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Hi all I played a nice friendly 1000points game with my friend Tyranids VS Tau
If you want to know who won the epic ambush just read.
This is my first battle report so please forgive me if this is a bad one.

Unfortunately I don't have any pics as we forgot the camera at home :/
I'll post some computer made pics of the battlefield in near future.

Here are the army lists:
HQ
The parasite of Mortex 160

ELITES
3 Lictors 195

TROOPS
11 Genestealers 235
-Toxin sacs
-Broodlord with scything talons

12 Genestealers 250
-Toxin sacs
-Broodlord

FAST ATTACK
3 Raveners 90

10 Gargoyles 70
-Toxin sacs

And the tau
HQ
Crisis comander 97P
-Fusion blaster
-Plasma rifle
-Targeting array
-HW multi-tarcker

ELITES
2Crisis Battlesuits 144P
-Fusion blaster
-Plasma rifle
-Targeting array
-HW multi-tracker

3 Crisis Battlesuits 216P
-Missle pod
-Plasma rifle
-Targeting array
-HW multi-tracker

TROOPS
6 FW 160P
-Fish with -targeting array
-Disruption pods

6 FW 160P
-Fish with -targeting array
-Disruption pods

HEAVY SUPPORT
2 Broadside battlesuits
-Targeting array

Ok here we go it was a capture and control mission with the spearhead deployment.
The Tau won the rol and decided to go first.

The crisis suits witht the plasma rifle and fusion blaster move dangerously close to the genestealer brood hiding out of line of sight.
the poor crisis still cant see the genestealers and so dont shoot. The boadsides open fire on the hiding genestealers and kill 1 and take 1 wound of the broodlord with theyr SMS.
The tau player forgets to move his crisis suits in the assault phase which he will have to pay for. One of the devilfish transportes which was positioned far in the front of his deployment zone moves 12" to my objective to caputre it...still it's a long (dangerous) way to my objective defended by 11 genestealers with toxin sacs and a broodlord with scything talons.

In my first turn the hiding genestealers burst out of the savety and assault the crisis teaem that was foolish enough to stand where it was.
Only the comander survives the assault of the beasts and can kill only 1 before he decides to fals back only to get cut down in answeeping advance.

TURN 2
The advancing develfish stays and the other one on the tau objective unloads his 6 man strong squad of firewarriors which kill 9 genestealers together with the broadsides.
This left an incredible angry broodlord back...
ON the other half of the table at my objective my troops got under fire of the devilfish close to them and lost 2 genestealers.

When it was my turn again the lictors burst out of nowhere to shoot 6 fleshhooks at the firewarrior squad. However my lictors failed miserably and killed only 1 warrior.
The now alone running around broodlord got mad and charged into the broadsides tearing them apart with 4 hits and rolling for each hit a 6 to wound which was all he needed to whipe out the broadsides.
(The look on my friends face was awesome xD)

TURN 3
The devilfish that was putting serius pressure on my objektive advanced another 6 inches. But what was far more worrying was that another 3 crisis suits had deepstriked close to my mad overkilling broodlord!
Well as you might expect the situation wasn't looking too god for the brood lord but the firewarriors were in a mean trap. On 1 side 3 liktors 4 inches away from butchering them and on the other side a mad broodlord that killed 2 broadsides in 1 round.
However my opponent kept a clear head and asked what toughgness my lictors had and what for a save.
I answered hima and he started shooting at my mad broodlord with his crisis suits.
6 plasmashots and only 1 hit that worried him and when he rolled to wound he rolled a 1!
Well now he was really under pressure he fired of his last 3 fusion blasters at the broodlord and had 1 miss. This ment if he didn't wound with both shoots my broodlord would kill him in CC.
But every great hero has to die and so did the broodlord.
Now he opened fire with his 5 firewarrirs on my lictors and killed 2 and left the last one with 2 wounds left.
Sadly his devilfish shot the last lictor down and I had spend 195 points to kill 12 points :/

Now I had nearly lost hope to win this battle so i decidded that my genestealers guarding my objektive should chage forwards and assault this tank that made theyr lives bad.
And so they did they just managed to reach the tank and when the broodlord started to eat the tank he wreked it believe it or not. The fire warriors inside were forced to go out.
From this point i started to hope again.

TURN 4
So it happened that I only had only 8 genestealers and a broodlord left. he started to move his crisis in theyr direction but made weird mistakes. he didnt run with them in the shooting phase and left his devilfhish with his firewarriors to guard the objective.
The embarked firewarriors started to shoot at the poor genestealers and killed 3 of them.

For me it was lucky that my gargoyles arived just in time next to the 6 firewarriors that were hunting my genestealers to shoot them down with theyr fleshborers.
My genestealers started running back to the objective and got to it now I was hoping there wouldn't be more that 1 turn left.

TURN 5
He moved his crisis to avoid my gargoyles and hunt the genestealers which didn't work well because...

I got a great deepstrike with my 3 raveners and landed in the 3 inch range of the tau objektive to deny him a draw
and I also moved my gargoyle brood over to shoot the crisis suits and then engage them in assault.
Sadly my gargoyles lost the assault by 2 wounds :/ but because they are ment to be awesome in this list they didn't fall back (or was it because of the parasite behind them???)

So it was end of turn 5 and I wanted him to roll the dice to find out if there would be another turn...as expected there was...

TURN 6
I was in control of 1 objective and my friend wasn't so his only chance to get a draw was to shoot my raveners down.
As seen before he let his firewarriors now 5 man strong disembark from his tank and started shooting with rapid fire.
But he didn't manage to killk a single ravener and so I was happy.
the combat ni the middle was a weird one as he inflicted 1 wound on my troops and i did the same to him :/
Anyway we rolled another dice to find out if there would be a turn 7 but there wasn't so the sneaky tyranids won against the non sneaky Tau

Thx for reading all I hope you liked the battlereport.

Hm.
Good report.
Pictures would be nice but go figure.
It could use a bit more structure i.e. lay out the movement phaseetc and each players different turn.
Also congrats on the win. Genestealers have always been one of my favorite units.

Well now, that was a fine battle and as for the report;

Please start by telling what lists/units the players were using
Pics help but if absent please tell where the terrain/objectives were (middle, bottom left etc)
And how you both deployed (behind the terrain on the bottom left)

So, after seeing the lictors in action I'm thinking maybe trying a few more games with them and then swap them out for ~200 pts of goodies elsewhere. Maybe hive guard, maybe more stealers whatever. The rest of the list seems to work so far.

*edtied : Hmm this is about being a sneaky git so maybe ymgarl stealers?

Aw sorry I totally forgot to post the army lists.
I think I just misplayed the lictors they could have done much more if I would have deployed them out of line opf sight first and then powercharged in whatever was there.
But yes maybe add somethin else I'll have to see I just love the model of the lictors