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"Deathstar" ?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504739.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504739.page GMT 40k version of Deathstar? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504745.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504745.page GMT 40k version of Deathstar? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504761.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504761.page GMT 40k version of Deathstar?
If the latter is the case, Nob Bikerz and Jetseer council come immediately to mind.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504847.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504847.page GMT Re:40k version of Deathstar? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504875.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504875.page GMT 40k version of Deathstar?
@freudian: they fire the "laser"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504882.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504882.page GMT Re:40k version of Deathstar? GW is frikin sharks with laser beams attached to their heads!

It seems like a razorback with TL las cannons would have to be the closest, wouldn't it? You could potentially take it down with a small HW, but if it hits most things it'll kill them, what with the low AP/high strength.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504887.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504887.page GMT 40k version of Deathstar?
I would say Nobz are the best one. A unit of Nob bikers is pretty darn nasty - 2 wounds, FnP, T4(5), LETHAL combat ability, amazing shooting, speed, scoring unit [biggie, there], fearless.

I think the biggest problem with most 40k deathstars is that while they may be killy death, they tend to be weak. 10 Vanguard veterans with thunder hammers and stormshields is well and good but shoot them with something like lootas and they fall apart like basic marines, yet cost 5x as much. Nob bikers do well against pretty much anything from a tactical squad to full-on heavy weapon barrages to apocalyptic weapons. Watching them shrug off such things as Vulkan Mega Bolters without so much as a scratch is rather depressing.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504894.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504894.page GMT 40k version of Deathstar?
Spellbound wrote:
I think the biggest problem with most 40k deathstars is that while they may be killy death, they tend to be weak. 10 Vanguard veterans with thunder hammers and stormshields is well and good but shoot them with something like lootas and they fall apart like basic marines, yet cost 5x as much. Nob bikers do well against pretty much anything from a tactical squad to full-on heavy weapon barrages to apocalyptic weapons. Watching them shrug off such things as Vulkan Mega Bolters without so much as a scratch is rather depressing.


It's all about the D-Weapons, baby...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504899.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504899.page GMT 40k version of Deathstar?
The deathstar build in fantasy works as it wins by being hitty, doesn't give up VP, doesn't have a unit size ceiling (or if it does it is quite large), and can win most missions (VP based) as it will remain ahead in the VP count even if all support is destroyed.

Nob Bikers and former craftworld-Eldar-Ulthwe-codex large seer councils come close but don't truely fit the deathstar context as they can't fulfil all the roles that a deathstar fantasy build could.

40k 5th ed doesn't reward VPs (see regular missions) as much as Fantasy does. Please note, this is not to say that 40K doesn't have rock hard combos that when used together the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504964.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504964.page GMT Re:40k version of Deathstar? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504976.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/504976.page GMT Re:40k version of Deathstar?
Sha1emade wrote:The deathwing if used properly has that effect.


What a waste of HtH. Moreover, an opponent can do the same to you but alas the DW force does not contain the main components that make a Fantasy Deathstar build so resiliant.
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I used to bulls-eye squig hoppers in my 'Storm' pattern Land Speeder back home, they're not much bigger than 2 meters.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/505005.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/505005.page GMT 40k version of Deathstar? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/505021.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/505021.page GMT Re:40k version of Deathstar? LOS to most of your army with terrain and a land raider, like the movie scene I described. You will out shoot MOST armies, like the deathstar. They will come to you, like the movie. Then you assault them from land raiders. When they can't out shoot you they will attempt assault, they always do, like the movie. Then you hit them first. It works very well. I have never lost with it. I am of the opinion that the deathwing is a mobile shooty army that when it has to resort to HTH does very well. However numerous fresh units or lots of small units can start to whittle it down in HTH, hence its weakness, like the movie. Get close with lots of little stuff. I have always thought of it like the deathstar. However as I said before not what the OP was looking for but some similarities and worth a mention IMHO.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/505028.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226347/505028.page GMT