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So... I'm new to 40k and to dakka... but here goes..

HI! I have recently been introduced to this 40k gaming club and picked up the hobby, now I have started collecting and playing Nids, I haven't got a clue what I've gotten myself into and I have quite a collection after only flashing 100 or so quid (HURRAY FOR eBay!), but here are the units I have, can you guys suggest or scrap together a viable 1000 and 1500 point list for me with any additional options from the codex?

Hive Tyrant
Wings
Stranglethorn Cannon
Scything Talons 250

Warrior Prime
Dual Bone swords
Deathspitter 95

Trygon Prime 240

Carnifex
Crushing Claws
Scything talons 185

6 Tyranid Warriors
6x Scything Talons
5x Deathspitters
1x Venom Cannon 220

32 Hormagaunts 192

19 Genestealers
16x scything and rending
3x rending 298

42 Termagaunts
Devourers 420

10 Gargoyles 60

1 Hive guard 50

Altogether I have 2010 points worth of models any input at all would be highly appreciated also along with any suggestions of what to throw my money at as well to add to my collection.

Rip the arms off the flyrant, dual brain-leech worms is amazing on a flyrant.

For starting off the warriors will be fine, but once you start playing against more competitive lists you will learn that S8 wrecks them.

Genestealers got hit hard with the edition change, I'd wait til the new dex drops before fielding them as anything other than Ymgarls (which get around many of the shortcomings normal stealers have).

Love me some devilgaunts (those devourer carrying ones).

Hiveguard are awesome, get more of them. Its usually preference on number of them and number of Zoanthropes, so test both to determine which you like more.

10 Gargoyles is way too few. Get about 20 of them and they are very nice this edition.

Tervigons are one of the best troop choices of any codex atm. I highly recommend at least one if not two.

Hormas need 20+ models to be effective at all.

If you stick to 1000 for now:
Flyrant

2 broods of 20 Devilguants

30 Hormagaunts with Toxin Sacs and Glands

Hiveguard

Using your current models this would probably be the best, but if you get a Tervigon, feel free to drop Hormies to 20, drop on Termaguant brood, add crushing claws to the tervigon as well as AG+TS, max its powers (to roll on biomancy), then bring the 2 broods of little buys up in count til you hit 1k. You will be very light on synapse (only your flyrant), so you will need to be very careful. You could drop the hormies and put in a warrior brood, but it wont have nearly as much killing potential as the smarmier broods do.

You don't have enough field-able stuff that will do well in 1500. You would have to dip into warriors and genestealers, which both start to have their problems show around that point total.

First buy should be a tervigon though, and a few boxes (2-3) termagants with fleshborers.

Right so I now have 2 Tervigons added to the collection, I just need to paint and base them properly then I'm all ready to swarm. I've been looking at Pyrovores and Tyrannofexes and other units I have yet to see be fielded, are they any good at all? I mean IF they had a strength what would it be against IG and Orks? And with that 1000 point army you listed, tactics wise would i just get the hormagaunts out of synapse and let them rage? whilst having my devilgaunts dakka everything off that survives?