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Hey all,

In the next 3 weeks my FLGS is having a 1750 point tourny. Now last month I took the win with a 1500 'Nids list, tying Black templar, beating Nidzilla, and ultimately beating down Swarm CSM's to take home first with 11 points.

I'm hoping to take the win again with a revamp of my other Nid list. Its my variation on 'Zilla focusing on assault (because so many armys fail at assault) over shooting. Any suggestions would be welcome, even if its not modeled as is we're pretty lax on WYSIWYG here. Thanks!

HQ's
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1x Flyrant - 224 pts
- Sword + whip
- Scything talons
-Warp Field
- Wings
- Toxin Sacs
- Glands (both types)
- acid maw
- toxic miasma
- hooks

1x Dakkafex w/ 2x Guards - 221 pts
- Guards have whips
-2 pairs TL Devs
- enhanced senses
- toxin sacs
- psy scream

Elites
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2x Dakkafex - 226 pts
-2 pairs of TL Devs
- Enhanced Senses

3x warriors - 149 pts
- scything talons
- 2 deathspitters
- 1 strangler
- carapace
- senses
- sacs

Troops
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15x termagaunts - 90 pts
15x Termagaunts - 90 pts
15x Termagaunts - 90 pts
8x Genestealers - 160 pts
-Feeder
-Scuttlers
8x genestealers - 160 pts
-feeder
-scuttlers

Heavys
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1x Beastfex - 208 pts
- glands (both)
- toxic miasma
- bonded exo
- extended carapace
- flesh hooks
- reinforced chitin
- tail weapon mace
- toxin sacs
- crushing claws
- scything talons


1x Sniperfex - 163 pts
- Venom Cannon
- Barbed Strangler
- Enhanced Senses
- Reinforced Chitin

total - 1746

Just under what I needed!

The basic changes I did compared to my 1500 list;
- no more zoanthropes! They failed me pretty hard in the last tourney. Each ones a KP, they have bad BS, and things like farseers relegate them to uselessness.
- added 1 warrior with deathspitter
- took more gaunts, took 3 broods instead of 2
- added a sniperfex
- added a dakka tyrant

My last list ate people alive (depite a very poor showing with the Zoanthropes). Gaunts are my bread and butter, they soak up a lot of shots. The MC's are great, they eat rhinos alive with their dakka, as well they also assault all vehicles quite well. My flyrant is always the star of the show, getting into CC within the first 2 turns almost every game. The beastfex (as I like to call him) is my tank. He soaks up a lot of firepower, but if he lives (which is quite common as most people focus the flyrant or dakkarant first) he wrecks house. He downs vehicles and buildings with ease, and most things have a hard time vs him in CC. Getting up to 9 attacks on the charge is quite scary when its str 10! The warriors are there for synapse and template support, eating horde armys as well as forcing things like SM's to make a lot of saves every turn. Genestealers outflank and eat whatever was silly enough to get near the board edges, while the sniperfex provides support by shaking vehicles (or blowing em up with strangler hits), and providing anti-horde. hes given chitin so if focused by things like Railguns and Lascannons he can take up to 5 shots before taking a dirt nap. And last, but not least, the Dakkarants are my troop killers, along with the Rant, unloading vollys of shots every turn forcing death by numbers. These guys are also great against transports!

Any constructive comments welcome

For the Gaunts, I would say drop them to a unit of 10 each with WoN. I just find that more useful.

As for the beastfex, I am not fond of them because they struggle to make their points back up. They are just way to easy to avoid/tarpit.

Crazy_Carnifex wrote:For the Gaunts, I would say drop them to a unit of 10 each with WoN. I just find that more useful.

As for the beastfex, I am not fond of them because they struggle to make their points back up. They are just way to easy to avoid/tarpit.

My problem with WoN is the fact that I get less gaunts that I could have used in missions where KP's are essential. Not only that, WoN isn't useful when they kill off the gaunts end of T3/T4. The gaunts get on the board and thats about it... everytime I've ran WoN it has been a waste of points, so I'm very reluctant.

I agree compl;etely with your assessment for my beastfex, other than the fact theres only been a few games hes failed me. Most players (for whatever reason) try and test him in CC with whatever big ol mean CC thing they have... guess its just my playgroup lol. I know I run Abaddon just because everyone says "oh this guy can beat him" just to show how OP he is sometimes, haha.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestions!

Your Flying Tyrant is off, with the listed biomorphs he is 224 points. You probably forgot to count Warp Field.

"1x Dakkafex w/ 2x Guards - 221 pts"

You must mean a Dakkarant.

Redemption wrote:Your Flying Tyrant is off, with the listed biomorphs he is 224 points. You probably forgot to count Warp Field.

Your correct. Gonna sac some stuff to make up for it!