HIve Tyrant question,

[douge]

So, I'm trying to figure out what to do with my Hive Tyrant. I've got 2, 1 with wings and heavy venom cannon, but the second one is from around 2000, 3ed I think.
With the options for the Tyrants, is it better to make the Tyrant close combat or give it Twin Linked Devourers?
Also, where can I find TL Devourers?


Thanks,

Doug

[voncrown]

I'd lean towards devourer myself, especially on the flyrant. HVC can't hit flyers, and a flyrant is like our only viable anti-air at the moment. Dakka flyrant still chews up infantry all right too. Unfortunately, you have to convert the twin-linked devourers yourself, usually.

As for the older tyrant model, not so sure. I plan to do a swarmlord for my second tyrant, myself, but that might not be the best for everyone.

[infornography]

Games Workshop in their infinite wisdom only put twin linked devourers in the carnifex kit, and only put one pair there. I would recommend kit bashing your own with a different gun as a base and putting the heads from devourers that came with termagants on the end instead of the usual barrel. Looks cooler and isn't such a rare commodity.

[Lanesend]

I've seen a couple of examples of people who use the Tervigon's Fleshborer Hives. That looks pretty cool.
I think I saw them on a Flyrant from Rpricew. (who's pretty active on TTH)

[revx]

i personally like this conversion done by rampagingfex
thetyranidhive.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=painting&thread=41713&page=1

[voncrown]

I'm contemplating a conversion taking the crushing claws from a tervigon kit and incorporating two termagant devourers into the top claw half of each. I think it might come out pretty spiffy.

[douge]

Thanks guys...I appreciate it.

[bigpig]

Great example of the kitbash in this link here

www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=6600054-gws