Nids and unusual ork army took 1st and 2nd at Bolscon, reactions?

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**Blackmoor**

Slackermagee wrote:I don't think this is the backlash from anti-mech at all. Anti-mech melta-spam ought to roll nids. Meltas, lascannons, and other high strength low AP weapons roll monstrous creatures while anything with a gun (yes, even you grots) can kill gaunts/hormagaunts/rippers.

The orks I can understand, the nids... were people asleep at the wheel or something? I play nids, I've played HG heavy lists and if anyone, anyone at all, decides to focus fire those mean charging machines for the first two or three turns, you are toast. Everything else can get picked off as things leave the cover of the gaunt screen.

Edit: everything else which is slow, not keeping up with the fleeting gaunt screen, and trying to shoot ineffective AT weapons gets picked off.

Can anyone tell us what kind of game he played? What did he do with all the pieces?

I don’t see what you are talking about.

The massed melta approach will do nothing to the little bugs, and they have the ability to charge 19”-24” so you have no chance to shoot them before they are all over you like white on rice.

That build will give a lot of armies trouble when they are all built up to kill MEQs and Mech.