1500pts Nids- New Player

[altair]

Hello all, I'm looking for some advice on my Tyranid list.

After taking a break from gaming for about 5 years, I decided to start up an alien army to have something different from my house mate's Space Marines. So far I have everything built on the list below apart from 4 warriors and the Trygon.

So, at 1500 points my list currently looks like:

HQ
Warrior Prime w/ deathspitter, lash whip, bone sword & regeneration - 110pts

ELITES
2 Hive Guard - 100pts
10 Ymgarl Genestealers - 230pts
10 Ymgarl Genestealers - 230pts

TROOPS
15 Hormagaunts - 90pts
15 Termagants - 75pts
15 Termagants - 75pts
6 Ripper Swarms - 60pts
4 Warriors w/ deathspitters & 1 barbed strangler - 145pts
4 Warriors w/ deathspitters & 1 barbed strangler - 145pts

Heavy Support
Trygon Prime - 240pts

I have had a couple of games at 1000 points and have learned:
1- Ymgarl Stealers are worth the extra points for the armour save and extra close combat power (usually +1 attack or +1 strength helps against marines). Also make for good tank hunters with Rending.
2- Foot slogging Gaunts die in large numbers in open areas.
3- Hive Guard are good apart from the limited range.
4- Devourers are quite effective at taking out light tanks such as rhinos.
5- I struggle due to a lack of long range anti-tank weapons.

Any suggestions? My main opponents are Marines, Chaos and Imperial Guard.

Oh and I will be posting pictures in the appropriate sub forum next week of my competed Nids and my gaming table project

Thanks.

[Illithid]

It is not a bad list, except for its susceptibility to Str 8 weaponry, which will knock out those Warriors quickly. What I do like however are the two large units of Ymgarls, that will definitely worry your enemy.

Look at getting a Tervigon, that will add quite a bit to your troop selections and buff those termagants. I am not sure what you are planning to do with the Hormagaunts, they are a very small unit and may be ineffective.

[Squire]

It seems to me like this army could use another monstrous creature to draw S8 fire away from the warriors. Get rid of the ripper swarms and 5 ymgarls and you've got enough for a vanilla carnifex, mawloc or tervigon. Then demote the trygon prime down to a regular trygon and you could afford to upgrade one of those MC's to a second trygon. I think those cuts would be more than worth another trygon on the table!

[altair]

Thanks for the advice guys, a second Trygon/ Mawloc might be the way to go as I'm not really a fan of a lone Tervigon.

Usually my Hormagaunts run up a flank as a distraction unit. If there is enough cover they can be good, getting into combat in two out of my three games so far.

Rippers could be dropped, but they have so far proved very annoying to my marine opponent, managing to lock a devastator unit in close combat for a number of turns in two games now!

[Squire]

Dec 23, 2012 21:54:19 GMT altair said:

Thanks for the advice guys, a second Trygon/ Mawloc might be the way to go as I'm not really a fan of a lone Tervigon.

Usually my Hormagaunts run up a flank as a distraction unit. If there is enough cover they can be good, getting into combat in two out of my three games so far.

Rippers could be dropped, but they have so far proved very annoying to my marine opponent, managing to lock a devastator unit in close combat for a number of turns in two games now!

Not bad, but a trygon or mawloc would wipe them out

In fact, if the mawloc doesn't scatter you could realistically take them all out on turn 2. I'm quite keen on the idea of fielding a trygon and mawloc myself. Before I started painting, the plan was to have two tervigons, but since I began on my termagants it's become apparent my slow painting is not suited to hordes of little guys (especially if they don't even make it to the table!). I'll likely replace the second tervigon with a mawloc. The idea of that large blast template not scattering is an appealing one. I could imagine games hinging on that turn two S6 AP2 large blast attack