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Dreadnaughts. I lucked out and wound up with five of them, but I don't really have a way to field them that's reasonable. They just don't pack enough wallop to be worth it.

 l0k1 wrote:
My Manticores. Love the model, but when it does hit things, and does wound......99% of the time it does nothing :/

This is strange, as the Manticore is considered to be one of the better units of the IG codex up there with Vendettas. I only have 1 manticore and its one of the best units in my whole army, and has killed so much stuff. Maybe your scatter dice don't favor it? You know that you get D3 pie plates for Multi-barrage right?

Pretty much my whole Chaos Marine army...

...or what's left of it! Hahaha!

I traded a bunch of it off to make a Space Marine army and I haven't looked back. Maybe one day I'll come back to the CSMs and build the same Mark of Nurgle list as everyone else, but for now I'd much rather play with a variety of units that are actually usable.

Say what you will about CSM, they are only good if you run them in a very strict way. Believe me I've pounded my head against that wall for awhile!

As it stands I have a 1000 point themed list left, 2 squads of Berzerkers, 1 squad of Chosen, a Chaos Lord and a Demon Prince. All of them painted, based and ready to... sit on the shelf and collect dust!

I try to get people to play against them but it always ends up being a joke. Oh what, you're bringing your Khorne army? Gunline! Pewpew, Zerkers die, ap3 eats Demon Prince and Chaos Lord wonders why he ever even left his lair...

I love the ravener models but sadly the unit is terribad.

Also Grimaldus, whirlwinds, and vindicators

BrotherVord wrote:
I love the ravener models but sadly the unit is terribad.

Also Grimaldus, whirlwinds, and vindicators

That saddens me that you havent found a way to use Grimaldus, I just finished painting him :(

As far as whirlwinds and vindicators, I still have occasional use for them, especially for area denial. I'm currently involved in a league though and my workhorses have been my centurions, sternguard, and stormraven.

C:sm assault marines i have 70 of them was working on building a assault company to use in friendly games but they just flat out stink die way to fast and easy

Is this thread really "Tactics"?

At any rate, my Space Wolf Terminators have been an underachieving disappointment every time I use them unless I give them combi-weapons. And even then they get killed off really quick. A lot of the times my opponent doesn't even have a whole lot of AP2 either. They just have a lot of trouble making up their points.

 Unholyllama wrote:
Tomb Blades - Huge competition in the Necron FA slot and TombBlades provide a solution that something else does better and cheaper in the codex.

Yeah.
Destroyers, too, especially Heavy Destroyers.
Love the lore for them (glitched out robots obsessed with scouring all life from the galaxy).
They should be the Necron equivalent of Devastators/Havocs/Broadsides/etc., or maybe even Obliterators.
Instead they're just over priced/super vulnerable, comparatively.
:/

 Wilytank wrote:
Is this thread really "Tactics"?

At any rate, my Space Wolf Terminators have been an underachieving disappointment every time I use them unless I give them combi-weapons. And even then they get killed off really quick. A lot of the times my opponent doesn't even have a whole lot of AP2 either. They just have a lot of trouble making up their points.

Well, that is the opisite for me, but I don't live in a AP2 Ingnore cover Pie envoroment.

Vect, he helps the army I play by letting me go first almost every game. But when the game really starts and the shots start flying the first time he has to take a save against ANYTHING strength 6 or more, he will ALWAYS fail his shadowfield save. I have had him fortuned, I have failed look out sirs! Man this guy has a death wish!

Deathwing Terminators. Hell, any TEQ unit in general besides maybe hammernators have done terribad in every game I have played.

Every single new CSM model except the heldrake (yes, even mutilators)

Every single Tyranid Elite unit except for Hive Guard and Zoeys.

Poor Daphne, my Slaanesh defiler. Soon she'll get turned into a daemonette soulgrinder though.

Speaking of Dreads I have 3 of them .. As a GK player I use 2 of them with the usual loadout of 2x AC + Psybolts but the third..ahh the third I always run it with TL Heavy Flamer + Nemesis Doomfist with build in Heavy Flamer + Psyflames.. The whole Dread is a conversion of BA Libbi Dread and I also converted a LC (from Venerable Dread box) into the TL Heavy Flamer . It looks awesome!! ( IMO at least ) .. BUT..

..BUT it can't compete the DK unfortunately in the table .. Anyway I love it so much I run it anyway ( fun is the point )

Mali wrote:Howling banshies
most phonix lords
wyches

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

Hooked on phonix lords?

ductvader wrote:Take a guess.

Here's the first 2 letters.

P Y _ _ _ _ _ _

Ohh ohh I know this one. Pyo-- Tyranid army!


Seriously though as a former deathwing player I have around 20 terminators that sit there collecting dust.

Lychguard and Tomb Blades (not the GW tomb blades, but the conversions I'd love to do for them someday involving DE reavers.)

The Swarmlord, Warriors, Raveners, Lictors, Haruspices, Genestealers, Rippers. I have found a use for Hormagaunts though:

Riptides.

Just too squishy for the points.

Shame, because they look so cool.

Anything melee orientated. Especially melee dreads.

I am so damn sick of being unable to charge because friendlies are locked in combat, blocking my way. Or going to I1 because one model went 1mm into area terrain. Or getting challenged by some dumbass sergeant. Its hard enough to get into close combat, only to have it stopped by that nonsense... not cool

 ImotekhTheStormlord wrote:
Riptides.

Just too squishy for the points.

Shame, because they look so cool.

Wracks,at first I wanted to make Dark Eldar my first army but then they got hit pretty bad.


Thousand sons,Khorne berzerkers.

10 Death company, Sang guard legs, DC bodies and weapons and heads, 3 with powerfist all with jump packs led by Lemartes. 575pts of beautiful models used about once :(

+1 for dreadnoughts. I have 5-6 of the poor little things. Seriously GW, dreads are NOT worth 100+ pts. You have to slash the price in half for them to be worth it.

The pyrovore. I love it's model but it really doesn't seem to serve much use on the battlefield.

 SkavenLord wrote:
The pyrovore. I love it's model but it really doesn't seem to serve much use on the battlefield.

i know lots of people who use the pyrovore model for the biovore. tis a beautiful model

My current CSM army. Sold some stuff having available 36 CSM Marines, 15 Termies, 6 Oblits, 2 winged DPs, and one ancient LR.
Simply not competitive in the new edition. Putting them on hold.

One more unit to add..

Warp Talons - love the stuff for them, worked once then got shot out of the sky every other game after

....I'm quite surprised there has not been any "Internet Tough Guys" or "Keyboard Warriors" soaping us all with the usual gak of "they are good stop whining and be (somehow selectively) better"....

 Illumini wrote:
+1 for dreadnoughts. I have 5-6 of the poor little things. Seriously GW, dreads are NOT worth 100+ pts. You have to slash the price in half for them to be worth it.

Put em in a drop pod. Give em an ass cannon/HF and watch em clear objectives that the rest of your army can't get to. Either that of turn one drop em behind your opponents ADL and watch him waste all of his heavy shots on the dread instead of your important stuff.

Or, instead of spending 150 pts on a diversion with terrible damage output and survivability, I could spend them on good stuff.

IG Salamanders and Sentinels.
Love the models, have no way to justify using them.
And I'm embarrassed to admit how many I own(WAY too many!)!

Destroyers are good for a pump and a dump: send em off out tank/marine hunting then they get assaulted to death in the next turn. Certainly cool, but yeah a bit costly.

People moan about thousand sons, but they are my objective holding kings and I just flat out love them no matter what.