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What units do you always try to squeeze in as first priority no matter what?
1 character and 3 units allowed to be listed , so choose the best ones!

for example:
Skaven: Slaves , Doom Wheel , jezzail

Warriors of Chaos: Chaos Warriors w/ Mark of Khorne. I never leave home without them.

O&G: Black Orcs and Black Orc Bosses. The reduction of Animosity's effects is a blessing.

Dark Elves: Sorceresses, duh.

Dwarves: organ gun, hammerers, ironbreakers

dark elves: sorceress, black guard with ASF and the war hydra

lizardmen: stegadon with bow, stegadon with EOG and stegadon with skink cheif.

daemons: doesn't matter everything is broken anyways

O&G- 4 spear chukkas (my next tourney I am taking 2 BUT I am also taking a rock lobba and 2 goblin doom divers and I'd get slaughtered if I had 7 warmachines)

WoC: Chaos knights w/ MoN and BoR. Cheese, but effective.

I also almost always bring a Sorcerer of Nurgle. Magnificent Buboes is, well, magnificent. YMMV

High Elves - 2 RBT's, an eagle and a unit champion with Skeinsliver.

I'm gonna split some with personal choices, and general choices for non themed list.

Wood Elves:
Personal: Wardancers, Wild Riders
General: Dryads, Treeman (not for the hit+run lists though), Hail of Doom Arrow

Empire:
Personal: Knights!
General: Cannons

Chaos Warriors
Personal: Follow the general choices in this case
General: Chaos Knights, Warhounds

Orcs and Goblins: Agreed on spear chuckas, I'm also a fan of fast cavarly as flank protectors. And if you're taking Night Goblins, then Fanatics.

For fun choices: Giant, Trolls, Squig Hoppers.

Dwarves: I always try and fit in some miners, because I love the idea and the models. Also, I love Rangers. Lastly, you gotta have a couple of bolt throwers.

Lizzies-Cold one cav, Lord on Carnosaur, Saurus warriors.

Skaven: slaves, giant rat packs, warlord.

Vampires

Vampire Count - A necessity even if you didn't have to take one, literally the engine of the army
Skeletons - to wear down the enemy
Dire Wolves - to flank the enemy
Blood Knights - to blitz the enemy

Warriors of Chaos

Wizard with Mark of Tzeentch. Preferably Level 4.
Chaos Knights. Absolutely brutal.
Marauders with Flails. Strength 5 in the first round, at the right price!
Chariot of Chaos. Rolls up entire R&F units on the charge.

DoC
Horrors: Core choice wizards? Sign me up!
Flesh Hounds: Too good to leave at home, honestly

WoC
Knights: Good Saves, Good Damage
Sorcerer(s): If close combat can't kill 'em, these guys can.

DE
Sorceress: The Druchii Sorcery rule is too good to pass up.
Hydra: W5 with T5 and 4+ Regen? Yes Sir!
Bolt Thrower: Wanna kill troops? Volley. Wanna kill Monsters? Single-Shot
Black Guard: WS5 A2 with re-rolls to hit is nothing to sneeze at.

HE
White Lions: ASF Greatweapons, but with decent saves.
Lion Chariot: And you think elves can't hit hard...
Mages: Offensively or defensively, you'll need 'em.

OnG
Chariots: Hit relatively hard and are immune to animosity.
Any Warmachines: Immune to Animosity and surprisingly reliable.
Mages: Magic Defense, or offensive magic, they're too damn useful to leave at home.
Fanatics: D6 S5 Armor piercing attacks. Sign me up.
Spider Riders/Wolf Riders: Fast and Furious.

OK
Ironguts: They're better than bulls.
Maneaters: Stubborn on these is great.
Butchers: Ogre magic is too good to pass up.

Dwarfs
Organ Gun: Wipe that smug looking unit off the face of the Earth.
Cannons: S10 and Flaming for under 100 points? Yes Sir!
Bolt Throwers: 2 for 1 Special Choice, and great for killing Beasts.
Hammerers: Stubborn and S6, and can become Immune to Psychology.
Rune Lord w/ Anvil: Undispellable magic is too good to pass up.

Lizardmen
Stegadon: Hell, you'll need something to smash up those small 'uns.
Salamanders: S3 with -3 to saves is great.
Slaan: Ha! Smelly Frog from beyond will smite you!

thedarkside69 wrote:daemons: doesn't matter everything is broken anyways

Not so! I always see Horrors, Flamers, and doggies.

The Heroes & Lorsd, tho, yeah, you can dartboard any of them and get good results.

Dwarfs: dont know
DE: cold ones, sorceress
O&G: warbosses, boar boyz

Ahh btw if you can add reasons behind why you love the certain unit , it'll be great too ^^b

Empire:

Steam Tank: At least one, it always makes people freak out for some reason, plus they are so awesome.

Cannons: Two at a minimum. Tons of fun watching units that are trying desperately to get at you flee after loosing rank upon rank of units.

Tomb Kings:

Ushabti: Cause they can kill things

Casket of Souls: Melts faces

For TK never leave home withought a Tomb King.

Tomb Guard
Skellipult (or two)

Skellie bowmen!

High Elves

BSB w/ Battle Banner - I usually take this in either a spear unit or a DP unit. The combat resolution bonus is just insane. Being able to take a charge on the chin with your spears and repel just about anything, and literally crush an extra d6 of vampire fodder is nice. And being able to charge into something with some DP and cause them to have to roll insane courage is just nice.

Archers- sadly I find that a min unit of these is almost mandatory to take, not because they are very good but because HE need the core and they can be cheap for what you need.

Phoenix Guard - A great solid unit that can house important items or banners (such as the banner of Sorcery). They can really anchor a middle section and draw some fire while staying around.

Standard for DE/HE:
2 units of 10 archers/repeater X-bows
2 RBT
2 wizards
You fill in the rest

Empire - Great swords/Knights and cannons
Bretts - Grail and Pegasus Knights
VC - Two big blocks of skellies
WoC - Block of Warriors and Knights

Tomb Kings:
Lich Priest
Tomb Prince/King
Makes me sad that no-one of you remembered this.
EDIT: Man it was said? Misread, sorry.

High Elves (IMO):
- Swordmasters
ASF 2A WS6 S5 hits per model? Thank you!
- Repeater Bolt Thrower
Got a Giant? No more. Got a unit of Chaos Knights? No more.
- White Lion Chariot.
D6 (+1?) S5 hits + 2 S5 hits + 2 S6 hits. Ah, and also causes Fear.
- Mage
Cheese cheese spam spam.

Lizardmen:
- Engine of the Gods
Obvious choice, it says that it's God's engine, you must have it or the Old Ones (read Jervis Johnson) will get angry to you!
- Stegadons
Big dinosaurs are fun.
- Saurus Warriors
They just are
- Temple Guard (with Slann).
Ld9 Stubborn Cold Blooded with 2 S5 attacks and still a 4+ save each anyone?

@nyyman - you consider HE Mages to be cheese?

nyyman wrote:Tomb Kings:
Lich Priest
Tomb Prince/King
Makes me sad that no-one of you remembered this.
EDIT: Man it was said? Misread, sorry.

You MUST take these guys to even use the army, so it goes without saying. I was under the impression that this was a thread about what units YOU feel you need to take when playing an army out side of the usual rule-musts.

Jin wrote:@nyyman - you consider HE Mages to be cheese?

Umm, yea. I play them and never go without them. Well ok, not maybe cheese but over-effective. But it's only my opinion, so don't get mad at it.
And to combatmedic, it was only humour (so-called trolling).

Not mad - just surprised. They're not bad, and admittedly the High Lore is solid, just wouldn't say they're over-effective.

WOC: horsemen. Great utility.

VC: grave guard. Robust bunker and adequate fighters.

Skaven: vermin lord (only just started though...). Cool model and rules.