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So i play tyranids and i probably study codex / study tatics for about 2 hours a day ( i know .. ) and i haven't lost a game in around 1 month, i play about 1- 1.5 a day, and dont take this as a " Omg such a lier bragger, probably cheats ".

So i was wondering what peoples approch to playing against tyranids are.

Are they like, wtf? he just created units?

omg big scary thing, shoot......

Haha, i just kill your tervigon with ap3 weapon trolol.

his units can come in from the side?

the doom of malan'tai just killed my whole army?... wtf? he must be cheating, thats fkn bs!

lol, just some types of thoughts ^^ the above one actually happened, was pretty funny.


So... Thoughts?

I stay in my vehicles as long as possible, then win combat against a group of 20 hormagaunts w/ poison with just 6 standard grey hunters when the hormagaunts were the assaulters.

ivangterrace wrote:I stay in my vehicles as long as possible, then win combat against a group of 20 hormagaunts w/ poison with just 6 standard grey hunters when the hormagaunts were the assaulters.

CURSE YOU SPACE WOLVES! I hate facing them with Tyranids.

I play against two different tyranid armies quite a bit ( check out the painting and modeling section for some cool pics) . It really depends on the scenario and the Nids army composition. Generally it's fairly easy to vaporize the troop choices in an objective based game but if you just focus on the nid's troops ur probably playing for a draw instead of a win.
The most important thing is to shoot the synapse creatures with everything you have and dont rush forward to assault if you don't have to, patience is the real key to having success against the nids.

My loss is against Nids, but that's simply because he had a power that reduced my BS to 1 or something silly like that. Basically I kept failing to nullify it and he kept doing it, and promptly wiped me out.

However, my Blood Claws did wipe out his Gaunts and Genestealers (Max pack of them + Wolf priest = many attacks =D )

I play Tyranids so I am on the receiving end of enemy tactics.

1. Mech up. Tyranids are short of anti-tank weapons.

2. Don't close the range. Most tyranid weapons are short ranged, typically 12 to 24 inches. You can outshoot them. They want to get close and get into melee.

3. If you have to receive a charge, be in cover. Only one unit (the Carnifex) has grenades, so everyone else will be striking on I1.

4. If you have to get into melee, get your charge in first. Lots of Tyranids have bonuses on the first round of charging. You may not win but you will lose slower, by denying them their charge bonuses.

5. When in melee, try to contact several units if you think you can win. Tyranids suffer badly from the Fearless rule when things go against them.

6. Monstrous Creatures are vulnerable to support weapons like meltas and plasma. Mid-sized creatures like Warriors and Raveners are only T4 and get IDed easily by such weapons.

7. Have a psychic hood man or whatever it is that makes IoM armies good at Space Magic, and put him in a transport. This makes him immune to Tyranid Space Magic while letting him use his powers to the full.

8. Shoot the synapse creatures first. Once they are dead the army becomes useless.

9. Beware of deep striking from Mycetic Spores, Trygons, and Mawlocks. Genestealers can also give you some nasty surprises.

10. Overall, the Tyranid army works by combining several units and threats into a mutually supporting attack. You should aim to frustrate this by movement and shooting priorities.

I use drop pods to make them turn around/face the other direction to deal with the threat behind them. Then blast the crap out of them with missles, lascannons and whirlwind blast templates.

I usually load up on pie plates to face Tyranids, it's very easy to reduce the number of gaunts and other swarm units with blast templates, and I also use many meltaguns and plasmaguns to combat the MCs.

Wolfun wrote:My loss is against Nids, but that's simply because he had a power that reduced my BS to 1 or something silly like that. Basically I kept failing to nullify it and he kept doing it, and promptly wiped me out.

However, my Blood Claws did wipe out his Gaunts and Genestealers (Max pack of them + Wolf priest = many attacks =D )

haha xD

Not scary. Beginners mosty think they're the army to beat. They're not.

I second Kilkrazy's point about denying them their charge bonuses... I recently faced 5 Ymgarl genestealers with my Death Company, who can re-roll to hit and wound on the charge. It would have been nice if I had been able to charge! That and - I forget the name of this rule I'm afraid - but always think about where the super stealers are going to pop up if your 'Nid opponent plays the ones that decide before you start, where on the map they are going to emerge during play. If you hold that area/terrain piece, that's a negated 'Nid unit. My worthy foe was a fan of the Mawloc too, which has 6 wounds... so if you're a BA player, take the Death Company Dreadnought with Blood Talons. Attack, wound, repeat.

bucheonman wrote:Not scary. Beginners mosty think they're the army to beat. They're not.

Yea because most terrible players just move everything foward as fast as they can and launch everything as fast as possible without thinking xD