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Alexzandvar wrote:Trust me, this thing is amazing at wiping out Horde armies in a short amount of turns. It's held the line against Tyranid and Ork tides more than I can count.

Oh, I mean no offense, it's just that that tank has like six "yo, dawg" things you could say about it, probably the most obvious being "yo, dawg, I hear you liked twin-linked heavy bolter turrets, so we put some twin-linked heavy bolter turrets on your twin-linked heavy bolter turrets so you can heavy bolter while you heavy bolter!"

TermiesInARaider wrote:On another note, Land Raider Terminus Ultra? Anyone?

Lol. Yo dawg, I hear you liked lascannons...

Ailaros wrote:

Alexzandvar wrote:Trust me, this thing is amazing at wiping out Horde armies in a short amount of turns. It's held the line against Tyranid and Ork tides more than I can count.

Oh, I mean no offense, it's just that that tank has like six "yo, dawg" things you could say about it, probably the most obvious being "yo, dawg, I hear you liked twin-linked heavy bolter turrets, so we put some twin-linked heavy bolter turrets on your twin-linked heavy bolter turrets so you can heavy bolter while you heavy bolter!"

TermiesInARaider wrote:On another note, Land Raider Terminus Ultra? Anyone?

Lol. Yo dawg, I hear you liked lascannons...

...And is there anything wrong with that? If he likes it, he likes it. xD

TermiesInARaider wrote:

I once played a Grey Knights player with my Stormhammer, he asked why I was using it.

Because it's awesome that's why

You, good sir, have just earned yourself an exalt. Bravo.

Thank you my good fellow!

After my game against IG today, my new favorite unit is definitely Kommandos (with or without Snikrot) took two units of them and outflanked, by the end of the battle they'd accounted for 2 chimeras, 1 vendetta and all their occupants (totalled about 30 veterans, I believe) who were in the process of outflanking me

IG Veterans, nuff said

Model wise: I really like My Chariots in my Daemon Army (and they tend to catch people's eye when I'm playing) and My Two "Shapers" (aka models that once were Shapers, but now just let me know where one kroot squad ends and another begins). And Biker Armies look pretty snazzy too.

Fluff Wise: Favorite's gotta be the Blue Horrors. What's not to love about two Spell Slinging Daemons trying to One-up the other at all time.

In Game: My Shield Drones. No matter What they always seem to get One kill (each) every time my suits get into CC.

Legion of the Damned. You heard me. Not because of their fluff, not because of the models.

Because I love it when the underdog succeeds. When my Legionaires falls down besides an IG tank battery, a space wolf CC unit or something simmilar and simple tears it appart. Granted, there are far between those moments. But when they come, it rocks. It rocks so hard.

Validar wrote:Legion of the Damned. You heard me. Not because of their fluff, not because of the models.

Because I love it when the underdog succeeds. When my Legionaires falls down besides an IG tank battery, a space wolf CC unit or something simmilar and simple tears it appart. Granted, there are far between those moments. But when they come, it rocks. It rocks so hard.

This, good sir, is all the reason you need.

Dreadnoughts. Venerable Dreadnoughts. With PC and heavy flamer so that the better BS is completely negated

Oh and the Chaos-Version too!

Gimme an abandoned secret base deep up in the Rockies, a Baneblade for me and my bros, bikes, preds, all that jazz.

Oh, and burgers, bratwurst, all the accouterments, and TWELVE CASES OF GUINNESS!

Ven. Psy Rifleman dreadnought, not for the rules just the look of the autocannons

Stealth Suits. According to the fluff at once avoided and appreciated by Hunter Cadre commanders for their unpredictibility and unorthodox thinking, they continue to be a mainstay in my Tau army. The old models in a simple blue and black paint scheme look lovely, and there is a grim, visceral joy in picking up 18 dice and unloading them on infantry squads. Or the rear of transports.

If I keep them at just the right distance, the enemy has to make a difficult decision about whether to ignore them or engage them, and they have the abilities to make either decision the wrong one if supported.

In the heyday of the Fire Knife suit when people were still just warming up to the idea of Fish of Fury, mathhammer ruled the day and people ignored the Stealthsuit in favor of the FK for marine killing. Many an opponant was shocked to realize that a full unit of stealth suits kill as many marines as a Tarocha of Fireknives for cheaper, though at slightly higher risk and less versatility (though before Spacemarines had grenades standard, MANY tac squads were shocked to discover they were charging into terrain when hitting stealth suits and subsequently losing assaults to TAU...) . It helped fill out my anti-horde firepower (regular opponants) and was not long before horde players quickly decided that the suits had to go FIRST. Which only meant that (appropriate to the fluff) They became the bait to lure the enemy into the killing field...

TL;DR Stealth suits. Awesome fluff, awesome abilities, gorgeous models, and underestimated and poorly understood power piece in my army.

Nagashek wrote:Stealth Suits. According to the fluff at once avoided and appreciated by Hunter Cadre commanders for their unpredictibility and unorthodox thinking, they continue to be a mainstay in my Tau army. The old models in a simple blue and black paint scheme look lovely, and there is a grim, visceral joy in picking up 18 dice and unloading them on infantry squads. Or the rear of transports.

If I keep them at just the right distance, the enemy has to make a difficult decision about whether to ignore them or engage them, and they have the abilities to make either decision the wrong one if supported.

In the heyday of the Fire Knife suit when people were still just warming up to the idea of Fish of Fury, mathhammer ruled the day and people ignored the Stealthsuit in favor of the FK for marine killing. Many an opponant was shocked to realize that a full unit of stealth suits kill as many marines as a Tarocha of Fireknives for cheaper, though at slightly higher risk and less versatility (though before Spacemarines had grenades standard, MANY tac squads were shocked to discover they were charging into terrain when hitting stealth suits and subsequently losing assaults to TAU...) . It helped fill out my anti-horde firepower (regular opponants) and was not long before horde players quickly decided that the suits had to go FIRST. Which only meant that (appropriate to the fluff) They became the bait to lure the enemy into the killing field...

TL;DR Stealth suits. Awesome fluff, awesome abilities, gorgeous models, and underestimated and poorly understood power piece in my army.

Marines, lose an assault to TAU?! HERESY!

Stormblade, just love that Plasma Cannon of doom.

I have a basic Chaos Marine model that I field as a Captain with Hellfire Rounds, Artificer Armour and a Storm Shield. He used to laugh at my friend's IG with the ability to ignore just about everything

Obliterators. They're terminators... with every weapon and they can move and shoot heavy. And they have 2 base powerfist attacks. If I could field an army of only obliterators, I would. Maybe the new codex allows obliterators as a troop choice. No one has seen the new chaos codex yet, so who knows.. it could happen

Very recently, I've gotten into nids. Lictors, Hive Guards, and Raveners, to me, are just awesomesauce. Lictors are like ultra-stealth hunter bugs, who go all predator-active camo, then decloak and slaughter some poor mook. Hive Guards are big ol' hyer-tough tank bugs that like skewering suckers with giant poison bone harpoons, and Raveners are all tunneling murder-cyclones.

The generic, vanilla, tactical space marine.

I can play no other army as long as this exists

Hazardous Harry wrote:Howling Banshees. Okay, so they may not actually be the greatest thing in the Eldar Codex (I still think users here on dakka severely undervalue them) but gosh darn it if they aren't the single most kickass thing in the game. And they look damn fine while doing it.

Spoiler:

Whoops, come out bigger than expected.

Also my favorite. The pic is great too.

Necron Overlord on a command barge.

Nothing more to say

Look at my sig, can you guess?

Yup, the warlord nothing says doom like a god machine walking on your position. Its just so epic and awe inspiring to see it tower over the table.

As far as individual figs go, I'd have to go with either Cato Sicarrius or the Terminator Chaplin.

Always had a fondness for the old Great Gargants too

5 ogryns, with Yarrick, in a chimera.

Maybe not the best unit in the IG codex, but, rarely disapoints, hard to kill, and has taken out more than its share of things it "shouldn't be able to kill".

More original than most of the posts on this list too.

Abaddon The Despoiler.

I love the fluff behind the biggest bad guy in 40K.

I've been wanting to build a Black Legion army based around Big Evil since 2nd Ed.

I might do it for 6th Ed.

I love me some sternguard. the only thing that would be even better would be sternguard terminators, but alas, I would have to buy the badab war books and the astral claw master of the forge to give tactical terminators hellfire rounds. (IIRC)

My favorite Independent character would be vulkan, for his rules and for his weapons and stats.

Wolf Scouts. 110 points of suicidal tank busting goodness. I have five of them, each with Melta Bombs, 1 with a Meltagun. I then give them a Wolf Guard with CombiMelta and Power Fist for extra killy goodness.

My friend who plays a Footdar gunline is scared to death of those things. He deploys his Guardians in a line along the board edge to prevent them from coming on from his board edge and wiping out his War Walkers and Wraithlords.


As for models, Dreadnoughts are super cool but sadly I don't have the room in my list to run them. At armour 12 they'd also get popped way too easily with all of the anti-tank weaponry in 5E.

Puscifer wrote:Abaddon The Despoiler.

I love the fluff behind the biggest bad guy in 40K.

I've been wanting to build a Black Legion army based around Big Evil since 2nd Ed.

I might do it for 6th Ed.

I know this is slightly off topic, but I recently played an apoc game with my titan where the other team had abaddon in a land raider.

I was able to demolish his land raider, kill almost all the dudes in his squad but after wasting a lava cannon and a turbo laser shot on him he was actually still standing. He is the only character I've faced that has managed to survive an assault by titan.

bibblles wrote:

Puscifer wrote:Abaddon The Despoiler.

I love the fluff behind the biggest bad guy in 40K.

I've been wanting to build a Black Legion army based around Big Evil since 2nd Ed.

I might do it for 6th Ed.

I know this is slightly off topic, but I recently played an apoc game with my titan where the other team had abaddon in a land raider.

I was able to demolish his land raider, kill almost all the dudes in his squad but after wasting a lava cannon and a turbo laser shot on him he was actually still standing. He is the only character I've faced that has managed to survive an assault by titan.

That's impressive.

I played against a Black Legion army with my GK Draigowing today and it was a bloodbath.

He killed in six turns:

T2 - Dreadknight. Guy rolled a 5 for his attacks.
T3 - 5 Paladins. Guy rolled a 6.
T4 - 3 Paladins and Draigo. Guy rolled a 6 and hit and wounded with all of them. I failed every save. This was a ten strong unit.
T5 - After his accompanying Terminators got killed by the remains of the 10 strong Paladin unit, Abaddon killed another 4 and then got knocked down to one wound.
T6 - Killed the last remaining members of the squad.

That was practically 1750 points he killed in one game. I'm never charging Paladins into Big Evil again.

Puscifer wrote:

bibblles wrote:

Puscifer wrote:Abaddon The Despoiler.

I love the fluff behind the biggest bad guy in 40K.

I've been wanting to build a Black Legion army based around Big Evil since 2nd Ed.

I might do it for 6th Ed.

I know this is slightly off topic, but I recently played an apoc game with my titan where the other team had abaddon in a land raider.

I was able to demolish his land raider, kill almost all the dudes in his squad but after wasting a lava cannon and a turbo laser shot on him he was actually still standing. He is the only character I've faced that has managed to survive an assault by titan.

That's impressive.

I played against a Black Legion army with my GK Draigowing today and it was a bloodbath.

He killed in six turns:

T2 - Dreadknight. Guy rolled a 5 for his attacks.
T3 - 5 Paladins. Guy rolled a 6.
T4 - 3 Paladins and Draigo. Guy rolled a 6 and hit and wounded with all of them. I failed every save. This was a ten strong unit.
T5 - After his accompanying Terminators got killed by the remains of the 10 strong Paladin unit, Abaddon killed another 4 and then got knocked down to one wound.
T6 - Killed the last remaining members of the squad.

That was practically 1750 points he killed in one game. I'm never charging Paladins into Big Evil again.

To be fair, he rolled very well on his daemon weapon rolls, and likely pretty well on his saves. If you were playing me you'd be seeing more like:

T2 - rolls a 1 on his daemon weapon, fails his save, dread knight puts a wound on him
T3 - rolls a 1 on his daemon weapon, fails his save, dread knight kills him.

Then again, I am the master of 1s, to the point where I don't even bring terminators anymore because I will fail 1 out of every 2 armour saves with them.

My landraider crusader has a good reputation because it has slaugthered swarms of nids the first time I used it. After each battle I give it a new feature along with other victories models.