Eric-Chern and I had a game yesterday (17 Aug 04) at Hobby Monkey in Rocklin, CA: 3,000pts Nids vs. SMs...
It was nearly an identical game to the one that Chuck and I played... the Nids did a pretty darn good job of stomping the SMs with a Dominatrix-led super Gaunt horde.
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Eric brought the following SM units to the field:
- x1 Tactical Squad with commander
- x1 Devastator Squad with Razorbacks
- x2 WW detatchments
- x1 WW detatchment with a Hunter upgrade
- x4 Landspeeder detatchments, each totally upgraded to Tornados with a Librarian each (to beef up CC)...
It was a relief to finally not face Eric's maximized Termie list!
I, the Nid player, brought:
- Dominatric-led Gaunt Horde
(I think it had 57 stands of Gaunts!... x4 Zoanthropes and x2
Ravagers)
- Hive Tyrant-led Gargoyle Horde
(It had x2 Zoanthropes and the x3 Tyranid Warriors as well as about 23 stands of Gargoyles)
- Hierophant Bio-titan
- x3 Genestealer independants (to hold objectives)
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After two turns, the Nids had lost a lot of stands, but weren't
hurting too bad despite the Hive Tyrant Horde taking a real pasting.
After two turns, the SMs learned respect for Nid Hordes: they lost the Devastator detatchment and two or three Landspeeder detatchments.
At the end of turn two, the Nids were in place to pulverize the
remaining SM detatchments and Eric and I called it a game. Eric and the SMs fully had one objective and had one contested objective.
Maksim fully had four objectives and contested one additional
objective.
Eric and I came to the conclusion that the Nid list could use some MORE playtesting... LOL
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Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
