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Has anyone used two hive tyrants and if so how effective were they? My idea is to have 2 tyrants walking down the field as a spearhead with either 1 or 2 guard and a gaunt screeen with tervigon support each tyrant paroxysming troublsome units that get close enough.

2 Flyrats with OA, screened by 2 tooled up garg squads is sexy to the extreme.

I could imagine 2 Tyrants could be pretty devastating. But they take up a great portion of your points aswell.

I run a single Flyrant w/ TL-Dev and OA, and a Parasite as the 2nd HQ choice, and Gargs... Works wonders, actually!

Unfortunately, it's almost certainly not worth the points. At minimum, with one guard each, it costs over a quarter of a 2000 pt army.

Also, the Tyrant isn't that great in assault. Don't get me wrong; he certainly isn't terrible. You just have better options in the codex. While Paroxysm is extremely good, it's countered pretty hard by a psychic hood.

azgrim wrote:Has anyone used two hive tyrants and if so how effective were they? My idea is to have 2 tyrants walking down the field as a spearhead with either 1 or 2 guard and a gaunt screeen with tervigon support each tyrant paroxysming troublsome units that get close enough.

I dropped 2 Tyrants during my last game,which was at 2k against BA. One was a Flyrant with TL Devourer,Lash Whip/Bonesword,and Old Adversary while the other was a normal Tyrant with TL Devourer,Lash Whip/Bonesword,and Hive Commander[I had two units of outflanking Genestealers in the list,as well],with a single Tyrant Guard. It worked out well for me,as I won by a massacre on turn 5,but we were admittadley playing on a small table[40x48] and opponent made a huge tactical error by setting several units too far up in his deploy zone. I definately want to try that list out again on a standard sized table[with a few tweaks] and with my opponent set up better to see how it will fare.

I think one key to running two Tyrants is that you have to have enough threats out there to screw with the opponent's target priorities. I also ran two Trygon Primes in my list,so I had 4 MC's and my opponent had to decide between the heavy hitters[Trygons] and the not quite as heavy hitters that also buff the army[Tyrants]. I felt that the pacing of the Tyrants worked well. The Flyrant sort of kamikazee'd in and maximized the initial Hormagaunt charge with OA,and the other hung back and advanced with my Hive Guard to provide synapse. While my opponent was dealing with the Flyrant,2 Trygon Primes,2 Hormagaunt Broods with Toxin Sacs,and 2 broods of 'stealers,he just had nothing left that was any real threat to the other Tyrant,and he just sort of waltzed into his deploy zone and picked the bones.

I do not know. If you compare point for point you will se that a tyrant is amlmoast always better then a carnifex for just 10 points more.

Also, they can get coversaves for 60 points, not a bad deal all in all. Some people have had sucsess with spaming carnifexes and trevigons and hive guards. Simply too mutch T6 S3+ to deal with. I would imadgine that hive tyrants would fitt right at hime there, but then perhaps drop the tyrant guard. It is around 40% of just another big threath.

I would also imadgine that the eficiensy of the build would depend a lott on your oponent. Dark eldars warriors and SW rocket spam being the top of the list.