The second battle over the weekend was vs Tyranids!

Similar to last game with 1500 points, except we played a mission where you drew an objective card for each objective point you control at the start of your turn.

My list was the same as vs the orks.

Tyranids had:

Hive Tyrant, with Tyrant guard (ones that take the damage on a 2+)

Trygon, Toxicrene, Exocrene (some artillery monster), 3 Zoanthropes, 3 Warriors, Brood lord , about 10 genestealers, some Termagants, and Hormagaunts.

My first turn was uneventful, I pushed forwards and stayed out of view of his shooty guy, and popped smoke, one Rhino on the left, and two on the right with the Daemon Prince. Tyranids then advanced forwards to meet me.

My Rhino charged his Toxicrene which obviously didn’t do too much except hold it up. The Terminators and Lord saw the opportunity and dropped behind his Hive Tyrant and opened with some over charged plasma, losing 1, but nearly killing all the guard and wounding the warlord, a worthy sacrifice.

The Genestealers charged my Rhino but their tiny claws couldn’t puncture the thick blood soaked armour. The Trygon appeared behind my Daemon Prince with a squad of Termagants. The Hive Tyrant advanced on my Terminators, and the Zoanthropes, Exocrene and anything with a gun shot there gloopy posion shots, leaving the Lord and 1 remaining, they charged, and with an interrupt the Lord smashed the last guard and injured the Tyrant a little. The Toxicrene popped the Rhino with his shooting to get to the tasty Beserkers inside. The Termagants then shot the Beserkers killing a few. The Trygon failed his charge, and the Toxicrene ate some Beserkers, it was like watching some bad anime with all the tentacles…

World Eaters turn 3! The three remaining Beserkers charged the Brood Lord but died from a interrupted session . The Beserkers jumped out of the Genestealers ridden Rhino and ran around for the charge, wiping them out. They consolidated into the Brood lord and killed him with the second phase, we asked about the rules but i am still not sure if this was correct. The Beserkers on the left jumped out of the Rhino and hit the Termagants and Trygon from behind. Their Rhino charged the artillery and tied it up. The Daemon Prince charged the Trygon and slaughtered it in one turn, adding his first notch on his Slaughterborn belt, the Beserkers turned the Termagants into a red mist.

The Hive Tyrant cleaned up the Lord after reading the correct bone sword stats (monstrous instead of normal), the Toxicrene killed a few Beserkers. The Hormagaunts advanced on them but their tiny claws were no match for the gore covered armour.

The Daemon Prince came through and diced up the Toxicrene, a second notch. The Beserkers cleaned up the Hormagaunts, and the other Beserkers advanced and killed the warriors.

The Tyranids avenged the warriors by disintegrating the Beserkers, but were trailing on points. They killed the Rhino finally, and shot the Daemon Prince down to 1 wound.

The Daemon Prince made a surprise charge (around the corner) to avoid over watch and mutilated the Exocrene, he was on a 3 stacked Slaughter born trait now.

The hive tyrants and Zoanthropes killed him off, and that’s where the game ended.

Victory for Khorne. I held a few objectives while pinning him in his deployment. One or two more turns would have tabled me. Fun game, and I learnt lots of about Tyranids.

*Dramatisation*