List of 40K Cheese

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The history of Warhammer 40'000 is a history of violence. No matter what people will tell you, the game has always had excessive problems with imbalance, min-maxing and blatant bullshit - From the days of Rogue Trader to modern day 7th Edition, the game has fostered many cheesy units, army lists or deathstars, who have changed the meta and repeatably broken the game - Not through players maximizing their gear or people abusing unclear rules, but by simply being awfully balanced and written.

Fortunatly, many of these, of not all of them, are the very concept of "The flame that burn twice as bright dies twice as fast", as they all got their reckoning at some point or another. Being either nerfed to the ground, changed to the core or completely removed from the game, this allowed the next-cheesy thing to step in with a silly hat and a way too small point-tax.

But life will go on. New codexes will be under/overpowered and grind the others to dirt, the meta will change to deal with what-ever is the most powerful at the moment, and the forums will be white-hot with rage over the unbalance present, but life will go on, and as soon as you accept this eternal struggle for our fun and wallets, you will be at peace.

As time goes on, this list will grow, to encompass more and more cheese as it gets released. If you feel that a unit, model or deathstar needs mentioning in the list, feel free to add to it with your own experiences and knowledge.

4th Edition

• Fish of Fury, which has its own page.

6rd Edition

The Heldrake

The Heldrake was added to the 6th Edition Chaos Space Marine Codex as a new unique flier. The Codex itself was generally considered a weak book, and many cried that the CSMs would be left in the dust... Which would have been true, was it not for the Heldrake. As the only flier in the codex, and by far one of the most efficient ones in the entire game at the moment of release, it became the crutch for the entire codex. It could singlehandely take on entire squads of Space Marines with impunity, because of 1) An AP 3 flamer, that everyone upgraded the Hades Autocannon to get, 2) the Vector Strike rule, that made it able to strike the unit it would be about to toast and 3) being a flier, few things could take it down quickly enough. Three of them could be taken in the Fast Attack slot, and you can be sure that people did just that.

With the arrival of 7th Edition, the rules for Turret-mounted weapons got changed, as did the changes to Vector Strike - Now, the flamer can only be placed whereever the mouth is pointing, and because it is a flier, it cannot just swirvel around to hit an enemy like it used to. On top of that, Vector Strike only does one attack on ground enemies, compared to the old D3+1 that it hit everything with. Nowadays, the Heldrake is still a tough, fast flier, that can take out both fliers and infantry, but it isn't so overpowered that all CSM players has to have three of them in any army list.