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Hello I was thinking about starting an army consisting of majority fast attack/fast moving units and I was wondering what would be the best and most fun army to accomplish this with?

Probably some flavor of Eldar. More competitively, Ynnari a/o a mix of them

Reasonably competitive, and fun if that sort of thing works for you.

Drdotts wrote:
Hello I was thinking about starting an army consisting of majority fast attack/fast moving units and I was wondering what would be the best and most fun army to accomplish this with?

Does it have to be “fast attack” units, or can it be units from other slots that are pretty fast?


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Or armies that play in a fast style?

Triple bike space elf list.

Battalion Witch cult. 2 succubus. 3 units of 5 wytches in venoms. Fill up with reavers.

Outrider craftworld. You know what to do here.

Out rider clown elfs. Or a Battailon if you want.

Something fast. Just looking to change things up from my normal itc list of knights

What about Genestealer Cult?

Achilles Ridgerunners, Atalan Jackals, Sentinels, Leman Russ's, Rockgrinders and Goliath's. You could even use Purestrain Genestealers as they are hardly slow. You even have a ready built biker HQ with the Jackal Alphus.

Will it be competitive? Probably very far from it, but certainly fast.

Drdotts wrote:
Something fast. Just looking to change things up from my normal itc list of knights

Militarum Tempestus (as long as you don’t include any regular IG, the stuff on the Advisors and Auxillia list is the exception). It is a fast, glass cannon army. If you are doing it right, either all your troops start in transports (Valkyries or Taurox Primes) or in reserve to deepstrike pain on the enemy. Your slowest vehicle goes 14,” and your fastest, the Valkyries, can go supersonic and cross the entire table in a turn.

Well, Ynnari with Shining Spears, Skyweavers, and Scourges.

I love the idea of a fast Imperial Gurad stike force with Rough Riders, Ogryns in Chimeras, Sentinals, Hell Hounds etc.

I have to be disciplined and paint Orks though... no buying new armies!

Chaos renegades get to move+Advance+charge in the same round. Makes for a pretty fast army.

Slaanesh Daemons.

Drukhari. You will struggle to find an army as consistently fast as these guys. Models are cheap, look good, access to great weapons and the vehicles come with loads of spare parts for kitbashing models.

Nids have a lot of very fast units.

Drukhari with a côre of Flayed skull venoms is lightning fast. Competetive too.

For sure Aeldari, you can have full armies move 36" + without trying and still be competitive.

Heck, new CA missions you can take 6+ flyers and then all Bikes if you want with all HQs on bikes.

Aeldari are the definition of speed.

If you are not a fan of the xenos races though and want something from the Imperium, either build White Scar army or a Dark Angels Ravenwing army. Not going to be terribly competitive, but I play Ravenwing a lot and it can be pretty for more casual games. I just love those Black Knights, running around with plasma talons and corvus hammers.

Custodes bikes

Armies that are fast thematically are White Scars, Ravenwing, Eldar (all flavours), Evil Sunz Orks & Hive Fleet Kraken (I think.) If you want something that isn't seen too often on the tabletop, I'd suggest White Scars. For the Khan!

 Ginjitzu wrote:
Armies that are fast thematically are White Scars, Ravenwing, Eldar (all flavours), Evil Sunz Orks & Hive Fleet Kraken (I think.) If you want something that isn't seen too often on the tabletop, I'd suggest White Scars. For the Khan!

The first two choices have gak survivability and damage output compare to their cost. Hard pass.

 Gordon Shumway wrote:
Chaos renegades get to move+Advance+charge in the same round. Makes for a pretty fast army.

them and black legion are both reasonably good at the fast advancement. if chaos space marines had a bolt gun, bolt pistol and CCW black legion'd be a FANTASTIC army

BrianDavion wrote:

 Gordon Shumway wrote:
Chaos renegades get to move+Advance+charge in the same round. Makes for a pretty fast army.

them and black legion are both reasonably good at the fast advancement. if chaos space marines had a bolt gun, bolt pistol and CCW black legion'd be a FANTASTIC army

Honestly that's what Im wishing for in the new rumoured CSM codex, back when I played in 5th, that was A BIG difference in CSM and Tactical squads, Tactical got TSKNF and CSM got bolter+ CC + bolt pistol.

Until 5th ed Space wolves came out and ruined everything.

Gir Spirit Bane wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 Gordon Shumway wrote:
Chaos renegades get to move+Advance+charge in the same round. Makes for a pretty fast army.

them and black legion are both reasonably good at the fast advancement. if chaos space marines had a bolt gun, bolt pistol and CCW black legion'd be a FANTASTIC army

Honestly that's what Im wishing for in the new rumoured CSM codex, back when I played in 5th, that was A BIG difference in CSM and Tactical squads, Tactical got TSKNF and CSM got bolter+ CC + bolt pistol.

Until 5th ed Space wolves came out and ruined everything.

I admit in 6th edition I was annoyed CSMs lost that but space wolves got to keep it.