9th Nid premier

[Hive Bahamut]

I threw together a list today to try out as my premier 9th Nid battle. I tried to give every model a plan and use some Kronos love, having only used Blood of Baal 1 time before. (Love My GSC)

Kronos Bat 1500

Neurothrope (WL) Symbiostorm
Broodlord (Resonance) Catalyst

2x 10 Termagants
2x 3 Warriors (2xSpit/Venom 2x Swords/LashNS)

6x Hive Guard (-1/2AP Adapt)
3x Zoanthropes
Lictor (got 12 points!)

3x Biovore
2x Exocrine (1 with Dermic)

Objectives were: Teleport Homer (Lictor) Psychic Interrogate (0)
Raze

Ended up playing against Deathwatch and we did the Raze Mission. We both deployed a little aggressively and I got first turn.

Tabled them top of turn 4 and maxed out Primaries. The Lictor almost capped his Homer out and I Razed 1/2 objectives for a total of 63? (Can't remember)

The first game in a while I steamrolled my opponent. Between Patho Slime and Annihilation Guard no Bueno Primaris. It almost felt dirty.


My opponent managed to nuke my Warlord turn 2 with a Bolt Sniper Squad all buffed up. That Neurothrope never saw it coming. Never seen that fully buffed ouch any character!

[vandalex]

Nice work man. I Instead of teleport homers man, I recommend deploy scramblers. The lictor should easily be able to plop the scramblers in your opponents deployment zone, and there is way less risk than with teleport homers. You Sure you can only get 10 points, but its an easy 10 points to achieve.

[Hive Bahamut]

Scramblers is more work (your deployment, no mans land and enemy deployment) for less reward. Lictor just stands in corner and got 12, if I remembered action last turn would have maxed.

[No One]

The problem with homer is that if they just killed the lictor, you got 0 (it completes start of your next turn, so wouldn't have done anything last turn, and doesn't do anything if you die). Scramblers is an easy 10 with a DS or 2 for opponent's DZ/no mans.

[Hive Bahamut]

Sept 1, 2020 23:53:29 GMT No One said:

The problem with homer is that if they just killed the lictor, you got 0 (it completes start of your next turn, so wouldn't have done anything last turn, and doesn't do anything if you die). Scramblers is an easy 10 with a DS or 2 for opponent's DZ/no mans.

The plan worked. I had enough pressure to keep the Lictor from even getting looked at. I have been 1:3 for Homer and 0:1 for Scramblers.

I just wanted the Lictor to do something meaningful. The poor sod has been progressively getting worse every edition I have played.

[xsquidz]

Sept 2, 2020 2:12:34 GMT Hive Bahamut said:

Sept 1, 2020 23:53:29 GMT No One said:

The problem with homer is that if they just killed the lictor, you got 0 (it completes start of your next turn, so wouldn't have done anything last turn, and doesn't do anything if you die). Scramblers is an easy 10 with a DS or 2 for opponent's DZ/no mans.

The plan worked. I had enough pressure to keep the Lictor from even getting looked at. I have been 1:3 for Homer and 0:1 for Scramblers.

I just wanted the Lictor to do something meaningful. The poor sod has been progressively getting worse every edition I have played.

Homer doesn't need to be the same model btw doing all 3, they FAQ'd it.

[No One]

Basically the only way you have enough pressure for teleport homer to be good is if you're winning on board. And if you're winning on board, it probably shouldn't matter if you get 10 pts or 12 (you're never getting 15 on homers). You'll either be able to convert that board advantage to a primary (or secondary) advantage and win, or you can't and lose.

If you're not winning on board, homers is something you'll struggle to even get 4 pts out of. Where as scramblers should still be an easy 10 (if it's not, stick another lictor in there for opponent's DZ and no mans land). I'm 3/3 for scramblers with a full game. Those units generally died the turn after scrambling.

[xsquidz]

Sept 2, 2020 3:47:14 GMT No One said:

Basically the only way you have enough pressure for teleport homer to be good is if you're winning on board. And if you're winning on board, it probably shouldn't matter if you get 10 pts or 12 (you're never getting 15 on homers). You'll either be able to convert that board advantage to a primary (or secondary) advantage and win, or you can't and lose.

If you're not winning on board, homers is something you'll struggle to even get 4 pts out of. Where as scramblers should still be an easy 10 (if it's not, stick another lictor in there for opponent's DZ and no mans land). I'm 3/3 for scramblers with a full game. Those units generally died the turn after scrambling.

Agreed, I am about 5 for 5 with scramblers since I started taking it and planning for it.  I can deploy a lictor in my zone to scramble my own zone T1, then he can move to the mid ground if needed but I also have 4 5 man acolye squads, so 2 come in T2 and 2 T3 for engage on all fronts and they can all deploy scramblers plus the lictor if it lives.  That costs my 237 points I think but pretty much guarantees me 10 on deploy scramblers and at least 9 on engage but usually I get 11-13 on that.