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I just bought an old baneblade from a friend, totally assembled. It's old enough where it only contains the parts to build the actual Baneblade, none of the variants. However, he gave me sprues to make the Shadowsword or Stormlord (Not sure which is which). Stormlord seems good because if I have a platoon inside weapon squads can fire their lascannons from within, etc. However, I've heard the Shadowsword is pretty bro too. However, I only see stats for the Baneblade, Hellhammer, Fortress of Arrogance, and Stormlord between the two Apoc books. Only BB, Shadowsword, or Stormlord really matter to me atm. Which is best? I'm new to apoc, so all of this dazzles me in a way incomprehensible.

Go with the Titan killer variant. Why? Because it can one-shot a Titan.

The Baneblade as general purpose SHV.
The Shadowsword to kill superheavies.


Apoc vehicles could be found additionally in WD and as pdf from GW.
more datasheet for APOC: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat440317a&categoryId=900006§ion=&aId=3400020

I have a particular preference for Looted Baneblades

I've boiled it down to the Banehammer and the Banesword. Banesword I can see being nasty always, but a Banehammer with Lascannon teams inside of it being outflanked by CREEEEEEEEEEEEED! is a hilarious thing to do to my poor friend as well. Any experience with this guys?