500 pts vs Blood Angels coming up, advice needed!

[Draezymous]

Hey there,

I'm having my first game soon, and my friend and I have decided on both using 500 pts to start with (we both are going to play our first game). We will be playing a fun and friendly game. I know he will be using Blood Angels, and for as far as I know he has:

- Dante
- Commander (3)
- Terminators (5)
- Death Company (10 or so)
- Tactical Marines (20 or so)
- Whirlwind/Typhoon (?? Im not sure of the name, but it's a flying thing with two racks of missles on both sides)

I don't think he can field a lot of his models due to points, but I'm not sure. Since this will be our first game, I'm not really asking any advice on how to hammer him in, but rather advice on what you would play, and why. I myself came up with the following options:

***Option A:

HQ:

Tervigon, Crushing Claws, Toxin Sacs, two powers

Troops:

Tervigon, Crushing Claws, Toxin Sacs, two powers

Termagant Brood x10

Total: 500 pts

***Option B:

HQ:

Tervigon, Crushing Claws, Toxin Sacs, two powers

Elites:

Hive Guard x2

Zoanthropes x2

Troops:

Termagant Brood x11

Total: 500 pts

***Option C:

HQ:

Tervigon, Crushing Claws, Toxin Sacs, one power

Elites

Hive Guard x2

Troops:

Termagant Brood x10

Fast Attack:

Raveners, Rending Claws x4

Total: 500 pts

As you can see my lists vary a lot, but I really want to play a Tervigon for this game. That's why I chose it to be my HQ choice, as I think an Hive Tyrant is too costly for this game, and I don't want to use a prime (yet). My main issue would be what to expect? Is running two Tervigons an unfair pick for my opponent? Or will it horribly fail against Space Marines? Or would you rather pick options B and/or C, or maybe neither? You are of course also free to make suggestions that change the setup of the list intirely, but I don't want to divert too much from my initial ideas, if possible. For any other suggestions, my total army consists of:

2 Hive Tyrant/Swarm Lord
2 Tervigon/Tyrannofex
2 Trygon/Mawloc
3 Carnifex
18 Raveners
3 Hive Guard
3 Zoanthrope
8 (Ygmarl) Genestealers
56 Termagants (40 with Fleshborer, 16 with Devourer)
40 Hormagaunts
7 Ripper Bases

Obviously anything can be used! Any tips/advice is welcome!

[mmoooo1111]

I played something similar to your option B, against standard marines, won quite easily, but they only where able to field literally 1 HQ and 2 troop choices. I ran 2 groups of 10 termagants with the tervigon HQ upgraded with TS and AG, 2 hive guard and 2 zoanthropes. for 500 exactly.

[GuardDog78]

Problem with your second and third lists...force organization cars require you to field a minimum of two troop units.
I would take second list...drop one zoanthrope and replace with additional unit of termagants. Then you have your mandatory troops...two hive guard for popping light transports/skimmers and have a zoanthrope to pop tanks, blast marines and provide additional synapse.

[Draezymous]

Thank you for your advices! I totally missed out on not having 2 Troops choices, thanks for pointing that out!

My current idea is to indeed stick with option B, and see where it goes from there. I will be dropping a Zoanthrope for 12 more Termagants, creating two broods of 11 Termies. I will let you know how it goes, and thanks for the input!

[dnalloht]

depending on how his tacticals are equiped... mine come out to 200+/- per 10 man squad, cant remember. the terminators are 200 base + options.
landpseeder w typhoon missiles is going to be about 90 i think. not sure what dante costs. death comp is 30 per model + options.
hq, terminators, dc, and speeder and are probably his toughest units. tacticals are dead.