WHAT IF MORE ROAR?! // Warhammer 40K Tyranids Crusher Stampede Detachment Discussion

[@brianb9986]

Pretty much agree with everything here. I don’t understand why people bring so many non-monster units in a crusher list. It took me everything to even put a biovore in my current list, which is otherwise all monsters. I just like my whole army to benefit from the rules and the strats. I haven’t lost a game yet (3 practice games and 3-game RTT) with my current list running all monsters and a biovore. Between running fixed objectives when possible, the biovore and Trygons shore up the secondaries while everything fights over the primary objectives. Trygons are great. They always seem to do something important for me in addition to scoring secondary for EoaF or BEL. I’ve had one solo a Swarmlord, steal backfield objectives, finish off 2 opposing predators, etc, etc. 3” deepstrike is so good bc like you said, my opponent doesn’t feel like they can actually screen that out, so they don’t really try. The strats are amazing and I’m spamming hit rerolls, mortals on the charge, kool-aid man, and roar all the time. Auto-explode is situational, but can be GREAT (finished off a knight after whiffing with my attacks). Detachment rule seems meh until you play some of the units outside of crusher and miss always hitting on 2’s, or the extra OC, or the rerolls in melee. I like punching stuff in combat and I believe crusher is our best way of doing it.

[@miztahmonstur]

@@brianb9986 Congrats on the wins! Thanks for the additional insights as to your experience with the detachment so far. I am glad to hear somebody is using Crusher to the full extent beyond move through walls and roll combat.

[@DaveMcMuffin]

This is very similar to my list. I run 2 exocrines, 2 rupturefexes, 1 norn , 1 maleceptor, 1 hive Tyrant, OOE and a neurotyrant with his zoanthropes, as staples, the rest is mostly optional or I change from time to time.

[@miztahmonstur]

@@DaveMcMuffin Nice! Any war stories of it?

[@DaveMcMuffin]

Lets see. I'm rather new so there's not much o tell especially considering the 3ish months I went to look for other armies right before pariah nexus dropped so I'm just making my way back to my one true love, the tyranids. That said some of my highlight so far are the "it does what now?" Screan from a friend The first time I brought zoanthropes with the neurotyrant, my friend upon finding out that they can shoot while in combat because big guns never tire. There was the time that one of my t-fexes killed a big knight turn 1 unassisted, much to the dismay of another friend who had gotten used to my pre-nexus nids and especially the casino canon.

[@miztahmonstur]

@DaveMcMuffin Lmao, sounds like they got too comfortable with us being an only scoring army for most of the edition. That's amazing.

[@Dewoy1]

Another 40min video. Man you´re dishing out the content. I love Crusher, so face i only lost once in like 8 games. The stratagems are cool, i love the auto explode with the T fex especially. The only thing missing is something for range defense, but i guess that is what out toughness is for.

[@miztahmonstur]

@@Dewoy1 😅 I've been sitting on a backlog of video ideas and finally telling myself to make them. Auto detonate is way too underutilized. But yeah, once we are up the board it is much better.

[@Dewoy1]

@@miztahmonstur Well i appriciate the content, especially the bugy kind. And you´re right about the stratagem, even a Maleceptor put out 18 MW against Drukari for me one time, it is really effective. I´d love to play a game where i can trigger this 5 times. That together with the monster tank shock is a lot of dmg.

[@miztahmonstur]

@@Dewoy1 Thank you! Same here.

[@thetrueneoteric]

Let loose and rawr! #neowashere

[@miztahmonstur]

@@thetrueneoteric Simple as. 😂

[@nathanielhurley3960]

Crusher stampede has amazing strats (auto explode is glorious), horrible Enhancements, and a mediocre detachment rule.

[@miztahmonstur]

@@nathanielhurley3960 Well said. Rule isn't much but I've seen worse and I can live without enhancements.

[@nathanielhurley3960]

@miztahmonstur if the rule +1 to hit from the start, it would be top tier. I love my giant stompy bugs and wish the detachment was more competitive.

[@miztahmonstur]

@nathanielhurley3960 If that was changed, I just know it would be hard to get people to play anything else. 😂

[@nathanielhurley3960]

@@miztahmonstur i don't think a permanent +1 to hit for monsters would be game breaking. I think it would make the detachment on par with the current meta.

[@miztahmonstur]

@nathanielhurley3960 Oh 100%, not broken but I can see us being addicted to it 😂.