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Hello! What do you think of this build...?

HQ1 - Hive Tyrant - w/ Hive commander - (for hive commander and pushing with the tyrranofex) - 185
HQ2 - Tyranid Prime - w/ Venom Cannon - (Stick it out with the biovores, and provide cover fire) - 135

13 Termagants, 7 Devourers, 4 spinefists, 2 fleshborers (Started in reserve, Granted outflank by the hive tyrant) - 80
13 Termagants, 7 Devourers, 4 spinefists, 2 fleshborers (Started in reserve, hopefully for trygon prime hole.) - 80
5 Warriors, 5 deathspitters (rolling hard up front bringing the pain) - 175
10 hormagaunts (strategically maneuvered around to gain table points by my side, or clean up weak squads, kamikazi team) - 50

3 Hive Guard - Impaler Cannons (Beefy support up front, stop the guys hitting the Tyrannofex) - 165
1 Venomthrope - (upfront with the tyrannofex is his main obj to supply saves against AP 1 and 2 weapons) - 45
1 Zoanthrope - (doing cool things that floating brains do after they know their psychic powers.) - 50

3 Biovores - (Pooping into the sky from the back of the board, maybe sitting on a nearby objective, needs synapse to hit those infantry squads) - 120
1 Tyrannofex - acid spray (right down this middle with this bad boy) - 175
1 Trygon Prime - Prehensile Pincer (Deep strike on an objective on the opponents side of the board) 240

1500 exactly.

Thought, comments, substitutions?

Too many options on the gaunts, not enough Hormagaunts to be useful, Biovores don't need a baby sitter that costs more than they do and outflanking the gaunts without Synapse support is gambling that they will even do anything at all.

If you want to outflank, you need to have fast Synapse, like the Shrike broods to quickly get across the table and help out. That Trygon isn't going to be reliable. If you were set on outflanking, I'd simply go Genestealers that don't need Synapse and a Broodlord for emergency 6" Synapse bubbles. The 50 on the Zoanthrope can go to a Lictor and guide the Trygon right where you want it and even better, guide the others in if the Trygon doesn't make it when you want it. Raveners are another thing to consider, maybe with some guns to really close in with the enemy after Deep Strike.

eh, I like the prime. The warriors are useless standing still, and then venom cannon isn't useful in a 5 round game if its moving everyturn, and one of the better high strength shots I have. I like the idea of the lictor, and i have two sitting around, but I really don't like fielding them without 2 squads of 4 spinefisting rippers to join it. I already have 1 venomthrope that is unlikely to see combat at all, and a lictor is targetted too quickly.

I like the idea of the shrikes, but 15 wounds charging in front with my army is too valuable. The termagants do fine, and mainly help me snatch a valuable target off the field the turn they enter, be it rear armor hits, independent characters, or objectives. The hive tyrant is using run moves most the game, to supply synapse up front and to take attention off the tyrannofex. mostly synapse won't be a problem, except for the biovores. If they come in before the Trygon, they can always outflank into synapse closer to my end of the table, but ideally i'd like something closer to line breaker.

The options on the gants are a cost saver, only 7 costing extra points, 4 spine fists to get some more sure hits with twinlinks, and 2 fleshborers to sit in front and die first, keeping the devourers in the back to live longest.

So, say I added 10 more gaunts, where do I take 50 points? Zoanthrope? Venomthrope, and have 19 gaunts? I do like large amounts of hormagaunts, but I only own 24 and a few broken ones. Genestealers i've considered, and i have 16 and a broodlord, but their cost vs effectiveness always turns me away from them, especially in a build with so much heavy support, their rending claws don't seem required.

As for the trygon, hes my hero. He usually survives more than one turn, holds an objective while he does it, and badly scars the enemy. I wouldn't trade him for anything.

 poolatka wrote:
Hello! What do you think of this build...?

HQ1 - Hive Tyrant - w/ Hive commander - (for hive commander and pushing with the tyrranofex) - 185
HQ2 - Tyranid Prime - w/ Venom Cannon - (Stick it out with the biovores, and provide cover fire) - 135

13 Termagants, 7 Devourers, 4 spinefists, 2 fleshborers (Started in reserve, Granted outflank by the hive tyrant) - 80
13 Termagants, 7 Devourers, 4 spinefists, 2 fleshborers (Started in reserve, hopefully for trygon prime hole.) - 80
5 Warriors, 5 deathspitters (rolling hard up front bringing the pain) - 175
10 hormagaunts (strategically maneuvered around to gain table points by my side, or clean up weak squads, kamikazi team) - 50

3 Hive Guard - Impaler Cannons (Beefy support up front, stop the guys hitting the Tyrannofex) - 165
1 Venomthrope - (upfront with the tyrannofex is his main obj to supply saves against AP 1 and 2 weapons) - 45
1 Zoanthrope - (doing cool things that floating brains do after they know their psychic powers.) - 50

3 Biovores - (Pooping into the sky from the back of the board, maybe sitting on a nearby objective, needs synapse to hit those infantry squads) - 120
1 Tyrannofex - acid spray (right down this middle with this bad boy) - 175
1 Trygon Prime - Prehensile Pincer (Deep strike on an objective on the opponents side of the board) 240

1500 exactly.

Thought, comments, substitutions?

I would lose the Pincer, and take a Thorax Hive on the Tyranofex, without blinking. And I always want a Cannon for each Brood of Warriors. If you have the figures, with a little fiddling you can have a Living Artillery Formation, and that would be an upgrade in power. I would lose the Big Wormey, and toss in an Exocrene, if you go that way, and spend the left over points elsewhere.

I like running the Elite slots as Doubled out Broods, so I would go Hive Guard, x2 110, Venothrope, x2 90, and Zoey Brood, x2 100 for only 40 more points, and I'd have 20 left from the 60 I saved, and buy Hive Commander.