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Hi guys, i'm trying to come up with a good list that will at least give me a chance against a taudar that generally has 2 riptides and a wraithknight to play off against in 1500pts. tactics are take out markers and ignore the wraithknight unless I really have to deal with it, use the stranglers combined with shadow in warp to hopefully pin a couple of things and get everything into range (not sure about pinning a riptide?) have had some close games by hiding near a relic and waiting for them to come to me last turn and then pouncing but I was hoping to play more aggressively with this list and get up in there grill from turn 2:

+++ 1500pt Tyranids (Primary Detachment)) +++


+ HQ + (460pts)

* Hive Tyrant (230pts)
2x Twin-Linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms,Wings

* Hive Tyrant (230pts)
2x Twin-Linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms, Wings


+ Elites + (95pts)

* Venomthrope Brood (45pts)

* Zoanthrope Brood (50pts)

+ Troops + (465pts)

* Hormagaunt Brood (75pts)
* 15x Hormagaunt


* Hormagaunt Brood (70pts)
* 14x Hormagaunt

* Termagant Brood (120pts)
* 10x Devourer,20x Termagant

* Tyranid Warrior Brood (100pts)
* 2 x Tyranid Warrior
* 1 x Tyranid Warrior with heavy weapon with barbed strangler

* Tyranid Warrior Brood (100pts)
* 2 x Tyranid Warrior
* 1 x Tyranid Warrior with barbed strangler

+ Fast Attack + (96pts)

* Gargoyle Brood (96pts)
* 12x Gargoyle, 12x Toxin Sacs

+ Heavy Support + (380pts)

* Biovore Brood (80pts)
* 2x Biovore

* Carnifex Brood (300pts) (Codex: Tyranids p94)
* Carnifex ,2x Twin-Linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms
* Carnifex ,2x Twin-Linked Devourer with Brainleech Worms

TOTAL: 1496

thinking of maybe taking out the zoanthrope and putting another venomthrope in there for durability but to be honest i'm not going to be getting many cover saves and they will just die anyway and I rather like the threat of having 1st turn FnP, also thinking of chopping out warriors for shrikes to get more mobile synapse. let me know what you think, any suggestions will be helpful.

If anyone had any suggestions for this that would be great! I'm planning to play this list next week and see how it goes anyway but would like to optimise it by then if I can, do I just leave it as it is?

Looks good I would have mawlocs instead of fex's and an extra biovore but that's just my own preference. I would take off the toxin sace and just add more gargoyles

Thanks for the input! got all the units you suggested so I will run both and see what works best, only thing I don't have is another biovore and they are stupidly priced now for some reason so I will have to skip that, will post up how well it works.

I'd also maybe try and fit in a troop tervigon, for home field synapse and objective holding