New ITC+marine nerf= Nidzilla?

[wormlord666]

So new ITC seems to encourage fighting for the middle.
New marine Faq will push people towards assaultguns (bolters).
That gave me some hope for the bigbugs again. Opt to go second, choose a deployment map with short range to the enemy, deploy all fightyfexes, flyrants, toxicrenes and whatever on the line. Double mal protection will make them withstand a lot of bolters. Then run like crazy and wreck capturing the middle as you go.
If the have seriously tough heavy weapons you hide first turn and start your rampage T2.
Is there hope for this or just dreaming?

[deviousdonut]

I survived the new tau prototype weapons with exocrines and SL and haruspex without losing a unit turn 1. Used new Maleceptor strat and had Malanthrope but it does make our t8 bugs extra durable. Especially with 5++

[kazetanade]

Mar 5, 2020 2:59:37 GMT deviousdonut said:

I survived the new tau prototype weapons with exocrines and SL and haruspex without losing a unit turn 1. Used new Maleceptor strat and had Malanthrope but it does make our t8 bugs extra durable. Especially with 5++

Which new prototypes did you eat? I think they're both S9 from memory, but iirc you basically just eat high number of shots and lose models to mop up fire.

Do you think there is a config here that can do work? What about with GSC?