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Stern with Retinue of 6 Terminators and an attatched Grand Master inside a Crusader. Add some powers like Hammerhand and Holocaust...wipes the floor with 8 Bloodcrushers.

Mine is Assault Terminators and Vulkan in a Landraider. Original, I know.

I play chaos, we don't have one.

Our best cc units aren't fearless, and if you give them the re-rollable morale check banner, they're not as good in cc. Characters are laughable, even Abaddon "Slitwrist" Despoiler. FNP units lack cc ability, cc units lack FNP. Chosen are terrible and cost too much, landraiders don't carry enough to get a good unit anywhere fast...

Need I go on? The best unit I've ever fielded that was close to a death star was when I went Legion-style and brought a 20-man squad of chaos marines with the Icon of Tzeentch. Generally they could gun down anything with 40 shots of their bolters, and when the survivors charged in afterwards they went first with 40 attacks. It was actually pretty devastating. I just wish chaos had some unique special vehicle that could carry 20 models!

۞ Jack ۞ wrote:Being a nid player, star units arent really an option

Swarmlord/Tyrant with a decked out Guard? 3 God-fexes?

Ghazghkull
Dok Grotsnik
10x Diversified Nobz; 4 PK, 6 BC, Waagh! Banner, a few kombi-skorchas, all with Cybork Bodies.

In a Battlewagon with a Deff Rolla, armor, riggers and red paint, comes to about 960-970 points.

I get a 21-27" charge range, with 24 S7 WS5 attacks and 28 S9-10 WS5+ PK attacks, which is enough to put down virtually any other unit in the game right quick.

Chaos Space Marines have some amazingly obvious "Deathstar" units, with the most obvious being three Obliterators, Abbadon, and Typhus.

Interestingly the Chaos Space Marines also include an anti-Deathstar unit, Lucius the Eternal.

Monster Rain wrote:Mine is Assault Terminators and Vulkan in a Landraider. Original, I know.

Hey, no way, you stole my build! I bet you have MM/HF Land Speeders somewhere in your list too...you big jerk...

Centurian99 wrote:Only done this once. 8 Bloodcrushers with full upgrades, 3 Heralds of Khorne on juggernauts, and Skulltaker on a juggernaut.

Watching Logan Grimnar and 20 SW Terminators spend 6 turns running away from them was funny.

how many points was this?

Here's a true Death Star:

Lemartes
29 Death Company with Thammers and Jump Packs, Boltguns, and 6x hand meltas

2125 Points

Marbo is my death star.

Here is my daemon deathstar:

Skulltaker/Juggernaught
Herald/Juggernaught, Unholy Might, Blessing of hte Blood God, Fury of Khorne
6x Blood Crusher/Icon, Instrument, Fury

Surprised no one has listed Wolf Lords on thunderwolves with TWC:

Wolf Lord/Thunderwolf mount, wolftooth necklace, runic armor, stormshield, thunderhammer, Saga of hte Bear
Wolf Lord/Thunderwolf mount, wolftooth necklace, runic armor, stormshield, frost axe, Saga of the Warrior
5x Thunderwolves/fully complex, stormshields, thunderhammer

To say you have a deathstar unit it's going to have to stand up to these two, otherwise it's not really a deathstar. I remember one game versus Necrons with my daemons, first turn they drop beside the Necron flank. Necrons fire everything they've got into my Khorne deathstar and can't even remove one full Blood Crusher. Next turn I combi charge the Necron army and phase it out.

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For my Marines it's a 5 man Vangaurd Veteran Unit
x1 Sergeant w/Jump Pack, Relic Blade & Storm Shield
x4 Vangaurd w/Jump Pack, Power Sword & Storm Shield
One of these days I'll have to bring them up to 10 man

For my Orks it's Mad Dok Grotsnik and 180 CyboGrotz

It's not a death star, per se, but it is a darn tough unit to kill: BA Assault Terminators outfitted with TH/SS and combined with a Sanguinary Priest... 2+ armor, 3++ save, and FNP? Brutal. It takes a lot of attacks to take this unit down.

Here is a Space Marine deathstar:

Captain Lysander
Vulkan
5x assault terminator/SS&TH
Landraider Crusader/extra armor, pintle mounted storm bolter, pintle mounted multi-melta

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Black Blow Fly wrote:Here is a Space Marine deathstar:

Captain Lysander
Vulkan
5x assault terminator/SS&TH
Landraider Crusader/extra armor, pintle mounted storm bolter, pintle mounted multi-melta

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Sweet Lord Primus I would not want to run into that in a dark ally...or a big open field for that matter

It was probably my 3rd game of 40k, I got my ass handed to me by a Tau Farsight seven samurai drop bomb, it was more than half the other army's points.

I think I have two, one I'm thinking of dropping, but the other will never die.

One way or another, the Nobz Blob has been a staple of my ork lists. It normally pulls it's weight when I need it to. However, it is a massive point sink, and is very predictable and easy to counter, if my KFF wagon fails even one force-field save the nob-rush is stopped cold.

One thing can't be stopped as easily, and that's Snikrot's Red Skull Kommandos (14 and Snikrot, two boyz carrying burnas) They hardly ever make their points back, but they always affect my opponent. Where's snikrot going to come in? And when? Guess I better wall my rhinos up, or deploy closer to the center. Or pull units back to defend my vulnerable bitz. He may not have made his points back (mostly due to bad tactical choices on my part) but he always affects the game, and my opponent, in my favor. Even if I drop the Nobz mob, the Red Skulls will continue to be a part of my army lists.

5 Piranha
each with Fusion Blaster and Flachette Discharger
3 with Target Locks and Disruption Pods

405 points in my 1500 point list

This unit it nearly essential for my current army list. I play a very agressive Tau list and this unit provides much needed cover saves and physically blocks assaulters or units with short range weapons. Not to mention it is a great anti tank force with 5 split firing BS 5 (with markerlights) meltas on fast skimmers. It is also a really hard unit to get rid of. Most infantry units up to TH termies should get crippled by the Flachettes before striking in assault and 6s to hit usually takes care of the rest. Outside of 12 inches it takes over 30 lascannon shots on average to destroy the unit at BS 4.

Should my opponent get rid of most of the Piranha early I may well face an uphill game as a large number of my tactics depend on the Piranha and their associated drones.

H3ct0r wrote:5 Piranha
each with Fusion Blaster and Flachette Discharger
3 with Target Locks and Disruption Pods.

I don't think you understand what a 'deathstar' unit is. The only deathstar unit Tau can take is the Farsight bomb, as has already been mentioned above.

unbeliever87 wrote:Farsight bomb.

Quick question, what exactly is this? I assume it's where commander farsight deepstrikes or something with a bunch of suits.

Land Raider-
Kharne the Betrayer, 9 beserkers

It's a lot, but when it get's out, nothing is going to survive.

Gavo wrote:

unbeliever87 wrote:Farsight bomb.

Quick question, what exactly is this? I assume it's where commander farsight deepstrikes or something with a bunch of suits.

You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Farsight can take an absurd amount of Crisis Suits as his retinue, all of which can take Plasma Rifles/Fusion Blasters and all other sorts of fun weapons. The unit can also take wargear such as Shield Drones and Failsafe Detonators to make the unit relatively safe from assault and sweeping advances. It costs over 1000 points, and I doubt it would survive a real assault from many of the units listed above, but it's the best deathstar that Tau can get.

30 grots some peaple think they are op "wtf"

Marbo is my death star.

QFT

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:It's not a death star, per se, but it is a darn tough unit to kill: BA Assault Terminators outfitted with TH/SS and combined with a Sanguinary Priest... 2+ armor, 3++ save, and FNP? Brutal. It takes a lot of attacks to take this unit down.

Yep..brutal, until they stare down a 10 man unit of Firedragons at a mesely 160 points...lol

Actually, any army that spams AP1-2 weapons, powerweapons/rending laught at such a unit....all they get is their 3++...it's the same as shooting normal marines with autocannons or heavy bolers at that point, and we all know how fast tac marines die

10 Fire Dragons will kill 2 Termies...However with a threat range of 12 inches I wouldnt worry about Assault Termies.

I avoid death star units at pretty mych all cost.

tedurur wrote:
10 Fire Dragons will kill 2 Termies...However with a threat range of 12 inches I wouldnt worry about Assault Termies.

QFT I wouldn't be worried about the termies either.

I would be worried about that Landraider that is making it's way towards my lines that said Termies are riding in.

A hammer without an arm to swing it is just a lump of metal.
Cheers,
~Volkan

Alerian wrote:
Actually, any army that spams AP1-2 weapons, powerweapons/rending laught at such a unit....all they get is their 3++...it's the same as shooting normal marines with autocannons or heavy bolers at that point, and we all know how fast tac marines die

Haha. That's like saying 'all' Land Raiders have going for them is their AV14, or that 'all' Broadsides have going for them is their Railguns.

The difference between 3+ and 3++ is that there aren't many units in the game that can spam AP1/2 as easily as AP4+. Fire Dragons are a bad example for the reason Tedurur pointed out below.

Avatar. plain, simple, and true

Alerian wrote:
Actually, any army that spams AP1-2 weapons, powerweapons/rending laught at such a unit....all they get is their 3++...it's the same as shooting normal marines with autocannons or heavy bolers at that point, and we all know how fast tac marines die

A 3++ save isn't really all that worried about such things, since AP1-2 weapons tend to have a low rate of fire and aren't going to hit every time they are fired.

My TH/SS Terminators and their friend the TDA/SS Librarian laughed off the shooting of three Medusas and a squadron of 3 Demolishers once. It still makes me happy to think about.