Start collecting box

[Bee]

I am new to tyranids, and was thinking of buying the start collecting box. However, I saw there was a huge lack of genestealers and other infantry. Is there anyway to extend the usability of the 8 genestealers, or will I have to buy more?

[niiai]

The start collecting box used to be bad. But it got more interesting. The wurm is the bad part. All 3 versions die to easy, and they do not do what you want. However, the Mawlock got better in a crushing stampede list.

A crushing stampede is a special army. It has a lot of restrictions, but gives the models you take a minor bonus. The restriction for a crusher stampede army means you can not bring genestealers. So that does not really help.

Genestealers a good. You generally want a lot of them. And sling them forward with the Swarmlord! If you check the 'email me when they are available box' you generally don't have to wait to long.

The character is reasonably good. A psyker. And tyranids can use the 'fight on death' stratagem.

To sum it up. If you want a wurm you can probably get it cheaper elsewhere. If you want the stealer you do not need the wurm. If you wanne do rule of cool then go for it.

[infornography]

To answer your question: you will want more genestealers. If they reprint the SpaceHulk board game, that is a GREAT source of genestealer models in a variety of dynamic poses. Genestealers want to be in units of at least 10 when they hit melee. Units of 16 are fairly common so as to give them some buffer bodies.

If I only had 8 genestealers, I would be inclined to use them in Killteam games rather than 40k ;-)

I would definitely recommend aiming for more genestalers and termagants.