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Right, on saturday me and my friend are going to have a fun yet competitive game of Me with some Nids vs him using a Catachan IG army. The theme for the battle is as a simple annihilation KP game with loads of forests and soft cover.. We've been limited to no MCs and no Vehicles respectively although he's allowed to use Scout Sentinels as they're designed for all terrain so makes sense. Oh and i'm allowed no shooting units (cept the flesh hooks on lictors)

I want to know if you think this list is suitable for a tyranid infestation that has adapted to life on a forest covered world. It has lictors, venomthropes and raveners as main big gribblys as i feel they're more than agile enough to manage in forests.

Prime
Scytals
Rending claws

Prime
Scytals
Rending claws

Deathleaper

10 Ymgarl Stealers

10 genestealers
Adrenal glands

10 genestealers
Adrenal glands

10 Genestealers
Adrenal glands

10 Genestealers
Adrenal glands

3 raveners
rending claws

3 raveners
rending claws

3 raveners
rending claws

total = 1249 points

So what do you guys and gals think? Seem suitable enough? I am thinking of dropping the venomthropes for a squad of Ymgarl Stealers but i love my venoms. I'm very likely to be facing a helluva lot of flamers though so i'm kinda 'fraid of those.

Been edited to be almost pure Stealers. Not sure how the reduced number of models on table will fare though against my Catachan opponent,

At 1,250 with no shooting I think that 3 venomthropes is excessive.

If playing in lots of cover/trees then I think ymgarl could be good and would drop the hormies for a full stealer themed list. With stealers you have less synapse coverage issues as well and you can stick the primes on the raveners to keep them alive.

Also on stealers I would go for toxin rather than scything. Also, 15 is a large brood and would rather be running 3-4 broods of about 10 strong here with ymgarls to pop out as well!

Thanks for the advice. I have been thinking about Ymgarls and more stealers as they seem to fit the list a little better. Maybe drop the hormies and venomthropes for 2 small broods of Ymgarl and more genestealers then. I'll edit the list up shortly to reflect changes.

The list has now been edited.

-2 Lictor
-3 Venomthrope
-40 gaunts

+ deathleaper
+10 Ymgarl Stealers
+25 genestealers