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Over the next few months, my Tau Forest Tigers will be locked in a Warhammer 40K campaign with some of the guys from Adeptus Fanaticus. It's a four player campaign with the Tau, Tyranids, Imperial Guard, and Blood Angels represented.

Using the Mighty Empires tile set, the game will last 20 campaign turns. Typical battles will be around 1000 to 1400 points per side and the armies may not be equal. Due to the way the campaign map is setup I'll be spending the most time fighting the Tyranids and the Blood Angels. I would hope that by the time this is over, I've become pretty good and taking on those armies.

During Turn 3, two armies of Chaos deep-struck onto the east and west sides of the map. While no battles this occurred this turn, the battle lines became more clear. In Turn 4, the action really heated up. My Forest Tigers struck back at the Tyranids, forcing them back. The Blood Angels found themselves under attack from several enemies and have already lost one battle.

As the campaign progresses, the forces of Chaos have played their trump card. The Imperial Guard Regiments have attack the Blood Angels! It is currently unknown if the Imperial Guard regiments were already traitors or if they fell under Chaos control while on this planet. Either way, the situation has become much more dire. Since this turn of events, Imperium forces have attacked our lines, but did not succeed. We can only assume that in their arrogance, they blame us for these events as well. The forces of Chaos have also turned their attenion towards our forces and are marching on our head quarters. Despite all this, the Tyranids continue their hunger.

The Chaos forces approaching our headquarters walked into a trap and were destroyed with little difficulty. Unfortunately this diversion led to a stalemate with the Tyranid forces and in the zone outside of region of conflict, things turned even worse. The Imperial Guard Forces turned into what the Humans call a Heresy. In response, the Imperium forces massed their fleet in preparation for an exterminatus. Quickly, the Forest Tigers packed up what equipment we could and the last of our troops escaped only hours before the planet met some awful end.

Operation Double Helix as come to an unexpected end. While some new information was learned about the latest evolution of the Tyranids, an even more disturbing possibility was discovered. The close coordination between the Forces of Chaos and the Tyranids might suggest a sinister connection.

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1200 Point Tyranid Killer List

As I mentioned in my previous list, I decided to drop most of my drones since they help little against a Melee Heavy Tyranid army. Since I dropped lots of drones, I could eliminate a number of bonding knives. By eliminating all these things, I could add an extra Firewarrior squad.

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1200 Point Marine Killer Army List

I tested this army out against an all Melee Blood Angels force using one of the new Tau Missions. It ended very poorly for the Space Marines.

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Core 1000 Point List

This list was the initial one I came up with before the campaign and after playing one game, it has two flaws.

First, it only has two troop choices. Firewarriors tend to die and I need them to capture points. As a result, I need more troop choices in the army.

Marker drones look good on paper and in some situations they are good. Sticking them with the Broadsides worked great, but giving them to Crisis suits was a poor idea. Marker Lights are heavy weapons and by having my suits always moving around, they never got to fire.

Onto the Tyranid specific changes. Brent, who plays Tyranids does not use range weapons. My drones are there to protect against range fire. They don't do much in close combat. I'm considering dropping my drones for more guns the next time I fight him.

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