1250 Mobility List

[Nightmare20]

So, this tier is in the local League is 1250 Point "The Scouring" with 3 secret Tactical Objectives as Secondaries. No Lords of War or Unbound but anything else goes.

Was thinking of using:

2x Dakka Flyrants with grubs

Malanthrope

2x3 Deepstrike Rippers

2x Crones

2x Mawloc


I figure speed is going to be the deciding factor in these match ups but I have considered an MC based shooting list for this tier, using massed S6 shooting and ignores cover to focus fire scoring units off the board while keeping up Shroud and Synapse to everything but I feel like that list might not do so well against invisible jetseer blobs and other shenanigans. Also, gave up on Skyblight due to low points and Fast Attack granting kill points.

Opinions? I have until Wednesday to submit a list.

[Nightmare20]

Ended up going with this list after playtesting a more foot slogging army with one change: cc flyrant using bs/lw and toxin to deal with wraithknight. Other then that its the same. Should be interesting.

[jimmyp]

nice to see someone else using a close combat flyrant! i add old adversary to mine to get reroll 1s to hit and to wound as well for just 15 more points mate

[Nightmare20]

Oct 16, 2014 20:03:49 GMT jimmyp said:

nice to see someone else using a close combat flyrant! i add old adversary to mine to get reroll 1s to hit and to wound as well for just 15 more points mate

I thought about it and it would have rounded out my points to exactly 1250 but knowing there was a wraithknight out there in my meta I opted for the toxin sacs instead. Its actually funny because my malanthrope and cc tyrant jumped on some deepstriking orks (tank bustas trying to flank the malanthrope) turn 3 and i ended up with prefered enemy anyways.

I had 1 of my 3 matches today vs a super experienced ork player and i ended up ending the game on turn 5 with 14-2 with him only left with 2 killah khans and his gorkanaught. I hadnt lost any models, a lucky mawloc was down to 1 and hit & ran + burrowed after taking a charge from the Gork. The melee Flyrant got dropped to 1 and a crone was down to 3. Highlight of the game was 4 killah khans failing to kill a 1 wound flyrant and a brood of raging rippers devouring a squad of grotz.

[jimmyp]

Sounds like a cool game! Well done, I am tempting to put on regeneration on my flyrant cc but the points is mad high for just one model then. Was thinking of doing a shrike or raveners squad of 6 to team up with my cc flyrant for some hardcore close combat playing lol. Jump about causing havoc

[Nightmare20]

Oct 17, 2014 7:25:37 GMT jimmyp said:

Sounds like a cool game! Well done, I am tempting to put on regeneration on my flyrant cc but the points is mad high for just one model then. Was thinking of doing a shrike or raveners squad of 6 to team up with my cc flyrant for some hardcore close combat playing lol. Jump about causing havoc

Well the Malanthrope is key to their survival since venoms can't keep up (no MTC or fleet) and to be honest regen is 30 points to give your opponents incentive to fire at the cc flyrant. That can be good or bad.

[jimmyp]

Yeah using regeneration makes your oppenent shoot it constantly till dead in one turn. Malanthrope is amazing for the points! One of the best units by far

[Nightmare20]

Well, I lost my match against Tau, no surprise there. Couldn't touch the ignores cover MissileSides/Brightstarstormwhatever due to hiding in a ruin ontop of a 4 point skyfire obj, terrible terrain placement costing me a crone turn 1. No targets for the mawlocs and I failed FNP on the Malan twice (catalyst) and lost him to meltaswords. Couldn't kill his Farsight and Friends with the cc flyrant due to himrolling quadruple 6's on a 4++ everytime. His rolls were so ridiculous he was even failing every fear test on Ld10! Ugh, oh well.

Up against New Grey Knight paladin spam next.

[Nightmare20]

Well, I came out the winner vs Grey Knights 11-10. He misplayed my last mishaped Mawloc by placing it just close enough to Run, then Move and Run next turn to take a 1 point Obj to win the game. He was a super new player, forgetting his Force activations numerous times but it honestly didn't matter with how hard his guys hit with hammerhand. He had never played against Tyranids either. Shadow in the Warp had him pretty spooked.

Mawlocs were of medium use, the first one dying due to a 1 on the mishap table while failing to kill the last paladin of the squad.

Hive Crones were pure awesome, vector striking paladins off the board, absorbing tons of fire, and flaming terminators out of a ruin. Well, except for the one who dropped down to steal an Obj but the game continued and she got skewered by the Dreadknight. They took a ton of wounds due to lucky storm bolter shots(1 wound left on 1 and 4 wounds left on the other) but they made up for it later.

The rippers were short-lived, one squad grabbing a point and then being purged by the torrent flamer wielding Dreadknight, the others getting charged by Hammerhanded Terminators.

My CC Flyrant went toe-to-toe with a Paladin Squad for 2 rounds and killing all of them but the guy with the Nemesis Force Hammer who lived with 1 wound before smiting him. He would have lived if he hadn't failed the charge the first turn he tried and the Malanthrope hadn't failed the charge on the following turn. My Warlord Dakka Flyrant took out his Warlord Captain on a key turn, the captain having suffered perils previously and then lost exactly enough 2+ armor saves when it came time to shoot him to death.

Overall a super close game. I'm not used to being completely outclassed in the Psychic Phase but the guy also had insane luck, casting all of his damn powers on 2 dice.

[jimmyp]

Well done on your grey knights game