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Tactics, cost effectiveness, and intelligence aside, what are the most fun units or armies you have ever seen?

EDIT: Talking about unit composition, not general codecies.

Orks and shock attack gun, there both well funny

 Formosa wrote:
Orks and shock attack gun, there both well funny

You know I constantly hear this but have no clue what it actually does...

 ductvader wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
Orks and shock attack gun, there both well funny

You know I constantly hear this but have no clue what it actually does...

Random stregth with 6 potential 'side effects' ranging from exploding spontaneously to destroying everything hit by the template (yes, everything, Eternal Warrior means precisely squat.)

Personally, I have tons of fun with Tyranid Swarm armies. 100+ Gargoyles/Gaunts/Rippers backed up with a few bigger beasties. The look on your opponents face when your movement phase is aboutto take a week is priceless...

In 5th I once ran into a MotF, 2x Tacticals in Rhinos, and 6 Venerable Dreadnoughts with assorted weapons.

The most fun army I've ever played against was a full kroot army
Ie even the hq was kroot ( I think they used to have there own codex)
It was fun because it was completely zany and took 3 turns to beat haha

The most fun I've seen is a USMC imperial guard army complete with m16s instead of lasguns and Blackhawks as valkries it look ace !!

Sisters of Battle. Some pretty heavy guns, an almost army wide 3+ armour save, low cost, meaning you don't get sad puppy just because a bunch of your guys die in the shooting phase, a 6+ invuln on everything. Rolling that rare 6 to save the Exorcist that your enemy has brought everything to take down is priceless.

Some pretty nifty special rules, with acts of faith and hymns. Not fantastic rules, but we were talking about fun, here.

With Imperial Guard you get pretty much the same thing as sisters, except you get more choices for your vehicles, more choices for your troops but you lose the 3+ armour save.

BunnyCommando wrote:
Personally, I have tons of fun with Tyranid Swarm armies. 100+ Gargoyles/Gaunts/Rippers backed up with a few bigger beasties. The look on your opponents face when your movement phase is aboutto take a week is priceless...

"Alright, we'll go grab a pizza, be back later." Have that fun on your own

 Purifier wrote:

BunnyCommando wrote:
Personally, I have tons of fun with Tyranid Swarm armies. 100+ Gargoyles/Gaunts/Rippers backed up with a few bigger beasties. The look on your opponents face when your movement phase is aboutto take a week is priceless...

"Alright, we'll go grab a pizza, be back later." Have that fun on your own

Yeah the usual reaction is, 'Right, I'll go put the kettle on then'.

Playing against an ultramarines army made completely from real smurfs! Houses were drop pods, poppa was the hq, crab clawed ones were termies was compltely hillariously awesome!

First game I ever played with the current Tyranid book.

I proxied the 5 Tervigon list and faced a spam punisher list...to test resiliency.

Went 7 turns without a single one doubling out and coated the board in tyranids...I think I ran out of gant models.

...I have 220ish termagants.

I know it sounds like a broken record with threads like this but I would say to play against... Orks. They are so amazingly hilarious and great that it is never a dull moment.

 ductvader wrote:
You know I constantly hear this but have no clue what it actually does...

Build a machine that on one end is a vacuum hose that sucks up snotlings and at the other end creates a warp portal to "fire" the snotling at a target and have it reappear from the warp inside its armor, body or whatever and add in the "joys" of ork technology and you have a shokk attack gun and the craziness it causes on the table top.

Skriker

 Skriker wrote:

 ductvader wrote:
You know I constantly hear this but have no clue what it actually does...

Build a machine that on one end is a vacuum hose that sucks up snotlings and at the other end creates a warp portal to "fire" the snotling at a target and have it reappear from the warp inside its armor, body or whatever and add in the "joys" of ork technology and you have a shokk attack gun and the craziness it causes on the table top.

Skriker

No longer cares what it does in game but wants this to exist in real life.

All skimmer tau army. Not actually very good, but it is hilarious to play with (and see the look on your opponent's face).

 ductvader wrote:

 Skriker wrote:

 ductvader wrote:
You know I constantly hear this but have no clue what it actually does...

Build a machine that on one end is a vacuum hose that sucks up snotlings and at the other end creates a warp portal to "fire" the snotling at a target and have it reappear from the warp inside its armor, body or whatever and add in the "joys" of ork technology and you have a shokk attack gun and the craziness it causes on the table top.

Skriker

No longer cares what it does in game but wants this to exist in real life.

When the gun goes wrong, it can fire the ork firing it across the battlefield instead of the snotlings...

MASSSSSS DEATH COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that was a fun list to face. 60+ death compnay models, coming at me!

3rd ed Orks - Plasma Lootas.
Every roll To Hit of 1 resolves the attack on the squad. 4 Gets Hot later....

For the lists I love playing, it's either :
Horde Guard: "You have HOW MANY guys?" followed by "You have HOW MANY lasgun shots?!" followed by "Wow, did I just kill 30 of your guys in one shooting phase?"

Deep Strike Marines/BA (better in 5th): "Oh, I'm sorry, did you want me to deploy something?"

I can't really think of most fun army I've played against specifically, but on the whole, I love games when I'm up against something new. My first game against SOB was a blast, as I'd neither seen the models in person nor seen the rules used, so it was a completely new experience. I also love facing armies that have a good backstory or fluff behind them, it adds so much more to the game.

Probably a 5e Apocalypse game between a DA/GK/Eldar army and an IG/SM army. The Imperials bunkered up and set up their big guns, then looked over the top of their fortifications to find a wedge of Eldar tanks shielding a Ravenwing brigade running straight at them, followed by sixty Terminators landing in their collective faces and massacring the defenders. Only time I've ever seen an Apocalypse army get tabled.

 Paradigm wrote:
For the lists I love playing, it's either :
Horde Guard: "You have HOW MANY guys?" followed by "You have HOW MANY lasgun shots?!" followed by "Wow, did I just kill 30 of your guys in one shooting phase?"

"Ok, so my company commander is gonna give this unit First Rank, Second Rank, FIRE!"
"... what does that do?"
"it gives me *long pause* this many die to throw."

My so called ''House of Pain''

3 Earthshakers carriages and Thudd Gun inside a building shattering skies left and right.

The suicidal Grenadiers are fun to play, when people let you do it, and it was always fun to see a 10 (guards)men squad worth 250 pts flatten itself on a wall

Home made army, made up of moles. Brilliant models and rules, was a lot of fun to play and was quite tough. Favourite model had to be the kamikaze mole.