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I thought it was funny how the new riptide was compared to the heldrake on the homepage of dakkadakka. Riptide won.

I was joking about how we judge how competitive a CSM was by how many drakes it took. Having 3 drakes makes any bad CSM list very competitive. I bet you if you took the bare minimum compulsory requirements with the 3 drakes, it will still be extremely good at its point level.

I was wondering what other units do we compare other models or squads to.

For example I try to measure every infantry to a 15pt space marine.

Um, this is in the wrong forum. Tactics or general 40K discussion would be better.

Model to model, o I only compare for special models. MC's characters etc. beatsticks compare to Lysander or Swarmlord, buffs to IG CCS or SM librarians.

With regard to units, tactical marines are the base to compare other marines to. (so GH are clearly better than the base), and for others it's more a general thing, or in-codex, rather than a game wide comparison, at least for me.

Agreed - over to 40K General it is...

Typically I dot use too much comparison. And typically it's more model to model SC's and such, what are their special rules, what is their durability, what are they actually bringing to an army? For squads and such I try not to do too much comparison while I'm building a list. I try to think more of what the squad does and how it works for what I'm making. I would never say "I can't take scouts because look how crappy they measure up to grey hunters". Any comparison I would make is more squad to squad in the same book.