Competitive 1999+1pts Tyranids, Deathleaper Assassin broods

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**fartherthanfar**

Heres a list I've been tinkering with.

Dataslate
130 Deathleaper with assassin brood
50 1x Lictor
50 1x Lictor
50 1x Lictor
50 1x Lictor
50 1x Lictor

Fortification
70 1 Aegis Defense Line - Comm Relay (Set up in middle of the board)

HQ
260 1x Hive Tyrant - Wings - 2x TL Devourer BLW - Hive Commander - Indescribable Horror (Warlord)
250 1x Hive Tyrant - Wings - 2x TL Devourer BLW - Hive Commander

Elite
45 1x Venomthrope
45 1x Venomthrope
90 2x Venomthrope

Troops
200 30x Termagaunts - 20x devourer (Flanking)
210 1x Tervigon - Cluster Spines - Electroshock Grubs (Flanking)

Heavy Support
170 1x Exocrine
140 1x Mawloc
140 1x Mawloc

2000pts

I got 6 big Monstrous Creatures, 2 flyrant is decent AA, and lots of suprise with up to 10 units Flanking or Deepstriking.
Synapse is decent with a Tervigon on top of the two Flyrants especially since this list doesnt need synapse too much.
The opponents leadership will be sorely tested and weakened quite a bit with the Death leaper and the assassins, the Shadow in the warp and the amount of fear causing units I have (12), plus some decent shooting for pinning tests. Enemy psykers will have a really hard time casting

what do you think guys?

**pinecone77**

fartherthanfar wrote:
Heres a list I've been tinkering with.

Dataslate
130 Deathleaper with assassin brood
50 1x Lictor
50 1x Lictor
50 1x Lictor
50 1x Lictor
50 1x Lictor

Fortification
70 1 Aegis Defense Line - Comm Relay (Set up in middle of the board)

HQ
260 1x Hive Tyrant - Wings - 2x TL Devourer BLW - Hive Commander - Indescribable Horror (Warlord)
250 1x Hive Tyrant - Wings - 2x TL Devourer BLW - Hive Commander

Elite
45 1x Venomthrope
45 1x Venomthrope
90 2x Venomthrope

Troops
200 30x Termagaunts - 20x devourer (Flanking)
210 1x Tervigon - Cluster Spines - Electroshock Grubs (Flanking)

Heavy Support
170 1x Exocrine
140 1x Mawloc
140 1x Mawloc

2000pts

I got 6 big Monstrous Creatures, 2 flyrant is decent AA, and lots of suprise with up to 10 units Flanking or Deepstriking.
Synapse is decent with a Tervigon on top of the two Flyrants especially since this list doesnt need synapse too much.
The opponents leadership will be sorely tested and weakened quite a bit with the Death leaper and the assassins, the Shadow in the warp and the amount of fear causing units I have (12), plus some decent shooting for pinning tests. Enemy psykers will have a really hard time casting

what do you think guys?

Looks cool! But with all those Lictors I'd want to find some points to buy some blobs of Spore Mines, buy them as Fast Attack and they can Deep Strike in. Lictors mean no scatter....Party time!

**fartherthanfar**

I had never thought of using the lictors to guide spore mines . Thats a cool idea

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I suppose I could take out a venomthrope to add 3 teams of 3 sporemines

**ruminator**

If the tervigon and gants are all outflanking, you have 2 FMCs and 2 Mawlocs, the venomthropes appear to be there to give each other and the exocrine a cover save. Same for the ADL. The lictors will all be pushed forward and out the range of the venomthropes. Even if behind the ADL they would be just as good in normal cover to be honest.

I would suggest bastion and comms relay rather than ADL - as they give LOS blocking to the flyrants on T1.

Rather than exocrine I would look at crone or a third mawloc if youre going lictor heavy. For those venomthropes you could run another crone as well. 4 FMCs and 3 mawlocs with no scatter and a comms relay is pretty scary T2 for your opponent!

**citadel**

Now, when you bring the Spore Mine Cluster, those have to DStrike down, THEN you have to charge in, right? They don't act as an orbital bombardment? Even still, DSing them close enough would be good, but you would have to wait a turn to get them to be able to charge. I think...

**fartherthanfar**

they would be very fun distractions nonetheless

I think it would be worthwhile

The exocrine is there to give a target to the enemy so they dont try too hard to shoot the flyrants, I would count on the Bastion to cover the line of sight of a flyrant too much given how big the wings are, I didnt find any rule in the rulebook saying that wings dont count.
I need more shooting too and the exocrine is very good at what he does. short range but that just makes him a stronger target in turn 1, he can also block the line of sight of the venomthropes so they wont get shot.

**pinecone77**

fartherthanfar wrote:
I had never thought of using the lictors to guide spore mines . Thats a cool idea

Automatically Appended Next Post:
I suppose I could take out a venomthrope to add 3 teams of 3 sporemines

I would, and if you can force a morale check, the Lictor lowers Leadership right?