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Ok, So i recently started playing nids not too long ago and i've had a few games and only really struggle agains mech marines. Next week however I'm going to be going up against a mates Dark Eldar list.

Now i've played him before and won, but this time we're going up to 2000pts

It's a casual game, neither of us are looking to trounce the other guy, but obv we want to win and more importantly have a good fun game, that lasts, that isn't full of insta win mobs and tacs!

So i'll explain a little on what i reckon he'll be bringing; Probably 10 Incubi, 20ish Wracks, Warriors and Wyches + some Archons and Heamonculi however this isn't to be taken as red, he could turn up with brand new models so i can't really guarantee.

My List's currently are:

LIST 1

2000pts Tyranid
Hive Tyrant
Heavy Venom Cannon/Adrenal Glands/Acid Blood/Toxic Miasma/Armored Shell
275

2 Tyrant Guard
120

Tyranid Prime
Scy Talons/Rending claws/Adrenal Glands
90

Tervigon
Scy Talons/Catalyst
180


2 Hive Guard
100

1 Venomthrope
55

Doom of Malan'tai
Mycetic Spore
130



30 Hormagaunts
Adrenal Glands
240

3 Warriors
Pair Scy Talons
105

3 Warriors
Pair Scy Talons/1 Venom Cannon/Scy Talons
120


20 Gargoyles
Adrenal Glands
140



Trygon Prime
240

Carnifex
Crushing Claws/Scy Talons/Bio Plasma
205


2000pts


LIST 2 (swaps out Gargs and 3 Warriors for 10 stealers for 170 points, leaving me with 90 ish points iirc)




I'm kinda swayed to LIST 1, for reason of more synapse nids, and Gargs are just plain fun to kamikaze into enemies!

cool no crit, i'll run with this list then, must be pretty good

I would say:

Drop the venomthrope
Drop the tervigon
Regenerate for the trygon
Spore for the Carnifex
More hive guard
Fill the rest with more gaunts/gants

S_P

I don't know how I feel about the warrior squad that only has scything talons. Same with toxic miasma on the Tyrant. I'd say drop both to add a squad of 15 hormagaunts with toxin sacs. Either that, or take a barebones brood of termagants to take the Tervigon as a troops choice. A T6 W6 monstrous creature that counts as a troops choice can be devastating. Also, I don't really know what the gargoyles are doing. Unless you're planning on using them as a screen for everything else, then you're probably gonna find them dying in droves for no real reason.

Too much points in the Hive Tyrant, he's not assaulting really so why all those upgrades? Give the Guard a lash whip though.

You've got too many HQs. Tervigon needs to be troop choice but you need a min squad of Termagants for that.

You need more Hive Guard, two is not enough. Get rid of the Doom, he's not that cool.

I'd take two units of Hormagaunts but with toxin sacs instead so you wound on a 4+ and re-roll to wound against equal or lower toughness to your strength

Not sure what the Gargoyles are meant to be doing.

Single monstrous creatures will die quickly. Take two Carnifexes or two Trygons; Trygons if you want assault Carnifexes if you want shooty shooty