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I'm devising a fun 750 Tyranid list, consisting of Lictors, a Deathleaper, Tyranid Prime, and an assault fex in a spod.

I was looking at what to take for troops choices, first I wanted genestealers, then I decided against that and went with a group of regular warriors for synapse and hormagaunts.

I wanted to join my Prime into a unit that he can survive with as he struts across the table to get into cc(he has a complete assault build with no ranged weapons).

Then I got to thinking "HEY! I could join my Prime into the hormagaunts to give him better chance of staying alive with all those wounds to spread around!" rather than adding him to the warrior brood.(The warrior brood consists of 3 with regular weapons+biomorphs)

After this conclusion, I saw the ripper swarms with 3 wounds each. At first I was amazed that I could throw my Prime into their unit and get 21 wounds to spread around(6 bases of swarms). Then I went looking closer at the swarms.

The swarms toughness isn't the greatest, and will be stomped by instant death by weapons with Str6 or higher. They are also vulnerable to blasts, causing them to take two more wounds whenever getting hit by blasts or templates.

So what would you all think would be a better tactic out of my three options here(or throw your own in):
1) Throw the Prime in the Warrior brood and trample across the battlefield with hormagaunts in the lead.
2) Throw the Prime in the Hormagaunt brood and run across the battlefield getting into CC asap.
3) Throw the Prime in the alternative swarm brood and strut across the battlefield while spreading the wounds around the swarms.

Remember, this is a fun list. I'm not looking for an amazing strategy, just one to get my Prime across the field and into CC.

Any help would be appreciated!

You could deepstrike the trygon if deepstrike rules are in effect, it's special rule which means it causes a s8 ap2 hit on all units within the large blast marker range of its emergence will annihilate most resistance and any that survive count as being assaulted by the trygon. Instant win!!! Although, you will have to wait until second turn but the lictor will simplify bringing it in on the second turn with +1 to reserve rolls and I think the reroll ability is still in effect from previous codexes.

sykesdragon wrote:You could deepstrike the trygon if deepstrike rules are in effect, it's special rule which means it causes a s8 ap2 hit on all units within the large blast marker range of its emergence will annihilate most resistance and any that survive count as being assaulted by the trygon. Instant win!!! Although, you will have to wait until second turn but the lictor will simplify bringing it in on the second turn with +1 to reserve rolls and I think the reroll ability is still in effect from previous codexes.

First...it's the Mawloc that has the ability, not the Trygon

Second...it's S6 not S8

Third...Survivors are pushed away from being underneath the template, they do not count as being assaulted by the Mawloc

Fourth...the earliest you can gain the benefits of Pheremone trail from the Lictors is turn 3 since they have to deploy from reserves and it doesn't give you the bonus until the turn after it comes in.

Fifth...there is no reroll ability in the Nid list when it comes to reserves, with the exception of the Swarmlord giving the ability to reroll the side of the board outflankers come on.

For the OP

Option 1) Pretty standard and your warriors gain the stats from his Alpha Warrior rule
Option 2) Depending on the number of hormagaunts, it could help his survivability a bit, although the majority toughness hurts. Downside is, he slows down the hormagaunts some as they can't benefit from thier Bounding Leap rule.
Option 3) Bad idea imho...as soon as someone starts throwing blast markers or templates around, the prime is gonna get smacked hard.