You cannot have a heavy venom cannon and 2 sets of twin linked deathspitters. You cannot have more than two sets of ranged weapons on the hive tyrant.

Now that AP – weapons are not penalised in vehicle damage chart, the big version of the Devourer (the one for Montruos Creatures, with a weird name) is a much better option than the Deathspitters. Double shots (6, also twinlinked), more strength (6), same range, and it costs 15 points as well. AP 5 is the only advantage for the Deathspitters, but I think it´s not worthy,

¡Nice video!

I guess eldarmojo is correct. Another thing that would bother me with your Tyrants is the price tag for their 4 wounds. Close to 300 points each is quite a bit. Winged MC have a 33% chance to go down for every hit they take. If they go down, they get a str 9 autohit without armor saves and lose their advantages for being a flyer. Any MSU List will deal a lot of pain to them. Even a few guardsmen have good chances get them down to earth with their flashlights. Also, I don’t know whether Tervigon spam will… Read more »

What about now that monstrous creatures can now deep strike into cover and having some warriors or smaller nids jump out and move through the cover

The Tervigons spawned termagaunts have no biomorphs, so I don’t think it’s worth buying the toxin sacs on the Tervigon, there isn’t much above T6 you’re going to face ad wounding on 2’s beats 4’s re rolling normally. 🙂

Also, don’t forget the new rule for Rage. It’s no more mindless running after Landraiders with your Gaunts when they fail their Instinctive Behaviour, now they get +2 attacks on the charge. So you could deliberatly move your gaunts and Raveners out of Synapse range in turn one, and closer to the enemy. The there is a good chance for them to fail their Ld test in turn 2 and get the Feed (rage) special rule. If you pick your combats wisely ( and you can with both of these units) you don’t really need to worry about them not… Read more »

With this and the Tau one I think you’re maybe losing your touch on a few things 😉

As mentioned already your Ymgarl trick won’t work because you can’t assault the turn you arrive. For me that makes the traditional genestealer roles pretty much useless now. With the 6th ed reserve rule and overwatch I think I’d even think twice about fielding genestealers at all.

Also mentioned arguably you want to loose synapse now with units with the rage instinctive behaviour for one more attack than normal. I’ve not looked at the codex in-depth but liked your ideas with flyers =)

Ofcourse, I wasn’t saying to build a list around rage ( way to upredictable, but makes Pyrovores a bit better (3 attacks on the charge with no armoursaves should they fail their test ^^)), but just a heads up for peeps who have read around it. I haven’t read the rules on flying monsters yet, so can’t say anything about it. And Carni’s have become better. Remember the test they did with 3 fexes against a bunch of hammer+stormshield termies? The termies wiped the fexes out because of the old Fearless rule. Now that isn’t the case anymore, a brood… Read more »

i think this is a good list but i would swap out the ymgarls for 2 x 3 zoanthroapes and give the tervigons crushing claws (+ d3 attacks) i would then roll for all 12 psykers. there are some game changing powers. imagine a doom of malantai that you cant insta kill

Ah right, it’s a psychic shooting attack so needs roll to hit which it can’t because it’s got BS 0, fair point. If it was shooting it’d need to be beam or a template… Not up on the psychic rules too much, I have some tyranids kicking about but I’m an ork player so none of that applies to us so only gave it a light skim =)

I would play it differently. Warriors and shrikes kick ass shooting and in combat and should always be taken with a prime. Zoanthropes are the perfect anti space marine unit: warp lance destroys land raiders easily and warp blast is ap3 so good against power armour. In my experiance gaunts are too weak against most things and monstrous creatures too expensive, so go with warriors and genestealers. also gargoyles automatically wound on a 6 to hit, great against those combat orientated characters. tyranids are still a good army and have some of the best units in the game

To be clear, the list is as follows?:
HQ:
2x Flyrant w/TL Deathspitter & Heavy VC

Elites:
2x Ymgarl (10per Brood)
1x Doome of Malan’tai w/ Mycetic Spore

Troops:
3x Termagant Brood (10per brood)
3x Tervigon w/ TS & Catalyst

Total pts: 1835

Sorry if I missed something in the vid

The Ymgarl/area bits are a stretch. A bastion is a bastion. It’s a building/fort. It would have to be the same distance from any other type of terrain as it says in the book. By the same logic as “if you model rocks on your infantry bases, they don’t count as cover”. The Aegis are barricades. If you jump behind it and shoot the guys sheltering there, they don’t get the save. I can see the logic of Ymgarl emerging being able to charge on the turn they come in by the “codex overrules BRB” bit. I have them and… Read more »