Goatboy’s Warhammer 40K: The Game’s Top 5 Tanks
Goatboy here with the best tanks you can take on the Warhammer 40K tabletops of 10th Edition. You will be seeing a lot of these out there!
The grind of treads, the hum of floating vehicles, and the insanity of gibberish Grots are things we all imagine we hear as we push our plastic boxes around the tabletop. Tanks are as much a factor of 40K as the troops are. There is a reason a lot of cool art has someone yelling from the top of a tank as they drive their belching monstrosity into the enemy.
Today will talk about actual tanks. While some of the more important vehicles we see now are robots, flying boxes, or just Daemonic nonsense, we want to talk about actual classic, tanks. These are the square boxes of doom with some kind of cannon on top and range from the brutal aesthetics of the Space Marines all the way to the graceful curves of an Aeldari player hated Fire Prism. Let’s rank them and see what the best ones are.
5. Plagueburst Crawler
If there was a tank mascot for the Death Guard – it would be the Plagueburst Crawler. This model has been decent since it was released seven years ago (WOW, how time flies). They always show up for Death Guard as they are usually pretty good. Between being a speed bump for the enemy, no LOS shooting madness, or just one of the few places Death Guard get Lascannons these guys are here to stay. I really wish I had magnetized the side guns as their initial build of flamers is not nearly as good as their Lascannons variant we see leading the way in 10th Edition.
4. Land Raider Redeemer
Hey I hear having a giant box in the middle of the table that can wreck things in Overwatch is a good thing. This model is showing up in all the Marine variants as a masterful midfield bully who can sit there, take a hit, and dish out damage if you get too close. Oh, and then it vomits out some bullies that wreck the burning unit that is left behind. ThLand Raider Redeemer does it all, and it is great to see a Land Raider being used exclusively. Redeemed indeed!
3. Manticore
Man, I remember when this first came out and Nick Rose did me dirty with a few of them back in 5th edition days with his infamous Leafblower list. I lost all my Battle Wagons, saw my Boyz laying on the table, and then watched it happen again next turn. The Manticore is always on the edge of being good in most editions with point changes and no LOS shooting changes affecting it. It still can do a ton of damage with its flat 3 attacks which is hard for a lot of armies to endure.
2. Hekaton Land Fortress
A new vehicle on the stack this one is pretty good. Thankfully they got tweaked in the new edition they were pretty brutal in their initial 9th edition Leagues of Votann codex. Still it is a 2+ save body who can have no LOS shooting as well as a ton of other damage guns. On top of that the Hekaton Land Fortress carries space dwarves around too so even if you get to close they might come out, smack you a bit, and then drink all your beer.
1. Falcon
I know I probably should have said the Fire Prism but the Craftworld Aeldari Falcon is kind of under the radar a bit. The Aeldari index is pretty deep so even attacking different parts of the book leaves other things there that can be just as much of a problem. The Falcon was always amazing as it could take murder elves around, is hard to get rid of, and then shoots the crap out of you if you looked at it funny. I would love to have something like this in any other army and I expect it to be key whenever an Aeldari codex does come out.
Odds & Ends
There are a ton of other good tanks too. Orks have a few and while some of them are Forge World, the regular Battle Wagon seems poised to do well by just delivering greenskins to the midfield. The Sisters tanks are both solid and I expect their new codex to help them out tremendously.
What tanks do you love the most in 10th Edition? Which is your favorite or most hated?
