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Perhaps bar Hive guard, who I think you need to take out tanks, but I think you can get a large amount of Tyranid CC spam for much cheaper than shooty Nids. Has anyone tried this?

hormagants are more expensive than termagants. Get 3 mawlocs and lots of wings, have a gargolye shield, turn 2 combat and some deep striking damage madness. Could work. CC is for real men. Shooting is for girls

For example:

Hive Tyrant
-wings
-AG
-TL Devourers w/ BL Worms
-Implant Attack OR Toxic Miasma

15 Hormagants

15 Hormagants

10 Genestealers
-TS

15 Gargoyles

15 Gargoyles

3 Mawlocs

2 Venomthropes

2 Venomthropes

This is 1500 points. Has coversaves for your hormagants and 3 DS MC, flanking GS, flying HT with a gargoyle shield. The mawlocs and tyrant need to hunt vehicles down. It could work but would take some outsmarting your opponent to pull it off and some good cover saves.

obimarleykenobi wrote:hormagants are more expensive than termagants. Get 3 mawlocs and put your full army on wings, have a gargolye shield, turn 2 combat and some deep striking damage madness. Could work. CC is for real men. Shooting is for girls

Hhahaha! I like your comment!

I thought Mawlocs sucked; what role do they fill in this list?

Try a 60 stealer list - bang a tervigon in for FNP on one brood and a pair of trygons.

I thought Mawlocs sucked; what role do they fill in this list?

The deepstrike and can cause damage by landing within the ranks of an army. They also can go back into reserve mid game and deny kill points to your opponent and could be a general pain in the backside. They do acquire some thought to use though. The size of the model can block LoS to the rest of your advancing army. The idea is psychological, to force your opponent into re-prioritizing thier targets.

Here's an idea for a 1500 list

parasite 160
HT, wings, AG, old adversary 265

Stealers x 8 tox 136
Stealers x 8 tox 136

15 gargoyles 90
15 gargoyles 90

Trygon, AG x 3 630

You might argue that that many gargoyles aren't strictly necessary, but I feel it adds an element of flexibilty to the list if you wanted to split the HT and the Parasite, although I'd argue that having them close means the whole blob benefits from the preferred enemy rule.

Just an idea!

obimarleykenobi wrote:They also can go back into reserve mid game and deny kill points to your opponent

Just to note - if they're in reserve when the game ends, they count as destroyed so are kill points.

To be honest, Genestealers can do so much damage in combat you don't 'need' any more combat...
Two large units of toxin sac Stealers with a broodlord, getting FNP from a Tervigon, infiltrating is a very very hard hitting and nasty tactic, probably the best Nids have imho.
If your going all out CC; Parasite, Swarmlord, Hive Tyrant, Hormagaunts, Genestealers (inc Ymgarls), Gargoyles and Trygons are what you should be looking at taking. Fexes, Warriors and Tyranid Prime can also be useful but not as good/cost effective.