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Saturday, July 21, 2012

High Lords of Terra - Tyranids Day 1 Wrap-up

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Ya, a 5th ed tournament. No one cares right? Well it's not even my last! Still have ATC in a MONTH grrr. Anyway, thought I'd whip out the Tyranids for one final hurrah and laugh at the people I beat :P. It was a comp tourney as well but I imagine I'll get a shitty comp score not befitting the state of Tyranids. I also got to use one of the massive new T-Fex/Tervigon models. Massive. Bigger than most vehicles. He looks cute though! Needs more ink...

Anyway, so game versus Blood Hammer Blood Angels, Triple Raider + TH/SS Space Marines and Draigowing Grey Knights. Won handily Game 1, sorry Jason!, close Game 2 where I had Rohnan's movement screwed pretty nicely but he broke out and Tyranids don't stand up to 15 TH/SS well, close game despite the final score depicting otherwise and Game 3 versus the annoying Draigowing with a secondary pull-out. Still wish I had had 10 vehicles *tank shocks off table*. Shame that won't be as viable in 6th!

Vincey did well with Orks for once going 3-0 with max battle points. Maybe he can win something :P. I'm sitting on 35 so we'll see what Day 2 brings!

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Kirby 118p · 663 weeks ago

Oh and Puppy is working on some Nids for 6th ed stuff... should be up soon.

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phalanxlord 61p · 663 weeks ago

Good to hear. I like reading stuff on nids.

I really get the impression that nids are still one of the most popular armies in the game, even after 5th ed and the Cruddace book. It sort of makes me wonder what the current list of army popularity is. It wouldn't surprise me if nids was 3rd or 4th after marines, orks, and maybe IG.

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abusepuppy 121p · 663 weeks ago

In my experience, I would rank them roughly like so currently (for number of players that use them as a "primary" army):

Space Marines
Grey Knights
Imperial Guard/Space Wolves
Orks
Necrons
Tyranids
Blood Angels
Dark Eldar
Eldar
Chaos Space Marines
Dark Angels
Tau/Black Templars
Chaos Daemons
Sisters of Battle

Of course, that's purely my rough experience and nothing like an actual statistical survey, but I don't think it's too far off.

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whitestar333 61p · 663 weeks ago

I still think Tau are better than people give them credit for. I think Tau might even be better than Nids at this point. The changes to rapid fire, vehicle survivability and the addition of overwatch, random charges, and allies help them out a ton.

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Karvala · 663 weeks ago

he was ranking them on popularity, not how good they are

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phalanxlord 61p · 663 weeks ago

Pretty much every lower end army got better in 6th. Even SoB are a lot better now, especially since they can have allies to help with some of their weaknesses (lack of close combat without a confessor, no psychic defense, lack of ranged anti-tank firepower).

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RJSuperfreaky · 663 weeks ago

No army with access to Exorcists can be said to have a lack of ranged anti-tank firepower. Those are too awesome to ignore.

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Archnomad · 663 weeks ago

No, they're not.

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phalanxlord 61p · 663 weeks ago

I think playing a sister's army would quickly change your mind. Rolling low numbers for the exorcists is pretty harsh. They can work well if you roll high, but it's the fact that their number of shots is random that really hurts their reliability. I've found that adding a 5-missile unit of long fangs and a 4 HB retributor unit has helped me army a lot (the rending heavy bolters more so than the missiles, believe it or not, as my long fangs average 1 wound a round against marines before cover saves).

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Jasonc · 663 weeks ago

That is close to about what we have here I think.. though a lot of people have armies like Eldar that they don't regularly pull out (that I know from tournaments a few years ago).

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akaiyou · 663 weeks ago

perhaps someone SHOULD do a survey

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mr_darkness 29p · 663 weeks ago

I agree that a suevey would be cool, thoughI feel that some peole (like me) would have a problem, as we play multiple armies in equal amounts. I play Necrons, GK, Orks and BA regularly, so which one do I put down?