Ymgarl Genestealer appear from nowhere

The moons of Ymgarl are the supposed origin of the Genestealers. Though the Salamnders and the Inquisition pressed hard to purge them, Genestealers are not only infiltrating space ships and space hulks but are also nowadays commonly used as infiltrating and outflanking troops by the Hive Mind.
Hive Fleet Openvalley has recently produced six of this special brood of Ymgarl Genestealers.

In the game they appear in a piece of area terrain nominated before the game. In each assault phase they can alter their form to receive +1 to Strength, Attacks or Toughness.
Let's how they perform on the battlefield!

Cadian Forces on Erbos III overwhelmed by Tyranids

Chaos Space Marines devoured by the Open Valley Swarm

Again we played a 2000 points Total War Mission. RG's Chaos Space Marines went first but where overwhelmed by the sheer number of 5 monstrous creatures and lots of little bugs. The two Tervigons managed to spawn over 40 Termagants.

Chaos brought the following
- General with demonic weapon
- Great Demon
- 10 Khorne Berserkers
- 2x 10 Plague Marines + Rhino
- 5 Chosen Chaos Space Marines + Rhino
- Land Raider
- Vindicator
- 3 Oblitorators

The Tyrannic swarm consisted of:
- Hive Tyrant
- Tervigon (HQ)
- 2x 2 Hive Guard
- Doom with Spore
- 12 Devilgaunts
- Tervigon (Troops)
- 2x 8 Symbionts with Symbiarch
- 14 Hormagaunts with Toxin
- 2 Trygons

Key to victory were the massive pawning of Termagants and getting Paroxysm on the Khorne Berserkers plus General.

Orks won against Tyranids

We played the "Total War Mission" which provided a nice change to the usual missions in the rule book.

In this 2000 points game my Tyranids lost again against RG's Orks. I took no photos and I don't even know which list I used. Two details I can remember. One is that the Parasite managed to generate 6 Ripper bases - nice! Two is that the Orks failed a lot of leadership tests to the soul sucking of the Doom

My list was probably something like:
- Parasite
- Winged Hive Tyrant
- 2 Venomthopes
- Doom in Spore
- 12 Termagants Devourers
15 Hormagaunts
- Tervigon
- 2x 8 Symbionts with Symbiarch
-2 Trygons

Highlight for the Orks was that the Snootzoga obliterated the Winged Hive Tyrant with a roll of a 12 which means it was sucked into the warp ...

Hive generated more Termagants

A dozen more of these little bugs. This time armed with devourers: Assault 3, S4, 18" and forces -1 to subsequent morale checks. Nice!

Winged Hive Tyrant

Bought this Winged Hive Tyrant a year ago from Forgeworld. It was annoying to assemble this thing, because all parts were warped (the base still is) and the wings didn't fit very well. But now it is done and we will see if it can justify its cost on the battlefield ;-)

And again a total loss ...

... against Chaos Daemons.

Game was pitched battle with Capture & Control. Daemons gave Tyranids first turn which was a good thing because with infiltraing Genestealers and fast Gargoyles on one flank the Daemons had to deep strike into the ramaining quarter of the table.
But then one deepstriking Trygon was lost an all went downhill. Better to start the Trygons on the table to attack the incoming warp creatures ....

Tyranids got slaughtered by Orks. Again ...

Against a 2000 points Ork horde consisting of 190 (!) models my Tyranids couldn't stand their ground and got tabled in round 5.
I guess the Hive Mind was asleep because I wasn't abel to play them as a whole, with synergy. Wasted units like the Gargoyles or the Trygon Prime assaulting alone 30 Orks ...

My list
* Alphakrieger w/ boneswords, scything talons, tox and regen
* 2x 2 Hive Guard
* 2 Venomthropes
* 10 Termagants
* Tervigon w/ adrenal, tox, Catalyst* 12 Genestealers w/ Broodlord
* 3 Warriors w/ tox, deathspitters, scything talons, venom cannon
* 3 Warriors w/ tox, deathspitters, scything talons, barbed strangler
* 20 Gargoyles w/ tox and adrenal
* 6 Raveners w/ rending claws
* 2 Trygons w/ adrenal, one prime

Venomthropes assembled

It took some amount of greenstuff and superglue ...

Tyranids got slaughtered by Orks

Tabled in round 5. No more to say ...