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10-12-2006
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| Adeptus Arbrites       Join Date: Oct 2006
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|  tyranid shooty armies has anyone ever made a shooty tyranid army? it seems like one would be effective, with lots of warriors and gaunts with devourers and then carnifex's with duel venom cannons. my army is more swarms of hormagaunts but i was wondering if anyone has tried it and how effective it was |
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10-13-2006
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| Trooper  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Oregon
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| Yah I did it, I had some great moments and some bad ones. it seemed to work best with my old Seeding Swarm army which I was forbiden to play with after a while (I am the guy that could and did field 144 Genestealers in one army list) with the Shooty army you can not forget about Biovores and Zoenthropes! more often than not they win thier points back and then some. the only problem with the Nid shooty army is when going against really tough armies like Death Guard and Necrons or when fighting other hoard style armies like Orcs and troop heavy Imp Guard |
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10-13-2006
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| Each Shot Kills Spam (She never misses)    Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Downers Grove IL
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 | Yea like MarkedByChaos said it can be done. Then again its like taking an Imperial Guard army and making it Close Combaty (that can be done too). It jsut doesnt seem right. But I think it can be effective (not as effective as a CC Nid army). I mean the Barbed Strangler and Venom cannon are sick. |
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10-22-2006
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But overall, I think a shooty Tyranid army is a mistake. They have good shooty units, don't get me wrong, but I think they're just better off having (at most) half shooty, and the rest outfitted for close in envisceration.
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10-22-2006
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| God-Emperor   Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Seattle, Washington
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Blog Entries: 3 | Heh, we can sometimes question the ways of the White Dwarf (heh heh) Shooting Nids.. are not bad, it is great to support a Tyranid army, but I would not make any lists that is pure ... it just doesnt work. IKARUS
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11-03-2006
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| It can work i have seen a fellow player do it, but then most people at our centre started playing tau, well hes army is useless against half of the people there now, it does however pwn my army, so i did find it amusing when a sm army with dreadnought smashed his army to bits, it all depends on the opposing army, ive seen it smash my other friends necron army every single time  Peace out mickey
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| If you're gonn go shooty-bug...ya have to go with a couple of sniperfexes...really cause a whole mess of pain for the enemy. With 36'" for both the venom cannon and the barbed strangler, it's just too much fun...set up in cover with a good LOS and start the sniping...2 STR 10 shots from the VC and a whopper sized, STR 8 big-blast radius, for those bunched up troops. Gaurenteed to cause alot of aggrivation... 
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| Re: tyranid shooty armies dont forget the Dakkafex 2 Twin linked Devourers hehe rerolls to hit and to wound hehe
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