Top Five BEST MELEE Armies in Warhammer 40K? 

I find it funny how many of these armies have a "And fulfill this condition to have your strength not completely suck."

That orks arent even there is just sad

Can't believe Tau was number 1

As an Ork player I didn't get good shooting and now the melee isn't even better either. I want ma boys army back.

Its the terrain. The new setups give us so many places to avoid LoS. It's a great time to be a Blood Angel.

I would say Grey Knights could be an honorable mention, they got a good melee weapon as a standard for all their troops with the Nemesis Force Weapons and all power armored troops got 2+ saves.

FOR SANGUINIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Orks are supposed to be a strong melee army. The fact that they arent in the top 5 right now is disappointing, to say the least.

Melee is important because the enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand!

The Tau: a point blank plasma blast to the face counts as melee

It’s a crime that Tyranids aren’t a top five melee army.

This video accidentally explains why Orks are doing so poorly. Our melee punch doesn't make the cut anymore. Our shooting is worse then ever, our buggies struggle to hurt or threaten anything, and we have exactly one turn of our army rule to win or lose the game. If ya win, ya win. If ya die fightin, it doesn't count. And if ya run away it, just means ya can come back for another. Orks is never beaten.

Will not hold my breath for the 'Blood Angels Do Whaaaaat?' video. Strong combos achieving a 55%+ win rate is apparently only unacceptacle for some, not all armies.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

I think CSM should have had an honourable mention. They've got some great melee units (Raptors, Warp Talons, Chosen, Possessed). Legionaires can swap their Bolters for Chainswords. Even Chaos Terminators are useful in melee. On top of that you can get lethal or sustained hits from Dark Pacts that you can tailor to what you're fighting.

Go Angels! 😇

Grey Knights didn't even get an honorable mention 😂😂😂😂 we are officially the dreadknight faction supported by techmarines and redeemers, not the smiting space paladins any longer.

I hope the rumours are true that we get the specific god daemons put into the codex and we get the wave 2 as well! That will make the world eaters feel like a full factions!!!!

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD BLOOD FOR THE BLOOOOD GODD

The fact that the Aliens with giant talons aka the Tyranids are not on here hurts me.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

ORKS WAAAAGGHH!!!!!

I'm still laughing inside at the Custodes list that actually won the GT. Also Jump Chaplains are basically we got Helbrecht at home, can't wait for the Codex to f#@k this up for us.

I'm incredibly surprised to not see Grey Knights here. Between their teleporting and hammers, they are terrifying to try to fight in melee.

Amazing timing. Was planning on getting WE.

Honest question: why no grey knights? They are definitely not a shooting army and with psychic gone, they aren't a psychic army as well. Almost all of their units are better upclose than than at range and most of their damage comes from melee. Am i missing something?

Interresting for me, I would have thought to see Grey Knights on this list for sure! A friend of mine plays his grey knights super aggressive and it works out quite well right now xD. I don't know what where doing wrong... (blood angels / tyranids)

I've been working on my Blood Angel army, finally. Seems James Workshop is rewarding me!

Great video, just wanna clarify that the Sanguinors ability isn't a Heroic intervention. He just shows up 😂 Thought I'd mention it in case there's some weird rules interactions with heroic intervention.

That intro was gold :D

It's not the optimal way to play but I've actually had some surprising success with Necrons with melee focus. Lychguard pack/take a hell of a punch for their cost. The Wraith brick remains near unkillable. Skorpekhs can be absolute blenders if you pair them with a Lord or pop a Plasmacyte (Ophydians/Flayed Ones too vs infantry at least). Most characters/heroes excluding the Hexmark and Crypteks are melee focussed. Even the Monolith hits harder than you'd think considering it's a basically a floating brick. Combine with reanimation still working while you're locked in combat (and thus shielded from ranged attacks) and they do surprisingly well.

Have you ever thought of a idea on how chaos marine legions would play if they never fell or went renegade? How would each legion play and have key units in the 40k play style??

I would really like to see the best shooting army as well.

The fact that you put Deamons above Black Templars is a crime Auspex. Good BT player will body deamons off the board 24/7

I feel like Grey knights should be on the list they can be pretty intense in melee

Grey knights are definitely a melee army. And one of the best if you look at tourney results because their speed and mobility allows for quick entrance and exit from melee.

Where chaos space marine?

Rip my orks 😫😫😫

kroot in hunting pack detachment is insanely fun and actually decent and yet to lose a game.

As a blood angels player this makes me happy

The Ork nerfs were seriously heavy handed. We cant have walls of bullets, we cant have stellar melee, we cant have tanks, we cant BE tanky, but sure, throw twin-linked everywhere when we can only hit on 5+. I didnt even get to play the new meganobz bc I was busy building them, just happy I could reasonably play more than 2 to guard Ghaz.

That black dot in the thumbnail.. cleaned my screen three times

From a recent escalation campaign, I went up against khorne daemons as kroot. Me and opponent agreed, kroot just outmatch khorne daemons. It was silly. Opponent is a great player, but still managed to table the guy in 3 turns

Thought Dark Angels might have sneaked an honourable mention with the now-popular DWK and ICC lists.

I've been playing my Carcharodons as Blangels, Sharks of Sharksharkius detachment. It's been great fir the first time in 10th my marine melee army feels strong. Purposefully avoiding death company and named characters, but still won every game so far.

The daemons re roll wounds strat is only vs battle shocked enemies, not enemies in shadows.

*stares in ork*

When will you have more black auspex tactics dice on dice baron? They look so good but are not on the site anymore 😢

I will say csm can be a very fun meleee army to make sure not as many options as others but you can make a very fun melee army with them

It's alarming not seeing ANY orks army list mentioned.

No Black Templars? :c Meh, GW did great on nerfing them because of ironstorm. And now that Iron storm is nerfed they did not undo the damage. Great work GW, I will continue to buy 3d printing and finechina.

It seems a lot of winning lists that AT looks at, not just on this video, don't put a ton of emphasis on anti-armor. Is that sort of the meta now?

Man the tactical rock for the Blood Angel you showed is so goofy. Is it so bad to just have a tiny flying base stick between the foot and base? 😂

No black templars ? Auspex has fallen

how death guard is not in the list is a bit surprising

Plagur Marines deserve some love with the one heavy weapons 2/4 for 5/10 man squards they can really hit about their weight also death shroud makes units disappear. 2 units a game when i use them. problem ...the slow

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! Can you tell I’ve been on a World Eaters kick recently? 😊 Edit: that WE list is pitifully short on Berserkers…

No mention for destroyers skorpek ? Or the ctans ?

Why are the blood angels allowed to have +2 str to attacks but WE get +1?

Orks be like what?

Was hoping Tau would be on here

Bloodcrushers still have an absolutely broken ability. Points, durability, and 7 in a squad means that you're almost guaranteed to do at least 8-12 mortal wounds BEFORE combat starts..

I'm guessing before I watch the video: world eaters, space wolves, blood angels, custodes, orks or demons.

The whole Angron resurrection thing is one of the worst thought-out rules in 10th. It's so absurdly swingy, a lot of games against WE hinge on whether he comes back and how quickly, and there's very little an opponent can do to influence that. The last game I had against them with Chaos Knights I managed to take Angron down turn 1, only for him to immediately come back the next turn and take me apart. Had he not done that, I was in position to dismantle the rest of the WE army in short order, but because he did, I'd effectively done no damage at all. Both my opponent and I agreed that I'd had no option but to take him out, he's simply too fast and dangerous to ignore. At the very least, he should have to wait a turn before he gets to come back.

Forgot death guard, Melee is where we shine

where are grey knights atm?

Chaos Knight Rampager, lancer and kharnivores

And at number 1 we have the T’au Empire

Damn, orks got shafted hard

I mean Canis Rex says Knights should be listed

Why no BT? You probably are looking at the stats, but If you actually run all the unique units, which is most representative of the faction, its super killy in melee. Running sustained hits vow and sprinkling LTs in, you have a large portion of your army sustained and lethal. With grimaldus giving rerolls and defense buffs to a large block of PCS, helbrecth and LT giving 5+ lethal sustained to some sword bros, an LT with sigismunds seal giving leathals and sustained on 5+ go to another group of sword bros or bladegaurd etc.. Emp champ with some sword bros to nuke 4 dmg attacks into a character unit with help from Oath of moment. Ive tabled multiple games with builds similar to this by getting them accross the board in land raiders/ impulsors and making sure my anti tank units pop open the transports early. You can super charge 4 melee units to the 9s with this and thats usually all you need to bring. Everyones so pressed on the feel no pain for some reason. Grimalidus can already give that to his block and they should be the only ones not in a transport.

3x Vortex Beasts, Magnus, a winged DP w/ vortex. That's a fair bit of tank, spank, and charge. You won't out-do the berserk boys, or better the daemons, but no-one explains the reason for the Inquisition! (You can spot 3x2 Spawn in too, just for giggles) ((And a heap of Enlightened Spear lancers with Shamans. But you can take bows instead. You should. Bows are better)) (((And 10 Rubrics, to sit their dusty butts on your home objective. No-one really has a 20 wound/ 5++/ 20 OC gambit with their Warlord. Other than other TSons with Crystal Tzaangors. And a few others. But most don't. Not when there's also flamer overwatch involved. Make sure they know they don't. Always funny when they're the cabal point users too. Surprise -2AS, etc. However, there's no shame these days, if you just stick a Vortex Beast there instead. You probably will end up with something to shoot/ charge at some point. Chuck a couple of Spawn alongside to be sure))) ((((210pts of Dusty Bros could be a lot of other things. Even the 125pt Blues tax, for 85-90pts of something else. Not melee, just a melee enabler set, of sorts))))

I love my Black Templars. But eventually i will switch to my Beloved Lamenters.

Excuse me???? WHERE ARE THE BOYZ?!?!?!

So 4 space marines and demons. Well at least there’s demons I guess.

Going from Eldar to Marines this edition has been sad. The marines toughness is way too weak, and bolters are strength 4. I think if Marines got a bump in T and maybe a small buff to some weapons, they'd be more fun to play

Imperial guard melee is top tier

Reversing all the nerfs da boyz got in the last dataslate is necessary to help the da boyz.

Black templars are number 1 in melee.

Melee is just a more fun way of playing imo and generally harder imo, risk reward playstyle and more engaging, so good to see melee armies doing well. Have to lol at the Custodes list winning a GT, not sure you can fully count that as a win for a melee army with knight (though rex does pack some melee punch), a telemon dread and two caladius grav tanks. Though being a Custodes player myself, playing shield host is a lot more fun than it was when it first came out, charging into combat and then having lethal or sustained flowing all over the place. Blood Angels just throwing jump pack units into the fray with S6 chainswords is also just joyous, does show how anemic standard marine melee is though that you need to add +2s and +1a (and often +1 AP from a San Priest) to really give it some actual power.

Making Divergent Chapters straight up better than Compliant, no draw-backs, had to be one of the most stupid decisions of 10th edition.

Go Daemons!

Harlequin and Orks meanwhile: are we a joke to you?

can us salamanders get a melee strat?

Index GSC aberrant; I used to be so powerful…

Deathshroud Terminators.

#1 Ben Jurek fan!

Im perhaps biased as a sisters player with a lot of penitent units but i think the penitent host has some specific things you can do that i think warrants it being at least in the 5th place spot, replacing the blood angels.

Khorne cares not from “whence” the blood flows…

Melee is better because the objectif controled is the key to win game.

That's fucking sad that Orks don't even make a top 5 melee army list. We had a good fucking codex, and they took that shit from us immediately. All they needed to do was tweak a few rules, but they beat us in the head with a nerf bat.

No Necron Nightbringer or Skirpekh Destroyer mentions

Idk man Death Guard melee is brutal since they can make you hit like a limp noodle just by being in melee range.

Don't sleep in grey knights.

i missed my skorpekh in 9 ed :'(

Orks are the best, always been

Hear me out: Death Guard

*cries in 60 plague marines in 6 rhinos*

I think titans have the best melee i dont know just saying

Where are my templars??😢