New 6th edition 1750 list

[wolvesoffenris]

So I have been playing a few games of 6th and really like how the bugs are holding up in the new edition. Below is my current 1750pt list.

Swarmlord
1 Tyrant Guard
1 Tyranid Prime w/ dual boneswords, ST, Regen

25 Hormagaunts w/ AG
25 Hormagaunts w/ AG
10 Termagants
10 Termagants
Tervigon w/ AG, TS, all 3 psychic powers
Tervigon w/ AG, TS, all 3 psychic powers

3 Hive Guard
3 Hive Guard
Doom of Malantai

The Tervigons swap all powers for Biomancy
The Swarmlord swaps all powers for Biomancy
The Doom swaps Cataclysm for Psychic Shriek (primaris power)

Swarmy, Tyrant Guard and Prime form a single unit with 3 different weapons skills and toughnesses (if swarmy gets iron arm). This allows them to be WS9 and Toughness of the Swarmlord at all times for enemy shooting and CC. They use look out sir to spread saves and wounds around the unit and try to regenerate or It will not die them back. Doom footslogs it up the middle and tries to get in range for both powers. Hormagaunts move up the flanks and try to assault enfeebled units or gain Furious Charge from the Swarmlord for re-rolls. So far this list has been performing very effectively for me. Comments are welcome.

[ravenousnid87]

I think you have to many troop choices, about two over I think if I am not mistaken. Probably should not field the Doom without a spore pod, since without the spore pod he will not be doing much.I know this, since I have tried foot slogging the doom before. Maybe drop some hive guard, since I myself have not seen Armour being played that much. Although it may be different for you, so that would be your choice then. I like the swarmlord, prime, and tyrant guard being one unit. I never thought about it like that and I might try it, but with one more tyrant guard. I also found that once in a while using ymgarl genestealers works great too. Have about six of them at 138 pts, and they can do a lot of work.

[gloomfang]

The list is legal. Not sure where you are getting 2 more units (2xhorm, 2xTerm and 2xTerv).
As for the list, Looks like it could work. I assume you are going to be using the Tervions in assualt becasue otherwise the upgrades won't be close enough to the gants. I am only worried that you don't have enough punch. I would consider trading one unit of HG for some Ymgarls.
I do agree DoM needs a pod or else he won't do much other than die real fast.

[wolvesoffenris]

Played another game last night against Necrons. His list was very shooty with 4 full squads of immortals packing str5 gauss weapons. Plus a Lord with MSS, warscythe, res orb and a unit of 10 Lychguard with swords and shields, Wraiths and a Doom Scythe.

I got first turn and spawned gaunts while pushing forward. I managed to pop one immortal with the hive guard from a distance but just ran forward for the most part.

his turn 1, he shuffled around and proceeded to shoot up my termagant screen kill almost all of both 10 man squads. He also focuses on the Doom and kills it.

My next turn saw the the remaining termagants book it for the objectives, getting out of the way of my hormagaunts. The hormagaunts push forward and one seems to be in range to assault a squad of immortals. The other pushes up close to him and ducks into cover. Hive guard pop 4 wraiths (leaving 2). Swarmy's unit tries to assault one immortal unit, but fails terrain rolls. The hormagaunts make their assault and wipe the 10 man immortal unit. They consolidate between the lychstar and the swarmlord.

His turn 2 the doom scythe fails to arrive and he shuffles around to shoot with his units. He pops 7 of the hormagaunts sitting in cover on the right side and shoots a few hormagaunts off of the left side that consolidated from combat. He then double charges the hormagaunt unit and wipes it consolidating closer to the swarmlord.

My turn 3 I cast enfeeble on his lychstar, iron arm and warp speed on the swarmlord and iron arm on tervigon. I go for the dual charge with a spawned unit of termagants but his overwatch shoots most of them down and they fail to make contact with both units. I then try again with another spawned unit, but they fail their terrain roll. Swarmy's unit makes it into combat with one of the immortal units. The hormagaunts on the right make it in with an immortal unit. Swarmy whiffs his attacks and only kills 2, they hold. The hormagaunts kill 4 but he kills 4 back and they tie.

His turn 3 the doom scythe fails to arrive again. He can't shoot much, so he prepares to assault. The Lychstar and 2 wraiths (impaler cannon shots couldn't get through to finish them off) assault the swarmlords unit. The last free squad of immortals assault the ongoing hormagaunt combat. They kill a few hormagaunts and take a few losses in return. Hormagaunts are fearless so they hold with both units. The swarmlord combat starts with the MSS lord issuing a challenge. My prime accepts and combat starts. The prime fails his MSS and kills himself (he only had one wound left anyway). The swarmlord whiffs his attacks again and only kills 1. He manages to get two wounds on the swarmlord unit despite the unit being iron armed and him being enfeebled. The Tyrant guard dies. He wins combat but I am fearless so we stay locked.

My Turn 4, I have nothing to shoot so I move my tervigons up to combat casting iron arm on one and enfeeble on his lychstar. The swarmlord casts warp speed and iron arm again. All my termagants and now sitting on all 4 objectives while he has no free units left to capture contest. I charge both tervigons into combat. The one with iron arm assaults the ongoing hormagaunt combat but is tough 8 so cannot be harmed. The one that cast enfeeble assaults the swarmlord combat and issues a challenge which the MSS lord must accept or be sent packing. The swarmlord whiffs yet again only killing 1 while the tervigon takes a couple wounds in the challenge. The other combat sees the hormagaunts whittled down to 1 and the tervigon kills one or two.

His Turn 4, the doom scythe finally arrives and shoots up some termagants on an objective. They are fearless so nothing else happens. In the assault phase he kills the last hormagaunt and elects to flee from the tervigon he cannot kill. I run both squads down with the tervigon and consolidate closer to the swarmlord combat. In the swarmlord combat, the swarmlord kills 5 and the tervigon takes a couple more wounds in the challenge. He fails leadership and his lychstar runs 10 inches.

We call it at this point as he only has 2 Wraiths, a depleted lychstar that is fleeing and I control all objectives.

Victory to the Nids!

I think the Doom does need a spore but I just don't have the points at 1750 to get him one without losing something else that I want. He did soak up a bunch of fire that would have otherwise weakened my hormagaunts, so maybe he ended up fulfilling his role in the end. Either way, the list is playing solidly and I am enjoying the new psychic powers.