Psychic choir

[ikterus]

So far I'm really enjoying 6th and especially all the new psychic shenedigans you can pull off!

So far I've mostly used Tervs, Tyrants and Brood Lords, but I'm really tempted to expand using a lot of Zoanes and get 12+ powers in every game.

The potential of multi Enfeeble (on Tervs and Tyrants) and Telekine Dome (on Zoanes) is huge making the humble gant/gaunt a monster.

Have you tried this out? What are your thoughts?

[Edzilla]

I've tried a six zoanthrope list, along with the doom. It was very effective against certain lists, my best being a turn 4 massacre vs the necron airforce. The flyers came in turn 2, the zoanthrope a came in next and puppet mastered them into each other, killed 4 in a single turn, 3 the next and finished off the others with spore fire.
Psychic scream is also fun, other than that there isn't much else.

[fragile]

Oct 29, 2012 17:42:57 GMT Edzilla said:

I've tried a six zoanthrope list, along with the doom. It was very effective against certain lists, my best being a turn 4 massacre vs the necron airforce. The flyers came in turn 2, the zoanthrope a came in next and puppet mastered them into each other, killed 4 in a single turn, 3 the next and finished off the others with spore fire.
Psychic scream is also fun, other than that there isn't much else.

Remember that Puppet Master is a witchfire power and so needs a 6 to hit the Flyers.

[Edzilla]

Then I owe someone a sincere apology, thankfully it wasn't in a tournament.

[liquid405]

Skyfire must be declared at the beginning of the shooting phase as well.

[ikterus]

The psychic choir is so much fun.

The thing is that you get to roll as many powers that you will get something you'll use every time.

Swarmlord gets 4 powers, that's almost a guarantee that you'll have Iron Arm, the Tervs get 3 and Iron Arm, Enfeeble, Warp Speed are all excellent for these lasses.

I have used the Brood Lord a lot but I've had really bad luck with him and got no powers I could use at least three times. That has made me less prone to fielding him from now on...

Enfeeble is great. And can really make your whole army a threat for any opponent. I've reduced a big unit of wraiths to T2 and then instakilled them by hurling S4 attacks at them (charging with Furious Charge gants/gaunts/goyles will do the trick). Any unit can be killed by small critters if you reduce their T enough. You just have to have mulitiple powers as they stack. Any unit can be reduced to T1...

Use Enfeeble on flying MCs and ground them - splat!

Iron Arm is another favorite and having Iron Arm or Warp Speed on your Tervs/Tyrants can really make a difference. Most players wont even shoot at a T9 Tyrant...

I listened to 11th Company and they pointed out that Telekinesis also has some uses. They talked about how Telekine Dome on big units of gants/gaunts/goyles can cause havoc. Never tried that though. I love Biomancy too much.

I'm really tempted to use six Zoanes, two 3power Tervs and Swarm Lord in a list. Total 24 powers, 9 used every turn can really change things in your favor.

[sunshine]

So it's been decided that you can multi-enfeeble a unit?

[Jabberwocky]

It's not been FAQed but most tournies seem to be allowing it.

My gaming group isn't though as we don't believe it should stick, even if by RAW it can.

[casteel]

If you can, that really changes the power of that ability. Imagine having Gants with STR 4 insta-gibbing terminators!? That's such a crazy thought.

[coredump]

Yeah, it seems to be allowed. But I just can't see it as intended.

[sunshine]

Multi-enfeebleing a unit sounds like something I might try in a tourney, but in friendly games it seems like a dick move.

[lordbob]

I don't think anything tyranids can do to be a dick move. Our codex is better than 6th ed, but we're certainly not cheese. You're using atleast 3 units to make it easier to kill 1.

You make terminators T2, you can now wound on 2+ with your gants and get a re-roll, it's awesome, but they still have a 2+ save. They also still get a deny the witch roll. Although I would laugh at their thunder hammers wounding your gants on 4s.

It's not like we get to charge or be charged by a unit and automatically make them kill themselves (without having to pass a psychic test) and make that unit initiative 1, with initative 6, strength 6 and force weapons and a 2+ save, like some units that shall remain nameless (Sideways glance at paladins).

However I am thinking of a nice combination of Zoanthropes, Deathleaper and possibly, if you're lucky enough to roll it, the warlord trait which forces an enemy unit to use the lowest leadership. See that unit over there, their leader is ld7 now and they have to use it, take several tests on 3d6 and lose wounds please.