2000 Kronos/Kraken 3 Dimas and 2 Exos

[zimko]

The dream: Fit 3 Dimachaerons into a Kraken detachment and still also take 2 Exocrines in Kronos.
The sacrifice: Not enough points for Hive Guard as well. Despite their points drop, they're still expensive. With nurgle coming back into fashion I think there will be more games where Hive Guard shooting just bounces off the target so perhaps the points are better spent elsewhere anyway.
The new hotness: Cheaper Devgants and Warriors allows us to fit in some 'weight of dice' for Necron Warriors, Orks and Eldar.

The List:
Kraken Battalion:
- Neurothrope: Catalyst, Warlord
- The Swarmlord: Onslaught, Psychic Scream
- 3 Rippers
- 26 Termagants w/ Devourers
- 9 Warriors w/ Boneswords, Enhanced Resistance
- Dimachaeron
- Dimachaeron
- Dimachaeron
Kronos Patrol:
- Neurothrope: Symbiostorm, Resonance Barb
- 3 Rippers
- Lictor
- Lictor
- Exocrine
- Exocrine

1998 points and 10 CP

I'm only taking the free Adaptive Physiology here to save the CP. The second Physiology would go on 1 of the Dimachaerons for regenerating wounds or 1 of the Exocrines for Dermic Symbiosis but I don't think it's worth it. The Dimachaerons are going to want as much CP as possible. That's another reason to not take Hive Guard. They're only effective with double shooting, and I won't have that much CP to go around if I'm also dumping CP into the Dimachaerons for double advancing, double attacking and rerolling wounds.

Turn 1, the Dimachaerons can be thrown into my opponent's face to movement block him. 1 gets a double move from the Swarmlord. 1 gets double advance from Kraken. And the other get Metabolic Overdrive. Together, they can form a really large movement-blocking wall. With Onslaught cast on the Advancing Dima, 2 of them can charge into combat. 

If I dont get first turn, then I expect 1 Dima to die. If 2 die then I may be in deep trouble but that's how any list with 3 Dimas will go. 2 Dimas can still do a decent amount of damage and the Exocrines are free to shoot.

[kinginyellow]

it would make more sense in my opinion for the lictors to be in the kronos patrol. This is because of the 1 cp strat to reduce a psychic power to 1d6. with the new mort, stopping miasma if you intend to go ham into him seems quite important. In general with the likely influx of psychers again due to the weakening of abhor the witch, having a tool to stop that critical power seems important. The extra advance on the lictors in kraken is nice to make sure they can get to where they need, but I feel having that tool to stop psychers is probably more helpful.

I do love the overall feel of the list however. I was thinking of something similar but instead of warriors and devilgants having a scythed herodule with dermic (+some reg termagants to hold points) for his auto hitting weapons and doubling down on the big nidzilla. your has more solid opsec which would be better for the overall scenario.

[zimko]

I was keeping the Lictors in Kraken to use Pheramone Trail on the Devgants.

[beetlejuice]

Jan 21, 2021 15:45:44 GMT zimko said:

I was keeping the Lictors in Kraken to use Pheramone Trail on the Devgants.

stratagem just says tyranid infantry unit if there is a LICTOR from your army on the battlefield. There’s no <hive fleet> requirement for the lictor so either detachment works.

[zimko]

Good catch. I'll move them to Kronos then.

[lector27]

Just a thought -if you wanted to go for a broader nidzilla, you could drop one of the dimachaerons and replace both Exocrines with Barbed Hierodules with 20 pts left over

[zimko]

I could, but I prefer focused units instead of general purpose units. Dimas are focused on melee and being fast distractions. Exocrines are focused on shooting and are very efficient at it. Barbed Hierodules need to do a little of both to be effective and that's just not what this list does. If I were to go Barbed Hierodules, I'd go with a list similar to what placed 4th at a GT recently where you take 3 of them and give them all the buffs and run them around in a deathball.

[beetlejuice]

Jan 22, 2021 14:46:54 GMT zimko said:

I could, but I prefer focused units instead of general purpose units. Dimas are focused on melee and being fast distractions. Exocrines are focused on shooting and are very efficient at it. Barbed Hierodules need to do a little of both to be effective and that's just not what this list does. If I were to go Barbed Hierodules, I'd go with a list similar to what placed 4th at a GT recently where you take 3 of them and give them all the buffs and run them around in a deathball.

or take a single spearhead detachment with swarmlord, rippers, lictors and 3 scythed and 3 barbed hierodules. Tyranid knights ftw!