1500p first 6ed game

[whitetail]

So I am having a small battle for my first attempt at 6ed. This will also be my first game with Nids since I have started collecting them again.

Any comments advice or alternatives are appreciated.

HQ:
Hive Tyrant: 2x TL Dev, Wings, Regen, TS and Old Adversary.

Elite:

2x Zoanthropes

Troops:
2x Tervigon: CC, AG,IA, Regen, TS and 2x powers.

2x 10 Termagant: Dev and TS

13 Hormagaunt: TS

HS:
Carnifex: TL Dev, HVC, Frag, Regen and TS.

[ragnarok]

Jul 26, 2012 16:19:24 GMT whitetail said:

So I am having a small battle for my first attempt at 6ed. This will also be my first game with Nids since I have started collecting them again.

Any comments advice or alternatives are appreciated.

HQ:
Hive Tyrant: 2x TL Dev, Wings, Regen, TS and Old Adversary.

I like all of it except for TS. You will be wounding most things on 2+ and old adversary allows you to reroll 1s to hit and wound, so it only becomes useful against T5+ target.

Elite:

2x Zoanthropes

What powers are you going for?

Are you running them as
1x2 to reduce the chance of giving up first blood
or
2x1 for versaltility in targeting?

Troops:
2x Tervigon: CC, AG,IA, Regen, TS and 2x powers.

Never used Tervie myself, but I have heard good things about Crushing claws, tervigons and smash.

Again which powers are you going for?
I would drop AG (don't need the +1 S)
Toxin sacs, see Tyrant above
Implant attack, you shouldn't be hunting multiwound T6 enemies with a tervigon.

2x 10 Termagant: Dev and TS

Drop the toxin sacs. You are trying to multitask an expensive unit. Devourer gaunts should stand back and shoot.

13 Hormagaunt: TS

Love them

HS:
Carnifex: TL Dev, HVC, Frag, Regen and TS.

why the HVC? Dual devourers will put the hurt on more enemy than a BS3 scatter small blast. and can glance to death low AV vehicles.
See tyrant on my opinion on toxin sacs on big guys.
Also why the frag spines? They let you charge into cover at I3, but you have a shooting build.

I am a big fan of regeneration on MCs, rarely has it done anything but it helps. Combined with the biomancy power endurance you can get unkillable MCs.

Dropping the Toxin sacs and implant attacks from the MC (and the frag spines) and the toxin sacs from the devourer gaunts

Cutting them all out gives you 95pts to play with, either two spores or another 9 devourer gaunts

[whitetail]

Thanks for the help, I will rework the list based on your suggestion.

Drew