Swarmstar Stealers

[N.I.B.]

I'm toying with an idea sparked by the Swarmlord thread. I'd like to try out the benefits of the min-sized Swarmlord star, and also throw a scary Genestealer unit in there. I'm pretty sure it can't compete at the top tables, but it could stomp more casual armies.

Swarmlord - roll Telepathy until (if) you get Illusion. Then the rest in Biomancy.
Tyrant Guard
Tyranid Prime - Bonesword & Lashwhip, Scything Talons, Regeneration

3 Hive Guards
3 Hive Guards
3 Hive Guards

10 Termagants
10 Termagants
Tervigon - Catalyst
Tervigon - Catalyst
20 Genestealers with Broodlord
20 Genestealers with Broodlord

1997 points

The idea is to infiltrate both Genestealer units and cast Invisibility on one of them to wreck face, basically. I have two units of Genestealers, because if I go second I buff the less damaged one. Also, they get FNP from the Tervigons.

I want the Broodlords for the SitW aura, harder to activate Cleansing Flame and other things.

Very matchup and luck (rolling Invisibility, getting first turn) dependent. But should be fun when the stars are all aligned.

[thisguy1109]

This could be pretty epic. Have you considered dropping some HG for YMGARLS?

[fleetofclaw]

Oct 8, 2012 14:19:35 GMT thisguy1109 said:

This could be pretty epic. Have you considered dropping some HG for YMGARLS?

This was my first thought. Ymgarls don't get shot up first turn, they can assault when they pop out, get saves against ap5 overwatch, etc etc, I'm going to try them in my next swarm star game.

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[DukeMantis]

This list looks very entertaining, Ymgarls are very good and so on but there is something viscerally pleasing about storming at the enemy with that many regular stealers!

[DarkGuard]

I like the look of that.

As others have said I'd consider Ymgarls.

Also, please let us know how invisibility goes.

[N.I.B.]

Ymgarls are great, but it's a bit of a lazy factor - I only have 40 painted Genestealer models. And you need to look at target saturation - if you want the Genestealers to stay relevant you need to give your opponent something else to shoot from the start. I can't think of anything scarier than Hive Guards, although they might attract different firepower.
Plus the 40 Genestealers want to move through area terrain, can't have them screw it up for any Ymgarls.

And I came home from a tournament yesterday, the terrain was lacking even with 5th ed standards. I think I counted to 9 pieces in most of my matches and some tables had almost no area terrain.

I might put up a tournament report tomorrow, check it out if you want to know how the Tyranids fared.

[dakkathrope]

That's pretty sparse. I hate when TOs don't place squat for terrain. I've started bringing my own because of it.

[N.I.B.]

Players allowed to bring and deploy their own terrain in tournaments would break the game a lot more than having too little terrain. I don't know any tournament that allows people to deploy their own terrain pieces. In casual games of course, do what you want, that goes without saying.

[Jabberwocky]

Broodlords don't have shadow, sorry.

Also, I think only taking 1 guard and a prime works best using iron arm, otherwise you don't really gain a lot.