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This is my first go at a 'Nid list.

Would appreciate help and advice on which wargear/biomorphs to take.

I also have the following models to add or swap out if needed:
Tervigon
Harpy/crone
Malanthrope x 3
Scythed heirodule



Tyranid 1905p

Hive Tyrant
Hive Commander
The Norn Crown
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
Wings

Hive Tyrant
Hive Commander
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
Wings

Elites

Malanthrope Brood
Malanthrope Brood
Malanthrope Brood

Troops

10x Hormagaunt
10x Hormagaunt
15x Hormagaunt
15x Hormagaunt

Fast Attack

Harpy
Twin-linked Heavy Venomcannon

Hive Crone

Lords of War

Barbed Hierodule

itsNot2ndEd wrote:
This is my first go at a 'Nid list.

Would appreciate help and advice on which wargear/biomorphs to take.

I also have the following models to add or swap out if needed:
Tervigon
Harpy/crone
Malanthrope x 3
Scythed heirodule



Tyranid 1905p

Hive Tyrant
Hive Commander
The Norn Crown
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
Wings

Hive Tyrant
Hive Commander
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
Twin-linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
Wings

Elites

Malanthrope Brood
Malanthrope Brood
Malanthrope Brood

Troops

10x Hormagaunt
10x Hormagaunt
15x Hormagaunt
15x Hormagaunt

Fast Attack

Harpy
Twin-linked Heavy Venomcannon

Hive Crone

Lords of War

Barbed Hierodule

I'm not sure what you're trying to do... Are you aiming for 2000? In general, I'd drop the Norn Crown, you get Dominion for free, so that will likely be enough, I would look at grabbing some more Troops, but that is a "style" thing.

Crones work better if they are doubled out, so you might want to swap out the Harpy...and I don't know what you are going to use Hive Commander on (it works on Troops, and yours are very weedy) so, that is also some available points to spend. To my eye the list looks weak vs Grav spam (you should see plenty of this) and vs "Melta-pods" and you will surely see one or the other of those. I think that Knights will also give you a heck of a lot of trouble as well. Any decent AA will be able to take out your Winged Tyrants quickly, because of lack of saturation, Thorax Hives full of Electro-bugs will help vs high AV, and twin Crones help give more targets for AA, but I think that play will reveal holes you'll want to fill down the road.

So I suggest you drop a few items, add a few, and play test the result, good luck, and welcome to the Hive Mind!

I put 2k into the title, I'm aiming for, 2k points list

Two winged FMC and two winged tyrants is considered low saturation? I thought that would be a decent amount of flying threats?

How many troops do I realistically need if 50 horms is too low?

How do nids deal with imp or wraithknights?

Four FMC's should be fine, if you find it isn't,consider taking another CAD for more Flyrants.

Thing with Nids is that you're Troop choices are poor buys in general. I usually take Warriors to sit on backfield objectives and call it a day. Sometimes Rippers as they are cheap.

Not to discredit Hormagaunts and Termagants, just my personal preferance. If you want to run either or the Gants, IMO they need to be at 20 models+ minimum. For Hormagaunts, it may be worthwhile purchasing Toxin Sacs for them so they can hit everything.

As for Imperial Knights, I like sending Carnifexes in to rip them apart. For Wraithknights, I find tarpitting them with hordes the best way to render them useless, but in general I wouldn't do that...best thing against a Wraithknight is to ignore and focus on other parts of Eldar.

Although...looking at your list, I wouldn't worry TOO much about a Wraithknight...the Hierodule should be able to take out with 12? S10 AP3 shots.

Other than that, not much to add...pinecone pretty much covered everything I might have said.

itsNot2ndEd wrote:
I put 2k into the title, I'm aiming for, 2k points list

Two winged FMC and two winged tyrants is considered low saturation? I thought that would be a decent amount of flying threats?

How many troops do I realistically need if 50 horms is too low?

How do nids deal with imp or wraithknights?

Two FMC, and two Winged Tyrants, might be enough, but the two FMC need to shout out "Shoot me!" otherwise the two Tyrants get focused on first (as they should be) so you need to make the foe make bad choices. Two Crones are medium scarey, and can do good work vs AV targets (and can spray acid. ) so the chances are fair, that if you protect the Tyrants, they(the Crones) will go to the top of the list.

VS Wraithknights tarpitting works very well, and if you run Toxic Hormies, the tarpit can even kill one. vs Knights, vector strikes, and Electro-bugs can do good, and tentacids as well.

Troops is really a "style" thing, I look and see 4 Troops, two are "tiny" (to my eye) and two are medium sized, So by my standards there are far too few to get the job done. If you mostly plan on them camping, and grabbing Maelstron VPs, they are likely fine, you might even want to look at Rippers.

If I was making a list I would take two Broods of Spinegaunts, x20, and two Broods of Hormagaunts, x15, and then want one or two more.(Warriors with a Strangle cannon ) But that is my style, and yours may well be different. At 2000 points I would consider 5 to 7 FMCs to be "saturation" But you local "meta" may be very different.