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Playing against Imperial guard. He has 50 man units of cadians with "first rank fire, second rank fire" who absolutely destroyed me last game. Hoping ill do better this time. Could use some help.

Venomthropes spread out to buff all units except the Trygon and Termagants who comes out from reserve turn 1. Focus is to close in quick and overwhelm the opponent in close combat with hive commander and onslaught.

The Swarmlord

Tyrant Guard (4) - Adrenal glands, Rending claws, Lash whip and bonesword

Venomthropes (4)

Broodlord

Genestealers (20)

Genestealers (20)

Hormagaunts (30) - Adrenal glands

Hormagaunts (30) - Adrenal glands

Trygon Prime - Bio-electric pulse with containment spines,Three massive scything talons,Biostatic rattle,Adrenal glands

Termagants (30) - 10 Fleshboarer, 20 Devourer

Lictors to first turn strike the Conscripts/Commanders, and try to keep them locked up?

A unit can only be affected by one order a turn; so sure, Conscripts will fall back and then shoot at you - but at BS 5 and STR 3, maybe it won't be too bad. Although, they do still have frag grenades for short range - so if the opponent is smart and uses those, that's 40-50d6... ouch. [Edit: 6+'s to hit, because of Lictor skin. So, 6+ to hit, 5+ to wound, then 5+ armor save; should shave a lot of the potential damage off. That said, the lictor is vulnerable to the return fire from other units, so... not sure, maybe they're ok.]

Conscripts seem like a real problem for any army tbh.

@fe40k grendaes can only be used by 1 model per squad. so not a problem really!

fe40k wrote:
Lictors to first turn strike the Conscripts/Commanders, and try to keep them locked up?

A unit can only be affected by one order a turn; so sure, Conscripts will fall back and then shoot at you - but at BS 5 and STR 3, maybe it won't be too bad. Although, they do still have frag grenades for short range - so if the opponent is smart and uses those, that's 40-50d6... ouch. [Edit: 6+'s to hit, because of Lictor skin. So, 6+ to hit, 5+ to wound, then 5+ armor save; should shave a lot of the potential damage off. That said, the lictor is vulnerable to the return fire from other units, so... not sure, maybe they're ok.]

Conscripts seem like a real problem for any army tbh.

The problem was probably that it was my first game, it was 1000 pts and i brought a flying hive tyrant. He got shot down turn 1 and he was 1/4 of my army. Also a trygon and 30 devourer termagants. Just a test game to see what did what really.


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I think I'll try to get the points for toxin sacs on maybe 2/3 of the stealers, i can just pcik the ones without TS when they die.

Can you pop your Tunnel Behind them? If he has two broods of hormies storming from the front, and Stealers behind, plus a Big Bug he might get flustered and make mistakes.