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Oh yeah I almost forgot Chaos dwarf were a thing. Such a wasted potential, the ones they released were so cool

Death Korps Grenadiers (obvs) and Quartermaster are my favorite infantry models, but there's so many to choose from. The Aquilon terminators with firepikes are gorgeous as well.

I picked up an Eldar Vampire Hunter (realllllly old kit) after drooling over one for years back in 5E, but despite being able to quasi-assemble it, there's no good way to actually mount it on a stand, the parts are so big and heavy that they really put a lot of stress on each other and sag quite a bit, and the parts have such huge gaps that I've never wanted to invest the time to actually complete it out with greenstuff. It looks cool, but it's an awful piece that I've been super disappointed with. The Scorpion is another story altogether, that's a fantastic kit that I adore.

Big fan of the Macharius line as well though I don't own any (and they've never had rules that were even casually playable), and the Chaos legion-specific dreads are so cool I own six. A kit I've always wanted to pick up just for its own sake is the Mechanicum Vorax robots.

My favorites are Tau line, Some IG vehicles, and sevatar; before blaming the kits or FW: you should up your modeling skills, like doing long pins and use epoxy glues.

I absolutely adore my Dimachaeron. It remains one of my best pieces as far as painting is concerned and the way its sickle claws and tail line up remind me of a scorpion (my Hive Fleet is Scorpius, so it is appropriate). I wish its rules were a bit better than they are in 8th (miss the old Spinemaw ability, flavorful and fun), but it still makes for an excellent display piece.

Another vote for the Gargantuan Squiggoth. As much as I like the Battlefortress for the modularity, I love that goofy looking git.

Man that's a tough call. FW does some gorgeous miniatures.
It would have to be Carmine Dragon for moi.

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Carmine-Dragon

 slave.entity wrote:

Hellebore wrote:
I really like the eldar aesthetic they created for superheavies.

The scorpion, Cobra and vampire just look awesome. sleek and fast.

I love the look of the eldar titans as well, but there's something about those knife-blades with guns that I just love.

Too bad eldar FW sucks in the rules department.

Amazing too since the FW eldar vehicles are all like decades old.

Also the scorpion superheavy tank is legit good. I've been running mine a lot lately and it's an absolute beast. It completely stomps knights, leviathan dreads, disco lords, orion dropships, castellans, whatever you want, you name it, it will murder it in one shot. Flat 6 damage on 6s is... well its insane LOL. Especially when you shoot 4D6 guided shots on a doomed target. Competitive eldar players have been sleeping on this unit IMHO. It won't win a major event but damn if it isn't a strong gatekeeper in a meta so infested with knights and armor.

Probably because with Doom and an Autarch (why are you waseting Guide on a BS2+ unit?) you still only do an average of 15-18 wounds per turn, with Jinx you generally will kill a Knight but thats now 900+pts worth of models used to bring down 400ish.


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The Tantalus is my favourite, gorgeos model, but I love the look of pretty much all of the 30K Mechanicum range as well.

Love my fellblade. Easily the sexiest tank in the game. And pretty devastating to. Sucks that they jacked the points cost to the moon just to sell more plastic knights. And my double chainclaw night lords contemptor. The best legion specific dread. And of course Sevatar as I'm sure all fellow sons of Curze will agree.

 Big Mac wrote:
My favorites are Tau line, Some IG vehicles, and sevatar; before blaming the kits or FW: you should up your modeling skills, like doing long pins and use epoxy glues.

To be fair, some of their models (usually the older kits) are legitimately poorly designed. The old Hydra kit for example literally didn't properly mate to the Chimera hull, you had to significantly cut up the Chimera's lower hull to make it fit, while the Vampire literally has no method or allowance for any way to actually mount it for play or display (you'd think they'd have put a hole in the bottom for a mount like they do on flyers now with the cruciform spire, or an allowance for some sort of landing gear, but nope).

 Vaktathi wrote:

 Big Mac wrote:
My favorites are Tau line, Some IG vehicles, and sevatar; before blaming the kits or FW: you should up your modeling skills, like doing long pins and use epoxy glues.

To be fair, some of their models (usually the older kits) are legitimately poorly designed. The old Hydra kit for example literally didn't properly mate to the Chimera hull, you had to significantly cut up the Chimera's lower hull to make it fit, while the Vampire literally has no method or allowance for any way to actually mount it for play or display (you'd think they'd have put a hole in the bottom for a mount like they do on flyers now with the cruciform spire, or an allowance for some sort of landing gear, but nope).

I know what you mean, I have the thunderbolt, Tau barracuda, few other old imperial flyers that are without a hole to mount and display; as modelers you have to think alternative and look at alternatives, I happen to find dragonforge dot com and they have solved my flyer problems; as for the hydra-chimera problem: you probably have to use a sheet of plasticard and replace the area, with green stuff it’ll look hash patched.

The chaos dwarf range is great, I also like the tau barracuda (the old one IMO looks slightly better than the redesign). When it comes to forge world I generally like the flyers the most.

Favorite two in my collection:







But really, the entire DKoK line.

 Imateria wrote:

 slave.entity wrote:

Hellebore wrote:
I really like the eldar aesthetic they created for superheavies.

The scorpion, Cobra and vampire just look awesome. sleek and fast.

I love the look of the eldar titans as well, but there's something about those knife-blades with guns that I just love.

Too bad eldar FW sucks in the rules department.

Amazing too since the FW eldar vehicles are all like decades old.

Also the scorpion superheavy tank is legit good. I've been running mine a lot lately and it's an absolute beast. It completely stomps knights, leviathan dreads, disco lords, orion dropships, castellans, whatever you want, you name it, it will murder it in one shot. Flat 6 damage on 6s is... well its insane LOL. Especially when you shoot 4D6 guided shots on a doomed target. Competitive eldar players have been sleeping on this unit IMHO. It won't win a major event but damn if it isn't a strong gatekeeper in a meta so infested with knights and armor.

why are you waseting Guide on a BS2+ unit?

Because it shoots at BS3 when you move and you must move at least 9" to get the 5++.


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 Peregrine wrote:
Favorite two in my collection:







But really, the entire DKoK line.

These are so damn good.

For me the #1 contender is always going to be the Malcador Defender. It captured the Fantasy WW1 style of the Imperial Guard so perfectly for me. I played with mine quite a lot using the 1st edition Apocalypse rules for 4th and 5th edition, and while it never did that much in game (it's really quite badly undergunned for a superheavy tank), it never got destroyed either.

vehicle wise i gotta agree, the malcador (all of them) have that specific something.

Flyerwise, not sure between Hellbalde /Talon vs thunderbolt.

Some of the Marine Dreads are superb and not too pricey either.

 Peregrine wrote:
Favorite two in my collection:

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But really, the entire DKoK line.

That some gorgeous painting skills, sir. The Macharius Vanquisher tank is probably the best 40k tank, ever, for me. Period. It has something I can't describe.

I don't think there are any GK FW models, as everything I have ever seen from FW marines has the part that GK can't take it, but there is one model I really like. It is a space marine model, of I think some sort of hero, he is in yellow armour, so either an imperial fist or a lamenter, he has a power fist and a stormshield. The model looks very nice to me.

Papewaio wrote:
The Greater Brass Scorpion, hands down. None of this namby-pamby superheavies that look like Imperial ones for me.

The Scorpion is fantastic. Such prescence. I only have its baby brother, cobbled together from two Defilers. I keep saying 'one day'...

I also love the Blood Slaughterers, and the Decimator. They might be a more realistic goal.

 slave.entity wrote:

 Imateria wrote:

 slave.entity wrote:

Hellebore wrote:
I really like the eldar aesthetic they created for superheavies.

The scorpion, Cobra and vampire just look awesome. sleek and fast.

I love the look of the eldar titans as well, but there's something about those knife-blades with guns that I just love.

Too bad eldar FW sucks in the rules department.

Amazing too since the FW eldar vehicles are all like decades old.

Also the scorpion superheavy tank is legit good. I've been running mine a lot lately and it's an absolute beast. It completely stomps knights, leviathan dreads, disco lords, orion dropships, castellans, whatever you want, you name it, it will murder it in one shot. Flat 6 damage on 6s is... well its insane LOL. Especially when you shoot 4D6 guided shots on a doomed target. Competitive eldar players have been sleeping on this unit IMHO. It won't win a major event but damn if it isn't a strong gatekeeper in a meta so infested with knights and armor.

why are you waseting Guide on a BS2+ unit?

Because it shoots at BS3 when you move and you must move at least 9" to get the 5++.

Re-rolls happen before modifiers so you can't re-roll those 2's. Until you drop a bracket you can never re-roll more than just 1's, Guide does not help here.

Ah bummer. You got me!

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Vulture, yet. Unfussy design that screams 'gunship'.

As long as you can ignore where the big turbine sits.

I really like the old style Thunderbolt. It's a little small, but still neat looking

It may be an old one, but the Land Speeder Tempest is up there.

The Macharius Vanquisher.

I don't have one though, it's never been good enough to warrant the money.

The first thing I thought of was the Sisters of Silence floating tank thing, the Acquisitor. Love it.

The Termite, and the Arvus are also up there, for me.

Tau Manta Y'vahra Tiger Shark. Let's be honest ...I love the whole line. Yes even the super tuna

The Legio Custodes Contemptor Galatus Dread....not that good on the tabletop, but a damn good model.

Other than that I always thought that the Tyranid Hierophant Biotitan is one of the most imposing models ever and not just becaus of its size.

 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
The Macharius Vanquisher.

I don't have one though, it's never been good enough to warrant the money.

FW, for whatever reason, really liked to go out of its way to ensure nothing that came out of the Siege of Vraks series was ever particularly functional or capable on the table.

Macharius Vanquisher, hands down, the best of the best, followed by Avenger Strike Fighter and Calladius Grav Tank third.