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 BoomWolf wrote:

A handful of nids that are 100% loyal, and you are pretty much making yourself the undisputed ruler of the world. a fully nuclear war can't stop you if they figure it out too late. (as in, after your infiltrator genestealers spread out too much)
Just make sure to mass an army and collect as much power as possible before revealing yourself as the new overlord, when they are just in the hundreds they can still be beaten by desperate measures.

You know what always happens to the Genestealer cultists in the end...

Also, all the 'hurr SOB' folks should probably remember what happened to the last guy who tried to make them his harem.

10 Veteran sternguards of the Imperial Fists

Depends where I wind up. If I'm on a forest/agri-world, I'd want Gaunt and some Tanith as back-up. In the desert? Al'Rahem and a squad of Tallarn Raiders. One a jungle Deathworld? Well there's only one man for the job...Marbo!

 BoomWolf wrote:
While a host of SoB is probably the most "fun" answer

Anyone not saying Nids is just wrong about pure power (preferably genestealers, rippers or tervigons for quick number massing)

I mean yes, a bunch of paladins is amazing, and so are lychguards.
But the are FINITE, and given enough punishment they will eventually die.
A handful of nids that are 100% loyal, and you are pretty much making yourself the undisputed ruler of the world. a fully nuclear war can't stop you if they figure it out too late. (as in, after your infiltrator genestealers spread out too much)
Just make sure to mass an army and collect as much power as possible before revealing yourself as the new overlord, when they are just in the hundreds they can still be beaten by desperate measures.

Are you including "plot shields" in your calculations - Cain and Jurgen have killed any amount of the above although I would have to hope their plot defences include me!!!

What are you guys talking about? All I'd want is a venerable dreadnought.... or 3. Maybe if one of them dies they can put me into it.

SkavenLord wrote:

 Selym wrote:
Tzeentch himself.

Failing that, Ursarkar E. Creed, and whatever his Tactical Genius needs (I will have a Baneblade hiding behind a lamp post).

Maybe put a Titan behind that Baneblade?

Nah, Titans will be on pool duty.

A full squad of Thousand Sons with an Icon of Flame. All that dark glory and power armoured bodies should shield me from the syndicate.

Having a sorcerer in there won't hurt, either.

 Kerrathyr wrote:
Other.
A small contingent of Custodes.
Being them unavailable, five GK Paladins.

Damn, wish I didn't vote for a Tac Squad now as yours is much better.

Other....

I'd want a full Harlequin court protecting me, including Death Jester and everyone else

A 10 man squad of Death watch.

I would recruit the entire Ordo Sinister to be my bodyguards. If you don't know who they are, they're a legion consisting of only 12 Imperator Titans whose job it is to terrify nascent rebellions into never coming to fruition, or if that fails, to crush supposedly impenetrable forces utterly in precise assaults and demonstrate the might of the Imperium. With twelve Imperators I could do whatever I liked - even a government would struggle to contend with that kind of force. Assassination attempts are prevented by my having my permanent place of residence inside one of the titans - from what I gather, there's plenty of room, and there would essentially be nowhere safer on the entire planet.

A squad of five Castellax battle automata.
Each is a monstrous creature.

The Emperor.

Or Nork Deddog.

Other: A full royal court with all the teks and some lords with MSS, so I can see them make people punch themselves in the face while I say, "Stop hitting yourself, Stop hitting yourself"

 Gogsnik wrote:
The Emperor.

Or Nork Deddog.

Ah, yes, I must say I love Nork's fluff. He really defines what an utterly loyal and incredibly effective bodyguard should be.

Voted other, it would be Lukas the Trickster, so we could have some fun on this remote island before he dispatched any issues lol.

Vindicare Assassin. You only need one and can pass for a human so you don't attract the attention of... the entire planet. Can't really go to work or go bar hopping with a tac squad of SMs or a crew of armed ET following you everywhere

i had mentioned the ogry for a few reasons.
1. They are HUGE and intimidating.
2. Even though they may not be as dangerous as a sace marine or custodes or genestealer, the average person would be more afraid of them anyway. This psychology would go a long way towards intimidation preventing trouble before it happened.
3. they are TOUGH. a marine's armor may stop a shotgun blast from damaging him but the psychological effect of that same shotgun blast eviscerating an ogryn where he just looks down , says "ouch that stings" and continues to pummel guys would be more effective at making your opponants run away.
4. loyalty. there is just no more loyalty to be had. Eve the dog you got as a puppy and raised with all the love and care in the world would not be half as loyal as an ogryn.No motives, no guile, only undying devotion
5. Obedience. Follow any order no matter what without any thouht whatsoever. Total trust in your judgement.
10 of thse guys, oh yeah.

I don't see the option for a full 3 broods of Carnifexes... Am I the only one who thinks that would be hilarious?

Thousand Sons rubic marines because they do what you say without question and don't talk.

Also they fire explosive future bullets that are by the way on fire, and they can walk like an Egyptian.

3Tyrant Guard. Nothing could harm me when surrounded by thousands of kilograms of angry meat.

Voted other... my preference goes to the Riptide... a few of those and your worries about a crime syndicate would be over plus they wouldn't have to die for me to take 1 for a spin. If I couldn't have that the genestealers would be my plan B

Despite my IG love, I chose 10 Chaos SM. Keep two for "security" and let rest have fun with criminal syndicate. Muhahahahahaha... )

 pretre wrote:

 BoomWolf wrote:

A handful of nids that are 100% loyal, and you are pretty much making yourself the undisputed ruler of the world. a fully nuclear war can't stop you if they figure it out too late. (as in, after your infiltrator genestealers spread out too much)
Just make sure to mass an army and collect as much power as possible before revealing yourself as the new overlord, when they are just in the hundreds they can still be beaten by desperate measures.

You know what always happens to the Genestealer cultists in the end...

Also, all the 'hurr SOB' folks should probably remember what happened to the last guy who tried to make them his harem.

The rules of the question mention whatever you taking being absolutely loyal to you, and as such they will do anything you tell them to, for all eternity.

The SoB will work because they follow your orders even if they don't want to, out of loyalty.

The nids work because you order them to create only more 100% loyal to you nids, meaning every single nid in existence WILL be 100% loyal to you.
You need not worry of the hive mine-in effect you ARE the hive mind.
Heck, once you gather enough nids to create higher-function ones (still 100% loyal to you) you can order them to modify YOUR OWN body to be stronger, tougher, regenerating, immortal version of itself-even give you psyker powers-and without altering your mind (because you order them to, and they MUST obey)
You are literally turning yourself into kerrigen. (except male in my case)

Vargard Obyron is all I need and we can just teleport out if we need to GTFO.

A squat guild would be cool. You would get a huge number of guys all as tough as nails. You would never have to worry about money or anything being broken, ever. This would also include any custom bike or vehicle you could ever want along with any war machine possible from russes, to titans.. You would get the roudiest bunch of drinking buddies around. Your guys would make even the Hell's Angels and the Pagans look like a bunch of kindergartners.

Went with other, as I'd like to have the Dark angels and tell them that the crime syndicate was a ring of the fallen, or a better choice would just be the Alpha Legion. Because y'know ALPHA LEGION.

 Mozzyfuzzy wrote:
Because y'know ALPHA LEGION.

Who? *raised eyebrow*

My daemonic masters would like to know.

Adeptus Custodes. Maybe a few Rubrics, that would be sweet.

I'd be careful of chaos. While they may be loyal to you, that doesnt mean that they wouldnt still be randomly killing people, planting warpstone in maternity wards during thier off shifts and opening portals to the warp letting in daemons. You might soon find yourself living on a daemon world as the only member of the human race left alive. Even the pansy alpha legionaires could get that ball rolling.
Similar could be said of tyranid type bodyguards.