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Mission: There's Too Many of THEM!!!

Objective: Kill troops while holding objectives

Notes:
1. All armies must contain a minimum of 4 troop choices.
2. This game will last 5- 6 turns. At the end of turn 5 second player rolls a d6, a 6th turn will be played
with a result of 3 to 6.
3. Troop units completely destroyed will be placed into reserves and may re-enter game at players
players table edge. Space Marine Combat Squads will re-enter as Combat Squads.
Dedicated transports are permanently destroyed.
4. Only troop units can hold or contest objectives. Vehicles may not "park" on top of objective
markers.
5. All units able to Deep Strike start at players table edge.

Set-up & Deployment:
Deployment will be modified Dawn of War.
1. Place 3 objective markers (25mm round bases) on the long center-line of the table. One at the
center of the table, the other objectives each placed on the center-line 14" from short table edge.
2. Determine which player is to go first, and in which deployment zone.
3. Both players may deploy up to 1 HQ and two troop units up to 18" from players table edge.
4. HQ &/or Troop units that can infiltrate may do so. At end of deployment players still can have only
a maximum of 1 HQ and 2 Troops on the table. Last, players can make any scout moves

Special Rules:
Night Fight (turn 1 only) - pg 95
Infiltrate - pg 92
Seize the Initiative - pg 92
Reserves - pg 94

Game win conditions:
7 points - Objective held at end of game
1 point - HQ destroyed
3 points - Troop unit destroyed
1 Point - Troop unit at less than half strength (counted at end of game)
0 points - Fast Attack destroyed
0 points - Elite destroyed
0 points - Heavy unit destroyed
0 points - Dedicated Transports

Can anyone say termagants and tervigons?

Key to this mission is to keep your troops/HQ's alive and use your HS, Elite and FA to do the heavy lifting. Trygons, Fexes, Raveners, Shrikes, Gargoyles, Mawlocs, etc. Just go and bury them in a sea of non-KP units while your troops hide in reserve, then scuttle onto the objectives.

I'm going to be attempting to make a list for this, i'll post it later. Since I need at least 4 Troops i'm gonna take Warriors since they're tougher to kill, Genestealers to Ninja on to objectives with, and a unit of 20 Hormagaunts for speed., then fill out the rest with HS, Elite & 1 Hive Tyrant for my HQ.

What i'm thinking,

Hive Tyrant

Doom of Malantai

Warriors
Stealers
Stealers
Hormagaunts

Trygon
Mawloc

I have to make it 1750 points, this is just a rough of what i'm going to include.

I think you should have your troops look like this:

Tervigon
10 Termagaunts
Tervigon
10 Termigaunts

Possibly get one as an HQ also. I forget which of the heavies (Mawloc?) digs the holes that anyone can deep strike into, but you should get a couple of those and have them dig holes right beside a couple of far objectives. As far as I read those rules, each new spawning of gaunts will be considered a new unit of troops and will be able to come back in when killed.

For a little firepower, maybe get some Hive Guard and deathleaper, possibly zoanthropes in spores, but really focus your points on your troops choices (especially if killpoints is not an issue).

The Trygon digs the holes & i'm going to have one of those.

Also, i only have 23 Termagants so tervigons wouldn't be too good for me.

What I gave you will play itself to a win. In the future, it would help to specify you only want to use your own units, and list them.

I wonder, can a summoned termagant unit be recycled? probably not...

If those are the only rules as listed at the top, then yes. They are troops that can become completely destroyed.

My bad, skipped one of his listed rules that those that can deep strike instead come in at the edge. Kind of takes away the Trygon strategy (though the Tevrigons will still be devastating. If they die, they get to come in and start producing again if they shut down earlier).

If a summoned termagant unit can be recycledm then the key to this scenario is 5 tervigons. If the tervigons hatching lockout is reset when it is recycled, then the key to this scenario is 5 tervigons.

Else, I'd say anything that has a good move in it's own turn, so hormagants has a slight edge of all the troops choices.

This reminds me a lot of that sweet 2nd edition tyranid scenario: Tyranid Attack. Great times!

HiveFleetGoliath wrote:The Trygon digs the holes & i'm going to have one of those.

Also, i only have 23 Termagants so tervigons wouldn't be too good for me.

Great! you have enough gants to have two units of 10, and then 2 Tervigons as troops!
Tervigons are T6 Multi-wound MC's. They are the hardest thing that 'Nids can take as troops.
Just because they CAN spawn gants doesn't mean they SHOULD spawn gants.