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Kronos Spearhead

HQ
Flying Hive tyrant - Monsterous Rending Talons, Heavy venom Cannon (Miasma Cannon), Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Prehensile tail

Heavy
Exocrine
Exocrine
2x Carnifex 4x Dev w/brain leach Spyrocysts (only one has this)/ Enhanced senses

Kraken Battalion

HQ
Flying Hive Tyrant - Monsterous Rending Talons, 2x Dev w/brain leach
Neurothrope

Troops
17x Genestealer
18x Hormagant
30x Termigants - 30x Dev

Elite
4x Zoanthropes

Heavy
Trygon - Adrenal Glands

Kronos will probably be warlord for psychic shenanigans and the kraken hive will likely take -1 to hit relic for -1 command point. Gene stealers run up the field with opportunistic advance - termis ride in the Trygon. Hives can deep strike in and cause havoc. Gants will get the shoot twice stratagem the turn they come in then we just shoot the heck out of them with weight of dice. Should be fun.

I am not sold on the miasma cannon on the flyrant either. lots of little bug, but if you play on planet bowling ball they are going to suffer, if your tables have decent terrain they should be ok. Hope I was able to help I am returning to tyranids, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

 Xenomancers wrote:
Kronos Spearhead

HQ
Flying Hive tyrant - Monsterous Rending Talons, Heavy venom Cannon (Miasma Cannon), Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Prehensile tail

Heavy
Exocrine
Exocrine
2x Carnifex 4x Dev w/brain leach Spyrocysts (only one has this)/ Enhanced senses

Kraken Battalion

HQ
Flying Hive Tyrant - Monsterous Rending Talons, 2x Dev w/brain leach
Neurothrope

Troops
17x Genestealer
18x Hormagant
30x Termigants - 30x Dev

Elite
4x Zoanthropes

Heavy
Trygon - Adrenal Glands

Kronos will probably be warlord for psychic shenanigans and the kraken hive will likely take -1 to hit relic for -1 command point. Gene stealers run up the field with opportunistic advance - termis ride in the Trygon. Hives can deep strike in and cause havoc. Gants will get the shoot twice stratagem the turn they come in then we just shoot the heck out of them with weight of dice. Should be fun.

Looks like a fun list, the only "flaw" I see is your Kronos Spearhead will be left with no Synapse (almost certainly) so that might cause some sub-optimal targeting issues. Are the Zoeys one Brood? Looks like you can "beta strike" very well, and you have a good Alpha as well. If you go second, then the infestation nodes will help the Stealers hide. Good luck! And good hunting!

I would highly reccomend turning 1 Exocrine into a unit of hive Guard. They can double fire and that is glorious, especially from out of line of sight

pinecone77 wrote:

 Xenomancers wrote:
Kronos Spearhead

HQ
Flying Hive tyrant - Monsterous Rending Talons, Heavy venom Cannon (Miasma Cannon), Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Prehensile tail

Heavy
Exocrine
Exocrine
2x Carnifex 4x Dev w/brain leach Spyrocysts (only one has this)/ Enhanced senses

Kraken Battalion

HQ
Flying Hive Tyrant - Monsterous Rending Talons, 2x Dev w/brain leach
Neurothrope

Troops
17x Genestealer
18x Hormagant
30x Termigants - 30x Dev

Elite
4x Zoanthropes

Heavy
Trygon - Adrenal Glands

Kronos will probably be warlord for psychic shenanigans and the kraken hive will likely take -1 to hit relic for -1 command point. Gene stealers run up the field with opportunistic advance - termis ride in the Trygon. Hives can deep strike in and cause havoc. Gants will get the shoot twice stratagem the turn they come in then we just shoot the heck out of them with weight of dice. Should be fun.

Looks like a fun list, the only "flaw" I see is your Kronos Spearhead will be left with no Synapse (almost certainly) so that might cause some sub-optimal targeting issues. Are the Zoeys one Brood? Looks like you can "beta strike" very well, and you have a good Alpha as well. If you go second, then the infestation nodes will help the Stealers hide. Good luck! And good hunting!

That's a pretty good point - didn't even occur to me when I designed this. Outside of dropping a carnifex for a malanthrope plus filling out the genestealers - I don't see another fix. Really hate to lose that carnifex - though it would make both exocrine harder to kill and solve the instinctive behavior issue. What do you think? Roll with the risk of having bad targets for exocrine? Or drop a carni for a malanthrope?


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 luke1705 wrote:
I would highly reccomend turning 1 Exocrine into a unit of hive Guard. They can double fire and that is glorious, especially from out of line of sight

Been hearing that a lot lately. They are sold out and I built mine as tyrant guard. I also plan on using double fire for the gants.

Turn 1 that’s a great strat. But then when they die and you still have a ton of CP....

But best of luck getting a hold of some!

If you want a cheap babysitter a Neuro, or a vanilla Warriors (heck toss in a cannon) is pretty easy to trim to fit.... Whats that run now,75 for a cannon seems pretty decent...

So I made some adjustments and overall I think we have a better list now. We have backfield support and a decent gun-line with the warriors and prime.

Kronos Battalion

HQ
Flying Hive Tyrant - MRC, Miasma Cannon, Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs
Tyranid Prime - Deathspitter, RC, Flesh hooks

Troops
3x Warrior - 2x Deathspitter, 1xHVC, 3x RC
3x Warrior - 2x Deathspitter, 1xHVC, 3x RC
3x Warrior - 2x Deathspitter, 1xHVC, 3x RC

Heavy
Exocrine
Exocrine
Carnifex - 4x Dev, Enchanced Senses, Cycsts

Kraken Battalion

HQ
Flying Hive Tyrant - 2xDev, MCR, Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs
Neurothrope

Troops
15x Genestealler
28x Dakka Gant
3x Ripper Swarms

Elite
4x Zoanthropes

Heavy
Trygon - Adrenal Glands

Why are you taking Kraken on the 2nd battalion, the only units thats are melee bases our your trygon and genestealers, what is the strategy behind that vs just going pure kronos? you have so much shooting I don't think kraken is really going to help.

 Dynas wrote:
Why are you taking Kraken on the 2nd battalion, the only units thats are melee bases our your trygon and genestealers, what is the strategy behind that vs just going pure kronos? you have so much shooting I don't think kraken is really going to help.

Well - none of the units in the kraken detachment get anything out of kronos. Mainly i wanted a kraken hive tyrant and some kraken zoanthropes. These Zoanthropes are gonna be flying dude. The genes are probably just distraction carnifex - but if left ignored they can charge from quite a bit away with kraken + strategems.