Which models to magnetize?

[narhay]

Which models should be magnetized in a tyranids army? And what size and how many of a magnet should be used? I am getting a battleforce and I would rather magnetize than have to purchase more models. Termagaunts? Genestealers? Hormagaunts? Warriors? Thanks.

[ohkay]

Honestly, I don't see a point in magnetizing Gaunts and genestealers. If your a big fan of warriors then you could magnetize them. Beyond the battleforce, you have the tyrant, carnifex, and T-fex you could mess around with.

[killercroc]

What you should Magnatize are: Hive tyrants, Carnifex, Trygon/Mawloc, Tyranid prime, Warriors, Tyrannofex/Tervigon, and possibly Raveners.

Besides that you should glue together all types of Gaunts and Genestealers.

Also one thing you can do, Magnatize Rippers to the bases of MC to act as wound counters.

[EDIT]
I just bought some Magnets myself, I always use a place called kjmagnetics.com. You want to use disc magnets with the size 2/8 inch by 1/16 inch for Warriors/ Space marines this size is $1.10 for 10 magnets. For large MC you want the 3/16 inch by 1/16 inch magnets which are about $0.20 a magnet, so 5 for a buck (pretty cheap).

[narhay]

Thanks for the feedback. There are weapon choices available for termagaunts...will this matter or can I say 'these guys have x weapon' in a tournament?

[TheContortionist]

you should be magnetizing hive tyrant and carnifex. i guess you could magnitize 1/2 of your genestealer arms to get sything talons on if you like. 1/8 inch x 1/16 for that about. but i wouldn't do that just glue the arms on. make sure you make them all the same and don't mix em so you can take em as a squad.

a tip on the battleforce though:
put only fleshbores on your termagaunts
save your warriors to convert to hive guard.

[vhyxalas]

Apr 2, 2012 15:08:53 GMT narhay said:

Thanks for the feedback. There are weapon choices available for termagaunts...will this matter or can I say 'these guys have x weapon' in a tournament?

I personally don't see much point for gaunts, although I can't say i know anything about tournaments/games store's rules about what you see is what you get. if you're not sure, I can't help but recommend this maximumheresy.blogspot.com/2011/04/tutorial-swappable-weapons-without.html it might be more work-intensive than it's worth, but if you really want to have flexibility it can't hurt to try