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Joining an escalation league next month, and I'm running 2 armies. Elder and tyranid a. League starts at 500, and elder is easy to make a list. I'll be playing against Tau, marines, chaos, harlequin, Mars, and orcs. Is it possible to make a viable tyranid list at 500pts? The tau are the ones I'm worried about.

It is. However more details will be required as to what you have, what's allowed, how much it needs to build into, etc.

The dakka flyrant is your best bet. Nothing at 500 points can really handle a flyrant. That leaves you 270pts to do whatever you want. In my experience without them nids cannot compete. Might as well start early in escalation. Maybe a min unit of warriors with cannon and hormagaunts to assault units dangerous to the flyrant and hold them. If you have a malanthrope they are also very cost effective, being that synapse is usually heavily taxed, and you get cover saves all around

Good points with the flyrent. I was thinking of having a maw, love that double pie plate surprise attack.
On a side note, my other army I'll be playing , eldar, my hornets just arrived today. So now I need to rethink my eldar too.

Then do it. Flyrant, two broods of either 15 Termagaunts or 12 Hormagaunts and a Mawloc. Done. Or, take Rippers for proper Obj Sec goodness and have 30pts for Regeneration on the Flyrant.

Points to keep in mind about the flyrant:

- Give him all the usual devourers with brainleech worms, wings etc.

- Fly him around, to the rear armour of vehicles and gun down everything you can see!

- He's your only synapse source! Keep in synapse at all times, and consider spamming the dominion primaris. 18" is usually enough no matter what ye doing.

Otherwise good luck, and have fun in the torunament!

One more question on the flyrant. Since it's a flyer, does it need to start off table and come in 2nd turn with a roll, or can it start on table then fly to get the 6 to be hit?

Can start on the table but if you don't get first turn or worse lose first turn he's gonna attract a lot of fire

Ok, thank you

The traditional solution is to start in cover, and have a Venothrope nearby.