battle report tau vs tyranids

[orkblasta]

so I've posted up many battle reports before and for the most part they've all been accompanied by pics. This report is an exception.

So I again brought my tau to the table this time with the largest list I've ever fielded with my tau. after recently picking up 2000pts worth off my friend I was able to field a good 2250pts. list.

I'm not going to get into details over the lists.

So here's what happened:

2250 pts. game, 2 objectives, standard deployment, (12 inches along table edge)

So needless to say I was excited, this was a big game and my tau have proven very effective against my friends tyranids in the past.

turn 1

both players fail to do anything. Except I wound a swarm lord.

turn 2

This time there is blood shed, I shoot and kill the swarm lord as well as a few gaunts. But the tyranids manage close combat killing off all my kroot (20), 2 fire warrior squads (24), and a devilfish, OUCH.

turn 3

Guess what. . . . I fail to do anything. Tyranids kill off fire warriors (12), pathfinders (8), XV8 battlesuits (5), Battle suit commander, Stealth suits (5) and all my vehicles are either wrecked or can't shoot in the next turn. I concede.


VICTORY . . . TYRANIDS

a painful post for myself I must say. I've never been tabled before and I've never rolled that badly. In 3 turns of shooting I rolled eight 5s, three 6s, and five 4s, and the rest was 1s, 2s, and 3s. On the first round of shooting I have over 80 shots coming from my tau gunline.

my friend the tyranid player rolled the exact opposite. He even managed to make about 60% of his armor saves, ON HIS GAUNTS.

I can officially say this is the most upsetting game I have ever played. BLAH.

cheers

[Reaper]

Ah, I must say that i personally enjoyed this game. It does my heart good to see a perfect entrance for the lictor and outflanking genestealers, along with FnP hormagaunts shrugging of incoming fire. Top that off with a nicely executed tyranid hug of death surround and you have a recipe for a wonderful evening.

[romorini]

It sounds like you went with a fairly mobile Tau force, how did you find yourself in CC by turn 2?

Are you able to provide a general idea of the armies you had on the table? That would inform the discussion greatly.

[orkblasta]

I fielded 4 squads of fire warriors two had devilfish transports.

pathfinders squad of 8 with devilfish transport

two stealth suit teams, one 6 man and one 3 man.

XV8 team of 3

battlesuit commander with 2 bodyguards

20 kroot

2 hammerheads

and i think that's it. I threw out the list after the game, I was only slightely angry.

and ya he managed close combat because of two things, outflanking genestealers that managed to enter on turn 2 and when fleeting both turns rolled 6's that's a 24 inch movement in two turns.

cheers.

[voxzorz]

I don't know what the armies were so don't blame me if I get some things wrong...
If I were playing Tau against Tyranids, I would shoot most of the guns at any Zoans, using the rest to pick off more important threats. Then, if a Trygon or Mawloc shows up, I would transfer most of the firepower to it, keeping some on the Zoans. Next, kill of any broodlords within 30" of the Hive Tyrant to increase your chances of surviving his psychs. Then kill the Tyrant plus any synapse creatures.
Again, I dont know what tactics u used, so if this is exacly what you did then you can ignore this post

[voxzorz]

oops...i wrote that post before you wrote yours...just so you know

[Bot]

Aug 9, 2011 8:33:11 GMT voxzorz said:

I don't know what the armies were so don't blame me if I get some things wrong...
If I were playing Tau against Tyranids, I would shoot most of the guns at any Zoans, using the rest to pick off more important threats. Then, if a Trygon or Mawloc shows up, I would transfer most of the firepower to it, keeping some on the Zoans. Next, kill of any broodlords within 30" of the Hive Tyrant to increase your chances of surviving his psychs. Then kill the Tyrant plus any synapse creatures.
Again, I dont know what tactics u used, so if this is exacly what you did then you can ignore this post

+1

Also Those kroot... use minimum points on them, and just let them stand as charging shields. So if he should outflank, He would probably kill them (because the Kroots is blocking their way... So they must die) But then they will stand open for fire... which is a good thing. My friend does it all the time against me... really annoying... But It works.

... What am I doing... did I just help Tau kill Tyranids...

[orkblasta]

Totally not a bot: ya that's what I did but somehow even after destroying my kroot I wasn't able to rapid fire his genes to death, I missed, a lot.

voxzorz: for the most part I agree, but the problem wasn't target priority it was hitting the target. There were no zoans and no trygons or mawlocs his force was horde heavy with hormorgaunts, tervigons, and genes. So I focused fire on the tervigons with heavy weapons and attempted to kill off the hormigaunts before they were in combat range. It didn't work, again I couldn't hit anything.

cheers.

[Deathnid]

olololololololololololololololollolololololololollolollolololololollololol
yous got screwed
this is usualy howw all of my nids vs tau games turn out. oh and orks too

[Dro]

Very supportive deathnid.

While I don't play tau, I do play against them quite a bit. I think the best way to beat someone is to measure your movements carefully. Have those tau guns right outside charging distance when the kroot fall. Then let em have both barrels.

[Bot]

Aug 10, 2011 20:49:40 GMT orkblasta said:

Totally not a bot: ya that's what I did but somehow even after destroying my kroot I wasn't able to rapid fire his genes to death, I missed, a lot.

oh well... Then there isn't much you can do then

Make another battle report with the same armies.
Hopefully you won't roll that bad.

[orkblasta]

Ya, and the funny part is two games ago It was the other way around, my tau obliterated his nids.

I guess now we're even.

cheers.

[Bot]

hehehe good to hear ^^

[Devil's Advocate]

Aug 4, 2011 6:23:00 GMT orkblasta said:

In 3 turns of shooting I rolled eight 5s, three 6s, and five 4s, and the rest was 1s, 2s, and 3s. On the first round of shooting I have over 80 shots coming from my tau gunline.

Aug 10, 2011 20:49:40 GMT orkblasta said:

I wasn't able to rapid fire his genes to death, I missed, a lot.

Well there's your problem - you're not using Markerlights...

;D

never leave home without 'em

[Reaper]

he elected to use his markerlights to get seeker missiles off on my MC's. That would be why i lost the swarmlord with full gaurd by turn 2. :/