Fun Nidzilla 2,000 points

[golfboy222]

Yes I understand the list lacks shooting and will get squashed by many things (long fangs space wolves, draigo wing, orks in general) but it was fun as hell in 5th edition so maybe some insight would help if it would be as fun in 6th.

Tervigon- Cluster Spines,Toxin Sacs, Catalyst, Crushing Claws

Hive Guard Brood x3

Venomthrope Brood x1

Venomthrope Brood x1

Termagant Brood x10

Termagant Brood x10

Tervigon- Cluster Spines, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands, Catalyst, Crushing Claws

Tervigon- Cluster Spines, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands, Catalyst, Crushing Claws

Trygon- Toxin Sacs

Trygon- Toxin Sacs

Carnifex Brood x3- x2 Twin-linked devourers with brainleech worms

Yes i understand its a point sink list. just meant to be fun, hq tervigon will most likely swap for biomancy as i need the feel no pain with my other tervi's. Simple gameplan, run up as a huge wall and take things out in groups, this list will suck the minute it becomes separated from everything. Carni's out front taking a blunt of fire while dishing it back out with the hive guard behind them, 3+ save, 5+ cover with the thropes, and 5+ FnP at all times, Trygons run on each wing of the fexes blocking any line of sight to the thropes or the hive guard (necessity in the list) and the tervigons run behind the trygons and fexes dishing out the Fnp and spawning some gaunt screens as well so i don't get completely wrecked in objective games. Think it'll still be as fun to play in sixth?

[fleetofclaw]

Looks like fun to me!. The beauty of Nidzilla these days is that it usually means spamming Tervigons, which means flooding the board with scoring units to support the big guys. The 3x Carnifex brood is going to mess people up, although I've been really happy with how well a Prime with regen helps dakkafex survive. I like that you have plenty of psychic powers to toss around, I would honestly go biomancy on all of your Tervigons as gaining things like enfeeble can cause even nasty squads of Nobs or Paladins to go down like a house of cards to all of our strength 6 (ignoring FNP on those bloody apothacaries, make their stupid squad of character LOS wound shenanigans mean nothing, etc).

As far as gameplan, I like what you're trying to do but games rarely allow you to stick to a strict formation. I think there is plenty of flexibility in this list to not have to try and maintain your "wall" stratagem every game. Because it is *way* easier to get cover for MC's in general, I find the Vthropes to not be a big necessity. In fact, if you ditch them you can toss a prime in your fex brood, make him your warlord and you'll have one incredibly tough nut to crack and making it extremely hard to for the enemy to get that VP. With your Tervigon HQ on his own, thus warlord by default, the opponent knows exactly what big guy to bring down first.

Let us know how it goes.

[nalathani]

I do think the 3 brood of carnifexes will be MUCH much better with a Prime in front to make use of LoS!

Venomthropes however can be out of line of sight behind tervigons, and do provide a pretty permanent 5+ cover save to everything around your tervigons. Maybe drop one venomthrope and one HG to get a prime with regen? You could still keep the whole brood of carnifexes within 6 inches of the venom for turns 1-2, along with a tervigon, and the make sure your trygons and other tervigons have 25% obscurement from buildings, hills, etc so they don't need the venoms.

Otherwise, it looks like a really fun list!