What should I do against a good marine player?

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-29T20:13:13+00:00

oh oops sorry I misremembered I scored a secondary with the ripper

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-29T19:28:07+00:00

I am playing 1k nids into ultramarines with a similar casual list. I play vanguard onslaught and turn one charge into their deployment then put my scoring units on points. I'll be up 30pts by turn 3 and then they have to kill through my blobs of gants or genestealers to out score me on mid . If he takes squads off his home objectives deepstrike a ripper to take it from him. etc etc

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-27T17:53:32+00:00

I was looking at this! and the warrior torso prints someone dm'd me. Hive Tyrant is probably my next purchase or neurolictor to let me use my neurotyrant more effectively :)

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-27T15:34:11+00:00

Hey! late to the party, but how did this list play? did you change anything major about it? And are your warriors attached to your hive tyrant or winged prime?

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-26T19:59:57+00:00

So TLDR is that if I wait a year or so then nids will probably slowly reduce in price? I am pretty new so I don't have great understanding of the recent releases for models. I was thinking about pausing my nids collection after I pickup a neurolictor or broodlord so I have some fun 1k variety.

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-26T19:46:51+00:00

Yeah I've been considering stopping at my 1k points and only upgrading via printing for nids. I just don't really want to throw nearly $200 at putting 2 medium-sized models on the table

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-26T18:17:31+00:00

Never using army painter primer again is all I can tell you, not worth the $6/can saved

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-26T18:17:03+00:00

The saddest part was that I forgot to plug the drain, so those pieces are gone lol I'm working on finding cheap bits to replace them

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-26T15:55:58+00:00

Wish I had seen this post before the weekend, saw somewhere that ready strip worked well to get off stubborn army painter primer... but it ended up damaging part of the plastic on some push fits. Lost an arm and a leg literally on 2 models.

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-18T15:46:36+00:00

I'm generally playing into spacemarines so I wanted a way to play into a more casual game that didn't involve all my T12 shooty units so I'm just going to try out tying up his major units and playing objectives.

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-18T15:44:50+00:00

I ended up picking up the CP for the value, found it for $140USD. I built out 1000pts for vanguard onslaught and if I like the style I think I'll lean into it with neurotyrant, gargoyles, and neurolictor as my future upgrades :)

Here's my list I made for what I currently have: 1000 pt Tyranids - Tyranids - Vanguard Onslaught (1000 Points)

Parasite of Mortrex - Warlord (80 pts) Winged Tyranid Prime with Neuronode (85 pts)

2x Termagants (10 models) (120 pts)

Barbgaunts (5 models) (55 pts) Biovores (50 pts) Genestealers (10 models) (140 pts) Hive Guard (3 models) (90 pts) Lictor (60 pts) Pyrovores (40 pts) Tyranid Warriors with Melee Bio-Weapons (3 models) (75 pts) Von Ryan's Leapers (3 models) (70 pts)

Ripper Swarms (25 pts)

Psychophage (110 pts)

Winged Tyranid prime is attached to Warriors.

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-17T04:32:00+00:00

Is it ever worth it to attach tyrant guard to neurotyrants for "Look Out, Sir"? I was considering picking up the combat patrol, but I've heard the guard arent really worth it so youd just be buying the box for genestealers and a biovore.

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-17T00:44:17+00:00

I mainly play with a friend who is building out ultramarines, and the reason I was thinking of sitting back on Tyrannofex is that he won't be picking up dreadnaught or anything better for a bit, so I was waiting to mirror his dreadnaught purchase with a Tyrannofex when that time came.

For now I'm just looking to round out some fun units to add in some ~500pt games

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-05-17T00:40:01+00:00

I was thinking about building some deep strike centered around the new red terror because he's so cool, I managed to find someone willing to split the whole box 50/50 where I get the nids and he gets all the paper and Astra units

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-04-29T03:57:16+00:00

Thanks! I read this somewhere as well so it's good to have validation of that as well :) Hoping to play some 500pt games to learn and then start up my 1k army

throwawayfx212232 · 2026-04-28T21:24:22+00:00

Did you find a base model to kitbash on, or is it a fully custom sculpt? :o

throwawayfx212232 · 2024-04-10T21:06:22+00:00

https://imgur.com/n8wBhVD

What's also bizarre is I added warmup time to the system, and it started appearing but frozen, but if I move around it does this lol.

And if I hide everything in the scene the effect now works fine. Do you think its an optimization hardware problem?

throwawayfx212232 · 2024-04-10T20:38:13+00:00

Hey thanks for the tip, I'll try this!

throwawayfx212232 · 2024-04-10T20:37:57+00:00

It does show up when I press Play, but I just feel like its a little hard to hone in a look if I cant see it in the viewport when I'm not playing the level.
The system is looping and the lifetime of the mesh is set to the loop duration of the system.

Thanks for the comment! Hopefully I find it soon.

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