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Yeah, though at $25 a pop for HG, its a bit rough.

Tyrannofi are a pretty god anti tank when armed with a rupture cannon. 2 S10 shots a turn at 48. BS3 isn't amazing, but one with hit.

Meh, you are plunking down 275 points for a T-Fex that has subpar CC ability (3 Attacks at WS 3 = 1 dead marine), subpar anti-tank ability (a poor man's rail gun), and moderate ability to hurt light (4-6+ sv anti-infantry) at extreme short range... for which biovores can do much cheaper and at greater distances.

I believe in the harpy model. GW is releasing a lot of flyers. and yes the harpy is a flyer the fluff calls it a Trygon with wings

He's got 3 of them, we just haven't gotten them painted yet.

Solar_lion wrote:

Vitruvian XVII wrote:@Solar, thatd be cool mate cheers! I honestly think they match really well with the FW nids imo.

Any yeah i play Nids, got about 5k with 2k painted

Thanks all, it was an impulse build ( build as you go kinda thing ) I made templates for the spines so when built they would be close to matching. Other than that its mostly modeling paste. The real art work will be the painting as well as all the consumables gathered for the hive!

If you want I'll do up a couple for you if you need them - WHEN ... I get to the 3rd one for thing 2!
I have some other designs I want to try as well, I'll need some for my eventual Nid army ( in the future) Suggestions are always welcome.- I could use some feed back on my Lamenters blog as well. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/394207.page[/url]

SL

I have the desire to mate with you. For Mycetic Spores. But I will refrain from doing so.

And wyomingfox has a point.

The FAQs sort of undid all the derp!

Yeah, the FAQ helped. I unfortunately play a lot of Dark Eldar, and have yet to come up with a good technique against them with the bugs.

Fast moving skimmers + massive poison + Invulnerable Saves on vehicles + knocking 6" off our already short ranged guns = bad matchup for nids.

I've lost track... what the hell are you guys talking about??


Thing 2 and I played another game. 1500 points, his nids vs. my Eldar. I have pics but I'm not sure I'll post it as I had to fudge some die rolls and forget some things to keep it competitive. Nothing he did wrong really, I just stole the initiative which ki-boshed an opening gambit that should have worked well for him & his tervigon produced 5 gaunts, then quit. I also think my paired-down, 1500 point eldar are actually somewhat functional... at least vs. his nids given the scenario. We had fun regardless, which is the main point.

Decided not to do the whole battle report, but will show a few highlights from it.

Nids vs. Avatar - Nids won this with 1 wound left on the fex.


Tyrant vs. Wraithlord - stalemate. Each had 1 wound left at the end of the battle.


Bad day for the Pathfinders

When I saw the "Bad Day for the Pathfinders" My first thought was, it's only three genestealers. They shouldn't be too bad. And then I scrolled down to see the rest of the pic, and saw all of those stealers at the bottom, and went, "Oh ."

Poor Pathfinders :(

Alfndrate wrote:When I saw the "Bad Day for the Pathfinders" My first thought was, it's only three genestealers. They shouldn't be too bad. And then I scrolled down to see the rest of the pic, and saw all of those stealers at the bottom, and went, "Oh ."

i did exsactly the same thing lol

very cool

How did that happen? lol

AND .. ( pods?). I have a vested intrest in it's coolness.

SL


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bigfish wrote:

Alfndrate wrote:When I saw the "Bad Day for the Pathfinders" My first thought was, it's only three genestealers. They shouldn't be too bad. And then I scrolled down to see the rest of the pic, and saw all of those stealers at the bottom, and went, "Oh ."

i did exsactly the same thing lol

very cool

As I.. and a brood lord!. someone is about to have a real bad day!

No pods in this game. have one of them mostly painted up but it needs some work... too much contrast between the carapace plates and the rest of the pod. Am thinking on it.

Wow awesome painting there! I havent seen too much of this thread but I am very impressed.
P.S: Why is one carnifex bigger than the other?

One of them is a tervigon and the other is a smaller fex


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smaller=regular carnifex lol

They look great!

Love that tervigon conversion... it's just massive. Really appropriate for the figure. I'm sure we'll get another one eventually.

Hey all! Had a game with Thing 2 this weekend. Started discussing it on my main thread, but I thought I'd move the discussion here where it belongs. While I took enough pics for a battle report, the little one didn't want me to post it, however I'll post a few pics when I get home this evening, if nothing else it makes the blog more interesting.

Here are some notes from the discussion on my MW thread... we played 2000 pts, his nids vs. my Mantis Warriors.

"Game with Thing 2 went OK. He gets so discouraged when he takes losses that he stops playing, then has to cool down for a bit before being ready to start up again. Of course with Nids, losses are inevitable. If he wanted to be able to slaughter people without taking losses he should have started Space Wolves or something. In any case he toughed it out, came back & suffered a narrow loss to my vanilla marines 5 KP to 7. Granted his army is far from optimized... but so is mine so it's a pretty fair fight. I think we need to get him another Tervigon and paint up at least one of his other Trygons... he's still way too cautious though. If he'd have just charged everything forward and not worried about the casualties, I would have been completely overrun by turn three. He just can't bring himself to do it. Best performers for me were the sternguard, scout bikes and my devs (4xML)... at least until they got eaten by rippers. His accolades were more evenly distributed, but props to his stealers with brood lord who took out two small tac squads and tarpitted my Iron Clad, after absorbing a ton of fire-power. I just hate Nids... they're such a PITA to run... a million special rules, no consistency. A mess."

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"He's been more aggressive in the past, I just think he's so attached to his Nids he just can't stand to see them taken off the board. I should play them a few times myself to see if I can adopt a better approach with them that I can teach. Though, he was down 4-0 on turn 3 when I kind of "helped" him with his movement & really got him committed to a massed assault. If he'd hit me on turn 3 with what he hit me with on turn 4 (which he could have), I'd have had fewer KPs and he'd have had more & I think the results would have been flipped."

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"My theory was to drop in two pods and the trygon (subterranean assault) so that he had a fair number of things that didn't have to foot-slog it across the field... they could just appear amongst my troops and it would be brown-trouser time for the Mantis Warriors. Unfortunately the rest of his army was slow to get across the field and he didn't really drop as close as I was hoping he would... so really only the trygon showed up in my backfield. The sternguard, with nothing better to do... blew it to Kingdom come with their combi-weapons.

I think I'll start encouraging him to field his unpainted figures to see if we can't explore some other military options. He has a trygon prime built and ready for painting... if two trygons show up in my backfield I think I'd only be able to deal with one, leaving the other to run amok."

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... and finally...

Solar_lion wrote: More practice would help. very the objective and teach him the strategy behind the objective.

He's young, but catches on quickly. As his skill grows so will his confidence.

SL

"It actually worked decently, he just didn't have enough support to drive in for the kill. Trygon, fex and zoanthropes all showed up in the same turn (2). I only had the fire power (and position) to deal with one, so I took out the trygon. As a result, the Fex (over 2 turns) took out a dread & the zoey's peeled bits off a razorback & took out a LS Storm. The real difference kill point-wise were two easy pod kills by the devs & two medium sized termigant squads that were taken out by the sternguard & scout bikes respectively."


So, there you are... up to date. I wish I could say that he was painting but his week nights are filled with school work and weekends with little-boy stuff. I may try to sick him on his termagants in some kind of systematic way so we can make some progress. Unfortunately my time is pretty well absorbed by painting for Adepticon.

I promise a few pics later this evening.
Gits

It seems like her needs to learn to, to quote Jervis, Murder his Darlings.

I was the same when i started with my nids like a year and a bit ago. I didn't want things to die, but hung back from combat, relying on cover and the like. After a while I learnt that throwing 'nids in to combat tends to yield the result you want.

The big guys seem to be easier to throw into combat, the smaller guys seem that bit more fragile, when even termagants can do fairly well in combat. Also, when you get used to an army, you tend to remember it's capabilites.

It'll take time, but Thing 2 will remember 'nids are expendable, only the will of the hive mind matters. Especially if he has tervigons, just make more of them.

Here are the promised pictures... Spearhead deployment, annihilation.

This is his drop on turn 2. You can see the pods and Trygon are pretty far back from my line, meaning I get two turns of shooting before really being threatened. The Winged Tyrant is also much further back than he could have been, and the stealers aren't as far forward as they could have been, trying to hang to cover.




Turn 4: Most of the monstrous creatures have been weeded out, as have a good chunk of my units... two tac squads, libby, scout bikes, dev's are all gone with a razorback alive but stripped and immobilized. Dang stealers that I'd been shooting at all bloody game are still alive and causing problems...




Here's a close-up of the little b*starts tarpitting my Iron Clad. I could only manage to kill about one per assault phase.

Its painful to see your beautiful mantis warriors on the battle report. So many ways they can be damaged. *shudder*

Actually that Iron Clad is in need of some repair, I can see a big paint flake came off his CCW. Ah well, that's what happens with you play with them & transport them around.

It doesn't help when your genestealers are in back of your carnifex/hive tyrant.

No, they should have been a massive wave advancing as far as possible each turn that forced me to make tough choices about what to shoot at. Even so, they were a pretty big unit to start that I did shoot the living daylights out of, but the 7 + brood lord that remained were more than enough to do the job. The table was near choked with terrain, so I think they could've gotten cover saves even charging across the table at full tilt.

The carnifexes are really a let down... which is too bad because we have two of them painted and they're cool models. Low WS and Initiative are just too much of a deficit to overcome. At the moment though, we have a lack of heavy choices so will have to make the best out of what we have. Next game I'll toss in another Trygon and some raveners (unpainted but assembled) to the mix and see how it goes. We just don't have any time to work on the nids at the moment... so getting some spiffy looking help for them will have to wait a bit.

Aye unfortunately carnifexes suck a bit. However giving them 2 sets of TL MC Devourers can turn them into a nasty shooting unit, for not too much points.

I have strong reservations about the Dakkafex explained elsewhere in my blogg.

Generally for the cost of a pair of dakkafexes you can get a Trygon Prime which has a comparable amount of shots, is generally better across the board (ok, lower strength - whoop de doo), is a Synapse unit to boot and can DS.

The big downside of the Trygon is the fact that the way Tyranids work with reserves is just...sporadic at best.

Meh.