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While this isn't for a tournament, a fairly competitive list is commonplace in my group. However, I'm kind of scratching my head for how to finish the liist. Any help is appreciated!

1630/2000
HQ – 520
Flying Hive Tyrant – 260
2x Tl Devourer/Brainleech. Wings, Electroshock Grubs, Hive Commander
Flying Hive Tyrant – 260
2x Tl Devourer/Brainleech. Wings, Electroshock Grubs, Hive Commander

Elites – 150
(3) Lictor – 50

Heavy Support – 420
(3) Mawloc – 140

Troops – 540
Tervigon – 235
Regeneration, Shreddershard Beetles
30x Termagaunts – 120
(2) 5x Genestealers – 70
Ripper Brood – 45
3 bases, Deep Strike

So with 250 left, there's a lot I can still add, especially seeing as I already have enough troops in the list to make a dual CAD for more Elites/Heavy Support, and fast attack is wide open. A hive Crone seems like its rarely a bad idea, and gargs are pretty good in objective games. The one option I do rule out, however, is a third flyrant. At actual tournaments, sure, but my group has a 1 per 1000 rule with units like the Flyrant, Riptides, and so on. Looking forward to your input!

It is not a bad list. But you lack Force Multipliers, basicly Zoeys, and/or Venothropes. If you can get one a Malanthrope would be a very good addition, Shrouding is less needed for this list, but without it an Alpha strike can totally mess up your plans. So I suggest that at a minimum. Depending on your local "meta" you will most likely do better with a Formation. Living Artillery Node if nothing else.

Adding a Formation of Lictors would do you a world of good as well.

Hi there,

Nice looking list, few suggestions to mull over but its all down to play style,

-Skytyrant swarm: Big blob around your tyrant make the unit perfect for clearing big hordes
- Genestealers: Personally I've never had much luck with them in 7th, maybe replace with some extra bodies
-Zooeys: Get these in there; extra synapse, extra AT with warp lance and dice in the warp charge pool
-Malenthrope / Venomthrope: Malenthropes are a bargain points wise, if you can convert of acquire the model, they'll do great
- 3 Mawlocks? This would be great fun but that's a lot of points not on the board in the turn they burrow and it all comes down to luck of the draw as to how effective they are

Roughly speaking something like this would be my steer, lots of extra bodies for objective games!

Formation: skytyrant
Flying Hive Tyrant – 380
2x Tl Devourer/Brainleech. Wings, Electroshock Grubs & 20 Gargoyles

HQ
Flying Hive Tyrant – 260
2x Tl Devourer/Brainleech. Wings, Electroshock Grubs, Hive Commander

Elites
1 Zooey - 50
1 Zooey - 50
1 Malenthrope - 85

Heavy
Mawlock with Ad Glands- 155
2 Carnifexs with Ad Glands - 270

Troops
Tervigon – 235
Electroshock grubs, regen

30 Termagants - 160
-10 with Devourers

30 Termagants - 160
-10 with Devourers

Ripper Brood – 45
3 bases, Deep Strike

Just my 2 cents

The idea behind the mawlocs/lictors is for objective games. Being able to choose between infiltrate and no scatter deep strike, they're great in objective games, and can get uncomfortably personal with the enemy. Plus their bubble of no scatter deep strike for their mawloc buddies, anything that gets too close risks a Str 6 AP 2 pie plate to the face. Just a trick I'd seen around that I wanted to try. Perhaps something I'll try another time.

So, I did work in a malenthrope and the Living Artillery Node, and dropped one group of genestealers. My thinking on the latter being for 70 points with infiltrate they ought to do something for me in objective games, and if not, they're easy to drop from the list. As far as meta choices, it is VERY MEQ and flyer heavy, so I went with shreddershard over egrubs on the tervigon, plus kept the flyrant flying as opposed to with gargoyles to better deal with enemy flyers. Other than that, I've got 495 left. Carnifex are always an option, Zoeys in a pod, and a tyrannofex might not be a bad idea. Here's what I've got so far though:

HQ – 520
Flying Hive Tyrant – 260
2x Tl Devourer/Brainleech. Wings, Electroshock Grubs, Hive Commander
Flying Hive Tyrant – 260
2x Tl Devourer/Brainleech. Wings, Electroshock Grubs, Hive Commander

Elites – 85
Malenthrope – 85

Troops – 510
Tervigon – 235
Regeneration, Shreddershard Beetles
30x Termagaunts – 160
10x Devourers
5x Genestealers – 70
Ripper Brood – 45
3 bases, Deep Strike

Living Artillery Node – 390
3x Warriors – 100
Barbed Strangler
3x Biovores – 120
Exocrine – 170