I won my first game !

[NoOn]

Just did my first 500 pts game (against necrons). It was awesome! Lots of fun. (first 40k game ever)

Even with the nerfs, I managed well with my shardgullet walkrant clearing his HQ (costed 2 CP for reroll wounds tho...) in one phase and even his doom scythe in the next turn. BOOM HEADSHOT!

My broodlord got wrecked but its okay because while he was focusing on him, I deployed my genestealer 9 inches from his sniper units and succeeded my charge and wiped his unit out.

My warriors didn't do much to be honest and they seemed to be the least impactfull units of the game (3 warriors, one venom canon and 2 boneswords).


I have some questions if you don't mind: 

-the owner of the hobby store told me I can't pick a Barbed strangler and a venom cannon in the same 3 warriors unit, is that true?

-I couldn't find the strategem VANGUARD ONSLAUGHT in my deck of tyranids cards, I wanted to use it to help genestealers with wound rerolls after a successfull charge but the owner and I couldn't find the stratagem anywhere, is this stratagem not legit anymore?

-How many HQ can I have in my 500 pts army? I had 2 , broodlord and walkrant, but I was thinking of replacing the warriors unit for a tyranid prime to get the range bonus 24 inch imperative and to get full equiped warrior, can I have 3 hq?

-I was looking at the tyranid prime and I was wondering if its not actualy better points wise than regular warriors because of the items nerf.


The hobby has me, im going back to the store next week fighting the Custodes 500pts (probably with a mission this time). Wish me luck !

[purestrain]

Jan 13, 2023 0:46:38 GMT NoOn said:

Just did my first 500 pts game (against necrons). It was awesome! Lots of fun. (first 40k game ever)

Even with the nerfs, I managed well with my shardgullet walkrant clearing his HQ (costed 2 CP for reroll wounds tho...) in one phase and even his doom scythe in the next turn. BOOM HEADSHOT!

My broodlord got wrecked but its okay because while he was focusing on him, I deployed my genestealer 9 inches from his sniper units and succeeded my charge and wiped his unit out.

My warriors didn't do much to be honest and they seemed to be the least impactfull units of the game (3 warriors, one venom canon and 2 boneswords).


I have some questions if you don't mind: 

-the owner of the hobby store told me I can't pick a Barbed strangler and a venom cannon in the same 3 warriors unit, is that true?

-I couldn't find the strategem VANGUARD ONSLAUGHT in my deck of tyranids cards, I wanted to use it to help genestealers with wound rerolls after a successfull charge but the owner and I couldn't find the stratagem anywhere, is this stratagem not legit anymore?

-How many HQ can I have in my 500 pts army? I had 2 , broodlord and walkrant, but I was thinking of replacing the warriors unit for a tyranid prime to get the range bonus 24 inch imperative and to get full equiped warrior, can I have 3 hq?

-I was looking at the tyranid prime and I was wondering if its not actualy better points wise than regular warriors because of the items nerf.


The hobby has me, im going back to the store next week fighting the Custodes 500pts (probably with a mission this time). Wish me luck !

1. No, you can, in fact, take a BS and a VC in a 3 man unit as per the datasheet

2. Vanguard Onslaught is a crusade stratagem, only usable in crusade games.

3. You can have as many HQS as your FOC /points allow, but their expense at 500 points limits you, there is also rules for some HQS that can be taken outside of the normal FOC slot 

4. Tyranid Prime is a pretty good backfield defender with dual boneswords and a venom cannon, but its only 1 model, mileage will vary from army to army

[Bohxim]

Also, I'd like to point out that you probably couldn't use 2cp for reroll wound as that strategem can only be used once per phase (I'm assuming you're talking about the same shooting phase of the same turn here)
OK. After some thought maybe you meant 2cp reroll wound on attacks... My bad!

[swarm492]

Jan 13, 2023 0:46:38 GMT NoOn said:

Just did my first 500 pts game (against necrons). It was awesome! Lots of fun. (first 40k game ever)

Even with the nerfs, I managed well with my shardgullet walkrant clearing his HQ (costed 2 CP for reroll wounds tho...) in one phase and even his doom scythe in the next turn. BOOM HEADSHOT!

My broodlord got wrecked but its okay because while he was focusing on him, I deployed my genestealer 9 inches from his sniper units and succeeded my charge and wiped his unit out.

My warriors didn't do much to be honest and they seemed to be the least impactfull units of the game (3 warriors, one venom canon and 2 boneswords).


I have some questions if you don't mind: 

-the owner of the hobby store told me I can't pick a Barbed strangler and a venom cannon in the same 3 warriors unit, is that true?

-I couldn't find the strategem VANGUARD ONSLAUGHT in my deck of tyranids cards, I wanted to use it to help genestealers with wound rerolls after a successfull charge but the owner and I couldn't find the stratagem anywhere, is this stratagem not legit anymore?

-How many HQ can I have in my 500 pts army? I had 2 , broodlord and walkrant, but I was thinking of replacing the warriors unit for a tyranid prime to get the range bonus 24 inch imperative and to get full equiped warrior, can I have 3 hq?

-I was looking at the tyranid prime and I was wondering if its not actualy better points wise than regular warriors because of the items nerf.


The hobby has me, im going back to the store next week fighting the Custodes 500pts (probably with a mission this time). Wish me luck !

Congrats on your first win, I still remember mine and it is pushing 20 years ago. As long as yoy have fun your doing it right win or lose.

[NoOn]

Jan 13, 2023 6:50:43 GMT Bohxim said:

Also, I'd like to point out that you probably couldn't use 2cp for reroll wound as that strategem can only be used once per phase (I'm assuming you're talking about the same shooting phase of the same turn here)
OK. After some thought maybe you meant 2cp reroll wound on attacks... My bad!

I might have done that incorrectly. Thanks for mentioning it, ill see that I use my CP reroll ability according to the rules.

[niiai]

Congrats on the win!

[rakkagunmagus]

Glad you had fun, pretty much the whole point of it at the end of the day, right?

We had all the rules wrong, playing on a shag carpet, with a couple of those start collecting boxes, models unpainted and the glue not even dried yet.

It was fantastic.

I remember this clearly because when we were cleaning out that house, and that carpet, one of the Trygon spikes got stuck in between my fingernails.

[Bohxim]

Yea we all started somewhere. My first few games, we played with leftover packing materials as we just moved into a new place. Another I was playing with cig and dice boxes to proxy models to get a feel because I only had a couple of start collecting boxes hahahha good days