Tyranids, or How I Stopped Hating Cruddance and Learned to Deal

                I love my nids. I’ve had nids since 2^nd, and have slowly built from 16 gaunts, a Tyrant and 24 genestealers to around 14k points worth of Tyranids. My Hive Fleet is Hive Fleet Ataxia, which means chaos. You can see my previous Swarmlord in the background before my daughter took poor swarmy for a ride in her Malibu Barbie Mazarati. He didn’t fare too well. Now I am one of the first ones to agree on the fact that the 5^th edition codex is crap. Yes crap, shit, and a giant turd that appears to have never been play tested by anyone with cognitive skills greater than an inbred otter at an ISOT get together. The PHAQU that Games Workshop published, then amended then republished helped not at all.  Giving one codex none of the benefits that another codex gets with the same exact equipment just isn’t right. Having five plus combat units without grenades isn’t just not right, it’s totally stupid. Having units that cost more than anything equaling them in another codex is not only stupid, it’s moronic; in what universe is the Tyrannofex worth it’s base cost? But let us get past that and concentrate on something else entirely. In the smaller world of games smaller than 1750, Nids still have it. It’s totally possible to have a good and fun game where you can actually win. At the 2500 point top tier tournaments, Tyranids just are not going to be there. YES there are people who play really well and have the finesse to pull a grand GT off with whatever army they want. That doesn’t mean Tyranids are top tier, or even top 5. They aren’t and that’s the reality of it. We can still enjoy them at lower levels, so let’s make up a decent 1750 list that covers everything.

                First, we need troops and anti mech.  We take the Hive Guard over the under used Zoanthropes.  You may ask why, since the Zoanthropes have a better weapon and a better save. Well, Hive Guard have T6 and are not psykers. Every weapon the Zoanthropes have to take a psychic test on targeting an opponent’s model can be canceled by a psychic hood, and needs to pass 6 tests to hit, so let’s just ignore them for now. So 6 will give us 2 units to blow crap up. Tervigons are one of those few units in the codex that needs to be used in almost every list. It buffs cheap troops into decent choices and also spawns more troops. Let’s take our general 2 Termagaunt squads so we can take 2 Tervigons as troops also. Just remember to protect them so they don’t get instagibbed by Grey Knights and others of their like.

                Next are some decent heavy choices. Two Trygons sounds awesome, as they can do some damage and soak up lots of wounds. They’ll need cover, which they only get from 50% coverage. We’ll take Gargoyles for this, as they are too good not to have in almost every list. 20 Gargoyles with upgrades sounds good as it can do more than just provide cover.

                Last, we need an HQ and some more combat assets. A Tyranid Prime can fill many roles and will even fit in units as one of the codexes few IC’s. Lashwhip & Bonesword work great at extending their life if they get into CC. Raveners are a great unit, and really fast too, so we’ll take a unit of 4. Venomthropes aren’t great but provide more mobile cover for our gaunts and Tervigons, so a unit of 3 goes in. This gives us a set up of:

== HQ ==

Tyranid Prime (1) - Devourer, Lash Whip And Bonesword

== Elites ==

Hive Guard Brood (3)

Hive Guard Brood (3)

Venomthrope Brood (3)

== Troops ==

Termagant Brood (10) - Fleshborer

Termagant Brood (10) - Fleshborer

Tervigon (1) - Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat

Tervigon (1) - Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat

== Fast Attack ==

Gargoyle Brood (20) - AG, Toxin Sacs

Ravener Brood (4) - Scything Talons

== Heavy Support ==

Trygon (1) - Toxin Sacs, Instinctive Behaviour - Feed

Trygon (1) - Toxin Sacs, Instinctive Behaviour - Feed

== Total ==

1750 pts.

 A general all comers list that shows the best of the codex at work. Hope you have fun with it on the table top.

Improper Hate, or How Pushy Dicks Ruin the Game for Everyone!!!!

                We’ve all been there. You’re at a tournament or even a friendly game at your LGS. Some douche walks up and begins to belittle your game style, your list, or your quality of models. Guess what sodouche? I don’t give 2 shits about your opinion or you. Shoo, leave, go away. This goes back to proper human etiquette. Now I’m all for watching games in silence, it’s how most of us got into the game. You go to the store, see a couple of friends playing the game, enjoying themselves, and that’s great for everyone. What isn’t is random unaffiliated players opinions and blah blah blahs. No one cares about you; no one cares about you tabling some 9 year old playing Necrons. NO ONE. If you want to look at a model, ASK FIRST. This isn’t your house so don’t treat it like it is. If your store is nice enough to provide room to play, don’t trash it up with food and drink on the gaming tables. When someone has their kid at the store or your opponent is under seventeen, every other word from your mouth shouldn’t be fuck this and fuck that. And YES, IF YOU BREAK OR DROP SOMEONES MODEL, IT IS YOUR JOB TO REPLACE IT/FIX IT AS BEST YOU CAN. THESE ARE COMMON RULES OF ETTIQUETE, AND IF YOU CAN’T ABIDE BY THEM YOU SHOULDN’T BE IN THE GAME STORES TO BEGIN WITH. 

Not About Winning- No Tiger Blood Needed

Let’s get one thing straight. This page is not about WAAC lists that table your opponent. I don’t care about winning, I prefer theme lists. I don’t care if that’s what you’re about; good for you go for it. I’m in the game and hobby for fun and to model really cool shit. That said, I’ll still post my lists (which will be fluffy or theme lists as I said) just for critiquing anyway.  I understand that’s why most people get on the Internet, to express hate and disdain for everything whether they know what it’s about or not. I don’t care about you any more than you care about me, and I won’t be butt hurt. Just do your thing and if you want to shred my lists, my models, my shitty painting skills, go for it bud.  This is a modeling/painting site that focuses on used and recycled materials. So game on.


Edit: This does not mean this site will allow all the trolling people's hearts desire. Treat others as you wish to be and remain civil.