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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Mar 6, 2014 12:14:30 GMT -5
Finally finished the updated tyranid tactica, posted in the library of knowledge (22 pages in microsoft word, so yeah, it's big)
feel free to let me know if you see any errors / omissions...
as with any tactical overview I write, this is only my own views based upon the army, but hopefully it's helpful to new and existing players alike.
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Post by Frosty the Pirate on Mar 6, 2014 13:06:58 GMT -5
I couple things I noticed:
Psychic Powers Section - You didn't mention how Psychic Scream is amazing vs Psykers because of that handy -3 LD from SOTW, effectively making the roll 2D6+5. Obviously very situational, but a handy trick to remember vs Eldar, GK, Enemy Nids, etc
HQ section - I'd mention Tyrant Guard allow your Tyrant/Swarmy to auto-pass LoS!, allowing your Tyrant to lead the unit.
Elite Section - Pyrovores + Hive Commander + Outflank. We'll call this the "epic success or epic fail" maneuver. (seriously tho if you wanted to keep your opponent way from the short board edges, this would be how I would do it.)
That's all I really see, great work Shannon!
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Mar 6, 2014 13:27:22 GMT -5
hive commander only allows a troop to outflank, or yeah, that could be a way to make pyrovores work... sadly GW doesn't want to sell pyrovores, I'm actually convinced of that  the other points I'll update now... |
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Mar 6, 2014 13:56:07 GMT -5
....and let's qualify "amazing" vs. psykers... This is assuming that you have a unit of ONLY psykers (a librarian in a unit would use the unit's leadership which would be better than the L7 of the reduced librarian's leadership in shadows) seer stars I believe are L10 so L7 in shadows. Average of two wounds. Invulnerable saves reduce that to 1... if they don't have rerollable invuls vs. grey knights you're looking at L9 so L6 in shadows. Average of 3 wounds. |
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Post by Frosty the Pirate on Mar 6, 2014 14:15:36 GMT -5
Ok, fair enough. It's not exactly beastly, but I mean Shriek with its 3D6 - LD isn't really much better (average dice would be 1 wound vs LD10)
It's just one of those situational tricks that can come up that I wanted to point out. (Oh look I rolled Scream on my flying Hive Tyrant vs GK, hehehehe)
And 3 wounds per unit would get nasty if you parked that Flyrant between 2 or 3 units... That's a lot of dead strikes
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Mar 6, 2014 14:44:01 GMT -5
yes that would indeed be a lot of dead strikes... so against parking lot style grey knights, it would definitely wreck face for sure!
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