Narrative campaign coming up.

[hv911apophus]

Looking for some list help for a new narrative campaign I have coming up. Typically I go for a shooty army built around a pair of flyrants, exocrines and give guard with impaler cannons.

A dual battalion seems the way to go but would love some input.

[naviedzony]

How fluffy do you want to go?

[hv911apophus]

Let's say middle ground and go from there, that way if it isn't my taste we can work to modify it.

[naviedzony]

So, if it is to be fluffy, then you should not mix Hive Fleets and decide on one. If you want to go shooting, take Jormungandr. You could include as many shooting Carnifexes as you can, all of them being Armour Save 2+ and -1 to hit. Then, some Exocrines and Impaler Hive Guards. And for the troops I would go with almost exclusively Warriors. Two units with adaptations (ignoring AP -1 and -2 or adding +2 instead of +1 while in cover, which they always get, because of Jormungandr).

[hv911apophus]

Since I usually run a single fleet anyway that won't be a big change, I would never do the mixed fleet thing in friendly play anyway... Now should I run 2 or 3 carnifi and should they be dakka dakka, with devourers and venom cannons or should I give them talons cause I know I will be in combat at some point in the campaign. Someone else is running orcs after all. I've never played warriors outside killteam. Are they any good and what should I look at for squad size/loadouts?

[naviedzony]

Warriors started to be good after Psychic Awakening:Blood of Baal. They now can be adapted, as I say and have acces to the tasty stratagem with -1 damage for a phase. Always max these units, so the best option is two units of 9 warriors. The most versatile and often used loadout is: 3xVenomCannon, 6xDeathspitters and dual Boneswords on every warrior.

[hv911apophus]

So what I'm looking at for a list is this


A Jormangundr battalion
2 flyrants with twin devourers and scything talons
2 units of 24 termagaunts with flesh borers
2 units of 9 warriors 3x venom cannon, and 6 with death spitters and boneswords
1 unit of hive guard with impaler cannons

And a Jormangundr spearhead

1 neurothrope warlord with norncrown and synaptic lynchpin
1 unit of 2 carnifi with devourers, scything talons, spore cysts, and enhanced senses
2 exocrines

All totalled 1998 points

[beetlejuice]

You dont need norn crown with all that synapse around from warriors and flyrants. Same with synaptic lynchpin, better trade WLT for ignore AP -1/-2 on warriors (and strat to adapt second squad). Get extra range on a flyrant or resonance barb instead as relic. Also MRC would save you some points on flyrants, scything talons are really only worth it in pairs or as behemoth relic. For carnis Id say full dakka or full melee. Enhanced senses only really shines for 4x devs

[hv911apophus]

I don't have the bits for 4x devs but I could go with heavy venom cannons on the fex's. Would that work better than my current load?