Never played under 1,500! What for 750?

[commandersasha]

Hi guys, I am running a home mini tournament for myself and five friends, friendly but earnest. It will have 3 4x4 battlefields:
1) a sparse one with a few ruins, plus barbed wire etc; ie no LoS blocks, ideal for ranged armies
2) a 50% covered forest, gaps for vehicles but lots of area terrain(all mysterious
3) a tight city, using Terraclips, with all walls as impassable, a main 6" wide crossroads, but mostly 3" alleys, buildings with rooves etc. Proper CC city fights, no good for tanks, or even big MCs.

All players will get one fight on each board, a 3point central objective, 2 1point home objectives, plus the usual slay/first/line break points.

I've never built lists for less than 1,500, what would you take for this tourney?
The others will be:
Grey knight Paladins
Grey knight PA & assassins
Orks
CSM Nurgle
Tau

I'm thinking:
Prime (LW/BS and tox)
15 Devilgaunts
Troop Tervigon (tox & adr)
3 Zoes & spore
2 Hiveguard

As a 1,500 planner I'm missing redundancy, but I think there is enough scoring and synapse, plus anti vehicle.

What are your thoughts, and what would you take?

[gigasnail]

dakka flyrant, termagants, tervigon. add elites to taste, simmer on low for 15 minutes.

[seejh]

flyrants are unstopable in any thing less than 1000 now *the one good thing about 6th*

[swarmy]

== HQ ==
Hive Tyrant (1) - Scything Talons, Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Wings, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Hive Commander = 270 pts.

== Troops ==
Tervigon (1) - Scything Talons, Stinger Salvo, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Taken As Troops = 190 pts.
Termagant Brood (170 pts.)
Termagant (12) - Devourer = 120 pts.
Mycetic Spore (1) - Twin-Linked Deathspitter = 50 pts.

== Fast Attack ==
Gargoyle Brood (20) = 120 pts.

== Total ==
750 pts.

I'm in an escalation league once again and this is the list I'm starting out with at 750pts. So far I am 2/0/0...though this is likely to change fast if any of my previous escalation leagues are any indicator. I had a pretty baffling win against necrons with 3 croissants and some flavor of skimmer with tesla (I hate that codex and refuse to remember their proper names) so I feel confident in that list.

[gigasnail]

take X2 BL devours man. no reason to ever take anything else. nothing else is going to beat another 6 TL S6 attacks.

[swarmy]

May 9, 2013 21:35:02 GMT gigasnail said:

take X2 BL devours man. no reason to ever take anything else. nothing else is going to beat another 6 TL S6 attacks.

Yah, I know, but I shave points off things and run budget versions to distribute my points more evenly to get more bodies at crazy small point levels. Note the single tervigon power and toxin sacs as well. Flyrant is going to die horribly, and fairly early on, (I rarely see otherwise) so I save the points and put that towards paying for hive commander to get the tervigon to faraway places outflanking. He still does well enough with one set for something that is going to just eat upwards of 300 points worth of shooting and die like a mosquito on a windshield

[Squire]

May 6, 2013 16:42:36 GMT commandersasha said:

3) a tight city, using Terraclips, with all walls as impassable, a main 6" wide crossroads, but mostly 3" alleys, buildings with rooves etc. Proper CC city fights, no good for tanks, or even big MCs.

That sounds quite fun. If it's as difficult to move MC's as you are suggesting then would tervigons, trygons and mawlocs be out of the equation completely? How about 60mm bases? Hive tyrants and carnifexes would be awesome if you could keep them out of sight right until they make combat. They'd also be pretty necessary for dealing with dreadnoughts, although I suppose hive guard could do the job too

[gigasnail]

at 750 your flyrant should be the biggest bully in the schoolyard. remember to keep them in area terrain and it takes an utterly ridiculous amount of firepower to bring one down. if he's getting swatted early and often look to how you're deploying him.