Alan Barjamovich won the Indy Open GT over the weekend with a Tyranids/Daemons combo.
Blackmoor got a text during the Feast qualifier telling tall tales of how Alan summoned all four Greater Daemons on the first turn, killed Draigo with the Doomstone all while standing on one foot. It was the Doomstone part that caught our attention. I haven't even thought about the thing since the IG codex got rid of the Psyker Battle Squad's LD-dropping power. We assumed he had to have Nid allies because very little else besides Terrify drops LD by an appreciable amount.
Now that you can take a Screamerstar in an allied detachment, you can work that kind of nasty board control into almost any list, and the combination of Shadow in the Warp and the Doomstone with a 2+ rerollable unit is certainly very potent.
When I did my CTA reviews I kind of wrote off the Nids as being tough to keep away from your own stuff since Daemons can do the Horde thing just fine. Nevertheless, Flyrants, Heirodules, Biovores and Tervigons all provide useful things for a Daemon army, allowing you to clog the board with Gants and summon Daemons to get a serious threat built up in a hurry. Then you factor in the new Dimacherons and Malanthropes, and there's some serious unexplored potential if you're playing Nids primary.
The Doomstone is probably a corner case with it being a useful swap out vs a psychic army like GK. But if you ever find yourself running the combination, don't forget you have the option.
Blackmoor got a text during the Feast qualifier telling tall tales of how Alan summoned all four Greater Daemons on the first turn, killed Draigo with the Doomstone all while standing on one foot. It was the Doomstone part that caught our attention. I haven't even thought about the thing since the IG codex got rid of the Psyker Battle Squad's LD-dropping power. We assumed he had to have Nid allies because very little else besides Terrify drops LD by an appreciable amount.
Now that you can take a Screamerstar in an allied detachment, you can work that kind of nasty board control into almost any list, and the combination of Shadow in the Warp and the Doomstone with a 2+ rerollable unit is certainly very potent.
When I did my CTA reviews I kind of wrote off the Nids as being tough to keep away from your own stuff since Daemons can do the Horde thing just fine. Nevertheless, Flyrants, Heirodules, Biovores and Tervigons all provide useful things for a Daemon army, allowing you to clog the board with Gants and summon Daemons to get a serious threat built up in a hurry. Then you factor in the new Dimacherons and Malanthropes, and there's some serious unexplored potential if you're playing Nids primary.
The Doomstone is probably a corner case with it being a useful swap out vs a psychic army like GK. But if you ever find yourself running the combination, don't forget you have the option.