2000 March Madness Tourney!

[emoge]

March 1st my LGS is holding a month long tourney. No allies normal force organization charts and all that fun stuff. I'm leaning towards the following list but taking opinions.

I have been running a null deploy list for funsies (flying dakka tyrant only thing on board hiding) but fexes, even podded dakkafexes, just can't compete... especially when facing insta-gid grey knights or nurgle csm. Works fine against imperial guard though...

== HQ ==
Hive Tyrant - Twin-Linked Deathspitter, Twin-Linked Deathspitter, Wings, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Old Adversary
Tervigon - Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught

== Elites ==
Hive Guard Brood (3)
Hive Guard Brood (3)
Hive Guard Brood (3)

== Troops ==
Tervigon (1) - Crushing Claws,Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught, Taken As Troops
Tervigon (1) - Crushing Claws, Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught, Taken As Troops
Tervigon (1) - Crushing Claws,Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught, Taken As Troops
Termagant Brood (10) - Fleshborer
Termagant Brood (10) - Fleshborer
Termagant Brood (10) - Fleshborer

== Heavy Support ==
Trygon

== Total ==
2000 pts.

With this setup it's kind of the "plodding forth" setup slowly move forward until the Tervigons get into melee range to eat everything. Slow and steady wins the race? I hate not having a Doom (I've been running 4 elites thanks to double FoC) but think the 3rd Hive Guard is more reliable. The Trygon doesn't thrill me but don't know what else to take instead unless I pod my termagants and give them devourers.

Of note, for this list I'm missing a 4th Tervigon and the Trygon models so will end up buying them before March 1st. So if I swap them out I'll save that money for Dreadnaughts instead!!!

Opinions? ALso note the HQ Tervi is missing crushing claws... THe Trygon really isn't as good as Tervis... but oh well. Opinions?

[scrotatohead]

The only concern I have off the top of my head is time/turn minimums. With that many Tervigon, unless you're spawning conservatively, will you have the ability to move all those 'gants, resolve all those psychic powers, and resolve all those shots and close combat, and get in enough turns for the match to qualify? I know some tournaments have a minimum turn limit along with the necessary time limit.

[emoge]

I was leaning towards dropping the HQ terv in favor of a second Flyrant... also it's really hard to pass up my Doom...

But if I make those swaps I'm left with 145 points remaining which really doesn't give me many options. Unless I add devourers to one of the guant broods, make them larger and pod them in. 15 devourer guants podded in gives 45 shots into something which can be scary since I can place it wherever with the pod.

Time limits shouldn't be a huge concern since we're given a week to do the games we need to do. It's not on a set day or weekend it's lasting all of march

Edit: 3x Biovores also fit in that extra bit if I make those changes. I've never used them before but I hear they're worth it

[scrotatohead]

Good to know there are no time limits. I'm a huge fan of the Doom in pod. I also favor devilgants in a pod. The fire power is awesome. If you can get a Flyant close to give them prefered enemy all the better. Both provide backfield disruption. My experience with biovores has been mixed to poor. Nobody ever goes after them but they rarely kill anything either. Admittedly I've never run a brood of three. The plast placement rules could be better.

[emoge]

Yea I really hate the model too after playing the above list once it was really boring... I'm currently leaning towards this:

== HQ ==
Hive Tyrant (1) - Twin-Linked Deathspitter, Twin-Linked Deathspitter, Wings, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Old Adversary
Hive Tyrant (1) - Twin-Linked Deathspitter, Twin-Linked Deathspitter, Wings, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Old Adversary

== Elites ==
Hive Guard Brood (3).
Hive Guard Brood (3)
Doom Of Malan'tai Brood
Doom Of Malan'tai (1)
Mycetic Spore (1)

== Troops ==
Tervigon (1) - Crushing Claws, Cluster Spines, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught, Taken As Troops.
Tervigon (1) - Crushing Claws, Cluster Spines, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught, Taken As Troops .
Tervigon (1) - Crushing Claws, Cluster Spines, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught, Taken As Troops
Termagant Brood
Termagant (15) - Devourer
Mycetic Spore (1).
Termagant Brood (11) - Fleshborer
Termagant Brood (10) - Fleshborer

== Total ==
2000 pts.