Tau vs. Tyranids in a Recon mission
I apologize for the lack of pictures here but my digital camera died a few weeks ago.
Tau vs. Tyranids (2500 pts)
The Mission was a Recon with Gamma rules
Turn 1: The Tau go first and the Sniper Drones kill a genestealer and the Sky Ray marks the Gaunts
Tyranids: A frag mine takes out the Krootox
Turn 2: The Tau turn and the Gun Drones deepstrike in. The Sniper drones kill a genestealer and the Aux squad kills Gaunt. The Sky Ray kills 7 Gaunts and so does the Stealth Team. Then the Devil Fish takes out 3 more Gaunts from another squad and the Hammer Head takes out 4 more. The Gun Drones kill 5 Hormagaunts.
Tyranids: The Lictors deepstrike in. A Bio acid mine takes out the Devil Fish and 6 Pathfinders survive the blast. The Hive Tyrant kills a human. Then in the Assault phase the Hormagaunts kill 5 Gun drones and the Lictors take out 3 Stealth members and force the rest to run away.
Turn 3: The Tau Vespids kill a genestealer and the Sky Ray kills 8 gaunts. Then 2 squads of Fire Warriors take out all 3 Lictors and the Kroot kill 4 genestealers. In assault phase the Hormagaunts wipe out the last 3 Gun drones.
Tyranids: A frag mine kills a Kroot and the Hive Tyrant kills a human. The Zoanthrope kills a Sniper drone. Then in assault the Hive Tyrant kills 3 humans and so do the Raveners. The Genestealers kill 5 Kroot.
Turn 4: The Crisis suits deepstrike in and kill 3 gaunts and one Tyranid warrior. The Fire warriors kill 4 Hormaguants. Then in assault phase the genestealers kill 2 Vespids and force the last one to run. The Hive Tyrant kills 3 humans and so do the Raveners then in turn the humans take out a Ravener. The Genestealers kill 5 Kroot, force them to run and over takes the rest of the squad.
Tyranids: The Warriors take out a Crisis suit then in assault the genestealers take out the last Vespid, the Ravener kills a human and the Hive Tyrant kills 2 more. The gaunts kill a Pathfinder, the genestealers kill one then the Carnifax kills 3 too.
Turn 5: Commander Shadowsun deepstrikes in and the Auxillary squad kills a Zoanthrope and so does the Sky Ray. In assault the Raveners kill a human and the Warriors take out a Crisis Suit. The Hormagaunts take out a Fire warrior and the Genestealers take out a Pathfinder.
Tyranids: A Frag mine kills a Fire Warrior and then in assault the Hive Tyrant kills 2 humans and the warriors kill the Crisis Shasvre. Commander Shadowsun takes out a genestealer and the Hormagaunts take out 5 Fire warriors, force them to break and over take them. The Carnifax kills the last Pathfinder.
Turn 6: The Fire Warriors kill 3 Hormagaunts and the Hammer head kills a Biovore. In assault the genestealers kill Commander Shadowsun and the Ravener kills 2 humans.
Tyranids: Skipping to assault the Hive Tyrant kills 2 humans, the genestealers kill a Stealth unit and the Hormagaunts kill 2 Fire Warriors. In turn a Fire Warrior kills a Hormagaunt.
The verdict here was that the Tyranids almost wiped every model out of mine besides the Hammer head, the Sky Ray, a squad of Fire Warriors, a half a squad of human auxillarys, and 2 Sniper drones and the controller.
