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Hey everyone just jumping on here for some advice! I play Imperial guard and my long time opponent plays Tyranids. Lately we have been talking and we will most likely be playing a game sometime in the near future, a few months or so .... So I'll have time to prepare. I need to know what is best to use against them and there new rules and formations . I also don't have an answer for the hierophant he has I know it'll take a lot of fire power to bring it down but I wonder if it'll be worth it. Should I just feed conscripts or platoon after platoon to it. Just to keep it busy the whole game points aren't important we are both going to have around 40000

Fmj

Deathstrike Missile spam? For lolz.

Reaper Titan... Shadow sword Formation, imperial knight Formation, imperial knight styx

Can't go wrong with a shadowsword or two!

So D weapons, hmmmm, I was thinking conscripts but apparently gargantuan creatures can't get stuck in combat
Fmj


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So D weapons, hmmmm, I was thinking conscripts but apparently gargantuan creatures can't get stuck in combat
Fmj

 fullmetaljacket wrote:
So D weapons, hmmmm, I was thinking conscripts but apparently gargantuan creatures can't get stuck in combat
Fmj

You must have the old Apocalypse rules. Under the current rules GCs and superheavy walkers are locked in combat just like any other unit. This makes tarpitting a very good strategy against them. The GC simply doesn't have enough attacks to kill the tarpit unit before the 2-3 turn game is over.

Looolllll.. Year try those conscripts

Read...

“When attacking in close combat, a Gargantuan Creature can either fight
normally or execute a Stomp special attack. A Stomp allows a Gargantuan
Creature to make one attack against every enemy model engaged in
combat with it, instead of using its normal Attacks value (no bonus
attack for charging applies, roll to hit once separately against each model
attacked).”

Did you actually mean 40,000 points? or just 4,000?

I literally can't envision what 40,000 points of ANYTHING would look like. That's.. That just seems like a solid 10 foot by 10 foot space with nothing but models at minimum.

More on topic: Personally, I like the idea of just feeding conscript blobs / platoon after platoon into the big-nasty-bugs in order to keep them at bay. Very fluffy.

 winterwind85 wrote:
Looolllll.. Year try those conscripts

Read...

“When attacking in close combat, a Gargantuan Creature can either fight
normally or execute a Stomp special attack. A Stomp allows a Gargantuan
Creature to make one attack against every enemy model engaged in
combat with it, instead of using its normal Attacks value (no bonus
attack for charging applies, roll to hit once separately against each model
attacked).”

This is from the old Apocalypse rules. You need to get the current Apocalypse rulebook, where the rules for stomp attacks have changed significantly.

You'll have the most problems with stuff shooting you from above.

Personally I haven't had a hard time dealing with nids in apoc. I usually have 1 shadowsword and 1 emperors fist tank company(10 russes) and that's usually enough fire power to thing him down. With that much fire power and high armor I am able to put out a lot of fire power for multiple turns. Usually allowing him very little assaults.

I truly mean 40000 points... Haha we like big games I'll be taking pics but we both have work to do till we get there trying to get it all painted it'll probably be a game during the summer, 30000'points of my stuff is on the west coast haha
I'm having trouble with taking down all the big guys especially the dumb hierophant band other than spamming d weapons to bring it down.
I'll have about 3 tank companies hopefully will have two reaver Titans , working on getting the second one .
Plus a ton of arty, and a it air and hopefully have enough fliers to take care of those pesky flying monsters
I'm working on running a ton of terminators to from dark Angels and starting an imperial fist army if I can handle painting yellow, haha hopefully I'll get it all posted soon should be pretty fun
Fmj

last Easter our nids player played against a castle of guardsmen. 20k nids vs 20k guard .

Nids are quite scary in apoc... played the same guy 10k tau vs 10k nids.... didn't go over well either. The Tyranid Apoc formations are quite powerful. and really that army is top tier when it comes to apoc.


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If guard have anything with those instant death beast hunter rounds, unload those into the GC's for multiple wounds. Also, anything with fleshbane works wonders as fleshbane still affects GC's as well.

i think im just going to run a ton of infantry and just feed all the mcs throughout the entire game, hopefully haveing to many guys for him to even think about getting to my tanks hahaha
fmj