PoM/Gargoyles List 1500

[retnab]

Hey Hive, my local meta has been getting into some whacky lists lately (I think everyone's just getting bored) and decided to do something different too. This is in no way supposed to be competitive but just something with a lot of speed and not a list that's generally seen.

== HQ ==
Parasite of Mortrex (1) = 160 pts.

== Elites ==
Hive Guard Brood (2) = 100 pts.
Zoanthrope Brood (2) = 120 pts.

== Troops ==
Termagant Brood (10) - Devourer = 100 pts.
Termagant Brood (10) - Devourer = 100 pts.
Tervigon (1) - Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught, Taken As Troops = 210 pts.

== Fast Attack ==
Gargoyle Brood (20) = 120 pts.
Ravener Brood (4) - Rending Claws, Spinefists = 160 pts.
Tyranid Shrike Brood (4) - Pair Of Boneswords, Scything Talons = 180 pts.

== Heavy Support ==
Trygon Prime (1) - Containment Spines, Toxin Sacs, Trygon Prime Upgrade, Synapse Creature, Shadow In The Warp = 250 pts.

== Total ==
1500 pts.

Do you have any suggestions on things to do to mix it up some more without being just plain bad?

[0800hell]

To be quite honest its not a bad list just no flyrants so juat do what you feel like

[gigasnail]

you have a lot of really fragile, expensive units in there and not a lot of firepower. i think you're gonna get mowed. go for biomancy and telepathy in the zoanthropes you're trying to walk across the board and pray for endurance/invisibility. invisible garg screen should be good for laughs but i think this list is going to have serious trouble.

[rbacus]

I really like the idea of the list.. but when I read the title of the thread I thought I'd see alot more wings if you know what I mean. Maybe take out the raveners for another squad of 20 gargoyles. Then use the 40 extra points to put TS or AG on both squads. Also, I'm a huge fan of biovores, and at 1500 pts I think they would generally shine more than Zoanthropes. Just my opinion though!!

[Jabberwocky]

Mar 4, 2013 6:45:45 GMT gigasnail said:

you have a lot of really fragile, expensive units in there and not a lot of firepower. i think you're gonna get mowed. go for biomancy and telepathy in the zoanthropes you're trying to walk across the board and pray for endurance/invisibility. invisible garg screen should be good for laughs but i think this list is going to have serious trouble.

Zoans can't have invis since it is warp charge 2.

[coredump]

I don't know, I don't see a lot of 'fragile' in this list. I mean yeah, the devilgaunts, but otherwise...

I guess you are referring to the raveners and Shrikes, but they are only fragile when compared to S8 shooting, and with their speed, there shouldn't be many turns to worry about it.

That said, I would be happier with 5 raveners.

As for the list, I am not a fan of 10 man devilgaunt broods. I would go with one brood of 15, then either add a Pod, or a 10 man unit of regular gaunts.

I think I am taking AG off of my tervigons.... it doesn't really ever do anything for my list. YMMV

[retnab]

Oh I'm not expecting to win tournaments with this thing, I'm just sick of using the exact same (or very similar) lists every game and want to use my Raveners and Warriors for once. We're all making pretty ridiculous lists from what I'm hearing.

Changed to 15 devilgaunts and 10 gaunts, added one more Ravener and dropped Prime status on Trygon, think that'd be good?

[gigasnail]

@jabber: missed that on the zoans, thanks.

@core: yeah everything in there is fragile. t4 multiwound, 5+ save at best, and expensive. its not like S8 is rare or anything. autocannons and missiles will eat them alive, and the entire list is bolter bait. not enough firepower to deal with armor.

if OP is going for friendly/fluffy/different, he's gonna have fun with it anyway and it doesn't matter.

[retnab]

An update regarding this list: I played a game with it yesterday and lost, but against a Space Wolves army that was not a joke (he runs it in tournaments) and he had a single model left on the field. Plus he killed my Tervigon turn 1 with Jaws of the Warpwolf or whatever that 24" line of death psychic power one of them gets is called, so overall I find this list surprisingly viable?

[blindmage]

With one model left one the field, how did he win? What was the mission/VP breakdown?

[0800hell]

Yea....... mabye that one model he had left was controlling and objective?? or had the relic???

[retnab]

It was an Independent Character, forget which, but it was mission 1 (the standard objective one), he got First Blood and Warlord Kill, I got Warlord Kill, and he ended it by tabling me. Still, killing 3 squads of 5 guys in Terminator armor, a different IC, and his Warlord feels pretty good to me Shame the Tervigon died so early, it ended with a 1v1 between my Trygon and his IC so one more squad of gaunts might have done it.