Knight Slayers?

[DukeMantis]

Hey Hive

I had a fun game last night where my Nids took on an Imperial Knight among other things. Despite shooting it up with an exocrine, two crones and a dakka flyrant i failed to kill it (2 or 3 hp left). In return it mulched everything it touched!

Have any of you fought and killed a Knight yet? If so, how?

Please post below if you have an account on Knight Slaying (even if like me you only came close!)


Thanks

[phayze]

My friend and I regularly goof off with silly things around the board, and regularly use archeotech artifacts in our games. I'm not sure how to really use them in an actual game, but we just place a couple around the board for kicks and giggles.

Anyways, we played a relatively small game but he managed to bring out a castled-up tau list with a knight to walk around and punch stuff. Halfway through the match, I've been skirting my lone carnifex around the board to try to pop it, but because of his terrible intiative, I had to be sneaky. The knight walks over an archeotech artifact precisely when my fex rounds the woods near him, and wouldn't you know it, it makes all CC attacks near it strike at I10.

We blew each other up.

but aside from massed flyer spam (they have like NO skyfire potential besides the stubbers), and zoanthrope lances, not much is going to get at one, let alone an army of them. Keep them running around the board is the best I can say, the battle cannon is strong, but easily is avoided if you're sneaky.

good luck.

[emoge]

Last weekend I fought a list with 3. I was surprised at how quickly they fell honestly.

Trick is to attack from multiple sides to spread Ion Shield. Killed 1 on turn 1, 2 Tentaclids (that did nothing) against 1 side, then 12 T-L devourer shots that dropped 5 HP against a different side, then my Quad-Gun took off the remaining on a lucky glance at front armor.


Second one fell to a a mix of tentaclids, and devourer fire from dakkafexes and at least 1 Flyrant. Third died to being triple charged by my 3 dakkafexes.

Ironically, the player's redoubt couldn't be touched... And I actually lost bad because 2 of those grey knight MCs (Dreadknights?) kept 1 shotting my MCs and the redoubt murdered flyers... Knights really aren't that hard, just concentrate on 1 at a time. You'r a tyranid player, you should know our weakness is them concentrating 1 MC at a time. If they spread the wounds out we can win no problem. If you concentrate on 1 knight at a time and attack from multiple directions to confuse Ion Shield!

[WestRider]

Flyrants and Crones should work solidly.

If you can get the charge with multiple individual Fexen, that'll generally do for one, too. Do not try this with just one Fex or Brood, tho. The D will erase you. But it can only hit one Unit at a time, and a bunch of S9 HoW Hits definitely help.

Anything with Crushing Claws, too, but again, remember to hit with multiple threatening Units at the same time, because one of them is going to die.

[coredump]

Or.... you can assault with a Harpy and (whatever), that way you get to strike first. OF course, when it dies it still gets to scatter a D blast...

[Raven]

And you're by no means guaranteed to take one down even with a Harpy and another MC.

[emoge]

Apr 18, 2014 7:59:34 GMT Raven said:

And you're by no means guaranteed to take one down even with a Harpy and another MC.

No, but nothing is guaranteed in a game of dice!

Honestly, compared to any other army, Tyranids are the best suited at taking down Knights, better than any other army. 24 of our codex units are damage it, which means over half of the units you have can shoot or charge or do something to it.

I love knights, love the model, love the rules, and yes they can be scary when looked at in a vacuum. But in reality, they're almost not worth their points. When even warriors can take them down in close combat (albeit unlikely) it really isn't something to be too scared about.

[terrorfexx]

Look it - the enemy has 2 knights and still gets his ass handed to him

[DukeMantis]

I found that putting my MSU of warriors spread over three floors of a ruin helped me avoid the whole unit being instakilled by its battle cannon.

[krimson]

Wouldn't a tyrannofex with a rupture cannon be hell against these guys? 4's to glance 5 or 6 to pen... or do i hav ethe stat line mixed up?

[coredump]

Assuming front armor, it would be a 3 to glance, side armor would be a 2.

But even with side armor, that means it takes six turns to actually kill it. And twice that is he uses the Ion shield.

Not exactly a big threat.

[gigasnail]

Any time you find yourself thinking "wouldnt a rupture cannon tfex-" ANYTHING, you should stop. They're that awful.

[DukeMantis]

With centurions i just stay the hell away from them, i was going to take the same approach with the Knight but the problem is it moves really REALLY fast.

[coredump]

Knights, however *walk* really fast. So they get slowed down by diff terrain, and can b completely stalled by a few gaunts.

[DukeMantis]

Apr 20, 2014 14:14:18 GMT coredump said:

Knights, however *walk* really fast. So they get slowed down by diff terrain, and can b completely stalled by a few gaunts.

They kill said gants alarmingly fast.. although i agree tarpitting is the best remedy until you can line up your vector strikes.