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DakkaDakka wrote:

Toss up between the mighty Baneblade and the Vendetta/Valkyre. One's a big Gak-Off tank with enough firepower to annihilate entire armies and the other is a big god-damn gunship, providing close air support to the poor infantry, and the mental picture that conjures up just screams awesome.

My favorite is the Basilisk. Honorable mention the Imperial Guard infantry squad.

The Doom.

5 Genestealers, as well as a Broodlord with scything talons.

132 pts of love; this unit just always seems to perform for me.

At 1000pts, I take three!

I really like flying Hive Tyrants for some reason.
Killing power, manouverability, giant wings.

Vindicare Assasin.
Love the fact that his sniper can blow up a landraider and he's just plain cool.

Lone wolves, every configuration, every bit of fluff, every rule. Everything.

Necron Nightbringer he's well a god......whats not to like

Really, I have two.

On a personal level, I love hormagaunts. Nothing screams vicious, swarming death like the hormagaunt. By all rights, it should be something terrifying. The thing moves fast down the field, leaping through cover. Even when you kill the synapse creature behind them, they just keep rushing forward. My only issue with them is they don't get flesh hooks (read:frag grenades) anymore, and biomorphs are too expensive compared to the gaunt and gargoyle. The only time I really find it worth it to pick up the fellows is when I've already bought Hive commander.

On a more practical level, Gargoyles are amazing. Cheap, fast, versatile little buggers that you run as a throwaway screen (combined with gaunts, it's almost impossible not to give even your monsterous creatures cover saves), Transport killer (it's hilarious to kill everything inside a chimera by giving them nowhere to disembark), or monsterous creature killer. They can even deep strike and usually move even faster than hormagaunts! The only time I go without them is when I'm starving for points.

It used to be a mutant boss from the eye of terror codex with a powerfist (yes its not a unit... just a charecter within one) but that guy clocked in at 31 points and had 4 S:6 power fist attacks (5 on the charge). His unit was mostly cannon fodder and essentially just got in the way of things but that little guy bagged so many tanks, inquisitors, chaos lords and even a few GKT's he became a model to fear in my little group.

Nowadays i prefer the humble wraithlord. Even just the 1, preferably 2. They may not be that effective as they can go down quite easily but to see that trickle of sweat fall down the brow of your opponent when the lord is about 10" from his raider, on 1 wound, and his last lascannon shot misses...

Leman Russ. Nice armor great gun and cool upgrades. I also think it looks really cool imo.

I am going to have to go with your whiteshield, missing foes and dying en masse in the emperors name

I love the mandrake fluff. But the unit itself loses out to things like trueborn, grotesques and incubi.
I also have a fond memory of playing my friend's plague marines and pissing him off with feel no pain and a 3+ armour save

SM bikes in general are awsome. You can give them some special weapons, and they're menuvurable as heck.

Swarmlord with tyrant guard (with bonesword).

Pricey, but so very very worth it to see space marines turn and run.

Kommandos with snikrot and two burnas, 10 term squad with two cyclones, monoliths, leman russes and so on.

Hmm, I'm going to have a toss up between 2. First is Kharn with 7 berserkers (magic 8 number and all), mostly because so long as kharn is attached to a unit, he never actually misses in close combat. Ever. Hit the enemy? Well lets not get picky now.

My second has to be Wazzdakka because being able to turbo-boost and slag a vendetta (or chimera, or predator, or anything that str 8 can get through) is just hilarious and amazing.

Kasrkins for their looks, but since this is about tactics... I gotta say, my Valkryie has saved my ass loads of times.

simple...

fire warriors.

more to the point 2 squads of fire warriors who just finished the enemy turn 7 inches away from a space wolf special character who is about to get 48 buckets of plasma rifle amazingness to the face!

i laughed a lot when that happened.

I love it when you overkill something. My opponent was once, miraculously, reduced to a single Ork boy. I just decided to use my flamer on it since it was all alone and I had nothing else to shoot.

It survived.

Then a sergeant killed it with one shot from his bolt pistol.

labmouse42 wrote:

Grakmar wrote:Ld 10 on 3d6 passes exactly 50% of the time (and fail 50% of the time). And, you have a 27.5% chance for 12 or higher.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the average d6 value 3.5? Would not the average of 3d6 be 10.5, skewing it slightly in the odds of failing.

No, it is exactly 50% - 216 possible outcomes of 3D6, 108 of which total 10 or less

Another way to think of it - there are 16 possible totals from 3D6: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18; the first half end of these outcomes finish at 10.

Ulver wrote:

labmouse42 wrote:

Grakmar wrote:Ld 10 on 3d6 passes exactly 50% of the time (and fail 50% of the time). And, you have a 27.5% chance for 12 or higher.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the average d6 value 3.5? Would not the average of 3d6 be 10.5, skewing it slightly in the odds of failing.

No, it is exactly 50% - 216 possible outcomes of 3D6, 108 of which total 10 or less

Another way to think of it - there are 16 possible totals from 3D6: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18; the first half end of these outcomes finish at 10.

I cant remember but im guessing you pass the test on 10 if you have leadership 10 and since the average is 10.5 half th time its 10 or less and the other half its 11 or more

Maxed out kommando squad with Snikrot, Gahzgull and a maxed out warboss (no bike) riding in a battlewagon (with all the goodies of course).

This unit will stab you in the back with a... DEFFROLLA.

MrDrumMachine wrote:Hmm, I'm going to have a toss up between 2. First is Kharn with 7 berserkers (magic 8 number and all), mostly because so long as kharn is attached to a unit, he never actually misses in close combat. Ever. Hit the enemy? Well lets not get picky now.

Don't limit Kharn's perfect hit rate to close combat. He also is guaranteed to do damage to someone every time he shoots as well.

Krooooooot, I love em'.

Che-Vito wrote:My Last Chancers, Inquisitors, Grey Knights, Soul Grinders.

oh god worst thing about the new guard codex ... no last chancer.

Tri wrote:

Che-Vito wrote:My Last Chancers, Inquisitors, Grey Knights, Soul Grinders.

oh god worst thing about the new guard codex ... no last chancer.

+1

I loved the fact that in the previous codex, you could make an army out of that single choice, with a large unit counting as two troops and a HQ, and being able to split up into smaller teams

20 Night Lord raptors and Champ with lightning claws or powerfist.

I found another great unit. Shrike, a chaplin and 10 terminators with lightining claws. It costs so much but can take down entire armies