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Racerguy180 wrote:
Nicholas Cage

Hahahaha, I figured someone would say it. Made me lol out loud.

Machariuses (machariaii?), stormhammer(with the hull twin battlecannon, are good, but my absolute favourite have to be any kind of ork gargant. SO ORKY! I

When I play Marines, then a normal Baneblade.
Its a real beast!

EricDominus wrote:
Shadowsword (with Storm Troopers doctrine and a Salamander Command Vehicle sauce)

You can't give a <Regiment> model (such as a Shadowsword) the Militarum Tempestus-keyword. It's specifically prohibited.

Mortarion for me.

Stormlord crammed full of Enginseer Auxiliary repair crews.

A Marauder Destroyer. It is a huge plane with way too much firepower that just dives onto the battlefield and turns everything short of a Titan into a pulp. Totally awesome.
Also, the Stormhammer. Because there is no such thing as too much gun barrels on a tank.

For me it's always been the Warhound titan. However - with the new Astraeus coming out. I think it's a clear winner for me.

My favorite is my klawstompa (image in gallery). Battle fortress I also very much enjoy.

In terms of an EFFECIENT LoW? Kustom stompas took the dumpster fire that are index stompas are and then tossed in a bunch of dog gak. And battle fortressess don't exist anymore.

For orks, we basically only have 2 usable LoW options: Gargantuan squiggoths and kill tanks. Of those, I like the garg. squiggoth the best, but it's hard to beat kill tanks' price and utility.

I absolutely love my Spartan Tank, so much that I have 2 now.

Take em over knights anyday.

I like big Ork dakka tanks, in theory at least. I've got a Kill Bursta and a Battle Fortress, but I don't have them put together yet and haven't played with them.

(Dakkasaurus Rex AKA Barbed Heirodule is a pretty cool model as well, even though the rules seem kind of meh.)

 Blackie wrote:

 Arachnofiend wrote:

 Blackie wrote:
I don't like a single LoW to be honest, aesthetically speaking.

Barely related point of curiosity, but since you're an ork player how would you feel if they upgraded Ghazghkull to primarch levels and made him a centerpiece LOW? At this point in the setting he's probably been around long enough and done enough smashing to be absolutely massive.

I'll feel very bad IMHO the current ghaz has the appropriate size, the new GW superheroes look extremely silly being that big. In fact the concept of centerpiece models is something I strongly dislike.

I've already got the ghaz model, so no interest in a new one. I'd continue using that model, which is also one of my favorite miniatures of the entire GW catalogue, even if the new ghaz has the imperial knight's size.

Ghaz is an HQ. Orks' LoW is the stompa and maybe something from FW.

I have mixed feelings. Having come back to 40k after a long absence I find it really weird to see special characters on the battlefield for normal games (especially Primarchs). I pretty rapidly got used to the idea of flyers and super heavies, but I can't shake the weird feeling I get about Ghaz, Eldrad, Abbadon, etc. being in regular games.

That said, in the fluff Warbosses are often portrayed as big. Really big. Like, the size of a dreadnought. These are bigger than average warbosses, but I'm still not even talking about the leaders of Ork empires or mighty Waaaghs like the Arch Arsonist of Charadon or Grukk Facerippa. Those guys would probably be bigger still. I think that Ghazghkull would be bigger than them.

I think that the regular Ghazzy model makes for a good "average" ork warboss in mega armor. I think if they re-release him he should be a lot bigger and meaner than he currently is. Maybe not on quite the same level as the Primarchs, but in the same ballpark. On the flip side, I'd prefer not to see Ghaz or Primarchs in normal pick-up games (but I'm certainly not going to tell people they aren't allowed or they're wrong for having fun that way).

Of course, in the fluff there have been Ork warlords bigger and badder than Primarchs, at least in the ~30k setting. Following spoiler is extremely minor:

 Iron_Captain wrote:
A Marauder Destroyer. It is a huge plane with way too much firepower that just dives onto the battlefield and turns everything short of a Titan into a pulp. Totally awesome.

I agree. When you have to out Ork an Ork, you bring absolutely disgusting amounts of dakka! My first ever. "I must own one. NOW." Models...

No scorpion super-heavy? I am disappointed.

Thunderhawk Gunship.

Actually has awesome rules now. 42 PP of awesome.

I have a Kytan Rampager as my 40k center piece and a Falchion as a centerpiece for my 40k force.

The Kytan Rampager is totally my favourite looking Lord of War, beautiful thing. For raw brutality it's my Falchion, that things just tears stuff open.