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I'm just getting back into the game after a 4 year hiatus, and I am cooking up an all-comers lists for my Tyranids, basically just trying to determine paint priority from the ground up.

Here's what I cooked up for my basic 500 point starter list. I'm pleasantly surprised at what I can include in a 500 point Tyranid list.

My list:

-HQ-[240]
Hive Tyrant
Wings
Electroshock Grubs
x2 TL Devourer with Brainleech worms

TROOP- [45]
Ripper Swarm Brood
Deep Strike

-TROOP- [70]
Genestealer Brood

-HEAVY- [145]
Carnifex Brood
TL Devourer with Brainleech worms
Electroshock Grubs

500 points on the dot. What does dakka think?

As far as I can see, there are not really many options, but I figured I would run it up the flagpole and see if anyone here had any suggestions to improve the list.

Thanks in advance.




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Carnifex can't take Electroshock grubs.

Otherwise looks good.

I am not necessarily a Tyranids player, but I am in the process fo building a 500 point army for every 40k race so people can come over and have a painted and ready army to go...so with that said here we go....

The main thing I have found in my research of Tyranid lists is that generally most people suggest sticking with termagaunts/hormagaunts over genestealers. This decision is usually due to the point cost of genestealers vs their effectiveness.

I am currently looking at 500 list as follows:
-Flyrant w/ TL Devourer (seems to be the go-to HQ)
-A few Zoanthropes
-Fill the rest of the points with as many termagaunts/hormagaunts (15x per squad for termagaunts, 20x per squad for hormagaunts).

Take all my advice with grains of salt as I have only ever played against Tyranids, most of my information comes from my own scouring of the Army List sub-forum.

Hope it helps.

Amoras wrote:
Carnifex can't take Electroshock grubs.

Otherwise looks good.

Good catch.

Thanks!


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 MadMaverick76 wrote:
I am not necessarily a Tyranids player, but I am in the process fo building a 500 point army for every 40k race so people can come over and have a painted and ready army to go...so with that said here we go....

The main thing I have found in my research of Tyranid lists is that generally most people suggest sticking with termagaunts/hormagaunts over genestealers. This decision is usually due to the point cost of genestealers vs their effectiveness.

I am currently looking at 500 list as follows:
-Flyrant w/ TL Devourer (seems to be the go-to HQ)
-A few Zoanthropes
-Fill the rest of the points with as many termagaunts/hormagaunts (15x per squad for termagaunts, 20x per squad for hormagaunts).

Take all my advice with grains of salt as I have only ever played against Tyranids, most of my information comes from my own scouring of the Army List sub-forum.

Hope it helps.

I appreciate the advice. I'm new to tyranids, so any insights are greatly appreciated.

I'm using stealers for a few of reasons.

1) I bought 6 Deathstorm sets, so I have a ton of them, and I don't have any gaunts.

2) They don't have instinctive behavior, so I really don't have to worry about synapse with them. Also their high leadership is a plus.

3) Even in small units, they can still wreck units in CC. But keeping them in small units makes them appear less threatening, so maybe they won't attract much fire especially with a flyrant and a carnifex rolling down the table.

4) And I really like the models and the fluff of the genestealers. Perhaps I'm a little nostalgic for the old days when genestealers were the bomb.

Now that I know carnifexes can't take electro shock grubs, I've got ten points to spend. I wish I had 15 points so I could put another TL devourer with brain leech worms on the carnifex.

Ah I did not catch that...you want two sets of Brain Leeches on the Carni, maybe just drop Tunneling off the Rippers? I would have run Hormagaunts instead of Stealers, and that can free up points, but at low point games Stealers can usually do something.

Good luck! And welcome to the Hive Mind!

OK, I revised the list thanks to all of your advice and insight. I'm not going for a horde army in the big picture, so no gaunts.

The big picture is a lot of MCs and MSU of genestealers and rippers.

Here's my revised 500 point list:

I dropped the deepstrike on the rippers and added another TL devourer w/BLW to the carnifex.


499 Points

-HQ-[240]
Hive Tyrant
Wings
X2 TL Devourer with Brainleech worms
Electroshock Grubs

-TROOP- [39]
Ripper Swarm Brood

-TROOP- [70]
Genestealer Brood

-HEAVY- [150]
Carnifex Brood
X2 TL Devourer with Brainleech worms


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pinecone77 wrote:
Ah I did not catch that...you want two sets of Brain Leeches on the Carni, maybe just drop Tunneling off the Rippers? I would have run Hormagaunts instead of Stealers, and that can free up points, but at low point games Stealers can usually do something.

Good luck! And welcome to the Hive Mind!

Thanks!

Good call on dropping the ripper tunneling.