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Ok...not an actual army list, but rather a model list to find out what I can help my daughter do with it. Weapons and the like the store said they will help us modify. We do have the brand new codex. These models are old, a lot are pewter and some are from 2nd ed.

Here is what she has and I have no clue what to make with it:
57 Hormaguants
52 Termagants (1 Devouer/9 Spinefist)
1 Zoenthrope
3 Ravenors
2 Carnifex
2 Hive Tyrants
2 Tyrant Guards
8 Warriors
4 Lictors
5 Rippers
38 Genesteelers

Nothing very competetive, but that's what I would do:
Give wings and 2x2 devourers to tyrants
give one of them Hive commander and send
30 gaunt blob (armed with devourers) into outflank
2x5 genestealers to leave them in reserve and then come out and take home objectives;
10 genestealers to infiltrate into forward position in area terrain, to draw fire turn one and go to ground with them so they last longer;
2x25 blobs of hormogaunts with poison rushing forward together with tyrrants
3 raveners with rending claws also rush in synapse of flyrants, forward. perhaps unit of 4-5 barebone warriors with barbed strangler for synapse support behind the hormogaunt blobs.

Interesting thanks.

I do not think you need to have devourers on the gaunts. If you are willing to invest may want to get a exocrine or tyranofex, tervigon, and a couple hive crones and a venomthrope and a couple zoanthropes..
If you want to work with what you have
I would make the carnefexes - dakkafexes - 2 TL devourers
I agree wings and two TL devourers for the tyrants
Warriors the normal weapons potentially one with stranglethorn cannons
You could convert one warrior to a prime and have him in a blob squad of hormaguants with toxin sacs - 30 man
Instinctive behavior is what you want to avoid so having a lot of synapse on the board is a good idea - tyrants, zoanthropes, warriors, primes, tervigons, Trygon primes are your synapse creatures, you always want to try to keep things in synapse with your little guys in synapse. I think what you have has the potential to be competitive, I think you could go horde, lots and lots and lots of bodies on the board in gaunts and then things to keep synapse, flyrants without crones to back them are going to fall quickly..

I'll look into that, thanks