My First Army List

[brakkus40]

Hello all. Now that 6th edition is upon us, I decided to try a different army than my standard Tau army and landed with Tyranids. I love the models and the idea of the Hive Mind. With that said, this is the initial list I am going to start with. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or if I am just totally lost and doing Tyranids completely wrong. On to the list!

HQ:
Hive Tyrant
-twinlinked devourers with brain leech worms x2
-wings
*Not sure about psychic powers completly yet. I'm not overly impressed with codex powers and this leaves me completely open to suggestions on what to run with on this guy.

Troops:
Termagants x10
-devourers

Termagants x10
-devourers

Tervigon
-adrenal glands
-toxin sacs
-2 extra powers

Tervigon
-adrenal glands
-toxin sacs
-2 extra powers

Hormagaunts x20
-adrenal glands
-toxin sacs

Hormagaunts x20
-adrenal glands
-toxin sacs

Heavy Support:
Trygon

I'm pretty sure this list comes out to 1480 points. With the spare points I was thinking of putting toxin sacs on the Trygon and not sure with the last 10. I think having my troops slots maxed out will help with objective games as neither the Termagants or Hormagaunts are particulary resilient. With 3 synapse creatures I should have enough coverage to keep my little bugs under control and the 4 MC's could be enough to keep my opponent occupied. Any thoughts, suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks!

[brakkus40]

After talking with a friend and taking his advice I have decided to make a few slight changes to the list. It would now be:

HQ:
Hive Tyrant
-twinlinked devourers with brain leech worms x2
-wings
*Not sure about psychic powers completly yet. I'm not overly impressed with codex powers and this leaves me completely open to suggestions on what to run with on this guy.

Troops:
Termagants x10
-devourers

Termagants x10
-devourers

Tervigon
-adrenal glands
-toxin sacs
-2 extra powers

Tervigon
-adrenal glands
-toxin sacs
-2 extra powers

Hormagaunts x20
-adrenal glands
-toxin sacs

Elite:
Hive Guard x3
Heavy Support:
Trygon Prime
-toxin sacs

The list is still 1480, but I think it has a bit more balance with the addition of the Hive Guard and dropping one squad of Hormagunts. Does this list seem better overall or am I just completely off the mark with my choices so far? I look forward to your comments, feedback and criticism

[Illithid]

On the tyrant, go Biomancy wand hope for Endurance / Iron Arm. Besides that, perhaps drop the hormagaunts for gargoyles if you have them.

[eugee]

I like the second list more; I agree with Illithid, because you have no screen for them, the hormagaunts might not be optimal. They can be very effective if they reach the line mostly intact, but right now they'll outrun everything else and probably get caught alone. With 4 MC's in 1500 I think it's hard to work them in. You could drop the devourers from the termagants to make a gargoyle screen I suppose, but those devilgaunts provide a nice threat to anything approaching your tervigons.

I was about where you are on this list before I dropped the second tervigon and took some gargoyles and ymgarls instead. If you really like the double tervigons then I'd go with it, and see how it feels. Maybe run the hormagaunts with the Trygon Prime to put a threat in front of it? I don't run my hormies without gargoyles these days so I'm leery of it.

Like I said though, it's a good list.