1000 pts vs. Dark Eldar

[undertow92182]

~~ HQ ~~

Hive Tyrant - Wings, 2x TL Dev w/ BLW, 2 Powers

~~ Elites ~~

3 Hive Guard
1 Zoanthrope

~~ Troops ~~

10 Vanillagants
12 Vanillagants
Tervigon - AG, TS, Crushing Claws, 3 Powers, Stinger Salvo
Tervigon - TS, 2 Powers, Stinger Salvo

Total: 1000 points on the nose.

Pretty straight forward, Flyrant rules the sky, the HG and Zoan stick together acting as ranged transport poppers that can hide behind cover. I may swap out the Zoan's powers for something more suiting the synapse support role it is filling for the HG. The CC Tervigon rushes forward with the 12 Vanillagants while the less decked our Tervigon lumbers in behind to serve as support and to pump out and buff more Termagants.

With this army I am focusing on board control and herding. There are lots of good targets to force my enemy to prioritize and ignoring any one of them can be truly painful. The CC Tervigon, while scary, will probably get focused down as my opponent truly loathes them. Thus, the back-up Tervigon is there to pick up the synapse and continue to press the charge.

[arrakis]

Sounds pretty solid to me. I may try this list in my local area

[undertow92182]

If I take Biomancy on both of my Tervigons, and my Flyrant, should I take something else on my Zoanthrope? It won't benefit as much from some of the Biomancy options (Though if I roll Enfeeble I'll be man-giggling maniacally).

Thoughts? Opinions?

[jhussey]

Well since I play both nids and DE I can say that you list would be fun to play against with my DE. I think it's solid and would make me think real hard about what I want to attack first. 2 Tervigons are going to give him a headache with all the gants they will spawn. if it were me I wouldn't even waste the splinter rounds on your gants, but that's just me. Good luck in your game. I'm predicting win for you! =D

[undertow92182]

So, finally had the epic showdown yesterday.

We rolled off on mission and got Relic. Advantage: Tyranids
We rolled off for Nightfight and the game started off Nightfighting. Advantage: Dark Eldar

I brought the above list, and he brought an Archon, 2 decked out raiders with splinter cannons filled with Dark Eldar Warriors with splinter cannons, 2 venoms filled with Trueborn, a Raider with Dark lance, and 2x3 jetbikes.

He went first and I failed to take initiative. The Relic was smack dab in the center of the field and he tried to use his transports speed to zoom up to it, which honestly is his only chance to take it. He moved combat speed so was still able to pop some shots off and he also turbo boosted both his bike squads across both of my units of Termagants. He seemed far more focused on lessening my gaunts, possibly hoping to reduce my runners if I got ahold of the Relic. He ended up nearly wiping both Termagaunt units from the field and put a single wound on my Crushigon. His Venoms sweeped up the side field, obviously attempting to get behind my to prevent my creating a wall of monsters for him to get tied up with.
My turn shifted the tide of battle considerably. Both Tervigon's birthed and didn't roll doubles, pumping out more Termagants than he killed. The flyrant immediately swooped forward and put itself amongst his vehicles. I unloaded all 12 shots into the side armor of the Ravager, got a glance and a penetration after cover saves but sadly only got a crew stunned result. My hiveguard and zoanthrope ran up field and got close enough to be able to take some reasonable range shots on one of his raiders, landing a penetrating shot and a glancing shot, vehicle immobilized. What remained of my original Termagants (now down to 3 and 5 respectively) turned around and rushed his bikes which ended far too close. My Tervigons and their new batches of babies moved up field and unloaded everything they had on the the other raider (it was within 12" and thus the only vehicle I could unload on without offering a cover save due to nightfighting), nickle and diming it down with 2 glancing hits. Realizing my Crushigon was only 10" away from one of his raiders I tried a longshot and went for an attempted assault. I rolled an 11 on the assault distance and smash attacked it into oblivion, blowing it up. Since it was nestled between terrain pieces he only had enough space to place 2 of the passengers so after my termagants fired on those two it wiped the whole unit he planned on grabbing the Relic with. The termagants facing the jetbikes tore them to pieces. Surprisingly, between the shots and following assault 3 and 5 termagants actually managed to destroy 2 units of 3 jetbikes each.

Turn 2, his trueborn disembark from one of the Venoms and take up a good firing position inside of midfield ruins. He attempts to gun down my flyrant with a hail of shots and rolls insanely bad. 15 shots yielding a dismall 1 hit, then a failed to wound roll. His other Venom, however, comes in behind my Vanilla Tervigon and fires off a hail of shots. Though several hit and he makes the to wound rolls, that 3+ armor saves my but. He manages to only land a single wound. The crew stunned result on the Ravager saves me as his attempts of only firing snap shots at my Crushigon only nets him 1 additional wound on it. His other Raider unloads on my Termagants that are closing in on the Relic and he truly shreds the unit, killing all but 2.
My turn, Tervigon both birth again, the vanilla tervigon rolls doubles. This is where all hell breaks loose. My flyrant swoops and vector strikes one of the venoms then fires on the other one, glancing each one once. A freshly birthed unit of my Termagants rushes into the ruins to assault the Trueborn and tie them up while the scattered remnants of my other termagants all form up into a new unit that acts as a living wall protecting my vanilla Tervigon's flank incase of attempted assault. My hiveguard take the last hullpoint off the Ravager and wreck it. Then the combined firepower of both of my Tervigon take down the last Raider.
With both of my Tervigon still up and running and my flyrant not even having a wound while he was down 6 jetbikes, both raiders, a ravager, and a unit of warriors... my opponent concedes.

Had we gone one more turn I'd have picked up the Relic as my Crushigon was in base contact. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

Winner: Tyranids