Guard your home objective

[bugsy]

How do you guard your home objective? I normally put two exocrines and a biovore there somewhere. It’s not great but works ok. The opponent usually has some deep strikers to mess with the home objective. Maybe a hive tyrant can hang back a little and be ready to charge back and kill the intruders. A neurotyrant could potentially be there to overwatch. What do you think?

[mattblowers]

I take two norns. I push them forward to hold center objectives and keep some cheap models to hold my own objective. If they can't shift the norns they will lose so my home objective doesn't come into play until the final turn or so. I have a better than 50-50 win rate but I really don't care about being at the bleeding edge, I don't have the time to invest that hard into the hobby. I'm content with where I am.

I was at a birthday party for my son this week and one of the Art of War personalities was there and he was discussing how difficult the game is right now to play at a casual level. There is too much going on to play with if you are only casually invested in it. With that huge caveat, take my advice for what it is: the anecdotal random observations of a decidedly casual gamer.

[killercroc]

I protect mine with either an Exocrine (Been bringing two most games) or my squad of 6 warriors with deathspitters/barbed stranglers. Enough range they can still reach out to the midfield or opposite zone if there is a game in LoS terrain, but not too much of a points investment while still being chonky enough defense wise can survive most deepstrike units firepower. I wouldn't suggest a Neurotyrant just cause his range is fairly short so he's not helping your army much if he's just camping and waiting for deepstrikes to show up. Likewise a Tyrant has a gun to help but he's too expensive to just sit back and wait for something to show up. If anything you might just be better off blocking it off with a squad of gaunts and saving extra points for bigger bugs to press your opponent instead of being overly defensive about it.

And I agree, game is very difficult to play casually, even things that look like should be an average list end up being a major fight for our bugs, least in my experience. I dunno if that means our codex is too weak that a C tier list gives us trouble, or a sign just everything is just beefier than before. Certain units with ridiculous abilities and guns don't help. But most games I've seen everyone brings 1-2 really good things no m atter the points or competitive level.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Locking down the home objective? Depends upon the list and points values I'm playing. I've been playing a mix of 1k, 1.5k, and 2k. What I leave behind varies greatly. I've used biovores or lichtors some times. For the lists, I was running an assimilation swarm list so it meant I had one or two units of pyrovores daisy chained out from the home objective to lock it down and heal other units.

As for 10e casual, I've been finding that I have more fun if I don't play optimally. So, don't bring a biovore for scoring shenanigans and play tactical objectives. It makes the game more dynamic and not me just gaining 38 secondary points without even trying. I found that I really enjoyed assimilation swarm too. It's a list that can brawl a bit in the center and was giving me good games into good opponents and their lists. Could I go to a tournament and go above 50% win rate? No. Did I do well at a local league and have fun? Yes.

[purestrain]

I leave it open, then crush them when they take the bait.

[No One]

For nids: bio and neurotyrant sit on it, then screen with biovore/rippers if I feel it's needed, or just not care and push through mid. Usually things (esp exo) are slow enough that I can still threaten to my backfield, alternatively just take their backfield instead.

For GSC it's even less with just a command+astropath (or more recently just a solo clamavus), sometimes other things end up around: but you really don't need serious units to dedicated sit on your home.

[creatureboi]

I usually post one or two artillery beasts in the back line to guard my objective but it really depends on line of sight and ranges. If the objective is in an awkward place I often just leave 20 termagants behind to swarm the back and screen out deepstrikers. I usually have enough of them to have other units pushing up the board and taking other objectives too and since they’re just there for scoring and not their killing power (since they don’t have any) I don’t usually miss them on the front lines