And then we want 20 Hormagaunts. And then we want 20 Hormagaunts. And then we want 20 Hormagaunts. And then we want 20 Hormagaunts. And then we want 20 Hormagaunts. And then we want 20 Hormagaunts.

The most impressive thing is that you didn't use a single flipping movement tray

As much as I love watching you play Imperial Guard and hear your insight to an army you know inside out and backwards, as a Nids player happy to see swarm getting some love

Mordian please I can't afford to start anymore armies... After this one.

I found a list of 60 gargoyles, 120 hormagaunts, 120 termagaunts, 66 neurogaunt+nodebeast, Warlorded neurotyrant, totalling 367 models on the table. The deep strike feels necessary at that point, cause with that many models without deepstrike you'd run out of space to put them all!

As a regular swarm player, I both congratulate you on your excellent choice of army and sympathise with your ravaged lower back.

THE INVOLUNTARY CACKLE I MADE WHEN THE ARMYS DEPLOYMENT PHOTO FIRST SHOWED UP AT 8 MINUTES!!

"Did you go to washroom before tournament?" "No, why?" Starts unpacking.

This is the exact amount of disposable bodies that a commissar wishes he could have at his disposal.

I remember seeing Poorhammer talking about that meme list. I am happy seeing it

A wise man once said "Movement wins games" so the assault option was the way to go. ;)

Almost like the Thousand Sons knew you were coming...

Another funni idea, now that firstborn tactical squads are 14/model, you can field 60 for just 840 points. Add in scouts and maybe some other battelline you can have like 120 marines.

That Thousand Sons army is beautiful. Great painting and I love the little pink foliage on their bases.

Rule of Thumb with Thousands Sons: Target the characters. Reduces Kabal points to then turn their army rules off/weaken it.

The screenshot (at 13:26 say) of the state of the board as the nids just swarm forward is so cool, absolutely achieving the Starship Troopers vibe you want to see with this sort of list.

The feeling of supremacy just rolling up with 240+ PAINTED minis absolutely covering the whole deployment zone must give. The intimidation alone must be great!!!

So cool dude. I've always wanted to play against something like this. Getting swarmed by hundreds of aliens is what this game is all about.

Just a suggestion but if you do this again and you and your opponent/tournament peeps are ok with doing a little proxy-ing the spine fists would probably work better on your termagants than the flesh borers, you lose some strength and range but pick up an attack per model, gain twin-linked, shoot in melee at no penalty and keep assault. I just suggest this cause it may work better when you're trying to use your termigants as control pieces. Nice to still be able to shoot when engaged and trying to hold the mid-board for example.

Lol, the Mordian Bugs! Love the variety. If you run non-guard I’m glad you do meme lists!

Ahaha as a tyranid fan of 30 years this made me smile thank you ,,,you have made the choir of the void proud

G'day Mordian Glory, Just wanna say that this is totally epic and you crazy man you I can't believe anyone did this! But as good as the narration is I really feel like this would be more digestible as a three or four video mini series. Not to say long form doesn't work. It does, but where able I feel the flexibility is more viewer friendly. Anyway I'm happily subbed :)

That was fun to watch and id imagine play against. I considered a Necron Meme list of 6x20 warriors, 3 with Techno for the FNP and extra heals, and Overlord with Res Orb. Think of them as the from ranks of a 3 x 2 grid. Front guys with the Technos having reapers, the guys at the back with Overlords and Flayers. Then in between the two ranks 3 reanimators. Would probably completely suck, but could be fun.

Great tourney report. And good job getting to the podium!

Love the swarm Mordian! Great showcase for the Nids and what a thematic sight that must have been… they’re coming out the goddamn walls!!

Awesome seeing the swarm moving across the table - more photos please

This got me back into painting my minis! I have a box 60 termagaunts to start my horde. I'm so impressed with how you have so many painted!

So, I definitely visit this channel because you focus on Guard, which is an army I have long liked, but it was a lot of fun to see you focusing on something else, and the Nids are a good choice. I'm also personally fond of Swarm Nids, which is part of why I stuck around.😊 The thing that is so weird, too me, is how little kills seemed to matter. When I got into 40k, 20 years ago, I'd say it was just a different game, but the focus of each battle was, effectively, Annihilate!, so trying to table the foe was not only crucial; it was basically everything, and while I certainly am not saying that this is without value today, or they'd care less about curtailing Indirect Fire, it's so odd that you could win without HAVING to drain the enemy force. A mob is a mob, and keeping enemy bodies from reaching points of value is almost the same as deleting them, but it's funny that you can just focus on surviving, and holding ground, instead of needing to kill the enemy, before their battle royale collars just explode, at the end of round 5. And yeah, I can see "movement wins games", when it's what gets you to gumming up shots, and keeping them off objectives, even if most of them are still there; just unable to kill you fast enough. Good games!😊

Simply beautiful! Love to see them all on the table. 🤗 Those are the older gaunts on 25mm bases?

Awesome list and recap, thank you! Grow the swarm!

Long ago a friend of mine fielded an all infantry guard army. It was glorious.

Amazing. I'd love to see you do Ork list in the new detachment. I'd also love to see you go with a Black Templar Marine spam list too!!! I play both armies as well as guard!

Awesome break down and non-bias discussion. Loved it.

this is tickling my nostalgia in all the right ways.

Aw man... The feeling of Marines vs The Horde is why i love the idea of doing a 'nids vs marines match. Its what i did actually like about the Leviathan box. Just seeing the pictures of how your army looked on the board is hilarious.

I've actually been slowly assembling a very similar list. Neat.

Truly glorious stuff. Squeezing some blobs of gargoyles in there is a must though!

My Drukhari have finally made it onto KZfaq... on the table next to the last game 😂! I still claim glory for the kabal! Great content, you are a trooper, a true officer and a gentleman!

Pretty awesome, would love to hear your tips and tricks for running a list with this amount of models under the tournament time limit

This list would cry against Salamanders

Go my minions, GOOOOO! 😂. MAN I love seeing swarm lists. ❤

Very exciting battle report.

I love this!!! Can we get some unit reviews for tyranids? I play nids but not guard and I even watch your guard unit reviews just because I love your stuff

wonder if swapping out a Tervigon for two Psychophages now that they're 95 points would help since they can give their FNP aura to Hormagaunts

If you can manage would love to see a meme infantry guard v this list

Fun stuff! 17:08 into the Batrep and it's real nice to see Night Lords represent! Hoenstly the NL list looks mostly fine. I think the only change I woudl do is change the Warpsmith for Cypher and I see chosen models so i'd just take them out and either get more Legos in Rhinos or Warp Talons. There's a few play errors. Looking at the Oblit bomb and that should have been on T1. Yes they're only 4" of movement BUT they have the firepwoer for anti-horde and they really need to either focus fire on the Tervigons to take out the synapse or, just Oblitorate a complete blob. They have the durability to just grind out and hold the gate against volume of CC attacks. The Preds and Forgefiend is good but I feel this is really trying to slowly walk away from the predecessor of the old CSM meta pre-jan dataslate. If there was a 'lil buck and rush and some further aggression of force concentration/Rhino chokeholding either left or right lane I feel the game could have been pulled back. That being said it is nice to see fully painted Night Lords and I am a sucker for Oblits and Forgefiends this edition

Taking an army other than the Guard?!?! HERESY!!!

Now i want a list of just DA BOIZ

Awesome list. Wondering how this list deals with battle shock with only the two synapse? Halving the units seems like the best tactic and probably common tactic

Green tide sounds awesome

I've wanted to try an infantry heavy tau list for a while. Breachers up front with Ethereal support. Pulse rifle strike teams behind them with fire cadres. A couple pathfinders and Stealthsuit teams for movement. Its horde without the need for kroot.

Now's the time to get into Horus Heresy with the absurd number of infantry units you can feasibly take on Solar Auxilia. One troops choice with the right doctrine can contain 120 lasrifles on its own.

would have been hilarious if the necron army was also a flayed ones warrior swarm

Now we just need to see this list go against a pure infantry guard list.

The second game against k sons was probably the perfect storm of being both countered in list building as well as having the worst type of mission (the one where your opponent can outscore you on 1 primary). Also, I'd LOVE to see this in a GT. Just out of curiosity on how well you could do.

Guard are awesome, but I'd love to hear about your take on the WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!! Especially as you have a very good idea on how to fight the orcs, so it'd be cool to hear you apply that knowledge in reverse :)

Literally the only change I'd make is putting the 2 stranglewebs in each Gant squad for 2d6 flamer shots that deal mortals on 6s and also has the assault keyword so that 12" range is longer than it looks and it makes them a little more annoying to charge them. But having them all already modeled with fleshborers is a good enough reason to not have run them.

I would love to see green tide when it comes out!!

Hi Mordian. Would you recommend the same fixed objectives for a pure infantry guard list? Cheers :)

God, i can't even begin to imagine how long it must've took to paint all that lol

what took you longer, painting them or a pile in?

It was a ton of fun. Pls play jeans stealing

ah yes, my average admech army size

48:00. If you are already at the objective you still can consolidiate. Need to be toward it. Not totally free but does provide some movement potential. You just need unit to be in range of objective. Nothing about not having been in range already

And useing the unending swarm detachment is cool however maybe assimilation swarm to keep respawning the models in a unit would be cool aswell but can see how with the units you were useing it’s not as effective

I would like to see you take a massive army of kabalite warriors ( Drukahri )

Ah, of course. The xeno Imperial Guard.

If I ever do a Tyranid army. It'll probably look like this one.

Green tide would be really cool.

I would be both salty and excited to play a swarm army like this. It would be a great time against my MSU grey knights

Not to be cliche, but id like to see you use the Swarmlord. It gives you a little more kill potential, and that extra CP revive a unit first turn. PS~ Amazing video man, this was awesome to watch!

Man I want to play this now lol

Green tide Green tide !!!!!!!!!!!

As unending swarm lover I miss gargoyles. I find 20 of them invaluable and indeed practically every win with US been thanks to them. Also devourer plus tervigon plus stratagem has given me ability to kill something fairly reliably if he's not saving on 2+. But without swarmlord/hive tyrant kinda cp expensive. Especially with fixed secondaries so can't discard secondary for cp.

I've been wondering how I could do something similar in AOS with Hobgrots

Bust out the orbital raid.

Bringing Flamers to a bug fight that thousand sons player knew what he was doing 😑

Have an army like this, but instead of 2 tervigon, i take just 1 and then take in 66 neurogaunts and 2 ripper swarms for a total of 309 minis havent run it yet but i intend to do a game with some friends once its all painted lol

Interesting to see how much your opponent's mistakes played into these games, showing how unfamiliar they are with this style of army. I played the Thousand Sons guy towards the end of 9th and he used very aggressive movement firepower with his TS then too which seems like the correct move. Opponent's almost lose the game straight away if they "flinch" during deployment and turn 1. I noticed you didn't mention battleshock much, despite it being a big mechanic for Tyranids. A Neurotyrant would be good for making better use of Shadow in the Warp. And some Venomthropes seem like an obvious choice, you've seen how against a good players you can actually lose models way too quickly. Stealth and cover for every non-monster unit within 6" (unit, not models!) is bound to be powerful here. For the price of those Tervigons you could get a Neurotyrant, Deathleaper, a pair of Venomthrope squads and a smattering of Neurogaunts. You could then start playing with battleshock more and increasing your defence against shooting.

Expand the swarm for the glory of the hive mind. You could hit 300 models running neurogaunts

I am new to 10th. Can you double move here and shoot but with - 1 hit?

Glad my bullets are imaginary. Otherwise Id run out.

JustPlay is my local FLGS! Best staff in there by a mile

Not quite what Poorhammer wanted to see, but I suppose you are allowed your sanity.

FOR THE INSECTEROR!!!

"nice to see chaos space marines running something a bit different" *proceeds to describe basically the current day meta chaos marine list*

When you channel your inner bug brain.

Hordes are the name of the game ever since they removed armour values. The more dice the better.

great to see Nids getting a couple of wins and third place. Death to the Imperium. lol

I wonder how that army would fare against a high pressure melee list, like orcs or world eaters

If you had any Gargoyles you could stomp TS too!

Why do I want to see this army and his guard army square off!

ORKS! ORKS! ORKS!

I do wonder if g2 would have been the time to pop a gambit to win the primary game

WOW!Thatwould betoomany models onthetableto keep track of!

"So what if we took Brad's meme list and made it good?"

no venoms?

So... What are people's thoughts on running 2x Heirophants with a bunch of nid swarm to back them up? Just curious... (3D printer is brr'ing in the background on the Heirophants)

So the dilemma is: do I bring AT to kill off their synapse creatures? Or do I kill their swarms with flamethrowers/scary damage profiles?

Oh god the meme becomes real