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Broodlord w/ feeder tendrils and toxin sacs
8 genestealer retinue w/ extended carapace
1 lictors
3 warriors w/ extended carapaces,deathspitters and scything talons
8 genestealers w/ acid maw
14 spinegaunts
Carnifex w/ tusked, bio plasma and two sets of scything talons
749
please comment
criticism would be great

Dont bother with the lictor, its a waste of points.
on the stealers, feeders are better than Acid maw.
With extra points, add another gaunt unit.

Non retinue stealers take carapace and tendrils, not acid maw. they need the amour save as they are footsloging
Cut out the lictor, its useless at small pionts values
Replace it with more spinegaunts, extra meat shields will help.

Lictors are great units that can supply feeder tendrils to nearby units. The genestealers will remain within 2' of the lictor so have acid maw and feeder tendrils. This means when the charge they receive the same effect as warptime.

frogii_the_blue_horror wrote:Lictors are great units that can supply feeder tendrils to nearby units. The genestealers will remain within 2' of the lictor so have acid maw and feeder tendrils. This means when the charge they receive the same effect as warptime.

Uhm... how thats feasible, I cannot even guess.

I agree mostly with the above, except Carapace is a useless waste of points.

Also, Lictors are bad using only one.

You need more gaunts or more MC's. Seeing as your genestealers are all footslogging theres a very good chance they will die early. And if you don't go first, infiltrating your BL squad is probably the worst idea in most cases.

Carapace is always a good idea. saving against bolters is a very very useful thing

Broodlord w/ feeder tendrils and toxin sacs
8 genestealer retinue w/ extended carapace
3 warriors w/ extended carapaces,deathspitters and scything talons
8 genestealers w/ feeders and carapace
10 spinegaunts
2 Carnifex w/ tusked, bio plasma and two sets of scything talons
Carnifexes hahahahaha

personally, i have had really bad luck with melee carnys. i tend to either go with a 113 pont dakkafex with enhanced senses and 2 twinlinked devourers or boomfex at 128 points with enhanced senses 1 barbed strangler and 1 twinlinked deathspitters. Both the barbed strangler and deathspitters can pop light armor and if your using it on non-armour models, the barbed strangler pins and you are gonna be killing alot of stuff. There is really not much downside to a dakkafex either. eight shots rerolling hits and wounds. both are cheap and kill alot of models.
Also as far as I can tell, the codex doesnt say anywhere that Carnys are Synapse. So your gaunts only have the 3 Warrs for synapse. The genes should be fine on there own.

Evilclown wrote:Carapace is always a good idea. saving against bolters is a very very useful thing

At lower points, maybe. In larger games, I highly disagree. The amount of fire power people will throw into ANY squad of genestealers makes the points moot. People loathe GS, and with good reason

new nid dex arrives in a few months. all of our advise may be moot a that time