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Hi all,

My Middle Son wants some advice on his Tyranid army list.


Here is what he has put together so far:


Hive Tyrant x 1 with Stranglethorn Cannon: 190 pts.

Tervigon x3 with Toxin Sacs and Catalyst: 185 pts each (555 total).

Termagaunts x20: 100 pts total

Hive Guard x2: 100 pts.

Zoanthorpes Brood x2: 120 pts.

Tygon Prime x1: 240 pts.

Tygon x1: 200 pts.

I believe this puts his total at 1505 pts.

Thanks for the help.

I like it, the only thing I would change is drop the trygon prime down to a reg trygon and put the zoanthorpes in a spore pod.

He doesn't have enough gaunts to have 3 tervigons. They are making 3d6 gaunts a turn. That is each one. How does he field them? He needs some gaunts on the field to even have them as troops in his army. He does have one HQ spot open so one can be an HQ. Not to mention the others that he is going to create. With 3 tervigons he would need at least 60 gaunts for creating in my opinion. Then the ones on the field as well.

Hope this helps.

Hi latch66, i`ve been trying to get this codex working for a while now.
Tyrants dont get much love these days which is a shame, i like them but i feel they need guard for them especially when using them as gun platforms.
As for gun, yup definitley, nids need all the pinning weapons they can get.
I`m still running mine with a hvc but i`m wanting to try it with this and possibly t/l devs w/b-l worms.

I have yet to try tervigons myself but i think 3 is just 1 too many at 1.5k pts. I`d take 1 out and split the gaunts in to 10`s giving them devourers with the points. this will give him 4 solid troops +x gaunts from tervis with synapse all over the place, rockin :-).

Zoans? spot on, 3`s too expensive i feel.

Hiveguard? 1 more i`ve found 2 dont quite cut it.

Trygons are, in my own personal experience, the best m/c in the book, prime on both if deep striking, if moving up dont bother, adrenal glands should also be thought about.

Thats my 2 cents worth on it, this looks like a killer 1.5k nid-zilla type army. 5/6 m/c in 1.5k is nasty.

I wanna fight this army so much :-)

At 1,500 I think you would be better dropping one tervigon and beefing up the other units.

1. Tervigons to have AG as well as TS.

2. Tyrant to have tyrant guard. Prefer devourers.

3. AG on the trygons

4. 3rd zoanthrope and spore - as 2 generally miss.

Thanks to all for the replys.

My Son likes the Zoan with the Mycetic Spore and he will definitely add another hive guard, loose one tervigon, get some more termigaunts and add AG to the tervigons and trygons.


Once again, thanks for all the help.


Now I will need some help in how to defeat this monstrous mess.

Dark eldar. Seriously they are pretty much auto win on any nid list out there.

As for the bug list itself I think it could use a few tweaks.
- more hive guard for anti tank duty.
- as mentioned more termagants. You also have 3 tervigons. With force org as it is you could field one as HQ, and the others in troops, but if go with 3 squads of 10, you can max out your troop slots.
- I would drop the tyrant. IMHO he doesn't really bring much as a shooting platform, and without wings and gargoyle screen won't fare well as an assault beast. (since he's slow) I would suggest swapping him out for a prime. If you go with 2 tervigons in. Troops, 1 as HQ, 2 termagants units of 15 each, a unit of warriors for the prime to join, you have a nice strong unit of troops. And the prime+warriors if armed with boneswords and deathspitters can do combat and shooting pretty good.

Just my few bits but hopefully it allows some additnal insights. Best of luck with the bugs. They are hard to play and win with, but very fun to build and paint. Plus they have a unique style which I think is great fun to play.