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Finished the game early! There was a lot of shooting, deep striking, and close combat, but it ended in a victory for the Greater Good! My favorite part was when he deepstriked his trygon and I tankshocked it to death! Spreading out my forces really helped, as none of my vehicles were destroyed and only a few fire warriors died. Most of my elites were killed, but all deaths were necessary. The many attacks made like 20 glancing hits, but none were truly successful.

Thanks for the tactical help, guys. Especially Dave_Nz.

For the Greater Good! Peace out! BBYYYYEEEEE

you tankshocked his Trygon to death? I'm going to be honest and say that it was a really poor tyranid player you played against

That is just something I have never heard of before in my niddy life ^^

Anyway congratulation with your victory

Heh, I rolled a lot of 6's

In my defense 1/3 of my army was held back taking down a squad of stealth suits and the gargoyles had to have my tervigons synapse. I will get my revenge eventually!.........somehow

pinoypower wrote:In my defense 1/3 of my army was held back taking down a squad of stealth suits and the gargoyles had to have my tervigons synapse. I will get my revenge eventually!.........somehow

Large squads of winged Warriors with Lashwhips and Boneswords. Deep strike 'em and 'cause havoc. Oh, and enjoy the gorey fun.

Oh, hey! Pinoypower! glad to see that you finally made an account! I'm relocating my workshop! BTW, I'm saving up for another hammerhead!
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I actually tricked you into taking the stealthsuit bait! that never works on anyone! You do realize that stealthsuits are aweful, right?

For the Greater Good! Peace Out!

just you wait. i am currently coverting ymgarl genestealers. i also have a hive guard so watch out!

and i made a mstake attacking those stealth suits but i got over it!

Remember how I blew away half of your gaunts in one shot from a railgun? There are more pieplates that will soon be raining!
Good game, though. You put up one helluva fight.

My tau also has problems against 'nidz so I can't help much (facing swarmlord and lots of outflanking genestealers) But for me best tactic is to cover my flanks with kroot.
But really im also screwed against deepstriking armies so this thread helps me too.
Oh and congratulation for victory

-unforgiven-

Don't forget; fletchette dischargers and disruption pods on all of your vehicles, all the time.

And shoot any Tyranid ranged AT weapons first.

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Wait, how in god's name did you tank shock his trygon to death? Being fearless, couldn't the trygon just move out of the way? You claim to have rolled a lot of 6's, but that's a bit irrelevant, as the number of sixes rolled with a tank shock makes no real difference... or did your opponent try for DoG and fail?

lmao....if i were to use a farsight list, then i'd pitty the fool at 1750...17 crisis suits bouncing around sounds fun

I changed from a farsight list because I found that he was not worth it if he got killed, plus no kroot makes me sad
And stop congradulating me on the victory, guys. I have to give credit to the guy. He was only 2 victory points short (1 unit counted as 1 victory point, just to make things simpler), and I would have been f**ked if the game had lasted 1 more turn. a unit of rending claw warriors DSed my command team and their guards. However, I did learn the meaning of roadkill

that is so true. one more turn then i would have feasted like no tomarrow.

BTW, you didn't take down my gaunts in just one railgun fire. it took threerailgun fires.
BTW part 2, you should try concentrate your fire on mostorous creatures.

killykavekommando wrote:Will this tactic work on orks, too?

No it won't why do you ask!


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Don't you always win against him anyway? I think you have no problem at all. BTW I thought you loved gloating about how Farsight killed Ghazkull Thraka. And for you at home he passed most of his armor saves, and if not he passed his invulnerable save. It was no error by me. Plus his Dawn Blade negated my ONLY advantage. I think you need to stop acting like you never win, you've never lost, and stop being a . BTW the best solution is to walk right into his biggest unit of Genestealers.


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Sorry for any strange messages you may get. I was mad when I typed this.

I guess it's too late to chime in on this thread, but my .02 if it's worth anything... for future conflicts, you might be able to squeeze out the points for a suicide monat with TL flamers and either 2 gun drones or a BC with an MT. Twin linked flamers are lovely, and if deployed well, it will draw fire or assault from 1 squad... it won't live through the assault, leaving that unit in the open to be finished off with shooting in the following round.

BTW knox I didn't always lose when I battled him...mostly.
I beat him once.
i am also sad that you didn't use farsight against me becasue i wanted to see him burn in flames or ripped to shreds whatever floats his boat.


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the last part was for killykavekommando. i liked farsight and all of his restrictions he gave you.

Crap, Knox! Calm down! I've gotten kicked by space marines many atimes!
And anyway, Pinoypower did beat me once. Which makes it a 1-3 victories. The fresh nid player just started 40k a little under a year ago, and he's off to a great start. He's got me on the run for the money!
Anyway, it's just a game. A very expensive game indeed, but still just a game.

For the Greater Good! Peace Out!

P.S: relocated my workshop!

yeah I'm that awsome. A noob tyranid player vs a veteran tau player and I am doing fine....mostly

explosion of tyranid body parts when the railgun fires.
an explosion of tau corpse when a sporemine explodes.

pinoypower wrote:yeah I'm that awsome. A noob tyranid player vs a veteran tau player and I am doing fine....mostly

explosion of tyranid body parts when the railgun fires.
an explosion of tau corpse when a sporemine explodes.

You should start a Tyranid help thread here on Dakka, if you haven't already. I suggest poking around 40k Tactics and 40k Army Lists.

killykavekommando wrote:Crap, Knox! Calm down! I've gotten kicked by space marines many atimes!
And anyway, Pinoypower did beat me once. Which makes it a 1-3 victories. The fresh nid player just started 40k a little under a year ago, and he's off to a great start. He's got me on the run for the money!
Anyway, it's just a game. A very expensive game indeed, but still just a game.

For the Greater Good! Peace Out!

P.S: relocated my workshop!

Congratulations on moving your workshop, that drawer/desk was heavy. BTW correction, you lost to Black Templars ONCE.


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Actually, after about 1 1/2 years I am finally realizing that it was my first time fighting Tau. I had no idea what I was actually going against. Plus a lot of those roles seemed almost rigged ( I'm hopping it wasn't you). It was your first time fighting Orks and someone had to win. If I wasn't in Singapore I would propose a rematch.

Yeah, man you're right. I just got lucky... with choosing the loaded dice!
JK! JK!
No, but you really didn't know what you were going up against, as you had a really stabby/slashy army not suited and well rounded enough to fight tau. The game ended prematurely, too.

It was also a tie you could have been decimated by a WAAAAAGH, in your favor however you scared the crap out of my Grots

Haven't posted on this page for a couple of days, but I was wondering if a hammerhead would help at all. It will definitely work as a mobile fire platform, but against a really well-rounded, deepstrike heavy army, will it work?

For the Greater Good! Peace Out!

the hivemind and synapse creatures, and stormboyz, and stupid, insulent eldar (all of 'em), and fake butter known as margerine!

killykavekommando wrote:I changed from a farsight list because I found that he was not worth it if he got killed, plus no kroot makes me sad
And stop congradulating me on the victory, guys. I have to give credit to the guy. He was only 2 victory points short (1 unit counted as 1 victory point, just to make things simpler), and I would have been f**ked if the game had lasted 1 more turn. a unit of rending claw warriors DSed my command team and their guards. However, I did learn the meaning of roadkill

Neh, sorry about all those kroot. If you said you were ditching Farsight I wouldn't have bought them. BTW CHECK YOUR EN PMS!!!!!

Make sure to equip all tau unit's with BBQ sauce.
Just rub it all over yourself, buds love that stuff.


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*nids

You moron! Why would I use bbq sauce?!!!!










I use sriracha.

Amazing to see how quickly I can screw up a perfectly normal, educational (to a point) thread, by scaring away all the people who might care. I'm good at this!

Killykavekommando and pinoypower remind me of how me and my friend use to be lol

Deathrain+ suits.

TL Missile Pods for S7 monster killing and flamers for squishing weak bugs.

Me and Pinoypower are pals, but we love to see who's the boss (me right now)
My title is going to be contested today, as I'm doing a skirmish battle this afternoon.

It's a friendly rivalry that's only had 26.5 (took off 1 guy's legs) casualties. Considering the fact that we're some odd 15 minutes drive away, we do really frequent battles.

Wait- before I close this message, do any of you guys have any ideas on a bugwar campaign tau vs. nids?