SCYTHING TALONS :: Hive Fleet Openvalley

20 April 2011

Victory against Orks (2000 points)

Kill point mission with pitched battle deployment.

Tyranids won the roll off: Big Genestealer unit infiltrated forward, got feel no pain and advanced together with the rest of the swarm. One Trukk got immobilised by the Hive Guards.
On the right flank some Kopters and Biker Nobs tried to shoot a Trygon, but it survived with a couple of wounds. Genestealers weathered the shooting with FNP, got assaulted and slaughtered the aussaulting Orks.
On the left flank the swarm was hit hard by some Orks from advancing Trukks and the Meganobz from the immobilised Trukk. Without FNP (need another Tervigon ;-) the Gargoyles crumbled.

But as early as in round two it went downhill for the Orks. On the left flank Ymgarls appeared and assaulted the Orkboyz, the Trygon there and some Raveners ate the Meganobz. On the right flank Raveners and the Parasite took on the Kopters.
The Bikernobz got assaulted by the Genestealers and the Alphakrieger. One claw was shut down by the Broodlord's hypnosis and in the next round, with the help from some more Termagants the Bikernobz vanished.
After top of round four almost all Orks were destroyed and they conceded. And the Nemesis didn't even bothered to show up ...

Here the list I used:
* Parasite
* Alphakrieger w/ boneswords, scything talons, tox and regen
* 3 Hive Guard
* Nemesis in "Drop Pod"
* 6 Y-Genestealers
* 10 Termgants
* Tervigon w/ adrenal, tox, Catalyst
* 16 Genestealers + Broodlord
* 19 Gargoyles w/ tox and adrenal
* 2x3 Ravaners w/ rending claws
* 2 Trygons w/ adrenal

In a standard 2000 point list I would replace the Nemesis with Hive Guard and perhaps the Y with Zoantrophes. Additionally I would like some Hormagants to put even more pressure on the enemy and fumble with his target priority. It would be easier tzo shoot the Hormagants in cover than the Genestealer in Cover with FNP, right? ;-)

13 April 2011

Knapper Sieg gegen die Orkhorden

2000 Punkte
Mission: kill points
Aufstellung: lange Spielfeldkante

Tyraniden bekommen den ersten Zug und stürmen geschlossen in der Mitte voran. Die Orkss rücken ebenfalls vor, so dass sich in der zweiten Runde mehrer Nahkampattacken ergeben:

Gargoylen gegen Warpkopp und 15 Orks: geht verloren weil durch Gelände angegriffen
Schwarmtyrant gegen 30 Orks: blöde Idee ...
Symbionten gegen Sprungtruppen: es kommen nur wenige Symbionten in den Nahkampf, wider Erwarten werden die Sprungtruppen aber niedergemacht
Venatoren gegen Zapp-Wummen - wenn der Geländetest nicht 1 Zoll zu wenig ergeben hätte ...
Alpha-Trygon gegen große Blechbüchse

Durch die schlecht eingeleiteten Nahkämpfe und die daruf folgenden Angriffe der Orks auf dann ohne Abdeckung stehende Toxotrophen, Schwarmwachen und Venatoren liegen die Tyraniden schnell nach drei Runden 3:7 zurück.
In den Runden 5 und 6 jeodch können die verbleibenden Symbionten, der Trygon und vor allem der Tervigon mit insgesamt etwa 30 erzeugten Termganten (mit FNP, Toxin und Adrenalin) die Orkmassen niederringen und mit 12:11 in die 6. Runde gehen, ohne dass die Orks noch eine Chance hätten zu gewinnen.

Matchwinner: Tervigon + Termaganten haben sicherlich etwa 50 Orks auf dem Gewissen. Aber auch die Symbionten (ohne Toxin!) haben sich bewährt mit 3-4 Kills.

20 February 2011

8 more Genestealers spawned

Deathleaper assembled

18 February 2011

Chaosdaemons repelled

Mission: the 2 objective one
Deployment: pitched battle

Gave the Daemons the first round and deployed all units except the warriors with BS+LW. I wanted them as counter in case some Daemons would come near my objective.
Daemons had bad luck when their gods decided to hold the first wave back and send the second one in.

Daemons came in into assault range, got shot by Hive Guards, Zoantrophes and Warriors and finished off by the rest of the swarm.
Tyranids lost the Trygon, the Gargoyles, the Genestealers (shot by Hirrors), the Ravenors.
Trygon spawned 11 Gants in round 1 with doubles ...
Daemons conceded after top of round 5 with only one unit of Horrors left and the swarm closing in.