1500pts, looking for c&c

[kylerstern]

== HQ ==
Hive Tyrant (1) - Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Armoured Shell, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Old Adversary

== Elites ==
Hive Guard Brood (3)

Zoanthrope Brood
Zoanthrope (2) = 120 pts.
Mycetic Spore (1) = 40 pts.

Doom Of Malan'tai Brood
Doom Of Malan'tai
Mycetic Spore

== Troops ==
Termagant Brood (15) - Devourer

Termagant Brood (15) - Devourer

Tyranid Warrior Brood (3) - Devourer, Rending Claws

Tyranid Warrior Brood (3) - Lash Whip And Bonesword, Scything Talons, Toxin Sacs

== Heavy Support ==
Trygon Prime (1) - Containment Spines, Trygon Prime Upgrade, Synapse Creature, Shadow In The Warp

== Total ==
1500 pts.

And now some tactics.

Hammer and anvil style, the DoM comes down first turn near as much enemy infantry as possible.

The tyrant rolls on biomancy powers in the hope of either iron arm of endurance. He is escorted by one of the devilgant broods and pushes for enemy objectives, and linebreaker.

The second devilgant brood runs with the shooty warriors for mid field objectives while the cc warrior and trygon are there purely to add to target saturation and to be as killy as possible. Zoans also pod in and hunt any tanks.

All comment and criticisms are welcome and appreciated.

Kyler

[FTGTEvan]

Seems fairly solid overall. I think wings would make the tyrant more effective since he might not always be in range turn 1 if walking. I'd also think about getting spores for the devilgants, one or both. If just one of them, you could get the points either by just giving them the spore from the zoans or dropping Prime off the Trygon. I still haven't decided decisively if I find the prime worthwhile or not, there are big positives to both ways. Lastly, I might worry that the Warrior squads are a little small, and bumping one to 5 might help their effectiveness and survivability. That CC warrior squad is going to be a pretty big target, and they're pretty pricey. That said, having 5 of them, while making them a bigger target, will be more likely to cause more target priority problems and still have a chance of making it to combat.

[gigasnail]

doom comes down turn 2 at soonest. you don't roll reserves on turn 1.

[kylerstern]

Sweet, will drop the prime off of the trygon, and grab a spore for the guants. I love running them up with the Tyrant for preferred enemy. 90 shots with re-rolls lets me wipe any squad pretty comfortably.

gigasnail, doesnt half of the pods rounding up come in first turn?

[gigasnail]

these are tyranids, not space marines, lol. the rules are not the same. go back and re-read the spore pod rules.

[kylerstern]

Damn, ok will do... I havent used spores before as I only made models last week...

Thanks for the assist

[gigasnail]

np np ~

[hungryhungryripper]

Consider wings on the tyrant and DS one squad of devils. use a single vanilla gant squad as moving cover by turn two you will have so much in his backfield you should be able to walk everything else up with impunity. I run a similar list but use yealers instead of the zoeys. its overwhelming when 2-3 nasty units appear in his deployment zone.

[kylerstern]

Thanks for the advice hungry. Played my first game with this list against a footslogging necron army, pulled victory on turn 5 by wipeing him out...