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G'day fellow dakkanauts!
So I was thinking, you know that one unit you always throw in your army list, they normally only cost around 100 points, and you don't expect them to kill anything nor survive for that matter, but you know your opponent can't ignore them, because they might actually do something!
I'm talking like 5 death marks, 5 wolf scouts with a melta gun, 3 reavers with a heat lance, that sort of thing!
So who loves them as much as I do? Ticking off your opponent with them always brings joy

5 lootas are only 75 points, and they are bread and butter for most ork players. Same goes for rokkit koptas with buzzsaws.

Typhoon.

CCS with 4 melta guns, 90 points. Can ruin a Land Raider's day.

5 Fire Dragons.

Veteran Squad w/ 3 Meltaguns

2 multi-melta attack bikes, or a HF/MM speeder

Tau Shas'el commander with fusion blaster, plasma rifle, multi tracker, and stimulant injector. 3 BS4 AP2 shots on a FNP, 3W, and 3+ save deepstriking HQ.

Dreads, everytime i have fielded them they have destroyed ALOT.
Especially plasma cannons.

Stormtroopers with melta.

a BA scout squad with (4) sniper rifles, (1) ML, and camo cloaks all around.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Dreads, everytime i have fielded them they have destroyed ALOT.
Especially plasma cannons.

Dreads cost 105 before upgrades.

I'd have to say the Thunderfire Cannon. While it is fragile, it can be made more survivable with reinforced cover and from there it can shell the crap out of any infantry hordes I may encounter.

Its around 100 points.

MotF

5 naked nobs

Gorfang EadSplitta wrote:5 naked nobs

Sounds like a party...

Marbo is only 65 points but I always take him. Easy KP but he's definitely the biggest trollface in Codex:IG

DoW

The most obvious example for this is probably Marbo, especially as he's only 65 points. Practically every time I make a list, there's a marbo-sized hole in it, and I usually have to work to exclude him from my lists.

For 100ish points proper, I think I agree that melta stormies are probably it for guard. Hydras would be it were it not for the fact that you probably already have your HS slots full and rough riders would probably be it were it not for the fact that nobody actually owns the models.

For CSM at the moment, it's obliterators. You basically can never have too many (well, until you hit 9 of them), and for only 75 points, why not chip in another?

sub-zero wrote:a BA scout squad with (4) sniper rifles, (1) ML, and camo cloaks all around.

This.

They are GREAT at claiming an objective with their 2+ Cover save when they G2G, since the rifles never wound, and the ML never hits.

If only there was 5pts more... I could of had my barebones unit of 3 Scout Sentinels...

'Ole Burn-E'

Deff Dredd with 2 skorchas, Armour Plates and Grot Riggers

Chaos Dread with two close combat arms. 100 points exactly

Pair of Hive Guard.

They create a nice 30" bubble where people are afraid to bring their transports.

10 Kroot, 5 Kroot Hounds, 100 on the dot. Infiltrating troop for late game, cheap choice for early game, or a bubblewrap unit in the (quite likely) event you don't want the rest of your Tau army in combat.

I generally don't take any unit near a hundred points. If you count dedicated transports as part of the selection, then the cheapest selection I ususally take is a hundred and fifty points.

A 3 henchman unit with plasma guns and a chimera with extra armour

Marked Lone Wolf in Termie Armor w TH/SS

IXLoiero95XI wrote:Chaos Dread with two close combat arms. 100 points exactly

Yeah I'd love this too if mine would stop going shooty crazy and killing my own guys...It's like he is mad at me for NOT giving him a big gun.

That said since this is favorite and not best...I'd go with a lascannon sentinel with a hunter killer missle. Just liked the look of it. I had one in my 1000 point IG and most times it missed or did nothing special and then there was games the thing just wouldn't die, and that lascannon hit the entire game...kinda miss trading it, but oh well.

kinratha wrote:Stormtroopers with melta.

This. People said Storm Troopers sucked and weren't good for anything, I kept them in my list. People grudgingly said they could theoretically be useful, but not in practise, I kept them in my list. People have come to accept that they're pretty good at suicide melta delivery, I still keep them in my lists.

That or the Emperor's Champion, but he actually kills stuff without dying most of the time.

Blood Angels:
Sniper scouts with cloaks and a missile launcher, regular scouts with cloaks and combimelta + melta bomb on the sergeant, 2 multimelta attack bikes.

All three units have proven to be useful. Especially the attack bikes. Seem to be pretty harmless compared to other things but they rip your face apart.

the platoon command squad with 4 grenade launchers... 50pts, no one bothers them unless they're playing dark eldar (in which case they die first, as its a free pain token) or b)everything else is already dead.

the only time they ever do anything is in the turn before they die against DE, as the s6 krak grenades can hurt their silly little transports and instagib the archon. Unfrotunately, the turn before they die against DE is usually the deployment phase.