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Played my first game last night against Tau. Played 2000 points and brought the following list :

flyrant - 2 x devourers - Hive commander
Flyrant - 2 x devourers
2 x venomthrope brood
2 x tervigon
2 x 30 man termagant brood
harpy
hive crone
18 gargoyles
mawloc
mawloc
3 x biovores

Tau list was something like this :

Buff commander
3 x crisis suts with plasma & fusion
6 markerlight drones
4 x firewarrior squads
2 man squad of stealth suits
large unit of kroot
riptide
tau flyer (not the bomber)
2 x hammerheads
1 skyray

game was pitch battle big guns 5 objectives. I basically just sat tight with the venomthropes out of LoS giving shrouded to everything. 2nd turn my flyrants came on, 1 mawloc, an outflanking tervigon & a harpy. The next turn everything else came on. So many threats, the Tau player couldnt put a dent in the swarm of MC's rushing at him second & third turn. One of my mawlocs got a super good hit on his command unit, and wiped out all his drones and 2 of the suits..effectively taking out his markerlight base, and helping clench the victory. Bottom of turn 4 the Tau player gave up the game, as all of his troops were gone, and the only thing he had left was a riptide and the flyer

I am really liking this list so far. I was kinda dissapointed in the hive crone, but I need to play more games to try it out, as 1 game isnt enough to get a read on if it is worth it or not. The main thing I notice from this codex form the last, is the sheer amount of bugs your can field. It was a noticeable difference in the amount of big MC's I had access to from this codex in a 2000 point game.

All in all, I had a fun time playing with the book, and feel better now having played with it than before, when I was just reading all the internet doom and gloom