Do you have a soft spot for certain units/ models in your army if so what/why?

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**njpc**

Pretty self explainatory. I'm curious if others have that soft spot in their army for a certain unit or character. Its something I've notice I have, but keep laughing at myself about. I'm curious if others have this same thing, it can be 40k, Fantasy, Privateer press, etc. But if you do, what unit in your army do you continue to use, under preforms, but you've got the guts to keep throwing it in there. Also a little back story/ fluff if you want to throw in it.

Example:
I'm mainly a WFB player, I play a good amounts of the local tournments, and attend most of the GT's in the region of the North East. I'm mainly a skaven players. But i've got my dwarves who were my first real WFB army that I painted, and am revising. No matter what army lists I write, theorize, or use, i've always managed to somehow find a unit of Slayers in the list. I've caught myself. Sometimes i'd slip that lone Slayer character in there without rune's. Or I think, hey I have enough points for 10 Troll Slayers, plug that him there.

To me I find them hysterical. They die in handfuls to shooting and magic often. They have been Conflagerationed off the board numerous times, I watch a buddy shoot them dead on turn 1 to Dark Elf cross bows, my all time memorable loss was losing pretty much the unit to 1 charge from a bone giant with sustained attack (that hurt). But I find them fun! No one every said "i hate you brought slayers." I find them funny, launitic dwarves with big battle axes, and pretty much are clothed by a beard as models. I painted my pale skin tones, with fire red and super highlighted beards, and now i'm working on runes and body paint. But in the back of my head always the thought...

"So much work for a unit without an armor save, that's now in 8th edition likely to always strike last." But maybe i'll get to fight a steam tanks

**Leigen_Zero**

For me it's not so much a unit, but a set of models. My 2nd edition starter box ork boyz!

I know they are rubbish models, but I love them simply for nostalgia (the first mini's I owned AND painted!) Even went out and bought a 2nd edition nob a month or so ago to lead them!

**MinMax**

...Rough Riders.

So much so, that I often take Creed and an Astropath so that I'll be able to make some use of them!

**-Nazdreg-**

My Veteran squad "the immortals"
Led by harker with demolitions and 3 flamers in chimera. They got black facemasks and desert camo and they are my baddest cruelest roughnecks I can acquire. They have the certain raiding gang feeling. I simply love them

**Gailbraithe**

I use a Death Hag Battle Standard Bearer in my Dark Elves army because its cool, but everyone keeps telling me that its throwing points away and completely sub-par.

But my Dark Elves army's fluff is that their general is a Supreme Sorceress, Maevina Canthus, who has seized control of an Ark (the Ark of Kaanan) by manipulating the tension between the sexes, playing the women against the men in order to maintain her power base.

So, for example, all of the Repeater Crossbowmen are female, and all of the Spearmen are male, with the Spearmen often used as the anvil against which the hammer strikes -- so they die a lot. And the hammer is a death star of Witch Elves.

And consequently, the Witch Elves get the BSB, so she needs to be a Khainite, which means she needs to be a Death Hag. Specifically she is Meliaduel Canthus, the fanatically loyal daughter of Maevina, which helps Maevina control the Witch Elves and thus the Ark.

**EmperorsChampion**

I never run my black Templars without my Marshal, he is Marshal Viktor Gorgon. And he is one mean Templar. Not only does he have many short stories writen after him, he also has had a model in my crusade for a great deal of time, though it has been converted, painted, repainted and scrached. His "spirit" lives on in my current Gorgon model.

Oddly enough he lives true to his heroic background, slaying countless HQ and elite units in battles that were thought impossible for him. And I have even kept track of the more amazing kills that he has walked away with.

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I never run my black Templars without my Marshal, he is Marshal Viktor Gorgon. And he is one mean Templar. Not only does he have many short stories writen after him, he also has had a model in my crusade for a great deal of time, though it has been converted, painted, repainted and scrached. His "spirit" lives on in my current Gorgon model.

Oddly enough he lives true to his heroic background, slaying countless HQ and elite units in battles that were thought impossible for him. And I have even kept track of the more amazing kills that he has walked away with.

**LunaHound**

For me , there are quite a few. They dont perform particularly well ( or i dont use them properly ) but i just enjoy having them around because i like how they look xD

IG: Sentinels
Tyranid: Carnifex
Eldar: Vypers
Space Marine: Dreadnoughts
Lizardmen: Temple Guards
Chaos: Scyla ( people think its ugly but i like it :x )
Dark Elves: Corsairs

**infernus1986**

I use my malenthrope all the time for no reason, usually its just a target unless some unfortunate unit gets close to it.

**SamplesoWoopass**

dark eldar wyches. Everyone says they're ugly as sin... but I think that they just have character. I'm not sure why I like the models so much, I just do.

**JSK-Fox**

My dreadnoughts. <3. I love my dreads to bits. They never die, and when they do, they go out with a bang, killing at least something.

**Doctadeth**

My 2nd edition dark angels terminators, and tac marines.

Edit
My IG deathstrike missile launcher that survived 2000 points of fire for 2 turns inc a baneblade and several land raiders....then next turn decimated 2 monoliths and approximately 10 necron warriors.

And the dreadnought that killed fugan....with a melta gun and a power fist with flamer....love it!

**CrashUSAR**

My IG MOO. He always scatters harmlessly away, never gets any kills, but I just can't bring myself to remove him from any of my 2000+ point list. I think it's because of this I fiercly protect him...he gets his own personal Chimera...

**Teh_K42**

I must say that my nurgle daemon prince has a special place in my heart. Third item I ever bought from GW, equipped with semi-transparent wings I flogged from an old toy dragon, always got his points back every single game. Hell, back in Chaos 3.5 when he had a manreaper he would carry half the battle himself at 1000pts.

**Ultrafool**

My sternguard, they really don't do that well for some reason but they look so awesome they will always have a spot in my lists

**Shadowbrand**

The lord of Khorne on foot.

I guess its my hard on for Viking epicness, but a general fighting on foot with the common men of his army is not something you see much anymore. And it touches me in a way no woman could touch me.

**poipo32**

Sentinels, they're bad but they look awesome.

**ArbitorIan**

My Squat IG army HAS to include Mortar squads. Which are useless when your usual enemies are MEQ. But you can't have a Squat army without Mortar squads, right?

**DarkAngelHopeful**

I almost always include land speeders. I own 10 land speeders, one of which is has the missile pods. I also have a Master of the Raven Wing on a speeder, for a total of 11 speeders. I like to play a speeder heavy Raven Wing army at times. In my normal armies, I still usually take a few speeders along.

**Brother SRM**

With my Space Marines I have my Thudd Gun crewed by Techmarine Bob. I use it as a Thunderfire Cannon, and it proves to be incredible every time I use it.

My Nobz are my precious unit in my Ork army - I get kind of bummed when my Battlewagon blows up before I even get to use them.

Everything in my Guard army is pretty expendable. I used to have a soft spot for everybody since I spent more time painting them than my Marines or Orks, but when they die in droves every game you really can't try to make a big deal out of it.

**waaagh!orksrocks**

Hi

The 2 I have are my ten man imperial guard command squad (2 bodyguards, Astropath, Officer of the fleet, Master of ordnance) which tends to sit back in the apocalypse games that are its home (My only imperial guard models.) and its only kills so far are 3 of my orks, my daemon prince and 2 of my raptors. And my daemon prince, my old metal daemon prince that never stayed together, I believe it has one leg stuck to the base and a pile of bits and people still let me use it.

**Mordiggian**

Carnifex. Gets killed every time, but I just love the guy to pieces. So useless, and yet I'm considering getting another one to make them a unit.

**CT GAMER**

I have a hard time not fielding Mega Nobz just because i love the models and the idea of orks in battle suits klanking about.

I'm not totally thrilled with their current incarnation rules wise , but I love the models enough to include them more times than not...

**InventionThirteen**

Definitely my Dracon with an agoniser, she comes with eight incubi and very rarely get to engage anything for more than one turn as she kicks so much ass.

My regular opponents actually shy away from her raider these days, something about throwing rocks at a bee hive?

**the_ampersand_man**

Sentinels. They work wonders for me almost every game. I don't think I've played one game since the beginning of 3rd edition where I haven't used them.

**Vermillion**

The first range of eldar aspect warriors one model from each aspect released WD127 ahhh

Nostalgia and they still look the business. They've been stripped and repainted many times as skills improved, but I still love those sculpts and the vyper model is great even if nowadays people rarely feild them I still keep thinking stick 9 in because the fire they attract is ridiculous and might even stop people going jittery seeing the war walkers and emptying everything into them

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

My old metal dev squad. I moved the heavy volter to a tac squad for a second ml, but the squad is my favorite.

**Samus_aran115**

None. Building compassion for your minis leads to unwise tactical decisions.

Well..Actually... All of my Chaos termies with lightning claws...I like them a lot..I give them a lot of props for being so awesome :3

**Albatross**

My Looted Wagons. If I can keep them alive long enough, and they don't just zoom off into the distance as the result of 'Don't Press Dat!', I love being able to take out almost entire Space Marine squads with them. Rarely works out, though.

**Karon**

My Bestigors, without a doubt.

I call them the "Typhoon of Dark Iron" because I've painted all their weapons jet black, in memory of when they, along with my Beastlord and Battle Standard Bearer, tore through a Chosen Deathstar, along with Festus and Sigvald, along with a lot of buffs from dual warshrines. My Beastlord also destroyed Sigvald in a challenge, which was pretty epic as I've always loved Sigvald as a special character.

16 Halberd Chosen along with Sigvald and Festus were slew in one round of combat by my Bestigors (who got the charge)

Festus survived, however, but the chaos player shot his hellcannon at my bestigor unit, and it scattered so it only hit Festus, who died.

The Dark Iron part came from the player who had named his deathstar the "Tornado of Dark Iron".

Makes them a unit that I will put into every single list.

**Diakon**

They're pretty hit and miss so far but I've got three really old Pink Horrors from the '80's that I use as heralds. I love em way more than any of the Horror incarnations since. I sometimes field em with no upgrades too just to save points and they've still managed to wreck one friends Chimera and another friends Land Speeder with Daemonic Gaze. Love 'em.