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Hey fellas and fell(ettes). First post and just wanted to post a list that I've been working on to make use of one of my favourite units that have been neglected in 7th (hormies). Would appreciate comments and ideas. This isn't for tourneys as I mainly love to play casual with friends and shop Pick Up Games.

HQ
Dakka Flyrant w/hive commander -250pt
Dakka Flyrant -230pt

TROOPS
Tervigon w/crushing claws + e grubs -220pt
3x Warrior w/1x barbed strangler -100pt

ELITE
Venomthrope -45pt
Venomthrope -45pt
2x Zoanthrope -100pt

HEAVY
2x Dakkafex -300pt

ENDLESS SWARM
30x Termagants -120pt
10x Termagants -40pt
20x Hormagaunts -100pt
20x Hormagaunts -100pt
20x Hormagaunts -100pt
3x Warrior w/1x barbed stangler -100pt



HOKAY DOKAY, so...
Flyrants do what they do best and get all up in their grills turn 1. Tervigon outflanks and goes for vehicles and rear objectives. Warriors (ob sec) provide rear synapse for my campers. Venomthropes geif shrouded to the swarm and dakkafexen. Zoanthropes for mid synapse and popping vehicles or anti-MEQ. Dakkafexen for their wreck-face skills. 30 gants fly up the field as screen. 10 gants camp on an objective. All hormagaunts fly up the field with their awesome runs and tarpit with help of the 30 gants. Lastly the extra warriors follow the swarm to provide synapse and back up. Oh the whole swarm act as a blob for anti-deep strike, too.

Thanks in advance, peace and love

(edit: warriors were listed with wrong points)

I think they said that there were mistakes on the release of this Formation...it should be 3 Broods of each, and a Warrior Brood. I looks like a fun build, when I went to use it, I used Warriors for both Troops, both to provide Synapse, and to make it easy to keep track of who can respawn (all the Gaunts, because they all came from the Formation)

In "my" version I used Big Wormeys to get Tunnel markers, so that re spawns could pop out futher forward.

Ah I've not seen that errata yet. I'll look into changing it if that's right. The 30 gants in the formation allow the tervigon to be troops in the combined arms attachment so it might be awkward to move things around for that. I love the whole using trygons for the holes, getting deeper reserves but I don't have any room for them atm and the MCs I'm using currently wreck more face, also I don't mind the units coming from my board edge as every army I've played recently has deep stroked behind my lines so having that extra defense from reinforcements is really helping.

Yeah, if you tend to have problems in the backfield, that could be real handy. One thing I did do was try to take advantage of the re spawning, by using upgrades I usually reject as a waste of points....


Endless swarm:
Hormagaunt Brood, x15 Toxic, x3
Termagant Brood, x15, +5 Devilgaunts, x3
Warrior Brood, x3, Strangle Cannon

I think that would run 720..? just an example...

I can't even see where to save the 40pts for the extra brood of termagants let alone another 120pts. where would you save the pts? as the list is pretty tight on upgrades


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I could drop the out flanking CC tervigon which allows me to drop the 30 gant tax in the formation and swap Hive Commander with 2x e grubs for the dakka flyrants.
run the 3 groups of gants as 2 10s (to camp) and one 20 with devs at the rear. what's a good percentage for devourers/flesh borers for termagants broods? If I run 50% then the formation remains the same points. I'd have saved 220 with the tervigon and now need at least one more troops choice. 45 tunnel rippers? Then 175pts to spare. 3rd dakka fex? 15 pts to spare. 1 extra gaunt in hormies units?

HQ
Dakka Flyrant w/ e grubs -240pt
Dakka Flyrant w/ e grubs -240pt

TROOPS
3x Ripper w/ tunnel -45pt
3x Warrior w/ 1x barbed strangler -100pt

ELITE
Venomthrope -45pt
Venomthrope -45pt
2x Zoanthrope -100pt

HEAVY
3x Dakkafex -450pt

ENDLESS SWARM
20x Termagants w/10x devourers -120pt
10x Termagants -40pt
10x Termagants -40pt
19x Hormagaunts -95pt
19x Hormagaunts -95pt
19x Hormagaunts -95pt
3x Warrior w/1x barbed stangler -100pt

just an initial play around with numbers. might play test to see how 3 dakkafexen run

elfmonkey16 wrote:
I can't even see where to save the 40pts for the extra brood of termagants let alone another 120pts. where would you save the pts? as the list is pretty tight on upgrades


Automatically Appended Next Post:
I could drop the out flanking CC tervigon which allows me to drop the 30 gant tax in the formation and swap Hive Commander with 2x e grubs for the dakka flyrants.
run the 3 groups of gants as 2 10s (to camp) and one 20 with devs at the rear. what's a good percentage for devourers/flesh borers for termagants broods? If I run 50% then the formation remains the same points. I'd have saved 220 with the tervigon and now need at least one more troops choice. 45 tunnel rippers? Then 175pts to spare. 3rd dakka fex? 15 pts to spare. 1 extra gaunt in hormies units?

HQ
Dakka Flyrant w/ e grubs -240pt
Dakka Flyrant w/ e grubs -240pt

TROOPS
3x Ripper w/ tunnel -45pt
3x Warrior w/ 1x barbed strangler -100pt

ELITE
Venomthrope -45pt
Venomthrope -45pt
2x Zoanthrope -100pt

HEAVY
3x Dakkafex -450pt

ENDLESS SWARM
20x Termagants w/10x devourers -120pt
10x Termagants -40pt
10x Termagants -40pt
21x Hormagaunts -105pt
21x Hormagaunts -105pt
21x Hormagaunts -105pt
3x Warrior w/1x barbed stangler -100pt

just an initial play around with numbers. might play test to see how 3 dakkafexen run

This looks pretty good, you can always find a use for 15 spare points. Adrenal Gland a Big Bug, or buy Ancient Enemy if nothing else pops up. For 5 points (one Hormagaunt) you can still take Hive Commander, that might still be useful...

The Dakkafexen should provide a good synergy with the Endless Swarm.

Ha just realised I had a silly mistake. was 30pts over, took 2 hormies off each brood. making 3 of 19.

Lol, that looks like fun to play as and play against. I am caressing my lemun russ exterminator I read this list.

haha, well my favourite thing about Nids when I first started was all the little gribblies running up the field giving that feel of the epic. Now you can truly be ruthless with your sacrificial units as they come back on 4+ =)

Had a few play tests against casual players and had a lot of fun with a few tweaks;

Combined Arms Detachment
+ HQ +

Hive Tyrant [Electroshock Grubs, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Wings]

Hive Tyrant [Electroshock Grubs, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Wings]

+ Elites +

Venomthrope Brood [Venomthrope]

Venomthrope Brood [Venomthrope]

Zoanthrope Brood [2x Zoanthrope]

+ Troops +

Ripper Swarm Brood
····3x Ripper Swarm [3x Deep Strike]

Ripper Swarm Brood
····3x Ripper Swarm [3x Deep Strike]

+ Heavy Support +

Trygon


Endless Swarm

24x Hormagaunt [Adrenal Glands]
24x Hormagaunt [Adrenal Glands]
24x Hormagaunt [Adrenal Glands]
12x Termagant
12x Termagant
30x Termagant [20x Devourer]
3x Warrior [1x Barbed Strangler]

elfmonkey16 wrote:
Had a few play tests against casual players and had a lot of fun with a few tweaks;

Combined Arms Detachment
+ HQ +

Hive Tyrant [Electroshock Grubs, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Wings]

Hive Tyrant [Electroshock Grubs, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Wings]

+ Elites +

Venomthrope Brood [Venomthrope]

Venomthrope Brood [Venomthrope]

Zoanthrope Brood [2x Zoanthrope]

+ Troops +

Ripper Swarm Brood
····3x Ripper Swarm [3x Deep Strike]

Ripper Swarm Brood
····3x Ripper Swarm [3x Deep Strike]

+ Heavy Support +

Trygon


Endless Swarm

24x Hormagaunt [Adrenal Glands]
24x Hormagaunt [Adrenal Glands]
24x Hormagaunt [Adrenal Glands]
12x Termagant
12x Termagant
30x Termagant [20x Devourer]
3x Warrior [1x Barbed Strangler]

Looks like a fun list. If you have the figures try out using two Wormeys, that way you can place Two Tunnels. It will trim the size of you Swarm, but having two MC's deepstrike in , with Tunnel markers should give you plenty of options. I would also spread the Devourers into all three Broods so you have three chances to recycle them.