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For a Coven player, which would be better for me to take against Tyranids, a Talos Pain Engine or a Chronos Parasite Engine?

Talos pain engine, it's better anti-infantry. Splinter cannons will do great. Unless you are running a lot of Wracks and want all those extra pain tokens

I'm running 3 squads of 10 Wracks with Liq Guns mounted in Raiders, an Archon, 2 Haemys and a couple of Darklight Ravagers :S

Durability and speed, the two are rather alike. Cronos is a multiplier, it, like Icculus said, gives any unit within its range their PT, it isn't really meant to be killy, though a well placed unscattered blast template and good dice rolls, it could really put a dent in some MEQ units, biggest problem is that it has an even worse range than Talos, and once it's done it's PT dispensary job, it really can't do much else except to hold objective in that one mission. Talos, on the other hand, is a slaughter machine, providing you can get it up close, it doesn't provide any support for the rest of the army except killing things, and being attention magnet, though Cronos can do that 2nd part as well, if you need AT, give it TL-HWB and you can reliably drop a vehicle's HP by 1 a turn, or TL-HL, though I'd say that's better for if you're WWPing, it just takes too long to get into that melta range, whereas HWB is just helping from 24" on, or just stick to TL-SC for more AI fire.

So, it depends on what you feel your army needs. I'll be a contrarian of sort and suggest Cronos though, templates and pie templates will work fun on them nids... Horde nids. If it's MC nids, Talos!

My friend Alaex uses Tervigon spam coupled with spammed Termagants and Zoanthropes as support.. My tactic is to use Wracks mounted in Raiders to weaken the MCs, then charge with Wracks and Haemys to finish them off, but I just don't know how to combat hordes with DE without using Kabalite Warriors (I want it to be a really cool, fluffly Haemy Coven list )

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
My friend Alaex uses Tervigon spam coupled with spammed Termagants and Zoanthropes as support.. My tactic is to use Wracks mounted in Raiders to weaken the MCs, then charge with Wracks and Haemys to finish them off, but I just don't know how to combat hordes with DE without using Kabalite Warriors (I want it to be a really cool, fluffly Haemy Coven list )

hordes are done easily with the twinlinked liquifier on a talos or regular liquifiers on wracks. If you are really having trouble get a razorwing.