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From what I understand stealers are only marine basic points per model and can go all the way up to penetrate armor 13 without upgrading them infiltrate and fleet? This makes me wonder why Ive never seen "pure" Genstealer lists

So Im not a Tyranid player so Im not sure how much of this list legal or how well it would actually work but from army builder for 1850:

91 T4 wounds 15 T5 wounds (broodlords) and 8 T 6 wounds (Hive Tyrant and guard)

Yes, they can get gunned down by templates, but how many could you kill before they reach your tanks/squads? Add in the fact you hide each squad behind each other and they benefit from a 4+ save from what I understand( except for the front). Fast armies can run away, but I think they can eventually corner the enemy and get a charge off.......

Has anyone defeated a list like this? I need some strategies.......

So, I've got this Land Raider Redeemer and I...

A pure wall of genestealers isn't that scary.

Using some monsters to push your enemy to one side, then dropping an outflanking wall of genestealers is one of the most terrifying things Tyranids can do nowadays. (Doesn't help them too much though, especially if that one-trick-pony doesn't deliver).

In short the reason why you do not se it is because Mr. Genius will use one turn striking down that rhino, and then use one turn being shot, charge through the rhino wrecage and then fight at I1.

All genstealers lost, while they have only lost a rhino. Been there and done that.

PS: When you destroy the rhino, you would be supriced how often it explodes vs wrecks.

Defeatmyarmy wrote:From what I understand stealers are only marine basic points per model and can go all the way up to penetrate armor 13 without upgrading them infiltrate and fleet? This makes me wonder why Ive never seen "pure" Genstealer lists

So Im not a Tyranid player so Im not sure how much of this list legal or how well it would actually work but from army builder for 1850:

91 T4 wounds 15 T5 wounds (broodlords) and 8 T 6 wounds (Hive Tyrant and guard)

Yes, they can get gunned down by templates, but how many could you kill before they reach your tanks/squads? Add in the fact you hide each squad behind each other and they benefit from a 4+ save from what I understand( except for the front). Fast armies can run away, but I think they can eventually corner the enemy and get a charge off.......

Has anyone defeated a list like this? I need some strategies.......

becasue they run into a mobile shooting army like DE shooty mech who just runs away all game shooting at them.

Stealer heavy lists can work, but not a pure stealer list. You need some MC in there for heavy armour and hive guard to pop some transports for you. Outflanking them against a static army can be real fun. You need the tyrant for the +1 reserves. Try something along the lines of:

Flyrant
2 * 2 hive guard
6 ymgarl
4 * 15 stealers with toxin
15 gargoyles
2 * trygon