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Dakka,

My slow grow league has the 4th of our year long monthly matches (750 point) on Saturday. We are playing 7th edition. Need your expertise deciphering the usefulness of the list below vs the enemies below. And yea, using formations because flip yea! Links about the tournaments special rules & all the batreps are below.

POTENTIAL ENEMIES
1. Space Marines (Black Templar): Land Raider Redeemer, x2 Scout Squads, MoTF + crew, StormTalon, LandSpeeders, ???
2. Tau: Riptide + Skyfire, x2 Fire Warriors, x1 Etherael, x1 Devilfish + Skyhammer Missiles, x1 Pathfinders, x2 Crisis Suits + Tau Multi-Meltas
3. Space Marines (Clan Raukaan - Iron Hands): x1 Land Raider Achilles + MoTF, x1 Sicarran Tank, x2 Scout Squads, ???

TYRANID LIST #1 (Living Artillery Node)
Flyrant + x2 TL Devourer w/ BLW
x3 Warriors + x1 Barbed Strangler
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Hormagaunts
x3 Biovores
x1 Exocrine

TYRANID LIST #2 (Endless Swarm)
Tyranid Prime + Deathspitter
Venomthrope
x2 Zoanthropes
x2 Hive Guard
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Termagants
x10 Termagants
x10 Termagants
x3 Warriors + Deathspitter


PRO/CON
List #1
1. Exocrine can deal with AV14 by rolling 6's to glance death
2. Exocrine is rad
3. Blast templates are rad, but against the armor above, is questionable
4. This list played the 750 point Tau list above, and won. Although questionable if chance or not

List #2
1. ObSec like a mother fether
2. Venerable to templates & multi-melta instant death fun times, but Endless Swarm formation special rules help mitigate this
3. Weak HQ
4. Uncertain venomthrope is worth risking First Blood victory point


Let loose your mind goo!





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I prefer the second list. Nids are great at low point games because they can get so many models on the board. Go for objectives and swamping your opponent in bodies. You can add MCs when you bump up to 1000 points.

One change though. You would be a lot better off by dropping the 2 hive guard for another venom and something else.

Awesome, thanks for the insight. My only concern is not having much to deal with armor. That and the swarm is easily destroyed by flamer templates :(


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Ok, based on your feedback I've revamped the second list to the following. Play testing it in a few hours against Blood Angels. This should be interesting. Still worried about flame templates.

TYRANID LIST #2 (Endless Swarm)
Flyrant w/ TL Devourers & BLW
Tervigon (vanilla)
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Termagants
x10 Termagants
x3 Warriors + Deathspitter

morlakii wrote:
Awesome, thanks for the insight. My only concern is not having much to deal with armor. That and the swarm is easily destroyed by flamer templates :(


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Ok, based on your feedback I've revamped the second list to the following. Play testing it in a few hours against Blood Angels. This should be interesting. Still worried about flame templates.

TYRANID LIST #2 (Endless Swarm)
Flyrant w/ TL Devourers & BLW
Tervigon (vanilla)
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Hormagaunts
x10 Termagants
x10 Termagants
x3 Warriors + Deathspitter

If you drop one Brood, you can get Thorax Hives, and have template weapons of your own. And if you use Electro-bugs, you'll have some ability vs vehicles. also I suggest that you upgrade one Deathspitter to a Cannon for the Warriors.