So I played two games yesterday, last one being Tau and Dark angels allies vs Nids.
I completely annihilated everything with this army list
- Commander R'alai
- Fire warriors 6x2
- XV-8 x2 with twin missile pods
- XV-9 x3
fusion cascade 2
phased ion gun 2
pulse subminition rifle 2
shield generator 3
- hammerhead x2
railgun
disruption pod
multi tracker
Dark angels
- librarian on a bike (useless)
- tactical squad w plasma cannon
- ravenwing speeders x2
typhoon launcher
heavy bolter
vs
Tyranids
Hive tyrant with tyrant guard
Biovore
Zoanthrope
Deathleaper
Doom of malan'tai
3 Warriors
20 Gaunts
Trygon (the guy with assault 5-5-18 wep)
20 Termagaunts
10+- Gorgoyles
carnifex drop podding in a spore
something like that
except for one thing, the doom of malant'ai and that's fair to me. What's not fair to me is saying that the doom of malant'ai can run and then leech life and then cataclysm. If states that the leech life (?) is used in the shooting phase, if its used in the shooting phase you can't possibly run before you use it?! then I asked him is it a shooting attack, a psychic power or? then he said its just something, its not a shooting attack or a psychic power- is it a "special attack" then? used in the special phase...
anyway I just said well allright lets see what would have happened if you could, then we did, he leeched of 4 marines and I just shot down the doom with 1 hammerheads, 2 XV-8 battlesuits and my last XV-9 battlesuit. Then he'd had one tyranid warrior
wth 1 wound in the corner of the map saying he won the dam game as he had 3 victory pts.. I was well aware of the warrior as I shot down half the squad the previous turn.
he had two tyranids left on the board one warrior with 1 wound and 1 doom of malantai, if he didnt run with the malantai he wouldnt have leeched my marines and obviously if I thought we were playing seriously after he already surrendered, I would have shot down the scoring unit and I wouldnt have said allright lets see what would have happened and just pumped all my shots into a non scoring unit, I'm not that stupid, he even surrendered in turn 3 saying lets just call it and started playing "idc mode".
anyway from the tyranids tactica it says that a tyrant guard and a hive tyrant is 2 victory pts and I also had first blood so thats 3 pts. the primary objectives is 3 pts, so If I would be stupid enough not to shoot a scoring unit with 1 hammerhead 10-1 railgun, 2 XV-8 battlesuits, 1XV-9 battlesuit and Commander Ra'l'ai could he possibly win with that after having 1 warrior left on the field? I didnt even know they were synapse creatures..
so whats your thoughts guys, can the doom of
OP'ai run and then leech life and what would you have done? I just can't stand people trying to cheat their way to a win when they give up in round 3, having two models left and not spending more than 10 minutes making an armylist. he even jumped the rules for feed, rage, synapse range, lash whip, bonesword stating they were alot better than they actually are and that they negated invulnerable saves and just dropping what would suit him.. plus some other stuff I can't even remember.