Had a quick 2000 point game against some Eldar took the following list:
Incompertus, 2000 POINTS Hive Fleet Dagon (4.6 TCMD forum) ================================================== MAJOR SWARM (2-4 INSTINCTIVE SWARMS) [350] Dagon Overlord Shrike (Wings), 3 Tyranid Warrior Shrikes (Wings), 2 Gargoyles (4 Dagon Gargoyles) MINOR SWARM (2-4 INSTINCTIVE SWARMS) [225] 2 Tyranid Warriors, Gaunts (4 Termagaunts), Biovores (4 Biovores), Zoanthrope MINOR SWARM (2-4 INSTINCTIVE SWARMS) [225] 2 Tyranid Warriors, Gaunts (4 Termagaunts), Biovores (4 Biovores), Zoanthrope HARASSER SWARM (1-2 INSTINCTIVE SWARMS) [200] Harridan, Gargoyles (4 Dagon Gargoyles) ATTACK SWARM (1-2 INSTINCTIVE SWARMS) [275] Barbed Hierodule Prime, Hierodule (1 Barbed Hierodule) ATTACK SWARM (1-2 INSTINCTIVE SWARMS) [275] Barbed Hierodule Prime, Hierodule (1 Barbed Hierodule) MAJOR SWARM (2-4 INSTINCTIVE SWARMS) [300] Hive Tyrant, 2 Tyranid Warriors, 2 Gaunts (4 Termagaunts), Mycetic Spore // May transport Termagaunts, Hormagaunts, Biovores, Carnifex, Raveners, Hive Tyrants, Dagon Overlord, Tyranid Warriors, Zoanthropes // Transported units may not have Wings, Zoanthrope BIO-VESSEL [150] Razorfiend (May carry 2 Mycetic Spores including cargo)
Played against Eldar Biel-Tan
With two artillery formations (void and night spinners), shinning spears, avatar, rangers, guardians and falcon formations.
The space ship was critical for deploying the major swarm in my opponents deployment managed to wipe out the night spinners and a group og guardians effectively. But the synapse were sniped off fairly easily by the falcons And the formation fell apart. The biovores were great at dropping his popcorn ranger formations which helped mitigate his activation advantage. The void hurt me a lot. The mediocre armour on the hierodiles saw them go down quick. One got caught by the shinning spears and melted. The other; one round from the void and then follow up fire from the falcons dropped the prime then remaining on couldnt rally. The harridan failed two activations and didnt do much. In the end it was a 3-0 victory for the eldar. They out matched me in speed and firepower. I find the formations do reasonably well when at full strength but exponentially lose potency after losing a few stands, the AT fire and losing the synapse is so very painful. It didnt come up this time but i worry about the losing alpha strike ability when facing an opponent who also has a spaceship. The 1 strategy rating is painful.
The synapse rules where you cant contest, capture or count table half when missing synapse is a HUGE negative for the army especially combined with the "shoot the big ones" (warriors becoming LVs). Lower FF ability when facing assault skimmers, All very fluffy but I'm not sure that the strengths of the list make up for the major weaknesses. Dont get me wrong the expendable gaunts make assaults quite favorable (when initiated by the nid player) but thier crap armour makes them a detriment when the nid formations are engaged (unless you are very good at maximizing cover saves).
Two Suggestions 1. regeneration comes back for the WE's. They came off as extremely MW and TK vulnerable. I dont think the dominatrix would see the board at that hefty price tag being rather frail. 2. In its current form to make up for the mediocre shooting, and armour and big racial detrimemts should add very cheap gaunt formations as the Nids should have heavy activation advantage in my opinnion. Maybe make the minor swarms 1-4 requirement.
Edit: could be just the Eldar match up thats particularly difficult to handle also.
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