1500 Nids v Blood Angels

[milkybarnid]

Hey hive,

I would like some advice on the list i made and what to improve when facing these guys.
I played them today but will only give a quick run down of how each unit did rather than a battle report.

Tyrant - Wings and TL Brain Leech Devourers x 2

Warriors x 5 Pair of Boneswords
Termagants x 15 Devourers in spore
Termagants x 20
Hormagaunts x 20 Toxin sacs

Hive Guard x 2
Zoanthrope x 2 in spore

Raveners x 3 Rending Claws

Trygon - Toxin sacs

The Flyrant did what i wanted it to and harressed the enemy and took an entire turn of shooting without suffering a wound.

Warriors did make into combat but the dice failed me and i rolled 2 wounds out of 9. Hormagaunts were brillant, took down TH/SS terminators and half of a sanguine guard squad. the devilgants didnt do as much damage as hoped but killed a few marines. the termagant squad of 20 did nothing, i kept rolling 1s for my runs.

Hive guard performed as expected, took down a dreadnought and took a few hull points of a storm raven. Zoanthropes did ok, i swapped out thier psychic powers, got psychic shriek and dominate on one and the other got crush and and something with strikedown. shirek did well but crush was very inconsistent.

Raveners didnt do much, they held up a unit before they shot to bits.

Trygon also failed to do much due to bad running rolls.

Your advice is much appreciated.

[wisdomseyes1]

Flyrant didn't take a wound even after a grounded test or 2? That's what we call good luck.

The list looks like it an work well, you just told us you got tons of bad rolls. I can not improve bad rolls, only lists and player tactics.

The only thing that really hurts me in your list is a unit of 20 vanilla gants. Never take useless units in large numbers, is my train of though. 20 models that can sit there, hop not to get shot? No thanks. They would have been better as 2 units of 10, to divide for objectives purposes and making large values of shots waist their overkill. The only drawback is killpoints missions, where you hide them in reserve and hope try don't come on or hide behind them forcing them to shoot the gants.

As I'll be saying, the value of taking toxin sacs escapes me. The ability to reroll 1's to wound for 10 points is just an odd investment to me. Not a bad investment, just I can't say they are a good investment.

[Princelarming]

Big squads of gaunts are usefull for tarpitting, and giving Primes something to hide in...

Against BA, i would go for more Psychers and Dakka (fexes or Tyrants)- enfeeble and TL Devourers with brainleech worms ignores the FNP!

With units such as CC Warriors the extra 25 points for Toxin Sacs are well spent! (there is a way to mitigate bad rolls - it's called "rerolls" ;-) )

[milkybarnid]

@wisdomeyes - yes i had very good luck with the flyrant, out of his entire army he only hit me twice and passed both grounding tests. yeah i was thinking those points could be better spend else where. the trygon took toxin sacs because i planned to attack a unit of sanguine guard, thinking they were T5, which they werent. but it never made it to combat but never mind.

@prince i think i will be implementing that now