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Just like the title reads, what do you think is your personal favourite for a Lord of War? (regardless of faction)

For myself, I'm digging the idea of a Marauder Destroyer flying a bombing run over the enemies deployment

Edit: disregarding points, force, circumstances. Just pure destruction potential and fun to field

Shadowsword?

Wraithknight.

Revenant, I think, though the Ta'unar is also a strong contender.

Might wish some kind of criteria. Best is quite subjective, and the answer is different for different game sizes or circumstances.

Clearly CWE.

Power: Phantom Titan
OPness: WK
Looks: FW Avatar, but Scorpion comes in second.
Fluff: Avatar.

Once again, CWE wins everything.

An Emperor Titan is a LOW, yes?

Assuming you mean best in terms of scale/availability/points effectiveness in games of 1500-2000 pts, I'd go with the WraithKnight.

Although the Supremacy Suit is pretty much unkillable. It takes 3-4 WKs to kill that sucker at only the cost of 2 WKs. And good luck getting close to it.

What defines Best?

Most powerful CC
Most powerful Shooting
Most powerful combined shooting and CC
Most resilient or survivable
Most powerful for its price point?
Most powerful for a regular game? 2000pts? - 1850 - 1500?

Of course the Emperor Titan is probably the most powerful. But maybe its the Eldar Phantom Titan
Warlord Battle Titan (2850pts) [Arioch Titan Power Claw, Belicosa Pattern Volcano Cannon, Two Reaver Laser Blasters]
vs
Phantom Titan [FW] (2530pts) [Phantom Glaive and Twin-linked Pulse Laser, Phantom Pulsar, Pulse Laser]

++ Profile Summary ++

····Phantom Titan: WS:3|BS:4|S:10|Front:13|Side:13|Rear:11|I:3|A:3|HP:24|Type:Super-Heavy Walker
····Warlord Battle Titan: WS:2|BS:4|S|Front:15|Side:15|Rear:14|I:4|A:3|HP:30|Type:Vehicle (Super-heavy Walker)

Defense
····Armoured Ceramite: Description:
····Eldar Titan Holo-Fields: Description:Whenever a model with Eldar Titan Holo-fields is hit by an attack, before rolling for Armour Penetration, or on the Destroyer table, its attacker must roll a D6. If the target model moved in its controlling player's last Movement phase and the attacking player rolls a 4+, then the hit stands, roll for Armour Penetration or on the Destroyer table as normal. If the target model did not move in its controlling player's last Movement phase then the hit stands on a 3+.
····Void Shields: Description:Warlord Titans have 6 Void Shields.

Weapons - as chosen by me for a titan brawl.
IOM
····Ardex-defensor Mauler Bolt Cannon Turrets: Range:36"|Strength:6|AP:3|Type:Heavy 6, Twin-linked, Ardex Machina
····Arioch Titan Power Claw: Range:-|Strength|AP:1|Type:Melee, Machine Destroyer
····Belicosa Pattern Volcano Cannon: Range:180"|Strength|AP:1|Typerimary Weapon 1, Apocalyptic Blast, Machine Destroyer
····Rear-mounted Ardex-defensor Twin-linked Lascannon Turrets: Range:48"|Strength:9|AP:2|Type:Heavy 1, Ardex Machina
····Two Reaver Laser Blasters: Range:96"|Strength|AP:2|Typerimary Weapon 3, Large Blast

Eldar
····Cloudburst Missile Launcher: Range:48"|Strength:8|AP:3|Type:Heavy 4, Interceptor, Skyfire, Sunder
····Phantom Glaive: Range:-|Strength|AP:1|Type:Melee, Spirit-shock
····Phantom Missile Launcher: Range:48"|Strength:9|AP:3|Type:Heavy 4, Sunder
····Phantom Pulsar: Range:120"|Strength|AP:1|Typerimary Weapon 4, Large Blast (5")
····Pulse Laser: Range:48"|Strength:8|AP:2|Type:Heavy 2

You decide

 Cieged wrote:
Might wish some kind of criteria. Best is quite subjective, and the answer is different for different game sizes or circumstances.

Edited the original post. Purely based on personal favourites to field for fun, destruction, lore, etc.

 #1ShieldBrother3++ wrote:
An Emperor Titan is a LOW, yes?

Luckily that isn't likely going to see rules and even better model On scale to the warlord just how BIG that thing should be? I had it in epic(wonder do I still have it?) and that thing is HUGE.

That thing was pushing rulewise even epic armageddon rules to breaking point.

I'm going for baneblade though. Hardly most poweful gamewise but it's such a classic and rulewise actually fair! Not brokenly good autochoice at all. Infact most of the times you would be better off with regular russes. But it's such a classic and tanks are fun

Ordinatus Minoris Ulator.
1050 points of sheer ear-splitting awesomeness.

For 1250 or so points you could bring 3 stormsurges in a squad in 1 LOW slot. That's 3 GC's combining for 24 wounds total, with 3+4++5+++
All 3 with EWO, Precision shots and shield generators for the 4++

Give 1 or 2 of them the D gun,
Give the remaining the 72" str10 Ap2 Ordnance 1, Large Blast
3x AFP - 18" 3 Str 4 AP 5 Ignore Cover, Barrage, Large Blasts,
3x SMS 30" Str 5 Ap 5 Ignore Cover Heavy 4, Homing - ignore line of sight
3x Cluster Rocket Systems - 48" Str 5 AP5 Heavy 4D6
12 Destroyer Missiles - 60" Str8 AP1 or Str D AP1 - with marker lights
3x d3 stomps

in an 1850 game you could bring this and still field a reasonable army that would give them the marker light support they need.

Realistically thats a tough LOW unit to beat in a game between 1500 and 2000pts. That would destroy any other LOW aside from maybe a Revenant titan?

The Warlord titan, if I ever could afford one.