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Darkvoidof40k wrote:You can't bring spods out of the hole, and The Horror is not worth it - anything with a low enough LD to have a decent chance of being affected probably won't be trying to assault it anyway.. only exception I can think of is nobs or nob bikers. Take Old Adversary instead - much more awesomesausage better.
Since he wants a flyrant, drop the Tyrant guard and give the Tyrant wings. Just fly in and out of cover.

IMO above list should also drop the broodlord. Pretty crappy model, it's metal, and 60pts is just silly for what it does. Other than that, the above is a pretty good list.


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Oh and Tony, can we have a pic(s) of your entire nid force so far? That'd be nice.

My list is pretty good? Thank you! It's my first Tyranid list ever. I just threw together some stuff I liked,and BOOM,list.

Oh,and seriously Tony_nids. Have you sent out yet? It's been almost a week already.

Patience is a virtue Samus. I lost my job last week and money is tight. This is EXACTLY why I told you not to send till youi got the stuff from me. I will send as soon as I get a paycheck from my new job.

Sorry about your job :( but hey! Make some metric spores for cheap which you can and use my list! I've tested it on vassal! LolP

Honestly, I didn't want to say anything about it but clearly it needed to be done. Did you make a battle report?

Okay, absolutely no problem. I'm sorry about your job. I know how it is these days.

Just whenever is fine. I think I can wait until about july. Totally no problem. Thanks for keeping me in the loop.

Aaaand onto hobby.

I'm considering buying a hive tyrant in the next couple weeks. I'm thinking the loadout will be: Wings,LashWhip,Bonesword,HVC and EVERY SINGLE BIOMORPH OPTION.What should I use for wings?

Lol,yeah, I'm going for a maxed-out Tyrant. I'm not really sure why. It'll cost more than a swarmlord if I do it.

ALSO: I can send out early for you, if you really need the bits. I found like three more biomorph sprues for you. They've all got the Chitin pieces on them, which are hopefully useful to you.

tony_nids_10 wrote:Honestly, I didn't want to say anything about it but clearly it needed to be done. Did you make a battle report?

Noo i didin't :( BUT basically my tyrant (which taking out the guard and gun and adding wings could work) with hive commander allowed me to outflank 1 troops (Tervigon) and +1 to reserves. On capture ancd control a tervigon was sitting on the objective while spewing out uselesss termigaunts; my tyrant went to town as he ususally does, and the remaining termigaunts got killed easy but they were basicallly meatshield. Doom came in on turn 2 to spore pod out behind a few ork trukks and killed 7 total on the drop (orks got lucky on thier LD tests, 5 squads were in range) The spore took out a trukk tho!! the trygons came out and killed many orks and those ranged weapons they got rule! they became a target sing too but there are so many the aenemy didin't know what to do! the zoeys came in on turn 3 and took out any remaining armor and it was just win win win!

If you used that list you would need the zoeys, doom, trygons and 1 terv in reserves.

Well Ironfront, Looks like I need one more zoey and I need to make a Tervigon!

Samus, I'm using the balrog wings from GW. You can buy them in the LotR bits section for $10. All I did to make them fit was trim down the smell sections of wing circled here..

and you end up with...


Now the reason I trimmed these the way I did was because that little flap was too long and extended past the end of the carapace and looked funny. Also after trimming I realized that now I could pivot the wings way more and work on a much less statue-like pose.




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WING LINK- http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1060003&prodId=prod1140257

Incase you need it.

Awesomeeee. I forgor the balrog even had wings,lol.

That's a great set of wings for it. Jow do you guys feel about a maxed out hive tyrant? Some people say I should just take the swarmlord....Maybe I should.

I think It all depends on the rest of your army really. What else are you running? Maybe even start a thread in the 40k discussions and get as many opinions on it. Or check out the thread I started awhile back on Tyrants...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/298768.page

Well i made my dred!


just saying :p

Ok so I managed to get everyting primed and as per request of Darkvoid, here is what i have so far...

Prime and Regular Trygons

Tyrant

The Twins

Raverners...the one on the far right is an old old school version with some newer arms.

My lonely hive guard

And ofcourse the rest of the crew so far



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Clearly I have alot of building still to do and alot of painting too!


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Also I am trying to decide what wash I want to use... I NEED YOUR INPUT PEOPLE!

On the left is good old delvan mud and on the right is some paynes grey wash... Let me know what you guys think

Where did you get the paynes grey?

oh and those fexes should totally be tervi's

good work!

Its actually a paint from a local craft store watered down. I an working on a tervi! I am big-i-fying a carnifex to a larger proportion to look like it can hold the teaming masses! For my planetstrike game I don't think I'm going to run more than one tervi anyway. You never said what one you like more!

which what i like?

tony_nids_10 wrote:
Also I am trying to decide what wash I want to use... I NEED YOUR INPUT PEOPLE!

On the left is good old delvan mud and on the right is some paynes grey wash... Let me know what you guys think

That.

Left of course!

Why d'you have crushing claws on the fexes? You loose the +2 Inititiative bonus for the charge! (and all the lovely re-rolls!)

The crushers are for the bastion attack. I don't need them to have the bonus to initiative if they are tearing through a wall.


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Also I wont be running the fexs in my regular army list.


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Oh and Void, Stealer on the left or stealer on the right?

First off, depends what you roll. Sometimes, infiltrating might be good, especially in a DoW deployment against mech guard or hiding behind a building or something. Otherwise, just jump off the board edges and grab some isolated units - the enemy will either focus on them too much or not enough. But it depends if you get good timing. They're best used if they come on just at the same time as the main body of your force is about to attack.

Also, Hive Tyrant with Hive Commander lets you outflank a 30 man Hormagaunt squad - just let the fun happen! (genestealers need to be with them)

Small update and sadly the only update for today. I got a little beasty painted up and finished only to decide that I do not like the colors I have on him... I'm changing up my paint scheme again and I need some ideas real real quick! I know that I'm washing the nids in delvan mud to look like the genestealer in the above picture (left side) so all I need is an idea for the carapace color. No red simply because it would look entirely like hive fleet kraken and I'm not a big fan of that. No blue because someone at my FLGS is already doing that. Please PLEASE! any help would be great since at the moment I am stumped.

Well what colours do you like?

Honestly I don't really care at this point. I just want to make them look good. I tried a yellow carapace as a test pc and I like how it came out but it just feels a little too bright. I'll try and post a pic of it tomorrow since I wont be getting home till the wee hours of the morning.

Well, either I've forgotten or not read about it or it hasn't been posted; but what scheme were/are you trying to go for?

I was going to do blue but as I mentioned before, someone at my FLGS has done that already. Also I am avoiding red.

Well, I think a brownish type thing for the "skin" with a very light shade of green for the carapace would be nice. But that's just me, and it'd be very hard to pull off what I have in my mind IMO.

Maybe.. grey nids? With a nice yellow mottled pattern? Oh wait, GW did that. And it was AWESOMEsauce.

Hmph. Red and blue are pretty important things, y'know.

Yellow/green/orange/purple/grey/white/black/metal/turquoise are pretty much all you've got left to work with.. and I think we can rule out metal

Purple nids are always nice

Tbh, coming up with a paint scheme that looks good is hard, coming up with a paint scheme that looks good AND that you like is very hard. Try looking in the 4th edition/5th edition codexs for inspiration, and/or surf the web. [/shutsup]

Is the paynes grey you have an actual ink or a diluted paint, because the Paynes grey I use looks quite different, and I would venture alot better.

The devlan mud one looks good, more bone type. Grey over white just looks wrong.

I think Brownish Skin and Green Carapace would like mint. But the green would have to be pretty subdued, but the highlights of the green could be pretty aggressive...

I kinda like the green idea. I'm leaning toward a very dark green with some stark, light highlights. Thoughts?

Thanks for all of the support from the few of you that bothered to coment but I'm sticking a fork in the project. I cant get them all painted in time to beat the 26th deadline. I will continue to post on here and put up pics.

Awww.Are you still going to paint them though?

Also.....well,do I need to ask?