1500pnts of Rippers

[blindmage]

hi all!

Well it's time to pull the horde from retirement.

Here's my 1,500pnt list to fight some Nurgle Daemons:

Parasite - 160

9x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands - 207
9x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands - 207
9x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands - 207
8x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands - 184
8x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands - 184

6x Sky Slashers w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands - 168
6x Sky Slashers w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands - 168

Total Points: 1485
Total Wounds: T3 = 165, T4 = 3

The plan is to stick the Parasite in one flyer brood, wrap the other for cover, and use the smaller ripper broods to make a wall to cover the others. Since I think he's a mostly CC list, I can use Overwatch and shooting to my advantage.

I was tempted to give them al Tunnel Swarm, like I used to, but I'm not sure how well it would work with the new reserve Rules.

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I am extremely[/i][/u] interested in hearing a batrep with this list!!! Vassal pics would be deadly awesome as well.

[Lanesend]

Good luck, Blindmage.

Yeah, a batrep would be very nice.

All hail the ripper swarm!

[Jabberwocky]

I'd actually drop AG for the extra few bases if you can, since you don't get +1I anymore and you'll be fighting a lot of T5+

Spinefists should work well with overwatch, best of luck.

[Lanesend]

Jabberwocky has a very good point!
You'll be fighting against T5, so you won't get the re-rolls from TS combined with AG. The AG is useless in this case!

[sunshine]

Adrenal Glands I think are there to help with armor 10

[swarmlord123]

Some many crawly things. Would love to play with an army like this, but the other synapse creatures are making fair and good points. I agree with jabberwocky with the no AG for more bases though. Because the mroe the merrier! And breport would be awesome!

[glassiya]

They are right, AG works only if you'll abuse Poison on t4 or glance 10 rear, and when fighting Nurgle Daemons you'll barely meet either.

You can swap this for DeepStrike for a unit or two. One more distraction from the bulk of your forces. After al, this much of 40mm bases will only be in the way of each other.

upd. And of course, the Mortrex is your only synapce, and therefore is incredibly vital for our mindless little reapers. Still, if your swarms actually managed to get in assault, they won't be checked for Instincts, so this is when he can die already. ^^

[coredump]

I would try and grab 3 units of 1 zoan each.

This will give you a nice synapse web to keep the rippers from eating themselves, and some nice Psy buffs/debuffs to help the rippers.

[blindmage]

Thanks for the replies, I'll try and get to all of them:

60mm: I'll try and keep you all posted

Jabberwocky: I never even thought of that. It's a friend that's seen the Rippers grow and now has some swarms of his own. I think he's got a full 9 man Nurgling unit. Aside from that it'll be mostly plague bearers, beasts, maybe a bit if Tzeench.

Coredump: I would grab Zoans but I'm big on fluff (hence the army) and this is an attempt at an end stage, post exterminatus fleet. I might see about some Hive Guard, as they do fit the theme well.

Everyone: Thanks for all the replies and support!

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I wanna see a pic of that tide of churning maws!

[swarmy]

Sept 18, 2012 19:10:42 GMT @60mm said:

I wanna see a pic of that tide of churning maws!

Agreed. Pics with the batrep please!

[andy089]

FW Malanthrope comes to mind =)

[blindmage]

Requested pic (all my rippers and my 'rippergaunts (hormies))


I wish I had a Malanthrope! I've always wanted one or two. In 4th I used 2 in the list (proxied by a friend's fexes). I wish I could afford to get two Malanthropes, I'd drop the Paratise...well...maybe not, i do lobe my model....

Speaking of the Malanthrope, are there current rules for it? The newest once I have are from Imperial Armour - Apocalypse 2008 and it references the old codex for all the rules.

[blindmage]

Updated list:

Parasite - 160

9x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Tunnel Swarm - 189
9x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Tunnel Swarm - 189
9x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Tunnel Swarm - 189
9x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Tunnel Swarm - 189
9x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs, Tunnel Swarm - 189
8x Ripper w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs - 150

5x Sky Slashers w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs - 120
5x Sky Slashers w/ Spinefists, Toxin Sacs - 120

Total Points: 1495
Total Wounds: T3 = 189, T4 = 3
Total Units: 9

Start with the Parasite + Sky Slashers, the other Sky Slashers and the non-Tunnel unit on board. and DS the rest where needed and shoot things to hell, eat some wounds, they Rage into their face after shooting more.