Evolution of the 1750 list

[polkadragon]

This is a new take on the 1750 list, wasn't actually too unhappy about the dual flyrant version of this list, but decided Swarmy needs some testing as well, so without further ado:

Tyranids (1747 / 1750 points)

HQ: The Swarmlord

: Tyrant Guard

HQ: Hive Tyrant
TL Devourer w/Brainleech Worms x 2, Old Adversary, Toxin Sacs, Wings

Elite: Hive Guard Brood (3)

Elite: The Doom of Malan'tai
Mycetic Spore

Elite: Ymgarl Genestealer Brood (9)

Troops: Termagant Brood (10)

Troops: Termagant Brood (10)

Troops: Tervigon
Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Catalyst

Troops: Tervigon
Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Catalyst

Heavy Support: Biovore Brood (3)

Tervigons are kept relatively cheap on purpose, because they'll primarily be used as objective holders. Flyrant, Ymgarls and Doom come from reserves as backfield troublemakers.

General strategy is to try and place objectives as much forward as possible and make a stand in the centre with Swarmlord and Tervies, while using the faster elements to go contest the enemy objectives.

The list probably won't do great against CronAir lists, but then again which Nid list will?

Feedback more than welcome!

[Jabberwocky]

I like it, should work well.

It's basically the Tervigon version of what I would run.

[polkadragon]

Thx Jabberwocky, I actually really like your list as well, I love that you seem to have found good use for the much-maligned Genestealers again.

I wish I had the points to spare for a Harpy but with the Tervigons in it, the only way would be to drop the Biovores and scale down the Ymgarls unit and I want to give the Biovores a fair try first.

[polkadragon]

Just as an update, this list has recently taken on a very close-combat minded Chaos Space Marine army, consisting of:

Bike Lord + 5 Bikers
Flying Daemon Prince with the Black Mace
3 Units of Chaos Space Marines
3 Maulerfiends
2 Helldrakes

TL;DR: Tyranids win by massacre.

The CSM stormed forwards with the 3 Maulerfiends, the Flying DP and the Bikes, looking to get into close combat asap.
Tyranids had reserved Doom, Ymgarls and Flyrant, so needed to stall one turn.
Hive Guard immobilized one Maulerfiend, another one got tarpitted by Gaunts.
The third one got the Swarmlord in his face, although Swarmy whiffed a bit, he eventually did explode the Maulerfiends while only taking 2 wounds himself.
The Bikers split up, the Lord going for a tervigon, the Bikers themselves killing a Gaunt unit.

The Biker Lord died through a Smash attack from the Tervigon, the Bikers got killed by the emerging Ymgarls.

The Flying DP got grounded by the Gaunts (lucky Fleshborer shot), and then tarpitted by the same Gaunts for a round. By the time the DP finally got rid of the Gaunts, the Flyrant came in and Vector Striked the DP back to the warp

The two Helldrakes then came in, but couldn't stem the tide anymore and one of them was also blown up by the Flyrant.

Doom absorbed two Vector Strikes from the Helldrakes as well as Rapid Fire from one one of the CSM units. The final rapid fire from the CSM unit finally did him in, but he did his duty, act as a total diversion

Swarmlord killed all the remaining Marines, Tyranids grabbed the Relic, and cleaned up.

[lordofthebrood]

I played a similar list to that... CC CSM don't do well against 'Nids, generally. Seems like a pretty tight list you have there though! Nice work