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I would go for Striking Scorpions. Who doesn't like ninjas that can actually wear heavy armor without loosing stealth and mobility. If only we could get them in plastic.

Beastboss on Squigosaur is also a strong contender. It's a giant ork on a tyrannosaurus pumpkin.

Eldar jetbikes with scatter lasers of 7th edition. I made so many people mad at the game of Warhammer with those guys. Hide, shoot you off the table from anywhere, boost 48" onto objectives to score if I haven't tabled you yet. For a competitive army, that was the greatest unit I've ever used. I'm glad Eldar now actually use more than jetbikes and WKs because it got boring to paint 20x and 4x of those as my entire army.

Cant say these were the greatest units ever when compared to jetbikes. (Eldar jetbikes are better)

The best units i have personally used are the Siege of Vraks Chaos spawns they erroneously copy pasted to be 18 ppm back in 7th ed.

Omg, these things where keyword beasts so they get 12" move and they moved through difficult terrain ignoring negative modifiers. And they rerolled charge distance and run. These bad boys ran at the enemy, tied them up in combat so my other units can move up and proceeded to either kill small weak squads or get killed. Did not matter, it allowed my remaining army to march up.

The next best part was that Vraks made them groups of 3 instead of 5. That meant i can have msu tie up more units. I freaking took 2 out rider detachments so i can have 6 squads of 3. They were the best 324pts i could have ever spent on any chaos army (18x18). Did they ever bother to errata them at the end of 7th ed?

But again, eldar jet bikes where superior in that 7th ed era.

 Jidmah wrote:
Many great ork units like lifta-droppa and SAG were already named. Orks really need some of their whakky back.

Ol' Zogwort and his squiggly curse will always have a spot in my heart. Turning Marbo into a squig which then ate his face was one of the most memorable moments of 40k to me.

For non-official units, there once was a guy who actually converted an angry marine army and played them with the fandex. His angry marine launcher (a whirlwind whose shots deep struck single marines with dual powerfists instead of rokkits) was one of the most awesome things I've ever faced.

I turned more SM characters into squigs then I can shake a stick at it was always hilarious!

Semper wrote:
Bloodthirster.

I'll never forget the Carnage battle report in WD back in the early 00's. Took out half an army and even then it was a shadow of it's former power.

Mmm, I still remember the original rules - when it was about 1600 points and the Axe Of Khorne contained a second bound bloodthirster that you could unleash...