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looking for some advice on a list to play against a TFG at my local store. he plays ultra marines heres what he had in his list from what i remember. i could barely wound anything he had... so many 3+ invoulns it was nuts,,., i just need some help making a list . i dont have any trygons or mawlocs tho >.> but everything else i got or can borrow
Hq
Calgar
Librarian
telion(not sure if hq)
a liutenan t(again not sure if hq)
5 man sternguard squad

Elite
Centurion devs squad 3 man
TH/SS terminators 5 man
3 man interceptor squad

Troops
2 scout squads with snipers and a missle
Primaris marine squad

Fast attaxk
Storm talon

That's not an S tier list by an stretch and there's a lot of units there that don't have invul saves at all. Single Storm talon not a concern. Snipers won't generally have targets in a Nid list to use their special sniping abilities against anyway.

The trick vs invuls is mortal wounds - so biovores, harpy, mycetic spores, spore mines, smite spam. You said no mawlocs so I won't add them to the list. He has no real high toughness issues here so just stuff that kills T4-T5 which is pretty much anything you want from the index - normal mass stealer type lists or even termagant spam can do just fine here - just target the right units with the right weapons. You could easily outrange him if you wanted to as well ... depends on loadout of those units, which you've not mentioned.

3 Flyrants
3 Harpies
3*3 Ripper Swarms
3*3 Hive Guard
3*3 Biovores

That's a fun place to start from. You can consistently drop about 10-12 mortal wounds a turn with extra spore mines messing with his movement and he can't handle 6 flyers.

wow...literally everything i shot at "had invoulns" i ran 2 squads fo 3 hiveguard, 2 tyrannofexes, a flyrant, broodlord, and some other trash tier stuff... but he kept rolling 3+ saves for everything ...hmm maybe he was just being TFG

The 5man terminators with storm shields have 3++ and maybe Calgar but the rest shouldnt.

2 tyannofexes are a huge point sink. I'd swap those for devourer Termagaunts and maybe hormagants to screen your hive guard. Get things in combat, then shoot them as they retreat.

i had a 30 man termagaunt squad on his 5 assault termies the whole game.. their broodmother was sitting in cover about 5" away and kept replenishing 10 a turn they killed 3 of them by the end of the game without the mom helping