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First off let me just say that this was my FIRST 40k game EVER and my FIRST battle report so please bare with me and I hope you enjoy it! I appologize for the pictures in advance...I free handed it all.


Heres my Army list:


HQ: (230 pts)

Hive Tyrant
-Wings
-Dual Scything Talons

Troops: (500 pts)

20x Hormagaunts (160 pts)
-Toxic Sacs

3x Tyranid Warriors w/ pair of Boneswords (140 pts)
- 2 with Deathspitters
- 1 with Barbed Stranglers

10x Genestealers (200 pts)
-1 BroodLord

Elites: (320 pts)

2x2 Hive Gaurds (200 pts)

2x Zoanthropes (120 pts)

[b]Heavy Support: (200 pts)

Trygon (200 pts)

Total: 1250 pts



CSM I dont know his exact pt values or what not but this is what he had for the most part.

Unit of 10-12 Regular CSMs or Tactical CSMs w/e there called

10ish Khone Beserkers with his HQ in a Rhino

Dreadnaught

6 Terminators

10-12 havocs 1 with lascannon 1 with missles or something.


Ok on with the report!


Tyranids vs CSM

Capture & Control

Dawn of War


I won the roll, passed first turn to CSM. He put his objective between 2 hill like terrains. I placed mine on the same side in a Rocky formation. He deployed his tactical squad next to his objective behind the hill. I deployed my hormagaunts 18.5” away from him, with ,y Hive Tyrant and Warriors behind the gaunts.



Turn 1 – CSM

His Dreadnaught and Rhino filled with Khone Beserkers came onto the field moving up 6”. His Havocs came on moving 6” and Running into the trees in the middle. His Tactical Sqaud rolled to see if he could see my gaunts and fired upon them killing 4.



Turn 1 – Tyranids

My hive gaurds and Zoanthropes came onto the field moving up behind my warriors. My Trygon came in from the middle moving up 6”. Genestealers are outflanking. My Hive Tyrant flys 12”, Gaunts move 6” and ran 6” into a rock formation, Warriors move 6” and shot at the Tactical squad killing 1.



Turn 2 – CSM

He failed to get his Terminators from reserves. Crazy Check passed on the Dreadnaught and moved up 6”. Rhino Cruised up 12” and popped smoke. Tactical Squad rapid fired my gaunts, dreadnaught missled my gaunts, and havocs used lascannons on my gaunts only killing 8 or so gaunts due to the nice 4+ cover save.



Turn 2 – Tyranids

I got my genestealers from reserves but got raped on my outflanking roll forcing them to come in on the complete opposite side of the board. Moved 6” and ran 6” with the stealers…Moved the Hive Tyrant and Hormagaunts within assault range of the tactical squad. Moved up the Hive Gaurds, Zoanthropes, and Trygon. Warriror with the Barbed strangler fired at the Havocs missing, forgot warriors had shoot at the same unit so I wasted the other 2 warriors deathspitters. Hive Guard and Zoanthropes shot at the tactical squad killing a few. Hive Tyrant and Hormagaunts assualt the Tactical squad finishing them off. He managed to kill a few hormagaunts. Hormagaunts consolidated back into the rock formation. Hive Tyrant consolidated off to the side on top of the hill.



Turn 3 – CSM

Terminators came in from reserves, deep striking near my gaunts and warriors. Crazy check failed on the dreadnaught causing him to charge my Hive Tyrant. Rhino cruised 12”. Havocs and Terminators shot at my warriors only inflicting 1 wound.



Turn 3 – Tyranids

Hormagaunts moved in front of the Rhino and terminators to create a speed bump. Trygon Moved towards the Terminators. Genestealers moved 6” and ran 4” almost in assault range of the Havocs. Zoanthropes exploded the Rhino 6” killing all but 2 of my gaunts and killing 1 berserker inside. Hive Gaurds shot at the terminators doing nothing. Forgot to shoot with my Trygon. Hormagaunts and Trygon assaulted the Terminators. Trygon killed 1 terminator while they only killed 1 gaunt. Hive Tyrant got 3 weapon destroyeds on the Dreadnaught causing it to immobilize.



Turn 4 – CSM

Havocs shot up my Genestealers killing 3 and wounding my Bloodlord. Berserkers moved 6” and assaulted my warriors knocking 2 of them down to 1 wound and the other down to 2. My warriors killed 2 beserkers. Fearless caused the death of 2 of my warriors, leaving 1 warriors with 1 wound. Terminators killed my last gaunt, while my trygon killed 3 terminators. Dreadnaught slapped my Hive Tyrant doing nothing. Hive Tyrant destroyed the Dreadnaught with 3 penatrating hits, Consolidating towards the beserkers.



Turn 4 – Tyranids

Hive Gaurds and Zoanthropes moved towards the havocs but couldn’t get in range. Hive Tyrant flew 12”. Finally remembered his Psyic powers and used Paroxysm on the beserkers before assualting them. Genestealers moved and assualted the Havocs. I forgot about the assualting into cover rule and took a beating on my genestealers killing 2 and causing another wound on the Broodlord. I returned the hits killing 4 Havocs. Hive Tyrant killed most of the beserkers but even with WS1 they managed to kill my last warrior. Fearless killed all the beserkers but the HQ. Trygon killed 1 terminator and received no wounds.



Turn 5 – CSM

Trygon attacks first killing the last Terminator and consolidates towards the havocs. My Hive Tyrant attacks and kills the HQ and also consolidating towards the havocs. My Genestealers killed all but 3 Havocs not before all of my genestealers and my broodlord died. They consolidated away from my units.



Turn 5 – Tyranids

Neither of us have any troops left so the only way to win was for me to table him. My Trygon and Hive Tyrant bolted towards the 3 remaing Havocs coming up short from assault. Hive Gaurds and Zoanthropes moved up more but were still not in range. Trygon missed his Bio Pulse shots and Hive Tyrant missed his Leech Essence shots.



End of Turn I rolled a 6 for turn 6 but he scooped his 3 havocs up because theres no way he was going to survive all my units next turn.

So that’s my first ever Warhammer 40k Battle and my first battle report. My friend has been playing warhammer 40k for YEARS so im happy that I beat him. He told me that out of all the years hes been playing hes only faced 2 tyranid armies before me and both of them were from the previous codex. I hope you all enjoyed reading it. I know I made a lot of mistakes but if you can tell me how to improve and any better tactics I can use Id greatly appreciate it!


Thanks!