Are the hive guard really worth it?

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**PsychicStorm**

Hey, I've been looking to getting hive guard for a while but wanted to know if their cost in currency and points are worth the actual troop

**Marmatag**

That's tough to say without more info. I won an ITC tournament with 2 units of hive guard in my list. They performed well enough. They're a threat. If your list can produce multiple concurrent threats, you're doing it right as Tyranids. But they don't fit into every list. I don't think they're strong enough to build a list around.

**Galas**

Marmatag wrote:
That's tough to say without more info. I won an ITC tournament with 2 units of hive guard in my list. They performed well enough. They're a threat. If your list can produce multiple concurrent threats, you're doing it right as Tyranids. But they don't fit into every list. I don't think they're strong enough to build a list around.

Oh man all of this sound soo good. "They are a balanced unit that have a place in a proper list when you use them well, but they aren't so good that all your strategy will be based in spamming them". How envious I'm of the Tyranid Codex.