800p Nids dakka list vs IG / DE

[nids90]

Playing around with lists for a campaign against IG and DE and this is what i have come up with, its basically the opposite of any other strat/list i have made before where instead of rushing across the board to reach CC i instead sit back in the deployment zone picking enemy units off, thanks for checking it out and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

HQ
Tervigon w/ Onslaught- 175p

Elite
Hive Guard (2) -100p

Troop
Tyranid warrior (4) one with Barbed Str. - 130p
Tyranid warrior (4) one with Barbed Str. - 130p

H. Support
Tryannofex w/ Rupture Cannon - 265p

800p.

[Ragged Warrior]

This would work well if our range could compare at all to IG or our speed to DE.

I would suggest swapping your Warriors and Tervigon. Make your Tervigon a troops choice, and make a T.Prime your HQ. I would also suggest some Deep Striking unit to push the IG/DE toward you, or to at least lure them into your range: perhaps a few squads of rippers might help with that. I recently used some rippers to great success--the 2 extra points to upgrade to tunnel swarm were incredibly worth it.

I like your choice to go with the Tyranofex. I love the model and the threat, and use mine all the time.

Hope this was helpful. Best of luck.
Regards,

[undertow92182]

I would actually advise against an MC focused army vs. DE. Those 4+ poison attacks chew up MCs like crazy.

Instead I'd rather invest the points in some devilgants in a spore to drop down behind their lines. just ten of them would be cheaper than any of the MCs and would bring 30 shots the moment their spore touches down. Against transport thats a tons of chances to glance.. or a chance to shred a unit of troops.

A few big shots is ok.. but against swarm (IG) and poisons (DE) I'd rather field reliable numbers with maybe a handful of hive guard for the strength 8 shots.

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If you wanna run a Tfex, do yourself a huge favor and use Acid Spray. 6e cut the RC's odd's of wrecking vehicles in half and it was already severely overcosted in 5e. To put it in perspective, a Tfex w/RC has roughly the same odds of wrecking av10 as a single SM w/Lascannon (1/4 v1/5) . . . for the price of a unit of them. His only usable build is keeping him with AS and running him up the board droppin templates like crazy. Being able to throw a flamer template out 12" that can shoot sideways and ID troops is straight vicious against DE and IG. Against gunlines, drop the template on them sideways in the middle of the gunline and they will be forced to move on their turn to regain coherency, if they don't run from the heavy casualties that the other 2 templates stack on. Give him a RC and he goes from terrifying menace to annoying joke.


Ragged Warrior, how did you pull off Rippers DSing without promptly eating themselves? I haven't DSd them because it seems like such a waste that they have to DS into synapse to prevent imploding.

[nids90]

Rethought the list abit after reading your posts, this is my conclusion, as always feedback is greatly appreciated and welcome!

HQ
Tervigon - 160 (i don't see the point of taking it as a troop choice as i will be playing quite defensively to provide the HG and Tryannofex with synapse)

Elite
Hive Guard (2) - 100p

Troop
Tyranid warrior (3) w/ (one) Barbed strangler - 100p
Termigant brood (11) w/ Devourers - 110p

H.Support
Tryannofex - 250p

Transport Mycetic spore (2) - 80p

Total - 800p

Idea is to have the shooty units hide behind cover and let the enemy move up in turn one while troop choices come in turn two and hopefully all units will be able to move into range