2000pts Gorgon trial.

[crispyc]

Hey, I'm going to be playing tomorrow both Tempest and AoO against Blood Angels. I've only ever played 2x matched play games before and lost both lol.

This is my first time using Gorgon and most of the units. I'll try to post what worked or didn't work after.

If you have any points please let me know. But I'll try to post what I've got and my line of thinking for why.


++ Arks of Omen Detachment (Tyranids) [91 PL, 2CP, 2,000pts] ++

+ Configuration +

Arks of Omen Compulsory Type: Troops

Battle Size [6CP]: 3. Strike Force (101-200 Total PL / 1001-2000 Points)

Detachment Command Cost

Game Type: 5. Chapter Approved: Arks of Omen

Hive Fleet: (Lurk) Territorial Instincts, Gorgon

+ Stratagems +

Hive Predator [-2CP]: 2x Extra Warlord Trait

Rarefied Enhancements [-1CP]: Extra Bio-artefact

Relic [-1CP]

+ HQ +

Hive Tyrant [9 PL, 210pts]: 2x Monstrous Scything Talon, Adrenal Glands, Heavy Venom Cannon, Power: Paroxysm, Power: Poisonous Influence, Power: Smite, Power: The Horror, Relic: Scythes of Tyran, Warlord Trait: Heightened Senses - offensive tyrant

Hive Tyrant [9 PL, 210pts]: Adrenal Glands, Heavy Venom Cannon, Lash Whip and Monstrous Bonesword, Power: Catalyst, Power: Poisonous Influence, Power: Psychic Scream, Power: Smite, Warlord - secure home objectives

Neurothrope [5 PL, 110pts]: Power: Neuroparasite, Power: Onslaught, Power: Poisonous Influence, Power: Smite, Warlord Trait: Synaptic Tendrils

Tervigon [11 PL, 245pts]: Adrenal Glands, Massive Scything Talons, Power: Catalyst, Power: Poisonous Influence, Power: Smite, Relic: Hypermorphic Biology - tank with T9 and double wound count for brackets.

+ Troops + all four crowd control and objectives.

Gargoyles [4 PL, 80pts]
. 10x Gargoyle: 10x Fleshborer

Hormagaunts [8 PL, 180pts]: Toxin Sacs
. 20x Hormagaunt: 20x Hormagaunt Talons (Gorgon Power to get 6x mortals hopefully)

Termagants [12 PL, 210pts]: Fleshborer, 30x Termagant

Tyranid Warriors [8 PL, 190pts]: Adrenal Glands
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Dual Boneswords
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Dual Boneswords
. Tyranid Warrior: Deathspitter, Dual Boneswords
. Tyranid Warrior: Lash Whip and Bonesword, Venom Cannon

+ Elites +

Zoanthropes [7 PL, 210pts]: Power: Neuroparasite, Power: Poisonous Influence, Power: Smite, 3x Zoanthrope

+ Fast Attack +

Parasite of Mortrex [4 PL, 80pts] to fly around to actions

Ripper Swarms [2 PL, 45pts]: 3x Ripper Swarm to provide a temporary safe place for parasite.

+ Heavy Support +

Tyrannofex [12 PL, 230pts]: Acid Spray, Adaptive Physiology: Dermic Symbiosis control the middle of the map.

++ Total: [91 PL, 2CP, 2,000pts] ++

Would be reduced to 1CP with the heroic support stratagem.

Current thoughts are which weapon profile for tyrranofex to use, and is a second hive tyrant necessary? I've brought it out for the anti tank and melee output.

But I'll see how it goes. Any thoughts you have, please let me know.

[piersonsmuppet]

Run Horms at x15 so that the 6” advance and charge strat is 1 CP.

Drop the rippers, 1 warrior, and AG from the tervigon and you have the pts for 2x15 Horm units w/ TS.

Tervigon REALLY likes maw claws and heightened senses. If you want to run with T9, give it the 5+++ to stack durability.

[crispyc]

Jan 29, 2023 0:31:32 GMT piersonsmuppet said:

Run Horms at x15 so that the 6” advance and charge strat is 1 CP.

Drop the rippers, 1 warrior, and AG from the tervigon and you have the pts for 2x15 Horm units w/ TS.

Tervigon REALLY likes maw claws and heightened senses. If you want to run with T9, give it the 5+++ to stack durability.

That's good thinking. But my issue would be CP so I would need to revisit where I've spent it currently. And having AG on tervigon opens it up having D3 extra attacks at 16Str so it would wound on 2s.

[turtletyrant]

Jan 29, 2023 9:10:30 GMT crispyc said:

Jan 29, 2023 0:31:32 GMT piersonsmuppet said:

Run Horms at x15 so that the 6” advance and charge strat is 1 CP.

Drop the rippers, 1 warrior, and AG from the tervigon and you have the pts for 2x15 Horm units w/ TS.

Tervigon REALLY likes maw claws and heightened senses. If you want to run with T9, give it the 5+++ to stack durability.

That's good thinking. But my issue would be CP so I would need to revisit where I've spent it currently. And having AG on tervigon opens it up having D3 extra attacks at 16Str so it would wound on 2s.

The AG on Tervigon would give him 15 Str. first you multiply, so 7 x2 and then add +1

[crispyc]

Oh really? I didn't realise that. I thought adding to the bearer would be the base stat increase and then multiply. So in most cases it still wounds on 2, just sometimes 3 now.

I've removed the rippers and a warrior and made a second x15 Hormagaunt unit.

Also swapped the neurothropes Trait of synaptic Tendrils for Adaptive biology on the Tervigon. So i still start with 1CP currently.

[crispyc]

Outcome...

So i took the advice of swapping a warrior and the rippers to make 2x15 Hormagaunts. I also removed synapticTendrilsfrom the Nuerothrope and have tervigon the 5+++

It went well, only managed to do 3 full turns of Tempest as we were both still learning what you can and can't do, do it took a bit of time. By T3 I had 56pts and he had 35pts so we ended up talking through the rest and we worked out I would have won, as he only had 3x units totaling 7 models, none had obsec. But i still had the majority of my army left, minus the warriors and parasite that died valiantly.

MVP for me would be Tyrranofex with Acid Spray and DS. He pretty much took out 1 unit each turn. The hive tyrants did quite well and just deleted 2x Relic Dreadnoughts in one turn of shooting.

Tervigon with Hypermorphic Biology and Adaptive biology deterred the other player from attacking him. She did great respawning the wall of flesh and dominate that side of the board.

Hormagaunts with Toxin Sacs, Poisonous Influence, warrior synaptic imperative, and Hive tyrants buff of reroll 1s AND 4+ wound from gorgon, made them devastating. A swarmlord could be good to go with them but i definitely needed the extra VC.

I used the 30x Terms to charge onto an objective and they surprisingly cleared 4x death company marines from it.

Most useless unit I had was the parasite. But I don't think I used him correctly.bad positioning. I didn't deepstrike, I kinda just used him to plug gaps in the synaptic link.