Post by retnab on Dec 14, 2012 3:07:08 GMT
Hey Hive,
So I played a game today that ended... strangely. It was 1500 points, Vanguard Strike deployment, and The Scouring. He went first and I didn't get the initiative steal. By the end of turn 4, neither of us had troops in good enough shape to take a single objective on the board.
His (approximate) list:
HQ:
Terminator Chaos Lord with Mark of Nurgle and Black Mace
??:
6 Terminators attached to the Lord, not sure about wargear besides one Power Fist
Troops:
3 x 9 Plague Marines with a Rhino. Not sure about any wargear
Heavy:
3 Obliterators
My List:
HQ:
Tyrant with LW/BS, Twin Linked Devourer, Armored Shell, Old Adversary
Tyrant Guard with LW
Tyranid Prime with DS and Pair of Boneswords
Elite:
2 HG
1 Venom
8 Ymgarl stealers
Troops:
16 Hormagaunts
21 Termagaunts
20 Termagaunts
1 Tervigon with AG/TS and all Psychic Powers
Heavy:
1 Trygon Prime
My Trygon did a great job of eating through his Plague Marines, killing an entire squad almost single handed and helping the Ymgarls halfway through slicing apart the 2nd squad (both of which didn't come in until turn 4 sadly). My Tyrant flattened his 3rd, taking out all of his troop choices. Unfortunately, on turn 1 my Terv plugged out rolling two 5's but got 16 out. His Lord with Black Mace deep striked right beside my Tervigon and the bigger squad of Termagaunts on turn 2, shooting a few of it and when we got into assault he attacked the Tervigon (after it killed 2 Terminators) and he rolled a 6 on the toughness test against the Mace, instant-dying, forcing a toughness test and synaptic backlash on a Lot of Termagaunts, killing a big chunk of them. After that it didn't take long at all for him to clean up the rest.
The game ended 2 to 1, him having First Blood and Linebreaker, myself having Linebreaker.
So, Hive, what do you do against Terminators? Usually I run my MC's in and let the AP2 do the work, but with the instant death potential on a Terminator Lord, that's a lot of risk
So I played a game today that ended... strangely. It was 1500 points, Vanguard Strike deployment, and The Scouring. He went first and I didn't get the initiative steal. By the end of turn 4, neither of us had troops in good enough shape to take a single objective on the board.
His (approximate) list:
HQ:
Terminator Chaos Lord with Mark of Nurgle and Black Mace
??:
6 Terminators attached to the Lord, not sure about wargear besides one Power Fist
Troops:
3 x 9 Plague Marines with a Rhino. Not sure about any wargear
Heavy:
3 Obliterators
My List:
HQ:
Tyrant with LW/BS, Twin Linked Devourer, Armored Shell, Old Adversary
Tyrant Guard with LW
Tyranid Prime with DS and Pair of Boneswords
Elite:
2 HG
1 Venom
8 Ymgarl stealers
Troops:
16 Hormagaunts
21 Termagaunts
20 Termagaunts
1 Tervigon with AG/TS and all Psychic Powers
Heavy:
1 Trygon Prime
My Trygon did a great job of eating through his Plague Marines, killing an entire squad almost single handed and helping the Ymgarls halfway through slicing apart the 2nd squad (both of which didn't come in until turn 4 sadly). My Tyrant flattened his 3rd, taking out all of his troop choices. Unfortunately, on turn 1 my Terv plugged out rolling two 5's but got 16 out. His Lord with Black Mace deep striked right beside my Tervigon and the bigger squad of Termagaunts on turn 2, shooting a few of it and when we got into assault he attacked the Tervigon (after it killed 2 Terminators) and he rolled a 6 on the toughness test against the Mace, instant-dying, forcing a toughness test and synaptic backlash on a Lot of Termagaunts, killing a big chunk of them. After that it didn't take long at all for him to clean up the rest.
The game ended 2 to 1, him having First Blood and Linebreaker, myself having Linebreaker.
So, Hive, what do you do against Terminators? Usually I run my MC's in and let the AP2 do the work, but with the instant death potential on a Terminator Lord, that's a lot of risk
