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I don’t have any Tyranid models, but the lictors are calling to me. Is this a decent casual comp list to run? Any thoughts?

Less Sneeky (2000 Points)

Tyranids
Vanguard Onslaught
Strike Force (2000 Points)

CHARACTERS

Deathleaper (70 Points)
• 1x Lictor claws and talons

Winged Hive Tyrant (220 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Monstrous bonesword and lash whip
1x Tyrant talons
• Enhancements: Stalker

Winged Tyranid Prime (95 Points)
• 1x Prime talons
• Enhancements: Neuronode

Winged Tyranid Prime (85 Points)
• 1x Prime talons
• Enhancements: Hunting Grounds

BATTLELINE

Gargoyles (150 Points)
• 20x Gargoyle
• 20x Blinding venom
20x Fleshborer

Gargoyles (150 Points)
• 20x Gargoyle
• 20x Blinding venom
20x Fleshborer

OTHER DATASHEETS

Lictor (60 Points)
• 1x Lictor claws and talons

Lictor (60 Points)
• 1x Lictor claws and talons

Mawloc (145 Points)
• 1x Distensible jaw
1x Mawloc scything talons

Neurolictor (65 Points)
• 1x Piercing claws and talons

Neurolictor (65 Points)
• 1x Piercing claws and talons

Neurolictor (65 Points)
• 1x Piercing claws and talons

Ripper Swarms (20 Points)
• 1x Chitinous claws and teeth

Ripper Swarms (20 Points)
• 1x Chitinous claws and teeth

Ripper Swarms (20 Points)
• 1x Chitinous claws and teeth

Tyranid Warriors with Melee Bio-weapons (170 Points)
• 1x Tyranid Prime
• 1x Tyranid Warrior claws and talons
• 5x Tyranid Warrior
• 5x Tyranid Warrior claws and talons

Tyranid Warriors with Melee Bio-weapons (170 Points)
• 1x Tyranid Prime
• 1x Tyranid Warrior claws and talons
• 5x Tyranid Warrior
• 5x Tyranid Warrior claws and talons

Von Ryan’s Leapers (150 Points)
• 6x Von Ryan’s Leaper
• 6x Leaper’s talons

Zoanthropes (220 Points)
• 1x Neurothrope
• 1x Chitinous claws and teeth
1x Warp Blast
• 5x Zoanthrope
• 5x Chitinous claws and teeth
5x Warp Blast

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One of the things to consider with Vanguard is how to protect your units with Unseen Lurkers. You have three good candidates for this: The flyrant and the two units of warriors that will get the keyword by being joined by the winged primes.

If you have a plan for using them, they are fine, but otherwise especially the flyrant is only borderline good. Rapid ingressing a unit and then using Unseen Lurkers to protect it is a viable, if expensive plan.

I would say you have too many lictors. Consider what 6 lictors on top of a big unit og leapers will bring you apart from a lot of fragile forward deployed units. Lictors are protected by Lone Operative. Lone Operative is defeated by proximity. Infiltrating close to the enemy brings proximity. If there is a point to it, it is fine, but this seems like a case of over-comitting. I would cut the normal lictors and either deathleaper, the leapers or a neurolictor. A lot of the secondary scoring potential of these units can be handled by a biovores or ripper swarms and you already have the latter.

Consider adding exocrines and splitting the zoanthropes. Zoanthropes are slow, medium ranged threats. One big unit can be seriously misplaced and is expensive to bring off the table with Invisible Hunter as long as you need Rapid Ingress and Unseen Lurker.

You can shut down enemy movement pretty well with the gargoyles, especially if you can bring them in two waves. The warriors are probably good melee threats, but trying to both block movement with a string of gargoyles and assault with a unit of 7 50mm bases through your own unit can lead to very awkward positioning. Plan for it as you may otherwise hinder yourself. Alternatively, bring more shooting, it does not care about your gargoyles body-blocking the enemy up close and personal.
   
 
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