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I find myself overwhelmed with option after option for low. What is your favorite to use? What would you use if you had the coin? Which nonstandard (not primarchs or knights) ones do you see often?

My favorite so far is the Kytan ravager but stats wise it's hard to argue with the Typhon siege tank. I don't currently own any low, but I am purchasing the Ravager in a couple months. The only I've seen is Morty (he destroyed me) and a Stormsurge(also destroyed me).

A Khorne Lord of Skulls. If I had the hability and time, I'll buy one and convert him to give him legs and have him on bended knee, lookin contemplatively at a Imperial Knight head on his hand.


And use the inferior half to make a spartan tank like this one:


So, two lords of war for the price of one

Lord of Skulls. Working on a Nurgle corrupted one

Also Scabathriax.

I hate all lords of wars and I think they ruin the game!
*rant over*
I like yarriks personal baneblade, it's pretty cool.
What is it called again? Fortress of arrogance?
Stompas are visually nice aswell.

Lord of Skulls

https://imgur.com/xOcdBMR

Gotta say fellblade, just cause that's the one I have.

This is an easy question.

Shadowsword.

It's the epitome of Imperial Wrath. There is no comparison between this or anything else.

I've tasted my grin and it tasted good.

How does the baneblade fair against other LoW?

 chimeara wrote:
How does the baneblade fair against other LoW?

You take BEINBLADE if you have no idea and you just want a super heavy... or you do have a good idea but you're not telling anyone else.

Thing is, Baneblade* is kind of "Tactical Marine" of the super heavy tanks. It's not bad for the points but it's not particularly interesting.

... of course, it can still cause quite a mess but more specialized super heavy tanks are usually a better bet.

*Do note that 'Baneblade' is just one of the many variants.

Stormhammer.

Also

Ordinatus. Bringing Warlord titan arm weapons on tracks...

I don't like a single LoW to be honest, aesthetically speaking.

 Blackie wrote:
I don't like a single LoW to be honest, aesthetically speaking.

Barely related point of curiosity, but since you're an ork player how would you feel if they upgraded Ghazghkull to primarch levels and made him a centerpiece LOW? At this point in the setting he's probably been around long enough and done enough smashing to be absolutely massive.

Sly Marbo. He is THE lord of war.

 Arachnofiend wrote:

 Blackie wrote:
I don't like a single LoW to be honest, aesthetically speaking.

Barely related point of curiosity, but since you're an ork player how would you feel if they upgraded Ghazghkull to primarch levels and made him a centerpiece LOW? At this point in the setting he's probably been around long enough and done enough smashing to be absolutely massive.

Ghazkgull is pretty much perfect as he is now. A dominating beast of a model on the board, but not the meta-defining cheese-fest that Gurliman is. Right now almost any Ork list can usefully include Ghazkgull, but no Ork list Works only because of him. And that is how it should be.


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The problem with baneblade variants is that when you use a proper density of terrain pieces, they will often end up locked in on some quarter of the map. Especially in urban terrain with 6-8 inch between city-blocks/ruins.

 Arachnofiend wrote:

 Blackie wrote:
I don't like a single LoW to be honest, aesthetically speaking.

Barely related point of curiosity, but since you're an ork player how would you feel if they upgraded Ghazghkull to primarch levels and made him a centerpiece LOW? At this point in the setting he's probably been around long enough and done enough smashing to be absolutely massive.

I'll feel very bad IMHO the current ghaz has the appropriate size, the new GW superheroes look extremely silly being that big. In fact the concept of centerpiece models is something I strongly dislike.

I've already got the ghaz model, so no interest in a new one. I'd continue using that model, which is also one of my favorite miniatures of the entire GW catalogue, even if the new ghaz has the imperial knight's size.

Ghaz is an HQ. Orks' LoW is the stompa and maybe something from FW.

I like the stompa. Looks fun to put together, isn't overpowered, cool looking model

Phantom Titan.

I just have nowhere to put it it's so big.

Ta'unar with Heavy Rail Cannon, Forge World stripped back to the core aesthetic of Tau and built from there. Unashamedly put the biggest gun they could fit onto the biggest battlesuit.

...I kinda like the Imperial Knights best. They're one of the most overused and generic options, but they're still dang cool looking.

I love the storm blade. I wish FW would hurry up and fix the mould so I can put one on my Christmas list.

Shadowsword (with Storm Troopers doctrine and a Salamander Command Vehicle sauce)

Bobby G in da house! Woot! woot!

From an aesthetic point of view? Probably the oft-ignored Reaver Titan.

It's one of the best models which nicely blends current aesthetics with the older 80's-90's origin. It's not as angular and bland as a Warlord or a Wolfhound titan. Really evocative and just screams "Warhammer 40K" to me more than just about anything else they produce.

I don't own a Lord of War, and I find most of them pretty ugly.

If I bought one, it'd be a Cobra or Scorpion, they both look quite cool.

The Wraithknight seems really fun to build, but I'm not really a fan of walkers in a faction that has anti-grav technology.

Marauder Destroyer (see gallery). Best model in 40k.

Horus the Warmaster. Sold me on 30k alone that model it did.

After that I'm still drooling over the super heavy with twin volcano cannons. That's level of awesomeness that's just not fair

Shadowsword and Macharius Vanquisher

Nicholas Cage


I really like the Knight Errant and the Eldar Wraithlord

 chimeara wrote:
I find myself overwhelmed with option after option for low. What is your favorite to use? What would you use if you had the coin? Which nonstandard (not primarchs or knights) ones do you see often?

My favorite so far is the Kytan ravager but stats wise it's hard to argue with the Typhon siege tank. I don't currently own any low, but I am purchasing the Ravager in a couple months. The only I've seen is Morty (he destroyed me) and a Stormsurge(also destroyed me).

I like the Imperial Knight the best, but I don't have one because at the point level I play it would completely dominate the game (not necessarily win, just dominate the gameplay). I also like the Tyranid big critters visually. Both together really seem to epitomize 40k for me.