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Picture this. Each race can submit a single specialist troop. No characters, just specialist troops based on stealth or assassination.
Space Marines - Scout
Chaos Marines - Chaos Scout
Imperial Guard - Storm-trooper
Tyranids - Lictor
Eldar - Pathfinder
Dark Eldar - Mandrake
Tau - XV15 Suit and Pilot
Inquisition - Assassin
Necrons - Deathmark
Ork - Kommando
Now place them in a city ruin. Who do you think would honestly win?

My gut instinct says the Lictor just due to its str, speed and physiology. With no hi tech back up/support I think it would be incredibly difficult to find and kill.

Tau suit might have its best chance against it.

Shouldnt Eldar entry be Pathfinders?

It depends...

Lictor and Deathmark have the biggest chance...but that doesn't have to be like that. And you didn't noted witch Assassin, that could make a big difference in the battlefield.


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Ratius wrote:
Shouldnt Eldar entry be Pathfinders?

This. Pathfinder are essentially Eldar scouts so they should be on the list.

Good point. As for tech, we should assume that all of these operatives have their standard issue war gear and all of their fluff based smarts. THis is also fluff based rather than game based. A Lictor could easily rip a Stormtrooper to bits, but we can assume the Stormtrooper would fight smart.

What about Assassin?
Which one did you have in mind?

Thats actually a really hard choice... I would assume a Vindicare or Evensor personally.

Then I can say that in this fight Assassin wins.
Eversor is crazy like hell and fast like lighting.
Vindicare would just head shot everybody else.

True true... What about a Death Cult assassin. They are more common and would be much fairer on the other competition.

Death Cult would be faring well to, since they are trained to go behind enemy lines and assassinate commanders and such.

But I don't know how she would handle Lictor...

I'd like to see Eversor vs Lictor.
Whilst the Eversor is no doubt a combat monster (able to take on Marines according to HH books), a Lictor is another matter altogether from a Str, speed and agility PoV.

I'd give a Pathfinder good odds vs a Vindicare tbh. Their gear is going to be equal (if not surpassed by the Pathfnder) and both have incredible amounts of training/discipline.

My gut tells me that this is going to be a fight between a big ugly alien and a assassin dressed in black.. Sounds like a couple of movies that I know of lol.

I remember assassins from the good old days when they used to be near invincible killing machines (as they should be!) so id say it was a pretty unfair fight.

Definitely the Lictor. If you've read Warriors of Ultramar, you'll know why.

if we use Table-top stats, Eversor beats the Lictor hands down.

For chaos use would send someone from the Alpha legion, maybe the night lords.

Wolf Scouts are a better choice for SM...
Considering we aren't choosing between codeci here...

Sunoccard wrote:For chaos use would send someone from the Alpha legion, maybe the night lords.

Yeah, there is no Chaos Scouts codex entry.

Coolyo294 wrote:Definitely the Lictor. If you've read Warriors of Ultramar, you'll know why.

And this for the reason stated.