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Had a Very enjoyable game today, both me and my opponent were very pleased with the outcome and it was a close game

Ok Im no Marine player but I do remember the stuff he had (mostly)

Vulcans Search party

Vulcan

Devastators x5, 2 rockets, 2 plasma.

Sternguard x10, Melta, Powerfist and poisoned Weapons. In a Drop pod

10man Tac Squad in a Drop Pod. A fist, rocket and a Combi-melta.

10man Tac squad in a drop pod. Rocket and Fist, and a Combi Melta.

5 Terminators TH/SS (in raider with Vulcan)

Venerable Dreadnaught with a Hammer and Melta. In a pod.

Landraider Redeemer

Vindicator

Vindicator.



Hive Fleet Hydra

HQ: Hive Tyrant/ Wings, twin Scything Talons, Hive Commander, Adrenal Glands, Paroxysm, Leech Essence

Elites: 2 Hive Guard
2 Hive Guard
2 Thropes in a pod with a Stinger Salvo

Troops: 20Hormagaunts with Adrenal Glands.
10 Stealers and a BL, Adrenal Glands, Scything Talons and Implant Attack

Fast Attack: 5 Raveners with Claws and Spitters.

Heavy Support: Carnifex with Crushing Claws, Adrenal Glands, Scything Talons, Bioplasma.
Trygon Prime with Regen, Adrenal.
Mawloc with Adrenal, Regen.


Mission: killpoints
Deployment: Pitched Battle >:]
I won roll, chose to go first. But he won seize

I spread my forces out in a big line. Gaunts at front, Hive Guard in cover, Trygon, Carnifex in sight. Stealers outflanks Hive Tyranid on the Right, Thropes in reserve (duh) and Mawloc way in the corner. Raveners on left side.

He places Devestators in the middle of his zone. Raider, Vindicators on stage to my left.


Marines Turn 1:
Dread and Vets rocket down infront of my Carnifex and Trygon.
Raider moves 6in, Vindicators fire at gaunts killing 9
Devastators fire at Gaunts kill 5
Vets and Dread gun down Carnifex. (may Arnold Fex RIP)
Turn.

Tyranids Turn 1:
Mawloc Burrows
Tyranid Flies off towards Devastators
Right Hive Guard move up. Left Hive Guard move up.
5 Gaunts hide behind terrain ork trukk.
Trygon bears down on Dread. Raveners move up.

Left Hive Guard fire at left Vindicator, stun it. Right unit are Out of range of anything.
Raveners Fleet to better attack position, forgot about trygon shooting.
Tyrant runs

Trygon Assaults Dread and rips all weapons off, Dread head buts it for 1 wound.
Raveners Assault Vets kill 5 and take 5 wounds, drawn.
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Marine Turn 2:
10man Tack squad comes in (Melta one) beside Devastators.
Raider moves closer. And Termies and Vulcan get out.
Vindicators blow up last 5gaunts and right Hive guard (kills them all)
Pumps everything he has into Flyrant, Nothing.
Termies Assault Hive Guard. And smash them to bits. Consolidate back a lil bit
Trygon wreaks Dread and dread pulls off a wow and Head buts it again for 1 wound before death. Consolidate 6in back.
Raveners kill all but 1 and lose 2. Marines pass morale.

Tyranids Turn 2:
Mawloc comes in and eats 5 of the 10 tacs at the back
Thropes dont :(
Stealers neither :(
Tyrant moves into charge range of Devastators
Trygon Eats dreads Pod. Tyrant Eats Devastators
Raveners eat last Vet and consolidate 6in back.
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Marines Turn 3:
Final Pod comes in and blocks termies from getting to Trygon cause of scatter.
Vulcans boys move around building beside Raveners. (3 left)
Vindicators fire at Tyrant and wounds him once.
New tac Squad rapid fire into Trygon and wound him. (3 wounds left)
now 5 man Tac squad rapid fire Tyrant, nothing.
Raiders Melta Burns a wound off Trygon.
Termies charge Raveners, Lose 3 teminators, and then implode Raveners.

Tyranids Turn 3:
Stealers come in from raiders side, Thropes dont :(
Mawloc Eats Tacs Pod.
Stealers fleet to raider.
Trygon Assaults 10man Tac squad, and devourers them. in a Sweeping.
Stealers assault Raider and rip melta off.
Tyrant Assaults 5man tac squad and eats them.
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Marines Turn 4:
Termies move back.
Raider turns around.
Raider nukes Stealers and kills em all with 2 big flamers.
Trygon is finally put down by 2 vindicators. (RIP beasty)
no assault.

Tyranids Turn 4: Final Hour, Thropes dont come in xD
Tyrant flies towards Vindicator, same as Mawloc.
Mawloc Moves over to left Vindicator
Tyrant explodes the right Vindicator.
my opponent has to go, so we count killpoints.

I got 2 pods, 2 tac squads, a Sternguard Squad, Devastators, Vindicator and a Dread. =8kp
He got, Hormagaunt brood, Carnifex, Trygon, 2 HG units, Stealers and Raveners =7kp
And the other Vindicator was really close by, his Termies were too far away. so we called it.

As the Vulcan powered down his weapon, he saw all of his brothers spilt blood, as he looked in the distance he saw the final two monsters tearing apart a battle tank with ease. Vulcan turned around to see a new wave of Tyranids closing fast. Despite the search for another of the chapters sacred relics, Vulcan had no choice but to board the Land Raider and fallback with his remaining Terminators. A grave day for the Salamanders.

Tyranid Victory!

A good game, loads of fun, sorry about no pics.

Good battle report and congrats on the win

Haha cheers man,

Guess I voted wrong lol. Nice win.

tehe, ah well, Salamanders win most of the time, so guess you had a higher chance of being right

Very detailed report. I think the vehicle your opponent had was a Land Raider Redeemer (it has 2x Flamestorm Cannones) and the dread was probably an Ironclad Dreadnought.

I saw you assaulted right after you DS with the Mawloc, is there a special rule that lets the Mawloc assault right after DS'ing from a burrow?

It feels like he had a few more points then you. I play vanilla marines and Tyranids, so these match ups are always cool.

Vulcan
Devastators x5, 1 rocket, 2 plasma. I think - BAD choice all around, especially for his army
Veterans x10, Melta, Powerfist and poisoned Weapons. In a Drop pod - Sternguard, I really hope he had combi-meltas (or plasmas if he was tailoring his list) in this squad
10man Tac Squad in a Drop Pod. A fist and a melta. - No heavy weapon? Or multi-melta heavy and no special?
10man Tac squad in a drop pod. Nothing - Just...dumb, should at least take the free multi-melta or missile and flamer
5 Terminators TH/SS (in raider with Vulcan)
Venerable Dreadnaught with a Hammer and Melta? In a pod. - Ironclad is more likely then a venerable i suppose. Venerables are really really bad.
Landraider (duna what type) had 2 huge flamers, a TL Assault Cannon and a Melta. - Redeemer
Vindicator
Vindicator.

The marine army was not an "A" level list. Some tweaking and it might have really ruined your day though. The Sternguard in particular could have really made you miserable if deployed properly. If he had paid ~40-50 points for combi-plasma they could have gotten off of their drop pod, cut into 2 combat squads and done an average of ~9 wounds to T6 3+ save monstrous creatures. Combined with some support fire from his LR, Dread and (lol) devastators he would have had a really good chance of removing your Trygon and Carnifex on the first turn before you had a chance to move.

Trygon Assaults 10man Tac squad, and devourers them. in a Sweeping.

The odds of this happening are so unlikely that I think you played it wrong. You would have to charge and kill AT LEAST 5 marines, which isn't completely impossible. 5 dead would be average for a charging Trygon. Fail morale check at -5, likely. Then you would have to match or beat him on the sweeping roll, again just over a 50/50 chance of this happening. THEN he would have to fail all 5 no retreat saves to have the squad wiped out. It just seems like when the marines were caught in the sweeping advance you removed them all, which doesn't happen because of ATSKNF.

Tyranids Turn 4: Final Hour, Thropes dont come in xD

Standard scoring rules I believe state that units that haven't arrived count as destroyed for KP purposes, so +2 for your opponent, losing you the game. Personally I would have played it like you did, as it's not your fault he had to leave early and you shouldn't be punished for it.

I saw you assaulted right after you DS with the Mawloc, is there a special rule that lets the Mawloc assault right after DS'ing from a burrow?

He didn't assualt after DS'ing (I hope). When the Mawloc comes out of burrow it drops a S6 AP2 large blast template, that is what killed the marines.

Tyranids Turn 2:
Mawloc comes in and eats 5 of the 10 tacs at the back
Thropes dont :(
Stealers neither :(
Tyrant moves into charge range of Devastators
Trygon Eats dreads Pod. Mawloc Eats Tacs Pod. Tyrant Eats Devastators
Raveners eat last Vet and consolidate 6in back.

Mawloc definitely did assault.

Didn't catch that. He played it wrong then.

Calypso2ts: yea may be, but it was a friendly game. Yes Flamestorm Cannons that was it. And no it was A Venerable because it forced me to reroll some damage charts.

Carnage43: Well that is all that I can remember him taking, Im not sure what it was in total, as for the Mawloc... yea I made a slight error in the report, Mawloc did everything a turn after it came in xD.
And the Trygon did kill 6 marines. 6attack with rerolls all hit and he rolled 2+ on all wounds. As for sweeping, forgot all about ATSKNF. Ah well twas a fun friendly game.

As for lists, we were both trying something new. I Normally take the Swarm Lord with guard, and Tervigons etc. I was trying a TH list and he was trying a drop pod list

Sorry to ask xD but apart from rules, you think there was anything I could have done better?

No problem asking about strategery and all.

It is a little tough to get perspective from a written report, just because judging the relative position of units is difficult.

It sounds like tactically you were sound, his list was a bit weak in its configuration so it did not seem like you were challenged enough by it on a pure power level to necessarily judge. I am surprised so many terminators were biomass for raveners, if anything I think you might need a strategy to deal with them effectively (Genestealers are great for this actually).

Congrats on the win, great summary

Technically, he would have gotten 2 more KPs for the Zoes + Spod, no?

Calypso2ts: Yea got uber luck with raveners, my tyrant and mawloc would have them finished, ah well.

Katavus: haha cheers man.

Puma713: yes however we didn't count them as my opponent had to leave and so we didn't finish.

Edit: and to be fair... next turn, a pod and a tank were guna go boom, and also the marines had 2 easy killpoints on the table after that left for me . Only Termies could really stop me xD

I threw my hat in for the Tyranids to win... I was figuring that the Salamanders would need to get up close to use some of their weaponry... but by the time they get close the nids could come up and assault but it looks like they were able to gun down some of the nids.

Well I found out that he had 250points more as I thought the list I was using was a 2000pointer but it was my 1750list
Yea Marines are probably the best nid squishers around

Your opponents list was, IMHO, worthless.

It looks like he was playing a vulkan list by including vulkan, but obviously not.

A good vulkan list has flamers and meltas everywhere, as well as several TH/SS termies.

I voted Salamanders as I was thinking of roasting nids. He needs help with making a list.

As for your playing, you really did good, both listwise and tactically.

Good game!

Well yea sure he needs some work on his list, but then again, he made it in around 30seconds, and he hasn't playing in ages. Besides, he killed everything but the thropes, Mawloc and Tyrant.

But thanks

Looking at his army list I'm not surprised he lost!

Man, I see so many Salamanders players I think GW should give them some love, not just smurfs (cough cough, Matt Ward).

They are a great chapter, and far more interesting than ultras if you ask me.

RG are also pretty popular, but more for fun game because they are ninja.

nice job

Guys ok! the list is bad, take it to army lists, This is just a report for your entertainment! Far out enough!

Oh and thank you Warmastersolon