Sporocysts

[TheRippersAreComing]

After buying a sporocyst, I'm going into denial about it's lack of competitive use.

Anyone use these things? if so, GIVE ME YOUR TACTICS OM NOM NOM!

[topaxygourouni]

Apart from camping it onto an objective and preventing light stuff from claiming it, not much, unfortunately. It sould have a scout move along with infiltrate. And native shrouded to begin with. Whatevers.

[nurglitch]

They can block line of sight to stuff, which is handy. Also, the extra 6" of Synapse on top of +6" from Dominion means you can really cheap out on Synapse and spread stuff out.

[slithernaut]

Even though it does have infiltrate, I find it best to use it as a psuedo-gun emplacement, behind my lines, giving me an effective 24" synapse bubble from its base.

I will castle up in a corner with endless swarm warriors, two cad warriors and 3x1 venomthropes. By the time the bulk of my army moves forward, there are about six spore mines hanging around making deep striking next to it suicide.

When I infiltrate it, it gets instasquished of the board turn one by (insert S10 weapon here)

If it isn't blasted of turn one, it will do decent amount of damage. Dropping 5 pie plates on Tigurius and some centurions can result in 20+ hits. One wound will get through and make him wanna kill it, which he will, turn two.

If only it could take regeneration...

[macdaddyt]

To me these things are all about area denial. Spore mines can actually clear out a nice area and it has some subtle synergies with synapse and such. Park a Zoey or a warrior brood for extra range. (Dominion with this thing is a HUGE bubble). And it even blocks LOS to good old Zoanthrope. Use it primarily to sit in cover birth spores and give your opponent a nice swatch of spore filled area. I mean if he is honestly shooting at that or your mines that's a victory for you as it's not a Flyrant lol

[nurglitch]

I was looking at the Sporocyst rules lately and noticed that it's +6" per Sporocyst model within 6" of a Synapse unit. Considering their size, you could make a nice little fort in the middle of the table. So far I've been putting two on the table, one on each side, and with Dominion it gives incredible coverage.

[robotoctopus]

Oh wow.. Never stopped to consider that psychic resonator stacked..

That's a pretty awesome idea.. 3 and a malanthrope is 30" shrouded synapse machine! That also spews 9 mines and 15 templates a turn...

Hmm

[topaxygourouni]

Oct 19, 2015 19:56:25 GMT robotoctopus said:

Oh wow.. Never stopped to consider that psychic resonator stacked..

That's a pretty awesome idea.. 3 and a malanthrope is 30" shrouded synapse machine! That also spews 9 mines and 15 templates a turn...

Hmm

2 plus norn crown tervigon. Can also dominion itself. You can call it the super - incubator node. Sporocysts spawn mines, tervigon spawns termagants. With Dominion tervigon goes to 36" synapse range and you can fill the rest of the list with carnifexes or something.

Still a bad idea though. Synapse has never been an issue since the Pentyrant lists were implemented.

[robotoctopus]

I'd be inclined to stick it in with 2 endless swarms and trygon or 2..

[nurglitch]

Something I've done lately is 2x Sporocysts, 2x Tervigons, 2x Venomthropes, 2x Ripper Swarms, Trygon, Manufactorum Genestealers, Endless Swarm, and a singleton Zoanthrope.

[N.I.B.]

Btw, what is the real cost of Endless Swarm, 360 points? My pdf says 320 points, but it lacks the third unit of Termagants.

[slithernaut]

Oct 21, 2015 19:37:26 GMT N.I.B. said:

Btw, what is the real cost of Endless Swarm, 360 points? My pdf says 320 points, but it lacks the third unit of Termagants.

Endless swarm is only 3 hormagaunts, 2 termagaunts and 1 warrior brood, I refuse to change the 1d4chan article.

The apocalpyse variant is 3 HG, 3 TG and no warriors!

So yeah, its 320. If i had a toxicrene I'd consider running endless warm with hyper toxic node and subterranean swarm. Limited to 3 sources here too...

[gigasnail]

wut

[N.I.B.]

[almostmercury]

360 minimum

150 Gaunts
120 Gants
90 Warriors