1500 exactly?

[rroach]

Has anyone managed to make a list 1500 points on the nose? I always get 1499 or 1483 or 1501 or some random number.

The point cost for units and upgrades is odd. Its nice having cheap upgrades but I am slightly bothered by not having a nice round number at the end.

[keening]

Try a unit of Shrikes: lots of options for round out your numbers. Swift, flexible, bullying objective grabbers can win you a game.

[No One]

Yep. 2 at 1500, about 4 at 2k. Of course, when you consider how many lists I've got, that's a small percentage.

[Iryan]

From the top of my head:

1 Battallion Detachment
    3 Tervigons
    3 Units of Termagants (15 fleshborers, 15 devourers)
    2 Mawlocs

...you didn't specify making a good list.
(and even then, I don't think this list is quite that terrible. Definitely not tournament material but yeah)

[royalecheez]

Here's one of the lists I was toying around with 1500 on the dot.

++ Battalion Detachment +3CP (Tyranids) [77 PL, 1500pts] ++

+ HQ +

Broodlord []

Malanthropes []: Malanthrope

Tervigon []: Massive Scything Talons, Stinger Salvo

+ Troops +

Genestealers []
. 20x Genestealer: 20x Rending Claws

Termagants []
. 20x Termagant (Devourer): 20x Devourer
. 10x Termagant (Fleshborer)

Termagants []
. 20x Termagant (Devourer): 20x Devourer
. 10x Termagant (Fleshborer)

+ Heavy Support +

Trygon Prime [1]: Adrenal Glands, Bio-electric Pulse with Containment Spines, 3x Massive Scything Talons, Toxinspike

+ Dedicated Transport +

Tyrannocyte []: 5x Venom Cannon

++ Total: [77 PL, 1500pts] ++

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[Hive Bahamut]

One of my friends is big time OCD on this. He will just straight up dump something if it is 257 and not 255 or 260. He's an idiot.

Points work better from 1+ instead of increments of 5. Better balance can be achieved. (Might not be there but it has potential)

I have had 3 2000 lists, 2 1500 lists and the other 4 were random. I actually took 1494 to a multi-player hoping for the underdog.

Try to remember it doesn't have to be exact. There are several 2 point upgrades and a few 1 to even out if you NEED (like the toxin tail on the Trygon in the previous list, which kind of reduces it's output as you have to use 1A with it.) As far back as I can remember 5 points never lost/won me a game.

[BattleMetalChris]

Tervigon Toxin sacs are always good for making up that extra 1 point.