Dreads, Tankbustas, Stormboyz, Flash gitz, Big Guns

Nice thread! Here's mine:

Black Templars(I wont list crusader squads as these are the only troops choice):

Always Take: LC/THSS assault terminators, Sword Brethern, Land Raider Crusaders

Sometimes Take: Techmarine w/Gun Servitors, Tri-Las Predators, Assault Squads

Rarely Take: Chaplain Grimaldus, Dreadnoughts

Daemons:

Always Take: Pink Horrors, Seekers Of Slannesh, Flamers of Tzeentch, The Masque, Plaguebearers

Sometimes Take: Juggernauts, Bloodletters, Daemon Princes, Soul Grinder

Rarely Take: (Honestly I can''t think - I think everything is fairly well rotated with my daemons)

Necrons:

Always Take: Warriors, Immortals, Monolith(s), Destroyers

Sometimes Take: Pariahs, Heavy Destroyers

Rarely Take: The Nightbringer, Wraiths, Scarabs

Eldar:

Always - Avengers, Seers, Serpents, Prisms, War Walkers, Dragons

Sometimes - Spiders, Scorpions, Avatar, Wraithlords, Wraithguard, Guardians, Banshees

Never - Hawks, Reapers, Shining Spears

CSM

Always- Plague Marines, Sorcerer, Havocs with plasma guns, Chosen, Termies, Obliterators

Sometimes- Dreadnaught, Kharn, Daemon Prince, Predator, Zerkers, Summoned Daemons

Never- Lord, Raptors, Most of the tanks, Standard Marines

Necrons:

Nearly Always Take: The Deceiver, Pariahs, Destroyers, Monolith, Warriors

Sometimes Take: Destroyer Lord, Heavy Destroyers, Scarabs, Wraiths, Immortals

Rarely Take: The Nightbringer, Tomb Spiders, Flayed Ones

Chaos Marines:

Always take- Warptime Nurgle Daemon Princes, plague marines, Termicide units, kharne

Sometimes take: Chaos Marines, lascannon havocs, land raiders, obliterators, dreadnoughts, defilers, berserkers

Rarely Take: Vindicators, land raiders, predators, spawn, possessed, chosen, chaos lords, sorcerers

honestly i build each list based on the points and what i can get in it as i have learned. but there are some units that just suck like shining spears.

but in the interest of the thread

eldar
always : eldrad, guardians
never : falcon, shining spears, support platforms (heavy), dark reapers

Imperial Guard

Nearly Always Take: Chimeras,Veterans, Vendetta,CCS, Leman Russ
Sometimes Take: Powerblob Squads (Inf/Commissar),Manticore
Rarely Take: Ogryn, PBS, All HQ choices but CCS

Is this what MODELS you take or what UNITS? Cause models are the representation, and the units are their rules set. Example, Cadian Shock Troopers and Infantry Squads.

Meh, my list is based on units:

Imperial Guard

Always take: Veterans, Company Commander, Transport

Nearly always take: Valkyrie, LRBT, LRE, Heavy Weapons Teams, Chimera, Armored Sentinels (no matter how many times, they never expect it)

*Rare Take: ...

*Never used: Storm Troopers, Basilisk, Baneblade



*I have limited number of models, and I change my list's flavor often (I play casually). Some of my models, however, have yet to hop onto any of my lists, either because they're too expensive, they're the wrong game type, or they're really not necessary.

Always:
Farseer

Sometimes:
Autarch, warlocks, avatar, yriel, eldrad, wraithguard, banshees, harlequins, wave serpents, guardians, rangers, warp spiders, swooping hawks, vypers, support weapons battery, reapers, writhlords, war walkers, night spinners, fire prisms, falcons, fire dragons, dire avengers, GJB

Never:
pheonix lords, scorpions, storm guardians, shinig spears

Orks:

Big Mek with KFF
30 Shoota boyz
Deff Dread <---- I know I am weird, I love my 4 arm garbage kan

Blood Angels

Almost Always-Dreadnoughts-Furioso or Rifleman, Reclusiarch, Sanguinary Priest (who always get controversial power weapon) and Land Speeders

Sometimes Assault Squads & Sometimes Tactical Squads

Never-Scouts, Tycho, Sanguinary Guard

Orks

Almost always-Battlewagons, KFF mek and tons of boyz and lootas

Sometimes Nobz,deffkopters,warboss,trucks

Never The rest of the codex is fail (except for killa kans)

I'm an odd eldar player. I often enjoy using Support weapons batteries. 3 Str 6 AP- blasts for 90pts ... great for removing orks, IG and nids.

I always run:- fire dragons, 3[4] guardian jebikes (warlocks the fourth), 10 wraith-guard and almost always have at least one prism.

As for my HQ i'm split between Eldrad and Maugan Ra who both get an equal showing.



Never run Vypers, Shining spears, Harlequins, avatar or wraith-lord.

Orks:

Always: Battlewagons, KFF Mek, Ghazghkull (1500+), Boyz, Deffkoptas, Lootas, Rokkit Buggies, Gretchen

Usually: Burnas, Nobz, Trukk Boyz

Sometimes: 'ard boyz, Looted Wagon

Never: Everything else.

Chaos
Always: Daemon Prince, Rhinos
Usually: Sorcerer, CSMs, Lesser Daemons, Havocs, Obliterators
Sometimes: Berserkers, Plague Marines, Chosen, Terminators, Dreadnought, Land Raider
Rarely: Vindicator, Noise Marines, Predator, Raptors

Eldar
Always: Farseer or Eldrad, Wave Serpents, Fire Dragons
Usually: Guardian Defenders, Storm Guardians, Dire Avengers, Falcons
Sometimes: Avatar, Warlocks, Banshees, Harlequins, Jetbikes, Wraithlords, Rangers
Rarely: Vypers, Warp Spiders, Striking Scorpions.

What's with all the Vindicator hate? The Daemonically Possessed Vindi looks quite good on paper.

Sure, but AV11 side armor tends to get exposed while you move up to get range, and for the most part CSM needs long-ranged antitank from their HS slots, since that's pretty much the only place you can get it.

Chaos Space Marines


Always: Daemon Princes, Chaos Marines, Rhinos
Usually: Vindicators, Landraiders, Havocs, Predators
Sometimes: Chaos Lords, Berzerkers, Thousand Sons, Chosen, Terminators
Never: Plague Marines, Noise Marines, Oblits, Defilers, Raptors,(And i think this goes without saying) Spawn

Seems like i play a different game than most chaos players

Eldar:

always: Farseer, Fire Dragons, Dire Avengers, Serpents

sometimes: Warwalkers, Seer Council, Autarch, Harlies, Falcons

never: everything else.

Chaos:

always: winged Daemon Prince, Obliterators, Noise Marines

sometimes: Greater Daemon, Daemons, Termies, Raptors.

never: everything else.

This is a fun thread. . .

Eldar:

Always: Eldrad, Dark Reapers, Fire Dragons
Usually: Phoenix Lords, Avatar, Rangers, Falcon, Wave Serpents
Sometimes: Dire Avengers, Wraithlord, Warwalkers, Striking Scorpions, Howling Banshees, Warp Spiders, Guardians, Jetbikes, Seer Council, Yriel
Rarely, if ever: Vypers, Shining Spears, Swooping Hawks, Fire Prisms

Tyranids:

Always: Genestealers w/Broodlord, Tervigons, Hive Guard, Termagants
Usually: Ymgarl Genestealers, Doom of Malan'tai
Sometimes: Hormagaunts, Gargoyles, Hive Tyrant, Tyranid Prime, Carnifexes, Venomthropes, Zoanthropes, Trygon Alpha, Mawloc, Deathleaper, Parasite of Mortrex
Rarely, if ever: Pyrovore, Biovore, Harpy, Trygon, Raveners, Ripper Swarms, Lictors

I think this thread needs 4 categories. Always, Usually, Rarely, and Never. I take pretty much everything sometimes.

Space Wolves:

Always: Grey Hunters, Razorbacks

Sometimes: Long Fangs, Wolf Scouts, Land Speeders, Ragnar Black Mane, Wolf Priest, Rune Priest Land Raider, Land Raider Redeemer, Swiftclaw Bikers, Bjorn, Venerable Dreadnought, Lone Wolves, Predators, Whirlwinds, Vindicators, Blood Claws, Fenrisian Wolves.

Never: Iron Priests, Canis, Logan, Ulrik, Arjac, Lukas, Skyclaws, Land Raider Crusader, Thunderwolves, Wolf Lords, Wolf Guard Battle Leaders.

Blood Angels:
Always: Assault Squads, Librarian, Sanguinary Priests

Sometimes: Dante, Sanguinary Guard, Honor Guard, Vanguard Veterans, Land Speeders, Tactical Terminators, Storm Ravens, Chaplains, Furioso Dreadnoughts.

Never: Everything else.

I always take rokkit buggies, and almost never koptas. Buggies just fit my army builds better then koptas

Imperial Guard

ALWAYS TAKE
Leman Russ Battle Tank, Company Command Squad

SOMETIMES TAKE
Powerblobs, Mechvets, Basilisks, Manticores, Banewolves, Hydras, Marbo

NEVER TAKE
Rough Riders, Techpriest, Enginseer, Paskquisher.

DoA

Always: Assault Marines, Vanguard Vets, Honour Guard, Librarian

Sometimes: Sanguinary Guard, Dante, Sanguinor

Rarely: Assault Termies, Speeders

This will change if i know what army/mission i'll be facing but in general:

Eldar:

Always take: DA, Farseer, Banshees, Fire Dragons, Dark reapers, Serpents, Jetbikes

Never: Swooping Hawks, Support Platforms, Vypers, Shining Spears

Sometimes: Anything not mentioned above

Orks

Always: Da boyz (of any kind), Trukks/Battlewagons (Depending on list size), Warboss, Nobz, KFF Mek, Lots of PKs, Lootas, Deffkoptas, More Boyz and More PKs

Never: Wierdboyz, Tankbustas, Warbuggies, Flash Gitz, Big Gunz

Sometimes: Everything else

Tyranids:

Always: Tyranid Prime, Venomthropes, Zoanthropes, Warriors, Genestealers, Both types of gaunts, Gargoyles, Trygon or Trygon Prime

Never: Tervigons, Pyrovores, Harpies, Spore Mines, Biovores, Tyrannofexes

Sometimes: Everything else

Orks:

Always: da Boyz (Shootaz), Killa Kans, Waaghboss, Big Mek, Deff Koptas, Lootaz

Sometimes: Nobz, more Boys, transports, Kommandoz, Snikrot

Rarely or not at all: everything else.

Black Templars:

(not counting Crusader Squads or the Emperor's Champion, as they're mandatory)

Take: Cycloning tankhunterinators, land speeder typhoons, tank hunting ven. dread, drop pods

Might take: Marshals, assault cannoning tankhunterinators, LRCs, furiously charging assault termies, "normal" dreads, MM speeders, MoS, Grimaldus

For fun: Helbrecht with kitted out command squad. Bring the pain!

Won't take: The rest.

I assume this is from what units I have, right? Or is it everything from the codex?

Anyway:
Eldar
Always Take: Fire Prisms, Dark Reapers, Farseers, Dire Avengers, Fire Dragons, Guardian Jetbikes

Sometimes Take: Guardians, Wraithguard, Howling Banshees, Wraithlords

Rarely Take: Phoenix Lords, Vypers, Weapon Platforms

Units I don't use since I don't have any: Warp Spiders, Swooping Hawks, War Walkers, Falcons, Autarchs... I guess the list goes on

Dark Eldar

Always: Duke Sliscus, Trueborn, Bloodbrides, Raiders, Ravagers, Warriors

Sometimes: Wyches, Incubi, Reavers, Talos, Cronos, Lelith Hesperax, Urien Rakharth, Asdrubael Vect, Drazhar

Rarely: Hellions, Baron Sathonyx, Wracks, Grotesques, Beastmasters, Mandrakes, Lady Malys

Never Take: Voidraven, Razorwing Kerduraugh