Nids 5-0 at Menza Masquerade III

[timcz]

Erik Lathouras & Hive Fleet Cucc went 5-0 at an ITC event in Melbourne just gone. Was the only army to do so on the day by the sounds of it.

List was 
120 Gaunts
24 Warriors
5 Biovore
Malenthrope
Tyranid Prime
6 Hive Guard
Neurothropes (he just said ‘a couple’)

Basically was all about the gaunts & spore mines from biovores for board control by the sounds of it. He talks about it on a local podcast calleded "Normal Blokes 40k Podcast" - Links here for those that want to listen

itunes - itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-normal-blokes-40k-podcast/id1403812259?mt=2&fbclid=IwAR29LllWgvgbsJQvjTheK8vRxJmDGqeWZXKqJ_OdkfZptTZVyo3UXWtsIBU

non itunes - www.thenormalblokespodcast.com

Sound quality isnt great, but still worth a listen I thought. Its all pretty much covered in the first 15 minutes. 

[kazetanade]

thanks for the share brah. Nice to see a different build from usual - reaaaaally different.

[jesper77]

Both horma and therms or just one if em? This list is also great at playing for objectives and deny your opponent, lots of obsec, fearless units.

[timcz]

He didn’t go into specifics sadly. I was going to go on a hunt later to see what I could find.

[clandestinecadence]

Only meaningful diff from the other list looks like some massed Warriors thrown in.

Awesome to see Prime and the boys get some rep though! What fleet were they running?

[timcz]

He mentioned them having FNP so I’d assume Leviathan. Kronos was mentioned at another point though.

[kazetanade]

It's probably biovore and HG with Neuro as Kronos, the rest in Leviathan.

[purestrain]

Levi warriors are tough, even tougher now thanks to going second giving them 3+ on top of 6+++ for 2cp. Threat and scoring everywhere. I like it

[nidzy]

This is a really strong board control list. I wonder if he took venom cannons on the warriors, 8 potential VC in the list is pretty consistent AT to support the double shooting hive guard.

[1b2a]

Dang, my lists are evolving in this direction, but not as many gaunts from me.

[timcz]

So I asked on the podcasts Facebook page what kind of gaunts he ran and warrior loadout and got the following response.

“Hey Tim, well historically im more of a defensive/cagey player so saving the extra points on the gaunts for a few shots here and there is for the most part going to be the better option for me, it really depends on how you intend your list to operate, as for the warriors i was rocking out the death spitters and boneswords, seems to be the go ”

[mattblowers]

Oct 23, 2018 0:44:03 GMT timcz said:

So I asked on the podcasts Facebook page what kind of gaunts he ran and warrior loadout and got the following response.

“Hey Tim, well historically im more of a defensive/cagey player so saving the extra points on the gaunts for a few shots here and there is for the most part going to be the better option for me, it really depends on how you intend your list to operate, as for the warriors i was rocking out the death spitters and boneswords, seems to be the go ”

I've been playing with the death spitter/bonesword combo, but I've found it to be lackluster for me. I'm really happy to see a warrior army do well, but that's a tough unit to play well. I've not had the guts to pull the trigger yet with it. Before the deepstrike nerf I thought the ravener/warrior combo had some play.

[FTGT-BeeCee]

I keep looking at warriors and thinking "is this the edition they finally step out of the shadows and contribute" but I haven't had the watershed moment with them yet that makes me go all in on them.

[clandestinecadence]

They wouldn't be too bad if the Prime wasn't 100+ pts.

[N.I.B.]

I'm not surprised a list like this doing well, it's a variation of Nick Rose's Nids/Cult. A horde of fearless bodies laying a carpet over objectives while not dying fast enough and able to chip away at the enemy. Not my cup of tea, but I love the 24 Warriors.