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Im not speaking fluff wise, but with taus guns and weapons and tyrannies melee. I'm still new to 40k so please give advice if it will help


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Sorry about auto correct it won't let me spell tyranids right away.

If anything, Tyranids and Tau don't provide a lot of synergy. Tyranids these days are better as a close range shooty army (18 inch range).

A better ally for Tau would be Orks who can provide CC elements.

Saw your other thread and quite frankly, Tyranids don't need allies to be competitive. I have seen them ally with Tzeentch Daemons for easy troops summoning which worked well.

I'll just leave this here, I won a RTT with it last weekend and its been pretty sick in playtesting:

Hq
Ethereal (warlord): 50

Troops:
3 crisis suits, bonding knives, 6 missile pods: 159
1 crisis suit, bonding knife, 2 fusion blasters: 53
1 crisis suit, bonding knife, 2 fusion blasters: 53
1 crisis suit, bonding knife, 2 flamers: 33
1 crisis suit, bonding knife, 2 flamers: 33
10 kroot, 1 hound: 65

Elite:
Riptide, burst/sms, interceptor, earthcaste pilot array: 215
Riptide, Ion/sms, interceptor: 190


Heavy:
Skyray, sms, blacksun filter: 116
Skyray, sms, blacksun filter: 116


Tyranid Leviathan detachment:

Hq:
Hive tyrant, wings, 2 twin linked devourers, electroshock thorax swarm: 240
Hive tyrant, wings, 2 twin linked devourers, electroshock thorax swarm: 240
Hive tyrant, wings, 2 twin linked devourers, electroshock thorax swarm: 240

Troops:
Mucolid: 15
Mucolid: 15
Mucolid: 15

1848 total

Its got really good synergy, assures air dominance, and punishes deathstars by covering the table in more targets than they can hit or feasibly deal with. It can soak up most alpha strikes. It has psychic support vs deamon armies. All while maintaining a good balance of hard hitting units and useful obsec.

Another question someone told me to try imperial guard.