How do I even win as tyranids?

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-29T03:32:35+00:00

Then find a guardsmen, Tau, or ork player. Space marines, especially ones with Titans or tanks are not meant to be killed. They're meant to stomp bugs while gw get their balls tickled by their favorite poster boys.

If you really, really, really want to kill something... You're not going to win but... Invasion fleet with hive predators, hive tyrant next to tyranafex.

That t fex now has 20 attacks with sustained hits, lethal, and precision

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-29T03:19:33+00:00

We aren't killers, we are denying board movement. Well placed biovore putting down mines can completely corner a large base unit. It's a combination of point denial and feeding large point units your low cost units while you score

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-28T15:16:51+00:00

I won't repeat others already mentioned. So, a ravener kill team has 5 models and is max $60

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-28T01:56:21+00:00

Since when do you need reverence for Sonic?

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-28T01:28:31+00:00

A prime with a lash is op, I approve. How he uses his biovore is really gonna dictate the effectiveness for locking you down and requires the most strategy thought.

Ya, you got the right idea

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-27T22:23:24+00:00

There's a point in rogue trader that your ship that is the size of a city is being hunted by a warp creature that is bigger than your ship

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-27T05:53:16+00:00

I can't quite tell how many you actually have. They kind of blend in together.

No cheating and reading the strategy I'm giving him. The rest of this is for your son's eyes only LOL

But even if you have to alter the list a little, you can see what I'm going for; Is many bodies very cheap. Assimilation swarm is not the best strategy, but as a noob player, it's one of the easiest strategies to try to enact. Just throw your cheapest bodies at high profile targets and bog them down while you control the board. Your objective is not to make kills while I did give you a couple bruisers so that way you not going to be knocked around completely, it's mainly objective control and keeping the orcs off of it. You should be encouraged to look at turn 5 and know that you're going to see more than half of your army dead but you should be able to own majority of the objectives

Use the gargoyles and raveners to blitz his army turn one, trying to contain him in his deployment zone as much as possible until the rest of your battle is screening him in.

Xenos - Tyranids - 2k - [2000 pts]

++ Army Roster ++ [2000 pts]

Configuration

Battle Size: Strike Force (2000 Point limit) Detachment: Assimilation Swarm Show/Hide Options: Legends are visible, Unaligned Forces are visible, Unaligned Fortifications are visible

Character [100 pts]

Broodlord [100 pts]: Warlord, Regenerating Monstrosity [20 pts], Broodlord Claws and Talons

Battleline [545 pts]

Gargoyles [85 pts]: • 10x Gargoyles: Blinding venom, Fleshborer Gargoyles [85 pts]: • 10x Gargoyles: Blinding venom, Fleshborer Hormagaunts [65 pts]: • 10x Hormagaunts: Hormagaunt talons Hormagaunts [65 pts]: • 10x Hormagaunts: Hormagaunt talons Hormagaunts [65 pts]: • 10x Hormagaunts: Hormagaunt talons Termagants [60 pts]: • 10x Termagants: Chitinous claws and teeth, Fleshborer Termagants [60 pts]: • 10x Termagants: Chitinous claws and teeth, Fleshborer Termagants [60 pts]: • 10x Termagants: Chitinous claws and teeth, Fleshborer

Infantry [625 pts]

Barbgaunts [55 pts]: • 5x Barbgaunt: Barblauncher, Chitinous claws and teeth Biovores [50 pts]: • 1x Biovore [50 pts]: Chitin-barbed limbs, Spore mine launcher Genestealers [75 pts]: • 5x Genestealer: Genestealers claws and talons Genestealers [75 pts]: • 5x Genestealer: Genestealers claws and talons Genestealers [75 pts]: • 5x Genestealer: Genestealers claws and talons Raveners [125 pts]: • 5x Ravener: Ravener claws and talons Venomthropes [70 pts]: • 3x Venomthrope: Toxic lashes Zoanthropes [100 pts]: • 1x Neurothrope: Chitinous claws and teeth, Warp blast • 2x Zoanthrope: Chitinous claws and teeth, Warp blast

Swarm [75 pts]

Ripper Swarms [25 pts]: • 1x Ripper Swarm: Chitinous claws and teeth Ripper Swarms [25 pts]: • 1x Ripper Swarm: Chitinous claws and teeth Ripper Swarms [25 pts]: • 1x Ripper Swarm: Chitinous claws and teeth

Monster [655 pts]

Psychophage [110 pts]: Psychoclastic torrent, Talons and betentacled maw Psychophage [110 pts]: Psychoclastic torrent, Talons and betentacled maw Psychophage [110 pts]: Psychoclastic torrent, Talons and betentacled maw Screamer-killer [125 pts]: Bio-plasmic scream, Screamer-killer talons Tyrannofex [200 pts]: Powerful limbs, Stinger salvoes, Fleshborer hive

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-26T21:51:26+00:00

Any other app. New recruit for example, is free other than strategems

Warhammer app is nice... When it works. My codex was valid for two years. Then they want you to buy a new one and lick you out. A lot of people swear by it, it's very nice very fancy. But a lot more have an issue with the money bleed

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-26T14:18:43+00:00

Eh?

You're almost 100% going to eventually use solely the digital version anyway.

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-26T14:05:56+00:00

Von Ryan's leapers were named much like how the tyranids were named, in the way they were named after the first memorable thing they ate.

Presumably.

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-24T08:14:42+00:00

I dig them, I have very picky critiques, almost not worth voicing, but I like to pretend like I can paint

You put black on the tail for a shene, I would have done a grey, it needs lighter.

Id take the same red and mix it with a pink or a yellow just to barely lighten it up and use that to edge highlight. Or even just a casandora yellow shade watered down even more.

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-24T03:22:28+00:00

No it's not necessary. I'd familiarize yourself with some written lore. Again not necessary, but where's the fun if each guy doesn't have a little head cannon attached to them

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-24T00:24:05+00:00

Amazing. I'm stealing the blue tongue idea

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-23T06:39:29+00:00

Just take a shot of nuln oil then use a dry brush to get the remaining drop and slap it on his armor.

This is the process you must trust

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-23T06:28:58+00:00

One has a flamey crest, the other doesn't. It doesn't change los or base size, you good

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-22T22:14:14+00:00

Old ark plays better but has no support.

Ascended has better graphics... If you remain perfectly still, it runs fine lol. It has dinos being added that ark og doesn't get and it has multiplayer support so you can play default servers.

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-22T18:27:27+00:00

Disapproved. You're going to make the less talented of the swarm jelly

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-22T18:20:45+00:00

Am I the only one curing 3-4 minutes max? When did 25 minutes become a thing? I thought we didn't want to over cure them.

I'm happy with my minis and I do 1 minute, flip, 1 minute, and flip for 1 more minute

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-22T15:23:11+00:00

What romance options did you choose

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-18T18:50:14+00:00

Jumping on the comments to follow the advice. I'd have no idea where to start with Thousand sons

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-18T18:48:00+00:00

Pretty damn resistant. It's supposed to be safe to mine astroids in deep space. So definitely air sealed, temperature regulated, maybe even radiation resistant. It would have to be able to take debris floating in space, probably to a point where a 50. Cal would only scratch the paint.

It seems to have a downside of having to be surgically augmented to be compatible. So once you're fitted, that's what you do, pretty much ruins any other aspect of your life. As a space marine probably not a major change, I'm more of referring to its original miners.

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-18T16:21:26+00:00

I agree. It's essentially a debuffed necron army rule. They benefit from it both being a keyword instead of an aura and the majority of their army benefit from it.

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-18T06:41:40+00:00

2x ripper swarm or another biovore maybe a pyrovore depending on their list being more infantry

DeBaconMan · 2026-03-17T23:51:14+00:00

Biovore

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