Tyranid Tactica

[Lord_Valorion]

Learn2Eel, thank you for your always very nice articles. But i've seen you wrote that a monstrous creature gains "armourbane" when it smashs, but this is not the case. You should read the "Smash" rule again.

[Learn2Eel]

Just an artifact of me being all nostalgic about 5th Edition, hehe. Fixing now. Cheers!

[Learn2Eel]

Pyrovores added in!

[Halollet]

Pyrovores added in!

I have to give you a bow for actually writing up a full report instead of just going;

Pyrovores

.... nope.

[Learn2Eel]

I have to give you a bow for actually writing up a full report instead of just going;

Pyrovores

.... nope.

Sorry for the late reply; cheers hehe! I still caved in and parodied the whole situation with the mini-fluff section, but I refused to publish an article without some tactics in it. It's just a shame GW don't really seem to care about some of the models they produce.

Shrikes added (and fixed)!

[Learn2Eel]

Hey guys, Raveners have been added in on Page 3! The article also covers the use of the Red Terror. I hope you like it!

I thought I would use this (I'll make a blog post about it as well later) place to ask a simple question; does anyone know why my Pyrovore Tactica has become so popular? I've found it shared on Reddit, but I'm not sure that covers why it had a whopping 1500 (roughly) views on my blog within a day or two of it being posted. For reference, most of my Tyranid Tactica articles tend to hit the 350 view mark on my blog within the same time frame. Is it because of that silly, over-the-top "fluff" section? Is it because it is a Tactica article about Pyrovores? Has it been shared on a lot of websites? I'm really curious to know, any tips are really helpful! Thanks guys!

[This Dave]

Pyrovores added in!

I don't play Tyranids and this is probably a bad idea anyways, but I may have thought of at least a surprise use for those hateful things. Can they use the tunnel a Trygon makes? If so, they might be a fun thing to pop out if a tunnel and puke on anything nearby. And even if they get killed, maybe the explosions might take out something. If nothing else, it should confuse and distract the opponent.

[daboarder]

sure can, but the trygon tunnel is largely un-usable anyway

[Learn2Eel]

I don't play Tyranids and this is probably a bad idea anyways, but I may have thought of at least a surprise use for those hateful things. Can they use the tunnel a Trygon makes? If so, they might be a fun thing to pop out if a tunnel and puke on anything nearby. And even if they get killed, maybe the explosions might take out something. If nothing else, it should confuse and distract the opponent.

As daboarder mentions, the Trygon Tunnel itself is broken. You have to hold both the Trygon and the Pyrovores in reserve, hope the Trygon comes before the Pyrovores and doesn't just mishap. If there was a way to Deep Strike Trygons on turn one - and affect Raveners! - it would actually help Pyrovores and Devourer Termagants a lot, but as it is, relying purely on luck completely invalidates the tactic.

[daboarder]

If the rumours concerning the new endless swarm dataslate are accurate however the Trygon tunnel is going to see a surge in use thats for sure.

but not for the pyrovores.