2000 pts CS unconventional list

[forthehive]

Okay so my forgeworld stuff isn't finished being commissioned yet. I have a game coming up in a couple days and going to play what I have.

It is kind of a hybrid list between CS and standard leviathan. Both Detachments is 1997pts with the 100 pts for reserves of 2 squads of termigaunts.

The 6 hive guard are getting tervigon swarm leader amd +1 to hit, but I'll have to chain the links back, which isn't hard with this list.

The tervigon gets -1 to wound Relic. Pumps out screens for Hive guard with the 20 gaunts. He also give his reroll 1 and 2 to wound to the tfex with rupture cannon. Cast Catalyst on Hive guard.

The 9 man warriors take contested middle objective late game. Both that Squad and the Hive guard have ignore ap1 and 2. With 5++ and a Catalyst 5+++, they will be impossible to shift especially with my monster threats needing to be dealt with.

Swarm lord and Hive tyrant support monsters on the offensive mid board.

I think I'll take to the last, on tervigon, 9 man warriors and possibly Hive guard or swarmlord or something.

The psychic powers will be psychic scream and Catalyst, 4++ CS power primarily. This list is all about durability.

I only start with 6 CP. Hoping to farm with adaptive neuro Lobe. 5CP if I decide to buff the warriors with the new pregame CS strat.

I will save CP for killing power on objectives only. Or for making a monster ob sec for a turn, or Relentlessly flurry with Hive guard to contest an objective.

Any thoughts on more secondaries? Grind comes to mind, or warp ritual with my 3 psykers. But to the last seems like a winner for the warriors and tervigon.

++ Spearhead Detachment -3CP (Tyranids) [49 PL, 8CP, 935pts] ++

+ Configuration +

Army of Renown - Crusher Stampede

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

Detachment Command Cost [-3CP]

Hive Fleet: Leviathan

+ Stratagems +

Bounty of the Hive Fleet [-1CP]: 1 Extra Bio-artefact

+ HQ +

Hive Tyrant [11 PL, 205pts]: 2x Monstrous Scything Talons, Relic: Adaptive Neural Lobe, Wings

The Swarmlord [14 PL, 240pts]

+ Heavy Support +

Carnifexes [6 PL, 125pts]
. Carnifex: Monstrous Acid Maw, Monstrous Crushing Claws, Two Devourers with Brainleech Worms

Tyrannofex [9 PL, 190pts]: Rupture Cannon

Tyrannofex [9 PL, 175pts]: Acid Spray

++ Total: [49 PL, 8CP, 935pts] ++


++ Patrol Detachment 0CP (Tyranids) [52 PL, 10CP, 962pts] ++

+ Configuration +

Army of Renown - Crusher Stampede

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

Detachment Command Cost

Hive Fleet: Leviathan

+ Stratagems +

Progeny of the Hive [-1CP]

+ HQ +

Tervigon [12 PL, -1CP, 205pts]: Massive Scything Talons, Power: Catalyst, Power: Smite, Relic: Biomorphic Carapace, Stratagem: Alpha Leader-Beast, Synaptic Link: Weapoinised Gestation, Warlord, Warlord Trait: Swarm Leader

+ Troops +

Tyranid Warriors [13 PL, 192pts]: Synaptic Link: Bioweapon Bond
. Adaptive Physiology: Enhanced Resistance
. Tyranid Warrior: Rending Claws, Scything Talons
. Tyranid Warrior: Rending Claws, Scything Talons
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Scything Talons
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Scything Talons
. Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Deathspitter
. Tyranid Warrior (Bio-cannon): Scything Talons, Venom Cannon
. Tyranid Warrior (Bio-cannon): Boneswords, Venom Cannon

+ Elites +

Hive Guard [12 PL, 270pts]
. Adaptive Physiology: Enhanced Resistance
. 6x Hive Guard (Impaler): 6x Impaler Cannon

+ Heavy Support +

Exocrine [9 PL, 170pts]

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

++ Total: [52 PL, 10CP, 962pts] ++


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When my forgeworld stuff gets here, I'll probably drop the tfex with rupture, the hive guard and something else for the scythed h. The barbed h. And the dima.

[forthehive]

Okay thoughts on secondaries, it's going to be stranglehold and to the last. I will spend the 1cp to buff the warriors WS and BS.

I might ditch the hive tyrant and put in a malanthrope. It will provide the -1 to hit buff on tervigon and hiveguard. This block will be impossible to remove if screened well and hidden well. Malanthrope can't be shot next to tervigon. Tervigon is an absolute beast that has -1 to hit ranged, -1 to wound, -1 damage, T8, 5++ with 5+++ Catalyst. The hive guard at -1 to hit, being behind obscuring hopefully, 5++ and ignore ap1 and 2!

The 9 block of warriors(5++, ignore ap1 and 2), exocrine and tfex with rupture camp one side, the hive guard, malanthrope and tervigon camp the other. Tervigon spawns 2 x 10 man squads for screens. I do need both of these or at least one to take 1 or 2 home field objectives.

Tfex with acid,swarmlord, carnifex, mawloc go for a center objective/objectives. Another tfex with rupture and or warriors late game will add support. This list is very durable and brings a fair bit of shooting punch

I play on Wednesday! I will update this post with results against deathguard.