1850 Tyranid Friendly list

[Hive Tyrant Qiln]

In an attempt for my brother to see what I feel like, we decided to trade armies. I play Tau, and he plays Tyranid. I know he's most likely going to structure a list around my Hierophant, because that's the first model he asked for. So here's my list.


HQ 1 - Commander
-Shield Generator
-2 Flamers
-Command and Control Node
-Multi-Spectrum Sensor Suite
-Puretide Engram Neurochip

Troop 1 - 9 Fire Warriors  
-Shas’ui w/ Markerlight and Target Lock
-3 EMP Grenades
-2 Marker Drones
-Bonding Ritual
-Devilfish 

Troop 2 - 9 Fire Warriors
-Shas’ui w/ Markerlight and Target Lock
-3 EMP Grenades
-2 Marker Drones
-Bonding Ritual
-Devilfish

Elite 1 - 3 XV8 Crisis Suits
-3 Marker Drones
-Bonding Knife Ritual 

Elite 2 - Riptide
 -Twin-Linked Fusion Blaster
-Ion Accelerator
-2 Shielded Missile Drones
-Counterfire Defense System
-Target Lock 

Fast Attack 1 - 4 Pathfinders and a Shas’ui
-Bonding Knife
-Devilfish 

Fast Attack 2 - 4 Pathfinders and a Shas’ui 
-Bonding Knife
-Devilfish

Fast Attack 3 - 4 Pathfinders and a Shas’ui 
-Bonding Knife
-Devilfish

Heavy Support 1 - 3 Broadsides and a Shas’vre
-3 Missile Drones
-Seeker Missiles
-Counter-Fire Defense Systems
-Target Locks

Heavy Support 2 - 3 Broadsides and a Shas’vre 
-3 Missile Drones
-Seeker Missiles
-Counter-Fire Defense Systems
-Target Locks

So the idea is that Buffmander sticks with the XV8s and helps out with overwatch, the Pathfinders do their Markerlight spam, and the Broadsides follow up with Seeker missiles. The Fire Warriors are for any troops he happens to brings.

[gigasnail]

Please reformat man. Can't read that mess. Just the unit and it's options, don't copy/paste from battlescribe or w/e. It burnsssss.

[No One]

(Disclaimer: Don't play Tau and haven't really played Tau, so all of this is based of gleanings from the Internet)
First up - I'd probably drop the bonding rituals (provided I'm remembering what it does right - +1 ld?), especially from the pathfinders (and possibly the shas'ui/shas'vre as well, provided they're actually upgrades and don't bring anything else) - with only 5, any casualties they take are probably going to kill the squad (or at least markedly drop it's combat effectiveness). Also, why the devilfishes for the pathfinders? You're not a mobile army, and with I believe 30-36" heavy weapons, the pathfinders shouldn't need to be moved and doing so means that you're not getting markerlight support for 2 turns. Unless you're not taking them for transport?

2nd - that is a lot of marker lights/drones. Especially on the crisis suits, I don't think it'd be at all helpful, since they have to shoot at the same target and thus the crisis suits can't benefit (and your crisis suits should be doing enough damage with the buffmander that whatever they shoot at shouldn't need more marker tokens.)

3rd - Why the target locks on the broadsides and riptide? You'd want to be concentrating fire with those units (especially with markerlights).

4th - What's the loadout on the crisis and broadsides?