He had two hive tyrants with a guard and venom cannon each, 3 groups of 15 genestealers, 2 groups of 30 basic hormagaunts, 30 termagants, 2 zoans in a pod and the doom in a pod. My list was a bit different from the one at the tourny, I took two dreads (one fire support, 1 ven with ass can and hf)and a second landspeeder instead of the chaplain and one ravenwing squad. I also replaced the 5th DW squad with a tac squad with flamer in a rhino. (this is the list I went with, not knowing who I was going to face).
Basically he deployed all in a big line across the table (mission was 5 objectives) and charged. I refused a flank and wasted one of his hive tyrants with missile fire on my turn 1 (he went first). The dreads were good, one was lucky not to die from the zoans and charged 30 hormagaunts while the bikes and the other dread charged the other 30 hormagaunts. So I tie dup almost half his troops with dreads that they couldn't hurt. Think he was a bit frustrated by that...
He called the game on turn 4 after my noble Deathwing defeated two genestealer units in combat and he was left with all his horms tied up and a hive tyrant about to be shot down by both landspeeders and an attack bike, after failing to reach combat or do anything all game. Belial died again though :( he was wounded and on his own after fighting off some genestealers and got shot by 3 termagants with fleshborers!
Liked how the dreads did and he didn't have much anti-tank, not a great list I thought (no Hive Guard or toxin sacs on his horms) and he kept bunching his models up too much for my frags. Anyway, enjoyed the game although not sure he was too pleased about losing... Might get a few more games in than I have been now, hurrah! They also seem to be quite into Warmachine at the club and a game called Cutlass which I'd never heard of. Has anyone ever played these?
Happy new year guys!
Happy new year to you too :-)
ReplyDeleteAlways good to find a new gaming club, the only one near here is actually in luton but meets on a thursday night which is a bit of a pain as we've been roleplaying on thursdays nights for 15+ years now and aren't about to change ;-)
Sound like the guy you played didn't have the most optimised list, sadly nids really have no choice but to take at least one unit of hive guard. Dreads really shine when the opponent doesn't have loads of melta.
Let us know how you get on in the coming weeks.
Good to here Chris I agrea about the lists yours is good his not so much. Still takes more then lists to win a game so well done :). Im hoping to start doing battle reports as well. I think takeing a 2nd look at a game can help to notice mistakes to corect for next time.
ReplyDeleteHi Chris, that's great news! Congrats on the win too!
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