HQ: Malanthrope [8PL, 150pts] Warlord – Swarm Leader, Alpha Leader-Beast – Strategic Adaptation (-1CP), Relic – Adaptive Neural Lobe Blast weapons are going to hurt. A lot. This one is less specific to the faction but is worth pointing out. Our precious hordes of mostly weak gribblies are going to get hit with a lot of incoming fire. Especially considering the point bumps across the board, the decisions on model count and deployment are going to be even more important than before. On the flip side of that coin, Tyranids have a large number of Blast type weapons of their own now and that could make for some hilarious/useful situations. Heavy Venom Cannons are going to be a lot more dangerous against units of 6+ and are just begging to turbo-murder some Primaris units. Tyrannocytes shooting 30 Barbed Strangler shots into 11+ models? Sounds like fun to me.

I do belive some things are missing from that list: Gargoyles has the flying base (32 mm.) Hive guards, tyrant guards and carnifex have multiple bases. Being 50 mm, 50 mm and 105mm x 70mm ovals respectivly. Norn-Queens are believed to be the mysterious female counterparts to the Hive Tyrants. They lead the Tyranid swarms and direct the evolutionary paths to take. They invariably stay aboard their Hive Ships.This book brings a lot of power to the Tyranids faction, and with the Genestealer Cult codex on the horizon you can expect to see shifts in what else we can ally in. Potential changes to Ambush Markers could also have a major impact on the way we can choose to build lists. Warhammer Community: The Hive Mind Finds Clandestine New Ways To Eat Its Enemies with the Von Ryan’s Leaper (Posted on 10/04/2023) (Last accessed on 10/04/2023) When you start building your list for Tyranids, I’d suggest deciding on your secondary detachment preferences at the outset, as these will inform how you build your primary Leviathan Detachment. The main options I like for this are either a Genestealer Cults detachment to provide Ambush Markers for turn 1 protection, which promotes a more defensive “castle” playstyle and offers Lying in Wait for objective plays and A Plan Generations in the Making for disruption; or a second Tyranids Detachment for the consistency of newly unmodified 6s Symbiostorm on a squad of Hive Guard, likely with a Synaptic Link Tyranid Warriors squad to support. This option allows a second very consistent squad of Hive Guard and some psyker disruption. This does risk splitting your defensive buffs and synaptic links, which don’t cross the keyword. On the other side, they’re good hurting some hard-to-chew sneaky targets, like flying and/or cc specialists units with 2-3w, like shinning spears, tomb blades, agressors. Ignoring LoS is a big deal, and the range, while not great, is decent, and can be combined with onslaught (and with opportunistic advance, to threat almost any place of the board). Mind Slave - non-Tyranid creatures controlled by the Hive Mind through the Mind-Slaver. [Needs Citation]

This list shows off a lot of the units that are particularly effective, including Hive Guard, the Malanthrope, hordes of Ripper Swarms to occupy objectives, and a Scythed Hierodule because they’re just awesome. It also shows off how expensive Tyranids can get when you start going down the path of resin. Fortunately the holidays are here! Wrap-upFinally we have the big bugs, and given how Toughness and Strength have expanded it seems like these have the potential to be a major part of any army. Ah, the Tyrannocyte. This thing has always been a bit awkward, as it’s not often where you need to transport a unit into battle for Tyranids and when you do there’s a good number of options. There are some reasons you may want to bring it along, but those have not changed between 8 th edition and now. This model took pretty big increase in points and both the Deathspitter and Venom Cannon increased as well (small increases, but you have to take five of the things). The Barbed Strangler, however, stayed put and the ludicrous number of Blast shots this thing can put out is pretty funny (and the +1 to hit against 10+ models helps its terrible BS5+). Of course, it’s a lot of points to put into a flying gun-egg just in the hope of battling some T3-T4 horde army and that just really isn’t going to cut it most of the time.