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HQs
The Hive Tyrant 8
If winged, is the only reliable source for taking down most fliers. 2 Twin linked brainleech worms tends to be the best way to go most of the time.
The Swarmlord 7
Great combat beast but with a points cost to match. Only ever consider in 2k games and up
Tyrant Guard 7
Always use at least 1 with a walking Tyrant/Swarmlord. Good for screening/transferring wounds
Tervigon 9
Almost essential to include at least 1 of these in the army; preferably as a troop choice.
Prime 9
Fantastic for its points if built for close combat
Parasite of Mortrex 5
Very situational and slightly expensive
Elites
Hive Guard 9
Best way to deal with most vehicles, and fliers if you get the hit ignoring their jink save
Lictors 2
The elite slots have a lot of good choices to be wasting on this contradictory unit. It begs for you to keep a small army in deep strike to benefit from its rules, but you need to make sure you fail their reserve rolls, pass the lictors and then have the lictor survive a whole turn. They also offer no threat themselves when on the table
Deathleaper 5
Expensive, but is a decent way in clamping down a psyker by deducting his leadership. Also good for granting a last minute linebreaker victory point
Venomthrope 4
Cover saves are easy to gain now with monstrous creatures from intervening models and area terrain. Also not as useful to use with the dangerous terrain nerf (a nerf in this case)
Zoanthrope 8
Good cheap way of dealing with AV14 and adding extra synapse
The Doom of Malan'Tai 10
Almost mandatory to include this unit within a mycetic spore. Extremely cheap for its potential, and a good way to draw S8, 9 and 10 weapons away from your monstrous creatures
Pyrovore 2
Completely redundant unless you know your opponent is using a horde army and you deep strike a unit from a mycetic spore. Even then there are far more better options that can be taken
Ymgarl Stealers 7
Great scare factor, and potential for taking out a crucial unit early on in the game. Although they tend to be a suicidal unit
Troops
Warrior brood 6
Decent, but you’d want to keep them cheap in fear of them being insta-killed
Genestealers 6
Broodlord is a great source for dealing with characters when using hypnotic gaze, but the unit can get quite expensive when upgraded. This coupled with overwatch and not being able to assault from reserves makes them less viable in my books
Termagaunts 9
Standard meat shield for your monstrous creatures, capturing objectives (within terrain if out of synapse), and tar pitting units in combat
Hormagaunt 8
Great when given poison attacks, but they can be a little pricy so keep them safe. Although if even a few reach combat, they can deliver a lot of attacks and even more so if raged
Rippers 4
Can’t score, can’t contest, can’t gain linebreaker and too expensive to use for tarpitting
Fast Attack
Shrike Brood 7
Great for close combat if given boneswords and lashwhips, but extremely expensive and can’t take a hit. If enough survive and are played well they can be game changing, but is usually very difficult to pull off
Ravener Brood 6
Beast rule has been given a buff, but the fact that they can’t be given poison attacks and can’t take a hit makes them fall back in my books
Sky Slasher Swarm 3
Far too expensive for what they can deliver. Also you would always want to keep them within synapse so that they don’t eat each other, which can limit your extra movement if you don’t build your list around it
Gargoyle brood 7
Nice and cheap meat shield for your shrikes / winged tyrant. Good distraction for flanking, and not bad against high toughness units with their special auto wound rule
Harpy 7
Fliers are very powerful at the moment but this probably won’t seem so great when more armies gain easier access to skyfire
Spore Mines 1
Utterly pointless waste of time that very rarely works as well as you hoped it will
Heavy Support
Carnifex Brood 6
Quite expensive, and should probably only ever be thought of using with 2 twin linked brainleech worms
Old One Eye 5
Decent on paper, but is far too overpriced and will unlikely gain its points back in any game
Biovore brood 6
Decent cheap heavy support choice, but the major flaw is their low leadership. Therefore as a result you would want to keep them trailing behind at the back of the synapse bubble so that you can choose who they target
Trygon 8
Good for its price, although tends to be a huge fire magnet the moment it makes an appearance
Mawloc 7
Decent now in 6th ed with more armies driving away from mechanised lists. Good too as a fire magnet if deep struck in with other threats
Tyrannofex 8
Best kept vanilla as it’s expensive enough as it is. Also more resilient in combat with the power weapon nerf.
Transport
Mycetic Spore 8
Very reliable source of deep striking units, but once on the table they rarely get to do all that much
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