My melee horde hung back a bit and would be securing the objective in my deployment zone and the one close to it. I certainly had that as my plan, taking three objectives, but I broke my army in two as I was hoping that my longer ranged shooting would help me. I thought that they would be going for three objectives with a blob chasing each. The army broke down into three main blobs of Termagants each one backed by bigger bugs and HQs. So this was going to be a army that would move quickly and not be afraid of getting into melee. The Tyranids deployed first, it was a shooty army yet from Hive Fleet Kraken who can advance quicker (3d6 and pick the highest when advancing) and charge after withdrawing. The deployment map would be Search and Destroy with the two enemies in opposite quarters of the battlefield. There would also be an additional 1VP a round available for the player who killed the most enemy units. It’s important to not that only Troops can hold objectives in this mission. Four objectives on the board, at the end of each turn you’d win 1VP for holding more than your opponent or 3VP for holding all of them. We rolled the Four Pillars Eternal War mission from Chapter Approved 2018. The Spawn would also help me to control some of the table and try to block deep strikes, which the Tyranids can be very good at. Two Foul Blightspawns could hang about the gun line waiting for deep striking big monsters or could “race” forwards with the Prince if that wasn’t going to be an issue.įinally I went for Terminators again, I’ve been having fun with them recently, and a Chaos Spawn that filled the last 25 points in my army. A Chaos Lord would buff them to avoid overcharging explosions and would also lend his support to a Helbrute carrying a missile launcher and twin lascannons.

My gun line started with two seven man Plague Marines squads carrying three Plasma guns each. Knowing that I lack anti-armour I wanted some big sticks on the table. The Crawlers aren’t quite as mobile, but they hit harder, are tougher and when they explode they do more damage.

My fast attack unit took Plagueburst Crawlers instead of Bloat Drones to shave off a few points. They would be my tarpit, objective holders or melee units as appropriate. I stuck with the two large units of Poxwalkers buffed by Typhus.

My list had to be something that could, potentially, take on all comers. Tyranids are very flexible and can be built as pure melee monsters right up to heavy tanky shooters. My list was a slight variation of the Zombie horde I’ve played in my last few games. So up until now I’ve never really faced a serious and dedicated Tyranid player who was out to rip my Death Guard apart and had the tools to do it. I’ve gamed against the Tyranids a few times but they were played by a younger game who was picking up the game.

Tyranids 8th edition tactics