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Tervigon w/ Cluster Spines, Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Catalyst


Elite:

Hive Guard x3

Hive Guard x3

Hive Guard x3

Troop:

Tervigon w/ Cluster Spines, Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Catalyst

Tervigon w/ Cluster Spines, Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Catalyst

Termagaunt x10 w/ Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs

Termagaunt x10 w/ Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs

Fast:

Gargoyle x17 w/ Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs

Heavy:

Tyrannofex w/ Rutpure Cannon, Cluster Spines

Biovore x3

Biovore x3


As always C&C is welcome.

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In general, nids have fairly productive shooting, especially hive guard, and cluster spines is excellent for hordes, or dumping a few pie plates on units dumped out of transports before assaulting.

Havent used biovores myself, so no real idea how well they perform.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2864686.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2864686.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? dev squads is nothing to sneeze at though. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2864793.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2864793.page GMT Re:1850 Gunline Nids!? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2865003.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2865003.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2865851.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2865851.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!?
bazookatooth wrote:i would take off the toxin sacs and adrenal glands from the gaunts. the tervigon will confer those bonuses to any gaunts within 6" of them anyway so you are really just throwing away points.



Thanks I had to reread that part I thought it was just gaunts spawned by the tervigon. I'll drop those and add in some more gargoyles.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2867567.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2867567.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2867915.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2867915.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2868135.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2868135.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? though that might not fit in with your theme.

More garg couldn't hurt in that case.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2868174.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2868174.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2868913.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2868913.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? LOS---You'll have NO trouble cracking transports. At that point your tervigons are best used as "tyranid land raiders" IE - DON'T SPAWN GAUNTS UNTIL THEY ARE NECESSARY! Too often i see a nid player spawn gaunts on the first turn in his deployment zone, get doubles, and then those little buggers accomplish very little the rest of the game. Take a turn or two to move/run your tervigons into position. Then when the time is right, spawn a brood of gaunts, placing the first one 6.9" away (so that.1" of the base is within 6" of the tervigon) then you move them 6", fire fleshborers, and assault with poison/furious charge/feel no pain (all granted by your tervigon babysitter, who ran in the shooting phase to keep up with her babies and grant them those delicious bonuses). As an alternative (and equally useful i might add) - Deposit a scoring unit on every objective in a seize ground game with these 'gant-chuckers. You'll have no trouble claiming objectives if you can outnumber your opponent's scoring units. As an aside, in objective games you have two number-one priority things to kill -- The opponent's troops (because they help him score) and any of the opponent's fast bikes or vehicles (because they can zoom onto objectives and stop you from scoring). Everything else is just ants at a picnic.

All the while your hive guard, tyrranofex, and biovores are laying down suppressive fire on tanks or infantry, respectively. Remember that if you assault a unit that was pinned, you don't take any initiative penalties for assaulting through cover (very important because I5 S4 termagaunts with poison will deal lots of wounds to MEQs if they get to strike first).

It's a pretty solid list, just play a few games with it and develop some good tactics behind the strategies presented. And good luck!

edit - PS - What do you use as a tyrranofex model? I've always used my APOC hierodules (barbed hierodule pictured), and I wondered what the other 'nid players thought was a worthy counts-as for such a large gun-beast.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2870206.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2870206.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2871046.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2871046.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!?
tetrisphreak wrote:
edit - PS - What do you use as a tyrranofex model? I've always used my APOC hierodules (barbed hierodule pictured), and I wondered what the other 'nid players thought was a worthy counts-as for such a large gun-beast.


I use an old Armorcast Exocrine, personally.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2871056.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2871056.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!?
Tyranids has no position for gunlines, you need to hybrid between enough AV and a tone of CC. biovores and tyranno'fex's are also pretty terribkle tyrannofex only has a 5.46 % chance to wreck or explode AV14 ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2871523.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2871523.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? MC's and a mass body of poisoned attacks not a tone of CC? Also 3 large blast barrage that are also pinning for 135 points seems like a good unit to me. I've seen people say tyrannofexs are bad. Yeah they are if you just sit there and shoot its gun the whole game. People forget its a MC. Eventually this whole army will get stuck in and at that point between the hive guard and tyrannofex all the transports will be popped and the biovores are suppressing those nasty long fang/dev squads that are the meta.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2871569.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2871569.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!?
Hey you might consider dropping a hive guard squad to run a brood of venomthropes if you have the models for it -- they're worth their points just from the 5+ cover save you get on your tervigons, but also having defensive grenades really takes the punch out of orks and th/ss assaults if they get the jump on you. And dangerous terrain tests should kill 16.6% of whatever is assaulting into you.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2872810.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2872810.page GMT 1850 Gunline Nids!? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2872858.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/371767/2872858.page GMT