1000 points list-advice please-

[sgplague]

I played warhammer a few years ago, and I want to get back into it with a decent 1000 point army. As I havent played for so long, I am unsure what works and what doesnt, so I just want to run an army list through and get some suggestions; What are the weaknesses of doing it like this? Is it a viable army or am I just punching myself in the face?
HQ
Hive tyrant with wings and 2 sets of twin linked devourers
Tervigon with catalyst
ELITE
Zoanthrope x 1
TROOPS
Tervigon with catalyst
10 nude termigaunts
8 Genestealers with broodlord upgrade
FAST ATTACK
20 gargoyles

this comes in at 998 points I believe. Do I have enough of a punch to do any damage?

thank you all very much ;D

[sgplague]

PS I own these models, 6 tyranid warriors, a bunch of hormagaunts, more genestealers, and a trygon/mawlock, 1 hive guard, and some ripper swarms, I f you have any suggestions, i want to make them cheap as possible so keep the other models I own in mind if you make suggestions

[FTGTEvan]

I've been leaning away from 'stealers so far in 6th (sadly), but it looks like a fairly solid list. As it is, you'll need to worry about a smart opponent sniping out your lone Zoan for First Blood. Same goes if you added in your Hive Guard. That said, I like running Zoans singly and haven't actually had trouble with this happening (honestly, in nearly 50% of my games, the Zoan gets me First Blood by popping a vehicle), but I see it as a possibility, and something I might go for if I was playing against it.

The flyrant is going to be tough for a lot of people to bring down at 1k as long as you're not too risky with it. The tervs will provide a solid base for your army, and can potentially take out some tough targets your gants and gargoyles will bounce off of. If you can free up the points, I might upgrade one or both further - more powers for Biomancy and TS/AG to boost the gants, and claws on one will make it a fairly reliable tank shredder with Smash attacks.

Just some thoughts. Definitely play around and see what works well, what gives you trouble and tweak accordingly. Overall though, I think it's a fairly solid list.

[swarmy]

Maybe you could remove the lone zoanthrope and buff up that genestealer unit by a few more models and try out that strategy voraciousapathy made a thread on. Barring flamers, you could have your 12 genestealers making 2+ (gone to ground in ruins) or 3+ (gone to ground in regular area terrain) saves till you scoot the tyrant or tervigon into synapse range to get them moving as normal again. Infiltrating or outflanking into terrain fairly close to synapse would probably work ok for that if you really wanted to give the genestealers a try. I play almost exclusively in the 1000-1500 point range and I can tell you 8 won't last long enough to earn their points; Even as objective campers.

[benseek24]

Don't use the zoanthrope as it gets targeted quickly and is often killed straight away
As my club says they are floating shrimps

[sgplague]

Thankyou for the advice; ill play around with numbers a little more and maybe update tomorrow

[sgplague]

My idea with the stealers was catalyst them at all costs by the way. Probably should have said that. If i do that and make good use of line of sight and cover, would you reconsider them to be worth it again? or are changes still necessary? Also I was considering as you were saying the zoanthrope would be sniped, somehow shaving off 70 points and it, to get a doom in a pod. This seems unreasonable though unless this is what i do with the points from removing stealers?