After purchasing two Tyranid Assault Brood boxes I thought it would be only proper to make a list for hive fleet. This is just the beginning, haven't chosen elites nor troops yet. Haven't ever played Nids so have no experience about them at all. I think I am going for big guys and tiny guys, leaving gaunts and stealers totally out of it. Add maybe Warriors (with wings) and what else? Ideas and suggestions for 2000 / 2500 / 3000 pts lists?

HQ

Hive Tyrant with retinue of three Tyrant Guard: 352 pts

Hive Tyrant 75 pts / Venom Cannon 40 pts / Scything Talons 8 pts / Acid Maw 10 pts / Enhanced Senses 10 pts / Extended Carapace 25 pts / Toxic Miasma 6 pts / Toxin Sacks 12 pts / The Shadow in the Warp 10 pts / Tyrant Guard with Flesh Hooks and Implant Attacks 52 pts / Tyrant Guard with Flesh Hooks and Implant Attacks 52 pts / Tyrant Guard with Flesh Hooks and Implant Attacks 52 pts /

Malanthrope

Malanthrope (the nasty floaty thing): 140 pts (IIRC)

FAST ATTACK

Ravener brood 276 pts

6 x Ravener with Scything Talons & Rending Claws and Spinefists 46 pts /

HEAVY SUPPORT

Death Beetle 287 pts
Carnifex 85 pts / Venom Cannon 35 pts / Bonded Exoskeleton (+1 T) 20 pts / Scything Talons 8 pt / Extended Carapace (+1 Sv) 25 pts / Enhanced Senses (+1 BS) 8 pts / Reinforced Chitin (+1 W) 15pts / Thornback 15 pts / Regenerate 30 pts / Symbiote Rippers 2 pts / Mace Tail 5 pts / Acid Maw 6 pts / Toxin Sacs (+1 S) 6 pts / Tusked 10 pts / Bio-plasma 8 pts / Implant Attack 8 pts / Flesh Hooks 1 pt /

Death Beetle 287 pts
Carnifex 85 pts / Venom Cannon 35 pts / Bonded Exoskeleton (+1 T) 20 pts / Scything Talons 8 pt / Extended Carapace (+1 Sv) 25 pts / Enhanced Senses (+1 BS) 8 pts / Reinforced Chitin (+1 W) 15pts / Thornback 15 pts / Regenerate 30 pts / Symbiote Rippers 2 pts / Mace Tail 5 pts / Acid Maw 6 pts / Toxin Sacs (+1 S) 6 pts / Tusked 10 pts / Bio-plasma 8 pts / Implant Attack 8 pts / Flesh Hooks 1 pt /

TOTAL (so far): 1342 pts

i would add a cc tryant w/winged,2x scthye talons,warp feild woul be great
my tryant is talons,venom cannon,warp feild(love the 2+ save and 6+invurnable)
im also workin on a tyrant with2x vennom cannons,warp feild,toxic sacs
wat is also very helpfull for me is 3 thropes with warpblast,synaspe(never falled a psyic test once for the high powered one(wooo str 10 ap 2)

Yes, close combat tyrant sounds like a nice idea, especially with the wings, just drooled over it on FW site.

I have thought about the Thropes, because I think that more Synapse creatures the better. So warpblast could do the trick... then again maybe my luck with the dice won't be as good as yours :)

Oh, and those FW flying Rippers are nasty looking! Have to get a bunch of those as well as FW Ripper Swarms, yikes! :eeek:

What about the warriors, it seems that there's a mixed opinion on them. Some like them whereas others think they are pure waste of points?

LvK

warriors are great as long as there is more then 4 in a squad they r the most common syasnpe other races can rember so they die quick
dont care for flying rippers at 30 points a base,takes up a fast attack choice,and 2x damange from temples and power weapons is not worth it

Just received new HQ option in the form of awesome FW Malanthrope, what a scary thing it is. Got the three Tyrant guards so now for HQ the only thing missing is the Hive Tyrant itself.

Thus the list in the first post is edited a bit. Work continues...