Vs. Tau v7.0

[Thegreatdevourer]

I have an 1850 point game coming up this Tuesday. It's supposed to be a fairly friendly game but I have never played this gent before. He mentioned he would probably play some skimmers and a single riptide. He also said he would write a couple lists and we would pick the list that would be most fair.

So this is my first list I've drafted for this match but I have several pieces I've contemplated swamping out for.

CAD 1

Warlord: Tervigon

Troop 1: 10 hormagaunts with AG
Troop 2: 10 hormagaunts with AG

Elite 1: zoanthrope
Elite2: venomthrope

Heavy 1: Dakkafex
Heavy 2 Dakkafex

CAD 2

HQ1: Flyrant Devourers, electroshock grubs
HQ2: Flyrant Devourer, electroshock grubs, Hive commander

Troop1: 10 Devilgaunts
Troop2: 10 Devilgaunts

Elite 1: 1 Nuerothrope two zoanthropes
Elite 2: Venomthrope

Fast Attack1: Harpy

Heavy1: Mawloc

The idea I have in my head is to camp my warlord Tervigon on a backfield objective hidden spawn some gaunts to grab objective and try to deny him slay the warlord. put some immediate pressure on him with The Flyrants and Harpy and force him back into a tight formation, and hopefully get lucky with reserves outflank the devilgaunts and disrupt with the mawloc. hopefully with those distractions going on I can march the Dakkafexs, gaunts and squad of zoanthropes shrouded by the venomthrope up the field with minimal casualties, to finish off the big threats.

After reading the thread I'm considering a few changes. Not being used I have 30 gargoyles, 2 biovores, and 3 Hive guard. And bunch more gaunts. Also technically the mawloc is a Trygon (I know he is not popular and is super expensive) but with the strategy behind this game do you think it would be acceptable to create some backfield synapse and flood some devilgaunts in following turns?

[No One]

A. Terv can't be WL (not a character).
B. I'd drop the AG from the horms - only really make a difference against glancing AV10 rear, and you're unlikely to get that far (and flyrants will do it better).
C. Outflanking devilgants can be fun, but unreliable, especially with DoW (coming on the wrong side is not unlikely) and synapse. Also possibly have some of them as fleshborers.
D. Trygon tunnel would be great - if it worked as a rule. It doesn't. Your odds of it working once are low - more than once, pretty nonexistant. I'd just stick with the mawloc.

[Thegreatdevourer]

Jan 22, 2017 1:17:25 GMT No One said:

A. Terv can't be WL (not a character).

Thanks for that. I'm still pretty fresh to 7th, this will be my 5th game with my Nids. So would you drop the Tervigon to get some other units in there, like the gargoyles and Hive guard, ? Or should I grab some warriors to make up the missing synapse?

[No One]

You can keep the terv as a HQ, she just can't be WL - you'll have to take one of the flyrants as WL instead.

[dobbsy]

In 450 pt games, e.g. School league, flyrants are the best option. As far as I know they are amazing at just about everything. Although don't try to 1v1 an alpha warlord titan

[bolk]

A Warlord titan in 450 pts games? A Warlord is way more than 450 pts.