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I have a Tyranid army. I have what you get in the battleforce plus a Trygon prime and a Hive Gaurd.

My mate who i face the most, always seems to kill me. He has 4 squads of Gaurd, a sentinal, heavy wepons squad( with autocannons)
a BANEBLADE! a comand squad and a lemon russ.

How do i combat that?

Any advice would be handy

Thankyou

Guard player here.
For a start tell him he can't use the Baneblade, a blade is Apoc only, in a small game its an army all by its self.

Try investing in some really cheep troops to fill the troops slots. Termagants or, even better, the nightmare for IG players Genestealers.
If he is shooty shut his guns down by using the cheep troops to swomp his lines.
Nids are at their core a swarm/hord army, use you huge numbers to nom nom some IG durmsticks

Yeah, tell him to ditch the Baneblade.

Then, give Hormagaunts Tox, to re-roll wounds vs Gaurdsmen. It kills them.

if he's deploying as one giant blob around his tanks and making you come to him, it can be a hard game.

Doom in a pod will devour every squad within 6 inches, then S10 mind blast a leman which is useful if he's blobbing

Zoans in pods are super effective too, hive guard need to be on the side armor of the tanks, that can be difficult if you only have one.

Genestealers will be a hard sell since at low points he doesn't have to be anywhere near the sides of the board. /maybe/ consider a small unit of yargarbl stealers to multiassault his front lines and wipe out several units of guard then get mowed down.

Parasite of mortrex can be /very/ effective against guard if you can get him into combat reliably. If you can keep him in combat and making babies the game is pretty much over.

Large units of gaunts supported by a tervigon can be obnoxiously hard to kill, he has to chose between dropping his S8 booms on them or slowly wounding the tervigon to death with normal gunfire. Gaunts with devourers in a pod will absolutely shred guardsmen out of cover, but watch out for the blast return fire.

consider using some stand in models to experiment. Tyranids are hard to play. Consider a deepstrike heavy army with a hive tyrant so you come in all at once right on top of him with dozens of models.

apart from the ditching of the baneblade and the taking of lots of gaunts (which alone should remedy your problem), there are some units in your codex which are absolutely useless, unless you're facing a guard player. I'm looking at you, lictors.

Thanks for the feedback ill tell him about the baneblade. I think my loosing streak will end.