Collecting tyranids in 6th. Part 5 - Hard-Drop

You can stop the hammer with your shield, but don’t try to stop the anvil that falls from the sky!

taken from invulnerable40k.blogspot.com

The other variant of a reserve tyranid army is a monster-drop one. The main idea of the army is to target overload the big guns of your opponent! Edition is mostly anti-infantry? Bolter drill is more popular? We have the answer to your hundreads of bolter shots!  

1850 Pts Hard-Drop Tyranids Army

HQ

Hive Tyrant - Twin Devourer with Brainleech Worms (x2); Wings; Leech Essence; Paroxism; Hive Commander

Hive Tyrant - Twin Devourer with Brainleech Worms (x2); Wings; Leech Essence; Paroxism; Old Adversary

Elites

The Doom of Malan'tai in Mycetic Spore

10 Ymgarl Genestealer Brood

Troops

Tervigon - Stinger Salvo; Adrenal Glands; Toxin Sacs; Catalyst; Onslaught

Tervigon - Stinger Salvo; Adrenal Glands; Toxin Sacs; Catalyst; Onslaught

10 Termagant Brood

10 Termagant Brood

Heavy support

Trygon

Trygon

Unit by unit:

Flyrants. One of them buff reserves and is must have for any reserve army! We need two to deal with flyers and control the table. It’s easy to take them out of low strength shooting range to make low strength shooting useless. They also can take off 1-2 plasma guns from a squad with precise shots, leaving your opponent naked in front of your monsters!

Tervigons. The home scoring and support. They defend themselves with FnP and gaunt countercharge as usual. We need them to buff our monsters with FnP after arriving from reserves, so we need at least 1 Catalyst here. Sometimes, Onslaught is the only way to return flyrant into a shooting range after deep strike mishap, so, it may be useful to keep codex power for one tervigon at least.

Gaunts. Backfield scoring. One squad can be outflanked for forward scoring:) Cheap and effective!

Trygons. The alfa strike of the army. They are a THREAT if deep strike in front of enemy lines. They pull attention off from our scoring units and from tyrants. Try not to place them in front of plasma-heavy squads or the like to prolong their lives :) Nevertheless, they must die every game and take at list twice as many opponent units as they cost themselves :)

The Doom. It is our Joker, which can solo win the game. Change Cataclysm for Psychic shreek if there are not many targets for large blast. Remember that Cataclysm can blow up even a land raider! Also, it pulls out attention of S8+ guns which synergies  well with army theme (big guns target overload!).

Ymgarls. The icing of the cake! The large brood is killy. And they can tie up shooty units with ease. They will die surely, but they must slaughter the main unit that threatens our big boys!

Tactics:

You have a flexible army when it comes to deployment! You can start EVERYTHING except doom on board, rushing forward! Or you can reserve everything except some touch units. You can deploy 2 gant broods behind LOS blocks with flyrants and fly tyrants away from table on turn 1! On turn 2 you’ll have only 2 gant broods behind LOS blocking terrain on table… before your reserves come!!! With possibility to outflank tervigon, you can get everything close to your enemy turn 2! But be cautious, cause your army is slow after you arrive from reserves (except flyrants), so plan accurately the following turns.

Usually you start on the table against close combat armies, or drop armies like Daemons. As option – reserve tyrants against drop armies. If you see runepriest in droppod – reserve tervigons:) Try to bring him down with trygons and tyrants first.

If opponent has flyers, calculate, whether it is convenient for tyrants to arrive after his flyers or not. You ALWAYS can get you tyrants after you opponents turn 2 on board if you want to do so! Remember this!

I hope, you’ve got the idea of the army: you feed your opponent with monsters, doom and Ymgarls, while tiny gribbies control objectives:) It’s overall the main tyranid tactica, but this list utilizes the idea full strength, cause tervigons, tyrants, Doom and Flyrants need attention of the same weapon types to go down. So, it increases the survivability of your tervigons enormously!

Starting army:

1000 Pts Hoppy-Droppy Tyranids Army

HQ

Hive tyrant  - twin-linked devourers with brainleech worms, hive commander, wings

Troops

Tervigon - Stinger Salvo; Adrenal Glands; Toxin Sacs; Catalyst

20 Termagant Brood

Heavy Support

Trygon Prime

Trygon

Two trygons in 1000 pts game? Who cares about scoring tervigon! First, opponent should think about these guys! We have anty-LR, anty-flyer, we even have a large buffed gant brood:) Deploy everything or only gants with tervigon usually. Don’t forget that you have a plenty of options for your deployment, so you can adjust to opponent’s army! For example, you can put 2 trygons with gants on board, outflank the tervigon and deep strike the tyrant against SW drop army with runepriest! Spread gants to force your opponent deploy after deepstrike out of plasma rapid fire range, smile at his attempt to kill your trygon with JotWW and counter charge with everything else arriving from reserve!

Army cost:

To collect this army one will need

(according to http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landingArmy.jsp?catId=cat440179a&rootCatGameStyle=):

53.75$ - Hive Tyrant

57.75$ -Tervigon

115.5$ - Two Trygons

116$ - Four termagant boxes (48 termagants)

Total:  343$

You also will counter a Monstrous devourers problem, as there are no one in a tyrant box! But.. you cane use fleshborer hive from your Tervigon/Tyrranofex box count as TL devourers!

It is mediocre expensive and very beautiful army with great Monsters from highly detailed plastic with no need to do conversions or scratch-building. The army is flexible and easy to play, but not as easy to transport, cause monsters requires a lot of space in army transport!