Favourite formations and why

[blackswarm]

Ok guys what's you favourite formation and why?

My favourite is the leviathan sky swarm. It's so powerful. I love to see my opponents face when I drop their thunder hawk whith a squad of gargoyles. Plus when the formation dies I can just bring it back

[metrognome]

Perhaps a poll...

I run the Living Artillery Node... all the time...
I have a lot of respect for the Skyblight, Bio-Blast and Endless Swarm...
I really want to like the Tyrant Node, Assassin Brood and Wrecker...

Not much experience with Apocs...
Leviathan Sky swarm and Sky haunters look great...
Living Fortress, Eye of the Hive and Kraken Tendril look pretty good...
I really want to like Shadow Incarnate, Gunbeast, and Spore storm...

[Mauler]

Living Artillery for me! Rerolling scatters and pinning (which the weapons now otherwise wouldn't have - nice work GW...beh) are very useful even if you're trying to intentionally miss...

And the Skyblight even though I don't have the models, seems very useful.

[Yautja]

Obviously Skyblight and LAN are the best but Deathleaper formation is my favourite, simply because Lictors are my favourite model in 40k and it improves them a little.

[Freeman]

I use bioblast mostly.

[seanster3000]

I'd have to cast my vote for LAN. I use it in every list, my army is built around it! I love to see the look on my enemies face when I am re-rolling the scatter die for my Biovores!

[valdrog]

I have used LAN to great success, place them on top of a Skyshield and watch your opponent cry
Skyblight is one of the strongest ones we have
And i'll be trying BiobBlast node this weekend at a tourney
Working on Endless Swarm with a Trigon Prime.

[mattblowers]

Skyblight. I love it. LAN is good. I've used Genestealer and lictor ones and they are situationally good.

[swarm492]

I always rock the endless swarm, but I like using a lot of minis. And I like seeing my opponents face when the dice are with me and those two 20 strong broods he worked so hard to destroy simply popped back up.

[Silegy]

As much as I love Gargoyles, Im not that sure about Skyblight anymore, Id probably vote for LAN. I have no idea about Apoc though.

[mattblowers]

Oct 17, 2014 19:26:46 GMT Silegy said:

As much as I love Gargoyles, Im not that sure about Skyblight anymore, Id probably vote for LAN. I have no idea about Apoc though.

It never disappoints me. What issues are you having with it?

[Silegy]

Oct 17, 2014 21:33:25 GMT mattblowers said:

Oct 17, 2014 19:26:46 GMT Silegy said:

As much as I love Gargoyles, Im not that sure about Skyblight anymore, Id probably vote for LAN. I have no idea about Apoc though.

It never disappoints me. What issues are you having with it?

a) Im not that wet about Crones in 7th
b) Although Herpes are now better than ever, maybe even better than Crones, still not making me wet either
c) Not that wet about OS Gargs anymore. I have a fuckton of OS Troops now.
As the two biggest reasons for Skyblight were overpowered Crones and OS Gargoyles, I actually like LAN a bit more nowadays. Also, leaves you with more points to work with after you fit in Flyrants.

Dont forget though that I am talking pure theoryhammer as I dont play. Im more of a 3rd party on the forum now, just soaking up information (why the hell doesnt this word have a plural, it irritates me every time ) everywhere. Meaning I have windows in my rule knowledge, but Im not biased by any "my Rupture Cannon worked!" game experience :-)

[mattblowers]

Fair enough. The Crone still does wonders for me, but I face a lot of Xenos. I only take harpies when I have to for skyblight. OS gargs are great b/c of the movement and reroll to come back. They win games all the time for me. When I don't take crones or harpies my opponent focuses on my Flyrants and I lose. When I do take them, I always start with them on the board and just fly up and start flinging testaclids, dropping pie plates or templates. I have not yet had an opponent that hasn't responded to them. I consider them bio-fuel that needs burnt to make the rest of my army work. Here's what I do, I pick a unit I can kill/nearly kill and just focus on that one unit with all my non tyrant fliers. My opponent sees the damage, assumes they are key to my army working and diverts his army to take them out. (I landed a Harpy 3 weeks ago just to get my BA oppenent to charge away from the objective. He did. My gargoyles made sure he never made it back.) That's how I run them. With a slow moving army you need a distraction. Flyrants aren't a distraction, you need them to win.

[gigasnail]

Skyblight got kicked in the jimmy but it's still one of our better options. LAN is great as well. Cost of the units involved prevents bioblast from being better (90 points for rerolls of 1 to wound ehhhhhh dunno), it's just a lot of points to stack up. If I was looking to take 4 or more fexes in a list, I'd look at it. Master of ambush would be ugly.

[rpricew]

I like running Skyblight and Endless Swarm together...

Fully upgraded Gargoyles, Toxin Hormagaunts & Devilgants all in units of 10 each. That's 90 Objective Secured models that can come back on a 4+. Add in whatever you like to make up the balance. We usually play 1850-2000 point games.

I usually put in a Tyranid Prime with 2 units of Gants in the backfield to hide the prime in. This gives a durable Synapse goalie that camps on backfield objectives.