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Ol'one eye
Hive Tyrant (wing,devourer,blw?)
Warrior brood (barbed strangler, talons?)
Children of Cryptus?
Venom Thorpes?
Gargoyles
Carnifex ( 2 devourer, blw, regan?)
Carnifex (venom cannon)
Mawloc
Hormagaunts x20 (glands?)
Hormagaunts x20 (glands?)

I am not sure on what most of this is so I have no idea what to expect. I would greatly appreciate any feedback anyone can offer in battling them though! I have a rather medium guard army so I almost have everything. Including a Baneblade and Imperial knight. I was thinking of trying out the Mechanicum Kastelan death star however. What do you folk think?

Thanks
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Tyranid brood creatures (read: everything but warriors and hive tyrants that you've mentioned) need a synapse creature within 12" to keep them pointed the right way.

With synapse they're fearless - without it they're LD5-7 and taking shonky instinctive behaviour tests that can have the entire brood start eating one another....

Warriors are easy enough to kill off with concentrated S8 template fire - battlecannons, earthshakers, etc, etc. Once they're out of the way the termagaunts and hormagaunts should fold like a pack of cards.

The carnifex and hive tyrant will be trouble - carnifex under instinctive behaviour will charge at you and can squish tanks like cardboard, and the Hive Tyrant is a bugger to take out of the air.


Essentially:
- Concentrate on the synapse creatures
- Fire On My Target heavy weapons can remove venomthropes easily. These things provide a huge swathe of his army with shrouded, but aren't hard to kill if shot at directly with ignores cover weapons.
- Make sure you have something which can take out a hive tyrant. Vendettas are lethal but watch out for their rear armour - a winged tyrant has a 360' arc of fire, and can fly past you then shoot your weak rear armour with a million S6 shots.
- If you can break up synapse control he'll struggle to hold objectives - everything will either run uncontrolled at you or flee. Try to avoid putting objectives in cover, because lurking creatures can go into cover and go to ground. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8199556.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8199556.page GMT
1) synapse creatures (his warriors, hive tyrant if you have some AA). When outside of synapse, his army falls apart pretty fast. He has to take a leadership check for every unit that isn't within 12" of his hive tyrant or warriors EVERY TURN, and tyranid leadership is awful. Just awful.

2) kill the venomthropes. Even if they're rocking 2+ cover, those things only have 2 wounds, t4 5+ armor. Give the ignores cover order and kill those models. They are force multiplication lynchpins that make every unit around them better.

Overall, as has been said, that's a pretty terrible list so you should be just fine. Make sure you play to the mission/objectives and you should have no issues. Just don't let the carnifexes touch your tanks. They will die.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8199616.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8199616.page GMT
What do you guys think of that?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8201533.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8201533.page GMT
Not to mention that Old One Eye is S10, so he causes instant death on ogryns.

Make sure that when you do try to take old one eye out, you hit him with EVERYTHING. His special rules are okay - feel no pain on a monstrous creature is nasty, and regeneration is also extremely annoying to deal with, but both rely on him surviving the first round of being shot at.

If you can kill him in one shooting phase, he's no tougher than an ordinary carnifex, but firing the odd pot-shot at him is worse than not shooting at all.


Bullgryns and Yarrick should work fine for a regular carnifex, though.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8201691.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8201691.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8202150.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8202150.page GMT
Eradicator leman russes might be helpful, as would wyverns if you want to clear up the wee gribblies in a hurry. You might consider a vendetta or some kind of anti-flyer (aegis line with quad gun) to deal with that hive tyrant.

Kill priorities:
Venomthropes
Flyrant
Warriors
Mawloc
Gaunts/gargoyles/fexes]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8202610.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8202610.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8203266.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8203266.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8203271.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8203271.page GMT also wiped out a full squad of hormagaunts with 10 shotgun vets in one round of shooting. was pretty cool, but it took me about 3 days to unpucker haha. IG vs nids is so much fun.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8235635.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8235635.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8238299.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/667540/8238299.page GMT