Some 500pts army lists

[kubimaniac]

Greetings, I will be returning to the game (last edition I played was 7th) because a friend of mine started playing SoB. He is new to the hobby so for now it's only 500pts. I have made some lists and I would appreciate any comments that you might have. I am posting also in the end my collection so you know what alternatives there are.

1st list (Shooty monsters)

Jormugandr Fleet

[195pts] 1x Hive Tyrant, Catalyst, Scream, 2x2 Devs, ResBarb, Warlord
[260pts] 2x Carnifex, Enhanced Senses, 2x2 Devs, Voracious Ammunition
[36pts] 3x Rippers
[491pts] (Probably give Mace to one Carnifex with leftover pts)

2nd list (Hordelike)

Leviathan Fleet

[95pts] 1x Neurothrope, Catalyst, ResBarb, Warlord
[168pts] 24x Termagants, 24x Devs
[234pts] 9x Warriors, 9x Deathspitters, 9x LshBw, Enhanced Resistance
[497pts]

3rd list (I don't have a second Hive Tyrant)

Kraken Fleet

[205pts] 1x Hive Tyrant, Catalyst, Scream, 2xMST, Wings, Murderous Size, ResBarb, Warlord
[220pts] 2x Carnifex, 2xMST, Tusks
[72pts] 3x Warriors, 3x Deathspitters, 3x LshBw
[497pts]

I also thought of a 20x Genestealers, 1x Swarmlord army list (exactly 500pts) but I don't know if that's viable or fun. You tell me!

My collection:
1x HiveTyrant, 2x Venomthropes, 44x Termagants, 24x Hormagaunts, 28x Genestealers, 6x HiveGuard, 6x Zoanthropes, 9x Warriors, 1x Trygon, 3x TyrantGuard, 1x Biovore, 9x Rippers, 1x Broodlord, 2x Carnifex, 1 Neurothrope[/i]

[afewveiws]

Why not go:

Swarmlord
OOE
Rippers

[kubimaniac]

Aug 24, 2021 16:34:25 GMT afewveiws said:

Why not go:

Swarmlord
OOE
Rippers

I will add it to my lists. Why is the OOE better than two Carnifexes?

Also I read somewhere at the forum that devgants are good against Sisters because of their T3 that's why I tried the shooty list.

[Phelddagrif]

Aug 24, 2021 19:48:26 GMT kubimaniac said:

Aug 24, 2021 16:34:25 GMT afewveiws said:

Why not go:

Swarmlord
OOE
Rippers

I will add it to my lists. Why is the OOE better than two Carnifexes?

Also I read somewhere at the forum that devgants are good against Sisters because of their T3 that's why I tried the shooty list.

If you are planning to fight a lot of sisters you can take
Flying Tyrant with Double Scythals and Murderous Size, ResBarb+Psyscream you have a solid tank/elite remover
and then just 30 devourer gants which you can put in reserve for 1cp for an ambush
and 10 gants + 3+rippers for points

OR if you REALLY just want to win you could take 6 hive guard Neurothrope 2x10 gants and rippers, 500game tables are really small so you basically see the whole battlefield with hive guard and can just double shoot everything to death in 2 turns

All depends on what you want to do, I play 500's with Flying Tyrant+Swarmlord+3rippers, it doesnt win, but it looks cool

[kubimaniac]

I had two matches with my friend and I would like to report (because there is not much content about 500pts army lists).

First match:
Levi
HT: 2x MST (murderous size), Wings, -1 wound relic, Horror, Psychic Scream
30 Devgants
3 Warriors: 2x ST, Synaptic Link

The tyrant felt unkillable for 500pts match and the devgants could eradicate anything that they could see. It was an easy to medium victory.

Second match:
Levi
Broodlord: Resonance Barb, Synaptic Link, Horror
12x Genestealers
3x Rippers
3x Rippers
Carnifex: 2x Two Devourers, Dermic Symbiosis, Enhanced Senses

Broodlord synaptic link felt useless most of the time since dense cover is hard to give because of smaller table size. The genestealers could not get a charge while at 10+ models and they were burnt mostly to a Seraphim Squad that Deadly Descended and Cleansed with Fire. The carnifex shot once and an overwatch and then died fast to Sacressants. Rippers are good but only if all your other models don't die by T2/T3. That was a hard loss. Mainly to genestealers being killed by the reinforcements and could not get slingshot and the rippers that were 72 useless points. The carnifex felt good until the rhino brought the sacressants.

My friend's list was more or less this:
Cannoness
Rhino
Battle Sisters Squad 5-10
Sacressants 10
Seraphim Squad/Zephyrim Squad (changed between games)

I liked both games and I have more lists that I want to try. Sorry if my descriptions are kinda lackluster. I will try if someone appreciates these to provide more detailed turn by turn descriptions and maybe I can also see what I can do to do better.

Some of my questions so that I can improve are:
1) Is it worth to shoot at the Rhino or do you just wait for it to unload and charge at you?
2) How do you defend your precious units (especially in 500pts) from reinforcements shooting them to oblivion? Devgants could do the same but they wouldn't come 9" away.