First 'Nid List, Balanced 1500

[Zegarnald]

HQ: Flyrant 196 Points
Enchanced Senses
Wings
Toxic Sacs
Warp Field
2x Tl Devourers

Hive Tyrant 247 Points
Enhanced Senses
Toxic Sacs
Barbed Strangler
Venom Cannon
2 Tyrant Guard

Elite: Carnifex 113 Points
Enhanced Senses
2x Tl Devourers

Warriors x 3 109 Points
Enchaned Senses
Extended Carapace
Toxic Sacs
1x Barbed Strangler
2x Devourers
Scything Talons

Fast Attack: Warrios x 3 117 Points
Winged
Devourers
Scything Talons
Enhanced Senses

Troops: 4 x 9 Termagaunts 216 Points

2 x 10 Genestealers 340 Points
Flesh Hooks

Heavy Support: Carnifex 148 Points

Total: 1486 Points


First time playing around with making a list. I'm trying to go with a more balanced force for my first army. I'm open to any suggestions or criticism. I believe the points are all right but my sheet I'm writing on has stuff scribbled all over it.

[ttuzun]

I feel your list lacks some anti-armor. Maybe change the winged tyrant to CC? (2 scything talons) You can also make winged warriors CC as well. I always preferred fast units to be CC. W
hats your setup on your carnifex in the heavy slot?
For you genestealers I suggest taking extended carapaces. AP5 would destroy them and there are a lot of them in 40K.

Other than that i dont see anything.

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Oh and also! Welcome to tyranids

[Zegarnald]

Wow I totally forgot to post about the Carnifex lol. Right now I'm thinking about a Sniperfex with Enhanced Senses, Venom Cannon and Barbed Strangler.

I have been thing about going CC for my winged and I've seen alot of other people do that as well. So 2 sets of Scything Talons for the Flyrant and the 3 Warriors? What biomorphs would you recommend? I can't even believe I didn't notice I didn't have more CC than that. I'm wanting a really balanced army at first to decide if I want to learn more towards CC or Shooty. Right now I'm actually wanting more CC but some guns thrown in to balance it out.

Just change my stealers then to Tendrils and Carpace?


I was pretty cloes to starting out as Necrons then switchd to Tyranids.

[jy2]

Actaully, I've had a lot of success with your dakka flyrant (w/2 TLD). Personally I prefer a shooty flyrant over a CC one.

But I do agree with making the winged warriors cc w/2 ST's. You should also consider giving them (and your other shooty warriors as well) EC to avoid bolter-rape. Wings are very expensive. Consider leaping instead. Also give the cc warriors 1 more biomorph to give them an advantage over marines - either AG(I), AG(WS) or Toxin Sacs.

Genestealers need EC and FT, but looks like you got that covered.

Finally, personally I prefer a CC carnifex instead. Make him ultra hard to kill. Something like this:
Extended Carapace, Reinforced Chitin, Bonded Exo, 2 Talons, AG(I,WS), Toxic Miasma, Tusk, Scythe Tail
If that's too much, get rid of the tusk & bonded exo.
This way, I can run him to destroy enemies, and he's ultra-tough.

[ttuzun]

Wow from necrons to tyranids?! Well, thats some switch lol.

I dont have much experience with tyranids (non actually) so all my knowledge comes from reading reading and reading. Everyone has their ideas about CC fexes. To be honest my army list that i have in mind is CC based having only 3 warriors and a fex being shooty (not counting gaunts) and the rest 1500 points being CC. I just felt I needed some ranged anti armor having that flyrant helps in CC anti armor imo.
But i cant deny how much it would be to have another MC running around eating people

[Zegarnald]

HQ1: Flyrant 196 Points
Enchanced Senses
Wings
Toxic Sacs
Warp Field
2x Tl Devourers

HQ2: Hive Tyrant 247 Points
Enhanced Senses
Toxic Sacs
Barbed Strangler
Venom Cannon
2 Tyrant Guard

Elite 1: Carnifex 113 Points
Enhanced Senses
2x Tl Devourers

Elite 2: Warriors x 3 109 Points
Enchaned Senses
Extended Carapace
Toxic Sacs
1x Barbed Strangler
2x Devourers
3x Scything Talons

Fast Attack: Warrios x 3 108 Points
Leaping
6x Scything Talons
Toxic Sacs
Extended Carapace

Troops 1-4: 4 x 9 Termagaunts 216 Points

Troops 5-6: 2 x 10 Genestealers 420 Points
Feeder Tendrils
Extended Carapace

Heavy Support: Carnifex 195 Points
Extended Carapace
Reinforced Chitin
Bonded Exoskeleton
Adrenal Glands ( +1 I)
Adrenal Glands ( +1 WS)
Toxic Miasma
Toxic Sacs
Tusked
2x Scything Talons


Total Points: 1604

I'm at work and not sure if the points are right but 1604 is what I got. I like the idea of the CC warriors and changed those around. I'm going to try the Dakka Flyrant and see what I think of that. I'm torn between a CC Fex and a Sniper fex at the moment. Right now I'm over points as I want to be 1500 and not sure what to change. Any suggestions?