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best CC deathstar I know of is veteran vanguard, all kitted out with thunderhammer & stormshields, with jet packs, with a jetpack chaplain.

12" move, 3++, S8 attacks, re-rolling to hit and multicharging without losing their attacks is quite terrifying.

I also think ghazkull, 8 meganobs and mad dok grotsnik in a red battlewgon would do the job. fearless, FNP, 5+ invulns from cybork, 4 S9 AP2 attacks apiece with ghazzy to eliminate other deathstars with 2++ for a turn to tank on... the only problem is they have to move closer every turn. oh no, how terrible, my chargy squad has to charge.

The DC tops the vv for offensive efficiency...

5 attacks per guy, rerollable, 3+ to wound...in a 10 on 10 fight, the vv would have to make 36 saves on the charge, not including the HoW hits if they used jetpacks...

An exceptional roll would keep 1-2 alive to retaliate

If the vv charged the DC, then they would only have to make about 22 saves, which would keep 3 alive, who would then kill 5 DC, it's still in DC's favor, at a much cheaper cost

GoliothOnline wrote:
Kharn and a Crimson Slaughter Lord with Daemonheart and the Blade, accompanied by 4 Chaos Khorne Terminators in a Land Raider with a Dirge Caster so you cant even fight back as they get out and charge your face. Then, if that's not evil enough, Force their Fear Check because your lord is a Daemon. Womp Womp. Welcome to WS 1 kiddies.

demon heart doesn't give him demon, prophet of voices does, then he can only join possessed. still a very nasty khorne ball of death!!

Kholzerino wrote:
I think a D Lord with MSS, semp weave, an overlord with MSS, weave, orb and scythe, two lords with MSS, weave, scythes and two lords with MSS, weave and void blades (exactly 600pts) is good against most smaller number deathstars (not any kind of blobs, obvs - but 6 MSS is pretty brutal...

Would a D.Lord be able to grant PE to Lords if attached to a court?

Regardless, every time I try to put together a RCDI it always ends up costing close to 1000 points.
Yeah, I could probably get it down to 600 points if I really tried, but you'd either have to skimp on the survivability or the killiness. I just can't bring myself to do that.

Have Tigirius follow an imperial knight and keep casting endurance and invisibility on it

Well, I think there are several good deathstars out there.
However, it will become a real deathstart only with invisibility or fortune or something similar.

Beaststar is now massively better based on Rending from Misfortune and Invis.

I'd bank on beaststar being one of the best now.

Simplest would have to be the wraith-star.
D-lord with mss + 6 wraiths comes to 350pts.
If only wanting to pay 600pts:
2 units consisting of d-lord and 4 wraiths, with 2 whip coils in each unit. Very durable, very fast and very dangerous. Also being able to target twice as many units. Although I would prefer 6 in each unit tbf.
Or 1 dlord with mss, 2 units of 6 wraiths with 2 whipcoils in each. If one unit gets shot up, simply move the dlord to the other unit.

 skoffs wrote:

Kholzerino wrote:
I think a D Lord with MSS, semp weave, an overlord with MSS, weave, orb and scythe, two lords with MSS, weave, scythes and two lords with MSS, weave and void blades (exactly 600pts) is good against most smaller number deathstars (not any kind of blobs, obvs - but 6 MSS is pretty brutal...

Would a D.Lord be able to grant PE to Lords if attached to a court?

Regardless, every time I try to put together a RCDI it always ends up costing close to 1000 points.
Yeah, I could probably get it down to 600 points if I really tried, but you'd either have to skimp on the survivability or the killiness. I just can't bring myself to do that.

Don't see why not. A royal court can be a unit in its own right. An independent character can join a unit. A d lord is an independent character. Preferred enemy goes to the unit. And I think the 6 MSS makes this the most effective of the necron deathstars under the circumstances listed (it makes the charge into combat). A lot of the enemy unit are going to be slashing themselves up.