Grey knights @1750 rematch

[leviathan42]

So I'm taking on my buddy's GK's tomorrow in a rematch
(I won the first game!)

His list is roughly

2x Libby's
2x 7man power armour squads with st5 storm bolters
2x storm ravens
2x autocannon dreads w/ psybolt ammo

Total 1750

My list is:

Tyrant
LW & BS
Strangle thorn Cannon
Armoured shell
Hive commander

1x tyrant guard

Flyrant
Scy tal
LW & BS
( I know the build is pants but I love the model!)
2x 2 hive guard
Lictor
2x 10 termagants
2x tervigons w/ toxin sacs (1x sch tal, 1x crushing claws)
Trygon prime
Mawloc

Total 1750

I'll be posting a shamefully poor batrep tomorrow even so keep tuned!

[coredump]

Good luck. My guess is you are going to ignore the storm ravens and thrash everything else?

[arnestig]

What would be the purpose of scything talons on a flyrant?

[coredump]

Rerolling 1's on the attack...??

[arnestig]

Yeah, no doubt. I try to keep my flyrant in the air however. So my question would be why to go for scything talons instead of something a bit more dakka such as a twin-linked devourer with brain-leech worms.. or heck, why not even two.

[leviathan42]

mostly because i am hopeless with modelling, and i built the flyrant straight from the box, and the LW & BS is iconic (in my mind anyways) i still wouldnt know where to start with the 'dakka' build??? Plus my nid army is shooting phase is there if i cant get into combat! which is where the lash whip comes in handy, as pretty much everything my flyrant wants to assault will definately be in cover!!
hope that helps

[Nightstalker]

You have tervigon models. Pop the fleshborer hive arms on them.. Makes for a rather sweet looking flyrant

[arnestig]

You don't have to run your models as they look unless your friends are really hard when it comes to "What You See Is What You Get".

[romanarmor]

Hi, my main opponent is a gk player and I would recommend dropping the lictor for 60 points that should go to the tl devs and some extra powers for your tervigons. Or get your tervigon cc. However don't forget that he can force weapon your tervigons, so you may not want to get them into cc. I realize that this post may be a bit late, but good luck nevertheless, and congrats on the first game!

[leviathan42]

Ok, so thanks for all the advice guys.

I managed to get 2 games in yesterday!

Game 1 was dawn of war / the relic

I deployed first and he stole the initiative

He deployed everything cept the ravens (duh!)

Both his Libby's were rocking divination
My mistake in this game was going after the relic with gaunts! Should of picked it up with my Trygon or Mawloc!
Anyways both his ravens came in t2 and 8 mind strike missiles later my walkrant and a tervigon were dead and both squads
of hive guard aswell
I managed to last till turn 5 before I was wiped!

Learning points: don't run psykers next to each other when there is 8 mind strike missiles in your opponents arsenal!

Game 2 dawn of war / the emperors will

I made him deploy first in this game

He deployed both dreads 1 Libby and 1 squad of marines.

I deployed the Trygon and the Mawloc directly opposite his dreads, and spread out my psykers!

1 squad of gaunts and both hive guard were deployed in the ruins containing my objective.

He went first and fell for the trap and shot both dreads at my Mawloc doing no wounds!

My t1 my Mawloc made an 11" charge into the rightmost dread, doing nothing, his t2 this pulled his marine squad of his objective to deal with the Mawloc, both his ravens came in again! 4 mind strikes hit my walkrant again and he died! His marines charged my Mawloc and risked shadows to get of hammerhand! The Trygon prime was 8" away reading himself for the charge.
The marines did 2 wounds on the Mawloc, I choose to smash on his warlord Libby and he passed both invuns.

My t2 hive guard shot the raven which still had all of its mind strike missiles, this also was transporting his other Libby and squad of marines! 2x 6's to hit, 2x 5's to pen, a 2 & a 6 to damage! Killed half his army in one shot! We called it there!

Learning points: hive guard are awesome, however all opponents worth there salt will make them priority number 1! I think my anti-air is heavily reliant on the hive guard and the flyrant rolling iron arm (against ravens anyways)

So what do you guys think? Feedback is greatly appreciated!

[maugrim]

BRB pg 81 - A maximum of two missiles can be fired per Shooting Phase. Not sure if PotMS would over-ride this, because it allows one more weapon at full BS than it is normally permitted. But if it does, then the maximum would be 3 missiles per flyer, not 4. Also, he must have been doing *really* well on the scatter rolls on those Mindstrikes since they do need to still scatter and if the blast marker isn't on the Psyker's base (after scatter) then it doesn't trigger the Perils.

[leviathan42]

Good to know Maugrim! Thanks.

His scatter rolls were mostly hits! The odd few tha did scatter he only rolled a max of 6 thus the template still
touched my MC's base

[maugrim]

6" should still have scattered off the base - it is only a small blast marker, 1.5" radius, so depending on where it started (the hole has to be over the base somewhere) as little as 2" of scatter could take it completely off the base. Has he been using the large blast marker? That's not correct, the rules state "Blast", not "Large Blast".

[fragile]

FYI, only a scoring unit can pick up the Relic... so no Trygons or Mawlocs.. Tervigons can if used as a troop.