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Adamantium wrote:
Here is your list as I would run it with explanations down below:

Tyranid 2000pt

Swarmlord = 280 (roll for iron arm and endurance, etc)
Tryant Guard x1 = 60

Trygon w/ Toxin sacs = 210

Trygon w/ Toxin sacs = 210

20x Termagant w/ Devourer, Pod = 240
20x Termagant w/ Devourer, Pod = 240

1x Doom of Malan’Tai w/ Pod = 130

Tervigon w/ Clusterspine, Toxin Sacs, 2 Psyker powers (roll on Biomancy) = 185

Tervigon w/ Clusterspine, Toxin Sacs, 2 Psyker powers (roll on Biomancy) = 185

Total: 1740

First off, you should only run one or two tyrant guard for the following reasons: if you run only one tyrant guard with your swarmlord and you get Iron Arm on the biomancy tree, your unit majority toughness could potentially become 9 since you would use the highest toughness in this case. However, If you run two guards, this could not happen because the majority will be 6. Regardless, if you want to run more guards to protect your 280 point investment, save yourself the 60 points and use it elsewhere because its literally gonna take your swarmlord FOREVER to see combat anyways and hopefully your two deepstriking Trygons will be absorbing firepower instead of him.

Secondly, you don't need two Primes. As a deepstriking unit, the trygons aren't really your best bet. Sure, if your upgrade them to Primes they get a crazy S5 AP5 Assault 18 scatterblast when they first arrive from reserves, but that is the ONLY time your gonna use that gun because, for obvious reasons, they fare way better in combat than shooting. On the other hand, you get synapse relay points with the Prime upgrade. Tactically useful, especially if you are dropping your gants deep behind enemy lines. For this reason, I can understand using Primes. However, I would recommend RUNNING your two trygons down your opponents throat turn 1 (as they do have fleet) as he gaks his pants trying to decide to dump all his shots into two trygons or a swarmlord. Yes, its not the deepstriking army you were looking for, but will probably save your swarmlord from getting annihilated early on. Run them out of synapse as they get +1 attacks with rage (or not) and give them toxin sacs so they can reroll both all failed To Hits and To Wounds. As for your gants, just drop them in closer to synapse creatures like the swarmlord or tervigons.

The Doom is an excellent choice. You want to use him like a bomb and drop him in the most infantry-heavy saturated area of your opponents army for maximum soul sucking.

The two tervigons are great too. You will need some big mamas sitting on your objectives while you bring the fight to your opponent. I'd say the two psyker powers are a minimum because you're going to want to be throwing buffs like Endurance on your trygons to keep their survivability up. The toxin sacs are great buffs to the gants too.

As for your devilgants in pods, i'd drop them in close to synapse honchos like the swarmlord and his impressive 18" synapse range.

Gargoyles: I can honestly admit I've never used them before. Some people say their a waste, some like them. If your heart is really set on using them, I can see the advantage of using them as a turn 1 shock troop to tie up shots. Personally, I'd say scrap them and use the 108 points elsewhere.

Now for the extra 260 points. This is entirely up to you. You can invest in deepstriking synapse/psyker creatures (which i would do) such as a flyrant or a spod of zoanthropes to further complement your deepstrike army. Or pick up deepstriking heavy hitters such as a dakkafex or a third trygon and upgrade him to Prime (not another bad idea). Purchase more guards if you feel that your swarmlord is too vulnerable. Or add those gargoyles back in the mix if your really set on using them. All in all, you have a great foundation that you can now tune to your preference. I personally run a list somewhat similar to this using dakkafexes and flyrants. I think a deepstriking Nidzilla army is not only competative, but FUN as well... After all, isn't winning fun!?

And also, I looked into the reserve issue proposed by ruminator. Cieged is right, deepstriking units don't count towards the "half your units must start on board" rule.