My Terminators have teleported onto the top floor of a ruin. Only one Teragant survives but, on the whole, things seem to be going OK. My gun line blazes away and Typhus and some Poxwalkers get engaged in melee. On my turn I reorganise my defences and hold the objective in my own deployment zone again. On my right flank theyвЂ™re chewing away at my Poxwalkers but thankfully not hurting my gun line. They kill the Daemon Prince, my Warlord, on my left flank but only have a few Termagants to hold the objective there. The turn ends with both of us holding one objective each, no points to either side. I was trying to gun down as many Termagants as possible to stop the Tyranids being able to hold objectives but I couldnвЂ™t get get enough of the things. The Prince and one Crawler pushed up on my left flank while one Crawler hung back to help deal with the incoming horde and make sure that I wasnвЂ™t knocked off of an objective. I had enough Poxwalkers to secure both and should have done so. Really not sure why I did this, I just lost focus. I think that maybe I panicked and wanted to secure Objective 5. I made a bad decision in my first turn and abandoned the objective in my deployment zone. But it was pretty ineffective and the Tyranids did not get First Strike. There was an awful lot of fire, which is the way with Termagants. The Swarmlord was initially very brave, but something went wrong and his expected support didnвЂ™t move up quickly enough so he ran away behind the horde following him. Another blob on my right flank began to move towards the empty objective near my deployment zone. One Termagant blob moved to my left flank to try and seize an unoccupied objective, they didnвЂ™t quite reach it. The Prince and the two Plagueburst Crawlers would try and smash the Tyranids off of one of theirs and went as far forward as they could. 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. ItвЂ™s important to not that only Troops can hold objectives in this mission. Four objectives on the board, at the end of each turn youвЂ™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 вЂњraceвЂќ forwards with the Prince if that wasnвЂ™t going to be an issue.ДЇinally I went for Terminators again, IвЂ™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 arenвЂ™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 IвЂ™ve played in my last few games. So up until now IвЂ™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. IвЂ™ve gamed against the Tyranids a few times but they were played by a younger game who was picking up the game.

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