1000 point thoughts?

[ilovedakka]

Hey guys. I'm putting together a list for a local tournament, and could use your input.

So far, I'm thinking

HQ
1 Flyrant with 2x TL Devourers - 260

Elites
3 Hive Guard - 150
1 Doom in a Spore - 130
6 Ymgarl Genestealers - 132

Troops
1 Tervigon w/ Claws and extra power - 200 (rolling on biomancy of course)
12 Devilgaunts - 120

Total is 992

90% of my games are against marines. I could really use your advice and critiques. I've been on a pretty nasty losing streak lately that I'd love to finally break. I'm pretty new, but I've based this list entirely on my experiences with what has and has not been effective for me. I haven't used a tervigon yet (I know, I know) but i'm really excited to try it out.

[ilovedakka]

I was thinking of maybe dropping the ymgarls for a prime wielding dual boneswords, and attaching him to the hive guard for synapse and wound allocation, then using the other 50 points to put hive commander on the flyrant to outflank the tervie, give the tervie a third power, and add 1 more gaunt just to make it an even 1000.

Holy run-on sentence batman. Sorry guys haha

[jahatch42878]

so... my only concern is #s.... you have 13 troops (yeah, one is an MC, but still)... and your elites are also only 10 models...

when you are potentially outnumbered by a Grey Knights army, I think that might be a problem...

The devilgaunts are potent, but less so without a spore and when they are going to have to try to take an objective... if you can camp them on one, that is great, but depends on the scenario...

also, if you run the Tervigon with the devilgaunts, you are not going to be able to claim a 2nd objective in all likelihood...

but, that said, if you know you need a MEQ killer army, you might be able to pick your fights, have the ymargl, doom, and flyrant tagteam a part of the enemy, get the guard close enough to use their nasty guns from cover, and hope the enemy throws some troops at your tervigon and devilgaunts after panicking about the doom, flyrant, and ymargl in his deployment zone..

be interesting to play the army unless the tervigon only poops out a few gants and the devilgants get creamed on turn 2... then might be tough...

sorry that wasn't too helpful.. I just feel like I need more troops even though there is nothing "bad" with any of the units you have... my 2 cents

[ilovedakka]

Maybe change the devilgaunts to 2 groups of regular gaunts?

[scrotatohead]

So keeping my suggestion close to the list you've got, here's a high risk list. If you get First Turn you squeeze out a brood of Termagants right away to build your presence on the board. If you don't have Initiative you really need to place your models to survive first turn ranged fire.

== HQ ==
Hive Tyrant (1) - Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Wings, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Hive Commander = 285 pts.

== Elites ==
Hive Guard Brood (2) = 100 pts.
Ymgarl Genestealer Brood (6) = 138 pts.
Doom Of Malan'tai Brood (130 pts.)
Doom Of Malan'tai (1) = 90 pts.
Mycetic Spore (1) = 40 pts.

== Troops ==
Tervigon (1) - Scything Talons, Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Taken As Troops = 205 pts.
Termagant Brood (140 pts.)
Termagant (10) - Devourer = 100 pts.
Mycetic Spore (1) = 40 pts.

== Total ==
998 pts.

I trimmed one Hive Guard and a couple Devilgants to get you Hive Commander and a second spore pod. Hive Commander gives you a reliable chance of getting all reserves on the board Turn 2. Doom pods in on enemy infantry. Devilgants pod in behind transports/light tanks and pour thirty shots into them. Ymgarls assault either the contents of the troop transport or the thinned down target of the Doom. You could probably trim one Ymgarl and buff the Devilgants by two for six additional shots.

Like your original list is is very, very troop light. If your Tervigon craps out turn one (and in a multi-round tournament you have to expect that to happen at least once) you're going to have a really hard time winning any objectives based match. At that point your goal shifts to tabling your opponent.

I'm sure there are many, many better lists out there.