Post by Nick P on Feb 20, 2018 11:45:08 GMT -6
In addition to the 40k team tournament with Daniel, Kyle, and CJ - I'm also doing the 40k Friendly on Friday and the 40k Gentlemens GT on Thursday.
The 40k Friendly is 1500 points, no LOW, single detachment. The Gentlemen GT is 100 PL, single detachment, LOW allowed, and you have to bring a sideboard (of any size) that you can swap in and out to make sure you don't have any games where one side just completely hard counters the other.
I'm torn between Tyranids, Dark Eldar, and Necrons (since those are the armies that I have painted). So, I've made a 1500 point Battalion list with each faction, and then noted what I would add to it to bring it to 100PL for the GT, so you can vote on which one would be most fun to play with OR against OR both.
Tyranids - <Kraken> Battalion
Hive tyrant - wings, devourers, monstrous rending claws, adrenal gland, warlord, chameleonic mutation, Alien Cunning, Catalyst, Onslaught, Smite
Neurothrope - smite, psychic scream
19 Genestealers, 4 acid maws
25 hormagaunts, adrenal glands
3x ripper swarms
3x Hive guard - impaler cannons
3x zoanthropes - dominion, smite
Exocrine
Trygon - adrenal glands
Trygon - adrenal glands
Total - 1496 points, 84PL
To bring it up to 100 PL - add another zoanthrope (bringing them to 4 for the bonus), make the genestealer and hormagaunt units 20 and 30, add another flyrant with same setup as the first and a second unit of rippers. Brings it to 100 PL on the nose. For my sideboard, I'll bring a broodlord instead of the neurothrope and big swarm of termagants, and probably swap out the tyrant for a tervigon, to give me a smaller warlord footprint and give myself more options for board control against any army that has a huge emphasis on deep strikers, and drop the trygons and rippers to do it.
Necrons - Battalion
Cryptek - staff of light
Destroyer Lord - phylactery, veil of darkness, warlord, legendary fighter, warscythe
Lord - resurrection orb, warscythe
5 Immortals - tesla
5 Immortals - tesla
19 Warriors
5 triarch praetorians - rod of covenant
3 Destroyers
3 Destroyers
Ghost Ark
Total -1494 points, 73 PL
To bring it to 100 PL - go to 20 warriors, make the Lord an Overlord, add in another unit of 3 destroyers, a triarch stalker, and an anhiliation barge. Sidebar would be to swap out some of the destroyers for 6 wraiths, and drop the triarch stalker in favor of a second ghost ark, and split the blob of warriors into 2 units of 10 so they can hitch a ride.
Dark Eldar - Battalion
Archon - blaster
Succubus - archite glaive, parasites kiss, warlord, blood dancer, serpentin (+1WS)
5 kabbalites
5 kabbalites
9 wyches - adrenalight (+1 attack)
5 trueborn - 4 blasters
7 trueborn - 4 blasters, 2 dark lance
Ravager - 3 dark lance
Ravager - 3 dark lance
razorwing - 2 dark lance, splinter cannon
2 raiders - dark lance
2 venoms - 2x splinter cannons
Total - 1494 points, 77 PL
To bring this to 100 PL, I'd bump one of the 5-man kab squads up to 20, add in 6 reavers, add in a voidraven, and reduce the 7 man trueborn squad to a 5 man squad. For the sideboard, I'd look at adding in more small units for board control - dropping the flyers, adding in more venoms, and swapping the 20-man squad into multiple 5 man squads to take advantage of the transports. Possibly looking at swapping out a ravager for a big unit of hellions to give some more speed and more durability as well.
The 40k Friendly is 1500 points, no LOW, single detachment. The Gentlemen GT is 100 PL, single detachment, LOW allowed, and you have to bring a sideboard (of any size) that you can swap in and out to make sure you don't have any games where one side just completely hard counters the other.
I'm torn between Tyranids, Dark Eldar, and Necrons (since those are the armies that I have painted). So, I've made a 1500 point Battalion list with each faction, and then noted what I would add to it to bring it to 100PL for the GT, so you can vote on which one would be most fun to play with OR against OR both.
Tyranids - <Kraken> Battalion
Hive tyrant - wings, devourers, monstrous rending claws, adrenal gland, warlord, chameleonic mutation, Alien Cunning, Catalyst, Onslaught, Smite
Neurothrope - smite, psychic scream
19 Genestealers, 4 acid maws
25 hormagaunts, adrenal glands
3x ripper swarms
3x Hive guard - impaler cannons
3x zoanthropes - dominion, smite
Exocrine
Trygon - adrenal glands
Trygon - adrenal glands
Total - 1496 points, 84PL
To bring it up to 100 PL - add another zoanthrope (bringing them to 4 for the bonus), make the genestealer and hormagaunt units 20 and 30, add another flyrant with same setup as the first and a second unit of rippers. Brings it to 100 PL on the nose. For my sideboard, I'll bring a broodlord instead of the neurothrope and big swarm of termagants, and probably swap out the tyrant for a tervigon, to give me a smaller warlord footprint and give myself more options for board control against any army that has a huge emphasis on deep strikers, and drop the trygons and rippers to do it.
Necrons - Battalion
Cryptek - staff of light
Destroyer Lord - phylactery, veil of darkness, warlord, legendary fighter, warscythe
Lord - resurrection orb, warscythe
5 Immortals - tesla
5 Immortals - tesla
19 Warriors
5 triarch praetorians - rod of covenant
3 Destroyers
3 Destroyers
Ghost Ark
Total -1494 points, 73 PL
To bring it to 100 PL - go to 20 warriors, make the Lord an Overlord, add in another unit of 3 destroyers, a triarch stalker, and an anhiliation barge. Sidebar would be to swap out some of the destroyers for 6 wraiths, and drop the triarch stalker in favor of a second ghost ark, and split the blob of warriors into 2 units of 10 so they can hitch a ride.
Dark Eldar - Battalion
Archon - blaster
Succubus - archite glaive, parasites kiss, warlord, blood dancer, serpentin (+1WS)
5 kabbalites
5 kabbalites
9 wyches - adrenalight (+1 attack)
5 trueborn - 4 blasters
7 trueborn - 4 blasters, 2 dark lance
Ravager - 3 dark lance
Ravager - 3 dark lance
razorwing - 2 dark lance, splinter cannon
2 raiders - dark lance
2 venoms - 2x splinter cannons
Total - 1494 points, 77 PL
To bring this to 100 PL, I'd bump one of the 5-man kab squads up to 20, add in 6 reavers, add in a voidraven, and reduce the 7 man trueborn squad to a 5 man squad. For the sideboard, I'd look at adding in more small units for board control - dropping the flyers, adding in more venoms, and swapping the 20-man squad into multiple 5 man squads to take advantage of the transports. Possibly looking at swapping out a ravager for a big unit of hellions to give some more speed and more durability as well.
