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I'll start:

A fully magnetized and painted jump pack librarian, captain, and chaplian. I love these guys but can never figure out how to use them, even in friendly games. A friend of mine recently invested in a Tau army so maybe that offers me some close combat opportunity.

Ironclad dreadnought. I love this model, I modeled him to be a fallen Deathwing Knight (i run vanilla and dark angels) and he looks awesome. I have never really had great luck getting him into combat though.

A scibor Roman guard that I use as a chapter master. He fully painted and I just can get him in combat to make him effective without taking a land raider or a stormraven.

Chaplain Grimaldus. I took so much time painting and modeling this guy. I even added a little waaagh banner to his base. Ive used him a couple of times but hes never really been in combat. He did help out my centurions with his servitors' invul save though.

How about you guys?

Somehow I've managed to amass 7-8 plastic dreadnoughts with varying armaments over the years. I love these guys so much, but they just aren't that great as things stand. Even using Techmarine or BA shenanigans for a massive Dreadnought Swarm isn't terribly effective. :(

 Likan Wolfsheim wrote:
Somehow I've managed to amass 7-8 plastic dreadnoughts with varying armaments over the years. I love these guys so much, but they just aren't that great as things stand. Even using Techmarine or BA shenanigans for a massive Dreadnought Swarm isn't terribly effective. :(

I know that pain. I've got three dreads and I've though about making a fun list including all of them.

I've got 12 dreadnoughts and 14 land speeders.

With so much str 7 shooting nowadays i really cant play them at a competitive level though.


I acctually have an iron hands list with 14 landspeeders and a biker command squad that is nasty, but tau and eldar would probably poon it.

Eihnlazer wrote:
I've got 12 dreadnoughts and 14 land speeders.

With so much str 7 shooting nowadays i really cant play them at a competitive level though.


I acctually have an iron hands list with 14 landspeeders and a biker command squad that is nasty, but tau and eldar would probably poon it.

I have had really good luck recently with a single land speeder and a meltagun running around popping vehicles and getting line breaker.

My stealth suits! Love em, but they always seem to be giving up first blood...

Usually walkers of various armies. Triarch Stalker and Defiler for point costs way over their value. Dreads for regular and chaos marines.

The rules just arn't favorable to any walker that is not fast and AV13.

I have this random Rhino that I really took my time on painting, gave it a name and everything. Like someone previously said, all he does is give my opponents first blood.

I have two dreads sitting in a drawer waiting to be finished. They've been there for a while and it's likely they'll be there a while longer.

I also love landspeeders, and used two in my 5th edition army lists all the time as cheap, fast and potent firepower. Now they're just first blood every game.

I wish the cronos an DE wyches could be more effective. I'd love to run around with 1-2 Cronos and a sea of wyches.

My entire 40k army. Why does assault have to suck so bad

Zerkers getting smacked by the nerf bat really sucks, I'm kind of afraid by the time I finish painting my army they'll come out with a new codex and render all the hours I spend attempting to crunch numbers and make the best of an assault army pointless.

Me: "Assault might suck but these units are the best of their kind so I could get lucky and still have a reasonable... oh, now they cost twenty more points per model and their statlines went down, and they traded their only good special rule for Fear..."

 ZultanQ wrote:
My entire 40k army. Why does assault have to suck so bad

Zerkers getting smacked by the nerf bat really sucks, I'm kind of afraid by the time I finish painting my army they'll come out with a new codex and render all the hours I spend attempting to crunch numbers and make the best of an assault army pointless.

Me: "Assault might suck but these units are the best of their kind so I could get lucky and still have a reasonable... oh, now they cost twenty more points per model and their statlines went down, and they traded their only good special rule for Fear..."

I miss the old Vanguard Assault Marines. I basically got a box of new Vanguard for free and havent painted them because I dont know what to do with them

Howling banshies
most phonix lords
wyches

so many cool models that dont serve a purpose but to die now =(

Vanguard Vets.
Stormtroopers.

Storm Troopers. Too expensive.

Take a guess.

Here's the first 2 letters.

P Y _ _ _ _ _ _

My Dark Angels Deathwing Knight, I just can't seem to get them to last past the 1st turn.
But picking up the dice to make 10 saves and rolling 7 1s never helps.

Vanguard vets (10 of these)
Sanguinary guard (25 of these) (Can make them slightly effective at 3k with lots of mech for distraction)
Jp equipped dc (30 of these, 10 of whom are unpainted so can join all my other assault squads)
Beautiful BA HG unit with 1 ss, 2 plas pistols, 2 pfs, 1 th, 1powersword all on foot.
BA tac squads (heaps of these)... ok I dont love them but I sure as hell cant make them effective.
Sanguinor (he looks awsome and his fluff is great bit he, alas, is not)
Astorath and Dante (only effective to build a DC or HG list and those lists aren't effective)
Terminators (26 normal and 10 th/ss, the th/ss can be made effective but not the basic ones, which I haven't used once since coming back to the game)
BA whirlwind (25pts for fast on a 90pt vehicle that never benefits from it)
2 dev squads with 4 mls each. Mls are total pants.

Penitent Engines.

Poly Ranger wrote:
Vanguard vets (10 of these)
Sanguinary guard (25 of these) (Can make them slightly effective at 3k with lots of mech for distraction)
Jp equipped dc (30 of these, 10 of whom are unpainted so can join all my other assault squads)
Beautiful BA HG unit with 1 ss, 2 plas pistols, 2 pfs, 1 th, 1powersword all on foot.
BA tac squads (heaps of these)... ok I dont love them but I sure as hell cant make them effective.
Sanguinor (he looks awsome and his fluff is great bit he, alas, is not)
Astorath and Dante (only effective to build a DC or HG list and those lists aren't effective)
Terminators (26 normal and 10 th/ss, the th/ss can be made effective but not the basic ones, which I haven't used once since coming back to the game)
BA whirlwind (25pts for fast on a 90pt vehicle that never benefits from it)
2 dev squads with 4 mls each. Mls are total pants.

I've never played Blood Angels so I cant comment on that but I still find plenty of use for my terminators, whirlwind, and devastator squads. It really depends who and what I'm playing obviously. I even love my Deathwing Knights, especially if I can give them a land raider. My Deathwing command squad has sadly fallen into disuse. Thats especially sad for me as I have a really cool Deathwing Champion.

Possessed

Our whirlwinds and devs cost more. I don't mind a 65pt large st5 blast, but 90pts puts me off. For 90pts I could ally in inquisition and get a large st 9 ap1 blast with 7 psykers and still have room with the extra 20pts to fit in 5 meatshield acolytes to take the wounds.
Our Devs start at 90pts not 70.
Basic Termis do not sync well with BA as our armies tend to be fast moving and rely on sweeping the opponent in combat if not a mech build.

 Anpu42 wrote:
My Dark Angels Deathwing Knight, I just can't seem to get them to last past the 1st turn.
But picking up the dice to make 10 saves and rolling 7 1s never helps.

LRC and better dice rolling are in order.

Personally, most dreadnoughts. It's a shame they pale so badly when compared to MCs this edition.

 Big Blind Bill wrote:

 Anpu42 wrote:
My Dark Angels Deathwing Knight, I just can't seem to get them to last past the 1st turn.
But picking up the dice to make 10 saves and rolling 7 1s never helps.

LRC and better dice rolling are in order.

Personally, most dreadnoughts. It's a shame they pale so badly when compared to MCs this edition.

I was thinking a Redeimer, I have luck with those.
As far as the dice

 ductvader wrote:
Take a guess.

Here's the first 2 letters.

P Y _ _ _ _ _ _

Beat me to it!

Will second Pretre's Penitent Engine suggestion, and for my own comment add in Wolf Priests. I especially love Ulrich's model, but their limited options really make me struggle to justify taking one in place of Rune Priests or Wolf Lords. Suppose Blood Claws fit the bill, but they're easy enough to use as Grey Hunters, so...

 streamdragon wrote:
for my own comment add in Wolf Priests. I especially love Ulrich's model, but their limited options really make me struggle to justify taking one in place of Rune Priests or Wolf Lords. Suppose Blood Claws fit the bill, but they're easy enough to use as Grey Hunters, so...

Are you crazy? Wolf Priests are great right now. Take a WP with Saga of the Hunter. Attach to a 10 strong GH squad. Profit.

He adds Fearless, Stealth, Outflank (with reroll) and Preferred Enemy for 110 points. It usually gets me linebreaker and prevents StW.

The Emperor's Champion. For the same cost, you can get a Khorne Lord with Axe of Blind Fury. I'm not sure what GW were thinking there.

 pretre wrote:

 streamdragon wrote:
for my own comment add in Wolf Priests. I especially love Ulrich's model, but their limited options really make me struggle to justify taking one in place of Rune Priests or Wolf Lords. Suppose Blood Claws fit the bill, but they're easy enough to use as Grey Hunters, so...

Are you crazy? Wolf Priests are great right now. Take a WP with Saga of the Hunter. Attach to a 10 strong GH squad. Profit.

He adds Fearless, Stealth, Outflank (with reroll) and Preferred Enemy for 110 points. It usually gets me linebreaker and prevents StW.

Hm... I shall consider your suggestion next time I run wolves. Not sure I see that usurping a Rune Priest or TWC wolf lord though.

But if it means getting to use my Wolf Priest models...

 streamdragon wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 streamdragon wrote:
for my own comment add in Wolf Priests. I especially love Ulrich's model, but their limited options really make me struggle to justify taking one in place of Rune Priests or Wolf Lords. Suppose Blood Claws fit the bill, but they're easy enough to use as Grey Hunters, so...

Are you crazy? Wolf Priests are great right now. Take a WP with Saga of the Hunter. Attach to a 10 strong GH squad. Profit.

He adds Fearless, Stealth, Outflank (with reroll) and Preferred Enemy for 110 points. It usually gets me linebreaker and prevents StW.

Hm... I shall consider your suggestion next time I run wolves. Not sure I see that usurping a Rune Priest or TWC wolf lord though.

But if it means getting to use my Wolf Priest models...

I haven't run a TWC in a long time. I pretty much run 1-2 RP and 1 WP in my lists. They do really well. A plasma GH squad loves it some Preferred Enemy.

 pretre wrote:

 streamdragon wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 streamdragon wrote:
for my own comment add in Wolf Priests. I especially love Ulrich's model, but their limited options really make me struggle to justify taking one in place of Rune Priests or Wolf Lords. Suppose Blood Claws fit the bill, but they're easy enough to use as Grey Hunters, so...

Are you crazy? Wolf Priests are great right now. Take a WP with Saga of the Hunter. Attach to a 10 strong GH squad. Profit.

He adds Fearless, Stealth, Outflank (with reroll) and Preferred Enemy for 110 points. It usually gets me linebreaker and prevents StW.

Hm... I shall consider your suggestion next time I run wolves. Not sure I see that usurping a Rune Priest or TWC wolf lord though.

But if it means getting to use my Wolf Priest models...

I haven't run a TWC in a long time. I pretty much run 1-2 RP and 1 WP in my lists. They do really well. A plasma GH squad loves it some Preferred Enemy.

My other issue is I usually either Pod or Rhino my hunters, but I guess and Outflanking unit doesn't really need a ride.

hm... consider me sold. I'll find 110 points somewhere, probably dropping my Wolf Scouts since Hunters will be pulling a similar trick...

My Manticores. Love the model, but when it does hit things, and does wound......99% of the time it does nothing :/