Nothing Is Over!

June already? Time to start gearing up for NOVA and figuring out how Jawaballs, TheStoutSmurf and I are going to bring the pain for the team tournament on Friday night. If you were thinking about pressing the button for NOVA-DO IT! There are still a few slots left (not many tho) from what I hear and it would be awesome to face some fellow bloggers and readers in the 40K community on the table.

That said if you are going to NOVA you are banned from reading this post and all future NOVA posts as I share my ultra secret strategies…

Just kidding, but I will be talking shop and plans over the next few weeks.

So what are we going to do for the team games? Since the three of us are not total JERKS we are not just running a 2K army and cutting it in half painted different colors AKA Blood Angels & Flesh Tearers. Three different armies working together leveraging the best that they do while minimizing the worst by relaying on the other armies.

Question is this:

A- What do Tyranids do best?

B- What do Blood Angels do best?

C- What do Ultramarines (codex marines) do best?

Each wing has to exist at 1K points both on their own for the singles games and as a unit for the 2K games.

Jawaballs wants me to play a “real army” and bring Grey Knights and drop the Space Bugs, but I think in the right combo at 1K points backed by power armor we can do some real damage- which brings me to my current place with Tyranids.

Remember the movie Rambo at the end after he has blown up the town and Col. Trautman tells John that it is over, and he replies that “NOTHING is over!”

We’ll that is where I am at with Space Bugs. One a$$ beating to a spam Grey Knight army is not going to be the end of the bugs. List changes will apply, as is my tactics.

I’m going to have to become more of a sneaky player as opposed to in your face with bugs…some times. Vs. those armies that crush me thanks to massively imbalanced GW rules and not “tactics” I will play for the draw and bonus points. I will make you earn every stupid little bug kill, dig in, go down hard, scorched earth and all that…

And that not to say I won’t bring Grey Knights to the team tourney since that is really a vote between my other team mates, but for the main NOVA event it is going to be Tyranids. But for now let’s focus on the possibilities of Tyranids teaming up with the Blood Angels.

What lists would you guys put together?

My thoughts?

So far I’ve been playing around with a full attack type list where the full might of the Tyranids runs forward with the Blood Angels. Nothing holds back to get objectives or table quarters, etc. I plan to spawn gaunts to do that- never pay for troop choices when you can get them for free.

I’ve also been looking heavily into y-stealers to combine them with Mepheston, Dante, and descent of angels. Imagine Jawaballs going back to his BA roots of all assault marines…