1000 point campaign list

[raylorne]

I'm participating in a campaign, and I'm currently playing the high ground mission on this planet. Anyway here's the list.

HQ

Prime with rending claws, scything talons. 80

Elite

ystealer x8 184

hive guard x3 150

Doom in pod 130

Troops

Vanillagant x10 50

Vanillagant x10 50

Tervigon with scything talons, x2 powers

Tervigon with scything talons, x2 powers




The only thing I own to sub out for this since the campaign is fairly wysiwyg

2x warriors

1x tyrant with LW and BS. I could say he has a TL dev and probably still have that slide in a game. Without buying some wings and disfiguring my model I can put an armoured shell on him, but I don't have any tyrant guard. My best hope it putting the prime out front with him and hoping I don't take any st8 love on the walk in.

30x gaunts

Sadly that's it. In this current mission I don't see any need in subbing except to maybe find a purpose for the tyrant. I could drop the prime and 10x gants and put tyrant and tervigon in HQ. Then put enough LOS blocking ruins down and hope I can keep them hidden.


So yeah any suggestions would be great please.

[FTGTEvan]

I don't have a whole lot of suggestions, I think it's pretty solid for 1k, particularly with your limited flexibility, which I understand completely. Mostly, I'm curious what you plan to do with a CC Prime; who does he accompany? Overall, what is your plan of attack here? Answering that will help identify if you have any gaps.

With what you have, and being a 1k game, I could see maybe dropping a yealer and a hive guard to bring a small squad of gaunts who might help support the yealers in CC. Not sure I'd want to drop enough to bring the tyrant.

[raylorne]

THe prime is joined to the hive guard to provide backfield synapse. Because there's so much terrain involved in the high ground campaign I can pretty easily manage LOS issues to that unit. Turn one they almost took an unlucky barrage shot, but from turn two onward there were too many other high priority targets to worry about.


The first game I played with this list went pretty badly and I still only lost 8 to 6. Both tervigons burned out turn 1, My doom didn't arrive till turn four, and my ystealers popped out in front of some conscripts ready for dinner and I found out the hard way my opponent had a model that could shoot at the end of my movement phase. Lost 5 stealers to that little learning point. 1 ate it to overwatch, and it still took the conscripts 3 turns to finally kill the last two stealers while losing combat twice. (really the only good part of the game)

Luckily I'm on the same team as DE, so I don't have to worry about losing those games. Seems I'll be fighting a lot of IG on this mission type. The campaign runs for a month, and depending on how well I get paid over said month will determine if I spring for some tyrant guard. LS and BS isn't the most ideal loadout, but I think some games might get up to 1250 and I can easily afford the points there.