2000 point list

[bugkeeper]

Hello fellow Nid players,
I have been playing Tyranids for over a year with no loses so far (go go great devourer!) I make tons of lists all the time with many people to play against to try them i have faced almost every army. (except grey knights, Dark angels and sisters of battle) I thought i would start posting a few of my lists here. I would love some advise as i read through here almost everyday i will explain why i do things the way i do but, i am warning you i play list very different then people here.


HQ-Hive Tyrant |w| Heavy venom+armored shell
HQ-Prime|w|deathspitter+regen+bone swords
Elite-2 Hive guard
Elite-7 Ymgarl stealers
Elite-Doom in spore
Troop-18 Termagants
Troop-Tervigon |w| AG+TS+Catalyst+onslaught+regen
Troop-20 Hormagaunts+AG
Troop-20 Hormagaunts+AG
Heavy-Trygon
Heavy-Biovore
Heavy-@ 2 Carnifex |w| regen

(@2000)
The list, like i said is not much like allot of lists here. The Carnifex both are vanilla but with a the prime they can soak up allot of damage adding FNP or endurance makes it very difficult to kill. (kinda crazy) the Biovore can stay with the Tervigon so he wont derp and shoot the wrong target. The Trygon will deep strike along with the doom they are used wherever i need them and the Trygon makes a lovely sponge as he soaks up allot making it hard to shoot the fex and the Trygon. The Ymgarls are a worry unit making the opponent fear every piece of terrain. The Hormagaunts rush to hopefully hold things up.

Feel free to ask questions or ideas. (I would prefer advise over changing the whole list.) This is just one of the lists that has been working for me Thanks for reading i will post more soon.

[wisdomseyes1]

1) first thing that I notice... A single biovore. Why?
2) next thing... Do me a favor and never ever use the HVC... Ever. It makes me sad to see such a huge waist of points and I HAVE to scream out when someone makes that mistake. And it is a mistake which I'll be happy to elaborate on.
3) you took the Fexen for the prime to soak up wounds? Termagants do that job better for the points. A 20-30 man strong termagant unit can take all the fire from the opponent taking most saves on the primes armor and look out sir. 20-30 t3 wounds is a bit better than 8 t6 wounds... For 150 points compared to 380? Points for the Fexen. I understand you want the regen, but the amound you actually recover isn't all that much.
4) remember you, at 2000, have an additional force organization chart allowed to you (you can take 6 elites, 12 troops, ext)

[bugkeeper]

Well, the heavy venom cannon is amazing looking (that might sound silly but i play for fun) and game wise i have had allot of luck with it. The single Biovore is for messing with guard blobs along with other low armor guys its really handy because 30 guardsmen with over watch is kinda scary against Hormagaunts even more so when they are in cover. The fexen are also good when they get there (that happens a good amount of the time) along with being allot less scared of low strength shots then gaunts the prime with the fex is also very good at little tricks ive figured out for 6th edition. This is also the only list i don't use multiple force orgs for 2000+ the list has done well for me so far. Also thanks for pointing out the look out sir idea with the prime i will add that in my future lists(:

[Deleted]

As Wisdom stated Biovores are best taken 2-3 and HVC is bad.

If your run Carnifexen, they are terribad for CC. 370 points for 8 attacks and 8 wounds is just not a good bargain. That's why you only see Dakkafexes, 24 TL s6 shots is quite a bit more damage.

You should also consider the fact that the Tyrant is gonna get focus fired to dust without any Guard. Unless you fight a lot of Orks he is gonna get wailed on with Plasma, Las, Railguns, etc. right off the bat making his armoured shell quite worthless. With Guard he can absorb ap3 and worse shots, while the Guard take the ap1/2 allowing armoured shell to improve your unit survivability quite a bit. If you do want a HW on your Tyrant consider the STC. It is impossible for the HVC to wreck even an AV10 vehicle unless its open topped in one shot, unlike the SVC, and is worse for anti-infantry than the STC unless you commonly fight lots of 4+.

Edit: Now that you've said your play against IG, the STC should be a no-brainer. ID pie plates wreck their face.
Also, if you just like the look of the HVC use it as a "counts as". Most people won't care, and even more don't know the difference between how any Tyranid stuff looks anyhow and wouldn't know it was a HVC or STC if asked.

[bugkeeper]

i will for sure try the strangler on him and i need to buy guard is another problem they are on my list of things i need to buy. thanks for the input its greatly valued. The dakkafex.. i despise them i'm sorry to say i could not run them they are so silly to me i will try them in the future but such a towering beast with little tiny arms.. makes me laugh a little. i know its effective game wise its just hard to run it and again my fex are built the way they are they counts as is iffy at my store some people will refuse it. Again thanks you your thoughts are appreciated.

[Deleted]

I agree, the MC devourerers are puny and pathetic looking which is why I'm gonna be converting some better looking ones myself.

[bugkeeper]

Now that's a idea! Maybe you could combine the two arms on each side (like the forge world crusher fex) to look more interesting and less puny (:

[Deleted]

I'm either gonna use a STC or HVC with a devourer cone Ill model with GS which would be easy or Deathspitters beefed up with GS and cones added. The regular Devourers look like stumps :*(

[bugkeeper]

i cant justify using them unless i did a conversion those sound like valid ideas

[wisdomseyes1]

I heard some people use the Fleshborer hive from the Tfex kit for MC devourers. Not sure what they look like but that might be a good modeling option.