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This is the Tyranid list I usually run, sans the bodyguards for the Tyrants. I haven't needed them yet, and I haven't gotten around to buying them.

2000 Pts - Tyranids Roster

1 Hive Tyrant @ 176 Pts
Enhanced Senses +1 BS; Toxin Sacs +1 St; Twin-linked Devourer (x2); Synapse Creature; The Horror; The Shadow in the Warp
1 Tyrant Guard @ [45] Pts
Rending Claws; Scything Talons

1 Hive Tyrant @ 176 Pts
Enhanced Senses +1 BS; Toxin Sacs +1 St; Twin-linked Devourer (x2); Synapse Creature; The Horror; The Shadow in the Warp
1 Tyrant Guard @ [45] Pts
Rending Claws; Scything Talons

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Enhanced Senses +1 BS; Twin-linked Devourer (x2)

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Enhanced Senses +1 BS; Twin-linked Devourer (x2)

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Enhanced Senses +1 BS; Twin-linked Devourer (x2)

16 Hormagaunts @ 160 Pts
Scything Talons

16 Hormagaunts @ 160 Pts
Scything Talons

8 Genestealers @ 184 Pts
Extended Carapace +1 Save; Toxin Sacs +1 St; Rending Claws

8 Genestealers @ 184 Pts
Extended Carapace +1 Save; Toxin Sacs +1 St; Rending Claws

8 Genestealers @ 184 Pts
Extended Carapace +1 Save; Toxin Sacs +1 St; Rending Claws

1 Carnifex @ 138 Pts
Enhanced Senses +1 BS; Twin-linked Devourer (x1); Venom Cannon

1 Carnifex @ 138 Pts
Enhanced Senses +1 BS; Twin-linked Devourer (x1); Venom Cannon

1 Carnifex @ 138 Pts
Enhanced Senses +1 BS; Twin-linked Devourer (x1); Venom Cannon

Total Roster Cost: 1977

Again, not posting for critique or suggestions...but you can if you like.

Thats a serious MC list. How do you find the hormagaunts? I'd posit spinegaunts would be a better meatshield.

The Gaunts are pure throwaway units designed to tangle up something I want pinned for a turn.

Then they die.

They also help keep mobile armies with Bikes pinned on their side of the board until I can get the MC shooting onto them.

Funny thing is, at the end of the game when 4 or 5 of the MC are down...it's the Genestealers that really hurt.

The Gaunts are usually thrown away by Turn 4 unless my opponent is doing the Good Sir Robin...

Not bad...

you kept it simple and every unit has his goal..

I would make one hive tyrant flying with a warp field..this way you can keep up with your hormaguants (synapse)...If you dont want to do this I would suggest you get termaguants instead. Hormaguants are to fast for your synapse... If the charge its possible that the lose and get destroyed being out of synapse range...

Thanks.

I can't really use a Winged Hive Tyrant in this list. The Wall needs all 8 MC to hold...and I usually run the Tyrants about a foot apart within it.

With big units of gaunts I usually don't have a problem staying in synapse. By the time it's a problem, there's usually only a handful left...and it doesn't matter if they die by that point.