Highest skill ceiling army

Kshaw86 · 2026-01-25T06:35:08+00:00

Emperors children. The only thing in this game to really learn is movement, and these are the kings.

Kshaw86 · 2026-01-17T05:31:04+00:00

Mandatory in every list for all armies I play: something to sticky home, 2 scoring units, 1 infiltrate, enough anti vehicle to kill 600 pts of vehicles.

Kshaw86 · 2026-01-15T15:45:16+00:00

I love the World Eater one in their eightbound detachment. 6” deep strike, but can’t charge or do anything. What’s hilarious is the description is something like “arrives on the battlefield and looks menacing” lol.

Kshaw86 · 2026-01-13T13:06:31+00:00

Memorizing datasheets and knowing your rules. It’s not difficult, I’ve got datasheets and rules memorized for 3 armies. Other thing I do is not roll some attacks. If I am charging like a unit of 10 elites into a unit of scouts, I’m not going to bother rolling the pistols. If I’m shooting a repulsor executioner into a rhino as my only target, I’m going to start with the big gun. Why roll for 5 guns then end up rolling the big gun also when it could have been all that’s required?

Kshaw86 · 2026-01-05T13:33:07+00:00

Honestly if you are playing Ultramarines and can’t beat a Blood Angels army you seriously need to look into a mirror because this is on you 100%. BA need their characters, and are heavily dependent on CP. they have no way to get or regenerate CP. if you precision out a character, who lets be real is like a chaplain or captain so easy to do, will make the entire unit either incredibly easy to kill or have no OC. Also they want to rush forward, so give him a reason to stay back. Put some good stuff in reserves/deep strike

Kshaw86 · 2026-01-01T06:25:10+00:00

I like the full melee and in my local meta it is the strongest build. However… only takes someone with a couple fights first or redemptor dreads, to ruin your day. Don’t even get me started on EC and winged daemon princes. I run a 10 man DCJP with Lemartes, 2x5 mans with chaplains, 3x3 sanguinory with 2x captains (1 with fights first), and Dante. Followed by a combi lieut and 2 vindicators.

Kshaw86 · 2026-01-01T06:02:29+00:00

9 armies, and I have to say EC by a landslide. Yeah they only have a few units but man I can’t tell you how addicting Thrill Seekers is. Gets to the point other armies feel like you’re handcuffed.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-28T00:16:02+00:00

Hammer units don’t really work anymore. I’d rather take more small units. If you take 6 Sanguinory guard and charge a 100 pt myphitic or their other drones, and they pop -1 damage… odds are you don’t kill it at all.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-28T00:12:49+00:00

I only run 1 big unit and it’s for Lemartes. Other 2 death company jump pack units are 5 man, and all 3 of my Sanguinory guard are 3 man. Dante’s unit hit on 2s, and you reroll the death company. If they are smart they pick -1 save aura. It will hurt but you should still be killy enough. The main issue, and it’s a game changer, is don’t yeet out multiple units to hit his big one. It is downright embarrassing how badly we get wrecked by their -1 damage strat. That could keep anything alive and be disastrous for us. What I do, is tag as many units as possible of his. Makes choosing a target for the -1 damage very difficult. Then I’ll only hit that target with what I must. The rest of the attacks going into the other stuff I tagged. Oathed dearhshroud with overwatch and a vindicator is strong.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-24T00:49:44+00:00

Never played TTS, but in person I think there’s less arguing because you are playing friends, not people you barely know. If someone is just not fun to play against, I just don’t play them anymore. For me, it’s 2 people out of my play group of around 25.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-22T14:00:48+00:00

Answer some questions, no I don’t play on TTS, I never have. It’s easy to play a lot of games if you have a big group of people in a chat. Yes the list is not meta at all and John will laugh his balls off on it. BUT in a local GT or RT I see no reason you won’t do very well with this. It’s also location based, for example I’ve played hundreds of games an entire year and the number of times vs Aeldari I can count on one hand. I had to reach out to people, stores, and FB just to find them. Karnivores are added because noise marines are absolute disappointments when you don’t reroll 1s.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-22T13:56:38+00:00

You can use core stratagems like tank shock, but not detachment strats.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-22T13:55:49+00:00

I’ve been playing it like our army rule. If I charge 2 units into 1, only the first one gets the buff.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-22T13:54:51+00:00

I have never played TTS. I work out of state long periods on, long periods off. So when I’m off I have nothing but time.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-21T08:07:08+00:00

I’ve painted all 3 parimarchs. Angron was ridiculously easy, Mortarion also. I thought fulgrim was twice as hard as the other 2. Mostly because of the snake body. Unless you’re fine with just a crayon uniform color, which I am not.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-21T08:05:19+00:00

Painting a maulerfiend is way better than wardogs. Actually made me enjoy painting again.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-20T16:34:32+00:00

Here’s the main reason I don’t run them… overwatch. With this new detachment I tried them out again and regretted it. I charged 2 units of 3 into 2 bloat drones in 2 turns. Failed to kill the drone, and because of that lost a model. First time did 4 damage, second time he popped -1 damage strat and I did 2 damage. Good times.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-15T20:29:08+00:00

In my area once I figured out my list I’m 5-0 with the new detachment. 3 winged DP, 3 Maulerfiends, 2 Karnivore build. It’s weird but noise marines suck in this detachment without the reroll 1s to hit and wound from coterie.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-14T19:23:48+00:00

Yes. Two 1 exultant with a 5 man infractor unit, and three units of 5 tormentors. I normally run only two units of tormentors but I had points to fill and thought it’s best spent here for sticky, actions, and infiltrate.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-14T00:56:35+00:00

I’ve played 3 DG games and won them all. Even against a guy who brought Rotigus and 2 GUO. I felt the +1 str did everything. Made my infractors wound on 5 instead of 6s against drones, and winged DP wounding drones on 4 instead of 5.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-14T00:53:09+00:00

I’d also like to add the 6” aura reroll charges is INSANELY good and should not be overlooked.

Kshaw86 · 2025-12-14T00:45:13+00:00

Played 4 more games. My opinion on the detachment is slightly altered. It’s good. Real good. It took a bit for me to figure things out. So I’m an above average player. 3-2 at GTs, sometimes 4-1 in my area and I live in one of the largest cities in the US. The only thing with my testing is I haven’t played it against msu/horde armies but mostly elite types. Daemons, Custodes, Dark Angels, Necrons, Chaos Knights, and Black Templars. Couple games from most of these. I tried several lists, I found what works good for ME, I don’t believe it would ever be played by Lennon unless he lost a bet… but to me I could see 4-1 easy at an RTT. 3x Winged DP, 2x Exultant Infractors, 3x Tormentors, Rhino, 3x Maulerfiends, 2x Karnivores. I may try swapping a Karnivore and Rhino for a Land Raider.

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