Ron has asked us all to come up with some of our "Must-have" units, no matter the reason for it being a "Must-have". Since I play three different armies, I came up with one for each army.
What drew me to tyranids was the Carnifex. The idea of a creature the size of a large tank hurtling through lines of space marines was just too good to pass up. Add to that imagery the Carnifex's ability to crush tanks in CC, and I could see no other alternative. I guess it's "Nidzilla" for me!
In a Imperial Guard army, one of your greatest strengths is the number and flexibility of your troop choices. Yes, tanks are cool, and yes, they may win you the day in a killpoints game, but in the other 2/3rds of the missions you play, you will find the abundance of scoring units beneficial. I never meet much success in games where I field less than 3 Veteran squads in their Chimeras. You can sink plenty of points into them, but I like to keep the whole squad with its transport around 170 points. That is enough for 1 doctrine, a few special weapons, and a couple upgrades to the transport. Generally you'll see one of my veteran squads look like this:
1 Meltagun
1 Plasmagun
1 Grenade Launcher
Doctrine: Demolitions
Chimera with Dozerblade and pintile mounted Heavy Stubber
They work pretty well, having a meltagun for dealing with armor, a plasmagun for dealing with high T baddies or even light vehicles, and the GL for throwing a blast template at hordes or cracking a tough nut if necessary. The Demolitions doctrine has saved my butt more than once. I usually have to get pretty close to some hard vehicles to use the meltagun, so if the transport goes down at that close it usually puts them in range to assault with their meltabombs or even the demo charge in a pinch. I definitely get my points worth out of Veteran squads that are kitted this way.
Lastly, for my Blood Angels, I must simply ALWAYS take a chaplain of some fashion. Some of the special characters serve the same purpose of reigning in the Death Company marines, but I don't have any of those SCs. Therefore, I find a way to stick my plain ol' chappy in every BA list I write. I don't like the idea of my hard-as-nails Death Company marines chasing around an empty rhino.
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