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Been seeing a lot of talk about deathstars and "Army X's best Y slot option," so it got me thinking.

I don't play against a very wide variety of opponents, so my experience on how to counter certain units is very limited.
If I finally come up against a new army, I might be completely clueless on A) what to expect, and B) how to counter it.

Being the case, what would Dakka consider the top three units for each codex?

I'm guessing there's going to be some obvious ones (Heldrake, Riptide, etc.), but I'm hoping to be able to find out about some of the lesser known ones.
To get the ball rolling, I guess I'll start with my own codex...

NECRONS
- Nightscythe (preferably as a "Deathscythe" or "Stormscythe" rather than the cheap "lol, I'll just spam MSU Warrior squads and wait until turn 5 to put them on objectives" route)
- Annihilation Barge
- Wraiths (preferably lead by a Destroyer Lord)

I suppose it depends on how you use it, and how much you consider value for points a factor, but I'll have a crack at this.

SPACE MARINES
Drop Pods-Awesome tool, even better in a BA army (35 points+Assault squad), imo if they're not in your army then you're not doing it right
Land Raider-Kinda obvious one, but the 14 all round is so much fun, and is a guaranteed win if you can take out enemy anti-tank
Sternguard-Especially in a Drop Pod, with Combi-Meltas, i think they're a great choice for the army. Versatile deployment, and ammo.

From the armies I play
Grey Knights:
Coteaz
Dreadknights
Purifiers

Chaos Space Marines:
Heldrakes
Obliterators
Khorne Lord on a Juggernaut

All in the order given.

Tau:
Riptide
Broadsides
Crisis Suits

Space Marines (in my opinion)
Thunderfire Cannon
MM Attack Bikes
TH/SS Terminators

Space Wolves
Long Fangs
Grey Hunters
....can I have Long Fangs again? Probably Thunderwolf Cavalry

Eldar:
Eldrad
Fire dragons
War walkers

Nids:
Tervigon (duh)
Ymargls
Zoanthrope

Guard:
Vendetta (duh again)
Manticore
Veterans

Blood Angels:

Sanguinary Priests

Frag Furiosos

ASM for cheap Transports

Lucarikx


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 DrownedRat117 wrote:
Drop Pods-Awesome tool, even better in a BA army (35 points+Assault squad)

BA ASM get Drop Pods free

Lucarikx

Necrons:
Annihilation Barges
Wraiths
Night Scythes

Any representatives of the other slightly lesser played armies (Sisters, BT, Orks, DE, Daemons, DA) care to chime in?

From my understanding, for Sisters it's something like:

- Exorcists
- Uriah + conclave
- Celestine

Orks
Lootas
Dakkajet
Boyz

Nids
Tervigon
DoM
Hive Guard

Space Marines
TH/SS Termies (in landraider)
Thunderfire Cannon
Sternguard (in pod)

Templars, in my opinion:

Terminators (either type)

Crusader Squads (blobs)

Techmarines

Honourable mention to Marshals/Chaplain/Emperor's Champion, without whom our supposed CC prowess would be weak indeed.

 shamikebab wrote:
Space Wolves
Long Fangs
Grey Hunters
....can I have Long Fangs again? Probably Thunderwolf Cavalry

You forgot the Rune Priest

Orks:
Biker Warboss
Biker Nobs as Troops
Lootas

Honorable mentions:
Meganobs
Dakka Jet

Dark Angels:

Ravenwing Command Squad with Standard of Devastation

Whirlwinds

Azrael

I really love Deathwing Knights but they don't quite make the cut. Honorable mention. RWCS with SoD surrounded by 3 x6 bike RAS squads is sheer win. Whirlwinds are amazingly cheap and Azrael just buffs the whole army and unlocks a lot of FOC shenanigans.

Orks:
Nob Warbikers
Lootas
Battlewagons w/ deff rollas.

DE

Venoms
Trueborn
Reaver Jet bikes

Eldar

Farseer
Guardian Jet bikes
War Walkers

Tyranids

Hive Tyrant
Tervigon
Termagants

Daemons:

Flesh Hounds
Seekers
Bloodthirster

For my DE it's:

Venoms
Beasts
Ravagers

Black Templar:
Tech Marines
Master of Sanctity/Chaplain with retinue (pass those tests plus extra bodies)
Crusader Blobs

Daemons (going off of old book, haven't played the new one yet):
Flamers
Slaanesh Daemon Princes
Nurgle Daemon Princes

From my tyranids:

Tervigon
Hive Tyrant
Doom of Malan'tai

For daemons:
-Flesh Hounds
-Seekers
-Bloodthirster/lord of change/kairos fateweaver (hard one. Bloodthirster can wreck in cc, lord of change is a great force multiplier and can still be a threat in cc, fateweaver fixes some of the excessive randomness however he has horrid stats)

Noteworthy unit:
-Soulgrinder

Daemons:
-Flesh Hounds
-Screamers
-Soul Grinder

Nids:
-Tervigon
-Doom
-Flyrants

Chaos:
-DP of Zeentch with Black Mace
-Helldrake
-Nurgle Spawn

Tau:
Broadsides
Farsight Bomb
Riptide

My Amries:

Space Wolves:
Long Fangs
Rune Priest
Grey Hunters

Honorable Mention: Wolf Priest
LVP: Skyclaws

IG:
Vendetta
Manticore
Vet Squad

Honorable Mention: Marbo, LR Exterminator, LR Punisher, IG Platoon
LVP: Nork

Dark Angels

Deathwing
Land Raiders with Deathwing vehicle
5-man tactical squads with heavy weapons

Chaos

Heldrake
Havocs with flakk and CCW
huge Space Marine squads

Tyranids

Doom of Malantai
Winged Hive Tyrant
Ymgarl Genestealers

 Troike wrote:
From my understanding, for Sisters it's something like:

- Exorcists
- Uriah + conclave
- Celestine

That was 5th edition.

Right about now it is:
- Celestine
- Celestine
- Celestine


Okay, maybe something more like this:
- Celestine
- Exorcists
- Dominions or Rets

Sisters
-Celestine
-seraphim (gotta give it to them over the dom's)
-exorcists

Tau:

Riptide
Broadside
Crisis Suits

Tyranids:

Swarm Lord
Tervigon
DoM

Space Marines:
•MM Attack Bikes
•TH/SS Terminators
•Librarian

Just wanna point out to all the Templars players that they can have assault marines with storm shields for 25 points per model, and meltabombs at an extra 2 ppm...
Mini-Deathstar?