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EngineerKenny 123 has Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon

Dec 30, 2017 @ 9:51am

Comparing Steel Legion, Blood Angels, Salamanders, and Ultramarines

Is one of these "races" better in general than the others. I just got the game at Christmas, and all of the expansions through the sale - All of the units are tough to compare - was just wondering if experienced users had an inkling one way or the other - I tried to accomplish this on-line, but failed! Thanks, in advance!

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Mightydimo has Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon

Dec 31, 2017 @ 4:40am

Each faction has a few unique units with the steel legion being quite different altogether. The blood angels have better attack than salamanders and ultra. Ultra have less armour but better initiative. Salamanders have flamers later on, ultramarines have venerable dreadnaught... Generally dont get ultramarines unless it suits your play style as they are killed easier... I generally get the blood angels. With a few special units of the others as the blood angels dont have them. Steel legion have the titans and good artillery. Ogryns arnt bad but they are weaker when compared to uber marines...

EngineerKenny 123 has Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon

Dec 31, 2017 @ 7:24am

Wow - What a wonderful and detailed response Mightydimo. It is exactly what I was looking for - THANK YOU!

^1Romanov77 Jan 1, 2018 @ 1:02am

In case you are wondering, they all die to grots units.

Unless you play potato easy difficulties, infantry is only good for finishing off diminished and morale broken enemy units.

Harukage

Jan 1, 2018 @ 6:26pm

Imo BA and Steel legion beat the crap out of others.
Blood Angels have death company marines, the toughest infantry in the game that generaly performs better than any other equivalent including sternguard veterans. Also Baal predators, sanquinary guard and my favorite furioso dreadnaughts who are just melee monsters.
Steel Legion have all the tanks and artillery you may wish wich is on itself very awesome.
In comparison Salamanders and Ultramarines does not bring much on the table. Salamanders have their unique Firedrakes terminators who are for some unknown reason worse than normal termies and don't have melee atacks, when in reality they should be super elite armed with heavy flamers and thunder hammers. Ultramarines simply have no unique units.

Mightydimo has Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon

Jan 4, 2018 @ 3:25pm

The Ultramarines have the Venerable dreadnaught. Its a beefed up already deadly dreadnaught. The best thing about it is it has leadership, so any units adjacent to it get moral bonuses... This is exceptionaly useful late game when there are strong onslaughts. Agreed with the firedrakes. The problem with the tanks is it can be easy to lose them... Same with death company... they have less armour. I like using dreadnaughts as the bullet magnets. They always survive atleast 1 round, which is enough to get them out and refill them. The sanquinary guard are exceptionlly powerful when attacking, but die relatively easiliy when compared to the better infantry.