1850 Michigan GT

[armyofterror]

Yup, I have been playing my test games with them.

[jaysic]

I just found them today, and won't have a chance to test any. 2 tournies this weekend, a GT the next weekend, then Michigan.

Did edit my list a little after reading the primers

[jaysic]

2x melyrant
2 malanthrope
3x Hive Guard
16x hormagaunts
3x rippers ds
Tervigon
30x termagaunts
3x shrikes lwbs ag/ts/fh
2x carnifex ag/cc (combined so that WL doesn't also grant HH)
2× Biovores

Personal goal of top 10 overall, best single cad, best dark xenos

Edit; splitting Carnifexen into 2 squads of 1. TO said you choose the HH unit in case of a tie. Will choose non-warlord HT. This may change after I math hammer it as less survivable

[coredump]

I really hope you do well.... at this point I would feel naked without any shooting. But melee is big fun.

[jaysic]

No shooting? 2 biovores, 3 flesh hooks, Stinger salvo, and fleshborers! What else could you want?

[jaysic]

Think I'm going to drop 3 horms to fit CC on my tervigon. He already has esg and then he can reliably kill backfield drop pods. Only problem is I'll have to break the ST off.

Edit; Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh I'm considering doing 11 Gargoyles instead of the 13 horms now. I hate HATE HATE going from 16 models to 13 to 11. One of the (beta) missions has KP added in for troops choice only. This would allow me to play to the mission a bit better, avoid anyone saying horms don't give 25% coverage of carnifexen (even though holding them up in front of the things shows anyone it certainly does), give me a bit more speed and potentially a better tarpit (blind) at the cost of a OS unit (but really, I have the rippers, 30 horms, and a terv for that....not to mention the footprint/bubble wrap of the spawn terms).

Problem is, I only have 8 full gargs left (used 12 of them just to get their wings on shrikes). They aren't painted, and I would also have to fit them into my magnetized case. Still have to finish my 2nd WYSIWYG Melyrant, drill into and magnetize my old Tervy+CC for him, and make a display board.


Meh, I'll probably just run the horms.

[armyofterror]

I really like dropping the horms for the gargoyles. They are faster, provide better cover, can shoot, and can hurt any toughness. Do you have any friends that play his were u can get the few extra gargoyles from?

[jaysic]

There's only really 1 other Tyranid player in my area (which is weird, because there's a REAL healthy and diverse community in my city), who has about 16k of Nids (maybe 2k painted?). I've tried to buy models off his extensive collection before (nothing rare...hormagaunts) and he just won't give them up (though he is generous with bits, to be fair). I could PROBABLY talk him into selling me 3 gargs...but man, I've been a painting machine for this forums contest. I have maybe 2 days worth of painting left to do on my last tourney model (2nd melyrant), then a days work magnetizing one of my Tervigons to have CC. I decided not to go to this weekend's GT so that I could get more practice in for the (much larger) Michigan GT, and have been enjoying only painting 4 hours a day instead of 6+. Adding 11 Gargoyles to that work pile just doesn't seem that fun Also, as I mentioned, I hate removing the 3 horms just to get the CC on the Tervigon, but I feel it's pretty neccisary to deal with backfield AV 12 (math hammer came out to about 3.5 HP between the ESG and the CC on the charge against AV12 DPs). Dropping another 2 for a Garg unit makes me uneasy. Also I have no idea who to work flying stands into my case situation...maybe a project for the next GT (Renegade maybe?) but not for this one. Besides, 11 Gargs vs 13 horms is really min-maxing (which I don't mind in this environment), which I don't think will make the difference between winning and losing.

Cleaned up list;

Melyrant (OA, LW/BS, Wings, AG) <- Warlord
Melyrant (OA, LW/BS, Wings, AG) <- Head Hunter

3x Hive Guard
2x Malanthrope (1 unit)

13x Hormagaunts
3x Rippers w/ DS
30x Termagaunts (Fleshborers)
Tervigon (ESG, CC)

3x Shrikes (LW/BS, AG, TS, FH)

Carnifex (AG, CC)
Carnifex (AG, CC)
2x Biovores

Goings for;
Top 10 overall
Best single CAD
Best Dark Xeno



I've been scouring the net to see if anyone has posted their armies on other forums, but can't find anything other than last years list (and not much of them). As far as I can tell there was only 1 Tyranid player last year? So that just means me, terror, maybe last year's guy, and maybe iNcontrol (can't get an answer out of him).

[armyofterror]

I think the CC on the Tervigon will definitely work out well for you! I'm in the same boat as you with painting, I've been plucking away daily at it. I have all 7 FMC's finished, just finished my 2nd Mawloc and 6 ripper swarms tonight. Display board was done last night (except for minor flocking), so all I have left is 30 gargoyles(I use the term "all I have left lightly lol) and a couple spore mines for the Harpy bombing runs. That basically gives me a week to paint the gargoyles. Shouldn't be a problem as I'm a fairly quick painter and I can just assembly line them. Good luck getting it all finished! Last year I only remember one Nid player, but that was in the dark days of our codex lol. This codex jives very well with 7th, but I would be willing to put money that me, you, and probably one more Nid player will be the only ones. I'm guessing we're going to see a lot of wave serpent spam and knights:( There are a lot of guys from the area up here that are coming that have solid, tough lists but not bull (please do not swear) cheese ( a very good DE/Eldar army, a solid CSM army, an Eldar/GK list, etc). Should be a lot of fun!

[armyofterror]

Btw, I am excited to see how your list does. I think a lot of people will be surprised to see a CC oriented Tyranid list and will not have prepared for it!

[jaysic]

At a LGS testing. Rolled the H&A kp mission. Dark eldar transport spam with then getting FB

[Jabberwocky]

Sounds brutal, how did it go?

[jaysic]

At the bottom of turn 2 we were 6-6. His first blood was on my Warlord Melyrant (who had IWND, catalyst, paroxysm ).
Top of his turn 3 he finished off the Mal's, the other Melyrant, and both Carnifexen. Called it after that.

Went on to play a Grey Knight player who had 2 large term units, 2 L3 Libbys, 2 Dreadknights, allied in Tiber with GravCents and 5 scouts.
First turn he DS in both term squads into ruins right in front of my lines, FB down the Malanthrope brood and killed the horms. Got invis on both squads, plus forewarning.
I moved my Melyrant (WL) between the two squads, tried to do Scream and got it off. He was effectively L5 (+2 to the dice roll, -3 shadows) and he rolled a 5 and a 7 for the two squads. I failed an assault with my 30 termagaunts (he overwatched me into a 7 inch charge, rolled a 4) and then I derped my 2nd melyrant into 1 squad, carnifexen into the other. HoW actually killed 1, then he hammered down the Fexen and took 2 wounds off my Melyrant who had FNP from catalyst.
Top of his 2nd turn we got force off on the 12 shot ranged force weapon, ID'd my WL, ID'd my Tervigon, Grav Cent down my other Fexen. Called it after that.

After asking some guys at the club to bring their nastiest list, I sure got it. I need to remember to never never never charge an invis unit with anything but gaunts. I think if I see that type of list I need to just fly past the Terminators and ignore them, rather than try and tricky them to death.
Against DE spam in H&A? Well, depending on how the LoS blocking terrain is blocked, I can castle up for the cover saves and kill a venom a turn with the Hive Guard. I ran the Flyrants / Shrikes ahead to start popping vehicles / killing whatever jumps out after the Hive Guard punks down a venom. If it wasn't H&A deployment I would've had a much easier time.

[jaysic]

Got two more test games in, this time against Orks; thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/47686/tyranids-competitive-close-combat-seriously?page=12&scrollTo=813772

[jaysic]

Fully wysiwyg army painted