1250 pt reserve list

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Hey All,

I'm going in for my 4th game of 40k on Saturday and for this one I wanna try a different tactic - getting in his face early with deep strike and outflanking. Here's my list:

(R) - starts in reserve

HQ
Hive Tyrant, TL Dev, Hive Commander - 210

Elites
2x Hive Guard - 100
5x Ymgarls - 115 (R)

Troops
Tervigon, scy talons, AG, TS - 185
11x termagants - 55
3x warrior, deathspitters - 105
16x hormagaunts, TS - 128 (R)
8x genestealers - 112 (R)

Heavy Support
Trygon Prime - 240 (R)

1250 pts

The plan:
Turn 2 - ymgarls deploy in terrain nice and close to enemy. Genestealers get outflank from hive commander and get close to enemy. Trygon Prime deep strike's as close as possible to enemy. Hormagaunts follow him through the tunnel. Everything else advance while shooting (cept hive guard who stay out of LOS)

Hopefully I don't roll any 1s on my reserve rolls, and my ymgarls get some decent terrain to deploy in. This is my first attempt at using reserves, so please tell me if I'm planning anything illegal or if something just isn't going to work.

Most of all, I'm excited about using my new trygon prime

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I've discovered that units arriving from reserve can't use the trygon's tunnel on the same turn the trygon arrived, and that genestealers kept in reserve get the outflank ability because they are infiltrators. So with that in mind, the genestealers can just use their own outflank ability, and hive commander can give the hormagaunts outflank.

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Well I tried my tactic and had a decisive victory against Dark Angels. The mission was number 5 (one objective in each table half) and I had to deploy and go second. He had several tactical squads, a couple of librarians, a terminator squad, scouts with sniper rifles. The only vehicle he had was a razorback with lascannon attached to a tactical squad.

I thought my hive tyrant was in trouble when he deep striked his terminator squad with warlord right next to him. They destroyed my warriors (giving him First Blood), but my hive tyrant eventually killed them (after a series of horrible rolls), with 2 wounds to spare and giving me a point for killing his warlord.

In my turn 2 the trygon prime rolled a 1 so failed to come on, but everything else came on, and i was able to surround a lot of his troops. The Tervigon did exceptional - spawned 4 units of 8+ termagants without rolling doubles, and took out the razorback in CC. I sent one of the termagant units back to my objective to hold it. My hormagaunts got whittled down from 16 to 4 when they arrived, but in their next turn charged his scouts with snipers and killed them all.

By turn 4 he had nothing left on the ground, just a tactical squad on ruins and another tactical squad on a building roof holding his objective, both right on his board edge, so it was clear he had no chance of capturing my objective. My trygon prime, hive tyrant and tervigon were all nearby but couldnt get in close combat with the marines up on the buildings, but at least they could shoot and had line breaker. My genestealers, 2 of my ymgarls that were still alive, the 4 remaining hormagaunts, and a spawned unit of 10 termagants were all nearby as well, creating a massive swarm of tyranids at the base of his 2 buildings.

At the end of turn 4 both genestealer and ymgarls had assaulted the marines on the building holding his objective, with only 1 marine left alive, and i had managed to shoot and kill a couple of marines on the other building. He conceded at the beginning of turn 5 with the score 5-1, as I most likely would have tabled him by the end of that turn anyway.