Nids #1 at a GT

[timcz]

Mar 10, 2020 14:41:04 GMT sneggy said:

If you follow Nick on facebook he did some Vlogs of the before and after his games.

One of the raven guard game opponent reserved all the cents and got zoned out of deep striking. Ouch!

Is it his personal account or an art of war one?

[grave77digger]

Im going to be playing Nicks list on stream Friday. But I havnt played with Swarmy in forever. Did ANyone have a link to his vlog about the tourney? Ill be playing against Ironhands in an ITC league game.


www.twitch.tv/steelcitylegion

[grave77digger]

Found his posts on facebook if anyone was curious.

www.facebook.com/pg/aow40k/posts/

[kazetanade]

That is the highest bubble wrap I have ever seen.

Also digging the terrain, it's massive. A far cry with what I get to work with locally.

[N.I.B.]

More fairly recent Tyranid top tournament placings, from BCP:

Games of Westeros IX, Enochia on these boards goes 4-1 for a #4 finish with his 4AE Acolytes and Kraken Tyranids, look up his thread in the army list section.

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Coastal Wargaming, Larry Oliver takes 2nd place with this:

Behemoth battalion
Broodlord: Resonance Barb
Hive Tyrant: Adrenal Glands, Heavy Venom Cannon, Monstrous Scything Talon, Toxin Sacs, Wings
The Swarmlord

19 Genestealers: 4x Acid Maw, 19x Scything Talons
20 Genestealers: 5x Acid Maw, 20x Scything Talons
3x Ripper Swarm

Kronos battalion
Hive Tyrant: 2x Two Devourers with Brainleech Worms, Wings
Neurothrope: Warlord

3x Ripper Swarm
3x Ripper Swarm
3x Ripper Swarm

6x Hive Guard

Exocrine

Tyrannocyte

1993pts

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GenghisCon 3rd place, double Hydra battalion and a Haruspex (who saw that coming?)

Hydra battalion
Stratagem: Progeny of the Hive [-1CP]

Malanthrope
Tervigon: Adrenal Glands, Resonance Barb, Stinger Salvo, Toxin Sacs. Adaptive Physiology: Dermic Symbiosis, Power: Death Shriek. Warlord.

20 Genestealers
30 Termagants
29 Termagants

Hydra battalion
The Swarmlord: Catalyst, Power: The Horror
Tyranid Prime: Boneswords, Scything Talons

20 Genestealers
20 Hormagaunts
9 Tyranid Warriors (6 Boneswords/Deathspitter, 3 Boneswords/Venom Cannon)

Haruspex
Maleceptor

2000pts

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It seems 40Kstats has recently done a reset of the faction win ratings, but it's promising for Tyranids at 4th place with a 54% win rate. Taken with some salt because of few entries, but promising.


Inspiring times!

[grave77digger]

That deathball deployment. just a giant ball of claws and teeth

[No One]

The other list is from DeviousDonut (sort of in army lists).

[kazetanade]

Tyranids back in business baby!

[N.I.B.]

Mar 13, 2020 0:31:20 GMT No One said:

The other list is from DeviousDonut (sort of in army lists).

Yeah I suspected it was a fellow Hiver, go TTH!

[sneggy]

Mar 11, 2020 0:48:45 GMT kazetanade said:

Mar 10, 2020 14:51:14 GMT sneggy said:

I found the answer was Aberrants and the 6" aura of heroic intervention warlord trait. You want to zone me out? Oh boy am I going to punish you for it.

I did it to a few people. The year LGT was a trainwreck I made some poor chaps weekend even worse when I killed 90 bloodletters in reserve using auto missing biovores to spore mine out the board.

Sneggy how does that work to counter DS zoning out?

They move to zone you out and you kick the (please do not swear) out of them with aberrants.....make a nice big area with a circle of aberrants with the 6" heroic intervention aura in the middle. They cant block out everywhere within 9" without going into aberrant heroic intervention range. If they do you kill a nice big hole to deep strike into instead.

[kazetanade]

Mar 13, 2020 16:25:58 GMT sneggy said:

Mar 11, 2020 0:48:45 GMT kazetanade said:

Sneggy how does that work to counter DS zoning out?

They move to zone you out and you kick the (please do not swear) out of them with aberrants.....make a nice big area with a circle of aberrants with the 6" heroic intervention aura in the middle. They cant block out everywhere within 9" without going into aberrant heroic intervention range. If they do you kill a nice big hole to deep strike into instead.

Is this assuming Abby's starting in your deployment zone? I'm also assuming it's you getting to put them on the line behind some LOS blocking? Otherwise your Abby's don't survive right? I'm assuming the DS block is for T2.

[sneggy]

Yeh the idea is to deploy them somewhere safe and use them as an exclusion zone.

[timcz]

Nick talks about the list in OP with John Lennon on the latest Art of War podcast.

[N.I.B.]

www.theartofwar40k.com/home/interview-with-nick-nanavati-on-tyranids

[N.I.B.]

Check out the podcast, at ~38 minutes John Lennon calls out Nick Nanavati that Broodlords can't use Feeder Tendrils because it's only for Genestealer units, not GENESTEALER the keyword. Is that correct?