The Top 5 Competitive Astra Militarum Datasheets In 10th Edition?! | Warhammer 40k

What are you top 5 Astra Militarum Units in 10th Edition?

omg is this Mark Felton doing wh40k?

Leman Russ Exterminator
Death Korps Marshal
Iron hand Straken
Catachan Jungle Fighters
Deathkorps of Krieg.

Shadowsword is #1
Krieg w/marshal is #2
Lord Solar #3
Rogal Dorn #4
Leman Russ Demolisher #5

Ive played a lot of guard this edition and this list is exactly what id put as my top 5.

People really sleep on the tank commander. Nobody realizes that a leman russ dies by turn 3 most of the time. Getting a 4th shooting phase is a 25% damage boost over the demolisher. Not to mention the extra order is free. I take the exterminator cannon for extra range and lack of blast (big guns never tire doesn't work with blast weapons and i play against orks a lot) with only a slight damage decrease (made up for by bonus shooting phase). Give him another exterminator to boss around for that sweet bonus ap or let him order ur chimera to move move move in deep turn 1.

My top 5 as of the update :
- Lord solar (IF you play tanks, mandatory) or Ursula Creed
- Straken, for 55 points, 2 orders, and a more than decent combat profile, he is good at screening with 2 cheap catachans blob
- Death korps of krieg, (with marshal) great value in terms of resillience and shooting (6 special weapons for 20 man), essential to every infantry list
- Tempestus scions, because you need to be able to score your secondary man.
- Rogal dorn battle tank, great value for his cost, though you should consider a shadowsword sometimes (when you are sure you are able to place and move it on the battlefield, which isn't always the case).

I understand most of your choices, except the tank commander, he is rarely that useful outside of some heavy taank skew lists.
The sentinel isn't a good choice now I think, since artillery isn't much of a thing in the current state of the thing, but yes, it's still decent.

Agree with most of these suggestions but wouldn’t put the tank commander in the list. It’s a poorer version than the regular leman russ variants because it’s rule is terrible by comparison to the demolisher or exterminator. My top picks for the 5th slot would be Leman Russ Exterminator, Rogal Dorn, Death Korp of Krieg, Death Korp Marshal, Hydra or Primaris Psyker (stick 1 in a Taurox Prime with a scion command and 5 man scion squad and watch that unit absolutely murder anything on an objective - re-roll all hits and wounds on the focused witchfire with sustained and devastating is deadly)

Agree with most of these suggestions but wouldn’t put the tank commander in the list. It’s a poorer version than the regular leman russ variants because it’s rule is terrible by comparison to the demolished or exterminator. My top picks for the 5th slot would be Leman Russ Exterminator, Rogal Dorn, Death Korp of Krieg, Death Korp Marshal, Hydra or Primaris Psyker (stick 1 in a Taurox Prime with a scion command and 5 man scion squad) and watch that unit absolutely murder anything on an objective - re-roll all hits and wounds on the focused witchfire with sustained and devastating is deadly)

Just started a guard army, thanks for the advice.

Cool video but I strongly disagree with the tank commander pick. Lord Solar + a master vox makes the TC totally obsolete, since you can bounce 3 orders 24' away. The TC also lacks the squadron keyword, which means he cannot order himself, nor can he benifit from the 'Fields of Fire' strat. Plus he lacks the Demolisher's shoot in combat rule, which is godlike ability imo. Far better than shoot on death which can be hampered if the TC was in combat.

For a support Russ I would just go for an Exterminator over the TC, since you can have it on a seperate flank, and its buff stacks with FoF.

Guard Army 1980pts

125pts Lord Solar
100pts Gaunt’s Ghosts
55pts Ursula Creed
60pts Marshall
45pts Enginseer 385pts

120pts Infantry Platoon
60pts Command Squad
130pts Death Korps
120pts Cadian Platoon 430pts

60pts Heavy Weapons Squad
60pts Heavy Weapons Squad
60pts Heavy Weapons Squad 180pts

95pts Hydra
95pts Hydra
95pts Hydra 285pts

260pts Rogal Dorn
260pts Rogal Dorn
180pts Exterminator 700pts

great report !!! I really like it, is very useful to use when making list s