1850 tourney list

[hadriel]

hey guys I am thinking of entering a tournament, it will also be my first tournament. this is the list I am looking at running

hq
1 Hive Tyrant, Wings, TL Dx2 , -260
swarm lord-280
2tyrant guard-120
troops
1 Tervigon, Toxic Sacs, All powers-200
1 Tervigon, catalyst-175
2 10 termagants-100

elite
3 Hive Guard-150
2-zoanthrope-120

heavy
1 Biovore-45
Trygon-200
trygon-200
total-1850

there are alot of IG and marine players at the store where i will be playing so i am hoping that the trygon and swarmy keep the attention of them since there big and I am the only nid player around that seems to a shooty list everyone seems to think you have to go melee with nids, i big to differ!

Anyways let me know what you guys think. and the reason i don't have 2 flyrants is because i have only ever used one once so I am not super comfortable with them yet and its a lot of points to invest in a unit that I am not sure how to use properly.

[hadriel]

anyone

[Macradon]

Looks about great.
I like it, the Dakka Tyrant can maybe kill some Guards/Marines.
Just deep strike the Trygons and just let them take all the fire and get the rest forth and kill them, but be careful about plasma and lass ...

[hadriel]

cool thanks ill let you guys know how things go

[hadriel]

Hey guys just a update. I did really well lots of people pretty scared to face the list.

I beat a space wolf army first game
Second game I lost to my buddy who I play so much he knows the nid codex as well as me so his IG lists make my poor nids hurt
Third game played another IG list and won, thanks to puppet master on the swarmlord commander pask killed more guard with his punisher cannon than nids

Ended up tieing for 2nd overall with a ultramarine army

If you guys want some battle reports ill see what I can do

[roxor08]

Grats dude. I'm also working on a tournament army @ 1850. I just played 2 practice games today and got crushed once and won decisively once.

Pretty similar lists, except you have the swarmlord. I found at hive guard were borderline useless.....how did you find the zoans worked? I'd be interested in reading a couple battle reports!

[Rahab]

Did you feel like your two tervigons and their broods were enough scoring units for this size of game? I've just added a second one for 1500 games, and I was hoping they would carry me all the way to 1999 for troop choices.

[Mearl]

I've been running to tervs as troop and not once have I had a problem with not having enough since your first turn gives you six troops

[hadriel]

"Posted by roxor08 on Yesterday at 1:26am
Grats dude. I'm also working on a tournament army @ 1850. I just played 2 practice games today and got crushed once and won decisively once.

Pretty similar lists, except you have the swarmlord. I found at hive guard were borderline useless.....how did you find the zoans worked? I'd be interested in reading a couple battle reports! "

Thanks! ill see what i can do with battle reports.
i'd love to see your list, personally I love hive guards and there will always be at least one unit of them in my army.
zoan's worked well i mostly use them for extra synapse so i can cover the board in shadow of the warp for those damn grey knight armies or to warp lance some HQ that someone loves so much and watch them be Instant death, the issue is find with them is the amount of stuff that has to be rolled for now. physic test deny the witch then roll to hit then to wound. so if you have angered the dice gods lots can go wrong. I use them for AV 13 and such stuff my HG's have a harder time with.
this toury they didn't do very much

"Posted by Rahab on Yesterday at 2:23am
Did you feel like your two tervigons and their broods were enough scoring units for this size of game? I've just added a second one for 1500 games, and I was hoping they would carry me all the way to 1999 for troop choices."

yep they did fantastic it was really comforting parking a t9 MC on a objective and holding it with it. they did well spawning minus 1 game where i rolled triple 1's the first turn but other than that the SW army fell apart because he couldnt keep up with the spawns and he panicked and my trygons and swarmy were let loose well he tried to kill my tervigon which he failed to do


after running this tournament and talking to the other people which there was 16 total, i was one of the most feared/intimating armies the toury no one wanted to play it because they had no idea how to handle it, it was and is a list that has to dealt with very carefully and target prioty has to be done very well, because if one thing gets lose the other player is going to feel it very much. no one likes free range MC It is also very shooty, the second IG army i played was very inexperienced with Nids so he knew them as a melee army since thats what he played, untill he played me...and i out shot him in the first turn leaving him shocked as his tanks exploded and psykers buffing stuff and using his own tanks against him. he looked at me and said " what!? nids dont shoot what are you doing!? oh god" it was pretty funny. playing this tournament really helped push my love for nids even farther and showed that they can still be competitive, so much so that now to add to my hive fleets fluff i am custom making a Genestealer cult army