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Prism962 wrote:
I cant think of anything more amazing than having a super powerful chain saw attached to your fist. Just run around cutting things up would be amazing.

That chainsaw being replaced by a powerklaw does the trick for me

A tankhammer could be awesome fun if you hold it horizontally and wade into a swarm of gaunts. For added fun, attach rotating power axe heads to the head of the hammer like a buzzsaw.

Feth Initiative 1, I'll be chopping things till I puke.

Edit: It seems I misunderstood the tankhammer. I assumed the rocket would be activated instead of just being used to hit things.

Suppose we modified one for continuous thrust, but not to detonate on impact with "soft" things, like flesh and clothing.

So basically, a rocket-propelled power buzzsaw on a stick.

I find Space Marine Chapter Masters with thunderhammers immensely satisfying. It's a whole lot of smashy, smashy, smashy.

For everything else, the plain old power sword. the GK two-handers look good to on certain units (such as my Honour Guard), but by and large I feel power swords look the best, and perform quite well in most situations.

But then I'm not a big assault player, so I could be totally wrong on that. Guard and Vanilla Marines aren't exactly assault-centric armies. Hell, my Armoured Company often operates with all of 0 infantry.

Eviscerator. Everything else is stupid by comparison.

Yeah, that's right, land raider, I just cut you in half with a ten foot long chainsaw sword.

Suck it.

Where the devil is the Black Sword?

 Ailaros wrote:
Eviscerator. Everything else is stupid by comparison.

Yeah, that's right, land raider, I just cut you in half with a ten foot long chainsaw sword.

Suck it.

Just curious... Is the 10 feet length of the eviscerator an IG priest thing?

Because the Repentia ones are like bulkier, slightly longer chainswords. As is the one displayed in the rulebook in the melee weapons thing, right next to... I think it's the Thunder Hammer.

Or are the Repentia ones understated for model size, model weight balance - some of them hold their eviscerators horizontally - and other gameplay reasons, and the rulebook image took the look from them?

Yeah, the guardsmen one are longer.

In any case, you just ripped a tank in half with a chainsaw. Everyone else's arguments are invalid.

Bonesword.

Got to love flat out ignoring armour.

Plus the only model you'd consider assaulting a vehicle with that uses Boneswords, the Hive Tyrant, has AP2.

Power sword and lightning claw.

 Ailaros wrote:
Yeah, the guardsmen one are longer.

In any case, you just ripped a tank in half with a chainsaw. Everyone else's arguments are invalid.

Awesome. : D

Thunderhammer. I've always been a big fan of weapons so big that a shield would really not help you that much if you actually tried to block it.

 Necroshea wrote:
Thunderhammer. I've always been a big fan of weapons so big that a shield would really not help you that much if you actually tried to block it.

Even if the shield holds - like a Storm Shield might - bones are gonna break with that much kinetic energy or whatever.

I like the Crozius Arcanum.
Power Swords are pretty neat too. Elegant and efficient.

 Pouncey wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:
Thunderhammer. I've always been a big fan of weapons so big that a shield would really not help you that much if you actually tried to block it.

Even if the shield holds - like a Storm Shield might - bones are gonna break with that much kinetic energy or whatever.

Indeed. I'd like to think of it as an evolution of preference. When I was a wee lad I thought 2 handed swords where the best thing since sliced bread, but after awhile I grew to appreciate axes and hammers. There's just something warm and fuzzy about swinging something that will do damage regardless of what it touches.

Power klaws!

For when all you have is massive hydraulic shears, everything starts looking like tin cans

My favorite is the one my enemy hits himself with when my MSS goes off.

 Necroshea wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:
Thunderhammer. I've always been a big fan of weapons so big that a shield would really not help you that much if you actually tried to block it.

Even if the shield holds - like a Storm Shield might - bones are gonna break with that much kinetic energy or whatever.

Indeed. I'd like to think of it as an evolution of preference. When I was a wee lad I thought 2 handed swords where the best thing since sliced bread, but after awhile I grew to appreciate axes and hammers. There's just something warm and fuzzy about swinging something that will do damage regardless of what it touches.

I've been drawn to power mauls myself, but mostly for in-game stats reasons. I do wonder if it's a little... iffy, in a list tailoring kind of way, to take them over power swords when I know that I won't be facing anything with a 3+ save because my opponent only fields Orks these days.

I can easily rationalize it by saying that it's more useful than a power sword for basically everything but Space Marines of all flavors and Sisters, and even then a maul is better than a sword against Terminators. And from a fluff-mixed-with-gamplay perspective, my Sisters are more likely to come up against Orks, Imperial Guard, and other non-power armored things, so logically they'd eventually start to choose weapons that are superior for dealing with weakly-armored, numerous opposition.

But I know that's all just a rationalized justification for taking them because of how good they are at wrecking Orks in melee compared to power swords.

I still like the GK two-handers and halberds, though. I've started using the two-handed swords as relic blades - same with the SW two-handed axes - and the glaives as power spears for my bike jouster sergeant and commander - the normal bikers are gonna get Bretonnian Knights of the Realm lances... if my local GW ever carries more Bretonnian stuff. Otherwise I might just go with the more readily available Empire Knightly Orders' lances or whatever.

 Pouncey wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:
Thunderhammer. I've always been a big fan of weapons so big that a shield would really not help you that much if you actually tried to block it.

Even if the shield holds - like a Storm Shield might - bones are gonna break with that much kinetic energy or whatever.

Indeed. I'd like to think of it as an evolution of preference. When I was a wee lad I thought 2 handed swords where the best thing since sliced bread, but after awhile I grew to appreciate axes and hammers. There's just something warm and fuzzy about swinging something that will do damage regardless of what it touches.

I've been drawn to power mauls myself, but mostly for in-game stats reasons. I do wonder if it's a little... iffy, in a list tailoring kind of way, to take them over power swords when I know that I won't be facing anything with a 3+ save because my opponent only fields Orks these days.

I can easily rationalize it by saying that it's more useful than a power sword for basically everything but Space Marines of all flavors and Sisters, and even then a maul is better than a sword against Terminators. And from a fluff-mixed-with-gamplay perspective, my Sisters are more likely to come up against Orks, Imperial Guard, and other non-power armored things, so logically they'd eventually start to choose weapons that are superior for dealing with weakly-armored, numerous opposition.

But I know that's all just a rationalized justification for taking them because of how good they are at wrecking Orks in melee compared to power swords.

I still like the GK two-handers and halberds, though. I've started using the two-handed swords as relic blades - same with the SW two-handed axes - and the glaives as power spears for my bike jouster sergeant and commander - the normal bikers are gonna get Bretonnian Knights of the Realm lances... if my local GW ever carries more Bretonnian stuff. Otherwise I might just go with the more readily available Empire Knightly Orders' lances or whatever.

Think about it this way. If you want to model them, but don't mind using different stats, then it's all good. If you model them and demand to use their stats against your greenskin friend, you are a bad person, lol

 Necroshea wrote:
Think about it this way. If you want to model them, but don't mind using different stats, then it's all good. If you model them and demand to use their stats against your greenskin friend, you are a bad person, lol

Yup, that cleared it up really quick.

Main reason I'd go hunting for power maul bitz is to get that juicy strength bonus and decent AP. If it didn't make a difference in the game, I wouldn't bother, I'd just use whatever was on hand that worked well with the model - like for certain minis of a friend's RP character, I always give him a power sword of some variety, because he loves swords.

Eviscerator; you just can't beat a giant chainsaw wielded by a psychopathic madman

Eldar Diresword. A power sword with the spirit of a dead warrior inhabiting it that destroys your mind if you get so much as a scratch from it is easily the coolest weapon out there. Too bad it belongs to a unit that's not good in close combat.

Ork Titan CCWs. For when even an Eviscerator won't cut (heh) it.

 Ailaros wrote:
Yeah, the guardsmen one are longer.

In any case, you just ripped a tank in half with a chainsaw. Everyone else's arguments are invalid.

I dunno....... an Ork with a Tank Hamma seems to make me smile a lot more then a giant chainsaw. I mean its a frigging rokkit on the end of a stick.....being held by a complete nutcase of a boy. 1 wide swing, and POOF! all the contents of your vehicle are now out the other side

The ones that actually went through armour. *sigh*

Lamentation aside, eviscerator, no contest. Something about it just says "get fethed" like nothing else can. I'm just disappointed that you can't arm Inquisitors with them anymore.

We're missing the Warscythe, the best Melee weapon in the game.

 Sasori wrote:
We're missing the Warscythe, the best Melee weapon in the game.

Was the warscythe and manreaper the same thing?

Diresword. If only an autarch could use one. Ignores armor and "Remove from game". Not ID even. Yes, they have to fail a ld check which i hope is changed around in the new codex (penalty on ld check maybe?) but even so, removing Mordrak on a lucky roll was hilarious when he charged my DA squad.

Being eldar i like the power lance and power maul more than most players. S4 power axes are very meh when you lose the init.

For Orcs: Power Klaws on a Warboss.

For Space Marines: The Emperor's Champion's Black Sword

For Chaos Space Marines: The Black Mace

KingCracker wrote:I dunno....... an Ork with a Tank Hamma seems to make me smile a lot more then a giant chainsaw. I mean its a frigging rokkit on the end of a stick.....being held by a complete nutcase of a boy. 1 wide swing, and POOF! all the contents of your vehicle are now out the other side

Touche.

 Necroshea wrote:

 Sasori wrote:
We're missing the Warscythe, the best Melee weapon in the game.

Was the warscythe and manreaper the same thing?

I'm referring to a Necron Warscythe. +2 STR, Armorbane, AP1. Pretty hard to beat that.