Brood Swarm Box

[roygbiv]

So hey guys I finally sat down to build my brood swarm box. Built the Genestealers and a Swarmlord. The was going to go for the exocrine, spent ages looking for it to no avail. Notised I had a extra big round base instead of the oval. Seems I have two Hive Tyrant kits in here! 

So I bought this from Wayland games and Can't exactly return it now since half is built. Recon I have a chance of getting myself a exocrine kit from them? Or Should I be contacting games workshop directly  about this?
I'm not too upset anyway at least there was something instead and just no model  

[autoxidation]

Contact GW and they'll likely ask for some numbers on the box. GW customer support is actually pretty fantastic and they'll get you sorted out correctly.

[yoritomo]

Either way works. It just depends on how much you like your local game store.

I’d take your brood swarm box (in whatever state of assembly it may be in) to your local game store and tell them what happened. They’ll talk to their GW rep and he’ll make it right. GW has a long history of correcting these kinds of issues. The response varies from case to case, so I can’t make any promises; but GW is known to be fairly generous with replacement kits when mistakes are made.


If you want to take care of this yourself then just email GW customer service, the address is on their website. Pictures and receipts are helpful but probably not necessary. Just follow the instructions they give you and they’ll make it right.

Let us know how it goes.

[roygbiv]

Awesome well fingers crossed then. I've built a swarmlord atm so if it comes to it il just build a flying hive tyrant aswell. This is my whole tyranid army atm

[yoritomo]

I wouldn’t worry about it. GW generally doesn’t make you return products. Though I wouldn’t assemble your second tyrant until you have resolution on the replacement.

[roygbiv]

So after a a few emails and long waiting with wayland games they are sending me a new exocrine kit so all has ended well and with me having an extra hive tyrant to build

What weapon comobo would you guys go for on a flyrant and a hive tryant on foot? Cheers

[yoritomo]

Hive tyrant on foot should be a swarmlord. The favorable wound degradation, double move, and bone sabers are more than worth the price of the upgrade.

Assuming you already have a swarmlord then you really need to look into magnetization. You’ll want to magnetize a large gun (it doesn’t matter which one, people can’t tell the difference), one set of rending claws, two sets of scything talons, and the wings. Yes, you can put wings on the walking tyrant. That will cover just about every build you will use. Though you will want to keep your eyes out for large devourers.

If you are set on gluing the arms on then you’re going to want to put the heavy venom cannon on him. This will let him get in the fight sooner as getting across the battlefield is going to be much more difficult for him. The second weapon is really personal preference. The optimal build would be a set of devourers, though your tyrant will fold in close combat with this armament. Being able to shoot into close combat helps but it isn’t a good as any of our close combat weapons.

[afewveiws]

Tyrant options and related play styles:

Wings/melee- turn 1 charger might be further boosted

Wings/gun- mobile herassment dual devs will get charged because 18" is weak (relic helps alot) but a cannon and/or deathspitters achieve similar goal with saver ranges if bothing else.

Only guns- synapse and support psycher. Cannons push them further back but dual devs and similar sets are goilng to be supporting your front line divers

Cannons and claws- doesnt have to be MRC but is usually what youll see since they are the best weapon you can get for free. These guys are back field support that can agressively defend the rest of the backfield. Great in pairs near exocrenes and hivegaurd (nid gunlines lol)

Guns and claws- heard them called gunslingers before but with the new shoot in melee (except blasts) monster rules these guys can play the forwards support role better then a all gun guy cause he can get stuck in to avoid being shot.

Pure cheap melee- if you want a tyrant to be a glorious killing machine (atleast for a nid monster) then go with the flyer above. This last build is for a pure melee with out wings which is sub optimal and should not have more points dumped on it... 2 pairs of MRC is free though so anything made cheap enough might be consider good so I include it here.

I believe this is the gist of tyrant options at the moment and how you intend to use them dictates the load out you will want to give them so ... what do your tyrants do in your list?