Tyranid warrior load out.

[garg]

What about including 1-2 warriors with spine fists as a kind of ablative armour.

[sniddy]

Personally I tend to consider lash on the VC's as they WILL be the last to die

I'm leaning towards Scytals and deathspitters with the -1AP hive for cheap or mostly boneswords and deathspitters with maybe a whip or 2 in there as well - which with the new strat could make them really annoying in a jorn hiveor just in general

A Taxi'ed in group you could consider a spinefist or 2 but I think warriors are best walking and shooting

[hiveoverall]

Kronos warriors are sadly the best now, unless you plan on running multiple exocrines. Pure strain has talked about barbed strangler exploding hits on 4s, You can sure hurt a 30 boyz unit with that ! but the meta really tends to drive us towards venom canons 

garg I sometimes field double scytal warriors as ablative wounds if I am hurting for points. But aside from kronos warriors I don’t know if they get shot that much as we have other more dangerous stuff

[1b2a]

I believe the only viable way of playing warriors is spamming them (except vs heavy gunlines, then you're boned). If you play them this way I think scything talons are the way to go with the -1 ap to talons hive fleet. Effectively that puts warriors at a -1 vs -2 ap from boneswords, but they make it up by rerolling ones. And effectively they're 4 points cheaper with chapter approved so you can spam them harder.I wouldn't even waste a physiology on them, theyll just shoot the other 40. Keep them identical and provide buffed support with hive guard or exocrine, tyrants.

I made a great list with like 50+ warriors this way. I think it would waste most armies, except space marines and tau so only less than half of them lol

[bolzor]

I also believe that 9 warriors running BS and the Pack Hunters fleet trait could be tasty. -3 AP against smaller elite targets and single models is going to bring them low while you are still mulching hordes with attacks and -2 AP (not to mention the guns).

If running Behemoth I think the answer is psychic power + rending claws. No question.

[N.I.B.]

Yeah I'm struggling with the Hive Fleets. I like Jormungandr Warriors for the 3+ armour save, but then I can't afford Sporecloud, which I think is more important (it doesn't work cross-Fleet and my Malanthrope is planted in Kronos). So I'm considering 2 Kronos battallions instead.

I usually go 3 VC's, 6 Deathspitters and Boneswords on the lot. Boneswords has done good work, but Lashwhips are great when defending a Kronos castle from cc units that want to consolidate into your gunline to stop it from shooting (Lashwhips stop Pile In and Consolidate).

[LordPathos]

I know dice are a thing and freak situations happen, but i had 6 warriors and a prime tie up scarab termies for several turns. What a silly slap fest that was.

[mule]

Most marine armies dont care about -1. Youll get value against xenos like tau but 4/5 of my games are vs some sort of SM army.

[purestrain]

Dec 28, 2019 21:31:40 GMT mule said:

Most marine armies dont care about -1. Youll get value against xenos like tau but 4/5 of my games are vs some sort of SM army.

-1 ap? Everyone cares about -1ap.

-1 hit? no they dont care.

Im confused as to which you speak of.

[mule]

Was directed at nib because hes taking.kronos to get -1 from maly on army instead of jormy.

I mean going full kronos is fine and good but not for the only reason of getting -1 to hit when youre giving up +1 to your saves.

[purestrain]

Dec 28, 2019 13:35:27 GMT N.I.B. said:

Yeah I'm struggling with the Hive Fleets. I like Jormungandr Warriors for the 3+ armour save, but then I can't afford Sporecloud, which I think is more important (it doesn't work cross-Fleet and my Malanthrope is planted in Kronos). So I'm considering 2 Kronos battallions instead.

I usually go 3 VC's, 6 Deathspitters and Boneswords on the lot. Boneswords has done good work, but Lashwhips are great when defending a Kronos castle from cc units that want to consolidate into your gunline to stop it from shooting (Lashwhips stop Pile In and Consolidate).

A full 9man warrior squad with any sword combo, spitters and three Barbed stranglers is 240 points. Not too shabby for anti infantry.

[bolzor]

Hmm thats interesting. Puts it right on that 240 point mark that makes it an ideal Hydra respawn block. Now, I know this forum is down on the 2 CP strat, but being able to recycle a warrior unit into a clutch flank in midgame may be worth it. Especially if it remains true that the unit would keep its adaptation.

This assumes that the unit would be destroyed though so you'd have to make it equally threatening to warrant elimination. Certainly puts your opponent on a back foot to know that another identical unit will show up in the backlines if they wipe it.

[N.I.B.]

Dec 29, 2019 16:27:31 GMT purestrain said:

Dec 28, 2019 13:35:27 GMT N.I.B. said:

Yeah I'm struggling with the Hive Fleets. I like Jormungandr Warriors for the 3+ armour save, but then I can't afford Sporecloud, which I think is more important (it doesn't work cross-Fleet and my Malanthrope is planted in Kronos). So I'm considering 2 Kronos battallions instead.

I usually go 3 VC's, 6 Deathspitters and Boneswords on the lot. Boneswords has done good work, but Lashwhips are great when defending a Kronos castle from cc units that want to consolidate into your gunline to stop it from shooting (Lashwhips stop Pile In and Consolidate).

A full 9man warrior squad with any sword combo, spitters and three Barbed stranglers is 240 points. Not too shabby for anti infantry.

For sure. I rather pay the extra 6pts to get anti-tank Venomcannons though, don't need the extra anti-infantry.

Saw this RTT-winning list on Dakka, for what it's worth:

Kronos
Nuerothrope

Lictor
Lictor
Hive Guard

Exocrine

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Kraken
Old One Eye
Swarmlord

3x Ripper
3x Ripper
19x Genestealers

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Jormungandr
Tyranid Prime
Nuerothrope

9x Warriors - 3x VC - 6x DS - 9x BS (Adaptive Bio)
9x Warriors - 3x VC - 6x DS - 9x BS (Adaptive Bio)
3x Ripper



I'll take it for a spin.

[kelermorph]

Wouldn’t lash whips be a great option to take a few of in a group of 9?

I mean they cost the same as boneswords but instead of +1a they let you swing upon death. Seeing as how warriors are more defensive than offensive in their function I recon that would be a good way to maintain more cc effectiveness against an assault.

[997turbo]

That's my list and I have since switched to LW/BS on the warriors.