In your opinion; the best special character?

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**Darkvoidof40k**

What's on the label is in the can.

For me, it'd probably be Mephiston gamewise. But other than that, I don't like what GW have done with him.. they should have made him less powerful IMO. Ah well, that's basically the future of 40k for you.. so don't worry necron players, I'm sure you'll have your own lil' Mephiston in good time.

Vulkan I like in every way.

Anyway, discuss.

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**Devastator**

space pope owns all!!!111

**Exor**

Asdrubael Vect i'd say. He looks awesome, shame he's so @#!*% expensive!

**Monster Rain**

I really have to go with Ghazkhull. He is a beast all by himself, not to mention the automatic 6" Waagh! and and army wide fearless effect. Oh how I hate him.

Close second would probably be Vulkan, because twin-linked Melta is good.

**pdawg517**

Going with Vulkan. TL melta and flamers FTW!

**lysander the eternal**

Lysander is the one for me any day. Just too good

**Skarboy**

pdawg517 wrote:Going with Vulkan. TL melta and flamers FTW!

This. Don't forget the Thunderhammers, too.

All of the "best" characters, IMO, are the ones with special moves and army bonuses attached: Vulkan, Ghazghkull (for the Waaagh and fearless), Snikrot (ambush), Mad Dok (cheap, army-wide invulnerable saves), etc. Then come the ones that let you take unique armies, such as Belial, Logan Grimnar, etc. In next-to-last place are the ones that are just CC deathgods, i.e., Mephiston, Abaddon, etc. Then, there's always a bottom tier of over-priced, underwhelming, bland, pointless or otherwise ineffective characters, the Space Pope, Ahriman, etc.

**Sanctjud**

Vect and his pimp mobile...nuff said.

**Polonius**

I mostly agree with skarboy, although I feel like I should plug Eldrad as a top tier guy.

In terms of affecting how armies play, no SC can touch Vulkan.

**Luke_Prowler**

Ghazghkull. He's both a combat fiend and gives a tactical advantage.

**Lord_Astaroth**

For the points, I'd have to say Iron Hand Straken. For 95 points, you can't beat him. He has a STR6 and a T4, a power weapon and a 3+/5+I save. His only weakness that I can see is the initiative of 3.

**Gavo**

Eldrad, Straken, Ghazghull, and Vulkan. Easily my top ones.

I don't feel like Mephiston is that good, maybe that's because I haven't seen a good one.

All the above special chars are amazing. Eldrad for pretty much the best psycher in the game, Straken for his buffs, Vulkan for the same, and Ghazghull for his 6" WAAAAGH! and insane CC ability.

**capt. tyco**

Comissar Yarrick. Hes fun to play with, especially his inspirational hero trait (30 Guradsmen re-rolling failed to hit roles in cc is always fun). Not to mention he has a fricken laser eye! I havent had a chance to put him up against Ghazghull yet though.

**Melissia**

The one I make myself.

**Lexx**

For the points payoff. Sly Marbo. That guy is INSANE!

**Tyranid Horde**

Lexx wrote:For the points payoff. Sly Marbo. That guy is INSANE!

Not really, I've had my guardians kill marbo in cc.

Swarmlord I think could be the best SC.

**pdawg517**

I don't forget the hammers when I'm playing.

**AlexHolker**

Definitely Vect, if only because him and his pimpmobile are so unusual.

**EagleArk**

Calgar *runs of giggling into the distance*

**gazelle**

Pedro Cantor. Yriel. Snagrod. They all go back to Rogue Trader, and therefore have cool factor that outstrips game value.

**purplefood**

My favorite is Lukas the Trickster purly because of his back-ground fluff
My favorite in a game is Pedro Kantor

**Ma55ter_fett**

I have a place in my heart for my BT emperiors champion, a whole army of chainsword welding crusaders with prefered enemy against whatever they are in close combat with... all for 50 points.

**Chowderhead**

I think Kharn is awesome. I have never used him, but S5 5+2D6 attacks that hit like a monstrous creature are awesome. and at 165 pts, he is relatively cheap.

**JFizzle51**

High Marshal Helbrecht

**darkangels_rule**

Got to be a close run tie between lysander (ST 10 / 3+ INV + eternal warrior ) and sammael in his land skimmer... OF DOOM ( AV 14 land speeder !!!!!)

**Melissia**

Arguably, the white dwarf rules for Canoness Praxedes could be seen as ridiculously overpowered nowadays... and one can hardly say they're out of date, considering they're newer than the codex they were released for, heh.

**Scrazza**

lucius the eternal. He is still my number 1. From the day I bought codex CSM I loved the fluff of this this guy.

**Ifalna**

Back when I played, I did a 3k fun fantasy game with one massive chaos knight unit + Archaon vs a full high elf army.

On turn one, my Archaon miscast and killed his entire unit of chaos knights and his steed, leaving him the only chaos model on the table.

He won, so he would have to be my Fav

Funniest game ever.

**VikingScott**

Lysander.

**Dylwar**

Ahriman Eldrad and Abbadom are my top favourite undoubtedly