Endless Stinger Swarm (2500pt List)

Nick speaking,

I am sure you may remember me posting about The 3k Game I had with my buddy Aceface. It was an epic game with my Necrons taking on his Hive Fleet. We rolled the Relic, which I grabbed with my Wraiths turn one and held on for dear life until the game ended. I got a win, but was probably quite lucky with the mission, if you consider all the nastiness that he had on the table!

Since then, Aceface has been working on a new Tau army, and not only does it look fantastic, he is having a lot of success with his list on the table. Check out the link here if you want to find out more on that. Of course, I am writing this post to let you know that we have another game scheduled, and although I don't know for sure, I am suspecting the Tau to make an appearance. The only things I do know, is that we will play 2500 points and will have a go at the Maelstrom missions.

Ace has seen both my Eldar and Necrons in action, so I suppose it's about time I got out my Nids for him to see. Going up against a very experienced Nid player with my Nids, as he commands a very Strong Tau army doesn't sound too promising to me, so I need to come up with something different to counter both of these disadvantages!

I already know the way Ace likes to play, lots of big nasty units and guns, and that is how he plays his Nids. I have played a few Nidzilla games recently myself, but this time I am going all out swarm. I figure I am not going to win a shooting match against his three Riptides and other nasty guns, so why bother to compete there? Oh no, I am thinking flood the board with as many little bugs as I can and see how he copes!

As we are playing a Maelstrom mission, that will help me too, lots and lots of units to grab points at the start of the game, and from then on to just stay alive until the game ends. Minimum unit sizes will make him waste a lot of his over powered guns on killing just five bugs, so hopefully I will have a chance to survive. I can't go without my three Mawlocs, my favourite Nid unit in both looks and fun, plus they will help add a little distraction as the Swarm advances!

Using the Endless Swarm formation to boost my numbers as I die, this is the final list for the game. It's going to be very interesting and a lot of fun, even if Ace doesn't bring his Tau...


Endless Swarm 2500k

Primary Detachment (1330pts)

HQ
1 x Death Leaper (130)

TROOPS
3 x Warriors/Barbed Strangler (100)
3 x Warriors/Barbed Strangler (100)
5 x Genestealers (70)
5 x Genestealers (70)
5 x Genestealers (70)
5 x Genestealers (70)

ELITES
1x Venomthropes (45)
1x Venomthropes (45)

FAST
3 x Shrike Brood (90)
10x Gargoyles (60)
10x Gargoyles (60)

HEAVY
1x Mawloc (140)
1x Mawloc (140)
1x Mawloc (140)

Secondary Detachment (710pts)

HQ
1 x Tyranid Prime/Whip/Boneswords (140)

TROOPS
5 x Genestealers (70)
5 x Genestealers (70)
5 x Genestealers (70)
5 x Genestealers (70)
5 x Genestealers (70)
5 x Genestealers (70)

ELITES
1x Zoanthropes (50)
1x Zoanthropes (50)
1x Zoanthropes (50)

Endless Swarm Formation (460pts)

3 x Warriors/Barbed Strangler (100)
10 x Hormagaunts/Toxin sacs (80)
10 x Hormagaunts/Toxin sacs (80)
10 x Hormagaunts/Toxin sacs (80)
10 x Termagants (40)
10 x Termagants (40)
10 x Termagants (40)

2500 points


Battle report to follow soon...

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Endless Swarm Battle Report

Nick speaking,

Here is my very first outing with my no Monstrous Creature Endless Swarm list. What a lot of fun this list was to play, although I have to say, it was a bit back breaking with over one hundred and fifty models to push around the table!

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Endless Swarm with No Monstrous Creatures!

Nick speaking,

It's always fun to have a bit of a change and maybe even a bit of a challenge, and after many games of 40k with my Hive Fleet packed out with Mawlocs, Flyrants, Fexes and Pods, I thought I would have a go at an army with no Monstrous Creatures in it!

So, with no Monstrous Creatures taking up my points, I figured I am going to have a lot of little bugs on the table, which instantly points me in the direction of the Endless Swarm Formation. I haven't really been using formations, but this one seems to be pretty good following on the heals of Skyblight.

The formation consists of three units of Gants, three units of Gaunts and a Warrior Brood, and all these units have a chance to come back onto the board once killed with a fifty percent chance, sounds pretty good to me.

Now I am in no way going for a competitive list, with the whole idea of the army being to have some fun. I know that I could shave a few points off here and there, like dropping a few Devourers out for Flesh Borers on the Devilgants, but overall I like the list I have come up with. The Stealers will infiltrate and everything else will push forward from the outset. There's not too much antitank in there, but there is plenty of Synapse. I am really looking forward to getting this Swarm on the table, as it seems like it is going to be a lot of fun to play, but please let me know your thoughts. Battle report to follow...

HQ
1 x Tyranid Prime/Whip/Boneswords (140)

TROOPS
3 x Warriors/Barbed Strangler (100)
3 x Warriors/Barbed Strangler (100)
9 x Genestealers (126)
9 x Genestealers (126)

FAST
4 x Shrike Brood (140)
4 x Shrike Brood (140)
16 x Gargoyles (96)

ELITES
3x Zoanthropes (150)

FORMATION (Endless Swarm)
3 x Warriors/Barbed Strangler (100)
20 x Hormagaunts/Adrenal glands/Toxin sacs (200)
10 x Hormagaunts (50)
10 x Hormagaunts (50)
20 x Termagants/Devourer (160)
20 x Termagants/Devourer (160)
20 x Termagants/Devourer (160)

1998 points

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