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I had a short game today with my friend and it was something that only fits the description of slaughter.

My List:

Hive Fleet Hydra.
HQ: Swarm Lord /3 guard.

Elites: Doom in a spod
2 Thropes in a spod
3 Hive Guard

Troops: 10 Gaunts/ Devil guns and spod. (just to do SOMETHING and take tervigon )
Tervigon/ Scything Talons, toxin sacs, adrenal glands, catalyst.
18 stealers and a Brood Lord all had Toxin and talons.
30 Hormagaunts
20 Hormagaunts

Fast Attack: none

Heavy Support: 3 Carnifex with twin Devilguns/BL worms and Bioplasma
Trygon
Trygon
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His List: (btw I don't play marines at all and barely know the points etc)

Vulcans Relic Search Party.

Vulcan with around 9 or so Honor Guard? (dudes with 2+ weps) In a pod

An 8 man Command Squad with 2 LC, Apothecary, Flag Bearer, Commander himself and some other normal dudes i think. In a pod

10 man tac Quad in a pod with Melta and Rocket
10 man tac Quad in a pod with Melta and Rocket

10 Man Tac Quad at back with melta/rocket
10 Man Tac Quad at back with melta/rocket

Thunderfire cannon,

Landraider Redeemer with 5 TH/SS terminators in it.
Landraider Redeemer with 5 TH/SS terminators in it.

Dreadnaught with Melta, Hammer, and CC wep. in a pod



Are you alright sir? Vulcan looked up at his retinue brother. "The time to worry is long past brother, the relic must not be lost under the alien tied" Vulcan Replied. "Yes sir, for the chapter!" Said the Green suited Space Marine. "indeed for the chapter brother".
At that moment a voice crackled over the com in Vulcans helmet, dropping in t-minus, 10, 9, 8, 7... "Let us see how these aliens fair..."

"Deploy front drone fighter organisms" said the great and eerie synaptic voice of the hive mind, "Release forward feeder hooks and proceed towards space born biomass construct. Dropping Spores onto planet surface, my child will escort the assault." Billions of screeching replies wailed throughout the synapse web. "The time to feed is upon me" ...

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Annihilation, Spear Head. Marines set up and go first.
His Raiders were on either side of the board to block stealers outflanking.
Thunderfire cannon was at back with 2 tac squads.
nothing else was on... yet.

I set up compact as the table was small for space on my end and he had no vindicators
I had a huge line of guys with a core of monster, Lord with Fexes in front and two side Trygons and the Tervigon.

Marines Turn 1.
3 Drop pods rocket down and smash into the earth infront of my Monster core, as going anywhere else is pointless.
this contained a Dread, Vulcans boys and a tac squad.
Land Raiders move up.
Thunderfire speaks and kills 13 hormagaunts from the 30mob.
Tacs, Vulcan and dread fire into fexes, I make amazing rolls and only loose 1.
Everything else misses and is out of range.

Tyranids Turn 1.

The Swarm screeches, if tyranids had any form of emotion, it would be shear delight.
The Deathstar and fexes move up.
The Tyrgons split off to attack the 2 L raiders.
Gaunts move up, Tervi spawns 13 gaunts no doubles.
Hive guard wiff.
Hormagaunts Fleet (both of the squads)
Carnifex fire 24 shots at Vulcan, get 20 hits :O and all but 3 dudes and Vulcan dies. (forgot plasma >.< )
Lord sets WS and BS of tac squad to squat.
Trygon fleets to Raider x2
Tervigon FNP the Swarmlord.
Swarmlord charges the tacs, fexes into Vulcan/dread multicharge, Trygon into raider, other trygon into other raider.
All tacs die, Fexes break the CCwep and hammer off dread and loose a whole carnifex.
Both LR wreak. Termies pile out.

Marines Turn 2.

By this point my opponent was thinking, oh balls.

Pod with Command Squad comes in, other does not.
They land by the Tyrgon on the left.
Termies move a lil.
Thunderfire kills rest of the 30 now 17 gaunts.
Command Squad dakkers the left Trygon taking 1 wound from it.
Right Trygon takes a krak rocket to the face.
Termies Charge both Trygons. Somehow the dice refuse to be nice and he loses all 5 termies to the right Trygon and the Left Trygon kills 3. Right one takes a wound, while other one takes 3.
Vulcan and Dread power finish of the fex and turn to face the swarmlord. dun dun duuuun...

Tyrand turn 2.
Ive pretty much won at this point and it's turn 2!! :/

Thropes come in, Stealers come in, 10 gaunts come in but fall of edge giving him 2 KP xD, Doom does not.
Stealers say boo and come in on the left side next to the command squad.
Thropes land close to the center.
Trygon moves towards one the the pods.
Gaunts (20) move closer to back tac squads.
Tervigon live births 13 gaunts again then goes poot.
Tervigon moves to a pod.
Thropes blow up a pod, Hive Guard blow apart a pod.
Lord charges Vulcan and somehow kill everything but Vulcan.
Stealers assault the command squad and kill all but marine and the commander.
Trygon blows up a pod, Tervigon tears the final pod apart.
The left Trygon kills last 2 Terminators.

At this point there is no way that he can win and so we call it game.

Vulcan knew that it was only a matter of time before the Tyrant creature bested him. The drop pods where in shambles. And the swarm was devouring his hand picked soldiers without mercy or pause. Nothing at his disposable could stop this swarm.

The Swarmlord could see that the biomass warrior before him was a skilled combatant, but he was nothing before the super predator. It was only a case of blow after blow until the monster had victory, with a great blow he flew the commander through the air and he landed on his back, Vulcan quickly got up and started to fall back with the survivors while the swarm was occupied. The Swarm roared, howled and screeched in blood and victory. And would give chase to the Salamanders once their targets were dealt with. The battle was theirs, but the marines would recover and make a stand again. The Tyranids had only begun to devour this planet.

Ow. Good game, although that Marine player's list didn't seem too suited to deal with this army piecemeal. Always good to see Nids give those silly marines a good krumpin'

Spes marines but yeah thunderfires suck

Your poll is a little subjective. I said sallies, because I assumed he would bring plenty of flamers, however this was more of an anti-tank vulkan army. Jus' sayin'

That sounds like a pretty funny battle. A few things on the Vulkan list:
Vulkan is kinda a weird HQ. He can not take a command squad, or an honor guard.
Unless he took a captain for the command squad. The "honor guard" are probably sternguard veterans.
Only one assault squad in the army is allowed to take a LR dedicated transport. He can bring another and load up, but the second squad must hop into the raider first turn. If both squads started in the land raiders, he is playing wrong.

Good batrep

Prob what happened, as I blew them out of it xD yeah they were Sternguard I think.

*Rovian: I disagree in 2 turns the Thunderfire killed 30 hormagaunts...

Edit: how was my list?

Well Salamanders, or any marines outside of Broken Angels or Broken wolves need to tame themselves. They can't go rushing head first into a mass of nids like that and expect to win. What was he thinking putting the raiders so close to monstrous creatures? AV 14 only goes so far against S 6 or 9 plus 2d6.

Salamanders get bonus to melta and flamer. Where were they? They did nothing.

The guy needed a walloping like this to learn a lesson.

yea we play alot and he is used to a horde of lil bugs, so he didn't really know what to do with MC spam and just did what he normally does. which went very badly...

That was fun (just because the Nids won). I voted for them, but was not expecting it...

PraetorDave wrote:Only one assault squad in the army is allowed to take a LR dedicated transport. He can bring another and load up, but the second squad must hop into the raider first turn. If both squads started in the land raiders, he is playing wrong.

Good batrep

That is only necessary if you want to embark a unit in a dedicated transport that doesn't belong to them. Undedicated transports don't have such a restriction.

Sooo... just a Heavy Support Raider? xD