New to 'nids seeking advice

[tyranno]

Hi all,

New to 'nids and started doing them because my local store is doing a tale of many gamers with 500pts to start (adding 250 each month till november).

My inital 500 is:

Swarm Lord

15 hormagaunts with toxin sacs

3 Tyranid warrios 1 barbed strangler


For my 1250 list (and 1500pts list) looking to add a Trygon and Carnifex.

Any advice would be helpful especially with tactics.

[rpricew]

Swarmlord is pretty powerful at 500 points. Are the other players bringing comparable HQ choices (Draigo, Abaddon, etc.) at this level? What other models do you have? I immediately thought you could swap your Swarmlord for a Tervifex (Crushing Claw Tervigon) and switch your Hormagaunts to Devilgants, since shooting is so important in 6th.

Just my thoughts.

[hellhammer]

additionally I would recommend going the Termagant path, it synergizes better with the tervigon

[coredump]

Swarmlord is a beast, but I would go with a tervigon at this points level. You can still make it into a powerful CC monster; and pump out another 100pts of troops

[tyranno]

Having read through some of the other posts on the forum why are termagaunts preferred over hormagaunts? also what is meant by devilgaunts?

Don't know what anyone else is taking at this point in time in regards to hq. Only know that the manager, member of my gaming group aswell, is doing orks for this.

The only other models i have are from the battle force box set. My aim for the army is lots of cc and few mc's destroying vehicles and being shot magnets.

[gloomfang]

Termaguants have S4 guns so they can glance AV10 without adrenal glands. Also they get buffs from a nearby tervigon.
Devgaunt is slang for a termaguant armed with a devourer. Anything with Dev- or Devil at the front means that it has a devourer or twin linked devourers.