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My Nid army is based on them being Dead, well dead-ish. The Hive mind knows that souls power the Chaos gods, the Ctan, and the Emperor. If they can feast on the souls of the dead that surely It can as well. By trapping the souls of the dead It will grow to be the strongest being in the universe and the Other. Now not only will a world lose it's biomass, but it's very soul.


Blood Angels

Reclusiarc

Death company 10

Scouts with H.bolter x2

rhino

Full tac squad Sarge with PW

5 mixed terminator squad with SS,TH, LC and PF

6 LC terminator

H.bolter razorback

WW

speeder with multi melta x2

Vanguard with Pw


Tyranids

Hive tyrant with old adversary Sytal x2

2 venomthropes

2 Hive guard

Doom


Tervagon Adrenal and poison glands, Sytals, FnP

5 termagants

10 termagants

12 termagants

trygon

trygon

Marloc with regenerate.


The mission had us setting up with 12" in with 4 Objectives One in the middle left, one in my lower right, one on my upper right and one on my Upper left.

Deployment saw my 5 man gants claiming the objective in my lower right and his two scouts claiming the one on my upper left, everything else crushed the left side, bar my Hive tyrant and 12 gant squad who were aiming for the upper right Objective. MC's were up front, and venomthrops were in range of everything.

Ba just responded by blocking my flank move and giving my Hive Tyrant free reign of the right side.



Turn 1 "OoooOOo, ghosts"
Everything move up, trygons, and hive guard are out of range of anything everything else runs up, tervagon pops out 12 babies, no doubles, the Mawloc disappears from sight.

The BA Move in for the kill. The rhino moves up and pops smoke, and the snipers, terminators, WW, razorback, open up. wounding a hive guard once and a trygon twice, this ends their turn.


The ghostly spectres move up in complete silence, unheard screams of rage for the living in their throats. lesser men may have broken but not the Blood Angels, their rage fully in control. Most shots are lost in the mist generated by the otherworldly fog pouring from the Venomthropes, although two of the ghostly beats seem to appear less corporal after blessed shots of bolter fire. The mawloc evaporated into mist that blew away without the need for wind


Tyranids turn 2. " I ain't 'fraid of no ghosts!"
The BA and slightly over extended the fast rhino and I intended to make them join the ranks of the dead. Up comes the two hive guard, Cant move or shoot... Well you can't penetrate with ghost guns so... The trygons move up. one aims for the speeders and is out of range. The other aims for the terminators for no damage. The tervagon gives the wounded Trygon FnP after spitting out 12 more babies, and misses it's shots at the terminators the Marloc attempts to land under the snipers, but scatters right between the Terminator squads and only kills two from the mixed weapon squad Not good....

BA: Out of the rhino spills, the death Company with the Reclusiarc, arn't ghosts weak against Chaplains, we are about to find out! The vanguard deep-strike in to assault the Doom, (Stupid decent of angels), but being within 6" of the venomthropes may hurt them... shooting is still being stunted by the Venemthrope but the wounded trygon is brought down to 3 wounds, as well as the Mawloc, the WW scatters wide of the gants. The death company assault into the Hive guard, saving the dangerous tests wounds with FnP, The Hive guards attacks pass harmlessly through the Crazed marines who felt no pain. They in turn send the spirits back to the afterlife with ease, and Move away from the dozens of glowing eyed gants. The Marloc manages to down one terminator, but is re-slain in return. The vanguard lose one member to the death-fog of the Venemthrops, they make it into the Doom and wound it once, it fails to wound in return.

The Marloc solidified around the terminators, Breaking it's hold by the Doom to feast on these blazing life forces, two Brave brothers fell, their hearts stilled by the very presence of the Mawloc, but it had it's hold on the living realm broken by the prayers and hammers of their vengeful kin. The Death Company as well proved their name, Bringing the fight to death itself and winning, slaying the hive guard. The Doom caught unawares, being focused on keeping the spirits and itself bound to the living world, was wounded by the heroic vanguard, all of it's powers now retracted to keeping itself alive.


Turn 3, "Fail of the Dead"

Nids. Man that sucked, ah well the dead know no fear so back at it. The tervagon starts off by rolling 16 gants and getting doubles. Their souls appear close to the Doom fight, ready to save their master. The trygons moved up to tangle with the mixed terminators squad, the tervagon and two squads of gants (10 and 12) followed behind their mother to face down the death company, The other squad of 12 moved to engage the razorback squad who had snuck out to claim the middle left objective. shooting from my army was as dead as the spirits shooting them, one death company member down. 12 gant unit gets FnP. 21 poisoned adrenal gants fail to kill a single Death company member, the Tervgon drops three but the death company and Reclusiarc go wild. The tervagon ends up with 3 wounds, the 10 gant unit is reduced to 3 and the 12 man unit to 6. The other 12 man unit meets even worse results ending up with only 3 members against a five man tac squad. The doom survives without taking damage, the gants that I've in to help him pull down 1 marine. I remember at the end of the turn I haven't been using his ability to suck souls....even thought it's the centerpiece of my ghost army.

BA. the trygon that is wounded again. The rhino rides off to contest the upper right objective. In assault the tervagon is killed and only one lonely spirit gant survives to hold up the death company, the tac squad finishes off their gants and move torward the Doom fight. The mixed squad of terminators attack my wounded trygon and take down another wound (1 left) and lose non in return. Doom is wounded again (2 wounds left) he and his gants fail to do any damage, 1 gant dies to no retreat.

The Brave Blood angels press the attack, their rage robbing the Spirits of their greatest power, Fear, and their prayer banishing the dead back to the hells once more.

Turn four "Fail of the Dead part 2..Fail Harder"

Nids, OK I'm being whipped and hard, but this game isn't about out killing but out claiming. My Hive tyrant has the upper left with his gant brood, and my lower left is held by the 5 man gant squad, The dead must simply endure. Unwounded trygon assaults the mixed terminators squad, only one brave SS terminator remains after passing way to many saves.
The venomthrope flee the wrath of the death company, then run back hoping to bait them into a useless fight away from the 5 gant squad holding the bottom right objective. They basically spend the turn floating around in circles. The doom remembers his ability and sucks the soul of one brave Vanguard. He promptly has it beaten back out of him in the combat. Another gant falls to no retreat. The brave SS terminator lives on against 2 trygons, the Hive Tyrant rolls 4 6s to pit the rhino, then just Breaks it's tracks, Ugh!

BA The death company don't take the venomthrope bait and zoom toward the 5 man gant squad, who are then blasted down to 1 by the WW. The venemthropes are blasted to death by the remainder of the Ba shooting, despite going to ground for more cover. The assault terminators rushing to save their SS brother, dive into the trygons, and get butchered for their troubles, the SS Terminator finally goes down as well. The tac squad has wandered just a little to close to the doom and lose 1 to it. It loses the wound in combat, the gant passes it's no retreat save!. the rhino is wrecked by the hive tyrant.

The sun sets and the undead spirits seem strengthened by the twilight, and who meet the gaze of the Doom fall stiffly to the ground their souls used to feed it's hunger for life


Turn Five "Vampires vs ghosts!"

Nids. The wounded trygon runs away, the other heads for the scouts. Doom sucks the souls out of the last two Vanguard, and he and the gants move up to the mid left objective. the gants hose down the remaining tac squad in a hail of fire. the doom shoots a str 4 blast at the death company killing 1 (3 left). The last of the 5 man gant squad tries to hide from the death company. In assault the trygon hits the first unit of scouts and kills them, taking his first wound.

BA the last scout squad take a wound off the trygon with sniper fire, the Doom is melta'd to death by the land speeders, the Trygon is wounded by sniper fire, the WW scatters and only kills 2 gants hiding behind the HiveTyrant, the Razorback killed the last of the 5 gant squad, (damn fast rhinos). death company runs to the Objective they once claimed.

The doom felt his hold on the living world slip away, too weak from his last attack to hold on any longer. All it could do was howl in rage at the shadows of the living.

Turn 6 "Join Ussss"

Nids, The hive tyrant rushes to attack the razorback, stunning it to keep it from Contesting next turn. The Gants that helped the Doom spread out to make sure the land speeder can't contest. The trygon wipes the scout squad, taking yet another wound.

BA with no troops left, and the Nids in control of 2 Objectives, the BA quit the field.


Victory Ghosta-Nids!



As darkness fell the remaining BA were witness to an unspeakable horror. The souls of the dead, slowly rising from the bodies of the fallen, were viable in the unnatural darkness. Some dark unholy power caught them up as they rose, changing them and twisting them into...something so terrifying the Blood angels howled in horrified rage. The forms had twisted into more ghostly Tyranids who now turn hungry eyes on their once brethren. "Join ussssss"


The good, The doom made so invuls it was crazy, once I remember his powers it was over.

The bad, marloc. Guess who is going to be a trygon next week? I sucked this battle too!


BA
The good, SS terminator. Death company, they had 3 powerfist FC and FnP, and a kitchen sink.

The bad, Death company don't score, HA!


I felt non to happy about this game. My Nids were getting beaten on the turn they charged, My hive guard failed me, I rolled like crap and forgot things. Doom just sucked souls and won me the game, My hive tyrant came through but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. I like non podded Doom btw.

Why have all the picture in the bottom? It makes them completely redundant.

I don't know how they got down there and can't seem to fix them :(

You just insert an (img) insert link here (/img) at the appropriate location.

Of course you need to use [ and ] instead of ( and ).

war of plastic

nice "fog" effect on the nids and the fluff you have is cool.

Steelmage99 wrote:Why have all the picture in the bottom? It makes them completely redundant.

most likely, hero used the attachments function on the bottom of the posting screen. in order to have them appear in the middle, he'd have to upload them to another site (or even dakka's gallery) and then use the image button above the text entry block (along with the URL link from the original picture) to link them.

if i ever face your ghost nids, i'll have to make sure i make an inquisitor squad with retinue in a rhino that resembles scooby and the gang in the mystery machine!!

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FNP does not work versus dangerous terrain tests.

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I love your ghost nids peer awesome!

I love the basing on the Tyranids. It makes them seem more ghostly or like they're coming up from the ground.

LOVE that ghost modeling job. That's wicked.

Good game too. Sucks you were sort of stuck, and bad rolls are never fun.

Steelmage99 wrote:Why have all the picture in the bottom? It makes them completely redundant.

Why have pics at all if nothing is painted?

the Nids are painted.


not every one has the time or ability or desire to paint their models.

Thanks for sharing, 'hero! I greatly appreciate your taking the time to share your battle, your thoughts, and your pictures. I find your 'nid scheme & theme interesting; how well does the "ghost" effect travel? I'd expect to be leaving bits of fluff wherever you went.

It travals ok, but little parts get caught on the green felt. I will bring some lint rollers with me but I think spray adhisive will fix the Issue. I'm having game two tomorrow.