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Ok shooting, synapse and cover it what I wanted to cover (see what I did there) in this list hope you guys like it please comment and criticise.
HQ
Dakkaflyrant
Hive commander

ElLITES
Zoanthrope

Zoanthrope

Venomthrope in bastion

TROOPS
20 gants

3 warriors
Barbed strangler

13 gants
Devourers

FAST ATTACK
Hive crone

HEAVY SUPPORT
2 dakka fexes

Exocrine

3 biovores

1495pts

Looks pretty good to me. Only thing I would swap out would be the Hive Crone and maybe a zoanthrope to get another flyrant. I think flyrant pairs are so important in a competitive list and the crone is very weak on it's own as a single quad gun shooting could potentially take it out. One flyrant get's targeted and taken down too easily but a pair is far better and massively better than a crone.

Drop one unit of Warriors for a unit of Devilgaunt, and outflank those. I'm sure you'll find they work wonders. You have enough Synapse as it is.

Other than that, looks good to me!

Made the changes it looks good was thinking about taking out the exocrine and the crone and adding 2 more dakka fexes and some more devil gaunts


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Made the changes it looks good was thinking about taking out the exocrine and the crone and adding 2 more dakka fexes and some more devil gaunts

Why a Bastion and not a Bunker? Save yourself 20pts. Or purchase 2 barricades for 20pts and get 4+ cover for your dakka fexs and zoans.


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Also drop the warriors, add more gaunts.

I don't want to use escalation or any of that stuff sorry forgot to mention

A single DakkaFlyrant as Warlord has never been a good idea in my experience. I agree that you should perhaps find a way to take another one, or maybe even a Tyranid Prime and use him as Warlord. The Flyrant just gets shot to bits too quickly, at least in my games.

I don't like the troops choices at all in this type of list you're best off going all warriors. Due to the short range and pace of the list I would get an ADL rather than bastion.

As others have suggested don't take the FA FMCs until you've maxed out HQs get a second Flyrant.

I would try to find the points to get a 3rd fex for the brood and I'm liking the Hybrid fex with HVC and Devourer these days gives you more long range firepower but maintains the tank busting abilities and volume fire of the Devourers.

Just thought I'd throw a new list out there see how it compares.

HQ
Hive tyrant
Wings, 2 devourers hive commander

Hive tyrant
Wings, 2 devourers

ELITES
Venomthrope

TROOPS
22 gants
21 devourers

Tervigon
Regeneration

FAST ATTACK
Hive crone

HEAVY SUPPORT
Mawloc

Mawloc

Mawloc

Mawlocs can't burrow turn 1. Prime joins the Venomthrope I assume in the bastion?

Your issue here is I have nothing to shoot my AMC fire at other than the Flyrant turn 1. Turn 2 I may consider shooting that Mawloc but only after the Flyrant is dead. Whilst AI goes at where ever the Prime is.

With FMCs and Mawlocs it looks like an early game pressure list. So an ADL and stealers with Broodlord seem the best fit for troops and fortifications. Drop all the troops and Prime for that. Then perhaps look at Lictors as they work well in that type of list too.

Swapped up list 2 the venomthrope hides behind the terrific to block line of sight and the big unit of gants outflanks

bobmgee wrote:
Just thought I'd throw a new list out there see how it compares.

HQ
Hive tyrant
Wings, 2 devourers hive commander

Hive tyrant
Wings, 2 devourers

ELITES
Venomthrope

TROOPS
22 gants
21 devourers

Tervigon
Regeneration

FAST ATTACK
Hive crone

HEAVY SUPPORT
Mawloc

Mawloc

Mawloc

This list is illegal. You have 3 HQs and only 1 Troops choice. You can only have a max of 2 HQs in a sub 2000 point game and you MUST have at least 2 Troops choices.

It takes 30 gants in the same brood to make a Tervigon a Troops choice.

Ok I'll make the gants 30 strong with 15 devourers and then give the miasma cannon to the tervigon instead of regen

Regen has worked wonders for me. It goes off at a 4+ and it diffidently makes models live extra turns.

Personal example, I had my WL FHT charge into a large unit of Necrons with several ICs. Before we got into CC he lost 3 wounds to over watch and some anti-CC power. By the end of the game, that HT was at full wounds.

A MC toughness + save + FNP + regen makes it extremely hard to do wounds and just as hard to keep those wounds on the model.


Also, that cannon is stupid. I would never take it in a tournament. it costs too much for such a little gain. You already have access to better AP4 guns that will hit wound just about anything on 2+ and the template isn't torrent so you will firing it once, right before you charge, maybe.

Finally, consider taking Spike Rifles. They are 18 inch guns that you can swap out for free. That way the entire brood has 18 inch guns for no additional cost. Also, spine fists are pretty good if you are shooting anything that is T3.