played a 1700 pts game against Anders 'new' Nids outside of the local tournament.
Mission was The Emperors will, long sides deployment (dawn of war?)
My list was almost my usual one with 10 tactical marines, 5 snipers scouts with a ML+flakk, 3 attack bikes (all heavy bolters now), 3 Centurion Devestators with 2 Grav-cannons, a TL-lascannon and all missile launchers + the Omniscope
Chapter master with Chains of the Gorgon, plasma pistol and a thunder hammer, 5 Honour guards with chapter banner, power swords and one power axe. In a Razorback with storm bolter and TL-heavy flamer, another 10 man tactical squad with plasma cannon & plasma gun. And lastly a stormtalon gunship with the heavy 2 s8 ap3 shot weapon (thunderstrike?)
The nids consisted of 30 termagaunts, 2 Zoanthropes, 1 Venomthrope
2 Carnifexes (as one brood, with TL-devourers)
one Tervigon, a Foot-slogging hive tyrant and one flying with TL-devourers
An Exocrine and 3 hive guard.
Tyranids got first turn, I think night fighting was on. one of the Zoans hit the scouts with The Terror psychic power and managed to pin them
he then basically just moved up, his flying Hive tyrant shooting at my scouts
(because they have the flakk ML)
despite being in area terrain, gone to ground and having camo cloaks
he managed to kill all but two Scouts with his Twin-linked Devourers
Luckily for me, he had placed his other Zoanthrope a bit off and it could not see the Razorback
The Ironclad Dreadbert dropped behind enemy lines and fired all his weaponry into the venomthrope, because if I could bring it down, it would be way easier to take out the rest of the Tyranids. It however failed to kill it, leaving it with one wound, as well as getting a few hits in on the carnifexes and termagaunts with the heavy flamer, killing two termagaunts. the Drop pod fired its Deathwind launcher, hitting the carnifexes and tervigon, I think it managed to make a wound on one Carnifex. In my opinion 15 points for a s5 large blast is quite worth it if you expect to drop in close to massed infantry.
My attack bikes fired at the flying hive tyrant to try and bring it down, but failed to do so. The two remaining, and pinned, scouts shot at it as well (with snap shots, they might as well), but failed to hit it.
my plasma toting tactical squad moved up behind the razorback, with some covering fire coming from the heavy bolter on the first tactical squad.
The Centurions fired at the Exocrine, because I needed this beast dead! An Ap2 large blast hitting my honour guard? No thank you!
They felled the monsterous creature with combined missile launchers, grav-cannnons and the TL-lascannons.
One less to worry about!
The Nids once again surged forwards, the Zoanthrope (nicknamed Zoey) blew up the razorback this time, leaving a crater full of honour guard, and the chapter master took a wound! but rather him than killing off an honour guard.
the two Carnifexes charged the Ironclad, taking wounds from its massive melee weapons and heavy flamer on overwatch, but succeeding in blowing it up. The Tervigon charged the Drop pod and turned it into scrap.
the Flying hive tyrant murderized the scouts with 11 hits from the TL-Devourers.
My honour guard nudged into the cover of the rocks, making sure to still protect the chapter master
who called down an orbital bombardment but it scattered way off target and hit nothing.
The attack bikes moved up to get line of sight on a Zoanthrope on the left flank, and managed to take it out.
The Centurions took out Zoey, the Other Zoanthrope. Ridding me of their pesky psychic powers.
The Stormtalon came in and I made the tactical error of moving it way too close to the Flying hive tyrant,
the TL-Devourers only having a range of 18" against the Stormtalons 48".
Tactical error aside the Stormtalon opened fire with its Twin-linked autocannon and typhoon missile launcher. Unfortunately, not only did the Hive tyrant survive, it wasn't even grounded!
Once again the Tyranids moved up, theTervigon hiding the venomthrope behind it and the gaunts screening the advance.
The Flying hive tyrant moved towards the table edge, and then shot the stormtalon out of the sky by glancing off its two hull points!
the carnifexes opened fire on the tactical squad with plasmas and took out a few of them with the help of the hive guard.
The Hive tyrant (on foot) tried to charge the attack bikes that I had moved up too far, but instead failed his charge distance and managed to instead take a wound from overwatch!
on my turn I moved the honour guard up and debated for awhile wether to charge the Tervigon but suffer terrain hindrance and fight at initiative 1 (against a creature with ap2...) or tarpit myself in the termagaunts.
I chose the latter and charged into them, slaying somewhere around 15 of them in a single go while only losing my honour guard champion. Then we remembered that he had cast the feel no pain on his gaunts and he saved 10! altough we forgot that some of those should not have gotten FNP from the wounds caused by my chapter masters thunder hammer.
the attack bikes moved back, away from the Hive tyrant. My centurions moved up and shot at the tervigon, putting some wounds on it.
when the gaunts piled in they completely surrounded the chapter master and his honour guard, thus denying the tervigon and carnifexes from charging in, so they instead moved towards my objective, the carnifexes and hive guard shooting at the tactical squad again, leaving only two standing! who failed their morale test and almost ran off the board.
on my turn the combined fire of the centurions, tactical squad and attack bikes, killed of the carnifexes and the tervigon, and at that point Anders conceded and it was gg!
I have a concern that the venomthrope, while being amazeballs, sometimes seem to almost hold the tyranids back, being a crutch almost as many units in the Tyranid army need to get across the board and into melee, but it's kind of hard to move fast and keep in range of the shrouded at the same time. Oh wel, just a thought (and having multiple venomthropes should fix that I think)
FOR THE EMPEROR!
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