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my flgs is running an escalation league starting at 350 points and rising through 9 games to 2000 points.

What I learned in my first 3 bouts is that I am not as clever as I thought I was, and I'm not great at building a good list. That is where you guys come in. I was hoping to get some feed back on my plans for the 750 pt round. I don't know who I'm facing yet, but I'm aiming to get an all comers list together.

and so we're all on the same page, the FOC has been modified as follows :
1 HQ
0-2 Elite
1-4 Troops
01 Fast Attack
0-1 Heavy Support

My current idea is as follows :

== HQ ==
The Parasite of Mortrex = 160 pts.

== Elites ==
2x Zoanthrope = 120 pts.

== Troops ==
10x Termagant Brood - Devourer = 100 pts.
Tervigon - Stinger Salvo, AG, TS = 180 pts.
10x Termagant Brood - Devourer = 100 pts.

== Fast Attack ==
10x Gargoyle Brood - AG, TS = 80 pts.

== Total ==
740 pts.

The plan is to use spawned gaunts from the tervigon to grab and hold objectives while the devilgaunts and tervigon move forward. I'll save additional spawns of gaunts until they're needed. I plan to hunt anything that gets too far away from support with my gargoyles and parasite, hopefully pop out some rippers to tarpit and cover any approaching troops. Zoanthropes to pop any vehicles or take shots at troop clusters or big bad characters that need a s10 ap1 shot to the face.

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And in the event of an annihilation game, I'm praying I can wipe them out, otherwise the spawning stuff will lose it for me due to killpoints
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Well...that's the plan anyway. I'll appreciate any feedback. Thanks for your time.

Not sure how I feel about the parasite, but just in general trying to stay with the theme of your list i'd recommend:

Drop the 2nd termagant squad and get 2 Hive Guard instead. Gives you another method to pop a tank after as much firepower as it takes to kill them is dumped into your thropes.
Drop Adrenal Glands on the Tervigon and take Catalyst.

As an all comers thing, that sounds a bit better off to me. YMMV of course

My two cents: mob up the Termagants into one big blob, that'll reduce the number of soft KP's in Annihilation. Trade a Zoey brood for some Hive Guard, you're unlikely to need to pop that much AV14. Probably best to trade the Devourers for Catalyst and more Gargoyles; 10 Gargoyles is an easy KP, and would leave Parasite exposed to S8 ID. 20 FNP Gargoyles is a brutal cover screen for Tervigon and a pretty deadly attack unit.

YMMV on a single Tervigon with no other MC's to force target priority confusion. A big blob of Termagants will guarantee you at least one chance for a blob of FNP/Tox/Adrenal fun.

Nerrik wrote:Drop the 2nd termagant squad and get 2 Hive Guard instead. Gives you another method to pop a tank after as much firepower as it takes to kill them is dumped into your thropes.

OP said Elites were limited to 2 units.

lindsay40k wrote:
OP said Elites were limited to 2 units.

2 Zoanthropes = 1 unit
2 Hive Guard = 1 unit

That's still only 2.. I doubt OP really meant models.