Tyranids 1500 Points =)

[leeroy1986]

I reckon i'm pretty settled in this edition with my Tyranids and the way I play them, it's just a case of practicing now and getting better. Here is my 1500 Points list:-

HQ

Tyrant
Wings, 2x twin-devs, warlord.

Tyrant
2x twin-devs

Elites

3 Hive Guard

3 Zoanthropes

Troops

10 Termagants

10 Termagants

Tervigon
Stinger salvo, glands, sacs, catalyst, onslaught.

Tervigon
Stinger salvo, glands, sacs, catalyst, onslaught.

Heavy Support

Carnifex
2x twin-devs.


Alot of anti-light tank, some anti-flyer and aload of anti-troops.

Thoughts?

Leeroy

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In my opinion, you should pod in the carnifex and the zoanthropes to destroy your opponents vehicles/scary units within 1 round of shooting. Also, consider giving your walking tyrant some guard as he cant hide behind his 3+ armor forever =o

[Jabberwocky]

To me, it kind of feels like you are trying to fit too much into 1500; or that points are just too tight. I'd maybe trim down the elites to 2 per unit, giving you some points for either the Tyrant, a spore, a 3rd elite unit, or something else.

It looks fairly solid as is but you could get more out of it with some tweaks.

[leeroy1986]

Thing is i'm not really a fan of spores as they give away KP, I know it's only 1 mission out of 6 but I want my army to be good on all scenarios really.

Basically what i've tried to fit in the army is 2 Tervigons, Hive Guard, Zoanthropes and as many devourers as possible. Now I need the Flyrant to kill flyers I went for the Foot Tyrant instead of a 2nd Carnifex as for 10 points more he is so much more useful, the only thing extra the fex gets is the extra strength but he succeptable to Jaws and nowhere as near as good in melee.

Okay so say I remove a Hive Guard and Zoanthrope what would I buy with the points? Either More Hive Guard or Devourers lol.

You see I don't want too much Hive Guard because they only have a 4+ armour save, I don't want a 3rd Tervigon because I have a tendency to roll doubles and I don't like to rely on them to win me games that's what the Devourers and tank-busters are for really. The Tervigons are good objective capturers and can maybe make some nice support units but really wouldn't want too many Tervigons, they don't really hit that hard. The Tervigaunts do hit hard but it's random/luck-based how many you will make really and you can't base a strategy on hoping you will be lucky and spawn alot of models I feel.

My Tyranid lists are built around:- Tyrants, Hive Guard, Thropes, Tervigons and Dakkafexes all mixed. I personally feel any other units in the competitive environment just aren't good enough.

Edit: Upon reflection I could prolly drop one Zoanthrope for another Flyrant I guess, that would be good. Maybe also drop 1 Hive Guard for Old adversary on the Tyrants but that puts alot of pressure on them. Also it leaves my anti-tank looking weak which is a massive dilemma really.

Leeroy

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I concur with dropping 1 zoanthrope and making the other tyrant a flyrant.

But in my opinion, at least give the zoeys a pod or drop them from the list as they will not be doing much work footsloggin' it up the board.

[Jabberwocky]

If not a flyrant, just an armoured shell for him. Maybe even a guard, then he is a pretty sturdy warlord.

[leeroy1986]

Well ive found a good use for my Zoanthropes to hold people up in combat forever lol. Well i've been trying to think to see how I can re-do it you see. I just thought of the following:-

*** Same equip as above ***
Flyrant
Footrant+2 guard
2 Tervigons
2x10 gaunts
Carnifex
2x2 Hive Guard

Flyrant
Flyrant
Fex
Fex
2 Tervigons(Without Catalyst)
2x10 Gaunts
2 Hive Guard


But I played the original list tonight it did well. Flyrants are still good, Tervigons seems a good amount of troops/support. The Footrant& Carnifex go well together running around as a little tagteam focus firing stuff to death. The tank busters make nice support together too.

My only concern is only 1 anti-flyer which is my Warlord is a major issue, but im struggling rejigging the points around but tbh it does seem a strong list. So i'm open to thoughts and ideas.

Thanks for all your input tho guys.

[wolfchild]

Don't worry too much about anti-flyer. We don't have much of anything useful in that regard, so trying to shift point so much to find it really isn't worth the hassle.
Games are won on the ground and it sounds like ur doin that already.

[Deleted]

Have you thought of giving the walking Tyrant AS and one TG? You'll save a few points and with IA you can use the Tyrants toughness for both of them. Tyrant catches Kraks and other AP3, TG catches the rest with his possibly T7-9.