Target priority for tyranids

[shadowfinder]

I play vanguard Tyranids. I play aggressively so I am almost always hitting my opponent first turn in their deployment area. But my understanding of what to target is not the best all the time.

What are the units that Tyranids must tie-up/ kill units for different armies?


Some armies have a lot of buffing units attached to units.
Which are the highest priority to kill?

Necrons I feel the cryptek as some give crazy buffs.
SM which one there?
Guard?
CSM?
I do not have experience vs a lot of these yet. For both styles of IK which if the smaller walker unit should I target first? Tau seam kill the suits as fast as possible. Eldar seam to have some weirdly small number of bodies in their list. What should I hunt with them?

[piersonsmuppet]

The short answer… the units they want to score with. Tyranids, especially Vanguard, can play the objective game better than most. If you can make it so the opposing kill units need to squad on objectives because the scoring units are dead, you can force the opponent into making a lose-lose decision (choosing between scoring and optimal killing). If you position well, you’re very likely to win once they have to make the choice.

For specific armies, the Vs thread might be a better place to ask which units to kill for a faction.

[wormlord666]

I usually try to kill the units beeing buffed rather than the buffer, if possible. The characters are often hard to kill. And, like mantioned above, the units that score often are often a good choice.
Haven’t played vanguard, but I imagine I’d kill the fast units. That way you’d own the movement phase. A block of terminators will be easy for a vanguard army to ”herd” around but a unit on jumppack can mess with your own weak units and you can have lone ops left in peace.