How many Superheavies do you have and plan to buy?

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**wuestenfux**

The new book ''Escalation'' makes it possible to field Superheavies in normal 40k games.

Have: Obelisk, trancendental C'tan, Shadowsword (Baneblade with titan killer 5'' template), and Ork Stompa.

Buy: none at the moment.

**martin74**

None. Even if I was back in the US and not deployed, it would still be none.

**Perfect Organism**

I've got a skullhamma and a stompa. I doubt that I'm going to buy any more superheavy kits, but I might build some from scratch or kitbash smaller vehicles / non-GW models.

**Sarigar**

I have none. I'm going to see how this book takes off. If it is not widely accepted for gameplay, I doubt I'll buy any superheavies.

**Trondheim**

I currently own none of the avalibal super heavies, but I would very much like to add a few in the years to come, most likely some sort of Baneblade

**squall018**

I have a bane blade and lord of skulls. Look forward to being able to use them more with this new supplement.

**dakkajet**

None.
But someday..... I shall own a... BANEBLADE!

**phatonic**

I have a Stompa!.. and inn a long progress of making a custom battlefortress (homemade)

**Commissar Benny**

None. Its unlikely I will ever own one. I enjoy small skirmish games. I find the game is at its best when standard guardsmen are able to shine & save the day. Difficult for that to happen when D templates the size of kitchen plates are being tossed around every turn.

**lobbywatson**

None and none. I play Eldar I won't buy a Titan. I don't care for the model. Depending on how the rules shake down I'd play against super heavies though.

**Ephemeral Moment**

Waiting to find out for sure what the SM have available to them, but none right now

**Tacohunter**

Not buying any. Already own a gargantuan squiggoth. If the escalation book doesn't have the gargantuan squig in it I wont bother buying it.

**Talore**

None and none, it'd clash with my foot 'guard army.

If I was running mech and I had a lot of money to burn though, I'd totally get a CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT.

**Relapse**

Does having super heavies mean that 40k turns more into a game of one or two units to carry the weight and all other units are cheerleaders?
Then again, I run Necrons and love running against armies that bank on heavy vehicles.

**wuestenfux**

Relapse wrote:
Does having super heavies mean that 40k turns more into a game of one or two units to carry the weight and all other units are cheerleaders?
Then again, I run Necrons and love running against armies that bank on heavy vehicles.

In our apoc games, we usually have about 4 to 10 Baneblades of various kind. They go down rather easily. You'll be lucky if they last for two turns. Note that a superheavy can enter play at the beginning of each of your turns, also in turn 1. So it can shoot first before it gets targeted.

With Necrons, stripping hull points is rather easy. But a Baneblade has nine of them and superheavies ignore all damage results (though HP are stripped off anyway) up to the ''destroyed'' one.

**Iranna**

I dislike the idea of Super-Heavies in normal games, so I won't be making use of the new supplement.

Iranna.

**Sasori**

I have a few Super Heavies, but I don't plan to buy any for the sake of Escalation.

My list:

Chaos: Lord of Skulls
Necrons: Obelisk, Trancendent C'tan, Tesseract Vault, Pylon

Eldar/Tyranid: None... yet....

**Yonan**

I have 2 Dreamforge leviathans, one Crusader and one Mortis. They'll be warhounds for my chaos and Imperial armies. I've always wanted to get a baneblade, and this will be a good excuse. Those will be the only ones for me I think, none for my 'crons and no other GW superheavies.

**CrashCanuck**

Have Obelisk, Transcendant C'Tan, Baneblade and 2 Warhound Titans

Buy/Make: Reaver Titan

My area has a huge Apoc game with no point limit each year, so there is typically a big arms race to have all the big toys

**Warboss Gobslag**

Don't own any super heavies presently. No plans to purchase any either. Just decided to take a month or two break from 40k due to the GW employees already pushing the super heavy thing. Very annoying.

**SilenzZzz**

i dont like how the ork superheavy looks. So i will be making my own (already planned on doing that before the expac was announced)

waiting to see on the Space Marine one before i decide about it.

**Makumba**

None and none. I doubt anyone would let me and even if they did , they cost too much.

**TheCustomLime**

0 and maybe, maybe, maybe I'll get a Shadowsword one day. Just to have one since it's a cool tank.

**Ralis**

I've wanted to get a Glaive from FW when they were announced, I'm not sure if I'm any more inclined to get one now then I was before.

**1hadhq**

Currently 12 plus 2 to assemble.

Buying Zero new ones if I can't have a plastic T-Hawk.

**knas ser**

I'm conflicted. I really like the model for the Eldar Scorpion Type II. And I'd like to field it just because it looks cool and would fit with my fluff-tastic army.

However, I consider D-weapons to be a disaster in a normal game and though I'd love to think Escalation will be well-thought out, balanced, etc., my actual expectation is that it will be a disaster of Biblical proportions.

So tricky question - I might well buy the model, but I can't see myself using it except experimentally for knock-about games.

**Furyou Miko**

Could always houserule it a less unreasonable gun, knas.

I own a Hellsword (Baneblade with flame weapons

) and a Shadowsword kit that I've built and magnetised so I can field it as any of the variants that kit can build. Don't plan to buy any more, although I've wanted a Vampire since I was... well, I don't remember how old I was, but it was when it came out.

**A GumyBear**

Who needs to buy super heavies when you have some perfectly good sheets of insulation foam a jigsaw and some sandpaper to build hordes of pylons for all your superheavy killing needs

**Furyou Miko**

lol, Pylons? Just raid a scrap heap for discarded globe stands.

**MajorStoffer**

Have: Baneblade

Want: Macharius Vulcan. I've always wanted a Macharius for the centerpiece of my Death Korps, and if escalation let's me get more use out of, I'll incorporate it into the normal list, rather than an "apoc-only" thing for sometime well down the line.

I've also been partial to the Valdor Tank Hunter, but it got nerfed hard in the last Forgeworld update. Used to shoot D3 St10 Ap1 which automatically cause a "stunned" result in addition to whatever else you roll, now it's just one shot.