Brothers in
Arms 2012 is my first team tourney as well as my first tourney outside my
native country – Belarus. I’m glad that my friends pulled me out to the event
and I’m delighted to play in the “Minsk & Co” team. Actually I have
affected the team result not only in good way, nevertheless I tried to play at
the very high level and succeed at the task.
Lets look
at my expectations before the tourney and the outcome. My army was planned to
be an attacker for different “platoon behind the Aegis” armies with minimum of
mech. In every round of pairings I had a couple of good targets for attack and
I think it wasn’t hard for captain to pick a good pairing for me. I think that
I hit the meta very well, cause that was a usual situation, when I successfully
attacked the very first enemy defender. As a result I think that it’s wise not
to change the army “style”, nevertheless some tuning is still possible.
Lets make a
unit by unit analysis:
My MVP
units. They are awesome until… until you face a dicedown. Of cource you need
the second tyrant to counter some bad dices – one tyrant is the choice for
luckers:) In first game this guys ate tons of shooting and wiped almost all the
enemy scoring-threatening units, including Storm Raven and brought me a solid
victory! In the second game (with Daemons) they managed to rapidly change the
target from my deployment zone to my opponents and brought me the second
victory! In the third game they were hot on saves and tests and managed to
single-handy punish the mech-IG! In the last game I faced a rock solid dice
down and lost tyrants as easy as if they were gaunts.
What to
change with this guys? Maybe it is point-wise to drop one Old Adversary and add
up regeneration, which costs only 20 pts per model.
Grade: A-
The Doom of
Malan’thai
A powerful
and completely broken unit… but only on paper. In practice it did nothing
valuable throughout 4 games! On the other hand, it is 2 easy KP’s with spore.
So I cannot give him a good mark.
Grade: C
Tervigons
These
monsters win us all objective games (5 of 6 scenarios, he-he). With a new Feel
No Pain rules it was right decision to keep 1 tervigon with Catalyst only,
while 2 others take 3 powers each for swapping where necessary. I felt no need
in additional gants on the table, so I’m pretty satisfied with 3 brood of gants
in spores as a tervigons unlocker.
As an
option, I see that in most cases 2 tervigons can do almost the same as 3 tervigons.
So if I find myself in need to add another unit in army, I can drop one terv
with ease.
Grade: A
Gants with
devourers in spores
They
knocked the opponent down in the first game, they cleaned up my deployment in
the second game (with Daemons), they managed to distract a plasma tank in the
third game, where they found no valid targets. In the last game they were the
single units to do some damage to the enemy. They also synergize well with
flyrants, so they are somewhat a no-brainer tervigon unlocker for me.
Grade: A
Transport
spores
Mycetic
spores are a unit by themselves. They give cover for tyrants, block LOS.
Deathspitters upgrade gave me 12 additional TL shots S5 per turn that was quite
effective (especially against Daemons, where they managed to take the last HP
off the SoulGrinder!!!). I personally feel that it is better to take
deathspitters rather than 1 more gant with devourer. On the other hand, they
are not necessary if you need to save some points. If in future we’ll receive
the ability to disembark 6” from the spore my grade will be A+ definitely, but
as we have our own codex rules…
Grade: B
All grades
are done. It is obvios that I have some ideas on list tuning. As one can see, I’m
not satisfied with Doom showings and if I drop him together with his spore I
will increase the average Grade of my Army:) Minus 2 easy KP’s and plus 140
points! If I strip OA from one tyrant, I end up with a total of 165 points to
play with.
After I
examined every unit in the codex I decided that the most game-changing unit I
could have on the tourney is Biovore Brood! Let’s see:
Game
1: Biovores vs a warbands?
Cool! No more dense deployment
around Coteaz!
Game 3:
Reserve the biovores to take care of the enemy troops on the far away
objectives! A great help for tyrants!
Game 4. I
had no instrument to bring down some guardsmen hidden behind the chimeras wreckage
on the enemy objective! Biovores are extremely good at this task.
Game 5. I
feel like biovores could bring me the victory in that game.
As I can
see, for a mere price of 135 points, biovores match my army design and makes it
more aggressive and diverse.
What to
take for the points left? I think about regeneration for tyrants. They are my
MVP’s. As long as they control the sky, I win the game. So I want to prolong their lifes:)
Here are
the resulting army list:
HQ 1: Hive
Tyrant (170), Wings (60), TL Devourers x2 (30), Hive commander (25), Regenerate
(20) = 305 Pts
HQ 2: Hive
Tyrant (170), Wings (60), TL Devourers x2 (30), Old Adversary (25), Regenerate
(20) = 305 Pts
Troops 1:
13x Termagants (65), Devourers (65) in Transport 1 = 130 Pts
Troops 2:
13x Termagants (65), Devourers (65) in Transport 2 = 130 Pts
Troops 3: 10x
Termagants (50), Devourers (50) in Transport 3 = 100 Pts
Troops 4:
Tervigon (160), Toxin sacks (10), Adrenal glands (10), Catalyst (15) = 195 Pts
Troops 5:
Tervigon (160), Toxin sacks (10), Catalyst (15), Onslaught (15) = 200 Pts
Troops 6:
Tervigon (160), Toxin sacks (10), Catalyst (15), Onslaught (15) = 200 Pts
HS 1: 3x
Biovore (135) = 135 pts.
Transport
1: Mycetic spore (40), Twin-Deathpitter (10) = 50 Pts
Transport
2: Mycetic spore (40), Twin-Deathpitter (10) = 50 Pts
Transport
3: Mycetic spore (40), Twin-Deathpitter (10) = 50 Pts
TOTAL: 1850
pts.
I have 2
less easy KP’s here as well as I have a scary anti-infantry blasts that force
opponent to deploy in anti-blast fashion that let me utilize my favorite “refused
flank” strategy with my gants!
I also
improved the survivability of my flyrants a bit. One flyrant wound costs more than
70 points, so if regeneration on both tyrants will work only once per game it
will pay for its points twice!
Is this army optimal?
Of cource, not. It’s just one of the variants I see today. As I said before, I can drop
one tervigon for something more specific, like Ymgarls for anti-tank, or even
tyrranofex with Acid spray. In either way, I’m going to investigate the reserve
tyranid builds further.
Вот такой лист:
ReplyDeleteHQ 1: Hive Tyrant (170), Wings (60), TL Devourers x2 (30), Hive commander (25), Regenerate (20) = 305 Pts
HQ 2: Hive Tyrant (170), Wings (60), TL Devourers x2 (30), Old Adversary (25), Regenerate (20) = 305 Pts
Troops 1: 13x Termagants (65), Devourers (65) in Transport 1 = 130 Pts
Troops 2: 13x Termagants (65), Devourers (65) in Transport 2 = 130 Pts
Troops 3: 10x Termagants (50), Devourers (50) in Transport 3 = 100 Pts
Troops 4: Tervigon (160), Toxin sacks (10), Adrenal glands (10), Catalyst (15) = 195 Pts
Troops 5: Tervigon (160), Toxin sacks (10), Catalyst (15), Onslaught (15) = 200 Pts
Troops 6: Tervigon (160), Toxin sacks (10), Catalyst (15), Onslaught (15) = 200 Pts
HS 1: 3x Biovore (135) = 135 pts.
Transport 1: Mycetic spore (40), Twin-Deathpitter (10) = 50 Pts
Transport 2: Mycetic spore (40), Twin-Deathpitter (10) = 50 Pts
Transport 3: Mycetic spore (40), Twin-Deathpitter (10) = 50 Pts
TOTAL: 1850 pts.
мне упрямо говорят что я не могу взять 2 пары деворуров(говоря что нельзя брать одинаковые улучшения) на тирана, есть ли на счет этого какие либо правила?
Tyrant has 2 pairs of Arms. 2 sets of weapons, each can be changed for TL Devourers. Just read the codex:)
ReplyDeletenice reports. thank you.
ReplyDeletethe doom is kind of a gamble. but its cheap for the "gamble" and can be devastating against some opponents. and against others its not that expensiv.
but thats only my point of view
I have some points not to take Doom:
ReplyDelete1. I have a lot of distraction in my army besides Doom.
2. After my alfa-strike I have a lot of targets for small arms fire – it’s not effective to shoot plasma-melta at gants as well as not optimal against swooping flyrant. On the other hand, it’s awesome against Doom – so, Doom makes target priority easier for my opponent.
The only thing I like about Doom – opponent spend some shooting to take care of it before starting with tyrants. It’s the only point I can find.