Flyrants - shooty or melee?

[Obsidorox]

I bought one of the plastic hive tyrant kits a short time ago and I'm trying to decide on how to build it. I don't own any hive guard so I figured a flyrant would probably be the best but I'm not really sure how to outfit it. I really didn't want to load him with 2x TL devourers. I can't stand the look of them and I don't want to inhibit any psychic shooting attacks if I were to get them. I was thinking of a CC tyrant - whip&sword with scy talons. Getting into combat would nullify the added protection of swooping though. Is a CC flyrant a viable option or is ranged firepower the better way to go? Thoughts?

Side note - does old adversary completely nullify having a single set of scy talons now?

[Overread]

If you're open to the idea consider magnets. They are normally not too difficult to attach to minis with arm sockets and they can let you change the weapon load out of a mini to whatever you want in a given situation. Considering that Weapons on nids is basically the only model difference people worry about it means you can have multiple options for your flying tyrant without having to purchase a lot of different ones.

[angeleania]

Build it, then magnetise the arms so you can swap out the weapon load. they are cheap and actualy easy to fit.
If want a melee, then sure swap powers, if get a blessing or maladiction, bonus, boost self or debuff the target and jump it.
if get a shooting attack, fine jump close and fire then charge. Two powers you should get something of use.

[nurglitch]

Old Adversary gives Preferred Enemy, which is re-rolling 1s on both hits and wounds. So a Hive Tyrant with Old Adversary and two pairs of Devourers is going to have an advantage in combat over a Hive Tyrant with Scything Talons and a Heavy Venom Cannon. The difference being mainly that a Hive Tyrant comes with a pair of Scything Talons as its default, whereas Old Adversary is the cost of a Heavy Venom Cannon.

However you do it, I think you should put at least one shooting weapon on a Hive Tyrant. That way it can fire one witchfire power and one weapon per turn, and kill stuff even if it doesn't, or shouldn't, get in combat.