What Models to Buy?

[Hive Fleet Cthulhu]

Well, you see, I am in a slight predicament here. I made a large order of nids a while back, and apparently some aren't as good in 6th anymore... so here is what I ordered. It would be much appreciated if someone could tell me which I should buy, and which I should leave. No point spending money on a pointless model.

x3 Venomthropes
x3 Hive Guard (still probably good)
2 boxes of Raveners
2 boxes of Genestealers

That's all I remember at the moment.

[Hyrrokin]

I would change the venomthropes for hive guard or maybe zoanthropes also if getting stealers get brood lords, stealers are not so good brood lord is baus

[reallysorry]

How can anyone answer to that? You're not defining what type of lists you like to play... what you already have and what you're missing... i couldn't answer to this question

[Hive Fleet Cthulhu]

Well, I don't have the book, therefore cannot make a list. So, I am asking what units are even worth taking in points wise.

[ilnar]

They are all worth taking,
3x venomthropes might be overkill, it depends how much terrain your group usually plays with,

[Davor]

As for Stealers, if you think they are not good enough anymore, why not use them as Ymgarls?

Also as Pazidor said, get a Brood Lord for those stealers if not using them as Ymgarls.

[greatescape13]

Venomthropes are still solid for their points. I've continued to run one or two in lists, and they work just fine. They're good for defensive shooty lists especially--charging a unit of Devilgaunts is bad enough with overwatch, but backed up with the dangerous terrain tests that's another 1/6th of the unit perishing. Remember that in 2,000 points and above you can use two force Organization charts--so there are ample slots for a cheap model.

Genestealers are nasty still, a bit more fragile but that just means run them in larger broods in my experience (the days of the Broodlord commando squad may be passing).

The Hive Guard will be solid investment, as their shots ignore all sorts of cover saves that are not conferred by area terrain such as jinks and intervening models.

And Raveners seem to be solid as ever, suffering virtually no change to how you play them except having to weather a bit more fire before they charge. So if you're getting 2 boxes of them, just make sure that's one single unit I'd say.

If you've got to swap ONE of these for something else, for budget reasons, I would say drop the Venomthropes. But they're not "useless" in the new rules.

Cheers.

[Hive Fleet Cthulhu]

Thank you very much, greatescape. Much obliged.