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Interested to know which assassin is your favorite and why?

Culexus for the story, the concept, and the power to deny the witches.
I have an inquisitor with a null rod too.

Death cultists. Because of those two big impressively shaped swords.

Culexus, especially before the necron ret-con. GW even put out an article where a Culexus Assassin was in transition to becoming a Necron Pariah.

I think I have always loved the Vindicare and Eversor in previous editions. The Vindicare has always been the easiest to play.

Now I am stuck between how cool the Eversor looks versus the Culexus' abilities and look/background.

Vindi.

love that sniper.

Callidus, what can I say, I love her design (I know theres male and female of every assasin but...)

Eversor...because he used to be a flying rodent gak crazy fighter (I don't know if he is now).

I will say that the Callidus is pretty awesome when she pops up right behind 3 characters and completely preoccupies them for at least one turn.

vindicare. It has been amazing in every game i have played with it

Do Solitaires count as assassins?

Fluff-wise, the Eversor is my favourite. An already hyper-violent madman injected with so many stimulants that their blood becomes acidic volatile goop, then drop podded into the midst of the enemy as an 'assassin'. That's just a hilariously over the top 40k idea.

In the game, the Culexus is probably the most powerful right now. A character that can only ever be hit on a 6, for that price. They're a bit OP.

Eversor - drugging up a guy and dropping him into the midst of the enemy formation to be an "assassin" smacks of delicious fluffy grimdark.

Kheradruakh.

Morealus. With some luck it will one day be a chaos model in the game. (well, fabius made clone wonnabe at least, the real one was... Something else...)

Lijah Cuu.

Vindicator, mainly on tabletop because I am a prick to my friend.

Callidus would be my fave. Love the whole polymorphine shape shifty angle to get close to the target and slipping a phase sword through their back and blasting the confused bodyguards away with the neural shredder before slipping away and blending into the confused throng. Always felt more assassin-y to me. Subtle.

Culexus and Eversor lack any subtlety. You could just as easily give a suitably amgry marine the same task.

Vindicare would be my second favourite due to classic sniper.

Eversor for me. A ticking time bomb of gory death that takes its foes down with it, it jives with my Orky sensibilities of what an assassin is like. Also, WRRRRY.

 kastelen wrote:
Vindicator

Exalted for planting a picture of a subtle well-aimed demolisher shell being issued to the face of a high value target by a stealthy assassin tank

I am partial to the Culexus and Eversor. The Eversor is such a hilarious concept. His 8e rules are great as well. Dude just appears and starts ripping stuff apart. Increased Charge range plus additional Attacks is just awesome. The Culexus is awesome. I love the idea of a walking psychic deadspot. I wish his Animus Speculum didn't have random shots, though. It is cool that he basically tears stuff apart with his bare hands.

The heldrake

Eversor.

Annhilating an entire bloodline use improvised implements - including a spoon - is just ridiculous.

Old fluff btw.

Nemesis is actually a decent read too if you want assassin inspiration.

Culexus for me. Just so creepy.

Vindicator, my Sniper-side was so envious....
A previous Void Shield Generator Gun-line had four.

Eversor and Culexus for my part, death in such intresting ways

Every time someone types Vindicator instead of Vindicare I picture one perched on the top of a building sniping stuff with his Demolisher Cannon.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
Every time someone types Vindicator instead of Vindicare I picture one perched on the top of a building sniping stuff with his Demolisher Cannon.

Yes. I love it.

Intermittently kicking on the engines with a sputter, the Vindicator slowly crept forward, being careful to keep the RPMs of the engine down to avoid blowing too much smoke out of it's vents. It had been tracking it's quarry across the continent for the last month, and finally, after spending two days silently smashing it's way up eight flights of stairs to keep hidden, a clean shot on the target has finally presented itself.

"Prepare to fire!" The tank commander screamed to the crew to be heard over the beep-boop of electronics, and the deep rumble of the engines.

"Preparations complete sir!" The gunner screamed back, after loading a shell into the main cannon with a load clank.

The target, the commander of the heretic forces that had been ravaging this agri-world, and his officers were gathered in a meeting, unaware of the short ranged explosive death trained on them. Selected from hundreds of other Vindicator crews, the Officio Assassinorum spent years training the crew, and whispering sweet nothings to machine spirit to keep it's tendencies of rushing forwards into battle at a minimum.

"This scum will never know what hit them" the tank commander said to himself before screaming;

"FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" into the vox-system, broadcasting it through the external speakers and throwing the heretics into a state of confusion as he pulled the lanyard cable to fire the main gun, causing the vehicle to shake with the explosive force of firing a shell.

The massive Demolisher Cannon shell slowly arced through the air on it's flight path to the intended target. The heretic commander and his officers, now aware of the impending death traveling towards them, only managed to get a few steps in before the shell hit the ground in between them and detonated, shredding their bodies and the buildings next to them.

Examining the 50 foot crater that used to be their target, the commander of the Vindicator nodded to himself as a sign of a job well done. Their target was destroyed, but there was always more work to do assassinating the enemies of mankind.

"Autobo... Uhhh, crew, roll out!" And thus, the vehicle trundled off to begin stalking it's next target.