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2013/02/19 08:16:39
Subject: 1000 points Nids Psychic Choir vs GK Strikes: Homage to jy2! [COMPLETED]
A little battle to get me used to my Jy2 inspired Nids, simple KPs which favours the GK if they don't get wiped out. Iron arm on both MCs could well be bad news though, along with endurance on a zoan.
1000 points Hive Fleet Hymenoptera
Tyrant Old adversary, 2 TL Devourers, Strategic genius, iron arm, enfeeble
Comedy army shots - check out the spore/dinosaur egg, borrowed off my 3 year old son!
Spoiler:
No more army shots as they are a work in progress with lots of proxies!
Terrain
Spoiler:
Deployment
Spoiler:
grey knights win the roll
tyranids steal but coteaz forces the re-roll and GK go first
GK turn 1
Spoiler:
prescience goes off on both squads (and will do unless otherwise noted)
GKs push forward, inquisitor's squad secure a defilade positision on the top floor of a cental building
1-0 to the GK inq squad wipe out 7 gants which were providing cover to hive guard and were in range
Dread kills both hive guard
no other shooting in range
Nids turn 1
Spoiler:
iron arm +2 to tervigon and tyrant
zoan casts endurance on the tervigon
tervigon spawns 8 gants into left midfield
gargolyes spread out to deny a shunt into the back field and access to the easy KPs (solo zoan, biovore and 3 gants)
zoan, biovore and 3 remaining gaunts hide behind los blocking but clustered up
trygon moves forward slightly and more central incase the dread knight shunts in
tyrant lands on impassable on the right flank in range of the smaller strike squad
tyrant takes out 2 strikes who barely pass leadership on a 10
biovore snipes a psycannon from coteaz's squad
GK turn 2
Spoiler:
Coteaz casts misfortune on the gargoyles
coteaz squad move up 5 inches
knight jumps forward in front of the gargoyles and gants
dread draws a bead on the tyrant
knight bbqs 4 gants
dread grounds the tyrant but fails to wound with autocannon but the tyrant takes wound from hitting the deck
inq squad doesnt need prescience as it hits with everything! but only a single rending psycannon can hurt the T8 monster
coteaz squad take out 11 gargoyles in cover!
knight fails to charge the gants
Nids turn 2
Spoiler:
doom arrives safely away from coteaz's squad and between the knight and inq squad
zoan perils on double 1 casting enfeeble on the knight
12 gaunts spawned by the tervigon but its now barren
12 gants move up to tie up the knight
tyrant moves up to give the gants preferred enemy
tervigon moves up to give them the benfits of toxin sacs and adrenal glands
4 gargoyles hide
Doom puts 5 wounds on the inq squad leaving just him and the justicar. DK passes Ld.
Unlucky inquisitor then gets finished off by the mycetic spore
biovore scatters and leaves a spore
tyrant puts 12 wounds on the lone justicar and he...is shredded!
2-1 to the Nids
Gaunts put 4 wounds on the GK but he makes all the saves, they then charge. 3 being bbq'd on the way in.
doom misses coteaz with smite
gants put 10 wounds on the DK but he passes all but one
DK then smushes 2 gants
GK turn 3
Spoiler:
coteaz, his squad and the dread move central to go after the doom or tyrant
DK makes his Ld against the doom
Dread only puts a single wound on the doom and its saved
coteaz and his guys go after the easy KP and take out the spore rather than the 9W Doom
2-2 tie
DK only kills a single gant and then takes a wound, down to 2 now
Nids turn 3
Spoiler:
iron arms (+1) go off and the tervigon has endurance too
tyrant flies behind the dread who has his back against a low wall for cover
doom moves closer to coteaz's squad
tervigon moves up to try to get into assualt with the DK.
Doom finishes off the DK and one of coteaz's entourage kicks the bucket too
doom smites 3 more from coteaz's squad despite the aegis
3-2 nids
tyrant blows a tl autocannon off the dread as he gets lucky making 3 pen and 1 glancing save
tervigon cluster spines one more from coteaz's squad
biovore scatters
Coteaz and his strikes pass Ld
GK turn 4
Spoiler:
coteaz squad move into cover to make a Nid assault less effective.
dread moves to get in charge range of the doom to tie him up
dread fluffs again against the doom wounding only twice
coteaz and crew delete the six remaining gaunts
3-3 tie
Dread charges the doom
doom gets a pen and only shakes the dread
Note: dont know if this was the right play - maybe should have split coteaz off to go after and force weapon the Doom.
Nids turn 4
Spoiler:
can they get the tabling this turn? Now the doom cant move the GKs are safer...
iron arm fails on the tervigon
tyrant goes to S9 and T9
zoan doesnt risk another perils and giving a KP away
Nids shooting fluffs
biovore and tervigon scatter off harmlessly
tyrant only kills a single striker
stalemate in assualt as the doom fluffs again - his attacks are as bad as the dreads shooting
Note: Probably should have moved the tervigon back as he didnt have eternal warrior
GK turn 5
Spoiler:
coteaz and co move towards the tervigon
shooting puts a single rend onto the tervigon
strikers assault, justicar with halberd challenges but then perils and dies when activating the force weapons...but the tervigon dies! suitably epic!
4-3 GK
doom finaly destroys the dread with two glances
4-4 tie
Nids turn 5
Spoiler:
tyrant is T7
doom does nothing for once
flyrant swoops and kills penultimate striker and coteaz is instant killed
5-4 nids
biovore and smite from the doom do nothing to the lone remaining GK
flyrant assualts the last striker and takes a wound on the way in!
but then feasts on the hapless knight's corpse
GK are tabled
Nids victory 6-4
This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2013/02/20 16:22:25
2013/02/19 14:36:06
Subject: Re:1000 points Nids Psychic Choir vs GK Strikes: Homage to jy2!
With Iron Arm on the 2 TMC's (Tyranid monstrous creatures), they can't be force weaponed to death due to Eternal Warrior provided by Iron Arm. Heck, they may even be immune to the psybolt stormbolters if they get up to T9. And then you've got the Doom who will cause havoc to the knights.
I'm going to have to go with the bugs on this one. If played properly, tyranids with Iron Armed MC's do have the potential to table-wipe the knights in this matchup.
Given the armies and Psyker abilities, I was initially ready to jump on board with Tyranids. However, Kill Points, Tyranids, and Tervigons never spell a desirable scenario (9+spawns vs 6!). I'm betting on a draw - not that I believe it'll be a true draw, but quite a close game favoring nobody.
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2013/02/19 19:36:54
Subject: 1000 points Nids Psychic Choir vs GK Strikes: Homage to jy2!
Congratulations on your victory, it was an interesting report
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2013/02/20 17:40:59
Subject: Re:1000 points Nids Psychic Choir vs GK Strikes: Homage to jy2! [COMPLETED]
Could have been worse for the knights if they hadn't gotten the lucky force weapon against the tervigon because 1) it failed to cast Iron Arm, 2) the striker needed a 6 to wound and 3) had to pass his LD9 psychic test on 3D6 due to Shadows (only 37% chance to pass).
Could have been worse for the knights if they hadn't gotten the lucky force weapon against the tervigon because 1) it failed to cast Iron Arm, 2) the striker needed a 6 to wound and 3) had to pass his LD9 psychic test on 3D6 due to Shadows (only 37% chance to pass).
Congrats to the bugs.
Indeed you did! A couple of psychic faux pas were made including shadows being forgotten.
Siphen wrote:Definitely a fun read. Thanks for the report!
Did the Strike Squad try to cast Warp Quake when the Doom came in from reserves? I was actually expecting the Doom to do very little this game.
Some weird luck in that game, but it was a well earned victory.
Glad you enjoyed...the second psychic slip up was not casting warp quake to push the doom out of range doh. Thanks for spotting that, lesson learnt.
Gar'Ang wrote:Congratulations on your victory, it was an interesting report
Thanks for reading.
I think a rematch is in order...
2013/02/20 20:10:06
Subject: 1000 points Nids Psychic Choir vs GK Strikes: Homage to jy2! [COMPLETED]
Nids are amazing at low points games, and keep being good overal.
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