Best Tyranid Units (9 of 15)

[nameless]

Our best Tyranid units

Lets get a group consensus of our best (in a competitive sense) unit. Lets worry about individual upgrades later (aside from Melee vs dakka).

Ranking (these are links)
1. Flyrant (2 TL/Dev + Wings) [+/- Electroshock grubs] - 85%
2. Malanthrope - 60%
3. Dakkafex [+/- AG] - 67%
4. Biovores [LAN] - 36%
4. Gargoyles - 36%
6. Hive Crone - 53%
7. Tyrannofex (acid spray) - 39%
8. Exocrine [LAN] - 44%
9. TBD - current poll

[tag8833]

Mawlocs are good. Losing Smash hurt them, but they are still a unit that strike fear into the hearts of armies we face. It is an MC with great mobility, and 6 wounds. I wouldn't rank it any higher, but this is where it belongs.

[almostmercury]

I think Hive Guard are now being underrated.

[nameless]

Being underrated in compared to what? The main problem with Hive guard is they have 0 chance to blow up a tank, which is their primary target. 0% is a lot different than low %. Things need to go really above average to get them to deal with one threat in a given turn.

[gigasnail]

Their primary targets are light transports, AV12 and below. If you're shooting them at walled up av13+ and expecting HG to carry that load alone, you have unrealistic expectations.

[Yautja]

They tear apart anything that relies on jink. I love them. As for "they have no chance to blow up a tank" we don't have anything that has a good chance to blow up a tank, so that's a redundant comment in my opinion. HG are just another good option to glance stuff down.

EDIT - I really don't get how Tfex are ranked so high.

[gigasnail]

2+ save, torrent flamer and egrub platform. With malanthrope support now a 2+ cover save, so my main complaint with them is a lot less relevant (vulnerability to plasma/grav). It's not a bad unit at all; crone may be more useful though.

[Yautja]

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's bad, but there are half a dozen units I rate higher. Rupture Cannon is meh and Acid Spray is only good against troops (in cover), although I'm sure it shines at that, but better than Biovores in general? Doubt it. It's only S6 so if it's in range to Grub a heavy vehicle, it's not going to scare it in assault. It must be our worst MC in assault?

[gigasnail]

biovores aren't MC's walking up the middle. they're only going to kill infantry, and only then in the open, and if anything looks at them hard they die. they also require something to hang back and keep them in synapse. tfex needs synapse too, but no one cares because it's up front where your synapse is anyway.

two very different skillsets.

[nameless]

Sept 26, 2014 22:19:03 GMT Yautja said:

They tear apart anything that relies on jink. I love them. As for "they have no chance to blow up a tank" we don't have anything that has a good chance to blow up a tank, so that's a redundant comment in my opinion. HG are just another good option to glance stuff down.

EDIT - I really don't get how Tfex are ranked so high.

Do they? VS AV12 6 shots, half hit, half glance or pen. That's 1.5 of them. When you have to deal with 5-6 of them, their shooting is not doing it for me.

It doesn't matter that only the exocrine can explode vehicles in the shooting phase in our codex. That doesn't make them [hive guard] good.

[Yautja]

Of course it matters. This is a thread discussing relative merits. We're ranking them! Against the example target you gave, what other unit can hurt jinking AV12 as well in our shooting phase?