1500 list

[Anggul]

Hello all, it is time for me to entrust to your judgement.

Some friends and I are going to be playing our first little 6th ed tournament. As such I've had to come up with a 1500pts list to use throughout.

Here is what I've got so far:

HQ:
Tyranid prime: devourer, bonesword & lash whip, toxin sacs, regeneration: 115pts (Goes with Warriors)

Elites:
Zoanthrope brood (3): 180pts

Hive guard (2): 100pts

Troops:
Tyranid warrior brood (4): devourers, pair of boneswords, toxin sacs: 180pts

Genestealer brood (10): 140pts

Genestealer brood (10): 140pts

Termagant brood (14): 70pts

Tervigon: 160pts, cluster spines, toxin sacs, catalyst, onslaught, scything talons: 205pts (biomancy)

Hormagaunt brood (20): toxin sacs: 160pts

Heavy support:
Trygon: toxin sacs: 210pts

1500pts

I'm a bit worried about challenges on the Prime, as models taking part in a challenge only count as being in base contact with each other, so a challenge will stop his lash whip from helping the warriors. I'm also aware that 3 Zoanthropes might be a bit overkill, but I'm worried about Necrons and Land Raiders.

Thoughts? Ideas? Definite changes?

[wisdomseyes1]

Drop 2 gants and TS on the trygon, turn those scything talons on the tervigon into crushing claws.

Now your tervigon is going to e an assault monstrosity and/or a support model.

In most missions, hide termagants in backfield out of synapse and go to ground against shooting.

Don't worry about the challenge thing with the prime much. You want the lash whip on the character more than the entire unit in most cases.

That's really my only suggestion. Looks good the way it is, just a personal preference of mine to go with a "tervifex"

[Anggul]

Thanks, I shall take the crushing claws!

I'm really not sure what to do with my Genestealers. Should I Outflank them as we did in 5th or is it better to Infiltrate them now?

Seeing as you can't assault straight away from either anyway I'm drawn towards continuing to Outflank them, as although they can't assault straight away, they can get into cover and a good position to assault next turn, as well as being a sudden threat to my opponent.

The upside, I imagine, to Infiltrating them is that they can get a turn 2 assault like they used to with Outflank, whereas now Outflanking would make it a turn 3 (presuming I get one of the two squads on as I should with 3+ reserves). It does seem more likely to get them shot to death though.

[wisdomseyes1]

Outflanking doesn't have nearly the same effect. Outflanking basically is deepstriking on the table edges without scatter. It's... Not impressive anymore.

Inflatrating is not going to get you a turn 2 assault unless you can get within 12" out of line of sight. Otherwise they will get shot down or have to make an 18" travel that is pretty unrealistic to say its a reliable turn 2 assault. Infantrating is fine, puts you in tactical positions and far ahead of other things... But it's not likely to get into a position of extreme threat as they were before without some bad moves and/or dumb luck.