50PL shooting list for tauny

[purpleshaza]

Hi Hive,
it is time for the annual group tournament the rules are basic 50PL no named characters and battalion detachment.
as I am struggling to get to grips with 8th ed. I thought I would keep it simple and make a kronos based shooty list.
I must point out that I won last year with my 7th ed. list and hold the trophy so for the honour of the Hive please help.
my opponents will mostly be space marines DA/SM/GK/ and chaos SM also adeptus mechanicus.
Here's the list.




Hive Fleet: Kronos

+ HQ +

Malanthropes [5 PL, 140pts]: Malanthrope

Tervigon [13 PL, 243pts]: Massive Scything Talons, Stinger Salvo

+ Elites +

Hive Guard [7 PL, 144pts]
. Hive Guard: Impaler Cannon
. Hive Guard: Impaler Cannon
. Hive Guard: Impaler Cannon

+ Troops +

Termagants [9 PL, 200pts]
. 20x Termagant (Devourer): 20x Devourer
. 10x Termagant (Fleshborer)

Tyranid Warriors [5 PL, 80pts]
. Tyranid Warrior: Barbed Strangler, Scything Talons
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Scything Talons
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Scything Talons

Tyranid Warriors [5 PL, 75pts]
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Scything Talons
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Scything Talons
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Scything Talons

+ Heavy Support +

Biovores [6 PL, 108pts]: 3x Biovore

the idea is to hide the hive guard and biovores as they don't need los and babysit these with some warriors.
use the gaunts to hold the centre of the field with the tervigon reinforcing them and shrouding them with the Malanthrope.
and shoot with everything.

suggestions as to what to swap out and change gratefully received as I have had no luck with my nids since 8th landed which is really annoying as every person I have met says they love it and how much stronger nids have become. and I just keep getting tabled by turn 3 or 4.

[purpleshaza]

Ok so 45 views and no comments I guess it must be an ok list so I think I'll run with it.

[almostmercury]

You’re only allowed one battalion detachment?

Hive Guard are great and biovores are great. Warriors for me remain untested, but I don’t really see them being played from the sources I trust, so i haven’t bothered.

Guard and biovores can hide out of sight, so the other “threat” you have is the tervigon. By threat I mean source of attrition.

If you’re taking the tervigon, then you want it to be kraken so that you can take the -1 to hit relic and stack it with the malanthrope bubble. That means your biovores don’t get to be Kronos if you’re limited to one detachment.

Also, if you’re playing objectives you want Rippers.

[purpleshaza]

I could drop 1 unit of warriors for rippers with spinemaws but I'm not too sure about taking the defensive buff over the shooting buff but I was thinking of taking adaptive biology warlord trait to make the terv toughness 9 and catalyst for a fnp save and rapid regen as a safety net. I'm hoping the devilgaunts will draw some fire too as most of my opponents have fallen fowl of them before. but its the GK flamers that I think will hurt as they are s6 and the lascannons and the rapid fire 2 storm bolters and the ........ lol

[purpleshaza]

Decided that due to playing 50pl meant that I could max out everything so I put AG and TS on everything that can have it gave the venom canon to both units of warriors to go with the deathspitters.
also I went for 30 devilgaunts as there is no pl difference.