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Hey everyone, I'm soon to play my friend and his tyranids at 750 points, and I'm play testing a new shooty BT list. Any advice on what is and isn't needed for this and how to get the edge on him?
Here's the lists:

Black Templar:

EC-abhor

Crusader squad 1-
7 initiates
5 bolters
1 lascannon
1 plasmagun
Rhino-
EC
Smoke

Crusader squad 2-
6 initiates
4 bolters
1 lascannon
1 plasmagun
Rhino-
EC
Smoke

2 Land Speeder Typhoons

Vindicator-POTMS


And his list:

HQ
Tyranid Prime- dual BS, ST, regen
ELITE
2x Hive Guard
2x Hive Guard
TROOP
Tervigon- AG, TS, Catalyst, Onslaguht
10x Gaunts
10x Gaunts
8x Genestealers- AG

One thing to make sure. If you kill his Genestealers, Tyranid Prime and Tervigon he wont be able to break through your rhino's. Take them out and then your very likely to win. Trust me, i used to play Tyranids and that was my main weakness, and its the same here.

Those 4 hive guard will pop rhinos all day long. So really, you have to almost table him to "save" your rhinos.
Honestly though, that Vindicator is going to do the most damage, provided he doesn't pop it ASAP. On the plus side, he needs a 5 to glance with the Hive Guard, and the 'stealers need a 6 to glance in CC (when they charge, if they don't rend).

rigeld2 wrote:Those 4 hive guard will pop rhinos all day long. So really, you have to almost table him to "save" your rhinos.
Honestly though, that Vindicator is going to do the most damage, provided he doesn't pop it ASAP. On the plus side, he needs a 5 to glance with the Hive Guard, and the 'stealers need a 6 to glance in CC (when they charge, if they don't rend).

Not entirely true. Vindicator has 24" range same as HG, so generally one turn of shooting each and see who's still alive ... that's why I would maybe go for longer range.

Also, HG will try to shoot side armour and so much better chance of penetration.

On stealers, with AG they glance on 5s and pen on 6s.

Vindicator has POTMS, so I'll likely get the first shot off against the Hive Guard. So shoot the tervigon and prime early with lascannons, what's the general order of importance for targets? BTW, he most likely is walking everything across the board.

Terv->Hive Guard-> genestealers -> gaunts. You shouldn't be able to snipe the Prime because he should have it joined to a unit of gaunts. If the prime is solo, kill it before the Terv (it'll drop really fast, so no big loss).