New Nid player, 2000 pt list

[stuckinabox]

Hi! I'm new to nids, I'm coming off of Daemons and always liked the Tyranids,
so I've decided to start a tyranid army, and I was wondering if you all could give me a little advice on my list,
because I bet you all know what you're doing a lot more than I do.
Sorry if the layout is a little weird I copied it from Battlescribe



1991/2000 pts

HQ (230pts)

Hive Tyrant (230pts) (Codex: Tyranids p40)
-Psyker (Mastery Level 2) (Psyker), Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms (15pts), Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms (15pts), Wings (35pts)


Elites (310pts)

Hive Guard Brood (165pts) (Codex: Tyranids p88)
-3x Hive Guard

Venomthrope Brood (45pts)

Zoanthrope Brood (100pts) (Codex: Tyranids p89)
-2x Zoanthrope


Troops (595pts)
Hormagaunt Brood (140pts)
-20x Hormagaunt
-20x Adrenal Glands, 20x Scything Talons

Hormagaunt Brood (140pts)
-20x Hormagaunt
-20x Adrenal Glands, 20x Scything Talons

Termagant Brood (120pts)
-30x Spike Rifle Termagant (120pts)

Tervigon (195pts)


Heavy Support (440pts)
-Carnifex Brood (300pts) (Codex: Tyranids p94)
-2x Carnifex (150pts)
-Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms (15pts), Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms (15pts)

Mawloc (140pts) (Codex: Tyranids p95)

Tyranids: Codex (2014) (Allied Detachment) Selections:

HQ (130pts)

Deathleaper (130pts) (Codex: Tyranids p88)


Elites (100pts)

Lictor Brood (100pts) (Codex: Tyranids p88)
-2x Lictor (100pts)

Troops (186pts)

Genestealer Brood (186pts) (Codex: Tyranids p90)
-Broodlord (60pts)
-9x Genestealer (126pts)

[nameless]

Spike rifles are not a god choice. They are really not that much better and it would be a lot of work to convert.

Gaunts typically aren't used that often. If you're going to run them AG is probably the best choice.

How much do you want those objective secured units? You may want to consider making an endless swarm instead of all those small bugs.

Lictors and genestealers are not that great of a unit. I'm guessing you're trying to use them to direct the mawloc? That's quite an investment for one or two terrors from the deep.

If you like those units, you're better off looking a formations from the first dataslate rather than an allied detchment.

[vectron]

Yeah, the troops and allied detachment are very iffy, if you want to be competitive, but the rest is solid. You really want 3xFlyrant at 2K (or even 4 if allowed to use two CAD).

The easiest "fix" is minimal troops in CAD (2x10 Termagants, or 1x10 Termagants + 3xWarrior w.BS) and add the Skyblight formation. A Malanthrope won't go amiss if you can squeeze it in.

[stuckinabox]

I'm not going super hard with this list, that's what the Daemons are for, so I won't run any more than 2 flyrants, but i hadn't looked at any of the data slates, those would probably do better than the detatchment. The guants have AG, but I'm not sure if I want to swap them out for genestealers or warriors or just something else. Yeah, the lictors are one of my favorite models, and I'm using them as a homing beacon/flaanker for the Mawlok, which I'm debating on squeezing another in to make them more useful