Tyranids heavy support

[harkonighost]

I would like to know which heavy support choice would be better to take

[gigasnail]

...wait a couple of days. new edition is hitting, no one knows jack or (please do not swear) right now.

[harkonighost]

Ok

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Unless our spiritual liege, aka Matt Ward, decides to rewrite the rules, Old One Eye will remain a (please do not swear) excuse for what he used to be. The Mawloc is too unreliable to my taste, but definetely can be game changing, if you luck out. The model is cool as well. Chances are that Carnifexen will get a lot better in the new edition, but the Trygon and Tyrannofex still seem more straight-forward and reliable. I really like Biovores, but seeing as their models are freaking expensive, I have little experience with them.

[coredump]

While Trygon/prime is a pretty safe choice. To give a good answer really requires knowing more about your list, and about the meta in your area.

[slug]

I've started using Biovores recently and I've had alot of success against the Ork, Eldar and Dark Eldar which are my usual opponents. I also like the Trygon Prime, but I've almost given up on Deep Striking him. Might as well hang a huge 'Please Shoot Me' sign around his neck as he's rarely alive for an assault. Things might change under 8th edition, I shall have to wait until Saturday.

Slug

[maeloke]

Trygons. I picked up nids after the heyday of carnifexen, so the big snakes are all I know of effective heavies.

[infornography]

I've had enormous success deep striking the Trygon Prime. Of course I run a low deployment list with a swarmy and a hive commander. Almost everything comes on board turn 2 so my enemy has distractions everywhere that they have to contend with all at the same time. The Trygon usually lives the whole game for me and wrecks a lot of vehicles in that time.

2000 point list. Flyrant, Trygon prime, genestealers, ymgarls, a pod full of zoanthropes, a pod full of devilgaunts, an outflanking Tervigon, and swarmy with 3 tyrant guard. My opponent all of a sudden has target saturation and not enough guns to deal with it all. The MVP is almost always either the Ymgarls or the Trygon prime.

[pipsickness]

I still have my overwhelming love of fexen. I've never used a trygon though ...

[harkonighost]

Thank you all I'm trying to get up to 3000points of tyranids. Only just got my first models which were 3 warriors and a Trygon (which will be a prime) and a ripper swarm (came with warriors) I'm running a nidzilla army since I don't actually have much money and need to get sets that have a lot of points and stock up on upgrades. My paint scheme is (using the old citadel range) a dry brush of skull white over skin. Then dry brushed with Mordian blue. While the blue is still wet I dry brush with skull white again to make white with a blue tinge. Then dry bushed 2 more layers of skull white. The talons, hooves, teeth and eyes are painted blood red. The carapace is different according to rank (bronze for specialists: tyranids with heavy weapons example a warrior with a venom cannon. Leaders and brood leaders White with feathered on blood red.normal troops white with feathered on Mordian blue.)

[omega]

I steadily use Trygon and Carnifexes, but I've fell in love with biovores as well. Stingray is right, though. The models are expensive, but I've modeled two of the "spore pods" that come from genestealer kits. I'll see if I can upload some pictures later.

Anyway, I've taken a single squad of three biovores and they've been really good thus far against mobs of orks and IG on foot. They are fairly cheap, Str 4, cause pinning and LARGE BLAST, great at mowing down slabs of infantry. Another great thing about them is that if you miss, it will spawn a spore mine, which can ruin your opponent's plans. Very few people use spore mines or biovores so very few people know how to deal with these at first.

If the rumors of 6th edition are true (blast damage vehicles with full strength and glances reduce hull points), imagine what three of Str 4 large blasts can do to a rhino formation. Oh my....

[ziggythetrygon]

I have three Trygon primes. They have done wonders for me so far. Synapse, 18 shots at infantry, and all kinds of vehicle devouring goodness.

[warischoy]

Also I can't help but feel that the mawloc/trygon hybrid model (trygon prime body and head with mawloc mouth and some may low tail looks pretty amazing whereas the biovore is metal and looks orky.

I have had se success with biovores in a proxy match though. Most people just walk into the mines. Of not they will have to shoot it down. Now that vehicles can only target one unit they have to shoot all their weapons getting rid of them if they want weak guys to move through the land.

I feel that they are overlooked. But then again a trygon is more useful more of the timem

[Deathnid]

hopefully Ye' olde One eye gets "just won't die" or whatever (especialy if he can rappidly regenerate alfterwards.
LOL, i voted for all 7

[guidebot]

The Trygon. Great model, Great rules.