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Recently I've been trying to get my brother (he's 7) into warhammer and he's gone for nids...which sadly I lack. Thankfully i've recently come into possession of a TON of gun drones, and I already have a foot BA army, and so, I proxied them into 1000pts of nids and set us up on a cityfight-ish board (with books and assorted large boxy shapes )
He played
HQ
Tyrant (Dreadnought) with Stranglethorn Cannon, Hive commander, and Implant Attack-230
Troops
30 Termagaunts (the squad of gundrones) with spinefists 180
30 Hormagaunts(the squad of assault marines/death company/BA) 180
Warriors (Terminators) with Deathspitters-105
Warriors (Terminators) with Deathspitters-105
Fast Attack
Shryke (captains and lemartes for their height...)-105
Raveners(basecoated crisis suits)-90
995
And I got also a bunch of crisis suits, so I figured I'd see why everyone uses them
Mine
HQ
Shas'O AFP Missile pod Shield and Multitracker-132
Troops
12 Firewarriors with Sgt, bonded-135
12 Firewarriors with Sgt, bonded-135
Elites
Crisis suits TL Fusions Target Lock, 2 Fireknife-182
6Stealth suits Bonded, Fusion Blaster 3 Marker Drones-282
Monat Deathrain with DC 43 (needed to fill a hardpoint)
And then we went at it

Well its not letting me upload
So basicly the game was annihilation, in a city area with great firelanes for me, and a few buildings with entrances (all had AV9)
Basicly I deployed as best I could to counter his units, with my suits on one half and my Firewarriors forming a gunline on the other. Then I bisected the table with my broadsides Arc of fire and placed my monat and ShasO with the firewarriors to give them Anti MC. He then deployed perfectly to my units, with his tyrant and shrikes opposite my suits, his termagaunts on the other side opposite my fire line, and his warriors sparsed in the middle to support unsynapsed units. His plan was to bum rush, mine was to counter with loads of firepower. Then after set up he siezed the initiative to take first turn (despite my suggestion otherwise...) and off we went. He held his raveners in reserve and used Hive Commander to outflank his Hormagaunts, so he basicly bum rushed through my fireing lines with his warriors in the rear of his gaunts providing synapse, and running his tyrant and shrikes to get them into assault with my suits ASAP
In response, I blasted him, using the 30" pulse rifles and the 36" deathrain/missile pods to pop off parts of his squad. This was aided by my stealth suits, who leapt from their positions (to avoid the tyrant bearing down on them) and markerlighted the guants, then gunned them down with burst cannon fire (and whose sgt popped one of the warriors with a target locked fusion shot). My suits were just out of fusion range, and despite their fireknife fire, they only knocked ONE WOUND off a shrike...
On the other hand my firewarriors halved the inbound gaunt squad, demonstrating a key flaw of his in rushing without cover.

Turn two he continued bum rushing, this time close enough to shoot some stuff. He managed to kill one firewarrior (one of only two models I lost all game) with a round of spinefist shooting, and wounded a crisis suit with his strangelthorn cannon. The shrikes and the warriors opened up on my stealth suits, but all that shooting was for naught and they lost only one marker drone.
In retaliation I wiped out his gaunts, and killed two of his warriors synapsing them. My stealth suits barraged the shrikes and mowed all of them down. My suits jumped in fusion range and knocked THREE WOUNDS off the tyrant, leaving him at one, and altogether earning me 2 KPs in the turn

Third turn he rolled successfully for reserves, and brought in his raveners and his hormagaunts. Infortunately, well...scatter is a bitch and his raveners ate it on the mishap table. His hormagaunts on the other hand...well they outflanked right next to my firewarriors, and ran through the narrow streats almost right into them (thank goodness they couldn't assault after running/coming in from reserve XD) he also rushed his second warrior squad across the field to synapse his new squad of gaunts (and back up his now one warrior) bringing it into the sights of the scariest anti tank model in warhammer
I used my turn to finish off his tyrant (3 kps!) and move my suits into position to face his oncoming horde. I opened up with everything I could throw at him (77 shots approximately...if you include hits from the blast template) and he lost...wait for it
20 models
i hate cover saves. granted still deadly...but I would have hoped to have annihilated him with that kind of firepwer...oh well, thats why I finished off his warriors, unsynapsing his gaunts.
and I sent a round clean through one of his warriors, IDing it. (meaning he now had one warrior on the field, and no guants in synapse)
I then (realizing I would lose my firewarriors next turn to an assault) decided to sack my cheapest, but most survivable, model, and assaulted his now 10 man gaunt squad with my deathrain monat!!!!
and he survived
for four turns. Not even when he charged me with his final warrior.
And so the game ended with 4kps for me and none for him (and almost tabling him as he was down to 4 guants and his warrior)
admittedly not much to gloat about, but I think that Cairo (my lil bro) did quite good considering this is his first time as nids (he usually plays my BA or my tau) and he certainly will learn from his mistakes. Sadly I dunno how to get my pics to upload (the attachments thing says my post is too long) but I will try

Wait, what?

Hormagaunts have fleet don't they, like 3d6 take the highest crazy good fleet? And you can assault if coming off of a flank as opposed to deepstriking...

Oh? we didn't know that...and yes they had fleet. crazy good 3d6 fleet...and he still didnt catch me (to be fair he was in assault range, but we didnt think you could assault off of outflank since it was basicly like coming in out of reserve...) didn't really matter though, because i pumped everything i had at him and it didnt even wipe out his squad, I have a feeling had he assaulted me i would have had a much more open field of fire and woulda torn him a new one (granted at the cost of a kill point but i woulda tabled him instead...)