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Just thinking about some new Tyranid models for the bug hunt. I'm assuming Hormagants will be useful, but just wondering what other kind of bugs there are in the scenario.

Found a review for the Bug Hunt (latest version in the Compendium probably has some small differences) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPr-W3-8wC4

Cheers for that.

SamusDrake wrote:
Just thinking about some new Tyranid models for the bug hunt. I'm assuming Hormagants will be useful, but just wondering what other kind of bugs there are in the scenario.

You aren't just facing bugs, but also other threats from the five Parsecs from home universe, e.g. converted (Borg equivalent), defect robots, zombies and so on. But, reading the rules, except for the spitting specialization, enemies won't shoot, only brawl. I got some old genstealers and the WGA harvesters for the bugs, and some mantic zombies as well as poxwalkers for the zombies. Other minis will be found if the scenario requires it.

I see. Thanks for clarifying.

Due to it being on special I ordered a box of new Genestealers for Bug Hunt and my 5PH campaign as well for a Grimdark Future: Firefight faction for the kids at my gaming club to choose to play. It'd be interesting to have my 5PH crew do a Bug Hunt scenario as an Encounter. I haven't read the book yet, so is that possible? My Crew might be too OP for it, though lol

It's not directly possible as far as I understood the rules. You can declare a number of characters to be going on a bug hunt, but bug hunt only uses three main characters and you drop all gear (you get it back once the character(s) return to the regular five Parsecs campaign). But nothing stops you from using the scenario generator and associated mission rules in a regular five Parsecs game, they work together quite well in my opinion.
If you think your team is too strong, you can either up the number of enemies or only engage with three of your crew characters.

In bug hunt, you can also request additional help in the form of fire teams, science personal or other aid, which may or may not be represented by other models. Might be interesting if some of these extra models can be reappearing characters in five Parsecs campaigns as well