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I found that my Punisher did ok against dark eldar, small units and rubbish armour on their vehicles.. though the executioner does better.

HQ: primaris psyker - night shroud barley effects anything
Troops: Tough choice sws melta teams runs at 65 for bs3 while melta vets you get 4 more bodies & bs4 for just 35 points more.
Heavy: Colossus str 6 blast that cant shoot within 24"
FA: rough riders
elites: going to go with storm troopers, if i put vets in a vendetta they are pretty much the same.

IMPERIAL GUARD:

HQ: Missionary/Techpriest
ELITES: Ogryns, though not useless
TROOP: conscripts
FAST ATTACK: rough riders
HEAVY SUPPORT: deathstrike

ORK:

HQ: Weirdboy/Plain Mekboy
ELITES: Tankbusta
TROOP: Grots
FAST ATTACK: Stormboyz
HEAVY SUPPORT: Flash Gitz

NEW NECRON:

HQ: ... none really. though some are weaker than others
ELITES: flayed ones
TROOP: ghost ark for transport, warrior for troop. neither are useless though
FAST ATTACK: destroyers (non heavy)
HEAVY SUPPORT: again, none. though monolith is less useful

TYRANIDS

HQ: Parasite
ELITES: Pyrovore, obviously
TROOP: Ripper Swarm
FAST ATTACK: spore mines, followed by flying ripper swarms
HEAVY SUPPORT: Carnifex

Some of these are hard to pick, but its really depends if something is better than them rather than them being crap.

HQ: Aun'va, master of the undying spirit, or any ethereal really.
Elite: Pyrovore
Troops: Krootox
Fast Attack: Vespid
Heavy Support: unsure

ELDAR

HQ: Baharroth or Maugan Ra. For their points all the Phoenix Lords are terrible, especially considering the lack of invulns aside from Asurmen. But Baharroth and Maugan Ra suffer more from being most useful (if useful can be applied) in assault when they can only be joined to shooting units.

Elites: Eldar don't really have any bad elites, but I'd say Striking Scorpions are the least useful of the lot.

Troops: Rangers. They are way too expensive and barely ever do anything. They can withstand a good amount of shooting with Stealth if they're on an objective, but the second an assault unit or anything with a flamer looks at them they die.

Fast Attack: Shining Spears. Holy crap are these guys bad. Really expensve for something that does a job done better by just about everything else. Sure they hit hard on the first round of assault, but then either they wiped the unit and now they're out in the middle of nowhere waiting to be shot, or they don't and they fold like wet tissue paper next round.

Heavy Support: Support Weapon Batteries. I can't think of a single reason why anyone would ever take these in any list, especially with how good the other HS choices are. Even without the competition, they suck.