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So I've been thinking about a decent 500 point Tyranid list that can do some damage, so I came up with this list, seems pretty solid for me, don't know about you, but I like it. Any suggestions and tips are welcome.
HQ
Hive Tyrant
Wings
x2 TL devourers w/ brainleech worms
230

Troops
Warrior Brood x3 warriors
Barbed Strangler
100

x15 Hormagaunts
75

Elites
Venomthrope 45
Zoanthrope 50

Total 500

So basically the tactic is to run up the gaunts with the Zoanthrope, Venomthrope as to provide 3+ saves, synapse and psychic powers. The Hive Tyrant flanks, and tries to take out crucial units for the enemy. Last of all the Warriors will be camping objectives and try to get shots off with the Barbed Strangler.
As said, any suggestions are more than welcome, thanks for reading.

I am not used to the format, but i think it could work.
You have AA covered with the Hive Tyrant, synapse fully covered, good cover saves and there wont be as much ignore cover as with higher point levels.
The main issue i think will be your troops, i would rather i think transform the warriors in hormagaunts or just gaunts as you have the zoanthrope on top of the Flyrant for synapse.
For instance you could have 2 squads of 11 hormagaunts there and thus 3 nice quick troops to engage.

Just keep the zoanthrope out of LOS on first turn at least as he would be the main target and you might charge on T2 so then its less an issue

Thanks for the reply, will definetley think about the gaunts. I appreciate it.

Forgive me if it sounds rude but isn't a flyrant with brainleech 230 points?

Oh yeah, didn't see,


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Should be quite right now