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What do you find to be the most effective close combat units, or characters, within the Imperium?

Regardless of their lack of defences, I'd still go with the Vanguard Veterans and of course the Assault Termies.

Iron hands tactics
Ten man Assault termies with TH/SS
Librarius conclave with 3 termie librarians, 2 rolling on Biomancy and one on Santic daemonology
ML1 ordo xenos inquisitor with rad and psychotroke grenades and the Hammer hand power.

Should all powers go off:
S10 hammers
3+ FnP
2+ Invul
EW

Other things that happen:
-1T to the enemy

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
Iron hands tactics
Ten man Assault termies with TH/SS
Librarius conclave with 3 termie librarians, 2 rolling on Biomancy and one on Santic daemonology
ML1 ordo xenos inquisitor with rad and psychotroke grenades and the Hammer hand power.

Should all powers go off:
S10 hammers
3+ FnP
2+ Invul
EW

Other things that happen:
-1T to the enemy

What would you rather have Str 10 full attacks and t4 or Str 7 full attacks or str 10 single attack but T5?

If you swap the regular terms for deathwing knights then you can do the same thing but use the rule making them t5 for base to base contact