Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Tabletop Gaming/@comment-71.180.31.94-20130630181006

I'm starting this conversation because I would like to hear and share some opinions with everyone out there. For me some of the best characters (In no particular order) are:

1.''' Karandras. '''This guy hits at strength 8 and inititiative 7 thanks to his scorpion claw. To quote the 4chan TG wiki, "It's a fist that can fist like no fist before." Papa Smurf himself (Marneus Calgar) has no idea what just happened.

2. '''Ahriman. This bad boy is '''still the only guy sending out several witchfire attacks in one turn. This guy is basically a psychic chaingun, and arguably the most lethal psyker in the game, since Eldrad has very little offensive capability.

3. '''Abaddon. O'''ne of the nastiest guys close combat has ever seen (Not including Forgeworld, in which case Angron wins hands down). People send 300 point elite units at Abaddon just to slow him down.

4. Lukas the Trickster. For those of you who don't know about this guy, when he dies, everyone in base contact goes down with him. I've seen people loose titans in apocalypse games because of this guy.

5. Kaldor Draigo. An excellent choice that is as amazing in game as his story would suggest. His ability to make paladins troop choices has created many unique battles, as this usually leads to a 1500 point armies with only 12 models. He will win in a challenge against almost anyone.

6. '''Lelith Hesperax and Jain Zar. '''Hear me out with this one. Both are fairly good by themselves, but laughably awesome together. Some may question that eldar and dark eldar are battle brothers on the allies table, but they have this racial superiority thing going on when it comes to other armies. In a unit together, nothing will survive, and hear's why.Jain Zar's mask lowers the enemy unit's weapon skill by 5, and Lelith Hesperax gets an extra attack for every point higher her weapon skill is than her opponent's. With weapon skill 9, and 2 weapons, Lelith will probably have an average of 11 attacks per turn that ignore armor saves! Ouch!

7. Vorth Mordrak. This grey knight apparently liked vanguard veterans, so he decided to do it with terminators in the first turn. Your opponent is about to lose tanks and shooty units they thought would never see combat.

8. Swarm Lord. Similar story to Abaddon, but with instant death and the ability to heal himself with psychic powers.

9. Kharn the betrayer. A lot of chaos guys on this list. Kharn has strength 7, furious charge, and armor bane. Basically, this guy is rolling 20s for armor penetration as the blood god laughs in the background.

10. Trazyn the Infinite. This bad mamajama will use your own weapons against you, and when he dies, he can take the place of another necron character. With a few cheap characters in an army, Trazyn is pretty much immortal.

11. '''Kheradruakh. '''This dark eldar head hunter deep strikes like no one has before, and characters will try to hide from him, but there is no escape. Kheradruakh is an excellent character slayer, and a great addition to any dark eldar army. If only he had a miniature.

12. Lysander. This imperial fist fights with a strength 10, master crafted thunder hammer. Vehicles are toast, and almost everything in the game is about to get a face-full of insant death.

13. Eldrad. A character that is better in a support role. Eldar powers are centered around stat boosts to friendly units and enemy stat deductions. Eldrad can regain warp charges after every power on a 5+ and will often end up using 5 or 6 powers a turn. Friendly units will end up on some serious steroids. Eldrad has no chance in a fight with anyone else on this list, and will horribly lose against almost every melee character in the game. so be careful how you use him.

14. Avatar of Khaine. Another excellent melee unit, with a decent chance against Abaddon, Draigo, and the Swarmlord. His stats are ubsurdly good, and he has a short ranged melta attack to kill vehicles. Even better, he is completely immune to all flamer and melta weapons. However, he can't join a unit, so give people a reason not to shoot him with every unit they have.

Well that is my list. Please share your opinions and suggestions. Keep in mind that pretty much everyone on this list is an enormous fire magnet, and must be used well unless you want to waste points. 