1250 list - levi for doubles

[Bohxim]

Having an upcoming friendly(ish) doubles tournament with unique missions every game.
Kinda locked, but would appreciate any feedback and shortcomings any of you can foresee. Of course I'll try to provide how the games went after it happens early Aug.

My list
Points: 1250
Hive fleet: leviathan
Traits: transnids + reroll 1 hit
Starting cp:2
Purchased: 2 relics and 2 WL trait.

Hq:
Walk rant - relic: shard gullet, WL trait: 5+fnp,spells: paroxasm & psychic scream
Neurothrope - relic: resonance barb, WL trait: direct guidance, spells: catalyst and onslaught

Troops
10x gargoyles
9x warriors - adrenal glands, 6 deathspitters, 3 venom cannons, 9 double boneswords
3x warriors - 3 deathspitters, 3 double boneswords

Elite
Death leaper

Heavy
Exocrine
Screamer killer - adrenal glands,4++ invul physiology


My partner is a death guard detachment.
Primarily typhus, pox walkers, marines, full squad of terminators and a couple of blight haulers.

Our initial plan is to have screamer killer deployed near his death guard stuff to get the - 1 toughness as necessary. The death leaper and gargoyles can be going around trying to do objectives or assassinate.
while he goes around trying to march up and melee stuff, the rest of the nids lay down some quality fire and just survive in general with Leviathan durability and overall relatively accurate firepower.

Have seen the overall listing and there seems To be many really heavy lists like knights, a 3 tyrant nids list and even a knights and hierophant pair. I'm thinking there's gonna be a lot of heavy stuff to chew through and I'm starting to think my list might not have the durability to hold up against those or the necessary antitank to welter them down sufficiently before we get into melee

[Bohxim]

First game practice round.
Deathguard + nids
Vs
Imperial tanks + eldar

Opponent had 3 tanks, 1 tank commander and 1 manticore, along with small groups of troops and the eldar player had harlequins, a deep striking transport, archon, a pack of sorcerers, some durable wraith armored guys with choppers, 4bikes, some snipers and some winged guys that could fly-shoot-deepstrike.

Since it was practice game, we went got tempest card missions.
Short deployment with 2 pyramid shaped deployment zones pointing to each other with a circle carved out from the center of the board.

We deployed somewhat aggressively, with my screamer killer and Deathleaper behind my partner's rhino, with his army on the left flank, as there were 2 no-man's land objectives on that flank. mine on the right flank at the forward edge of deployment and exocrine behind Los cover and gargoyles in reserve. We also had basic warrior troops and his pos walkers just standing on our deployment objective. Opponents deployed most of the tanks in the middle line scattered troops, eldar forward deployed some stuff and kept transport in reserve. as both players played simultaneously, i missed most of my partner's movement and shooting phases.

We were lucky to get first turn. Most things moved forward, warriors made a 5"advance to get good angles in a ruin, With tyrant at the side. Exocrine peeked out to get a shot and combined with the tyrant, took out a demolisher cannon tank with shooting. Warriors whiffed their shooting and only did 1 wound to another tank. DG marched forward, didn't get much shooting in, but made it into charge with the forward deployed units. But they took more casualties to the marines than wraith armored guys.
Opponents turn they decided that tyrant and exocrine pair had to go because it might take out more tanks. The 3 tanks heavy weapons took out the tyrant but poured the rest into the warriors, along with the manticore and troops' firing. The eldar also sent the quad of bikes and harlequins out to shot and sent 3 smite-type psychic spells into the warriors. but strong rolls on catalyst + cover + -1d strategem let the warriors survive all that shooting losing only 4 models. 3 units charged the warriors, who now could use the -1d stratagem at the lower cost and survived all the melee to 1 model remaining. warriors are boss to tank almost all the shoots for turn 1 and the lone remaining model heroically fought back and dealt 2 wounds to a bike captain.
we held 3 objectives to the opponent's 2 but primary scoring did not occur for turn 1. we did gain a few points for secondaries though.

turn 2
tyranids have taken a beating.. losing nearly 500p of the army on turn 1, but they did reduce the imperial's shooting somewhat, which could have made the turn 1 a lot worse. lone warrior was alive but surrounded so could not fall back without spending CP. Screamer killer and DG's rhino moved to within 2" of the tank commander. With no tyrant to buff, zoan put his roll 3d6 ability on himself and pulled a supersmite for massive 6 dmg on the void bikes, taking out the bike captain and another bike. Catalyst on exocrine was denied. shooting saw the exocrine do 0 dmg to another tank (was hoping to degrade it a little to affect his BS, but alas...) even with the strat for exploding 6s.. Last warrior in the big squad died in combat on our turn, which was expected, so nids deployed the gargoyles as a speed bump and screen the neurothrope and small group of warriors behind the objective.
Opponents shot only semi effectively, chipping off some damage from the blight haulers of the DG and wiping most of the chaos marines that disembarked from the rhino but -1D strat and dense cover saved the warrior squad from the manticore. bikes and snipers did a few dmg to the neurothrope in shooting and the harlequins moved forward to charge the gargoyles. the strat for -1 to hit almost saved the gargoyles, they did exactly 10 dmg to the unit, wiping them out then consolidating onto the objective. Eldar's 3 smite-type spells all went off easily with their fate dice and did significant MWs to the blight haulers and marines.
opponents scored more on primaries as they removed most of the chaos marines from the middle objective and had more models on our deployment objective but we still outscored them a little with secondaries.

turn 3
drew an assassination secondary, so moved the deathleaper right next to a guard's character to finish it in the charge, consolidating into a demolisher tank to prevent it from shooting the other DG units. Screamer killer's scream did 2 damage to the tank commander (DG's -1T on the tank helped!) and charged in, took 1D in overwatch but dealing 3 MW on the charge and finishing off the tank commander with the scythes. this scored us some VP for assassination. we did also draw a secondary for killing high point units, and exocrine demolished the wave serpent, securing the VP. Another strong psychic smite from the neurothrope wiped the harlequin squad (Neurothrope secret MVP?) and healed up. DG terminators made a charge against the remaining bikes and wiped them too and blight haulers moved onto opponent's deployment objective along with the Deathleaper to try and hold more. so now we got significant points from the secondaries for assassinations, hold opponent deployment and kill unit with most cost.
Opponent's turn saw the manticore blowing deathleaper away but every shot from the tank bounced off the screamer killer's 4++. Eldar has a much more successful psychic and shooting, as they inflicted 8MWs to the terminators and used that fast squad with 40 shots to take down the warrior and charged the neurothrope, tagging the exocrine as well with consolidation. they did not do much in combat, only taking 2 wounds off the neuro, and both the neuro and exocrine's fight back took down 2-3 of the flyers. but this was not enough to get the flyers out of tagging the exocrine.

turn 4
exocrine fell back with the hope of killing enough flyers to keep him from being tagged again turn 5. neurothope only did a 2 damage smite and catalyst on itself. DG was also badly wounded with the entire terminator squad and all the marines and pox walkers dead. but the blighthaulers, Typhus and the rhino moved further onto the enemy deployment zone in preparation to charge the remaining groups of troops. Screamer killer failed a 8" charge even after CP reroll so was standing in the open against the manticore and remaining lascannon tank.
opponent's turn saw that screamer killer's 4++ and -1d shrugging off most of the shots, losing only 4 wounds. Eldar used 2 CP to retreat the flying boys to kill the neurothrope with shooting and charge the exocrine again. but only took 2 wounds off him and losing 2 in the return punch. their psykers also did crazy good with their usual mortal wound bombing, dealing 7-8 to the blight haulers. but they were overall unlucky with their secondaries and could only score 2, but were still in the lead for primaries.

turn 5.
we misread the secondary and we let Typhus do an action which only let us score on our subsequent command phase, basically wasting his turn. the blight haulers took down 3 sorcerers in shooting and a charge, and the screamer killer somehow did some killing by screaming at the plasma guards. Its charge also took down the last tank and tagged the manticore in combat.
nothing much the opponents could do after this. destroying the remaining blight hauler but nothing else with their remaining forces.

it was a very close game but we significantly outscored them on secondaries. it was 60+ to their 56VP.

After-game discussion:
would have been an entirely different game, very likely a table wipe by turn 2 or 3 if they went first. as this would leave the warriors without cover and catalyst, while they retained 1 more tank's firepower.
light cover + catalyst + -1D strat + leviathan makes warriors crazy tanky, taking firepower and melee charges from >1000points of models.
better use of LOS blocking/char protect could have been better used
Deathleaper is cheap enough to use him for objective related reasons for a turn or 2 then finding a way to sneak a character kill when possible.
SCreamer killer and Neuro mortal wound bombing are significant sources of fast easy damage.
Shardgullet is really really good for imperial leman russes. seems likely to get 2 shots thru, which degrades them to their lowest bracket. otherwise their 2+ save and armor of contempt is going to shrug off so many shots...
eldar flyboys are crazy. 40shots + move back to safety or charges after. Their MW bombing from the 2 psyker units is pretty insane anti tank too. reliably doing 3 dmg from 3d3 on 2+ and also their 2 smites.
but MW seems to be their bane too. with Neuro's lucky smites taking off 2-350p of their models across the 3 turns.
seeing how reliable the Neuro performed as a psychic battery, makes me think he'll do better moving up the front line with the warrior blob and attempting super smites with the 3d6 pick 2 and +2 to psychic (and +3 on 1 turn when we use psychic imperative). if my tyrant does not get good range for his own smites, i might consider using leviathan's hive nexus to get a +1 to neurothrope again across the turns.

next will be summarized versions of the actual tournament this weekend. prob not a turn by turn breakdown but an overall view.

[Bohxim]

Day 1
Dg + nids vs harlequins + sisters
Mission was to break through a wall and get inside. Turn 1 we had nothing to shoot as they deployed behind the 2 storey wall. But they climbed up and shot and charged us on their turn. - 1d and catalyst only saw 5 warriors die to 100+ attacks from 20 harlequins and their warlord, who died on the swing back. screamer killer got to blown up a segment of the wall turn 2, killing the sister warlord in the rubble. strong psychic wiped quite a few harlequins. Exocrine and tyrant took out the transport bikes and a couple of sister warsuits. Good win overall even if we didn't breach the walls due to time out.

Game 2
Dg + nids vs astra militum + eldar.
Long deployment and mission was to destroy 2 Necron pillars.
Long table with the tanks long range and extreme deployment and mobility of the eldar kept all the heavy firepower away from the tanks. The turn 1 deep striking sorcerers made mince meat of most of the back line through 10 mws and dealing lots of damage in melee (wounded even exocrine on 2s). 1/3 of the army was remaining on turn 4 but we were still somewhat out ranged and both our warlords were down. 19:2 loss to them. Probably would have been a hard game even with barbed hierodule's 48" guns..