2000point deep strike pressure

[vejby]

I will be testing this in a couple of days:

++ Battalion Detachment 0CP (Tyranids) [107 PL, 8CP, 2,000pts] ++

+ Configuration +

Battle Size [12CP]: 3. Strike Force (101-200 Total PL / 1001-2000 Points)

Detachment CP



Hive Fleet: Behemoth

+ Stratagems +

Bounty of the Hive Fleet [-3CP]: 2 Extra Bio-artefacts

Progeny of the Hive [-1CP]



+ HQ +

Broodlord [7 PL, 125pts]: Power: Catalyst, Resonance Barb, Warlord

Hive Tyrant [12 PL, 230pts]: Adrenal Glands, Heavy Venom Cannon, Monstrous Rending Claws, Pathogenesis, Power: The Horror, Power: Unstoppable Hunger, Toxin Sacs, Wings



+ Troops +

Genestealers [16 PL, 255pts]: 4x Acid Maw, 17x Scything Talons

. 17x Genestealer: 17x Rending Claws

Genestealers [16 PL, 255pts]: 4x Acid Maw, 17x Scything Talons

. 17x Genestealer: 17x Rending Claws

Tyranid Warriors [12 PL, 270pts]: Adrenal Glands

. Adaptive Physiology: Enhanced Resistance

6 x Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Scything Talons

3 x Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Venom Cannon



+ Elites +

Lictor [2 PL, 37pts]: Flesh Hooks, Rending Claws

Lictor [2 PL, 37pts]: Flesh Hooks, Rending Claws



+ Fast Attack +

Meiotic Spores [3 PL, 60pts]: 3x Meiotic Spore

Meiotic Spores [3 PL, 60pts]: 3x Meiotic Spore

Raveners [12 PL, 216pts]

9 x Ravener: Rending Claws, Scything Talons



+ Heavy Support +

Mawloc [6 PL, 125pts]: Prehensile Pincer Tail

Mawloc [6 PL, 125pts]: Prehensile Pincer Tail

Trygon Prime [10 PL, 205pts]: 3x Massive Scything Talons, Adrenal Glands, Arachnacyte Gland, Biostatic Rattle, Toxin Sacs

. Adaptive Physiology: Murderous Size



++ Total: [107 PL, 8CP, 2,000pts] ++

It should give me enough bells and whistles to trigger the two strats from BoB that add extra dice to the charge roll for a, hopefully, devastating beta-strike. The stealers will provide board presence and actions turn 1 and might eat some scouts or similar. Designed to handle elite armies, it will have trouble with competent screening, though, but in a marine-heavy meta that should not be too big an issue.

[N.I.B.]

Looks like a fun army, although regardless how much I wish it, I don't thing charges from reserve is a viable tactic, it's just too unreliable, and pretty much leaves it in the hands of your opponent.

About the Arachnacyte Gland, its only function is to replace the 2d6+1 charge of the Adrenal Glands with 3d6 drop lowest.
Average of 2d6+1: 8"
Average of 3d6 drop lowest: 8.46"
Imagine designing a relic whose average outcome is to add less than half an inch of extra charge range, and that also requires you to pay points for an upgrade (plus extra CP), and thinking that sounds at all reasonable.

[vejby]

Behemoth adds some reliability to the arachnacyte gland vs. normal glands, but in the game last night it did fail spectacularly