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After playing Tyranids exclusively since around
November last year and capping it all off with a fairly good performance
at Blog Wars a couple of weeks ago I’ve been giving my list building
strategy a bit of a rethink. Over the last few months I’ve experimented
with a few different builds but a few things have remained consistent,
firstly the mandatory inclusion of two Carnifexes with two Twin Linked
Devourers each and a Tyranid Prime to nestle between them, two Tervigons
and two 10-man units of Termagants to make them troops. Beyond these
building blocks, I have experimented with Flying Hive Tyrants,
Zoanthropes, Hive Guard, Mawlocs, Trygons, the Doom, Raveners and
Gargoyles.
So
a fairly broad spectrum there, but recently I’d settled down into a
more shooting focused build involving Hive Guard, the Carnifexes and a
couple of deep striking Monstrous Creatures and indeed this was
reflected in the list I took to Blog Wars. However I felt a very
significant lack of range and I also realised that such is the power of
weight of firepower available to some armies at the moment, that
managing your opponent’s range to you is also of great importance to the
survival of an army that needs to get in close such as my ‘nids.
In
an attempt to address some of these issues I’ve rethought my policy on
list building with Tyranids so here are a couple of lists following a
different philosophy of play-style:
