First time playing 6th

[labinnac]

So the near by game shop I live by has an awesome group of 40k gamers (even another nid player). After talking I found they normally play 750-1000 point games (time constraints and just plain some people not having over 1k amount to use). I am going to be playing with them next sunday and would like some advice on my army list.

HQ Flyrant with ST and bone sword and lash whip (very costly esspecially if I go for the TL dev)

troops x10 termigaunts
1 tervigon
10hormiagaunts

Elites
3x Hiveguards (I wonder if 2 will do the job just as well in such a small point list)
DoM in a pod
5x ymgarls

[Jabberwocky]

I'd try and run 15+ with hormies, probably dropping a hiveguard.

Otherwise though, should be fine.

[labinnac]

my problem is the many broken hormies I have I only have a 11 on bases and really only 11 bases for them. Moved around the past couple years and many things got broek or lost from people who didn't care

[labinnac]

I'm gonna take the AG off the tyrant and see about adding TL devs, sound good guys? The people I play with said that a venom cannon is a better idea but I hear everyone uses the devs are the devs a better choice?

[coredump]

Let me guess, the guys you play with don't play Nids.... ??

HVC is almost always a bad choice, particularly on a Flyrant.

[labinnac]

One plays nids. I guess he did it and what he was just keep him int he air popping shots at the enemies on the ground but I thought TL devs will do a much better job I mean 6 s6 shots from the air and then the ability to assault? Yeah that's awesome. Would dropping DoM in a pod in the back still good or with these few points can I run him up the field and still be effective?

[wisdomseyes1]

Aug 21, 2012 17:29:03 GMT coredump said:

Let me guess, the guys you play with don't play Nids.... ??

HVC is almost always a bad choice, particularly on a Flyrant.

What do you mean almost?

[labinnac]

I think he said almost because saying always is a bad idea because there may be that one situation where it would work out. So it's just better to say almost because you can almost never be wrong when you say almost

[coredump]

Aug 21, 2012 18:32:07 GMT labinnac said:

TL devs will do a much better job I mean 6 s6 shots from the air and then the ability to assault?

Six?? Double up baby.. and get 12 shots...

Would dropping DoM in a pod in the back still good or with these few points can I run him up the field and still be effective?

DoM is a gamble, he does not always do well, but he has decent potential to do *very* well... I say go for it.


I know nothing about your friend, and he is probably a great guy, but if he thinks a single S9 small blast a turn is worth 280pts.... I would not take too much advice from him.

[wisdomseyes1]

It's not only s9 small blast for 280 points... It's also -1 on the VDC. It CANT kill a vehicle that is not open topped. And the open tipped vehicles that do anything are very hard to hot with a blast (because of their usual shape)

[labinnac]

Yeah venom cannons just aren't as good as they once were. I know for sure I am going to use the DoM (he has yet to let me down) just not sure if I'm gonna spend the points on a pod and reserve roll him in or put him in the back with the terv for some awesome firepower and use mycetic spore the points elsewhere

[labinnac]

So the list wasn't bad i enjoyed it but I replaced the hormies (with the small amount I have they just weren't doing it for me) for 3 warriors with TS and duel boneswords (I like the duel boneswords and with I 4 they should be hitting first a lot of times) and I decreased the hive guards down to only 2.

Now here is my question this new improved list is at 1005 points. I am wondering if I should take out the guards to make my tervigon stronger (add CC, AG for the termies, and onslaught or biomancy) and then add one more warrior. I almost feel like I over did the anti tank. I have 4 units that can deal with mid to large armor tanks and the flyrant vector strike a lot of flyers to death. So at this point the hive guards just seem like I am over worrying tanks and thus over compensating, because once the tanks are gone guards usefulness drops. Obviously in bigger games like 1500 or higher I will bring the guards back. what do you all think?