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This is my first army list that I had planned out to start building into.

HQ:

Hive Tyrant x1

Heavy Venom Cannon
Wings

Troops:

Hormagaunts x10

Scything Talons
Adrenal Glands

Termagaunts x10

Spike Rifle
Adrenal Glands

Tyranid Warriors x3

One with Devourer and Lashwhip & Bonesword, other two with Devourer and Rendering Claws.

Total: 470 pts

I'm part of a small playgroup. One of the guys is also new to 40k like me, while the others have been playing for around 4-5 years now. Everyone is starting a new army and we plan to have a game in December.

I am anticipating that there will be a lot of infantry and very little to none vehicles. One plays Chaos Space Marines, one plays Astra Militarum, but I am not sure about the others.

Any suggestions or changes for my current list ? All feedback is appreciated, I'm still new to the game so I'm not too sure what units I should run in my list.

Like I said in the other thread the biggest issue is going to be your synapse web. Expect your warriors to be targeted immediately. Your Flyrant will be off zipping around the board, so make use of Dominion to keep his Synapse range large to keep the other units under your control.

THAT being said, bringing an FMC to a 500 point game is sort of a dick move. Despite the likelyhood that you will loose everything else the moment your warriors die, your flyrant will be basically unkillable because nobody in a 500 pt game has the points to bring skyfire.

The real issue with nids in the low point game isn't so much a question of whether or not your being super competitive and more that every match degrades into them targeting your synapse unit because why wouldn't they? It's a fight that gets old fast.

Also, throw tl devourers with brain leach worms on the flyrant. There is really no reason not to.

Lance845 wrote:
Like I said in the other thread the biggest issue is going to be your synapse web. Expect your warriors to be targeted immediately. Your Flyrant will be off zipping around the board, so make use of Dominion to keep his Synapse range large to keep the other units under your control.

THAT being said, bringing an FMC to a 500 point game is sort of a dick move. Despite the likelyhood that you will loose everything else the moment your warriors die, your flyrant will be basically unkillable because nobody in a 500 pt game has the points to bring skyfire.

The real issue with nids in the low point game isn't so much a question of whether or not your being super competitive and more that every match degrades into them targeting your synapse unit because why wouldn't they? It's a fight that gets old fast.

Also, throw tl devourers with brain leach worms on the flyrant. There is really no reason not to.

Alright, took your advice and changed my list mostly.

HQ:

Tyranid Prime

Adrenal Glands
Deathspitter
Scything Talons

Elites:

Zoanthrope x2

Troops:

Fleshborer Termagants x10

Tyranid Warriors x3

2 with Deathsplitter and Scything Talons, one with Devourer and Lashwhip & Boneswords

Fast Attack:

Gargoyles x10

Adrenal Glands
Blinding Venom
Fleshborer



I added more Synapse units to hopefully improve the web. I didn't add any Carnifexes as they got "banned" from our upcoming game.

Banned Carnifexes? So bring a mawloc. From what I understand Dakkafexen are only "mildly" competitive, and Mellefexen are "meh". Also I think the general agreement is the Prime is bad for business, but I like them. Just seems a strange thing to ban I guess. What else was "banned"?

 Lord Blackscale wrote:
Banned Carnifexes? So bring a mawloc. From what I understand Dakkafexen are only "mildly" competitive, and Mellefexen are "meh". Also I think the general agreement is the Prime is bad for business, but I like them. Just seems a strange thing to ban I guess. What else was "banned"?

We are still deciding on what is allowed, just no cheese units or lists.

I like the idea of a Mawloc, but I'm not sure what I should remove. I do want to keep the Gargoyles, however should I remove them with the Zoaths ?

In a 500 point game I think a Prime will work great. That list is MUCH better I think.

The prime can make the warriors better with the Zoanthropes being a good durable unit and give your some psychic umph.

I would consider taking the Zoan as 2 separate units. For a few reasons 1) because it will force your opponent to split his attacks between multiple units 2) because you will double your psychic dice each turn 3) because then you will have 3-4 sources of synapse running around the table with all your little nids.

IF you have the points (doubt you do) the prime works well with the Miasma Cannon. If not it's such a low point game you should do fine.

Lance845 wrote:
In a 500 point game I think a Prime will work great. That list is MUCH better I think.

The prime can make the warriors better with the Zoanthropes being a good durable unit and give your some psychic umph.

I would consider taking the Zoan as 2 separate units. For a few reasons 1) because it will force your opponent to split his attacks between multiple units 2) because you will double your psychic dice each turn 3) because then you will have 3-4 sources of synapse running around the table with all your little nids.

IF you have the points (doubt you do) the prime works well with the Miasma Cannon. If not it's such a low point game you should do fine.

Yes they are separate. I'm gonna go with the current list. Thanks !