A very crazy idea...

[blindmage]

9 Carnifex!!!

Malanthrope - 110

9x rippers w/ spinefists, toxin sacs, adrenal glands, tunnel swarm - 225
9x rippers w/ spinefists, toxin sacs, adrenal glands, tunnel swarm - 225

3x Carnifex - 480
3x Carnifex - 480
3x Carnifex - 480

Total points: 2,000
Wound distribution: t3=54, t5=4, t6=36
Number of units: 6
Max in reserve: 3 ( boh ripper broods with Malanthrope attached to one)

The Plan:
Carnifexen balls to he walls charge forward! DS rippers and shot the (please do not swear) out of things!

Reasoning:
Pretty much a Last Push from a defeated Nid force. Hive ships are destroyed, but the remains of the fighting forces are sealed up in caves/bunkers/fortresses and the hive needs the biomass. It could make more Rippers, less Carnifex and use the Parasite, but cracking that hard candy shell is soo important that a massive charge is needed.

Ideally played when the opponent has Bastions, etc, or the board is a blasted wasteland with the survivors needing to simply hold out (not be tabled) and kill off the last wave, scatter the remains of the fleet, then (in their arrogance) simply get rid of the hordes of Rippers roaming the planet.

[Raven]

Why not replace the Malanthrope with a Tyranid Prime to attach to unit of Carnifex for Look Out, Sir shenanigans, then replace the Rippers (even if you love rippers) with 2 Termagant Broods and 2 Tervigons with Catalyst to give Feel No Pain to the Carnifex broods and capture objectives?

[gigasnail]

zero scoring units. have fun with that.

[nathanielzane2]

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[blindmage]

Apr 29, 2013 5:52:19 GMT gigasnail said:

zero scoring units. have fun with that.

I haven't played a game with a Scoring unit of Tyranids in years (not counting Kill Team, and that one Warlord Trait). I still win now and then, but I draw a lot more than I lose.

The point of the list is to simply crush them into bits. Table them. The Fexen line up right on the line and haul forward, using cover as needed, but going as fast as possible into multi-unit CC. The Rippers and Malanthrope will come down and shoot anything that needs it, giving me flexibility to deal with any enemy DS, outflank, etc.

Raven: I'm mostly working with models I have (Rippers and Malanthrope, and a bunch of converted MC's for my old Kroot Merc list).

I did catch that the Malanthrope isn't an IC..or even a Character...so technically I'd have no Warlord. I'd have to either put it in reserve, and hope it drops when I need it, or start it on board (which would make it dead). I really wish we could outflank a Brood of Carnifex...it would be So Awesome!

[gigasnail]

malanthrope is a HQ choice, but not a character. interesting.

(warlord has to be a character, page 110 brb)

[blindmage]

Malanthropes can come in Broods of 1-3, hence them not being Characters. I'll eventually have 6 so I can field 2 full broods leading the Ripper Swarm, but they cost a bundle, so that's a long ways off.

[Raven]

Are you even allowed to field an army without a Warlord?

[blindmage]

I have no idea. I think this is a unique situation.

[gigasnail]

page 111, brb. must nominate. no choice.

[blindmage]

True, but the full rule is

\[When choosing your army, you must nominate one model to be your Warlord. It is is always the HQ choice character with the highest Leadership. If several characters are tied for highest Leadership, you choose among them which is your Warlord.

Bolded is my emphasis. I can't nominate an HQ character, because I don't have one. Does mean I'm forced to take a different HQ, or simply not have a Warlord, losing any bonuses and penalties associated with it?

[Raven]

Apr 29, 2013 8:23:27 GMT blindmage said:

True, but the full rule is

\[When choosing your army, you must nominate one model to be your Warlord. It is is always the HQ choice character with the highest Leadership. If several characters are tied for highest Leadership, you choose among them which is your Warlord.

Bolded is my emphasis. I can't nominate an HQ character, because I don't have one. Does mean I'm forced to take a different HQ, or simply not have a Warlord, losing any bonuses and penalties associated with it?

Well the word MUST implies you do, in fact, need a Warlord. I believe can also take no character HQs and it was FAQ'd for them that they had to have a warlord to have a legal list.

[t⊗theark]

I know I'm about to mainstream your list up a bit but....

Tyranid Prime: Bonesword/lashwhip, scything talons, toxin sacs, regeneration = 110

Tervigon: Catalyst = 175

Tervigon: Catalyst = 175

10 Termigants = 50

10 Termigants = 50

And the 9 big buggers.

I would run that! It's a lot less dependant on killy killy everything in the world if there are objectives and there's 4 biomantic powers there if you want extra support. A tervigon hides behind a carnifex brood each, the tyranid prime joins the final one. I would think that the last remnants of a tyranid swarm would have some form of reproduction and a diminutive synapse creature leading them.

Something to keep in mind too - big guns don't tire.