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Ok so this was as the subject suggests my first game using 5th edition rules with my Nids. It was a gaming night at my LGS for a practice run before the 40k radio tourney next month. Of course my oppenet ends up being the guy I seem to play against fairly often that is developing a hatred for Tyranids. Heres why.

Mission was anialation with spearhead deployment. I dont like the idea of quaters most of the time

Deployment was pretty typical for Tau He won the roll and had to set up first so he took the corner with a nice sized Hill to hide his skimmer behind and a couple fences for gun line cover.

Not really familiar with all the Tau units but he had
3 squads of fire warriors
1 squad of vespids
1 Large squad of Kroot and Hounds
2 I think broadside suits with shield drones and rail guns
1 Guy in a bigger nastier suit not sure what its called
1 6 man stealth team
1 devilfish with some sort of gattling gun thin on the front
1 hammerhead with an Ion cannon

Tyranid Deployment- He stuck me with the table quarter with a huge chunk of trees in it to try and mess up my deployment grrr. And it went like this having to be 12 inches fron center I put my CC Fex about 14 inches away because I was going to run hom around a rockpile for some cover. I tucked 1 Ravener in behind the CC fex to use him as a shield and pop out with long range assault on something to tie it up when fex was getting close Also ha d A Zoan and my squad of warriors next to him this was all along the center line cler to my long table edge. To the right of the center point I had My Hormagaunts A Winged HT another Zoan and a Dakka Fex. Now Aparently I was the only guy that read about Outflank in the new rules I had Broodlord with 8 Retinue Stealer 2 Squads of 9 Stealers and 1 squad of 9 with Scything Talons all falnk marching.

Tyranid List

1 HT Winged 2 sets ST Toxin sacs Adrenal Glands WS Acid Maw Warp Field
1 Broodlord no biomorphs 8 Retinue no Morphs
1 Heavy Support CC Fex 2 sets ST Toughness 7 5 wounds 2+ Save WS 4 Tusked
2 ZOan Warp Field and PSychic Scream (wanted to try out scream)
1 Elite FEx Enhanced Senses 2x Twin Linked Devourer
1 Ravener ST and Rend Claw
18 Hormagaunts
9 Genestealers Scuttlers
9 Genestealers Scuttlers
9 Genestealers Scyth Talons Scuttlers
5 warrios 4 Deathspitter 1 Vencom Cannon Enchanced Senses Ext Carapace

Turn One- tau won the roll but so here comes the shooting. He moved the devilfish over to a closer fecneline and unloaded a squad there and moved back The kroot moved foraward just a bit to open up a LOS on My hormagaunts pretty much it for Tau movement.
Shooting phase Kroot take down 2 Hormagaunts. Then and this was pricless he set up a little farther back in his deployment zone so as it tuend out only 1 squad of Fire warrios was in range they unloaded on my ZOan and hung 1 wound on it the broadsides hung 2 wound on my CC fex and the Ion Cannon hung 1.

Nids Turn 1- After thinking about taking my cc fex around the rock pile to the left with the new run rules I decided after getting 3 wounds before moving to just run straight up the gut for Fun and terror I picture on a fire warriors face. So CC fex went diagonally riaght at him followed by 1 Zoan the ravener and the squad of warriors. in the other corner across from me to the right my Hormagaunts moved up with a wiged tyrant right along side and a Zoan right behind them. Shooting Phase I opted to Run everything since the only guns I had were dakka fex obviously out of rang but lining up on Kroot mob and the Warriors which I did not want to leave behind. My run Roll for the CC fex was 5 so he was steamrollin towards the Tau.

Turn 2- Tau Stealth suits show up to my left in the corner close to me with good angle on my warriorsand hang a wound on one. The kroot Kill off a few more Hormagaunts with Shooting 1 squad of Fire warriors unload to tey and drop the ZOan with the CC fex but failed the other squad 2 squads of Fire warriors the ion cannon the broadsides and Vespids all went after the CC fex runnin up the gut and all failed to hang wounds. Then the vespids out of desperation Charged the CC fex!! he was tryin to slow it down and keep it there. Well Fex won the CC the vespids ran and the Fex move 4 inches closer with consolodation move to his front lines after winning the initiative roll off for sweeping advance

Nids Turn 2- 4 units in reservee I make one roll for 1 squad of 9 stealers without the scything talons. Luckily I roll for the right table edge and I grin. I popped them out ring in the corner behind his whole army. The rest of the movment was pretty much the same fex keeps going Zoan and warriors in tow. Other side Horms move closer tyrant hops out in frnt of the Kroot and Dakka fex comes around the corner of a ruin for open LOS on Kroot. SHooting The Dakka Fex Killed 6 Kroot the warriors shot and it was some of the funniest scattering I have ever seen with deathspiters I did not manage to hit the targeted unit once but hit one other unit of Fire Warriors right in fron of my Fex with a 9 inch scatter and rolled 3 1's on the wound rolls. The newly arrived stealers ran at the broadsides and the fex stopped 1 inch short of fire warriors Assaults 9 Genestealers into 2 Broasides and drones My hormagaunts into the Kroot He forgout about 12 inch charge My Winged Tyrant into the Kroot and My ravener into that One big Tau suit tah HAd a gun that could threaten My Fex. Horms took out 9 Kroot winged Tyrant took out 4 Kroot took out 8 Horms Then ran like Hell from HT got caught and eaten. CC fex into Fire warriors Killed 4 took no wounds they almost passed the Morale check till I remembered Psychich scream and they ran and got away from Fex The Stealers Killed one shield drone and lost tow of their own but made their LD test so stayed in combat tieing up Rail guns The ravener picked the WRONG guy to charge He managed to do kill a drone and get wound on himself so stalemate.

Turn 3 Tau- The stealth suits give chase to my warriors that are ignoring them and everything else shoots like crazy. He killed 3 warriors including my VC with his stealth team. The Devilfish wipes my Hormagaunts down to 5 remaining the Ion cannon hangs a wound on my Winged Tyrant and 2 full squads of rapid fire fail to would the Fex in the middle. Assault phase the Big suit squishes my ravener the broasides win combat again vs my stealers by killing one and he makes all his saves so the squad is down to 6 but i Roll snake eyes for LD.

Nids Turn 4- Reserves Broodlord comes on and 1 other squad of Stealers without ST... On the WRONG table edge so they are now 6 ft away from the battle. Movement was simple the HT moved along the talbe edge to close with the devilfish the remaining Horms tagged along the ZOans at this point were pretty close to each other sort of diagonally from his corner which was giving pretty much his whole army -2 to LD No Shooting The fex Barrels into the Fire warriors on the Hill with a lil help from 5 Hormagaunts The HT Takes on the Devilfish and the stealers surround the Broadsides which I forgot to do in the previous turn to maximaize the amount of attacks I would get and kill the rest of the drones and one suit leaving 1 remaining. Well Fex wipes 3 fire warriors Hormagaunts 1 the fire warriors struck back vs the Hormagaunts killed 4 so combat was a tie. The HT only hit the Devifish once on a 4+ needed to hit with 6 attacks on the charge but it resulted in crew stunned.

Turn 5 tau- The stealth suits wipe out my warriors finally with a little help from the big suit I think its called a crisis suit. the last squad of fire warriors unlads on my fex and does not manage to wound the Ion cannon fails to wound fex as well everything else is stuck in assault. Or cant shoot

NIds Turn 5- Reserves Last squad comes on on the correct edge YAY. HT decends on staionary Devilfish and rips it to shreds of course it explodes and kills 2 of my stealers that just fuinished off the last Broadise. The new squad of stealers wonders why the tau right in front of them is looking over a fence shooting at the fex and Charged them from behind kill 9 in combat the rest in sweeping advance and consolodate towards the Crisis suit that is running away. The fex is dealing with the last remaining tropps on the hill. I dont bother moving my dakka fex or the squads on the right any more they are to far away to do anything.

Turn 6- Tau The ion cannon fails to wound fex the Crisis suit though. Fires some missle with the large blast template and smokes 5 of my genestealers they fail LD and run a few inches to the right towards the ZOAN that is still hanging on by the fex The stelathsuits try to take out Said Zoan just out of spite but the 2+ saves win the day and I save vs 5 wounds.

Nids Turn 6- The FEx and the HT tag team the Hammerhead and blow it up it explosed as well no wounds to Fex or HT

End resulst were the taus Had the Crisis suit and the stealth team on the table. The Nids Lost the squad of warriors that was only complete unit kill the hormagaunsts had 1 guy hangout out at the end and so did the squad of stealers that took out the Broadsides 1 guy remaining. The fex that took 3 wounds at the start of the game never took another and I was pleased by his performance I never had one succeed at the run up the gut tactic before. they usualy drop to hails of fire and my stealers do the killing since they are not being shot at while running across the table.

Overall this was to try out some of the new rules. Flank Mrach Gotta Love it although my oppenoinet would not stop complaining that its to powerful and kept sayiong over and over in a tournety he woud give me horrible score on composition for having 4 units performing outflank and He thought I cheesed out my HT and FEX. Which I disagree with bc you can cheese them out much further if you want to. Anyway tahts about it I just thought I would share a Tyranid Trouncing of the Tau and see what people thought. THis was my first ever Battle Report.

Nice battle report. However you should improve your typing.

It seems like it was a good battle, but periods are essential in the English language. Use them pl0x. kthx

how does grammar come into gaming? 0_o
i allways thought it was the painting and playing that counted, not the english lit. test you have to take.

It's somewhat hard to read something if it's just one big run on sentence.

Wow, You owned. cool battle report. Tau fail in CC, its funny.