Kill team!

[tsinner]

My friends and I are about to play some kill team, so naturally I'm taking my nids. Has anyone had any games using the kill team rules? Any advice or suggestions ?

[Moontyranid]

my advise take warriors with deathspitters

[bob11]

In the couple of games I've played, I've found hive guard quite useful. S8, ignores cover, ignores LOS weapons and they're quite durable with T6. Only problem is they're expensive.

[hiveminded]

You're going to face a lot of lists that have low model counts with no heavy vehicles and minimum heavy weapons/pie plates. So, hordes can be very good. You just need an answer to vehicles. So something basic like 20 hormagaunts w/ AG and 15 termagants can be very good.

Maybe even consider gargoyles as objective grabbers.

[Yautja]

I saw a game that used space hulk style terrain but the corridor walls were real. The Hive Guard was so op they 2 players quickly restarted with the Tyranid player swapping the HG out for something else.

[arapaima]

Go for nid warriors. In an environment where most things shooting at them are small arms, a brood will be pretty damn durable. Their MEQ stats and additional wounds make them excellent leverage in HTH against other basic troops cept the guy who got lucky with saves on a powerfist toting dude. Give 1 of em boneswords and the above case will not be a problem.

[bob11]

Dec 14, 2014 11:10:24 GMT arapaima said:

Go for nid warriors. In an environment where most things shooting at them are small arms, a brood will be pretty damn durable. Their MEQ stats and additional wounds make them excellent leverage in HTH against other basic troops cept the guy who got lucky with saves on a powerfist toting dude. Give 1 of em boneswords and the above case will not be a problem.

Not sure if it's all kill team games or just the rule set we play in my area, but you can't use anything with more than two wounds

[rpricew]

Dec 14, 2014 12:50:37 GMT bob11 said:

Dec 14, 2014 11:10:24 GMT arapaima said:

Go for nid warriors. In an environment where most things shooting at them are small arms, a brood will be pretty damn durable. Their MEQ stats and additional wounds make them excellent leverage in HTH against other basic troops cept the guy who got lucky with saves on a powerfist toting dude. Give 1 of em boneswords and the above case will not be a problem.

Not sure if it's all kill team games or just the rule set we play in my area, but you can't use anything with more than two wounds

What exactly do you use for an HQ then? In my opinion, Nids aren't set up very well for Kill Team missions per the RAW.

[bob11]

Dec 14, 2014 16:01:48 GMT rpricew said:

Dec 14, 2014 12:50:37 GMT bob11 said:

Not sure if it's all kill team games or just the rule set we play in my area, but you can't use anything with more than two wounds

What exactly do you use for an HQ then? In my opinion, Nids aren't set up very well for Kill Team missions per the RAW.

We don't play HQ's, we do 200 points so it would be difficult to fit a HQ in, ifthe group are feeling generous we don't use synapse either, although if we do I play 2 hive gaurd, a zoanthrope and 10 termagants.

[Davor]

Dec 14, 2014 12:50:37 GMT bob11 said:

Dec 14, 2014 11:10:24 GMT arapaima said:

Go for nid warriors. In an environment where most things shooting at them are small arms, a brood will be pretty damn durable. Their MEQ stats and additional wounds make them excellent leverage in HTH against other basic troops cept the guy who got lucky with saves on a powerfist toting dude. Give 1 of em boneswords and the above case will not be a problem.

Not sure if it's all kill team games or just the rule set we play in my area, but you can't use anything with more than two wounds

That is a house rule you are playing with. If you are playing with the CURRENT 40K Kill Team rules, it's anything more than 3 wounds. So you can use 3 wounds or less. Confusing the way GW words it, if you read it fast enough it looks like 3 wounds is not allowed when it's 4 wounds or more that is not allowed.

*edit* Just doubled checked it says no more than 3 wounds or hull points. So 3 wounds is allowed.

[iyama]

My friends and I play the heralds of ruin unofficial kill team rules, my arm is a pure gene stealer arm at the moment, no shooting at all yet till I will some points to justify some hive guard

[Kwodd]

Devgants and Zoanthrope

[N.I.B.]

Hive Guards.

[comrade]

When me and my friends play kill team we fill the board with so many buildings that los is extremely hard to draw. I usually take pure genestealers to keep it fair, but when you can barely see 6 inches around without a building blocking line of sight they can do their job effectively.

[tsinner]

I'm thinking warriors and hive guard now, no line of sight will be excellent. 3 warriors 2hive guard