Most playable special characters

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**The Epic Chaosdude!!!**

Since there has been an similar thread at warhammer fantasy battle forum then I might just ask the same about wh40k. So which Wh40k special characters are most worth their price in your opinion?
My thoughts:
Captain cato sicarius
Darnath lysander
Eldrad Ulthuan

**purplefood**

Logan Grimnar-Loads of special rules and pretty hard to kill as well.
Njal the Stormcaller-Badass psyker man.

**G00fySmiley**

ghazghull thraka . his SnP is pretty much negated by move through cover, and the 6" waaaaagh is amazing. plue as an eternal warrior with plus 2 attacks on the charge and a 2++ on that waaagh turn.. he's pretty beastly when used right

**Jimsolo**

If by most playable you mean most worth their points, then the answer in my opinion is most of them. If you mean 'easiest to use' then I vote for Tigurius. He's versatile enough to be a useful support character in any situation.

**Brother SRM**

Lysander manages to buff a squad he's with while being a one man wrecking ball; he's pretty hard to use poorly as long as he's hitting stuff with his hammer or making your bolters reroll misses.

**Chaos Lord Gir**

Khárn the Betrayer.

Point, click, the target is dead and so is a handful of your own men. Totally worth it.

**Lord Rogukiel**

Eldrad Ulthuan. BEAST! 3 pyshic powers a turn and not for too bad points either.

Otherwise: Sammael!

Jetbike with plasma cannon and a bunch of other special rules which I can't remember right now. Either way a great IC

**pdawg517**

Vulkan.

Stick in with terminators and beat the enemy to death while melting everything else off the table.

**Maenus_Rajhana**

Eldrad and Fateweaver both come to mind.

I also find Marbo can be quite worth the mere 65 points it takes to field him, if he can show up at the right time and detonate a squad of termies/long fangs/oblits/etc.

**mcyeatman**

Eldrad hands down. No special character can do more for his force than Eldrad. His stat line is not overally impressive but he makes Eldar competitive.

Mephy on the other hand has the stat line of a monstrous creature.

**Anavrin**

Hmm... Vulkan is probably the single most cost effective special character in the game.

Eldrad and Fateweaver would also be good candidates.

Crowe and Lysander are both great for their points, although for different reasons, and not to the same level as the others mentioned IMO.

Oh, and of course Ghazzy has to be up there as well.

**timetowaste85**

Once again....Skulltaker. Kills any model on a 4+ to wound? Um...HELLO!! (barring EW models)

**Phazael**

Vulkan, hands down. Honoroable Mention, Pedro Cantor.

Eldrad, Logan, and Mephiston might be more powerful (open to debate) but you pay for that power. Vulkan and Pedro can immediately improve any army they are added to, at a very reasonable cost.

**Iur_tae_mont**

Vulkan is just disgusting.

**Belexar**

**N'Ferno**

Kor'Sarro is pretty nice as well.

**AlmightyWalrus**

The Black Templars have... ehm.. ehh..

TANKRED SMASH!

**Zweischneid**

Tau Battleforce: £ 60,-

Aun'va: £ 20,50

Your eternal glory you earn if you actually win games with the Space Pope: Priceless!

**Metallicarule**

Eldrad for me, he really helps the force in general and he is a bugger to kill!

**Nuclear_Bomb**

Ku'Gath maybe?

**Spartan 117**

Eldrad, Crysander, Ghazzy, Nightbringer, Yarrick, Fateweaver, Abaddon, Yuriel, Mephiston, Kharn

Thats my list for ya

**Chaos Lord Gir**

Actually Marbo IS the most point efficent for 65 points you can effectively cripple termies, paladins and outright destroy your average marines, tyranid warriors... Oh god I should run him more in my IG army...

**Mr. Self Destruct**

Surprised no one's mentioned Duke Sliscus yet.
150 points for getting better Combat Drugs, free Retrofire Jets for everyone and 3+ poison on a unit of Splinter weapons, and still being relatively nasty in combat.
Literally the only reason I don't take him is I value FnP a bit more.

**Polonius**

Vulkan boosts the best anti-tank weapons in the game (meltas), the best assault unit in the game (assault termies), and a very common support weapon (heavy flamers). He does this for essentially zero points over a similarly equipt captain. He also doesn't need to be on the board or stay alive for his main benefits, and the competition for SM HQ slots isn't fierce.

Eldrad does a lot, although his usefulness is waning with increasing numbers of psyker defenses.

Ghazkull is great, and gives the army a very reliable turn two charge. He's not a bargain though, and competes with the stupidly good Big Mek for an HQ slot.

**AlmightyWalrus**

Polonius wrote:
Ghazkull is great, and gives the army a very reliable turn two charge. He's not a bargain though, and competes with the stupidly good Big Mek for an HQ slot.

Which is why you run both a Big Mek and him! Sure, it's kinda expensive, but what Mr. G touches dies.

**Rampage**

CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!

Only 90 pts and can really help an IG army become much more effective. Although does work better if used with Kell and possibly foot Guard.

Otherwise, has to be Eldrad.

**Reaver83**

Eldrad easily imho

**Dark Apostle 666**

Marbo is awesome.

I run counts-as Kantor, so he gets a vote.

I want Lysander... Gotta get assault termies first though.

**Creeping Dementia**

The most useful characters tend to be the ones you see all... the... time.

Crowe
Coteaz
Vulkan
Pedro
Lysander
Shrike
Eldrad
Ghaz
The Duke
The Baron
Mephiston
Sanguinor
Fateweaver
Creed
Al'Rahem
Marbo
Deceiver
Njal
Logan

**shimraa**

The Changling! 20~something point named character? Win!

But if you meant like HQ's, and staying with deamons, fateweaver is pretty much a staple along with epidimus if you go nurgly. Ku'gath is awesoem too since nothing can possibly kill him.

I cant remember who they are but a lot of the DE guys allow you to get some stupidly good bonuses to their squads. Or at least let you manage to use some rule combos to create awesome.