"Brother" said Guilliman. "I told you not challange that Repulser, he is your chapter version of Malum Caedo" "I only thought you were joking" Lion wheezed. "I will win next time" "They all say that. None have so far"
@@PlayOnTabletop The modern Lion stealing the precious command point to save his heroric son and Gulliman going "WUT" got to be the most lore accurate exhange in this game
@@boerhcauldur1873 Guys I swear I'll help after I respond to a couple of emails. Ok now it looks like the Emperor's email got hacked so it's going to be a bit longer still
You say that like they aren’t rare? The amount of bio mass it takes to make a norn or a titan is enough to construct a new hive ship. Losses on this battlefield is enough to make a new hive fleet. Not to mention it takes the better part of a decade for a bio titan to grow hatch from an egg and grow. To maturity. I can only imagine it being longer for the Norns who are far more versatile and Intelligent, not to mention that it takes longer to make psychic bio forms
This game definitely shows how far the Tyranids have fallen as a playable faction. Ya just can't monster mash anymore.... *sad bug noises* AMAZING game though!
Can we just acknowledge that Mubin by himself almost had two players? One of which from a separate studio, he struck fear into them until the end. What a legend
If only tyranid heavies actually had decent saves/strength (I feel like there are maybe 2 or 3 units in the codex with the right level of ap, strength and save. The rest just feel underwhelming for the points and size of the models :/ )
Fantastic battle report, amazing content as usual, wifes been waiting for me to come downstairs after putting kids to bed. Pretended i was asleep just to finish this.
you guys need to do this again, but have all of the chaos primarchs just beating eachother up. Angron yelling at magnus. Mortarion farting on abaddon. edit: when fulgrim comes out (hopefully in the near future) you can wrap him and all the other chaos primarchs in his tail and put a bow on it.
Nids army is designed to score points, not killed masses of vehicles and marines. If there had been 6 tyranofexes with rupture cannons, 6 excocrines, few units of 6 zoanthropes they would have done much better. Tervigons were a waste of points with that many guant units and they also gave the marines a free tripling of their army rule which was clearly not needed. Mawlocks would have been great with their 12" AOE too.
I don´t even know the rules of this Tabletop. But I am watching nearly every episode, just because you guys are representing the Warhammer universe as good as it can be done. I love u all
Oh lord, what’s next? A full chapter of space marines against a massive chaos incursion? That’s probably impossible for one table but would still be sick as hell
Honestly, both sides killed it, literally, and that tank was just going at it non stop, holy smokes. The man in that tank, gimmie him, WW3? Gimmie him. Zombie apocalypse? Gimmie him, he is the embodiment of 🗿 The nids had some powerful forces like well the elegant in the room 9 big bugs! Plus some other meanies and a biotitan??!?!! I have never seen a more battle ready nids list, thank you Tycho for narrating, thank you Vanguard tactics for coming out, thank you Mubin for playing our nids and thank you Tak for assisting the space marines into victory
Love to see this many Tyranids on a table, and what a game! Seeing my precious Hierophant take 12 damage from the Lion was soul-crushing, though. Big bug should’ve tanked!
I would suggest a game - Imperium vs Deamons, Orks, or Tyranids. 1000 pts Guardsman with 500pts of Sisters of Battle (starting on table) and 500pts Space Marine (everthing in reservers). You can multiple points by 2 for larger game.
This battle Report was freaking epic! Had a big smile on my face watching the whole thing! Kudos boys you really hit the nail on the head with this one. Such a joy to watch, class entertainment! Plus the commentary from Tycho and the crisp editing was spot on!
Wait, so Space marines got to use up to three Oath of the Moments per turn, but Tyranids got no buff to Shadow in the Warp? And the Norns had no chance to use their defensive rule because there were no objective markers, so they just got shot off the board. As a bug fan this was a bit disappointing. Cool to see happen though I never felt like the Tyranids had a chance.
Can appreciate the criticism on balance from the viewpoint of a bug fan. We had talked at length about the game scenario and rules amongst all the players and ultimately and admittedly we are not game designers and our collective goal was to have fun at the table and hopefully the audience has fun while we are all having fun. Things are not perfect and we will try to make improvements every time we do a show.
@@PlayOnTabletop Thank you for the consideration! I did enjoy the match, and thought it was a great idea for a narrative. I'm sure it took forever to actually record, so making the mission easier was certainly a good call from a sanity perspective. Right now however, nids are point for point worse than space marines in combat of any form, and instead rely on using our powerful scoring options to even stay partial relevant. With scoring in this match being determined by what is more or less a who-kills-more game, I unfortunently think the nids loose this battle ~90% of the time (even without three Oath of the Moments, though that certainly didn't help). Add in the fact that Tyranid anti-armor is mostly melee, most space marine armor is ranged, and the Tyrnaids are encouraged to stand still and NOT advance towards the gun line... it doesn't look good for the bugs. I'm sure a lot of people won't care too much about any of this, but as someone who plays a lot of bugs vs marines, I knew this was a lost cause the moment the game started. Fixing this sort of balance problem is hard with how the codex is designed, but maybe letting the bugs do something similar to what the marines were doing would have helped? Give any Behemoth paint jobs (and therefore most of the big beasties) Crusher Stampede rules, and the Leviathan models Synaptic Nexus rules, as well as two Shadow in the Warps to help boost damage via Nurolictors and all the other rules that care about battleshocks. Or just giving the nids considerably more points to play with, though that is a slippery slope (and less interesting for the layman if Tyranids do win, because then it just seems like they had an unfair advantage to). No matter what though, I must say any game that has 8000 point of bugs running around is a win in my book, even if it's not a win on the table.
Fun watch, but this game perfectly showcases just how bad a spot Tyranids are in right now. Even with the advantage of only having to defend their deployment zone to win they got essentially tabled in 4 turns in an 8000 point game. The norns only killed a couple of units here and there and the biotitan killed a wounded lion and a wounded dreadnaught. Also shows how unbalanced 40k is in general in big games like this. Without tons of terrain to hide behind going first is such a huge advantage. I really hope if and when GW releases apocalypse for this edition it has alternate activations for shooting.
The main reason why I don't play 40k anymore is purely because whoever shoots first has such an enormous advantage. What do I do to eke out a win if my opponent just immediately rolls well and devastates my army before I get a chance to fight back?
Poor white scars, they just got hammered but did their job as the vanguard well. That ATV squad on the left flank did some major work, taking down or significantly wounding some major monsters with one of them actually making it through to the end. Pour one out for the repulsor hero too.
Glad you enjoyed it and want more. We try to do a feature like this a couple times a year. At three days of production and three weeks of editing we can't do it too often
That tank is like the noob on some vidgame you are screaming at to just use the guns and he is SOMEHOW just rolling over everything and still alive, LOL
All the Norns coming in on turn 2 had the same energy as the Haradrim riding in during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Lion's face would match Theoden's.
We don't have all the Space Marine chapters available at the studio and hopefully as our collection grows we can do something more with the Raven Guard
What a fun game to watch, one of the most entertaining thus far. Mubin buddy when are you going to break your curse, because I havent seen you win in ages.
We tried Horde Mode in one of our exclusive games for YT Members and Patreon. Had fun! These spectacle games take over a month to create so we can't do them too often but maybe we can do Horde again one day.
@@VanguardTactics was great seeing you all have such a laugh with it too… that repulsor must now have a name, a kill count and be in ever dark angels list! 😂😎
The last time you guys did this is what got me into the hobby. Seeing that massive battle between Brent and Tak was amazing! I mustve seen that match a dozen times. Im assuming this is the same board? Ah, this is gonna be GREAT! 🎉🎉🎉
