Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Tyranids part 1

Well, long time no see, good sirs and madame's of the internets. Today my article is
going to be upon the Tyranids of Warhammer 40000. I feel it should be a multi part series and so without further ado i begin.

We're going to start with a basic 1000 point list, and I'll go through why i think its a decent list.

HQ:
 Tyranid Prime: Dual boneswords

Elites:
2 zoanthropes
Doom of Malan T'ai with mycetic spore

Troops
10 termagants
8 genestealers with scything talons and broodlord
8 genestealers with scything talons
8 genestealers with scything talons
3 Tyranid warriors 2 deathspitters 1 venom cannon

Now, ''why is this list good'' you may ask. It has few footsloggers and dies FAST! well, yes and no. Lets take a look. Our HQ is relatively cheap, and with two boneswords, can walk around the field killing just about any character you'd like it to. Not to mention the special little perk it gives the warriors when he joins their unit, increasing their ballistic skill and weapon skill, and in turn increasing their survivability, not to mention his. The zoanthropes are there for tank popping, with their short ranged warp lance they still get enough done to keep tanks from running down your stealers left right and center, not to mention their awesome survivability with warp field, a 3+ invuln isn't anything to scoff at. Doom will eat any infantry within a 6 inch bubble, so drop him in the middle of the enemy line and watch the panic ensue. The termagants are there for one reason, sitting on whatever objective you may have. Now on to the Genestealers. The meat and potatoes of this force if you will. You use the stealers to pop whatever small transports they are in, and to completely destroy everything, power armour or not. With the strength of them, combined with rending, not much in the ways of infantry can beat them in close combat. Now their armour is paper thin, so a single round of concentrated fire will obliterate them, but saying that, just outflank them and you'll be fine.

So lads and lasses, what did you think? Informative or not? what's your opinion?

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