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I wanted to ask this to people on dakka after I exprienced some OverPoweredness with...my fire warriors...
What happened was that my fire warriors was just standing around doing nothing but taking pot-shots at enemies until a dreadnought assaulted them out of the blue (i wasnt paying attention to it) and killed two of my fire warriors and their shield drone...so It was my fire warriors turn to strike back...with EMP grenades...5 of them to be exact as each fire warrior can take them at 2 points/model...the dreadnought was dead instantly...

So have you experienced anything OverPowered in 40k?
if so...comment below!

I'm not sure you understand what "overpowered" means.

Screamer/seerstar

When i first started 40k my firewarriors very frequently defeated enemies in CC. It always amazed people at my school, to the point where people started shooting them instead of assaulting them. Never under estimate a fire warrior haha.

Melta gun. for 5 points it can one shot a land raider.

In 40k now? Forgeworld Tarantulas are pretty sick, especially with Salamanders.

In the bygone days of yesteryear? Last edition's Necrons had both Monoliths and Warscythes that were almost too potent to be believed. A melee weapon that ignores both armor AND invulnerable saves? Plus a vehicle that basically ignores half the rules for vehicles, and is essentially indestructible? When the new codex came out and traded those two things out for Mindshackle scarabs, I took the swap with a smile!

ally rule . those that have more and better battle brothers have more and better chance to build good lists.
Servo skulls , nerf half the different type of deployment and what is left is countered by mass intercept/skyfire and I wuz expecting you .

I tend to take issue with anything that can ignore cover at range, particularly if the strength value is high. Flamers are fine, as they are very short range, and not likely to need 2+ to wound. But blastmasters (as an easy example)? Not so much.

Battle Brothers.

Certain forms of Psyker spam as well. There should have been a proper Psychic phase implemented if they wanted it to play such a large role.

 Eldarain wrote:
Battle Brothers.

Certain forms of Psyker spam as well. There should have been a proper Psychic phase implemented if they wanted it to play such a large role.

This.

2+ re-rollables.

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Helldrake spam.

Most Over Powered thing in 40K? Cheaters. People who need to win with plastic toy soldiers, who need to get an extra 1/8" of movement, or have their plastic toy dolls, hiding in a building with a cover on it, and claim it's 1mm away from being hit.

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
2+ re-rollables.

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You do realise the only reason this even exists is because of how broken & OP the 'Blessings' type of psychic powers are?
If Blessings could be countered like all other psy powers, the 2++/re-rollable saves wouldn't be auto-possible for Tzeentch Daemons.

The single most OP/broken thing in the game is the entire Divination psychic lore. Why? because 6 of the 7 spells are freaking 'Blessings', which have all of about 2 possible counters in the entire game! (SW Runepriests or Shadow in the Warp)
And even the single Malediction power is stupidly good - re-roll successful saves. Makes pretty much anything, even crappy Lasgun shots into something absolutely terrifying.

Divination is 40k's version of Fantasy's Lore of Shadow, which is typically heavily comped in a lot of major tournaments.

Without any other units or buffing characters - the wave serpent for points. Fast, skimmer, 12/12/10, 3 hps, 4 st 6 tl shots, 2 st tl 4 rending shots, d6+1 tl ignore cover st 7 shots, 4+ cover in the open, 10 man transport capacity, can instead of using st7 shots make itself almost invulnerable to pens, and worst of all is a dedicated transport. All for 145pts. For 10pts more it can also have 3 tl s6 rending shots.
Only the annihilation barge comes close to being that undercosted.

Be'lakor.

 ImotekhTheStormlord wrote:
Be'lakor.

No kidding. Can I change my vote? He looks devastatingly good.

I'd give anything to stop Eldar from being freaking OP yet again. At least make it the aspect warriors or something, Not skimmers! (And not altioc!)

 A GumyBear wrote:
Screamer/seerstar

Pretty much this.

anything with 2+ rerollable saves is extremely bad.

And all are due to the flawed Psychic phase.

Firewarriors behind an aegis defense line. Basically tau player deployed corner and ended up with a 4 point objective in his base and 3 point just a few inches outside of defense line. Every time he was shot at he would go to ground behind the line for a 2 up cover, then next round use the marker lights from other units behind the line to raise their bs back up to full. It was a very solid strategy since he lucked out with the high point objective.

 Rotary wrote:
Firewarriors behind an aegis defense line. Basically tau player deployed corner and ended up with a 4 point objective in his base and 3 point just a few inches outside of defense line. Every time he was shot at he would go to ground behind the line for a 2 up cover, then next round use the marker lights from other units behind the line to raise their bs back up to full. It was a very solid strategy since he lucked out with the high point objective.

No biovores?

Nope, i've only been playing for about a year and the biovore until that game had never been on the top my list to get. Obviously the barrage would have been great in that situation.

 Eldarain wrote:
And all are due to the flawed Psychic phase.

Tell that to the guys that keep winning all the tournaments.

Da boyz GT had screamerstar win the doubles and Jetstar win singles with nearly perfect generalship score.

 Peregrine wrote:
I'm not sure you understand what "overpowered" means.

Nice, very nice.

This.

riptide

Monstrous Creatures in general. They are not cost right for what they do.

Take that with a pinch of salt since I love me tanks.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Monstrous Creatures in general. They are not cost right for what they do.

Take that with a pinch of salt since I love me tanks.

I think it's more just that most vehicles in general are rather bad in 6E barring a couple exceptions (primarily a handful of flyers and a couple of skimmers), rather than being anything wrong with MC's.

I'll have to second that. Vehicles are in a very sad state. I'd love to run them, but at the moment they are just expensive point sinks.

That does not stop me from running IH with as many dreads and tanks as possible, even if it is not competitive

The real game breakers are the badly implemented psychic powers and their usage. Some of them are simply too cheap for what they do. As an example hemorrhage and perfect timing being equal in cost?

Also another game breaker was mentioned multiple times already but can't be stressed enough. Battle Brothers make so many imbalanced combinations possible that I really do wonder if the guys at GW are capable of any kind of playtesting. Of course if their testing is at the level of WD batreps, I understand..

Lesser problems are caused by units that are simply too good. Wave Serpent is the best example of this. A transporter that puts up way more fire than the transported unit, is way more durable than a battle tank and manouvers like a monkey. Units such as AB (because of the extra with a roll of 6 to hit) and Night Scythes are there also.

This game has some serious issues, but can be a lot of fun. Just keep trying different lists, never take it seriously enough to get stuck running the same units.

Dreadsock. Ends games faster than you can say "assault with a deadly weapon."