Tyranid Newbie

[pedroux]

Hi All,

I'm looking for some advice on expanding a small tyranid force i just picked up.

The armies i will be regularly playing are dark angels (he has DW & regular DA), chaos and guard. Generally the armies are heavily mechanised.

So far i have:
16 genestealers
12 termagants
12 hormagaunts
6 tyranid warriors (not put together, so yet to decide on loadout)
1 carnifex

I know i will need to pickup a hq before even taking to the battlefield.

so what do you think i should grab to make this army competitive with those i mentioned above?

I'd like to get to 1250 points to start with then step it up to around 2000 when i can.

cheers in advance for any help

Ped

[demoric]

There are many opinions as to how you should build your force.

My advice: find a theme you like, maybe shooting, assaulting, lots of Monsterous creatures, or flying (my favorite nid theme) and build around that. Some builds are stronger than others but if you play an army you enjoy then you will be more likely to invest the time to become a good general of that army.

See the following thread for general opinions:
thetyranidhive.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=40192

[pedroux]

cheers demoric, missed that thread on first look.

I'll need to have a think about what style i want, i thought nids were a fairly 1 dimensional get into cc asap army but this forum has opened my eyes a bit.

[coredump]

SSSHHHHHH!!!!!

Geez man, not so loud. Do you want all those imperial players to hear you?? We work very hard to get everyone to think our armies are all 1 dimensional...

[engangsgrill]

Genestealers: Convert to ymgarls, or split them up and add two broodlords.

Get a tervigon and more gants. Make a brood with devourers for deployment and keep 20-25 plain ones for spawning.

Warriors: Make one a twinked out prime(hq) and keep the rest plain, or convert to something else.

Get a hive guard brood, 2-3.

After that look into getting a tyrant and a trygon.

[Davor]

Do you have the codex? You didn't say that, just making sure. I say as Engangsgrill said, make one of your Warriors as a Prime, you can even make 2 Primes and still have a legal brood of 3 Warriors. Thing is 3 Warriors is not that great from what I read, so you will have to test them out. This way you will have a HQ unit right away. Also if you don't want to have Warriors for the reamining 5, maybe you can convert them into Hive Guard as others said in other threads.

I say get the Battleforce boxset as well. More gaunts are great. Then again, do you really need more Warriors and Stealers? You can always use the Stealers as Ymgarls as said before, or "counts as" gaunts or what ever you want. For Warriors, if you want more then the battleforce box set will be great for you, if not, then maybe not such a good choice then.

You might want a Tervigon for an HQ as well. But then you will really need 2 more boxes of gaunts then. Since you are playing agaisnt DW, maybe Warriors with dual boneswords would be a great idea against them. They ignore the 2+ armour save.

Again, I will back what Demoric said, and I say in other threads. What kind of player are you? Are you a shooty player or Assaulty player? You a horde player or a MC type player or maybe a mixture of all of them? Do you play for just fun, or competively? All our recomendations go out the window if you do not like that kind of play style.

So first of all what kind of player are you?