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Personally I'm finding the best HS units are FW artillery units if that isn't an issue for your playgroup. AV12 tanks are just far too easily killed in 6th edition, they might as well just be made of tissue paper, while most of the Russ variants are mediocre and/or very vulnerable to cost bloat.


Meanwhile, the artillery units are rather cheap and disposable yet tough and hard hitting, if rather static.

That said, as long as you can keep them alive through turn 2 at least, Hydras make a good investment against many of the current metagame problem units.