Game 2: Grey Knights with Allied Blood Angels. A 0-20 loss.
Early autumn last year I bought one of the new Hive Tyrant boxes, with the intention of building a flying Hive Tyrant with 2x Devourers, since I only had a close combat Flyrant since earlier. Yesterday I opened the box at last, and was immediately sad to notice two things in particular:
1. The box came without ANY Devourers. That GW can continue to release Tyranid models without almost any of the options they are capable of getting is just absurd.
2. The kit is configured so that the legs are a pair of Scything Talons. This in turn meant that the Flying Hive Tyrant is stuck with only one real pair of arms to equip as you saw fit (i.e Lash Whip & Bone Sword, Barbed Strangler or Venom Cannon if the box could decide).
However, not to be let down, I brought out my box of Tyranid bitz and started working, and from a pair of Carnifex Deathspitters (that won’t be missed since they suck compared to the MC version of Devourers) and four Termagaunt Devourers, created my own pair of Twin-Linked Devourers.
Victory
The local gaming club had a 1065pts tournament today. At first it they expected around 30-35 participants. But after a lot of last minute dropouts, we ended up with 18 participants.
The tournament was three rounds with a swiz-system for who met who (random first round and then 1st met 2nd, 3rd met 4th and so on). I took my Tyranids to this tournament.
The first round I met a Eldar/Dark Eldar army. After some bad target priority choices from him I won 13-3.
The second round I met a Khorne/Tzeentch Daemon army, played by a young perhaps less experienced player. Some bad saves on his side left him with only a Flamer with one wound left after 6 rounds. The game ended 11-5 for me (had I killed the Flamer it would’ve been 16-0).
The 3rd round was against an Ork-player with a Dakka-jet and bikers led by Wazdakka. Hive Guards and Enfeeble showed them where the table stood and after 5 rounds I had wiped the Orks from the table AND claimed all 5 objectives. The game ended 16-0.
So after 3 games I ended up with 40 Tournament Points and wound up winning the tournament. 2nd place got 39 points, so I’m quite happy with it.
The army I brought was:
Tyranid Prime
2x2 Hive Guards
2x13 Termagaunts
2x Tervigons (with Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs and 3 powers - all rolled on Biomancy)
3x Warriors (with Deathspitters)
Trygon
Honestly though… In all 3 games the Trygon only managed to kill 1 Venom and 4 Orks. The Tervigons outdid themselves though, always ending up with either Enfeeble, Iron Arm or Endurance as well as at least one other useful Power. I’m starting to like Biomancy more and more as a substitute for the Codex Powers, but you really need 3+ rolls to be certain to roll something useful. Doubt I’ll be 100% certain to use Biomancy on a Hive Tyrant, and especially not on a Broodlord.
So all in all, a fun sunday morning/afternoon. Sadly no pictures, was all too occupied playing/having fun.
Day 1 Recap
And here I am, back from the fields of battle. Three fun games spread over one full day of gaming goodness.
So far I’ve had one major loss, one draw and one major victory.
The loss was against a Sisters of Battle Army. Wasn’t much I could do against it. The draw on the other hand was against a Space Wolf Army with IG allies (vendettas and Marbo). I thought I had the game but slow play combined with an outstanding last turn (I failed more or less all my saves and he hit with more or less everything) brought the game to a draw.
The last game was against an Eldar Army with alot of Swooping Hawks (with Baharoth) and Eldrad with alot of pathfinders and dire avengers. Ended with him almost completely wiped from the table. He barely got his 2 killpoints from my army.
Sorry for the lack of pictures. Somehow my phone didn’t want to acknowledge me taking the pictures - and thus never did save them. Argh!
Yet another week has passed - and with it we’re one week closer to Fantasia Fanatic. This week I’ve managed to finish 7 out of the 26 Termagaunts, with another 6 almost done (need only highlight the carapace). I estimate I’ll start with the other 13 ‘gaunts on tuesday or wednesday, so chances are high that I’ll finish the whole lot before the tournament. 66 gaunts are alot better than 40 when you aim to field 2 Tervigons.
2nd Game of this Weekend between me and Delhien. Was a close-fought game. In the end - after 7 turns, I won by a slight marigin (it ended 13-7 overall, according to the Fantasia Fanatic Scenario we were playing).
This picture is of the Deathwing Terminator proudly holding the Standard of the Deathwing - as well as fending of two rampaging Carnifexes in his last stand. That actually did turn out not to be his final moments as he refused to lie down and actually (with some help from another Deathwing squad) felled the two beasts. Sadly it was too little too late.
On nom nom! The final stand for Delhien’s army. Sergeant Sebastian challanged one of my Tervigons - and met a heroic death. Was a fun game, although bad luck on his part, and good luck on mine, saw Delhien tabled at the end of turn 5.
