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What is your favourite deathstar to run and why?

And 5 TH/SS termies with a termi librarian with null zone.

Oh wait a minute...


Jokes aside, i prefer the idea of a TWC Deathstar...

Draigo + 10 Paladins with different equipment + Inquisitor Karamazov

Ungoddly expensive but silly hard, with good ranged attacks, great close combat ability and won't fail moral checks. Plus its scoring

full equipment diversified nob bikerz with painboy and all cyborks . toughness 5, 4+ armor, 4+ cover, 4+ feel no pain and 5++ in combat

Forgive my ignorance, but I've never heard the term Deathstar used in reference to wargaming. What do you mean by it?

Jimsolo wrote:Forgive my ignorance, but I've never heard the term Deathstar used in reference to wargaming. What do you mean by it?

A hard hitting unit, typically close combat oriented, that takes up a significant amount of your army's points. Like a 7-man assault terminator squad with a Chapter Master in terminator armor in a Land Raider Crusader in a 1500 point army.

For 40k, my choice would be my Templar Assault Marines with Furious Charge riding in a Land Raider Crusader with a Marshal in terminator armour, lightning claw, and storm shield. If any points remain, Adamantine Mantle for the Eternal Warrior on the Marshal.

Kills gak dead.

However, this one has always been my favorite Death Star to use in any game. I miss Star Wars CCG. *sniffs*

. Easy.

5 TH/SS Termies with Lysander in a LRR.

Durza wrote: . Easy.

A die? I don't get it.

A deathstar is a unit that takes up the majority of your points (mots of the time), but is ridiculously tough)

i.e, 10 nob pikers, all diversified, 7 power klaws, etc, stuff like that (900 point squad but people use less power klaws and make it cheaper etc etc ), they have FNP lots of uber abilites

Ccommon one is 10 TH/SS Termies in a LR CR with some uber HQ in, Chapter master maybe? Oribital Bombardment then assault

Orkaswampa wrote:
Ccommon one is 10 TH/SS Termies in a LR CR with some uber HQ in, Chapter master maybe? Oribital Bombardment then assault

While that's the general idea, you can't fit 10 terminators and an HQ in a LR Crusader.

Angron with Twelve Bloodthirsters.

Never ran it but damn would that be cool.

Anyone thought of 10 warlocks with ultran? thats a rerollable 4++ for the loks and a rerollable 3++ for thran if he does fortune, plus they will wound anything on 2+. Or you take a fully upgraded farseer, also do fortune and give them bikes. Thats rerollable 3+ for all whoey

That's a fairly common Eldar Deathstar...

I sometimes use 5 TH/SS termies with Sanguinary priest and Libby in a Storm Raven.

Think 3x Manticore would make an imperial guard deathstar? Cant really think of anything else non apoc that could be for them

Orkaswampa wrote:Think 3x Manticore would make an imperial guard deathstar? Cant really think of anything else non apoc that could be for them

a 55 man blob with full power weapons, a priest and creed giving furious charge is pretty dangerous
55+ T3 5+ wounds, 30-45+ rerolling S4 powerweapon attacks on the charge.

Nice ;p, What about 9 Leman Russ Battle Tanks?

Orkaswampa wrote:Nice ;p, What about 9 Leman Russ Battle Tanks?

A deathstar is a single unit, not a collection of units. An absurd guard blob could be considered a death star, if it had enough powerfists mixed in.

Yes but you could call it a death star, a battery of 9 leman russes working together as opposed to as separate squadrons, even tho its not actually a deathstar, its a setup to be feared, that packs as punch as a whole, 1 nob biker squad packs a similar punch to that

My own Court of the Wolf Lords that I run - 4 Wolf Lords on Thunderwolf Cavalry, with all sorts of goodies and extras to make them damn near unstoppable. Runs me half the points in my army, but hey, they strike fear into the hearts of my opponents.

Imo, Tau Deathstar =
O'shovah
7x T/L MP,7x Flamers, 7x HW Multi trackers, 14 HW Shield Drones, 7x HW Target Lock (O'shovah allows for 7 bodyguard? )

GK Libby + powers
Techmarine w/ Rad/Psytrope grenades
DKA x 8
Crusader x 4
all in LRC w/ MM

All for around 750 pts ish

10 man DC with a chaplain and everything except 1 power first : should be 415 and some 38 attacks with charge ? Was much more of a deathstar with jumpacks, 575 points wow thats expensive for that It's still somewhat of a death star, or more of a steam roller with this prices.

Ineed2bucks wrote:10 man DC with a chaplain and everything except 1 power first : should be 415 and some 38 attacks with charge ? Was much more of a deathstar with jumpacks, 575 points wow thats expensive for that It's still somewhat of a death star, or more of a steam roller with this prices.

Even better a 30 man Death Company with Lemartes all dual wielding thunder hammers and jump pack. Now that's expensive

Nicholas wrote:Even better a 30 man Death Company with Lemartes all dual wielding thunder hammers and jump pack. Now that's expensive

Expensive, and easily killed/lead around to do not much of anything.

DakkaDakka wrote:

DeathReaper wrote:

Nicholas wrote:Even better a 30 man Death Company with Lemartes all dual wielding thunder hammers and jump pack. Now that's expensive

Expensive, and easily killed/lead around to do not much of anything.

I was joking, it works better then you'd think though. Tried it once with proxies. Still lost, but it took him a while to take it down.

Then my favorite is a ten man Sternguard squad with ten combi-meltas and Tigurius to port them around the battlefield.