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I’ve always had a weird attraction to the idea of a Tyranid gunline, now the codex is out I’m wondering if it can work. Here’s what I’ve come up with:

I had to drop the Hive Guard from 6 to 4 to make room for the Exocrine. I’m wondering whether I should just drop the Termagants, take some more Warriors and the extra 2 Hive Guard.


++ Battalion Detachment +3CP (Tyranids) [34 PL, 721pts] ++

+ HQ +

Hive Tyrant [9 PL, 182pts]: Heavy Venom Cannon, Power: Onslaught, The Miasma Cannon, Two Deathspitters with Slimer Maggots

Tyranid Prime [6 PL, 107pts]: Boneswords, Deathspitter, Warlord, Warlord Trait: Synaptic Lynchpin

+ Troops +

Termagants [9 PL, 240pts]
. 30x Termagant (Devourer): 30x Devourer

Tyranid Warriors [5 PL, 96pts]
. Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Venom Cannon
. Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Deathspitter
. Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Deathspitter

Tyranid Warriors [5 PL, 96pts]
. Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Venom Cannon
. Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Deathspitter
. Tyranid Warrior: Boneswords, Deathspitter

+ No Force Org Slot +

Hive Fleet: Kronos

++ Spearhead Detachment +1CP (Tyranids) [63 PL, 1274pts] ++

+ HQ +

Malanthropes [5 PL, 140pts]: Malanthrope

+ Heavy Support +

Carnifexes [12 PL, 250pts]
. Carnifex: Bio-plasma, Heavy Venom Cannon, Spore Cysts, Two Deathspitters with Slimer Maggots
. Carnifex: Bio-plasma, Heavy Venom Cannon, Spore Cysts, Two Deathspitters with Slimer Maggots

Exocrine [11 PL, 216pts]

Tyrannofex [11 PL, 238pts]: Rupture Cannon, Stinger Salvo

Tyrannofex [11 PL, 238pts]: Rupture Cannon, Stinger Salvo

+ No Force Org Slot +

Hive Fleet: Kronos

+ Elites +

Hive Guard [13 PL, 192pts]
. Hive Guard: Impaler Cannon
. Hive Guard: Impaler Cannon
. Hive Guard: Impaler Cannon
. Hive Guard: Impaler Cannon

++ Total: [97 PL, 1995pts] ++

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You likely need Termagants, for bubblewrap. So you should keep them, but you don't need Devilgaunts for that job. That saves 120 points right there.

pinecone77 wrote:
You likely need Termagants, for bubblewrap. So you should keep them, but you don't need Devilgaunts for that job. That saves 120 points right there.

Good call! I had forgotten how many points I’d sunk into that unit. That’s the Hive Guard up to 6 models, leaves just shy of 30 points free to share a few upgrades around.

My friend has been running a Kronos gun line since the book came out and every single person he has faced as had a very rough time lasting until turn 3. He does a double battalion, two hive tyrants, three units of rippers, three units of gaunts, two Tyranofex's with rupture cannons two Exocrines, a unit of four zoanthropes, two neuothropes and a malanthrope. He had hive guard but really didn't need the shooting so he put in the neuothropes so if anything happens to get through the screen to the gun line they get psychic blasted