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what type of tyranids units should I take in a 750 point list vs daemons? Only played one game using Nids and I have never played against daemons so not sure what to expect.

Hordes, Hordes, and more Hordes. Rolling on the Chaos Boon can kill your Hive Tyrant outright, it's pretty dumb.

What nids take in every game: Flyrant, Doom of Malantai, Tervigon, Biovores.

1x Flyrant

Doom of Malantai, Mycetic Spore

1x Tervigon, Toxin Sacs

1x Termagants
1x Termagants

2x Biovores

750

Poisoned hordes can deal with their big MCs, or tarpit them. Poisoned gants can also hurt almost all of their troops in CC. We fare very well against most of their shooting (all Tzeentch) due to SitW and Deny the Witch. When it comes to CC, our hordes can usually outfight theirs, because we are cheaper, poisoned, and we get extra units from Tervigons. However, be warned, their MCs can outfight ours unless you have Iron Arm, so make sure to have gant screens around your units. The Doom also works great because they usually have low Leadership on their units.

I have taken to running a huge blob of 30 Toxic Hormagaunts, and they chew through just about anything in the Daemon forces (assuming Fateweaver isn't around, but then again even he goes down with time).

Another funny funny option is a brood of Tyranid Warriors with twin Boneswords (which can ID most Daemons with multiple wounds).

You'll do fine with the normal Tervigons and Winged Tyrant list though.

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:
Hordes, Hordes, and more Hordes. Rolling on the Chaos Boon can kill your Hive Tyrant outright, it's pretty dumb.

What nids take in every game: Flyrant, Doom of Malantai, Tervigon, Biovores.

1x Flyrant

Doom of Malantai, Mycetic Spore

1x Tervigon, Toxin Sacs

1x Termagants
1x Termagants

2x Biovores

750

Nice combo AA. What do you think about replacing Doom with 2 Zoas for their psychic abilities?

Go up to close,

parasite of mortex
3 hive guayd
a lot ripper swarms with spinefist
dakkaflex

hellpato wrote:
Go up to close,

parasite of mortex
3 hive guayd
a lot ripper swarms with spinefist
dakkaflex

No. Flyrant > Mortex, although you should try to avoid psykers because of Chaos Boon Table.

Hive Guard are AV shooting .Daemons have no vehicles.

Ripper Swarms suck compared to Tervi/gants..

Dakka fex will get to shoot once and then get charged.

Biovores will wipe 1 unit of Daemons a turn.
Tervigons are almost impossible for them to kill, and you spawn gaunts around yourself.
They have no options against the Doom of Malantai, and low leadership. It will go to 10 wounds, and only their MC's can kill it, which they can't afford in a small game.
Since their shooting is abysmal, they will never down the Flying hive tyrant and it will gak all over their plans.

Unless you are throwing expendable units (gants, gaunts, and gargoyles) at the demons, avoid CC. Demons are a CC focused army that is pretty fast too. A Tervigon can get ripped apart by slaneesh demonettes. Shooting is your safest bet.

Hive Guard are pretty helpful when you have to take down chariots, and their is a lot of chariots, and the occasional soul grinder.

Biovores and even Harpies are good options for the large number of large blasts they that throw down.

That warp storm table can be a huge pain but I wouldn't plan around avoiding it. Most of our psykers also provide SitW which is great for shutting down all the demon psykers.

Didnt think i would ever say this, but boneswords are your friends against daemons.

MC's have poor ++ saves (normal armour ignored by the swords)
Pair of swords for the instant death goodness (no more EW on daemons)
Whip and sword really hurts most daemons.

All in all, if you want something that can beat any daemon in combat i'd take swarmlord.
I know points are low here, but with the new daemons book, he causes instant death alot of the time and forces them to re-roll ++ saves.
He is pretty much your daemon hunter.