The best army list is the one you make yourself based on the models and unit types you're enthusiastic about and refine over time as you win and lose games. I'm vocally opposed to anything that endorses the 'net-lising' that breeds so much resentment and animosity in gaming groups. There are plenty of resources for people who are asking the question "What models should I go buy to stomp the snot out of my friends and/or opponents on the local RTT scene" and I don't think the people looking for that info are the sort of intarweb-noobs who need help finding it.
This Forum has lots of great resources for people to learn more about the list-building metagame; it'd be a shame to do an end run around that. Nobody learns Calculus by looking at solved problems. You learn by reading a text book and receiving instruction on how to solve them yourself. If people are enthusiastic about a particular style of list within an army, the right thing to do is write a tactica extolling the virtues of that tye of list and submit it to the articles section! Then those articles, instead of just a sterile army list, can be linked from a sticky in the list forum. Contribute your experience and the things you've learned for other people to learn from, not just a buy-list of minis for the next would-be power gamer. Don't stifle future discourse in the army list forums by sending the message: 'forget your questions, just go buy these models and use this army if you want to win' with a sticky thread.
Take a look around, high quality tacticas generate pages and pages of equally high quality discussion that everyone can learn something from. Posts of winning lists at best get a few "Yup, purrrrty Cheesey" replies.
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