Tyranid warriors army?

[BewareOfTom]

Is it viable to make an army of most of the troops to be warriors? I know instant death would hurt me alot but venomthopes can give me cover, and maybe tervigons to spew out some hordes..... I dunno never played nids

[fritzthedwarf]

I like the idea but from my experience with T4 nid models they are very vulnerable to all the str8+ weapons and abundant power fists or equivalent CC weapon. The warrior model is one of my favourite nid models. I think the venomthropes will be very necessary for your warrior army, maybe more than one. Do you plan to use a tyranid prime to go with the venomthropes to try to give them some protection against Str8 weapons?

Also, is your warrior list CC heavy or shooty heavy or a combination of both?

[BewareOfTom]

well I dont even have any models and may not buy any just if one could be good I may save up for one, and I would want a CC heavy army, and I would probably take 2 primes, and a bunch of shrikes too, maybe shrikes with double boneswords and ST(expensive but cool) and maybe yeah

[Jack Shrapnel]

....better save for a while then... given there's no models for shrikes, primes, double boneswords etc. outside of forgeworld!

...and no models for primes at all.....!

warriors can be okay, and they're fine support units... but if that's all you have, you aren't going to be able to counter much.... ranged weaponry is short ranged, but with a prime they have good BS.... there's so much that can instakill them, they're really not that survivable....

Eat a demolisher template, pick up 200+ points.... rinse and repeat.

[BewareOfTom]

yeah, but for shrikes I was thinking raveners with gargoyle wings and maybe some tervigons, with some gaunts, I didn't mean exclusivly warriors just mainly

[fritzthedwarf]

Do you mean using raveners as warriors with gargoyle wings to make them shrikes? If so I would use warriors with gargoyle wings for shrikes - costs a lot less. 3 warriors cost about $43 while 3 raveners cost about $52-54.

Lack of models and bits from GW means extra dough/work for many nid units.

CC warriors don't have fleet or move through cover so are a bit slower than other CC nids such as raveners, stealers and hormagaunts. As Shannon said the ranged weapons for warriors are mainly short. Shrikes would probably work with a large gargoyles screen to provide cover saves. The Shrikes provide synapse for the gargs and the gargs protect the shrikes and can do a little shooting or good CC with cheap adrenal glands and toxin sacs. A nice fast threat.

[fritzthedwarf]

I saw a list (I think it was on Warseer that was warrior heavy). The recommendations as I recall were to take trygons for anti-tank because the warrior heavy unit was considered weak in that area. Raveners go well too since they are the same size and similar appearance. It would be an interesting army.