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What would people suggest I get after I bought the Tyranid Battleforce. I am looking for a evenly balanced army because I am going to magnetize my main Creatures.(Carnifex,Hive Tyrant.)

Many Thanks

TYRANIDS WILL CONSUME THE GALAXY!!!NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!

Get zoanthropes and hive guard. These will be the best ranged anti-tank units for you. Beyond that it will really depend on how you want to run your army.

I second that lictors are fun too hehe gene steelers are pretty good and fun and killy.

Tyrant is useful.

Ah indeed. cowpow is absolutely right. You'll need a HQ to field the army! Tyrant is great. For an hq outside of him though you will have to proxy or get creative and custom make your own unit. Since GW doesnt make any of the other tyranid hqs.

Genestealers.
And after that, get some more Genestealers.
Seriously, look on ebay and buy a huge lot of the old style ones on the cheap as well, because you'll want more genestealers.

Infiltrate has got to be the best move ever, IMO.
My army has 3 units of 20 genestealers, 2 of those with toxin sacs.
I infiltrate the group of 20 as close to the enemy line as possible. Then I put the other 40 behind that for a 4+ save. Add other bugs to taste.

But really, that many genestealers that fast getting cover saves from the one crap unit, not enough dies fast enough. And then you just explode claws through the back of skulls, taking out all of their troop units, winning 2/3 of the game types before they begin.

Doomthumb excellent comment those guys are so great its not even funny

I hate those guys when i play against them and love them when I use them.

Warriors with bone swords cause nice synaps and bone swords equal death not as much as genestealers but still they are nice.

Im started with tyranid later im started with space marins later im have more points in my space marins army.And think,think and think now im understand tyranid suxs.



ps.
Tyranid suxs really mutch.

Uh oh! Sounds to me like a Sweede got themselves a Tyranid smackdown!

Ja, men du er svenske. Du ville virkelig være en autoritet på suge.

p.s.
Tyranids vs Ork is the most savage possible beatdown imaginable.

Nids are fun they can be really nasty unless you write a noob list and play like a noob.

Doomthumbs 2k of green skins vs 2k of nids on a 4x4 nuf said.

Nids dont suck.

cowpow16 wrote:Nids are fun they can be really nasty unless you write a noob list and play like a noob.

Doomthumbs 2k of green skins vs 2k of nids on a 4x4 nuf said.

Nids dont suck.

Good God how do you even fit all the models on the table! :-)

Some more troops of your choice, a HQ and plenty of hive guard.

Honestly, for tyranids you can go anyway from assault, balanced, or shooty. I personally enjoy assault based since of the tactics with out having to sound like a bitch for your cover saves across the map.
I generally run 5 units of 5 genestealers each with broodlords. This tactic is really fun because your opponent is gonna kill what ever unit he shoots at, (imagining your playing against space marines) but if you have to many units then some will get stuck in combat for more then one round while the rest will receive cover from the unit still in combat or any that are in front of it. After that first or second turn usually all your actual genestealers are dead, but the broodlords are fearless and kicking (preventing kill points) these single fearless models can easily run around and hide from almost anything (like a lictor in disguise) pulling better cover saves from being smaller and surviving longer with its better armor save.

Lots of points doing alot, cheap for the number of models.

i currently am experimenting with having 4 units rather then 5 and having 1 unit of 30 hormagaunts and a unit of 30 termagaunts. The Hormagaunt unit containing a Tyranid prime with lash whip, bone sword and scything talons

while having 3 mawlocs as rare. to distract and terrorize (although the mawlocs are weak) they provide strong tactical and area advantage being able to prevent wins or draws with in objective games.

i usually go with just a group of 3 zoanthropes and a mycetic spore to pop the hard tank otherwise everything else can claw the light transports down to size and i consider the hive guard optional being that they seem to get out of range or unable to shoot because of the mass combat that is always in the front line.

----OF COURSE these are only my experimentations with what i have Ive seen plenty done with a sniper list, flying list or a swarm list its your choice of what direction you wanna go just make sure you dont have units doing nothing throughout the game