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Hi, I'd appreciate some advice on this 1500 tourney list. 5 games, could face anything.

HQ
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs

Troops
- Tervigon
- 30 Termagants
- 10 Genestealers

Elites
- Zoanthrope

Fast Attack
- Hive Crone

Heavy Support
- Exocrine
- Exocrine
- Biovore

It's a bit of a hammer-and-anvil list with the Tervigon and Zoanthrope coralling most of the force slowly up the table with the Tyrants & Crone swooping in from a flank. Genestealers sit and hide in a midfield building until the late game, taking an objective and assaulting anything that closes on the main army.

I'm quite flexible and have most models in the codex so all advice welcome.

Jonah wrote:
Hi, I'd appreciate some advice on this 1500 tourney list. 5 games, could face anything.

HQ
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs

Troops
- Tervigon
- 30 Termagants
- 10 Genestealers

Elites
- Zoanthrope

Fast Attack
- Hive Crone

Heavy Support
- Exocrine
- Exocrine
- Biovore

It's a bit of a hammer-and-anvil list with the Tervigon and Zoanthrope coralling most of the force slowly up the table with the Tyrants & Crone swooping in from a flank. Genestealers sit and hide in a midfield building until the late game, taking an objective and assaulting anything that closes on the main army.

I'm quite flexible and have most models in the codex so all advice welcome.

Its not a list I would run...but it looks "OK". I don't know that you'll get enough value out of the Stealers though. I guess they'd be a decent outflank unit. If you have a Broodlord, you might want to toss him in for the psychic pin test ...can you use formations? You could use a Living Artillery with little effort....Two Hive Crones would be much better than one, though you'd have to drop something major to make it fit

pinecone77 wrote:

Its not a list I would run...but it looks "OK". I don't know that you'll get enough value out of the Stealers though. I guess they'd be a decent outflank unit. If you have a Broodlord, you might want to toss him in for the psychic pin test ...can you use formations? You could use a Living Artillery with little effort....Two Hive Crones would be much better than one, though you'd have to drop something major to make it fit

That list would look like this:

HQ
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs

Troops
- Tervigon
- 30 Termagants
- 3 Warriors (Deathspitters, Barbed Strangler)

Fast Attack
- Hive Crone

Heavy Support
- Exocrine
- Exocrine
- 3 Biovores


I lose the close combat support but gain more firepower and synapse.

The genestealers are not to be played how they used to be; they hide in a building until mid-game and then come out to assault something and/or claim an objective. In this particular list they were to counter-attack anything that assaults the main army's units.

Jonah wrote:

pinecone77 wrote:

Its not a list I would run...but it looks "OK". I don't know that you'll get enough value out of the Stealers though. I guess they'd be a decent outflank unit. If you have a Broodlord, you might want to toss him in for the psychic pin test ...can you use formations? You could use a Living Artillery with little effort....Two Hive Crones would be much better than one, though you'd have to drop something major to make it fit

That list would look like this:

HQ
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs

Troops
- Tervigon
- 30 Termagants
- 3 Warriors (Deathspitters, Barbed Strangler)

Fast Attack
- Hive Crone

Heavy Support
- Exocrine
- Exocrine
- 3 Biovores


I lose the close combat support but gain more firepower and synapse.

The genestealers are not to be played how they used to be; they hide in a building until mid-game and then come out to assault something and/or claim an objective. In this particular list they were to counter-attack anything that assaults the main army's units.

I think you'll be happier with this...I'd would likely swap out the second Exocrene for a Crone to avoid confustion , and two Crones is a powerful backing to two Winged Dakka'rants.

HQ
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs

Troops
- Tervigon
- 30 Termagants
- 3 Warriors (Deathspitters, Barbed Strangler)

Fast Attack
- Hive Crone

Heavy Support
- Exocrine
- Exocrine
- 3 Biovores

I lose the close combat support but gain more firepower and synapse.
The genestealers are not to be played how they used to be; they hide in a building until mid-game and then come out to assault something and/or claim an objective. In this particular list they were to counter-attack anything that assaults the main army's units.

I would tend to agree and say that the genestealers are a points sink. For what you are having them do (hide and hold an objective), you are using almost 200 points base. A 200 point warrior squad would be a lot more effective doing the same job. I'm not saying don't take them. I would just say you should look at the amount of points you are using to have them fill a certain role.

Thanks for the feedback! After some swift painting this is what I'm thinking of:

HQ
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs
- Hive Tyrant; Wings, Devs

Troops
- Tervigon
- 30 Termagants
- 18 Hormagaunts

Elite
- 2 Zonathropes

Fast Attack
- Hive Crone

Heavy Support
- Exocrine
- Exocrine
- Biovore


Bit sad not to be taking 'stealers as I love the models I have and the Warriors are from an old eBay bid but... you're probably right, the extra synapse can't hurt, they'll probably get more kills with the shooting, and even though they can be doubled out they have 2 more wounds and a 4+ save instead of a 5+.