Most Useless Unit

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**Klawz**

bravelybravesirrobin wrote:
Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:@bravelybravesirrobin

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That list is just plain wrong.

HQ: Aun'Va

Elites: Decapitators

Troops: Rippers

FA: Sky Slashers

Heavy: Zzzaps.

What specifically do you object to?

Well, Rippers, Sky-slashers, and Zzap guns aren't as bad as you think they are.

**Jaon**

Honersstodnt wrote:sure, they may be able to cream things, but they are SO cost inefficient, that they actively reduce the size of the rest of your army by a huge margin.

While the space pope may be useless, you can try to just hide the bugger in the back, and surround him with firewarriors. Useless, maybe. I'd still put my money on a tau army at 1000 points packing nothing but a space pope and ANY basic troop choices from the tau codex, over a 10 man squad of vanguard with hammers like this.

That is an unfair argument on so many levels, its like saying the space pope takes all the TAU VEHICLE upgrades and times's them by 10 to find points cost. A 10 man squad of vanguard with just jump packs are an expensive but a solid unit. giving them all the upgrades possible, like most units, makes them uselessly overpriced. BUT! Give them storm shields and thunder hammers and you have flying assault terminators, lacking the 2+.

Id say if there was a useless unit, itd be conscripts. sure you can legally field 250 of them for 1000 points, but they are still crap, and can be sweeping advanced SO easily.