So I made my way to the lair last night for a game with a Tyranid player called  Mark, and had a friend join me to have a  look at the game system in general.

We picked a board which had a cratered pit like look to it in the center with some fortifications and decided to them the  game around that.

Here was the scenario:

The world he Imperial Fists are fighting for is a training world for Neophytes and has come under direct attack by a splinter fleet of the Tyranids. With most of the neophytes now eacuated and most of the armaments of the Fist gone Lysander and a small detachment have arrived to hold the invasion back for as long as possible while the evacuation finishes. To his surprise  2 squads of scouts refuse to leave and insist on fighting to prove their worth to become full battle brothers.

All the Imperial Fists had to do was survive till turn 5, with no Tyranid's in the fortress its self.
All Tyranid units were re-spawning via reserves if wiped out, and the had the left and right long flanks to deploy on.
and decided that the drop pods could drop into the fortress if they were small enough to do so (damn Tyranid's pods)
And finally all Marines inside the fortress were fearless.

So the Tyranid's took first deployment and turn after I failed to get the initiative, but had the tactical advantage of choosing to refused flank one side of the fortress as Mark deployed the majority of his monsters over there and I figured keep one flank locked down and hand the monsters including the flying hive tyrant when they come round.

With to Tervigon's on my left flank backed up with Tyrant Guard and Zoanthropes I decided to refused flank that end and let the other monsters come to me.

On my other flank sat a flying Hive tyrant and 2 Trygons, daunting prospects ahead of me.

Plus 2 drop pods containing Doom of Malantal and a brood of hormagaunts as well geeesh.

In response to the call to battle by Lysander, he was joined by 20 Tactical Marines with 4 Plasma Specialist, 2 Squads of Snipers, an Iron Clad, 2 Vindicators and a Las Cannon Predator and 5 of his own personal Body Guard

The Tactical Marines broke up into smaller squads and manned the walls, the tanks took flanking positions around the fortress and Lysander and Dreadnought Invidious took their positions on the battle barge waiting to deploy.

Daunting prospect holding out till turn 5 but we both agreed that I had the fire power to do so. Even with another friend saying I was F*CKED lol

nyways I need to shoot off so I will write a battle report later on.