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I'm looking for some extremely hilarious tactics that will make everyone who's been paying attention to the game laugh their faces off. I'd like it to be somewhat effective (obviously not a power-move) but entertainment value would be the point here..


Any thoughts?

Which race?

I play orks and Tau and Tau really dont have one since everything they got is actually very viable OR utter trash and isnt even good for blocking things let alone killing.

Orks on the other hand, my opponent wasnt thrilled but the spectators were laughing their asses off at his reaction to what i did. Ghazkhgul + Snikrot kommandos. Ambush to his side of the board, put ghazzy in front for 2+ armor, LOS any AP2. Turn 3 he had ghazzy in his gunline lol ohh he was NOT happy.

Someday I want to run a GK list that has 2 brother-captains (or grandmasters) and 3 techmarines, so I can drop 5 orbital strikes per turn. That'll teach 'em to castle.

Making a Black Templar command squad of doom: includes everyone upgraded to the max (there are ways to upgrade one model to terminator honors, therefore each other model can upgrade to terminator honors which give +1 attack), plus a chaplain with a holy relic, PLUS a banner that gives +1 attack, plus the old AAC (preferred enemy), plus Grimaldus (second holy relic, technically allowed), this was giving 6 attacks per guy on the turn you used the relics (7 if charging). Throw a couple tech marines in there and they were attacking with 8 base, not including charges. Oh, it was a magical day...my friend swore sulfurously, but with multiple extra servitors to suck up wounds, Grimaldus to take the really nasty hits...yeah. It was wrong. This was 5th edition, mind you.

 greyknight12 wrote:
Someday I want to run a GK list that has 2 brother-captains (or grandmasters) and 3 techmarines, so I can drop 5 orbital strikes per turn. That'll teach 'em to castle.

I like this one. Although I'm afraid I'll get dragged into the alley and kicked half to death by my opponents friends if I ever use this.

 greyknight12 wrote:
Someday I want to run a GK list that has 2 brother-captains (or grandmasters) and 3 techmarines, so I can drop 5 orbital strikes per turn. That'll teach 'em to castle.

lol this. Add in 3x Dreadknights for good measure and I'm game.

Karamov is the same price as a brother captain with the relay. Submitted for your approval:

HQ ::: Inquisitor Karamov - 200 pts (has a relay and, if you're feeling saucy, can zero-scatter drop it onto an allied model)
HQ ::: GK Brother Captain with Orbital Relay - 200 pts

Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts
Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts
Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts (or a Culexus assassin for 135 because they get tons of S5 AP1 shots thanks to GK all being psykers)

That's 820 pts...

Troops ::: 5 man strike squad with 1 psy cannon - 110 pts
Troops ::: 5 man strike squad with 1 psy cannon - 110 pts
(Add as many as you want)

Heavy ::: Dreadknight w/ Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator and Heavy Psycannon - 225 pts
Heavy ::: Dreadknight w/ Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator and Heavy Paycannon - 225 pts

Total ::: 1490 pts

Going for 2000? Add 3 of the 5 man strike squads without psycannons and a Dreadknight with hammer, incinerator, and Psycannon

Bigfashizzel wrote:
Karamov is the same price as a brother captain with the relay. Submitted for your approval:

HQ ::: Inquisitor Karamov - 200 pts (has a relay and, if you're feeling saucy, can zero-scatter drop it onto an allied model)
HQ ::: GK Brother Captain with Orbital Relay - 200 pts

Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts
Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts
Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts (or a Culexus assassin for 135 because they get tons of S5 AP1 shots thanks to GK all being psykers)

That's 820 pts...

Troops ::: 5 man strike squad with 1 psy cannon - 110 pts
Troops ::: 5 man strike squad with 1 psy cannon - 110 pts
(Add as many as you want)

Heavy ::: Dreadknight w/ Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator and Heavy Psycannon - 225 pts
Heavy ::: Dreadknight w/ Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator and Heavy Paycannon - 225 pts

Total ::: 1490 pts

Going for 2000? Add 3 of the 5 man strike squads without psycannons and a Dreadknight with hammer, incinerator, and Psycannon

So... for less than 1000pnts worth of stuff you are dropping pie-plates o' pain... 5 of them. I'm almost tempted to suggest Allies and put some large mobs of Grots or Guardsmen. They can run up and be targeted by Karamov.

One thing I've always wanted to do with Tau is fill my entire fast attack slot with maximum Vespid squads. It would be horrible, but I'm pretty sure space marine players would hate you because I guarantee they will have no idea what Vespid do, since nobody has ever played them.

Can GK ally with Eldar? Min squad of swooping hawks, 86 point. Zero scatter DS turn 2 if you sky leap in turn one...

This is getting uncomfortably appealing...

I played against a Space Wolf player that took a max squad of bloodclaws on foot, and maxed out his HQs and put them all in one unit. Marching them across the table, bloodclaws each up wounds for this squad of melee death. It was pretty funny. Too bad my shooting was pretty good, and the DCA/Crusader squad tore in apart.

jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:

 greyknight12 wrote:
Someday I want to run a GK list that has 2 brother-captains (or grandmasters) and 3 techmarines, so I can drop 5 orbital strikes per turn. That'll teach 'em to castle.

lol this. Add in 3x Dreadknights for good measure and I'm game.

So grandmasters instead of brother-captains for scoring, shunting dreadknights. Perfect.

I'm not seeing funny...

Two SAG meks, THAT is funny.

Lol I was just about to come in here and suggest using three SAGs by allying in Dread Mob. gak is so cash

 Dakkamite wrote:
Lol I was just about to come in here and suggest using three SAGs by allying in Dread Mob. gak is so cash

How about one hundred of them in an Apoc game?

Well, I'd take 2 Libbies with gate of infinity, a few Drop Pods with locator beacons loaded with Sternguard (combi weapons please).
The idea (not new) is to use the gate such that the Libbies with the units they lead can reposition (deep strike) without scattering (locator beacons).

That tournament situation under 5th where a Tau player infiltrated Kroot along the deployment edge of a White Scars army that was fully reserved with no outflankers or deep-strikers. The army was automatically tabled without the need for a single dice roll.

I'm not sure if it's legal under 6th, but again under 5th you could completely surround a unit, then shifty a skimmer over your own heads to "land" on the enemy unit - since they couldn't legally move out of the way, they were automatically removed from the board. That one was affectionately called "pancake".

Lastly, I had someone try to distract me from an objective once by dropping a couple of podded Dreads behind my units on turn 3. Thing is... mine was an all jump-pack army. I proceeded to completely ignore the new arrivals and get stuck in with the now woefully unsupported units sitting on the objective. The funny part was watching two Dreads sitting in my own deployment zone, watching the rest of their army getting torn up, unable to catch up. I imagined one turning to the other saying, "...well, crap."

Also, sextuple deathstrike lists in a 3k points game is garaunteed to change the character of the average game, at the very least making it into a race against the clock, at the most reducing the battlefield into a glow in the dark wasteland.

I recently played a game against a pretty hardy Space Marines using my Chaos Marines/Allied Guard. Part of the opponent's force came in the form of 2 Sternguard Squads dropping behind my lines with his Chapter Master, armed with 2 Thunder Hammers. While the Sternguard made a mess of my Guard flank with their Combi-Flamers, by managing to use Enfeeble from my Primaris Psyker on the unit, I was able to wipe them out with Lasguns by reducing them to T3.
Once they had been taken care of I turned my attention to the Master, who was bogged down in difficult terrain about 4" from my Psyker. I used Enfeeble again to take him down to T3, which didn't have much of a reaction from my opponent until I reminded him that at T3, the 3 Plasma Guns in the squad would be causing Instant Death!. Needless to say he wasn't happy having to roll about 4 4+ saves, in fear of losing his Chapter Master through a single failed one.

This is why I go against the general trend of a CCS and generally go for the Primaris.

2 SAG meks, each with a SAG junka for dedicated transport and another 3 SAG junkas as elites. Then ally in a SAG mek with a SAG junka for dedicated transport and another SAG junka in the elite slot. Thats 10 SAG's per turn for random madness.

Triple deathstrikes.

When I played Space Wolves in 5th, I would purposefully place Bjorn in the open near Grey Hunters in objective based games. Don't know how many times I've won or tied because of it.

 Zaki66 wrote:

Bigfashizzel wrote:
Karamov is the same price as a brother captain with the relay. Submitted for your approval:

HQ ::: Inquisitor Karamov - 200 pts (has a relay and, if you're feeling saucy, can zero-scatter drop it onto an allied model)
HQ ::: GK Brother Captain with Orbital Relay - 200 pts

Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts
Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts
Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts (or a Culexus assassin for 135 because they get tons of S5 AP1 shots thanks to GK all being psykers)

That's 820 pts...

Troops ::: 5 man strike squad with 1 psy cannon - 110 pts
Troops ::: 5 man strike squad with 1 psy cannon - 110 pts
(Add as many as you want)

Heavy ::: Dreadknight w/ Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator and Heavy Psycannon - 225 pts
Heavy ::: Dreadknight w/ Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator and Heavy Paycannon - 225 pts

Total ::: 1490 pts

Going for 2000? Add 3 of the 5 man strike squads without psycannons and a Dreadknight with hammer, incinerator, and Psycannon

So... for less than 1000pnts worth of stuff you are dropping pie-plates o' pain... 5 of them. I'm almost tempted to suggest Allies and put some large mobs of Grots or Guardsmen. They can run up and be targeted by Karamov.

350 points gets you 56 targetable bodies... from C:IG


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For Necrons id use 3x 20 Infiltrating Flayed Ones.

Good luck shifting 60 guys completely from halfway up the table before they get to you and start wrecking face

erm. how about this for GK? looks pretty hilarious to me.

@1500 [ 4 OSRs, 6 S10 AP1 Large Blasts, 6 S7 Small Blasts]

150 brother cpt + OSR
100 Coteaz

298 2 * Techmarine + OSR + 3 servo skulls
146 Techmarine + OSR + 2 servo skulls

420 5 * 8 Psykers + acolyte
140 8 Psykers + 3 plasma cannon servitors

245 DK + teleporter + hvy psycannon

Total = 1499

@2000 [5 OSRs, 12 S10 AP1 Large Blasts, 6 S7 Small Blasts]

100 Coteaz
64 OXI, Psyker (Div), 3 servo skulls

149 Techmarine + OSR + 3 servo skulls
146 Techmarine + OSR + 2 servo skulls
420 3 * Techmarines + OSR

280 2 * 8 Psykers + 3 plasma cannon servitors
840 10 * 8 Psykers + acolyte

Total = 1999

Depending if your opponent is all butt hurt about blessings stacking then there is dozens of funny ones you can do with Eldar spirit seers.

10 D-scythe wraithguard with 3 or 4 quickens is the best way to watch your opponents face drop. Nothing says "SURPRISE!" like a unit that gets a 6" move, a D6" + 12" run move then gets to fire.

Tankshocking is always worth a laugh. Any tactic that is based on bringing a bunch of tanks into enemy lines sounds is big fun. With deffrolla battlewagons it might even be viable tactic. If I had the money, I'd try out tripple Land Raider Khorne, which might not be highly effective, but sounds like great fun.

A pure Death Kompanie force sounds like fun, too. Can't hold objectives at all. For extra silly, put all Death Kompanie units in deepstriking Land Raiders. You're bound to loose 1 or 2 units to mishaps and have only 2 or 3. It's just mad enough to possibly work though. Angry Marine paintjob optional.

Maximum psyker Demons. The amount of random stuff happening all around would be just insane.

athedge wrote:
2 SAG meks, each with a SAG junka for dedicated transport and another 3 SAG junkas as elites. Then ally in a SAG mek with a SAG junka for dedicated transport and another SAG junka in the elite slot. Thats 10 SAG's per turn for random madness.

That. Is. Gold.

 Zaki66 wrote:

Bigfashizzel wrote:
Karamov is the same price as a brother captain with the relay. Submitted for your approval:

HQ ::: Inquisitor Karamov - 200 pts (has a relay and, if you're feeling saucy, can zero-scatter drop it onto an allied model)
HQ ::: GK Brother Captain with Orbital Relay - 200 pts

Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts
Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts
Elites ::: Techmarine w/ O'Rly - 140 pts (or a Culexus assassin for 135 because they get tons of S5 AP1 shots thanks to GK all being psykers)

That's 820 pts...

Troops ::: 5 man strike squad with 1 psy cannon - 110 pts
Troops ::: 5 man strike squad with 1 psy cannon - 110 pts
(Add as many as you want)

Heavy ::: Dreadknight w/ Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator and Heavy Psycannon - 225 pts
Heavy ::: Dreadknight w/ Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator and Heavy Paycannon - 225 pts

Total ::: 1490 pts

Going for 2000? Add 3 of the 5 man strike squads without psycannons and a Dreadknight with hammer, incinerator, and Psycannon

So... for less than 1000pnts worth of stuff you are dropping pie-plates o' pain... 5 of them. I'm almost tempted to suggest Allies and put some large mobs of Grots or Guardsmen. They can run up and be targeted by Karamov.

Cant use Karmov's relay on allies unfortunately, but have one elite be the Callidus to pop up next to a target no scatter, then drop the no scatter orbital strike of choice.

On a side note, am I mistaken or is the orbital strike relay not a barrage weapon, so kills closest models first with LOS cover.

 Super Ready wrote:
That tournament situation under 5th where a Tau player infiltrated Kroot along the deployment edge of a White Scars army that was fully reserved with no outflankers or deep-strikers. The army was automatically tabled without the need for a single dice roll.
"

Oh yeah, this guy?



You could do a Pure Crisis Suit list(Farsight) but give them no weapons. At all.

Lucarikx

 Lucarikx wrote:

 Super Ready wrote:
That tournament situation under 5th where a Tau player infiltrated Kroot along the deployment edge of a White Scars army that was fully reserved with no outflankers or deep-strikers. The army was automatically tabled without the need for a single dice roll.
"

Oh yeah, this guy?



You could do a Pure Crisis Suit list(Farsight) but give them no weapons. At all.

Lucarikx

Just look at that gak eating grin.