Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Be it poorly painted, bad on the tabletop, unlucky, or just other wise hate gathering, what is your favorite bad model that you actually use?

No-luck Charlie, my Blitza Bomma.

He actually hits quite a lot with his bomms, but has yet to do anything meaningful with them (glances/shaken results only)

My Defiler. Zoggin' useless, but I love him and I keep using him.

Interesting question.

There are very few of my models I’m not fond of. Even the drop pods, which I hate assembling, I don’t mind once done. In particularly large games, when I feel the need to put more then 4 tac squads on the table, the 2nd edition push fit marines come out. I’m a little ashamed of them.

From a “you suck, but I love you anyway” standpoint, it’s my old metal captain. He’s got a stormbolter and a power sword. I call it a relic blade, and give him artificer armor, so he doesn’t completely suck. But there are better HQ/wargear choices for the points.

Internet mindthink tells me I shouldn’t be using things like dreds, assault marines, chaplains, and all sorts of sup-par units. But I do, and have fun doing so.

I have an old tau crisis commander (the ones that were just regular crisis suits with two extra metal heads and some metal weapons/ support systems). Firt model I ever got, and he is currently missing a leg and half of one of thruster arrays. He is however my favorite model that I have, and I have actually written a background to why his gaks all dinged up and modeled the rest of my army around him (the back story is that it is an exploratory cadre with a small earth caste battlefield repairs untit that has been sperateed from the empire and is stuck on a planet that the imperium is trying to claim back, meaning many of my guys have broken stuff fixed with imperial tech.).

Buzzy the Vespid and his 2 friends. Somebody who doesn't play 40k bought me a pack of them for my birthday "because they looked cool and I know you play this game". To be fair I was kind of amazed the guy actually got the army right.

I assembled them but never painted them, and I think I may have played them in a game once. This was during 4th edition by the way. To this very day those three shiny metal vespids are sitting there on my "to do" shelf waiting for their turn to come forth.

I am gonna haven to go with my tank busta boyz. I have squads of 15, usually I only use 1. The most they have ever done is smoke a unit of striking scorpions. But I love to put the on the table.

Justicar Thawn...he's moody when he dies.

Sometimes he stands up and single-handedly kills a Bloodthirster

...other times he sleeps for 4 turns and then wakes up in the middle of a field after everyone has gone home.

He's not TERRIBLE but not really worth his points - but I still like using my Terminator Chaplain. He just looks so badass...

Pyrovore: The Thread

I definitely vote for my heavy flamer wielding Battle Sister.
Has been charged four times so far, rolled a 1 on a D3 for overwatch every time, and hasn't killed a single model with overwatch in any of the four attempts.

My 3 warbuggies.

I love the idea of warbuggies, and the models, although old, still look pretty cool. I have fielded them a couple times, and they just get to shot down so fast. I really want them to do better, and keep trying to sneak them in to my lists.

I spent a lot of time painting up my Pyrovore in the hope the new codex would make it good... guess the poor walking phallus will have to wait on the shelf another few years.

My Railgun hammerhead. It always seems like I roll 1's to hit, to pen, or 1 on the damage chart. Used it the entire time I played 5th and only recently stopped taking it.

His entire run he has killed less vehicles than my gun drones.

My buddy has a super old school metal dreadnought that weighs about 3lbs and is painted (horrendously) in Christmas colors.

2nd edition plastic orks in the boxed set, holy gak they were bad.

My jumppack Wolf Guard. Horribly overcosted, but I love them and they look awesome.

Sisters repentia. Love the fluff as to why they do what they do, but tabletop wise they die so easily. Losing standard FnP and getting a once a game version really hurt them. When they make it to combat though(once in a blue moon) they wreck face.

Every lascannon in my army. Last game I played didn't score a single hit, rolled two ones with the twin linked one as well.

Meka-Dread, almost never hits anything, and is so scary looking it dies too fast as my opponent shoots everything at it, Plus its my HQ

Petrov wrote:
2nd edition plastic orks in the boxed set, holy gak they were bad.

hey i love those models i have a fully painted 30 boyz of them

and my most hated model is my 3 deffkoptaz the flying stems keep breaking the rotors keep breaking the entire model just keeps falling apart no matter how gentle i am

/sigh


Every time this thread comes up, this model makes an appearance, so I'm just getting it out of the way now.

 Psienesis wrote:
/sigh


Every time this thread comes up, this model makes an appearance, so I'm just getting it out of the way now.

Oh hey, my Avatar

So now you can see two ork cheerleaders. At the same time

'In stereo, baby...'

Yo, dawg, I heard you like Ork Cheerleaders....

 Psienesis wrote:
/sigh


Every time this thread comes up, this model makes an appearance, so I'm just getting it out of the way now.

OH DEAR GOD!
SHE CAN PLAY HACKY SACK WITH THOSE!

Aesthetically, I think Lychguard are my favorite model from the Necron codex and they were pretty good in 5th edition, before their swords were nerfed to AP3. They're obnoxious because their wrists are really flimsy and one or two are guaranteed to break every time I take them somewhere.

Somewhat the same problem with wraiths, their whip coils are flimsy and their shape makes them something of a hassle to use/transport.

Anything with a meltagun on it. I should start keeping track of the number of successful melta shots I put out that actually cause damage, cause I know mine never do.... Im literally at the point of phasing meltaguns out of my army entirely since they never do anything useful!

 Gideon999 wrote:
Anything with a meltagun on it. I should start keeping track of the number of successful melta shots I put out that actually cause damage, cause I know mine never do.... Im literally at the point of phasing meltaguns out of my army entirely since they never do anything useful!

Meltaguns should statistically be able to output quite a lot of damage. Have you tried threatening your dice with painting them pink?

My sentinels. Used to run 12 of them back in the days (9 in fast, 3 in HQ)