2500 Competitive attempt

[kenji10000]

Hello Hive! I am looking to join a 40K league in my LGS, they are playing at 2500 and I want to bring the bugs out to play. My meta is primarily lots of infantry blobs and flyers.

Here is my first attempt, any help from the Hive is appreciated!

Flyrant-240

--2XDakka, E-grubs

Flyrant-240
--2XDakka, E-grubs

Flyrant-240
--2XDakka, E-grubs

Venom-45
Venom-45

Terv-220
-Miasma cannon

Terv-195

30 Gaunts-120

30 Gaunts-120

20 Gaunts-80

Crone-155
Crone-155
Crone-155

Exocrine-170
Exocrine-170

2 Sky shields-150

Basically it's designed to run like a dual wave attack, flyers soften up key targets and gaunts swarm objectives and pick off stragglers. I'm considering running 2 Sky shields to guarantee places to land for my flyers and eventually my tervs hang out on them until its time to grab objectives. Is 2 Shields excessive? Has anyone tried more than 1 fortification with any luck. Thanks for reading!

[ptderfel]

Ill answer more completly later, but at firat glance you have very weak synapse, trade 20 gaunts for warriors, no need for miasma on that defensive tervigon


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[vandalex]

I would take 3 Dakkafexes, as extra shootiness

[gigasnail]

you don't want dual wave, you want single wave.

2500? x2 skyblight. fill the other thousand odd points in with more evil, and more killy.

[kenji10000]

Apr 20, 2014 4:06:47 GMT gigasnail said:

you don't want dual wave, you want single wave.

2500? x2 skyblight. fill the other thousand odd points in with more evil, and more killy.

Hadn't even occurred to me to run 2 data slate formations Brutal. What would you suggest for troops in that case? Gargoyles should handle scoring plenty, maybe warriors with a BS? That way when the Gargoyles come back they have a baby sitter? What do you think about running two Sky shields? Is that too much pints spent on defense?

[gigasnail]

X2 skyblight, with HVC on all 4 harpies, and two flyrants from main FOC kitted like:

X3 dakka flyrant, wings, thorax
X1 flyrant, wings, reaper, X1 BL Dev, thorax

comes out to 2220. plenty of points for two bare bones stealer broods and some points to buff some gargs.

alternatively, you could drop one of the dakka flyrants (or the reaper, whatever's clever) and add some tfexes or w/e. i'm more of a 'punch my opponent in the junk until he cries for me to stop' kind of a guy, and skyblight really does lend itself well to the all-in approach.

could also juggle some stuff around and do X2 skyblight, one flyrant, and X3 mawlocks. at 2500 points assume your opponent is out to curbstomp you and has brought the toys to do it.

return the favor.

[gigasnail]

that's just a first stab at the idea. i would probably want to buff the gargs a little and increase the base squad size on at least two of them.

[kenji10000]

Okay second attempt:

Flyrant-2Xdakka-230
Warriors-BS-100
Warriors-BS-100

Skyblight-1035-Total
Flyrant-2XDakka, E-Grubs-240
Harpy-HVC-140
Harpy-HVC-140
Crone-155
15 Gargoyles-AG-120
15 Gargoyles-AG-120
15 Gargoyles-AG-120

Skyblight-1035 Total
Flyrant-2XDakka, E-grubs-240
Harpy-HVC-140
Harpy-HVC-140
Crone-155
15 Gargoyles-AG-120
15 Gargoyles-AG-120
15 Gargoyles-AG-120

No Skyshields this way, but target saturation is a huge issue.

EDIT:Actually if I cut the AG it frees up the points for another crone or maybe some biovores, I think that would be a better pick. Or possibly the Skyshields, I'm too indecisive :/


Ok I think this will be what I test next:

Flyrant-Reaper, E-Grubs-255
Warriors-BS-100
Warriors-BS-100
Crone-155

Skyblight-945-Total
Flyrant-2XDakka, E-Grubs-240
Harpy-HVC-140
Harpy-HVC-140
Crone-155
15 Gargoyles-90
15 Gargoyles-90
15 Gargoyles-90

Skyblight-945 Total
Flyrant-2XDakka, E-grubs-240
Harpy-HVC-140
Harpy-HVC-140
Crone-155
15 Gargoyles--90
15 Gargoyles--90
15 Gargoyles--90

[gigasnail]

that looks good. 8 scoring units. you have the models to do this?

[kenji10000]

Apr 20, 2014 4:48:11 GMT gigasnail said:

that looks good. 8 scoring units. you have the models to do this?

Not the Gargs and Harpies But I am working on saving up for them. Need 30 more gargs and 3 harpies.

[gigasnail]

there you go. i was waiting on the IG codex to see how boned we were going to be before i committed to buying the models to run skyblight w/o proxying, but that looks good for us. i'll be investing in some more beasts soon myself.