I ran a list with 5 tervigons today . . .

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**Ol'Dirty**

I ran a list with 5 tervigons today, 4 rolled doubles on their spawns 1st turn and the 5th rolled doubles on my 2nd turn. That did not go as expected . . .

**Happyjew**

I'm sorry? I have the same problem whenever I run more than three. Two to three is my magic number of Tervies.

**l0k1**

I always wanted to play a list that maxed out the number of Tervigons. My wallet told me it was a bad idea. Perhaps when the codex drops I'll revisit the idea.

**macexor**

Better tell us about the other game when the first double you rolled was on turn 3, most of your Tervigons had Iron Arm and no more than 2 finally died.

PS Never should you forget about the Doom.

**-Loki-**

That sums up my experiences using my Tervigon. First ever game, constipated turn 1. Second game, constipated turn 2. I haven't really played 40k since then.

At least in my case, it didn't kill my game for me. I don't base my list around my Tervigon, so it still made a huge impact throwing around army buffs. For me, the spawning ability isn't even secondary, it's tertiary, behind it's psychic prowess and then it's unexpected combat ability when Smashing.

I'd honestly be perfectly happy if they just turned it into a transport in 6th. Basically a way to protect a brood from smaller arms fire until you want to spew them out.

**zteknon**

5 is too many. 3 is perfect. scoring monstrous creatures.

**Ol'Dirty**

Yeah it wasn't a competitive list, it was just something I tried for fun. I only had 2 real tervs and I proxied the rest with 2 fexes and a trygon. I also had a ton of beer caps for extra gaunts, but since I rolled doubles so quick I didn't really have to dip into those.

**Orock**

I hope that the new codex gives people reasons to run other monstrous creatures than tervigons, swarmlord, and flyrants. I miss carnifexes soooo much.

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Also make carnifex immune to poison or toughness reduction. Otherwise todays 40k means he is garbage

**GoliothOnline**

The problem I found with Tyranids these days is the complete lack of reasoning for TAKING the other MCs...

Fex's? Why? Everything they do a Terv can do... to some extent... Smash a building, kill a LR... If the Tervs didnt have Biomancy or simply weren't allowed to self buff, and do their lore jobs of actually supporting the rest of their army (>.&gt

they would be able to help out Fex's by possibly giving them better abiltiies....

Bah... lol... I am very on or off about Nid fixing mostly because I've seen and played against MC spam from them and seen what the Swarmlord does in melee... He is the best melee HQ in game (IMO, and probably a lot others') and the Nids just don't really have all that much going for them aside from the Swarm and MCs Spawn...

Its like this one game I played as Daemons and took the Portaglyph, rolled the Daemonic Gift to summon Daemons, and on the first 2 turns and the 5th turn I rolled Warp Storm Table 12 Summoning from the Warp....

It just drops jaws... That many free points on the field...

**-Loki-**

Ol'Dirty wrote:
Yeah it wasn't a competitive list, it was just something I tried for fun. I only had 2 real tervs and I proxied the rest with 2 fexes and a trygon. I also had a ton of beer caps for extra gaunts, but since I rolled doubles so quick I didn't really have to dip into those.

Thing is, it can be a fairly competitive list. You've got 5 super tough MC's, 3 of which score, throwing out Biomancy powers which buff the horde it can potentially make. You can very, very easily overwhelm an opponent in sheer bodies. However, it requires you to roll well on your Biomancy powers and also not constipate your Tervigons. I've heard of people borrowing the Termagants of everyone in the store to fuel the horde, and others who, like you had no steam at all due to being constipated on turn 1.

The list is the definition of 6th edition - if the random numbers stack in your favour, you'll very likely steamroll someone. If they don't stack in your favour, you'll have the biggest uphill battle of your life.

**PrinceRaven**

I have a question. Why did you think spawning with every Tervigon on turn 1 was a good idea?

**roxor08**

PrinceRaven wrote:
I have a question. Why did you think spawning with every Tervigon on turn 1 was a good idea?

This is a good point.

I rarely spawn T1 unless the opponent has the ability to remove my Tervigons before they spawn....

But then again, he did say he was running it for fun. Maybe he was just trying to get as many Termagants on the board as possible?

**PrinceRaven**

Fair enough, with good rolls you could snowball into having over a hundred gants on the field quite easily.

**Ol'Dirty**

Honestly it never occured to me not to always spawn with the tervs every turn. I figured as long as it's not kill points, the more the merrier on spawns. Also, I was playing vs DE w/ lots of poison shots coming at me. Somehow I did have endurance on every terv, but I just wasn't getting the fnp and it will not die rolls I needed. I'll probly run the list a couple more times for fun.

**PrinceRaven**

Playing against Dark Eldar with that sort of list you barely had a chance anyway, so might as well go for broke I guess.

**clively**

Playing against DE?

So.. you were tabled by turn 3?

**Ol'Dirty**

Nah I made it to turn 5 and lost on points. I think I was pretty much tabled by then though.