Second army

[gribblybaby]

I’ve almost completed my 2000 Tyranid list and whilst I still plan on fleshing it out more as time goes on I’ve been drawn the Harlequins as a second army.

because they’re elite (yay not painting 100 troops) and get a lovely paint job and this references to not only the masks but also commedia dell'arte gets the literature student in me all happy. 

What do you guys think, are they a complimentary army, they’re still fast and good in melee but they feel like they do everything a different way to nids and don’t share the same frustration 

[burd]

Aug 11, 2018 7:52:11 GMT gribblybaby said:

I’ve almost completed my 2000 Tyranid list and whilst I still plan on fleshing it out more as time goes on I’ve been drawn the Harlequins as a second army.

because they’re elite (yay not painting 100 troops) and get a lovely paint job and this references to not only the masks but also commedia dell'arte gets the literature student in me all happy. 

What do you guys think, are they a complimentary army, they’re still fast and good in melee but they feel like they do everything a different way to nids and don’t share the same frustration 

I love playing my murder clowns they are totally different from anything I've played you must splash them with either Eldar or DE to make them relevant. A basic troupe player with a tooled melee weapon always go S5 -2 unless hunting characters/light armor or Magnus who is the scariest thing your clowns will see then take the kiss. But a basic troupe with one of those is 20 pts. 100pts for 5 like this. Every death hurts really bad. Bringing allies will give you the staying power quins dont have. Mortal wounding psyker armies and accurate MW shots are your worst enemies just ignoring your -s to hit and the ++s that everything in a quins army has. Going up against other elite armies they are really golden but horde really hurt them unless your allies are 100 kabalites with splinter rifles. They are melee blenders but die to shots fairly quickly . My strat has always been allies and fast attack neuter the opponents shots and force him into combat with clowns where no one really shines as they do