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I have been looking over the various Tyranid lists posted, and all of the ones I've seen stick to having 3 Warriors per Venom Cannon with no other 'special' weapons. However, if I read the rules right, one could, for every three warriors, have both a venom cannon and a barbed strangler.

Am I missing something, or is everyone really desperate to save 5 points by not taking barbed stranglers?

Bingo.

HF_Scorpion wrote:
I have been looking over the various Tyranid lists posted, and all of the ones I've seen stick to having 3 Warriors per Venom Cannon with no other 'special' weapons. However, if I read the rules right, one could, for every three warriors, have both a venom cannon and a barbed strangler.

Am I missing something, or is everyone really desperate to save 5 points by not taking barbed stranglers?

More likely that they updated the rules to match what the kit could build after many people had already assembled their models.

Do note that, in that same vein, a Tyranid Prime can now take the heavy weapon options if you so desire.

Or they ask why bother spending points adding an anti-infantry weapon to an anti-tank squad, which is what you are doing putting Venom Cannons on the unit.

Part of the maximum optimization that goes on these days. Is a Barbed Strangler really worth the points over a Devouver in the age of Armor of Contempt?

Bingo.