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I'm doing a kill team game on Saturday and I'm thinking I'll go with warriors. My best guess is my opponent will bring some wraiths for this particular battle.

Anyway I was tweaking warriors and for giggles I looked at shrikes as well since they should be able to keep pace/ distance with the wraiths then I noticed they are the same point cost. Am I missing something or do strikes get wings and all they lose is the 1 armour save?

As this will be my first time using nids I'm also wondering how 200pts worth of melee warriors/shrikes would fare against 200pts of wraiths. Also if there's a better unit I should be looking at I'd be interested in hearing about that as well

Thank you

they dont have synapse i think (not sure)

Shrikes have synapse so no worries there. I think that once you add on biomorphs and upgrades you will not have a lot of bodies and against wraiths that 3++ and 2w will be tough to deal with.

If they're fitted for melee that should be 4 attacks each a round. I can fit 4 warriors in with boneswords and 1 with lash whips as well as adrenal glands for fleet.

With the bone swords if he fails he dies so I was thinking that would equalize it a bit. I don't know wraith stats off the top of my head though.

My other option would be as big of a unit of terms as I could get with a zoanthrope for synapse and just try to drown him in saves before he gets to me but that seems like a total hail mary


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Plus with blind USR on 1 of them it should level the playing field especially since he'll be expecting me to play Tau