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Build a list out of this:

"Hive Tyrant x2 (+ 1 set of wings)
Broodlord x2
Warriors x15 (+6 pairs of forgeworld wings)
Genestealers x40
Gaunts x 80
Carnifex x7
Zoanthrope x1"

Throw the Zoanthrope away.

I'm assuming you've seen my MC Assault army list I posted in the articles section. The Warriors can easily sub in for tyrant guard if you so choose.

To use as many different models as possible...this is one version.

2000 Pts - Tyranids Roster

1 Hive Tyrant @ 163 Pts
Acid Maw; Implant Attack; Winged; Scything Talons (x2); Synapse Creature; The Horror; The Shadow in the Warp

5 Warriors @ 215 Pts
Adrenal Glands +1 In; Adrenal Glands +1 WS; Winged; Rending Claws (x1); Scything Talons (x1); Synapse Creature

1 Broodlord @ 211 Pts
Feeder Tendrils; Rending Claws; Scything Talons; Synapse Creature
6 Genestealers @ [138] Pts
Acid Maw; Scuttlers; Rending Claws

8 Genestealers @ 136 Pts
Feeder Tendrils; Rending Claws

8 Genestealers @ 136 Pts
Feeder Tendrils; Rending Claws

8 Genestealers @ 136 Pts
Feeder Tendrils; Rending Claws

14 Gaunt Brood @ 126 Pts
Scuttlers; Devourer

14 Gaunt Brood @ 126 Pts
Scuttlers; Devourer

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Scything Talons (x1); Barbed Strangler

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Scything Talons (x1); Barbed Strangler

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Scything Talons (x1); Barbed Strangler

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Scything Talons (x1); Barbed Strangler

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Scything Talons (x1); Barbed Strangler

1 Carnifex @ 113 Pts
Scything Talons (x1); Barbed Strangler

8 Gaunt Brood @ 64 Pts
Spinefists; Without Number

Total Roster Cost: 1991

Personally if I were you, I'd realize I essentially have multiple lists (Gojira, Stealers, and 1/2 each of Warriors and Gaunts) and decide what I really wanted to focus on.

You can make alot of different armies with that amount of figs.

buddy ole pal, you cant have 6 fexes and 5 warriors for elites, but i love giving scuttlers to ur gaunts- makes for perfect bullet-wall (CUZ YOU CAN GET EM OUT IN FRONT 6'' so they arent blocking ur stealers if you get a bad fleet roll)

actually the warriors are fast attack cause they have wings

Thanks!

I did see you MC army list and I thought it looked great. I really like this list, nice and simple, a good starting point to figure out what I like and don't like.

You can make a lot of different armies with that amount of figs

Thats pretty much what I was thinking when I went bananas and bought all this stuff, now I need to order some magnets.........

Thanks again,

Robo

And please, for the love of all that is convenient, magnetize those Carnifex. You aren't always going to want six Talon/Strangler Fexes.

Ah, just saw "now I need to order some magnets..."

Just making sure, I can just imagine someone gluing those on.

So I have played a few games with the above list and it worked out alright, the Barbed Sranglers popped a few tanks and decimated some Ork squads. Overall the army is still new to me but each game has been significantly better than the last. I am looking to try some new lists, I filled out my ranks with some new models and am going to try out the following list, critiques are welcome

2000pts

Hive Tyrant @ 160 - Acid Maw, Implant Attack, Toxin Sacs, Toxic Miasma, Lash Whip Bone Sword, Barbed Strangler, Synapse, Horror, Shadow

Retinue Tyrant Guard x3 @ 135 - Lash Whips, Rending

Hive Tyrant @ 160 - Acid Maw, Implant Attack, Toxin Sacs, Toxic Miasma, Lash Whip Bone Sword, Barbed Strangler, Synapse, Horror, Catalyst

Retinue Tyrant Guard x3 @ 135 - Lash Whips, Rending

Elite Carnifex X3 @ 339 - Barbed Strangler, Scything Talons

Gaunts X14 @ 98 - Scuttlers, Spinefists

Gaunts X13 @ 91 - Scuttlers, Spinefists

Gaunts X6 @ 48- Spinefists, Without Number

Genestealers X10 @ 170 - Feeder Tendrils, Rending

Genestealers X10 @ 170 - Feeder Tendrils, Rending

Genestealers X9 @ 153- Feeder Tendrils, Rending

Heavy Carnifex x3 @ 339 - Barbed Strangler, Scything Talons

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1998 pts

1 quick question. Why only 8 spinegaunts with without number. Thats easy kill points for your opponent.

He probably included the with out number spinegaunts for objective games, that way he could hold an objective in his backfield.

That is exactly why they are there The last game I played I put them front and enter, they got wiped off of the table then my opponent got wise and ignored them when I redeployed so I charged a unit of biker nobs and suicided, then I redeployed and held my objective in the backfield. Needless to say but that little unit was really fun to play with.

What do you do with the spine gaunt unit in a kp game? hide them as best as possible?

Yeah I just hide em, but the codex says "may be brought back into play" I read that as I don't have to if I don't want to so in a KP game they could still be a meat shield in a pinch.

The other thing I was thinking was to drop the third unit of stealers and use the points to max out the numbers in the other two squads then pump the rest of the points into more gaunts.