Jumping Tervigons turn 1 assault?

[creep]

Go for Telekinesis with 5 Tervigons and hope for teleport.
Its a Blessing which means its start of turn. As well as producing Gaunts is.
Page 9 again.
Your turn you choose whats first.
Teleport, make some tervigon love and let your Gaunts assault in turn 1.
48,99" maximum range all together. Hello Longfangs.

Tervis are no vehicles, Gaunts don't come from reserve and are allowed to assault the turn they are placed.

Im curious. Would be fun.

[Deleted]

Im not at home to check but it sounds legit. I wouldnt take tele on 5 tervigons just to get it but could be worth it on one. Can you cast gate on a different unit or only on the caster and a unit? If you can I'd rather use a zoey unit to tp a bio crushigon in

[Lanesend]

Wow,that almost sounds too good to be true!
I'm gonna check it as soon as I get home. That would definetly have it's use.
(even in the friendly-I don't care what happens on the board-kind of games, us non-NOVA players play)

[creep]

Dunno, Dome and Maledictum Mechanicum are nice you likely to have one of those. You should be able to be in 6" of your Gants have HG support behind you and can teleport in cover without penaltys if you want to. Besides that you have an average of 3 stuff wrecking tervigons in tun 2.
You can just teleport yourself. One power is 2 warpenergy so you can just use 5. 3 of them are good 2 of them (please do not swear). Seems worth a try. 3 Maledictum Mechanicum as well. So you are able to fight flyers as a bonus.

[liquid405]

You must poop gaunts before they are moved.

[l0rdf1end]

Yep, birthing is first, before any movement.

Nice try though dude.

[killme304]

You cast blessings before you can move -any- unit, and the blessing is what moves you.

IIRC you can poop out gaunts after you outflank a Tervigon too, but I'd have to double check later.

[creep]

I knew there was something missing....
Hm well lets hope for an FAQ telling us that teleporting isn't movement shall we? :/
Would be so much fun...
It would have been too ridiculous so I already expected there must be something missing.
Why isnt it start of movement phase instead of before moving.... damn you cruddace team.

[wisdomseyes1]

Well the rules for deep strike (which are used for the telepot) say that a unit counts as having moved when it arrives.

[creep]

From now on we are talking about teleporting Tervigons in peoples faces to be a threat in turn 2 ^^

You spawn a screen of Gants for HG and jump. Saves you one or two turns of walking across the board. Seems like a possible legit tactic.

[wisdomseyes1]

I had a game the other day, Got killpoints and hammer and anvil... Vs tau... And went second. That wasn't a good situation for me. I rolled bio on 2 tervigons, and kenisis on the other, thankfully got gate. It forced most of his army to shoot into it. I mean it lasted all of the fire that tai dished out (it shouldn't have) and didn't do anything that game but give me a turn to advance with the rest of my units.

It is interesting, that power. Great for our short ranged fire. I might consider rolling on that for the swarmlord next time I use it, but I didn't find any notable advantage with the Tervigon that it wouldn't have already had.

Just one game for fun. I could be wrong. Definitely a power to consider.

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Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with it being not legit with the above reasons. Gating in on turn 2 is still great and gating in one turn 1 would most likely see the terv get annihilated.

[creep]

Swarmy clearly wants Biomaxy or Telepathy. Beeing able to cast Invisibility or getting endurance and Iron arm with his 5 wounds is too good to swap for teleport. Exept you add 4 Tervigons who try the same... then it would be fun to try.

thats why i reroll to Tau + Marine allies atm.

I dont care if I go first, i have drones
I dont care about Nightfighting
I dont care about Flyers
and 10 Man tac squads with Melta, Multimelta and Meltabomb are scary ^^

[wisdomseyes1]

The swarmlord can use invisablility, but I question her desire to use it. It's means 1 psychic power that turn. I guess it's the argument between wings and armored shell on the hive tyrant. And endurance of course can e obtained by a Tervigon.

Iron arm? Majority toughness trumps that. Warp speed or really any combat buff? It's the swarmlord... She fights just fine. She doesn't need much. Extra speed or extra survivability are what he wants. Telly is extra speed, endurance is extra survivability... Invisablility is extreme extra survivability that cuts down on speed.

Not arguing the point of using other disciplines vs the teleport... Arguing the desire to take invisablility on a model that is already indestructible when with guard and a prime... Or really just guard.

[gloomfang]

I take TK on my Swarmlord and hope for gate. It lets me assualt turn 2. The nice thing about using gate with Tervigons is that you have no chance of loosing any other units (Twice I lost a TG with gate). Still worth it for SL as I would have lost a guard walking he across the board.

But you must spawn before you use gate as you do spawn prior to moving and you use gate in the movement phase.