A Tyranid Odyssey: A boy and his bug collection

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**dantay_xv**

Cool, does he have a knack for nids or eldar? Or just a knack for 40k in general.

I have to say it was and still is the fluff for me which draws me in, am looking at getting quite a few ebooks in the near future.

I like the look of the nids but was never sure if they'd suit my style of play

**Lorna**

Is your style of play: run, run, nom nom, run, nom nom?
if not they won't suit you.

**dantay_xv**

Lol, definitely doesnt suit me then... i like to run, shoot, club things until they stop wriggling then look for something else to run, shoot and club.

If it wasnt Space Wolves, I might have become an ork player

**Lorna**

very little shooting. Fun to play.
Marines are like tin cans in my eyes now.
Fun to open and then suck out the insides.

**Gitsplitta**

My little one is very much a charge forward as fast as possible and overwhelm you in hand-to-hand kind of guy. Though he's very competent playing my eldar which are by nature very shooty. He loves playing my orks and his nids... he just needs a bit better unit selection to make his nids more viable. Getting the Trygon done will help, will probably paint up a couple of brood lords for his gene stealer squads after that, then back to another monstrous creature.

After being totally obsessed with my marines for so long, Thing 2's nids and Thing 1's necrons are a welcome break.

**Lorna**

Gald to hear your having fun with this gits.
And I'm glad to see thing2's 'nids are causing him as much fun as mine do for me.
He might enjoy the Ymgarl rules.
They come out of cover, and then after that on the same turn, they move fleet assault. Very fun int he middle of someones battle line.

**Gitsplitta**

THAT sounds like something he'd just love! Will have to look them up... thanks for the tip Lorna, I'm sure it'll put a big grin on his face. :-)

**Lorna**

It's puts a grin on my face, and the pained look on the other players face.

He'll love it

**Vitruvian XVII**

Has he got any Hive Guard? Very very useful

**dantay_xv**

I would like that too..... I like my models too much so I find the thought of charging through a hail of bullets trying to get to grips with my foe terrifying.... hate taking them off the board.... The ymgarl rules sound great though.

Its why I go with SW's, i can shoot move and still enjoy clubbing things plus they have a bit of personality.

Genestealers do put the fear of God into me though

**Lorna**

They do that to everyone, i have 29 ymgarls in my 1750 list, no one likes playing that. Plus, you can give them either +1 strength, +1 attack or +1 toughness every assault phase, although not one after the other, they can take down tanks or heavily armored models. Terminator suffer terribly. Rending, going first, can wound on threes. It's awesome.

**dantay_xv**

Hmmmm better get some storm shields and pray the 3+ invulnerable keeps them alive.

Yes blooming scary, sounds like they have very few weaknesses

**Lorna**

They do, being a dedicated close combat unit, they tend to munch through units in a turn, which means they have to take a turn of shooting, and they are normally a big treat at this point, and they only have a 4+ save, so if you can't them in cover, they will probably die. But they are awesome fun.

**dantay_xv**

So the key is to keep anything of value out in the open, miles from any cover in the hope that the gribblies will not get you for atleast 1 turn!!!

Or hide in tanks.

**Lorna**

pretty much. But they can go a potential 18 inches. So, danger zone is actually quite large. And they appear in the terrain, another way to stop them is to cover all the terrain, because if they can't come out, they die.
Which can be bad.

This strategy works with horde armies only though. Ork boy armies, 'nid swarms and guard blobs. And hasn't been effective against my list.

**dantay_xv**

18 inches, that is a big zone. Is that using infiltrate rules or deepstriking?

I think my thunderwolves are the only unit to rival that, but even still lower initiative would let you hit first

**Alfndrate**

dantay_xv wrote:18 inches, that is a big zone. Is that using infiltrate rules or deepstriking?

I think my thunderwolves are the only unit to rival that, but even still lower initiative would let you hit first

The Ymargl Genestealers are elite choices, at the beginning of the game you take a picture of the map and pick secret locations for them to pop up in (each squad picks a single point of area terrain). Then, because they arrive via reserves, you roll for reserve and when they come in, they appear in that piece of area terrain. Its quite fun to see.

**dantay_xv**

Ah right, because rune priests can take choosers of the slain.

These can be placed on the board and nothing can infiltrate within 18" of it.

**Lorna**

Yep, they appear out of terrain, so it's kinda both, but neither at the same time.

it's amazing to run out and decimate a guard blob, or eldar unit, or 10 terminators with lysander, not even making it up. Did in my first tournament.
the guy nearly cried, one turn, he didn't eve get to hit me. His saves were fail.

Edit reply to above post: It's called dormant state, they are already in the building and awake from turn 2 and after. It's like an infiltrating deep strike, kinda. maybe not. It's unique as a rule.

**dantay_xv**

I wouldnt have liked to have been there to see that.
I have never played in a tournament, I am still learning to play, only had a few games against Ultramarines Dark Angels and Dark Eldar.... I have done okay but never faced off against an army of Nid's.

The closest to a Nid army was in a GW and they needed someone to make up numbers in the academy (was take any unit, with any upgrades you wanted and duke it out). I took a unit of bloodclaws with Lukas the Trickster. Hid in a building and got charged by stealers.
Because I was in cover and he was assaulting (initiative 1 for attacking into cover, he didnt have offensive grenades). So i hit first and ended up winning (Lukas forcing rerolls on hits to himself was invaluable).

**Lorna**

Where abouts do you play normally?

I am coming up to scotland in a couple of months and am always willing to play anyone.

**dantay_xv**

I work in Falkirk and they have a big gaming club, but never been. Normally I just meet up with a few friends who are teaching me how to play.

Would be nice... let me knwo closer to the time it could be fun

**Lorna**

Yeah defiantly, we kinda hijacked this thread.
git is gonna love us.

**dantay_xv**

Lol..... he could bring thing 2 over for a game too

**Lorna**

All the way from the US.
It would be awesome.

Plus, i have never lost a doubles game.

**Gitsplitta**

As long as you guys are having fun... no problem on the thread jack. Besides, it's the most action this thread has seen in months!

@Vit: Yes! Got him a unit of 3 Hive Guard... they just have to wait their turn to be painted. Might do them after we get the brood lords done for his stealer units. I think he'd appreciate some long range threats. His zoanthropes are always a decent threat but with he's just terrible at making his psionics rolls, so something that could shoot that was not leadership dependent might be a welcome relief.

**Anvildude**

Don't Zoiez get some sort of bonus to figuring out if they pass psychic tests? I remember I had a friend who played 'nids, and he absolutely wrecked with his Zoanthropes and Biovores. Had one Zoanthrope that would always, always climb to the top of the highest terrain on the board by the second turn, and just sit there blasting everything below it.

**Gitsplitta**

I'll have to check the dex, you might be right. Nids are new to me too so I might not be getting all the rules right. Thanks for the heads-up though, I'll be sure to check.

Progress tonight on the Trygon, think all I'll have left to do on him is airbrushing the red on his claws... then the varnish and basing and he'll be ready to go! So much fun after months of painting nothing but marines!

**dantay_xv**

Can we see a pic of the Trygon? Or ar you trying to tease us?

**Gitsplitta**

As he's almost done, I don't want to spoil the final shot by showing a 95% done shot right before. Give me a day or so and I'll get a pic up when he's complete.