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My favorite unit is the Seer Council.
Its the best anvil unit in the game and can hold up a whole army for a while.

No its not Voltron....

Its Spase marinesh riding Mega Cyber Wolves!!

Thunderwolf Cavalry, All with storm shields, 1 with a thunder hammer or a frost blade. Add a lord in with a wolf mount and shield and whatever weapon you like.

Absolutely positively guaranteed to kill whatever they hit. Even a 50 blob of guardsman. Add in that they are all S5/T5 Rending attacks in CC, with 2 wounds, means they laugh at all but the biggest cannons, which they can still live against thanks to 3+ invuls!!)

Expensive yes - Devestation assured.

Obliterators!!! The swiss army knife of Chaos!

30 deathcompany with 2 TH JP each and lemartes haha its like 2000 points but I'd like to see anything actaully beat that thing in combat

dumplingman wrote:30 deathcompany with 2 TH JP each and lemartes haha its like 2000 points but I'd like to see anything actaully beat that thing in combat

How does being charged by a 10 man LC terminator squad with Calgar sound?

Gotta say my favorite unit is the simple guardsman, mainly because of all the impossible things i've accomplished with them. Nothing says "F*** you!" like destroying a freshly deep-struck 5 man termie squad by charging twenty guardsmen all screaming "FOR THE HONOR OF CADIA!!!" into them. Now, that being said i know they are NOWHERE near the best unit, but ill be damned if they arent my favorite.

Tau Pathfinders. Can increase my BS, decrease your cover save and remove night fight, among other things! Not to mention their Devilfish allows me to re-roll my Deep Strike scatter.

Chaos Dreadnoughts.

They're big, armored, chaotic, mechanical and crazy ^^

a full squad of bloodcrushers with upgrades for cheesy wound allocation. oh and put them on fateweavers bubble to shift from good to best in game. oh and fateweaver he wins or loses games all by himself.

Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:

Ailaros wrote:Single best game-wise? Manticore

What other weapon fires D3 S10 large blast ordnance in barrage mode (no cover + shoot at what it can't see)? The only other single most effective unit in the regular game of 40k is the deathstrike missile launcher which can make everything within a 24" blast diameter simply disappear.

As for favorite, mini-wise, I'd say probably something out of the Chaos range.

As for fluff, I'd probably say wraithguard.

Obviously not the best in the game... but they're up there I guess, depends on how you look at it. /shrug

The fact that they're single vehicles mean they're prone to early toasting. Very early toasting.

Errm. Actually, manticores are what? AP4?

EDIT- Actually, you just love IG enough to blindly declare sub-par vehicles the best eh? Are chimeras with dual heavy flamers the best too?

Not the best unit, but the best Ordnance imo. Of course I don't like ordnance very much anyway, so maybe I'm biased.


Personally, I like Nob Bikers. They look awesome,have lots of conversion opportunities, and they can destroy almost anything. And they'e fast, so no one is safe. (except Eldar with Star Engines, and even they can be caught eventually.)

But of course I should mention Nob Bikers' rock to they're scissors, TH/SS Terminators. 3++ is awesome indeed.

If I can be specific with my favorite. its gotta be any steel legion officer...



seriously?

Tau XV-9s. They look so sleek and awesome. I like the XV-8's too, but the 9's look much more 'Tau' in my opinion.

Plus their weapons dominate.

Snikkyd wrote:

Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:

Ailaros wrote:Single best game-wise? Manticore

What other weapon fires D3 S10 large blast ordnance in barrage mode (no cover + shoot at what it can't see)? The only other single most effective unit in the regular game of 40k is the deathstrike missile launcher which can make everything within a 24" blast diameter simply disappear.

As for favorite, mini-wise, I'd say probably something out of the Chaos range.

As for fluff, I'd probably say wraithguard.

Obviously not the best in the game... but they're up there I guess, depends on how you look at it. /shrug

The fact that they're single vehicles mean they're prone to early toasting. Very early toasting.

Errm. Actually, manticores are what? AP4?

EDIT- Actually, you just love IG enough to blindly declare sub-par vehicles the best eh? Are chimeras with dual heavy flamers the best too?

Not the best unit, but the best Ordnance imo. Of course I don't like ordnance very much anyway, so maybe I'm biased.


Personally, I like Nob Bikers. They look awesome,have lots of conversion opportunities, and they can destroy almost anything. And they'e fast, so no one is safe. (except Eldar with Star Engines, and even they can be caught eventually.)

But of course I should mention Nob Bikers' rock to they're scissors, TH/SS Terminators. 3++ is awesome indeed.

Might I pip in with vindicators?

A real steal for their points.

Wait, name another single unit that can take out multiple vehicles simultaneously with cover-ignoring S10 ordnance that can also turn around and can wipe out 60 GEq's with good luck in a single attack.

Yes, it's only AP4, which means it's not the uber god against all units ever, but I've been reading a lot of suggestions that aren't nearly as good.

death strike with vortex warhead utter, utter death

fluff and game wise cadian shock troops/guardsmen faceing a near endless horde and holding the line

Congrats!

Don't adress the other issues of it.

Just ignore that, and skip right to the only thing that is halfway decent about it.

Plenty of things can take out multiple vehicles simulltaneously more efficiently.

Many things can deliver S10 ord. more effectively, scratch that, one thing can off the top of my head. How many things have S10 blasts?

Oh look, it ignores cover!

How the hell do you get 60 GEQ's... Many things -can- kill that many in one round of shooting or assault.

You're exactly like Melissa, in that, you view your army as the top in everything.

It is one thing to pipe in only about the army you play, since that is the only one you understand, but what you're doing is plain ignorant.

If Apocalypse units count, I'd have to say the Ork Stompa'. I own two of 'em myself and I simply love every aspect of their being.

They may not be the best out there, but for the simple 600 points I'd say they're pretty damn close.

10 csm with mos rino 2 meltas and a combi melta on a rino

Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:

Ailaros wrote:Single best game-wise? Manticore

What other weapon fires D3 S10 large blast ordnance in barrage mode (no cover + shoot at what it can't see)? The only other single most effective unit in the regular game of 40k is the deathstrike missile launcher which can make everything within a 24" blast diameter simply disappear.

As for favorite, mini-wise, I'd say probably something out of the Chaos range.

As for fluff, I'd probably say wraithguard.

Obviously not the best in the game... but they're up there I guess, depends on how you look at it. /shrug

The fact that they're single vehicles mean they're prone to early toasting. Very early toasting.

Errm. Actually, manticores are what? AP4?

EDIT- Actually, you just love IG enough to blindly declare sub-par vehicles the best eh? Are chimeras with dual heavy flamers the best too?

Uh..that was a really silly thing to say actually. My choice is also Manticore, not coz its IG, Id use it in any army if I could, but for the simple fact that it can toast 40 gaunts in a single turn, or EASILY kill a monolith <guilty>

But I agree its weak as feth

TH/SS terminators? Personally GK terminators are win, str 6 ws 5 bs 4 2+/5++ with STORM BOLTERSS!!! (and Pw's)

Although in the new codex they can have Storm shields and their nemesis force weps! Assault terminators without initative 1 ftw!

Im really pumped for GK.


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Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:Congrats!

Don't adress the other issues of it.

Just ignore that, and skip right to the only thing that is halfway decent about it.

Plenty of things can take out multiple vehicles simulltaneously more efficiently.

Many things can deliver S10 ord. more effectively, scratch that, one thing can off the top of my head. How many things have S10 blasts?

Oh look, it ignores cover!

How the hell do you get 60 GEQ's... Many things -can- kill that many in one round of shooting or assault.



You're exactly like Melissa, in that, you view your army as the top in everything.

It is one thing to pipe in only about the army you play, since that is the only one you understand, but what you're doing is plain ignorant.

name one unit in the game that can kill 60 gaunts in one turn (OTHER THAN DEATH COMPANY) or more realistically, for the same/cheaper points. I cant see 10 2xLC terminators doing it.

Also another uber unit is melta vets in a vendetta

My converted Ragnar Blackmane model awesome in game and in the display cabinet.

Hmm, tough call, but I'd have to go with...CREEEEEE....

Just kidding, I havent had a chance to do that yet and I was feeling left out...

Nothing says awesome more than shooting your own men to stop them from dying from cowardice so Commissars are my favourite.

That being said, I think that in terms of sheer coolness, Ork Stompas look like so much fun to make and customize that I want to buy one just for the joy of making it!

I won't of course because I am a loyal Imperial Servant! Nothing but Baneblades for me...yawn...