Discodontron wrote:BOYZ
Need I say more?
MOAR BOYZ LESS TOYZ.
nothing else is needed. Just fun too drop 100 on the table and see the opponents face, and then tell him you still have some in reserves. just good ole fashion fun.

warboss_grimjaw wrote:I think my favorite unit in the game has to be regular old boyz mobs. Be they shoota or slugga, to me there's no cooler image in the game then a full mob of greenskins charging an entrenched position, taking horrific losses from enemy fire, before slamming at a dead run into the massed ranks of the foe. Cooler still are the challenges; I've already had several games where the fate of the battle rests squarely on the shoulders of one of the few surviving nobz on the table and the ragtag remnants of his mob as they struggled against superior forces and somehow came out on top. Moustaffa, something tells me we could have a heck of a game throwing our footslogging hordes right into each other.

AlmightyWalrus wrote:Chaplains. Initiates are angry. Neophytes are angry. Sword Brethren are angry. Their anger is as nothing compared to the anger of a Chaplain of the Eternal Crusade.

MrMoustaffa wrote:Guardsmen. Not vets, not commanders, not heroes.

Regular, bog standard guardsmen. The grunts, the redshirts, the poor bloody infantry. I've seen guardsmen pull off feats even a space marine would fail at, and every time it reminds me why I play IG.

I've watched a single infantry squad hold an eldar wraithlord up for an entire game, even though they had no way of killing it. They literally sat there and took each hit on the chin, and held him up all the way to turn 6. I saw a single melta gunner stand his ground against 500pts of eldar shooting, and hold the line, where 3 squads had died around him. The eldar player literally had to charge him with a full squad just to dislodge him. I had 2 survivors of a PCS with an autocannon rally 2" from the board edge and provide covering fire for an entire game, literally saving the match. Heck, I've even seen my lascannon team in my command squad one shot a charging Black templar chaplain, as he was charging them at point blank range.

My guardsmen are why I play footguard. Even though I know many will fall, and most will die just trying to inconvenience the enemy, somewhere in that horde of guardsmen, there's a badass waiting for his moment to shine. That guardsman that walks up to draigo and says "screw you, today you die", the guardsman that pulls his meltagun out and oneshots a landraider, saving your entire flank. That one heavy weapon team that gets the lucky shot on that stormraven and swats them out of the sky.

I don't think you could have a cooler unit in the game to be honest. In a game filled with daemonic gods, genetically engineered killing machines, and all sorts of insane alien life forms, watching a normal man stand there and hold the line always ended up being the coolest moment to me.

Joshua Von Wolkestadt wrote:
I am also quite fond of Rough Riders. Start with them in reserve and unleash a massed cavalry charge, as a method of counter attacking, and gaining ground. It bares that lovely historical element to it, very much like the Charge of The Light Brigade, who decided to charge, despite the cannon shells and musket balls causing their ranks to dwindle. More similarly, they are rather reminiscent of cavalry units during the Great War. By having this magnificent cinematic and historical flavour, it also adds a lot of character to your army, as your troops and steeds stand deployed in the open, and choose not to cower within Chimera chassis, like most veterans.

MrMoustaffa wrote:Guardsmen. Not vets, not commanders, not heroes.

Regular, bog standard guardsmen. The grunts, the redshirts, the poor bloody infantry. I've seen guardsmen pull off feats even a space marine would fail at, and every time it reminds me why I play IG.

I've watched a single infantry squad hold an eldar wraithlord up for an entire game, even though they had no way of killing it. They literally sat there and took each hit on the chin, and held him up all the way to turn 6. I saw a single melta gunner stand his ground against 500pts of eldar shooting, and hold the line, where 3 squads had died around him. The eldar player literally had to charge him with a full squad just to dislodge him. I had 2 survivors of a PCS with an autocannon rally 2" from the board edge and provide covering fire for an entire game, literally saving the match. Heck, I've even seen my lascannon team in my command squad one shot a charging Black templar chaplain, as he was charging them at point blank range.

My guardsmen are why I play footguard. Even though I know many will fall, and most will die just trying to inconvenience the enemy, somewhere in that horde of guardsmen, there's a badass waiting for his moment to shine. That guardsman that walks up to draigo and says "screw you, today you die", the guardsman that pulls his meltagun out and oneshots a landraider, saving your entire flank. That one heavy weapon team that gets the lucky shot on that stormraven and swats them out of the sky.

I don't think you could have a cooler unit in the game to be honest. In a game filled with daemonic gods, genetically engineered killing machines, and all sorts of insane alien life forms, watching a normal man stand there and hold the line always ended up being the coolest moment to me.

Lobukia wrote:honour guard. Sparta. 51 PW attacks on the charge

YotsubaSnake wrote:For my Tau? I've fallen in love with stealth suits. They're absolutely fascinating both on the table and in the fluff. They have the mobility of crisis suits but the whole point is for them to go in the back field and be a haymaker and that's what they do well.

They usually come in late to the party when I play them, they deep strike behind enemy lines after they've had a turn or two to advance and suddenly they've got all the room to roam free and pop transports and finish off those inside with the added bonus of soaking up all the fire when they get focused immediately after dropping.