The Termagaunts equipped with fleshboarers are my second choice. With a strength of 4 in shooting, they can harm nearly every infantry the opponent can field and even most tanks when they get to their rear armor. On the other side they cost a mere 6 points which makes them expandable to say the least.
They performed so well over the first year of playing nids that I now have 60 of them. For the sake of sanity I painted three squads of 20 with different colormarkings.
The unit I can just not begin to like are the Hormagaunts. Although being very nice models, the ingame performance can just not make me like them. They seem to have quite a big footprint and collect fire like hell- which they can absolutely not stand. For some reason they nearly ever reach closecombat where they might be worth their points.
Nevertheless I have 24 and still experiment with them from time to time- most of the time equipping them with toxin sacks. The clue seems to be to throw them at something they can eat as fast as possible- if they only collect fire one turn they are done for.
I just finished the color test model for the vostroyan infantry. He came out pretty well and I even found the passion to include OSL effects for all the lenses. Time spent including basing was about 2,5 hours. I started from a primed (black) model and included the color testing and preparing the model snow. I think I can push the timelimit to about two hours on the next models- maybe even a little more when I do it in an assemby line.
Talking about snow- what do you think- is there any alternative to it since the guys are wearing winter head gear?
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