Cheap and good 500 points

[Uhtin]

Hi everyone!

I wanna build a tyranid army on 500 points but i don´t want it to cost alot. How should i make my army?

[Davor]

Well what kind of player are you? Are you a shooty or assaulty player? Do you want horde or just a few minis? Also do you have the codex and rule book? After we know this, we can help you out better.

[drakiskier]

2 tervigons and 2 squads of 3 rippers... 500pts with some change left over.

[vecuu]

2x Tyranid Prime
Two Hive Guard
2x 20 Termagants

One of my favorites.

[rpricew]

One Tervigon, 2 broods of Devilgants and two hive guard.

One Tervigon with CC, 10 Gargoyles, 2 broods of Termagants, 2 Hive Guard.

Prime
3 Warriors about 115 points worth
10 Gargoyles with TS/AG
20 Hormagaunts with TS
1 Biovore

Flyrant with dual Dakka
Harpy
16 Termagants

Lots of fun ideas

[Uhtin]

I personally see me as a assault player and i would like to have a few minis.

[Squire]

Anything involving a tervigon will be expensive because you'll need the tervigon itself and two boxes of gaunts

Do you want the 500 points to include an HQ and two troops? You could form the basis of this small army with a hive tyrant and a battleforce. £33 for the tyrant and £75 for the battleforce. Give the hive tyrant wings and keep its weapons default, and then take your pick of other upgrades. It flies and it can handle anything (including vehicles) in combat. In 500 points that can deal with anything nasty. Then just take your pick of what comes in the battleforce.

If the flyrant comes to about 230 points, you could have 3 warriors with a barbed strangler for 100 points, then spend the rest of the points on hormagaunts and termagants. 16 termagants and 15 hormagaunts. The tyrant rushes the opponent's most dangerous unit, the warriors and gaunts walk up and engage whatever is left. You'd also have genestealers in the battleforce, so if you wanted you could drop either of the gaunt units and use some of those instead. In any case, it's a reasonably cheap way to make

[Uhtin]

Thanks from all the help guys Realy big thanks to you!!!

[zoat]

Just for fun:
The cheapest way to get a 500 Pts army would be to buy two boxes of warriors (2x 28,50), then you would have two Tyranid Primes, a troop of 4 Warriors and 6 ripper swarms.
It won't be a powerful list though ... If you want to overwhelm most other armies at 500 Pts a Flyrant really is awesome and a Tervigon is really overkill with small games like that.

And sometimes the cheapest way is to have an eye on ebay

[DarkGuard]

IMO with 500pts, you should load up on high toughness monsters as much as you can, your opponent will likely not have many ways to deal with them. So a Tervigon or Prime, Hive Guard, and maybe Broodlord Commando units (I know Stealers aren't great now, but Broodlords are still OK and at 500pts are hard to take down). Cheap units like Termagants are of course also good, especially in numbers.

[rpricew]

@ OP, you can edit the title of the thread if you click modify on the original post. Then you can fix your spelling error.

[Uhtin]

Thanks for all the help guys, it realy helped me out.
Here is my army idea, please say what you think.

1 Hive Flyrant
3 Warriors
8 Genestealers

I will most likely go against Eldar, Necrons and Space Marines


Please give me respons and ideas to change the army.

;D

[zoat]

In games of 500 Pts you will beat everything a Space Marine-player can field just with the flyrant, to be honest. I don't know if its the same for eldar and necrons though.

It's just the fact that we have excellent monstrous creatures both in HQ and Troops and can play Nidzilla even at low points. But thats often very frustrating for your opponent.

It's not that a bad choice to begin with and for small games I suggest its more than enough.

[Uhtin]

Should i maybe swith my Flyrant to a Prime and take 2 more Warriors with me?

[wingedd20]

One thing that comes to mind, if you haven't glued weapons on yet you may want to find a more temporary way to attach some things on warriors or the flyrant. May be washable glue glue with some clay or mounting putty to hold the arm in place while the glue drys. I don't know that it will work but if it dues then you don't have to worry about regretting your early choices. You could just soak the model till you can wash the glue off and then attach something else when you have a better idea what you want.