Plz help a new player

[royalecheez]

Hello!

New to the forums. I have a few models from a friend who passed away recently. He was working on a Tyranid army when he passed so I'm finishing the army. The only models he has are a tervigon and about 30+ termagants and a carnifex.

Just hoping to get some direction here. I've been scanning the forums and looking at army lists. But from what I can gather a recent FAQ from GW was released and kinda threw a wrench in the works

What would be some solid army choices post FAQ while still including the models he had already?

Thanks in advance for all the help!

[No One]

Sorry to hear that .

Flyrant is still our best unit - it took a bit of a hit with the toe in cover nerf, but it's still a good unit. Crone's the one that lost out big from the FAQ, being pretty bad now.

Terv, terms and fexes basically didn't change from the FAQ - they're OK I think, nothing great though (taking the fex as a dakkafex with 2 devourers is by far the best choice with that load out).

Other than that, another big one is a venom to give shrouded to everything - while flyrant lost toe in cover, it still has LoS obscured, and having a 2+/3+ cover is really important for our armies survivability.
Mawlocs are also a good unit, though not reliable.

No idea what points level you want to play at, so just a quick ~1000 pts list:

HQ:
Flyrant (wings, double devs, e-shock) 240
Terv (probably give her an upgrade - possibly crushing claws or e-shock) 215?

Elites:
Venom 45
Zoan 50

Troops:
15xTerms 60
15xTerms 60

Heavy Support:
Dakkafex (double devs) 150
Mawloc 140

Comes out to ~960 (not 100% on terv points - the one unit in there I don't have, so can't remember points off the top of my head), probably fill the rest in with gaunts, though another thrope mightn't be a bad idea, or something else if you've got a preference to fill.

Hope that helps!

[royalecheez]

Yes that does help, thank you. Sorry I guess I should've included we usually play either 1500 or 1850 point games.

[No One]

Depending on how competitive you want to be, probably just grab another 2 flyrants for 1500, then maybe a mawloc/dakkafex or 2 for 1850 - probably another venom as well (or malanthrope if FW's an option) and possibly another zoan/warriors for synapse.