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Assault oriented BA, it might not win that much, but I still love to play it.
Stormboyz, as mentioned above are just fun and Zagstruk is such a cool character and model

I guess at the top of my list would be Dreads.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
BT Techmarines. "They laughed at my Techmarine. He laughed at their corpses." Usually drop-podded in with a meatshield squad, forcing the opponent to either turn a LOT of shooting their way or have a dude with 216045^2 Power Fist attacks run around his backfield killing stuff left and right. 2+/3++ 2W is surprisingly durable as well.

After years of arguing with you on this, I'm glad you finally agree with me on how awesome these guys are.
Also, being the only tech marine that can be in termie armor... That old book still has a few tricks the new players don't know about.

Chainfist/SS Techmarine is hilarious. I saw the light towards the end of 5th edition and haven't looked back since.

Swooping Hawks, and Shining Spears. But I think it's mostly because I had fun making them.

They will absolutely never, ever win me a game- but I love how my particular models look in my army (me Hawks are made simply from plastic Scourges, using Shard carbines as Lasblasters, and Spears are made from Reaver jetbikes and WHFB Dark elf lance arms) .

I also have a burning need to make a Techmarine for my Deathwing, just because he'd look awesome.

Stormboys with Zaggstruk. An expensive one hit wonder:

1: Deepstrike losing 1-3 models,
2: Assault losing 1-3 to overwatch
3: Hammer Wrath kills an enemy model
4: Low initiative means they go first and kill about 6 models
5: You get about 85 attacks followed by 5 powerfist attacks from da vulchas claws
6: ANIHILATE ENEMY!!!!
7: Consolidate
8: Entire unit dies from AP6 bolter fire Only Zaggstrukk remains
9: Zaggstrukk dies to overwatch assaulting next unit.

It's a pretty tried and tested system.

I almost always use a C'tan Shard with my Necrons. Really like the Deceiver model and its often proved useful in game.

I totally forgot one: Dreadnought with Assault Cannon.

Probably the least useful dreadnought loadout in the game, but one round, it was glorious.

I was fighting eldar, and my one dreadnought proceeded to walk across the table, killing a squad of Dark Reapers with its assault cannon, and a squad of Guardians. It then bunched a wave serpent that had immobilized on terrain, blowing it up, and most of the Dire Avengers inside, and would then blow up another wave serpent full of howling banshees with the assault cannon.

He was eventually slain, and I did lose the game, but it was glorious.

Monoliths

Definitely outstripped by other HS options in the Necron codex, but dammit, I love deepstriking av14 6" x 6" ordnance packing buildings onto the table.

I use purgation squads in friendly matches. Nothing like a ten man squad consisting of 8 psycannons decimating whatever they wish

Black Templars! I use the vanilla des more often but...something in me just can't let it go

Assault Marines, I love the fluff and they are just fun to play with.

My armoured sentinels as they are nothing more than a point sink, and, my ratlings, same again.
Both can be underwhelming on the table but when they do do what they are meant to do they can be surprising

Hellbrute - PC and ML

The Hellbrute from the new boxed set and cultists for my CSM.
Basilisks, Leman Russes and no air plane of any kind for my Imperial Guard.
I also take some less then stellar units for my Grey Knights, but face it, the army is tough as nails no matter how you pick your models.

Helbrutes cause they look cool.

And chaos raptors for the same reason.

Warrior Acolytes with no upgrades, obviously in an army with Coteaz to make the scoring. I keep them in reserve and in a small and unthreatening units as possible whilst filling up any remaining points.

They tend to get ignored completely as the rest of the army is piling tons of damage in to the enemy, so they come in and capture/contest objectives or get blown up and waste a turn of enemy shooting.

I had a tournament the other week where i brought 2 squads of 3 and overall they won the most VP than any other unit. They didn't get shot at until the last turn of the last game in a desperate attempt to get a VP which made no difference at that point anyway.

FuzzyLogik wrote:
Warrior Acolytes with no upgrades, obviously in an army with Coteaz to make the scoring. I keep them in reserve and in a small and unthreatening units as possible whilst filling up any remaining points.

They tend to get ignored completely as the rest of the army is piling tons of damage in to the enemy, so they come in and capture/contest objectives or get blown up and waste a turn of enemy shooting.

I had a tournament the other week where i brought 2 squads of 3 and overall they won the most VP than any other unit. They didn't get shot at until the last turn of the last game in a desperate attempt to get a VP which made no difference at that point anyway.

Nice! My Gretchin have the same purpose on the battlefield, either soak up fire that should really have gone to the Boyz, or camping on an objective, going to ground like the little gits they are.

Looted wagons & Tank bustas.

Dreadknight. Really not worth its points, but I love the look of it (by the way, I ripped of the GK sitting on front of the dreadknight and replaced it with a dreadnought front plate. I think it looks pretty cool)

Csm land raiders, 1k sons, forgefiend, raptors

Falcons. I know they're grossly overpriced, I know I'd be better off with Fire Prisms, but screw that, I like being able to cart small units around in zippy armored gun platforms.

Tyrannofex - fun but too costly.

 DiRTWaL wrote:
Assault Marines

This is about uncompetitive units, not just your favorite unit.

sternguard

ok, hear me out! I put them in a drop pod with combi-meltas and 2x heavy flamers than drop them in my opponents line. This unit almost never works out as awesome as it sounds, and I think I've used special ammo once (because they're usually dead before I get a second shot with them.)

 IndigoJack wrote:
sternguard

ok, hear me out! I put them in a drop pod with combi-meltas and 2x heavy flamers than drop them in my opponents line. This unit almost never works out as awesome as it sounds, and I think I've used special ammo once (because they're usually dead before I get a second shot with them.)

I'm not sure what world you live in where Sternguard are uncompetitive.

 -Loki- wrote:

 IndigoJack wrote:
sternguard

ok, hear me out! I put them in a drop pod with combi-meltas and 2x heavy flamers than drop them in my opponents line. This unit almost never works out as awesome as it sounds, and I think I've used special ammo once (because they're usually dead before I get a second shot with them.)

I'm not sure what world you live in where Sternguard are uncompetitive.

The only reason my Vanilla marines inflect any casualties is often due to Sternguard, they're practically the backbone, and one of the only defining units of the 'dex.

Now, vanguard, those aren't competitive, nor honourguard. Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum.

it's not that the unit is bad, just how I use them. Spending 35pts a model + drop pod is a lot. Spending almost 20% of my points on one unit just for an alpha strike isn't exactly efficient.

Scout with snipers and camocloaks, Telion and heavy bolter = Waste of points that can kill enemy leaders in last turn despite shooting all game long/time to get a Vindicare Assassin.

Sternguard i believe are considered uncompetitive because they pod in with meltas to pop a tank and then get taken out the next turn. If they fail to pop the tank or whatever their target is, they'll still get killed the next turn and be a total waste of points.

Weirdboy and 19 gretchin. They really shouldn't work, but they kill daemon princes. on the 4th kill so far