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This is more of a tournament report than a battle report but anyway here it is.

My List in a nutshell

Flyrant with 2 twin linked devourers
Absolutly AMAZING for the first turn it killed what ever it shot in game 1 2 broadsides in game 2 3 wounds to a carnifex in game 3 an entire guardian squad. Then it proceeded to be the enemys number 1 target and he of course died.

4 warriors with leaping, scything talons and rending claws
These were meh. I often found the supporting a gaunt brood or cleaning up a wounded squad not much came out of these.

3 Dakkafex's
What can I say these did great what did you expect.

2 units of 12 hormies with +1S
These were phenominal 144 points for 36 WS4 S4 I4 attacks on the charge, nobody shot them because who wants to waste fire on 12 "useless" gaunts. These were incredibly good in all 3 games.

3 units of 6 stealers with extended carapace
these were good what do you expect there stealers the 3rd unit was a little overkill though since it didn't fit behind my wall it of ten got shot up.

12 gaunts
they're a scornig unit and can tie up a monstrous creature very effectivly

2 sniper fex's
anti tank they did pretty well they always come standerd in 1000+

2 zoanthropes with synapse and warp blast
pretty good kept my army under controll extra anti tank.

Round 1 Tau
His list from memory

12 battlesuits all sorts of weapon arrangements.

6 stealth suits

2 units of fire warriors

3 broadsides

a unit of drones

He advanced with his fire warriors since they had pulse carbines shot down a few gaunts the battlesuits killed the warriors and wounded a fex the broadsides put 3 wounds on the tyrant.

I charge into the firewarriors that advanced with my hormies and masacre into battle suits my tyrant flies up and puts down 2 broadsisdes YAY! My carnifex's shot every unengaged battlesuit/stealth suit to pieces.

Turn 2 the broad side kills my tyrant and the gaunts in combat kill 2 more battle suits but take a few casulties.

I charge in with my stealers and games basically over Fex's sit on the objective and shooot up the drones.

Game 2 Against Nidzilla
I advanced to table 1 I'm tied for first place YAY!

His List From memory
1 Walkrant with a ton of upgrades and 3 guard

1 flyrant with a ton of upgrades

88 Spine Gaunts

5 Dakka Fex's

3 Zoanthropes

His turn 1 he advances and shoots up my fex's a little but doesn't kill any

My turn 1
I advance my hormies charge into his gaunts and proceed to mascare them. My tyrant flew up and put 3 wounds on a fex but fell short of charge range. I shoot up a few of his other units.

His turn 2
Every unengaged gaunt charges my wall of carnifex'sto keep the from shooting. I stop about 2 gaunts a turn wile he does nothing.

My turn 2
1 squad of stealers from behind the wall come in to help the fex's and the other 2 squads try to kill the carnifex's on his side.

His turn 3
His tyrants charge in and kill alot of stuff stealers kill 2 fex's and then die to the tyrants.

My turn 3
Thanks to the stealers that helped the carnifex's 2 of the are free and try to kill stuff. MY warriors charge into a fex and masacre it and run itno a tyrant.

His turn 4
1 Tyrants slaughters the warriors (I hate implant attack) The other kills a carnifex and Masacres into the other (I really hate implant attack)

My turn 4
the other 2 fex's are free and shoot down the last of his carnifex's. and make a run for the objective. My last squad of staelers charge the Walkrant and killl it's guard so it's no longer scoring and then die.

This is the last turn we got in I still have 2 scoring fex's on the objective he has his scoring flyrant.

His turn 5
His flyrant charges a carnifex and kills it and rolls 4 for masacre just enough to get to the other carnifex

My Turn 5
His Flyrant does 1 wound to my already wounded fex (YES! he still has 2 wounds he's sccoring all i have to do is wound his tyrant once and it's not scoring) But no my fex isn't scoring (I REALLY HATE IMPLANT ATTACK).

Games over he has the primary objective (center of the board) and the secondary (Most table quaters) 17 for him 0 for me.

Game 3 Table 18
Mech Eldar

His list from memory

Eldrad

Avatar

6 fire dragons

2 guardian squads with bright lances

a jetbike unit

2 units of 5 path finders

2 vypers

2 fireprisms

1 falcon

The gme in a nutshell
My hormies charge the guardians and take them out and masacre into avatar.

He rolls like a god and kill a fex and my flyrant and most of the stealers behind the wall.

I shoot up everything but the vypers the pathfinders and the fireprism and falcon

His fire dragons hop out and melta a carnifex to pieces 2 down 3 to go and the fire prism finishes my stealers. THe avatar is still squishing gaunts.

It looks pretty grim but i shoot up the fire dragons and 1 vyper and shake a fire prism.

He forgot to move the falcon and so it's just sitting there in front of 3 fex's and my warriors. His pathfinders kill of the last fex

My warriors charge 1 unit of pathfinders and masacre right into the other. 1 of my fex's charge the falcon and kills it The other shoots a fire prism and roll BOX CARS on the glance

Game Ends The objectine is table quaters.
The avatar contests 1
My fex's have another
My warriors have a second
and His last vyper and the 2nd fire prism have 1

I got the primary and secondary but he gets the tertiary so I Have 17 and he has 3.

I don't know what place I came in yet but I hope I did well.

dude.... another little kid with Nidzilla at Gamesday... you were one of the purple nid armies copying off of Justin Cook! That list is pretty fricken random.... hormagaunts? Nidzilla? Seriously? Join the Tyranid Hive forum and get some actual help with your nids man! You can't show up to a GT with that crap!

Are you in this video by any chance? watch about 1/2 way through

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQYMIK92W0


and check out my other tyranid vids

I didn't actually copy his paint scheme Mine is a lighter blue and has lightning patterns on it.

Other than that it works rather effectively if you don't believe me then try it!

No i'm not in the vid. And I like your nids the converted raveners look great and you have a good paint scheme.

It seems people are all about big monster nid lists. What was the last time someone saw 180 spinegaunts at a Tourney?

I actually think you lucked out. Tau/Nids/Eldar as you describe are probably not the strongest against your list. A las/plas shooty space marine or Iguard army could have probably boardwiped you. I suspect a 200+ model ork army would have also boardwiped you. Man-powered shooty and Swampy are the counter to MC/dred bashes.

But you took the law of averages which in my experience is assaulty armies in transports, which is pretty common so I can't blame you for 6 shooty MCs when expecting 6-8 transports.