Most Cost-Effective Upgrade in 40k

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**Mr. Self Destruct**

Simply put, list what you think are the most cost-effective unit upgrades in 40k.

My vote is on the Nemesis Daemonhammer.
5 points more to turn your normal boring force weapon into a SUPER MEGA FORCE WEAPON HAMMER WITH THUNDER AND IT'S A FORCE WEAPON AND KILLS DAEMONS HNNNNNNNNNNG

**AchillesFTW**

I'm going to have go with the runes of warding. Even though they do come for free on Eldrad, I just assume they are part of his cost.

For 15pts, you neuter an armies psychic abilities, thereby denying quite a few armies of their very important sometimes game-winning abilities.

Otherwise I'm going to have to go with the DA ability Defend.

**Leonus Cohol**

5 Points for Melta Bombs.

**Azure**

Warscythe- 10 pts. No invul. for you!

**motyak**

5 Points for a Guardsman! Greatest weapon in the 'verse!

Not an upgrade but I wanted to say it...

**GreyHamster**

Runes of Warding. Make Jaws, Catalyst, Fortitude, and more suddenly very risky and unreliable. As long as that seer is hiding somewhere on the table. A handful of points to blanket the board in a very powerful psyker defense.

**acekevin8412**

Tau Disruption Pods. 5pts for a cover save for all vehicles at 12+"

**Avatar 720**

Honour Blade. 10pts to make your puny S3 Ethereal S5.

Yeah, who's useless now?

**Jubear**

Ork Deffrollas 20 points of feth you AV14 =)

**Belexar**

Demolition Veterans. 30 points for a unit full of meltabombs plus a weapon that can kill a Terminator squad in one shot? Yes, please.

**Brother SRM**

Avatar 720 wrote:Honour Blade. 10pts to make your puny S3 Ethereal S5.

Yeah, who's useless now?

The ethereal

I would probably say daemonic possession on a vindicator. You will always move, and you will always shoot. The upgrade-inflicted BS3 doesn't really matter since you're shooting pieplates anyway.

**Blood Angel 17**

Flickerfields

**bombboy1252**

The KFF for a mek, most useful upgrade ever!

**Swiftblade**

Definatly Catalyst for Tervigons.

15 points to be able to give any unit within 18" FNP, thats hugely beneficial for an army like Nids with low armor save.

**juraigamer**

acekevin8412 wrote:Tau Disruption Pods. 5pts for a cover save for all vehicles at 12+"

Gotta agree with this.

**beef**

GreyHamster wrote:Runes of Warding. Make Jaws, Catalyst, Fortitude, and more suddenly very risky and unreliable. As long as that seer is hiding somewhere on the table. A handful of points to blanket the board in a very powerful psyker defense.

Do they still do penal legion for 2pts each?

Faced a guy with shed loads of penaql legion back in the day. Was fun, My SW could not chew threw them fast enough.

**Justus**

I gotta say Daemonic Possession as well. That's 20 points of 2/3 of your glances and 1/3 of your pens can't touch me. This is just too good on Vindicators and Dreadnoughts!

**KilroyKiljoy**

Justus wrote:I gotta say Daemonic Possession as well. That's 20 points of 2/3 of your glances and 1/3 of your pens can't touch me. This is just too good on Vindicators and Dreadnoughts!

I don't know, losing a point in BS kinda makes it less useful.

**lledwey**

KilroyKiljoy wrote:
Justus wrote:I gotta say Daemonic Possession as well. That's 20 points of 2/3 of your glances and 1/3 of your pens can't touch me. This is just too good on Vindicators and Dreadnoughts!

I don't know, losing a point in BS kinda makes it less useful.

Also, you can't take it on Dreads.

**candy.man**

I’m going to say psybolt ammunition or Sanguinary Priests are probably the most cost effective unit upgrades in 40k. I’m not surprised that both come from a Matt Ward codex.

**Movac**

Blood Angel 17 wrote:Flickerfields

**Jackster**

Melta Guns
cheap and allows the guy to kill anything in the game except for the Avatar.
Also arent we not suppose to post point cost of upgrades?

**Deathsadvocate**

For orks it's the KFF and the deffrolla. And snikrot...man do love snikrot.
For dark eldar it's flickerfields (your telling me that for just ten points my vehicles get INVUL saves

yeah these are mandatory) and liquifiers( 50% chance to ignore MEQ saves and melt some beakies

)

**Shadowbrand**

Mark of the Wulfen and Melta guns.

**Small, Far Away**

-1 point for a Grey Hunter.

Yep, I went there.

**Shadowbrand**

Grey Hunters are just a steal. Like I have -no- reason why not to run them. And how dirty cheap the weapons are.

**Lobokai**

Black Templar Assault Squad: 2 points per model for Meltabombs

**nosferatu1001**

Banner of Cheese
10 points to turn a squad into much, much more effective unit for a turn.

Oh look, its a Phil Kelly codex -that paragon of balance. Oh wait, 4th ed Eldar flying circus and dark eldar venom spam...

**Ratius**

I like 10 points for a multimelta on LRs. Gives a triple anti-armor threat from an already lethal tank.
10s correct yes?

**Rocky1**

Tau Disruption Pods. 5pts for a cover save for all vehicles at 12+"

Gotta be this