1000 pt Tyranid all-comers

[doughhunter]

Hey everyone,

I'm relatively new to 40k and am thinking of starting nids for 6th. I've read a lot from this website before and am now putting forward my own list.

I'll be playing friendly to semi-competitive, just want a balanced all-comers army.

HQ

Tyranid Prime - 100 (Warlord)
Toxin sacs, dual boneswords

Elites

2 Hive Guard - XXX

Venomthrope - XX

Zonathrope - XX

Troops

15 hormagaunts - 120
Toxin sacs

12 gaunts - XX

12 hormagaunts 96
Adrenal glands

Tervigon - 195
Toxin sacs, adrenal glands, cluster spines, catalyst

Heavy Support

Trygon - 210
toxin sacs

TOTAL: 996

Main idea is to cluster important units around the venomthrope during deployment, then spread out after their first shooting phase. Prime leads an assault with the hormagaunts, gaunts and trygon while my other units hold objectives and shoot

Tell me what you guys think

Doughhunter

[jhussey]

I'm torn on this list. It's not bad, but it seems troop-lite. All of your troops choices could easily be blown apart in one round of shooting. Especially against DE or Marines. I love Zoanthropes and might suggest ditching the venomthrope for another one.

[doughhunter]

I know it seems a bit light on troops, but i'm relying on the army to be engaged with the whole army by turn 2 or 3.

I like your idea of another zonathrope, but I really want to keep the venomthrope.

How would you change it?

Doughhunter

[jhussey]

Well other than swapping the Venomthrope for a Zoanthrope, I dont really know that I would change it. I'm just so used to seeing a nid list and going wow that's alot of bugs, but I've been away for almost a year, so I dont know if the points have gone up and that's just how the army is going to be now or what. Oh and Raveners, you can't go wrong with Raveners....I love Raveners haha.

[Illithid]

I would ditch the Venomthrope - they have been nerfed to hell by the FAQs and with the new terrain rules, it is fairly easy to get a 5+ cover save for majority of things.

A unit of 12 hormagaunts if an easy kill. I personally would combine the two units into one squad of 25 and take two-3 more Termagants in the other units. This gives you three troop choices (but you have the potential to spawn minimum another one).

That Prime I would stick with the Zoanthropes and have him out the front, eating the Str 8 Shots and LoS the lesser rubbish to the Zoanthropes 3+ save. Or, I would stick him in the termagants, drop the Toxic Sacs (as he will gain these from the tervigons ability since he is in the unit).

[doughhunter]

I prefer more units to bigger units, but I agree with the venomthrope and prime. If i dropped the upgrades on the prime and the venom I could up both hormagaunt units to 16, gaunts to 15, then have 5 points change for scything talons on the tervigon.

How about that?

[tofu]

I agree with ditching the venomthrope in favour of another zoanthrope, they're just not as useful in 6th ed.

I would also suggest doing a bit of reading on how to use the hormies, as they're fragile an can be a bit tricky to use effectively.

[jhussey]

Hormies are great!!.........in large numbers. It's like having a weaker Ravener as a troops choice so if you have enough of them and can get them into an assault fast enough they prove useful, but honestly I assault expecting to lose. I do it to tie up the big guns and stop them from chewing up my more precious units.