Swarm VS Titan?

[pedro009]

Okay.

So last night at my gaming group in Wigan we continued to play or championship.

The guy I was up against was using eldar list. Focused heavily on wrathguard...warlock..and a Revanat titan and a hemlock.

Against his was my Nid list. Two endless swarm fomations, flyrant, warriors and gaunts to make it bound and a Trygon Prime.

Now I knew I was in for a tough fight as the wraithguand spat out 8 D weapon shots, hemlock 2 d weapon blasts and the titan had a total of 4 large D blasts.

Note in this Chapionship (where there have been necron detachments, knight detachments and Dark Eldar armies) this was the first army to break a good portion of my Synapse.

BUT....the game ended in a draw (Tyrant took a D weapon to the face last turn). But was very close...and confirms to me at least that Nids are competative...just ppl focus on the negatives too much I believe. ...but I do think all synapse units shud get some form of invul save.

But I did want to gather other ppl thoughts?

[pedro009]

Oh and forgot about the wraithlord thing above

[mattblowers]

Not sure what you are asking pedro009.

[pedro009]

Sorry shud have worded that better at the end. How have other nid lists fared against Titan. ...Superheavy armies

[gigasnail]

It depends. Watch the BAO finals from this year for some hilarity.

[drewski]

I recently fought a knight heavy list with 2 Flyrants and a Harridan. I was able to down a knight a turn. My opponent always put the void shield on the facing the harridan was in, so the the Flyrants were able to strip 3-4 hull points on a turn then the harridan would do the last couple with its 12 shots. I also had a bad mawloc scatter finish off a knight with one hp remaining.

[mattblowers]

High armour is harder for nids than high toughness. We have access to lots of rending and "wounds on a __".

[pedro009]

Just ordered a Harridan. Cannot wait to get the thing assebled. ..also like the fact with so may super heavies I won't feel guilty putting it on the table

[bolk]

When you consider the damn thing costs 735 pts, no, you should not feel guilty...

[pedro009]

True. I'm looking forward to dropping 20 Gargoyles in their deployment zone and then vector striking at St10

[saxif]

So, did you take down his Revenant Titan?

I assume you had total board control with you million figures?

Was it Maelstrom or War mission?

What points value was the game?

Did you flyrant do the Hemlock, or the other way round? How did your flyrant survive till the end with a Hemlock on the prowl? I thought there were superior anti flyers?

[sneggy]

Aug 28, 2015 19:53:21 GMT gigasnail said:

It depends. Watch the BAO finals from this year for some hilarity.

link to that?

[Squire]

I love the sound of your list. Presumably you usually tarpit big things like knights, WKs- how successful is it and what sort of numbers do you throw at them? I'm interested because I'm back to work on painting my tyranids and not far off finishing the list, and bogging down the big things with gaunts is the plan. My 1850 list has 95 gaunts plus whatever the tervigon spawns, so fewer than what you must be fielding but hopefully still enough to survive getting stomped a few times

[Kwodd]

Aug 28, 2015 19:53:21 GMT gigasnail said:

It depends. Watch the BAO finals from this year for some hilarity.

Do tell.

[Kwodd]

Aug 28, 2015 19:47:49 GMT pedro009 said:

Sorry shud have worded that better at the end. How have other nid lists fared against Titan. ...Superheavy armies

My 30 blob can keep a knight or wraithknight tied up for 2 or 3 turns on average.