No great shock, I lost again. 1000 points, my Brazen Claws vs. tyranids. What did he field?
- tyranid prime
- tervigon
- zoanthrope
- 3 tyranid warriors
- 10 hormagaunts
- 3 biovores
- trygon prime (240 pts minimum)
I fielded
- captain with relic blade/storm shield
- dreadnought w/ assault cannon
- 10-man tac squad with flamer, missile weapon, power fist and rhino
- 10-man tac squad with flamer, plasma cannon, power fist and razorback with twin-linked heavy bolters
- 7 scouts with sniper rifles, camo cloaks, and missile launcher
- landspeeder with missile launchers and multi-melta
I broke the second squad up and put the captain in the razorback. Not a bad list, but not the minimum-troop list that i was going up against. I also didn't know I would be facing tyranids, or I would have swapped out the captain for a libby in a heart-beat, and maybe even dropped the rhino tac squad for a predator with auto-cannon/heavy bolters.
I played better than i have in the past, but still made mistakes. i should have set the landspeeder against the biovores, whose obnoxious barrages caused no end of havoc. i also should have kept my army together as a firing line and hammered the trygon prime with its assault 12 attacks before it got to me, but the tervigon popped out 30 gaunts and i went after them instead, fearing that if i didn't destroy them piecemeal, they would horde up and overwhelm me. As it was I did manage to wipe out his gaunts (including the extras) and his warriors and his zoanthrope, and got his trygon down to one wound. Like I said, better but not good enough.
I don't know how I feel about these min-maxed army compositions. I get that they are legal, and even a good idea if you want to win, but I'm thinking that 40K could learn from WHFB here, where Core troops choices had to make up a chunk of your army list. I would think that Troops in 40K should be the same, but clearly that's not the ethos of the game.
I played better than i have in the past, but still made mistakes. i should have set the landspeeder against the biovores, whose obnoxious barrages caused no end of havoc. i also should have kept my army together as a firing line and hammered the trygon prime with its assault 12 attacks before it got to me, but the tervigon popped out 30 gaunts and i went after them instead, fearing that if i didn't destroy them piecemeal, they would horde up and overwhelm me. As it was I did manage to wipe out his gaunts (including the extras) and his warriors and his zoanthrope, and got his trygon down to one wound. Like I said, better but not good enough.
I don't know how I feel about these min-maxed army compositions. I get that they are legal, and even a good idea if you want to win, but I'm thinking that 40K could learn from WHFB here, where Core troops choices had to make up a chunk of your army list. I would think that Troops in 40K should be the same, but clearly that's not the ethos of the game.
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