Advice on Tyranid hunting

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**Scotty1985**

Thinking of making a SM army dedecated to Nid hunting, got a colours and paints picked out, need advice however on what equipmet they should have to really make them specialists in that area of expertease?

**AvatarForm**

Ultramarines have Nid Hunters, dont they?

**ZeroSamurai**

I imagine flamers would be good for dealing with hordes of the smaller nids.

**AvatarForm**

if you run "counts as" Space Wolves... Murderous Hurricane is evil against swarms with low Initiative.

So are split firing Long Fangs.

Come to think of it, just play SW

**Oppl**

If you do this, make sure you acquire Tyranid sprues to cut up and place 'trophies' on your warriors. It isn't Codex listed or anything but it'll give your army alot more character if you want them to really stand out as Tyranid hunters.

**AvatarForm**

Oppl wrote:If you do this, make sure you acquire Tyranid sprues to cut up and place 'trophies' on your warriors. It isn't Codex listed or anything but it'll give your army alot more character if you want them to really stand out as Tyranid hunters.

Solid advice. Cannot believe I forgot that.

**GamzaTheChaos**

rocket launchers on the devastator squads. some sternguard for the 2+ wound rounds.

might want to throw in a librarian with the close combat psychic powers since his force weapon will take care of those 4+ wound creatures. And makes for a cool character who hunts their biggest creatures.

a single thunderfire cannon can also eat up any swarms.

For basic squads I say free flamer and las cannon just in case you see some 2+ saves.

a command squad with 4 plasma guns can be the Carnifex hunters ;D

**Kroothawk**

Take any of the last three Space Marine Codices and hit the auto-win button

**Scotty1985**

Great advise thanks everyone, deff wanna get the men tropyed up with some nice skulls (ta avatarform), had an idea were i would replace the any sargent chainswords blades with nid sythes/claws (not sure on the correct turm), im not well versed on the rules so thanks gamza. More of a builder/painter/experimenter, my gf's lil bro whos the player, cant really ask him for advice as it his xmas pressie this is sort of aim towards.

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Was once told that assult marines with thunder hammers is a good idea too. Idealy would like to include a raven wing style squadron to go with them, maby with a nice friendly hive tyrant skull straped to a landspeeder bonnet.