Note-report from a vassal game with MikeT. Mike gave me my first experience of facing a tyranid army, which broadly consisted of almost my entire force getting eaten by the end of t4



Incompertus, 3000 POINTS
Tyranids (110929) (EUK nids)
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BIG ASSAULT SWARM [400]
4 Tyranid Warrior, 18 Termagant, Gargoyles

NORMAL ASSAULT SWARM [200]
2 Tyranid Warrior, 8 Termagant

NORMAL ASSAULT SWARM [200]
2 Tyranid Warrior, 8 Termagant

NORMAL ASSAULT SWARM [200]
2 Tyranid Warrior, 8 Termagant

NORMAL ASSAULT SWARM [200]
2 Tyranid Warrior, 8 Termagant

NORMAL ASSAULT SWARM [200]
2 Tyranid Warrior, 2 Termagant, 6 Hormaguant

NORMAL ASSAULT SWARM [200]
2 Tyranid Warrior, 2 Termagant, 6 Hormaguant

GENESTEALER SWARM [150]
6 Genestealer

GENESTEALER SWARM [150]
6 Genestealer

GENESTEALER SWARM [150]
6 Genestealer

HARASSMENT SWARM [225]
1 Harridan and 0-4 Gargoyles

HARASSMENT SWARM [225]
1 Harridan and 0-4 Gargoyles

SUBTERRANEAN SWARM [250]
1 Trygon and 2 Raveners

SUBTERRANEAN SWARM [250]
1 Trygon and 2 Raveners



Incompertus, 3000 POINTS
13TH BLACK CRUSADE BLACK LEGION (EUK BL)
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RETINUE [425]
8 Chaos Space Marines, (Chaos Undivided), Chaos Warlord (Supreme Commander), Obliterator, Daemonic Pact

RETINUE [340]
8 Chaos Space Marines, (Chaos Undivided), Sorcerer Lord, 4 Rhino, Daemonic Pact

RETINUE [340]
8 Chaos Space Marines, (Chaos Undivided), Sorcerer Lord, 4 Rhino, Daemonic Pact

ARMOURED COMPANY [200]
(Chaos Undivided), 4 Chaos Predator

CHAOS TERMINATORS [375]
(Chaos Undivided), Chaos Lord, 4 Chaos Terminator, Obliterator, Daemonic Pact

CHOSEN [170]
4 Chaos Space Marine Scouts, (Chaos Undivided), 2 Rhino, Daemonic Pact

CHOSEN [225]
4 Chaos Space Marine Scouts, (Chaos Undivided), Dreadnought, 5 Dreadclaw Drop Pod, Daemonic Pact

HELL BLADES [200]
3 Hell Blade Fighters, (Chaos Undivided)

DEVASTATION CLASS CRUISER [150]
(Chaos Undivided)

DECIMATORS [225]
(Chaos Undivided), Decimator

FERAL TITAN [275]
(Chaos Undivided)

DAEMON POOL [75]
(Chaos Undivided), 11 Lesser Daemon


Deployment
BL force corners. 3 genestealer and one chosen formations garrison.

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AFK with real life, still checking PMs

Turn 1 no teleports, BL initiative
(Not many pictures for T1, it's mostly doubling and marching everything up to the middle to form a mega-blob for start t2)
BL> spaceship activates, barrage hits two assault swarms, one losses 2 gaunt, other both warriors, pin-point misses a harridan.
BL> chosen pod in and get 1 kill on the warrior-less formation in firefight, then lose the assault and break, reduced to 1 chosen and the dreadnaught
Nids> double brood to middle of map, shoot chosen for 1 BM
Nids> stealers engage chosen, chosen OW, 2 stealers die from OW. first strike kills both rhinos, chosen kill 3. chosen win by 4, wiping the nids.
BL> hellblades GA harridans, killing 3 gargoyles for 1BM
Nids> assault swarm fails to activate, moves up 1
BL> BTS formation flips overwatch
Nids> assault formation fails to activate, moves up 1
BL> double retinue to middle
Nids> harridan formation double to middle, hits chosen, breaks with a BM, chosen run behind factory
BL> double feral through a wood, fail DTD for 1 DC, shoot on assault and harridan swarm, kills 1 gargoyle, 2 termagautns
Nids> harridan fails to activate, singles forward
BL> double preds, BM stealers
Nids> march assault swarm
BL> decimator doubles, does 1BM to stealers -.-'
Nids> assault swarm marches
BL> double ret and BM harridan
Nids> assault swarm with no warriors marchs to middle
Nids> stealers fail to activate, remove BM
Nids> BTS swarm marches to the stealer that just failed
Nids> last stealers march to middle

hellblades disengage, all rally

table after rallying:






Turn 2 BL hold off on teleporting and both trygon formations pop up behind the BL side of the blob, 0BM, BL initiative

close up of middle of table start of T2, with trygons in the woods:


BL>Feral sustains on assault swarm and harridan, killing a few gaunts
BL>decimator singles and blasts stealers, who break reduced to 1 stand

situation after the BL shooting:


Nids> trygon engages middle chosen, destroying the formation and putting 1BM on a retinue within 15cm
Nids> trygon engages the retinue with the BM, slithering round the side to avoid support fire, 1 ravener dies but the nids win by 4, breaking the retinue.
BL> preds single backwards and kill 2 gaunts in the formation without warriors, breaking them
BL> retinue summons demons and sustains, placing 1BM on a trygon
Nids> assault retinue engages chosen, 2 gaunts die but the chosen are wiped out by support fire
BL> hellblades GA an assault formation, picking off a warrior and 3 nids
nids> fail to double swarm that was just shot, move up to middle
BL> bts flip overwatch


nids> harridan assaults warhound, warhound breaks away on 1DC remeaining
nids> other harridans double and shoot preds for 1bm
nids> assault swarm assaults preds, wiping them out with support fire and resolution
nids> rest of army marches, one assault swarm fails and singles up

2 nid formations fail to rally

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AFK with real life, still checking PMs

Turn 3 terminators teleport next to nid blitz, 0 BM, BL initiative
BL> feral sustains on stealers, killing 3 to break them
BL> decimator singles back on re-roll to BM trygon
nids> bts formation assaults middle retinue, 4 gaunts die but the chaos are gobbled up as they lose by 10
nids> assault swarm assaults other retinue, wiping them
BL> terminators sustain on an assault swam, killing a pair of gaunts
nids> harridan doubles shoots decimator in crossfire, 1DC
BL> hellblades GA assault swarm, 1 warrior dies
nids> trygon fails to engage and removes BMs

nids> harridan engages decimator, killing it in support fire
nids> trygon marches onto an objective
nids> assault swarm doubles towards terminators and the blitz, 1BM
nids> assault swarm doubles to shoot terminators, 1BM
nids> assault swarm marches towards BL blitz
nids> assault swarm marches towards BL blitz

the stealer and assault swarms near the feral fair to rally


End T3: BL only have 3 formations left but stave off t3 defeat at 1–0 to nids (T&H), onto T4

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AFK with real life, still checking PMs

Turn 4 no teleport, BL initiative, BL +3 demons
BL> terminators summon up 5 demons and combine engage 2 assault swarms, BL win by 2 for the loss of a terminator and demon
BL> BTS flips OW to summon demons
nids> harridan BM warhound
nids>trygon engages warhound, rending it apart with macros
BL> hellblades strafe 3 gaunts from the nid BTS, it's now solid nid activations to eat everything up
nids> assault swarm doubles into support range to BM BTS
nids> BTS double into support range to BM BTS in crossfire
nids> assault swarm doubles into support range to BM BTS in corssfire (this is pretty much exactly what happened vs Dave's orks, but with bugs …)
nids> engage with assault swarm, 6 gaunts die in OW, the rest to chaos FF.
nids> trygon engages. BL counter-charge to pull more formations, casualties on both sides and BL lose the assault by 2


game called at this point (forgot to remove OW counter on BL bts, they should be broken, not OW):


Having eaten the BL army down to 11 (non-demon) stands the all-in attack on the BTS/blitz combo left the nids without formations to contest other objectives and unable to get on to/take either blitz: 0–0 objectives but massive points win to the tyranids (didn't bother to count!).

Bit of an odd ending! (Mike did have some pretty bad luck on activation rolls as well)


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thoughts
Not having faced nids before, it was difficult to know how aggressively to play towards them. Really wish i'd sent the decimator in t3 to MW IC barrage the nid BTS in the factory, I was trying to break the trygon before it could assault me instead, but there was a small chance of that working to start with. Garrisoned 40cm charge stealers on the mid line give you plenty to think about!

I'd expected the tyranids to be pretty special rules intensive, but they worked very smoothly with simple mechanics that still gave a feeling of a relentless living tide of assault.

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Great report!

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Thanks for sharing.

great report! Thanks for doing it!

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Hi!

That's a real cool report!

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