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Hey, just trying to plan out my armies on parade board (I'm hoping there's a games day, this year) and have been trying to find instances of blood angels facing tyranids in any significant battles

Any background fluff for specific tyranid hive fleets would be useful

All Iv found is the lamenters

The space hulk battle is probably the most iconic run in the BA have had with nids

Ah of course, that completely passed me by in my thinking

746.M41 - The Scouring of Ultramar
Three companies of Blood Angels are dispatched by Dante to aid the Ultramarines in scouring the Eastern Sectors. The Tyranids are most likely of Hivefleet Behemoth.

955.M41 - The Gehenna Campaign
Dante and the Third Company are engaged in battle with Necrons beneath the Silent King. Their stalemate is brought to an end when a Tyranid splinter fleet enter orbit, and Dante is forced into an alliance with the Silent King to survive. The Tyranids are eventually defeated at the final battle of Devil's Crag. Hivefleet unknown.

992.M41 - The Hives of Hollonan
Mephiston leads strike force Sanguinatus to the Hive World Hollonan to put down a rebellion, which is revealed to have its roots in a genestealer infestation. The genestealers are purged but not before a splinter fleet arrives. Mephiston sends requests for aid to Baal and the Angel Vermillion. The Blood Angels fight for two weeks before reinforcements from the Blood Angels, the Angels Vermilion and the Eldar of Ulthwe led by Eldrad arrive and crush the Tyranids. The Tyranids are of Hivefleet Kraken.

995.M41 - Beheading the Serpent
Tycho leads the 3rd to several crucial victories against Hivefleet Jormungandr.

999.M41 - The Darkest Hour
In the Baal system the Blood Angels are beset on two fronts by the Daemon hordes of Ka'Bandha on one and the Tyranids on the other. Dante unites Imperial and even xenos worlds for the fight and the Blood Angels recall the third company from Armageddon. Requests for aid are also sent to all their successors, who all lend aid to the Blood Angels - even the renegade Knights of Blood - except for the Lamentors. The Tyranids are of Hivefleet Leviathan.

???.M41
A Blood Angel's strike force of half-company strength spends seven brutal years fighting the Tyranids on the planet Skylos, cut off from all reinforcements since they made planetfall by a strange warp storm. Their Thunderhawks are grounded and they are reduced to small scattered units across a great plain where the Tyranids have made their nest. Things seem hopeless until the Sanguinor appears and inspires a unit of twelve Blood Angels to greatness. They cut through hordes of Ravenors and Lictors until meeting the Hive Tyrant itself, it is then that the Sanguinor hacks off its head and the Tyranids are thrown into disarray, this marks the beginning of the end of the Tyranid invasion of Skylos. Hivefleet unknown.

Lots to work with, thanks very much