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Thane of Dol Guldur




Leaving Flyrants, Tyrannocites, and Carnifexes aside for a moment, are there any other Tyranid MCs you like to double-up on?

I have an extra Harpy/Hive Crone, and Exocrin/Haruspex box, and while part of me wants to have one of every Tyranid MC, I'm thinking about doubling down on a second Exocrine and a second Hive Crone (vs a first Haruspex and a first Harpy). Do you think either the Exocrine and/or Hive Crone are worth having two+ on the board?

Also, I have had no luck running a single Mawloc. However, I can imagine if you have 2 or even 3 dropping AP2 blasts, your chances of flubbing are reduced by redundancy, and it might work better.

Reduncancy of (good) units always seems to do well for me. Am I on the wrong track here? Are there any other MCs you like to take more than 1 of?

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if you run Mawlocs you should either run them in pairs or with lictor support.


Double hive crones is also good IF there are additional FMC on the board - i.e Flyrants.

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Hierophant/Harridan? Lol.

I like seeing the Mawloc in pairs. Shall be testing out the Dimachaeron in pairs but other than that, not a whole lot springs to mind.

Two Crone's are probably worth it, I wouldn't bother with two Exocrines, since you could take two Mawlocs who do AP2 Large Blasts for cheaper. I'm yet to use an Exocrine out of Living Artillery

YMDC = nightmare 
   
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Cheyenne WY

 jasper76 wrote:
Leaving Flyrants, Tyrannocites, and Carnifexes aside for a moment, are there any other Tyranid MCs you like to double-up on?

I have an extra Harpy/Hive Crone, and Exocrin/Haruspex box, and while part of me wants to have one of every Tyranid MC, I'm thinking about doubling down on a second Exocrine and a second Hive Crone (vs a first Haruspex and a first Harpy). Do you think either the Exocrine and/or Hive Crone are worth having two+ on the board?

Also, I have had no luck running a single Mawloc. However, I can imagine if you have 2 or even 3 dropping AP2 blasts, your chances of flubbing are reduced by redundancy, and it might work better.

Reduncancy of (good) units always seems to do well for me. Am I on the wrong track here? Are there any other MCs you like to take more than 1 of?



I really like twin Mawlocs. And Crones are also good in pairs. So either of those is IMHO, a good choice.

The will of the hive is always the same: HUNGER 
   
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 Frozocrone wrote:

...I wouldn't bother with two Exocrines, since you could take two Mawlocs who do AP2 Large Blasts for cheaper. I'm yet to use an Exocrine out of Living Artillery



Ref the Exocrine. Its not that I think Exocrines are so great (although I do think they're fairly good...very good with Living Artillery), its just that I have an extra box, and the Haruspex alternative just seems quite bad to me...although I suppose that might be an erroneous assumption, because I've never played with one, nor ever seen one played with.

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 jasper76 wrote:
 Frozocrone wrote:

...I wouldn't bother with two Exocrines, since you could take two Mawlocs who do AP2 Large Blasts for cheaper. I'm yet to use an Exocrine out of Living Artillery



Ref the Exocrine. Its not that I think Exocrines are so great (although I do think they're fairly good...very good with Living Artillery), its just that I have an extra box, and the Haruspex alternative just seems quite bad to me...although I suppose that might be an erroneous assumption, because I've never played with one, nor ever seen one played with.


For what it's worth I don't think I've ever seen a Haruspex in competitive lists. I've heard of them being tested by some people - the results did not polish the theoretical turd.

YMDC = nightmare 
   
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I actually really like the Haruspex model build, but wtf were they thinking with those rules??? lol

   
 
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