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My friend likes to use 3 Wraith Knights, I need a little advice on how to deal with them. Here is my list, I am flexible if i need to swap out units, no probs. I'm wondering if my TFex choice is crap, and my Death Spitters are a waste of points?


Total 1846 Points

+ HQ +
* Hive Tyrant
Electroshock Grubs, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Wings
* Hive Tyrant
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Wings

+ Elite +
* Hive Guard Impaler Cannon (x3)

+ Troops +
* Ripper Swarm Brood (x3)
3x Deep Strike (*)
* Ripper Swarm Brood (x3)
3x Deep Strike (*)
* Ripper Swarm Brood (x3)
3x Deep Strike (*)

+ Living Artillery Node +
* Tyranid Warrior Brood
* Tyranid Warrior
Barbed Strangler, Scything Talons
* Tyranid Warrior
Death Spitter, Scything Talons
* Tyranid Warrior
Death Spitter, Scything Talons
* Biovores (x3)
* Exocrine

+ BioBlast Node +
* Carnifex
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
* Carnifex
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
* Tyranid Warrior
Venom Cannon, Scything Talons
* Tyranid Warrior
Death Spitter, Scything Talons
* Tyranid Warrior
Death Spitter, Scything Talons
* Teranofex, Fleshborer Hives

Whoops... there doesn't seem to be anything here.

Why trygons? They have been hampered by scything talon nerf, and will sit around being shot at for a turn.

Where's the exocrine and biovores from your living artillery node?

Your missing the Exocrine and 3 biovores from the listing.

Doh you're right ><

Wraithknights have trouble against small units of Shrikes for what it's worth.

Have you considered something like 3 units of 5 shrikes? Two with stock loadout so they can die first, one with Scything Talons/Rending claws for the AP 2, and 2 with Dual boneswords for AP 3 instant death.

Because there's no characters, he can't challenge to avoid the ID, and because you'll have different loadouts, you can cycle the ones you don't want to lose in back to protect them.

Not knowing too much about nids(except shooting them)...
Wraithknights die to poison, and are pretty crappy in assault vs any large blob. Only 4 attacks base mean they net ~2 kills a turn, so a horde of terminagaunts can still tie them up(even if they don't do anything).

Watch out for the D cannons against your mc's, you could lose a lot of points quick with some lucky rolls...

 Dr. Serling wrote:
Not knowing too much about nids(except shooting them)...
Wraithknights die to poison, and are pretty crappy in assault vs any large blob. Only 4 attacks base mean they net ~2 kills a turn, so a horde of terminagaunts can still tie them up(even if they don't do anything).

Watch out for the D cannons against your mc's, you could lose a lot of points quick with some lucky rolls...

Word, if you have a Hormagaunt Brood with Toxin sacks you can tarpit, and destroy in one package. I use Boneswords as a "Wraith solution" myself.(I use a "Winged Assassin" I expect that if you Tarpit, and bring in the Carnifexen, you'll do fine.

I habitually build Tyranofex with Adrenal, and a Thorax Hive of Electro-bugs, and I am never disapointed by it's performace.

You also seem to be missing a Fex from the bioblast node.
It's still 3x units of Carnifex isn't it?

As others said before, the 2 best ways to deal with wraithknights are poison and bs.

One of my favorite ways to deal with them is to run gargoyles with ts.They will wound on 4+ and the wraithknight will statistically fail at least one blind test if you hit them with 10+ gargoyles.