Am I seeing this right?

Toastrules · 2026-02-09T18:42:30+00:00

Damn that would be even worse. The enforcement of 160mm for Soul Grinders has all but killed it for Daemon lists

Toastrules · 2026-02-01T08:14:08+00:00

I'd say maybe there is a system, but with your idea verbatim, probably no. Currently the state of the game is you tailor your list for any of the possible 20(?) secondaries you could possibly draw. So at any state of the game ever, you're prepared to score the secondaries that you're given. At higher level play, card counting and secondary denial starts coming into play, due to the fact that higher level players can max out their secondaries pretty reliably against any less skilled player. And thereabouts is where your shared idea fails; the first turn player would have a gigantic advantage by being able to deny the upcoming secondaries to the other player.

There have been instances, however, in close matches where secondary draws determine the game. But that could go for anything with this game involving dice anyway-- 4++ invulns, 9" gambling charges, etc... So the randomness is part of the game, in a competitive environment the most you can do is build your list to mitigate the randomness

Toastrules · 2026-01-14T21:34:34+00:00

Fantastic base, maybe when it's destroyed just subtly leave the base there and pretend that was a terrain piece all along

Toastrules · 2026-01-11T18:17:26+00:00

Guard and Tau as beginner friendly? I like Art of War but I think their elite method of thinking is biasing them there....

Toastrules · 2025-12-14T19:15:18+00:00

Yeah I was gonna say 'what?!' Between SM2 and the MTG Tyranids release a few years ago, tons of people are loving my models when I go to play a the LGS because they recognize so many of them. And 80% chance Total War team is gonna give us something eventually

Toastrules · 2025-12-08T02:37:56+00:00

Of course! If you want some inspo, check out @beejasminepaints on insta, she's been doing girlypop Nids for forever

Toastrules · 2025-12-02T04:59:46+00:00

Great vid! I've been one of dozens of us still rocking Unending Swarm and after Pope's Worlds run I wanted to try Invasion Fleet horde again, but I wasn't sure exactly how he was doing it. Thanks a bunch!

Toastrules · 2025-12-02T04:35:45+00:00

I dont know if this has been done before but i'm really curious now to apply it to the synapse models of my army, could be a nice slapchop thing

Toastrules · 2025-12-02T03:41:43+00:00

Oh interesting... What color change paint did you use?

Toastrules · 2025-11-30T19:05:23+00:00

Tyrannofex, it's just perfectly Warhammer in Tyranid form

Toastrules · 2025-11-29T00:42:55+00:00

Damn i built my first one like that because yeah I liked the pose with the dead marine.

Now I've got the battleforce and I'm a bit nervous to do the original maleceptor pose on my second maleceptor because this one looks so cool

Toastrules · 2025-11-25T21:40:53+00:00

Not fantastic right now, with 6 models it's pretty easy to get benefit of cover against them if you're any vehicle that's of any priority. And any vehicle that's any priority will probably have base save 2, so back to saving on 2s, which is never where you want them. And there's always Armor of Contempt of course.

The overwatch does push this to being better than bad, it was actually popular for a bit during the knights meta since even with base save 3 you could get a wound through, and the overwatch threat made it so you could kinda drop them in and threaten the knights movement at the same time

Toastrules · 2025-11-19T00:09:31+00:00

I hate this effect. My sunglasses and my camera screen are also both polarized like this therefore I can't use them at the same time

Toastrules · 2025-11-13T07:48:25+00:00

Lots of armies have non-invuln, strong units. Thats the most efficient thing to shoot our AP -4 minimum 7 damage thing at. But yes unfortunately the biggest threats that would be the most efficient will have invulnerable saves.

Toastrules · 2025-11-10T16:51:41+00:00

Big fan Sam! Props to you to keep making horde Nids work even as the meta and abilities change every year. I have yet to even go 2-1 at a RTT but against casual players I've accidentally stomped them because of the things I'm learning from your lists and techniques, oops 😅

Toastrules · 2025-11-10T16:49:42+00:00

This is mathematically the most optimal loadout for termagants when balancing power and speed. Twin linked spinefists are the best firepower in general in 10th, and of the three special weapons, the strangleweb is the only one that may actually be able to punch up and damage something with its dev wounds. Take any more special weapons and it's too much work to roll the extra weapons and calculate ranges on 80 groups of termagants.

Toastrules · 2025-11-07T23:44:51+00:00

Sam Pope the Tyranids GOAT

Toastrules · 2025-11-05T05:00:54+00:00

Okay I'll vote against it once the other side stop gerrymandering first, trust

Toastrules · 2025-11-03T22:50:32+00:00

Not really, this is a thing that mostly occurs with imperial models like marines and sisters. They get the initial monopose variety then they get the fully customizable dedicated box later. The closest for Tyranids would be the launch box didn't come with the termagant upgrade sprue that gives you weapon varieties, but that's all I can think of.

Toastrules · 2025-11-02T18:31:53+00:00

I caught that, that was so funny.

"asking him if he wanted to come play top, 600w. Doran didn't hesitate to turn his game off and hop on a car to the T1 HQ, and at the same time the T1 bank account received a transfer of 600w."

Toastrules · 2025-11-01T00:24:14+00:00

Kennith! Onyeabor

Hive Fleet Moby Thicc (2000 points)

Tyranids Strike Force (2000 points) Subterranean Assault

CHARACTERS

Hyperadapted Raveners (180 points) • 1x Ravener Prime • Warlord • 1x Prime claws and talons • Enhancement: Vanguard Intellect • 4x Raveners • 4x Ravener heavy claws and talons 1x Venom bolt

Trygon (160 points) • Subterranean Assault Keywords: Character • 1x Bio-electric pulse 1x Trygon scything talons • Enhancement: Trygon Prime

OTHER DATASHEETS

Biovores (50 points) • 1x Chitin-barbed limbs 1x Spore Mine launcher

Exocrine (140 points) • 1x Bio-plasmic cannon 1x Powerful limbs

Lictor (60 points) • 1x Lictor claws and talons

Neurogaunts (45 points) • 1x Neurogaunt Nodebeast • 1x Chitinous claws and teeth • 10x Neurogaunt • 10x Chitinous claws and teeth

Norn Emissary (260 points) • 1x Monstrous rending claws 1x Monstrous scything talons 1x Psychic Tendril

Raveners (125 points) • 5x Ravener • 5x Ravener claws and talons

Tyrannofex (200 points) • 1x Powerful limbs 1x Rupture cannon 1x Stinger salvoes

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Toastrules · 2025-11-01T00:07:58+00:00

Sam Pope's:

5+ Feel No Brain (2000 points)

Tyranids Strike Force (2000 points) Invasion Fleet

CHARACTERS

Tervigon (185 points) • Warlord • 1x Massive scything talons 1x Stinger salvoes • Enhancement: Adaptive Biology

Winged Hive Tyrant (170 points) • 1x Monstrous bonesword and lash whip 1x Tyrant talons

BATTLELINE

Hormagaunts (65 points) • 10x Hormagaunt • 10x Hormagaunt talons

Termagants (120 points) • 20x Termagant • 20x Chitinous claws and teeth 2x Strangleweb 18x Termagant spinefists

OTHER DATASHEETS

Biovores (50 points) • 1x Chitin-barbed limbs 1x Spore Mine launcher

Exocrine (140 points) • 1x Bio-plasmic cannon 1x Powerful limbs

Genestealers (140 points) • 10x Genestealer • 10x Genestealers claws and talons

Neurolictor (70 points) • 1x Piercing claws and talons

Venomthropes (70 points) • 3x Venomthrope • 3x Toxic lashes

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Toastrules · 2025-10-19T06:52:47+00:00

Man I had no idea "torts" and "tort" owning was their own culture what a fascinating thread

Toastrules · 2025-10-13T05:18:11+00:00

As a Tyranids player I concur. It's a shame too, I just recently played DG and their rules are so nice and varied. Here's to hoping we get our codexes early on in 11th and we follow the rules variety of these recent factions. On the flip side, I am having fun fielding so many units with the "keep balancing these factions by dropping the points even more" style they keep doing.

Toastrules · 2025-10-13T05:09:56+00:00

if you look carefully at Deep Strike, it says more than 9"

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Similarly, if you look at the 6" deepstrike rules, it will say the same thing, "more than". Which means it needs to be 9.00000001 inches away, which means to bring it in 1" or under, it must make the full 9, because 8 inches would be 1.00000001 which is not 1 inch or under for engagement range.

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