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Just trying a list for a 600 Point tournament, what do you think? Too Mean? How can I Improve it?

HQ:
Hive Tyrant, Wings, 2x Twinked Devourers 230

Troops;
Mucleoid Spore 15

Mucleoid Spore 15

Elite:
Venomthrope 45

Fast Attack:
Harpy, Twinked Heavy Venom Cannons 140

Crone 155

Total 600

The Idea is that the 3 FMC just fly around shooting at stuff, with their variety of weapons it should be enough to deal with anything that could possibly show up, The Venomthrope is there to provide cover saves if I don't get the first turn and also to hold a home objective. The Spores are for minimum troops allowance and basically 15 point Str 8 Ap 3 Large blasts, which will prove very useful at this points level.

Harpies suck. I would go double crone or double flyrant.

i.e

flyrant
flyrant

rippers
rippers

venom


Or

Flyrant

Mucolid
Mucloid

Crone
Crone

570 - 30 pts to spare

I heard that the crone took a major hit in 7th and a lot more people were using Harpies, I'm not sure if this is true though, what do you think? what's the major differences?

Harpy took all the same nerfs the Crone did and it was inferior to start with. The HVC got worse, Vector Strike on ground units got even worse for it, the FMC assault nerf, and if it jinks no shooting at all.

Crone can atleast still pop missiles if it Jinks and has a stronger Vector Strike still.

Neither is better than a Tyrant

At 600 points I can see several list that will eat that one.

Yeah that's fair enough, I'm personally taking my eldar list to the tourney, but just trying to see what I can make for 600 points for a friend who is coming with me. Any recommendations for lists from you guys?

 Wilson wrote:
Harpies suck. I would go double crone or double flyrant.

i.e

flyrant
flyrant

rippers
rippers

venom

I ran this quite recently and it worked quite nicely.
You could also lose one ripper and put in 2 mucolid which frees up 20 points the electroshock grubs:

Flyrant Dual Devs Electroshock Grubs
Flyrant Dual Devs Electroshock Grubs

Mucolid Spore
Mucolid Spore
Ripper Swarm, Deepstrike

Venonthrope

 Deraiderspam wrote:
Yeah that's fair enough, I'm personally taking my eldar list to the tourney, but just trying to see what I can make for 600 points for a friend who is coming with me. Any recommendations for lists from you guys?

Well it goes against FMC spam at low points but I would probably run:

Tervigon w/ Electroshock Grubs, Crushing Claws = 220
Hormagaunts x10 = 50
Rippers x3 w/ DS = 45
Venomthrope =45
Zoanthrope = 50
Zoanthrope = 50
Mawloc = 140

Tervigon is good in lower point games where she can produce a higher percentage worth of total points.
At lower point games numbers are good.

Personal opinion is that FMC's work better when you can present more than one. In lower point games they will be the majority of your points and you will have literally no ground presence, so lose on Objectives.

But that said, I ran three Flyrants against my friends Tau at 1000 points - Battle forged and would have tabled him top of turn four. But that's probably down to how insanely good Flyrants are

No Nid FMC took a nerf in 7th. Unless by Nerf you mean got better often significantly so. If you're going FMC spam take Mucolids over Rippers. You're not winning on Objectives either way go for the kill. Flyrants are the Best FMCs in the game so get as many of them as you can. This just squeezes into 600 though I worry about the lack of devourers:

Flyrant: 1 x Devourers 215
Flyrant: 1 x Devourers 215

Mucolid
Mucolid

Harpy: HVC 140

This fits in 3 FMCs and 2 of which are Flyrants, though you only have the Firepower of 1 Flyrant.

The list my friend took last year was this:

HQ:
Hive tyrant, wings twinked devourers electoshock grubs 240

Elite:
Venomthrope 45

Troops:
30 Gaunts, spinefists 120

Tervigon 195