Tyranid Victory

[akiranid]

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread so I apologise if it is not

Played my mates Black Templars and the Nids got a thumping win, he gave up after turn four

Things I learned from this game are

1) Two flying hive tyrants are amazing, the both only took one wound from four land raiders shooting at them for most of the turns played (3 crusader class and one god hammer)

2) Exorcine could now be an auto include as when the marines finally got out their transports it opened fire and blasted chunks out of them

3) I used two small squads of stealers to objective camp and infiltrate around the midfield terrain and they did really awesome, my mate was so obsessed with them that he left, near enough, everything else alone just to get at the stealers

[Yautja]

With my dice rolls my Flyrants would have been in trouble against 4 LRs! How many points was the game?

[akiranid]

It was two thousand points

I had split my army into three groups one group was deployed on the left side of the table the other on the right and a small group coming on from reserves

[mattblowers]

Congrats on the win. Four land raiders is way too many at that point level. That's half his points, they are good but not that good. Next time possibly help him build a list or you won't have an opponent for much longer, taking a thrashing once is OK, but if it happens repeatedly he will likely avoid you. Dakkafexes do more damage on average with shooting and they can wreck landraiders pretty easily. Not telling you switch, just food for thought.

[akiranid]

I want to try the dakkafex's next game thinking two in a brood

His big problem was he just shot at the stealers and the hive tyrants which left the rest of my army untouched

I only lost one unit of stealers and one unit of guants that were meat shielding my objective scoring rippers

[jimmyp]

The best tactic for tyranids by far is defiantly distraction and miss focus! My friend did similar with my tyrannofex and mawloc, he kept shooting at them instead of my main force.
Well done on your game!! Nice to hear exocrine worked well for you, I'm thinking of getting one.

[akiranid]

It was all from reading the great advice and tactics put on here really so big thank you to all the hive mind

Don't get me wrong the Exorcine had to wait till the lterminators/space marines disembarked from their land raiders before it did anything but once that happened it was really good, strength 7 AP 2 smashed his units brilliantly

I really want to try a mawloc, Exorcine and dakkafex' brood next

[blucord]

Congrats on the win! 4 land raiders is insane! Way to many...I'm glad you the exocrine did well for you

[akiranid]

He wants to take five land raiders to a local tournament believe it or not

[macdaddyt]

Best advice for him, take two LRC's filled with Templars and have a character in each and make the rest of the army built to support those units. Shoving 32 marines down you're opponents board edge will more than likeley cause problems and having the right support units (MSU in razorbacks, Storm Talons, Etc.) will give him a serious ranged threat as we'll. I

Also, congrats on the win and definitely try this Dakkagexen they are wonderful. Have you thought about running an LAN for that Exo? I find the LAN is the best way to field and Exo and the Biovores are great anti infantry.

[akiranid]

I don't have access to the data slates at the moment so not sure how they formations work to be honest