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So, having played my first game of 40k5 (and being pretty impressed btw), my opponent and I were discussing our best units.

For me, it was my SoB Retributors - 10 strong with a vet and 4x Heavy Bolters (combined with divine guidance as needed) = lots of shooty death!

For my oppo, it was his Land Raider Crusader - you just can't kill the damn thing! (Hell, I didn't even scratch the paintwork - 6 turns without any damage...)

What have your best performers been so far?

Played my friends wraithguard list and managed to get my Deathwing terminators into CC, twice

Plague marines for the win.

I thought about trying wraithguard as a troop choice, but that is 350 points even before taking the warlock into consideration. Furthermore, the models are pricey.

Scarab swarms. Whilst they don't have the best stats my 10 base swarms regularly earn 2-3x their own points cost. Also, I like it when an opponent wonders whether to shoot the Monlith ot Scarabs with a railgun, highly ammusing

Sentinel Squadron with Hunter-Killer Missiles and Heavy Flamers. Come in on the flank, blow up a tank, and then rampage through the middle of a charging horde army occupied with trying to kill my infantry.

Through all my games it's probably my 5 'man' Ogryn unit.

First game they absorbed some fire and clubbed some scouts that were on an objective. Nothing spectacular. Just a good fight in an otherwise miserable failure of a mission.

But in my second game, they rolled up on this Vindicator when I was finally tired of taking a good shelling (I play an artillery list, I don't GET shelled, dambit). I had put SO much firepower into this one Vindicator for 4 turns. At least 3 Demolisher rounds, 6 Lascannon rounds, and 5 Heavy Mortar rounds, the few times I managed to hit it, it makes a cover save! I've never seen anything make so many cover saves. I swear to you, no exaggeration, it made every single 4+ save it was required to make. And the times I actually manage a glance or a pen (twice, the whole game) I stun it. And it had Daemonic possession (can't tell you how much I hate Vindicators that can't be stunned) so it just didn't care.

So the lads pile out of their truck, get into a ruin with big solid walls that can't be shot through, and run into its face, their wonderful Str 6 attacks plunking against the piddly rear armor. Really made a big difference in that game.

The then proceeded to cut Huron Blackheart to shreds. UMF!

Zerkers are amazing now thanks to run. Combined with F-Charge, WS 5, and a PF, they're one of the best assault infantry I've seen so far.

ratlings... simply incredible...

and because they aren't scoring- i risk them more- and laugh at an opponent who shoots them isntead of my unit going for the objective

Played my 1st game of 5th this weekend. Plague marines are awesome. The real star was the land raider. Ate rail gun fire the whole game and only lost its lascannons. Delivered its payload of termies and lord onto one objective so they could kill the fire warriors holding it. Then it rolled on top of another to contest it. Then it was immobilised. They just couldn't kill it, even with rail guns. Land raiders are gonna be worth their points, now.

I like the screen groteque(10) with wyches (20) behind them combo right now just a one two combo that hard to beat for me ...

then its death gaurd close second

My unit of 3 attack bikes.

9 str 5 shots, 3 twinlinked rapid firing bolters.

Charge in with 3 attacks and 5 toughness.

That smells of win

A rhino with even a naked PM squad parked on an objective = contested objective. Zerkers charging from Land Raiders = cleared objectives.

My LRs.
All 3 of them.

Eldar pathfinders.

Such sickening beauty to behold them in action.

I have not really played 5th, But I think my ork boys will still hold their own in 5th

I'm digging 30 'ard boyz with Mad Dok Grit. 4+ armour save and FNP is a lot of boyz to take out. Been screening with grots to get the 4+ inv. It takes a bit before they lose that Fearlessness they've got.

Run and Ghaz's waagh get them into combat pretty quick

Colonel Shaefer and 16 plasmagunning drop troops.

killed 6 carnifexes in a sinlgle turn!

Wiped out 20 Khorne Berzerkers in one shooting phase.

Annihilated a 10 man deathwing squad without breaking a sweat.

I love these guys!

So far, mine has been my dark reapers, particularly the exarch. 2 shots with the tempest launcher at S4 (with rerolls to wound) that are AP3 and ignore cover and don't require line of sight is almost too good. The rest of the unit is rocking as well, but it's hard to match the troop killing power of the exarch.

I reckon it will be my Tau Pathfinders. other units are meatier but Markerlights are so needed now that I think I have little choice.

squad speed-bump

the ten man squad of gaurd with lasguns and a vox in each platoon which run forwards then go to round, providing cover saves for all the rest of the army.

11 'ard boyz with a pk nob, led by a pk warboss. In a trukk.

This guys tend to drive up to the enemy who goes 'Oh no! Must shoot it!

This give time for the rest of the boyz to catch up...

Gaunts Without Number. Spine gaunts generally for 64points.
They have won be so many games now. You have to kill them all to stop them from scoring, and then I get them all back - and scoring again! One game they were replaced 7 times in 6 turns (they died top of turn one, I went second), and then claimed a winning objective.

Rarrr

Phoenix wrote:So far, mine has been my dark reapers, particularly the exarch. 2 shots with the tempest launcher at S4 (with rerolls to wound) that are AP3 and ignore cover and don't require line of sight is almost too good. The rest of the unit is rocking as well, but it's hard to match the troop killing power of the exarch.

This guy has been a real priority for my Stormboyz. Those barrages are a nightmare and mop up my lads in a scary way. He goes as quick as I can get to him!

All of my space wolf infantry.

Usually I use two squads of Grey Hunters and a squad of Blood Claws, which forms the bulk of my force. Run is a godsend for my blood claws, and with grey hunters holding objectives, not much is there to stop them, with the new wounding rules small arms fire has become a lot more potent, and true grit still keeps them strong in CC, with the new CC rules my powerfists always get to strike. That and counter-charge now owns, +1 attack when I get charged!! My Venerable dreadnought owns too, last two games I’ve played, it was shaken twice and lost its assault cannon once.

My converted "Big" Mek with a SAG.

So far he's blown up: 2 Hammerheads, 8 Tau Fire Warriors at once, and a full squad of Crisis Battlesuits.

He has yet to blow up stuff that isn't Tau.

My Kroot squads, my friend always shoot at my suits believing that the kroot are rubbish then a 19 kroot 1 shaper 10 hounds 3 krootox charge into his plauge marines! Feel no pain cant stop 114 attacks!

model collector wrote:My Kroot squads, my friend always shoot at my suits believing that the kroot are rubbish then a 19 kroot 1 shaper 10 hounds 3 krootox charge into his plauge marines! Feel no pain cant stop 114 attacks!

This. This is why I'm gonna have a squad of 10 kroot + 2 krootoxen in a devilfish. Have them join charges with a 20-man flanking unit and you've got yourself a pain train. They could also sit comfortably inside while the krootoxen poops all over the cabin.

"So far, mine has been my dark reapers, particularly the exarch. 2 shots with the tempest launcher at S4 (with rerolls to wound) that are AP3 and ignore cover and don't require line of sight is almost too good. The rest of the unit is rocking as well, but it's hard to match the troop killing power of the exarch."

What? Guh! I had no idea they were so fierce... Ignore LOS?

Anyway, for me it's got to be Heralds of Khorne on Chariots with Icons. Cheap troop killing power.

@Model Collector, Your 114 attacks will yield you about 3 dead plague marines on average. The plague marines will beat your squad in h2h on average the turn you charge and will do even better against you in the following combat rounds if you do not run away.

Moral, keep those kroot away from the plague marines and let your suits kill them with plasma.