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Offline Thlaylie

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 2nd Hive Tyrant, walking shooty with 3 Tyrant Guards or Scythed Flyrant.

 What do you use and prefer and why?

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Re: 2nd Hive Tyrant, walking shooty with 3 Tyrant Guards or Scythed Flyrant.
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2006, 02:43:16 PM »
I use both. I have a walking fire platform and a big flappy assassin of doom. I don't prefer one or the other, hence my use of both.
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Re: 2nd Hive Tyrant, walking shooty with 3 Tyrant Guards or Scythed Flyrant.
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2006, 02:29:33 AM »
I do the same.  I got the model for the winged tyrant togeather before the new codex came out.  The really hard to kill backup tyrant (thanks to the tyrant guard) has helped me pull more wins off as people tend to fire at them and ignore the genestealers.

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Re: 2nd Hive Tyrant, walking shooty with 3 Tyrant Guards or Scythed Flyrant.
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2006, 05:50:17 AM »
It's interesting, I have a flyrant and footslogger, but I never invested in Tyrant Guard, the high points always put me off. As a fire-sink I'd imagine it to be invaluable though. No one's going to ignore that unit coming at them. Still, it all depends on that your first Tyrant was configured like...

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Re: 2nd Hive Tyrant, walking shooty with 3 Tyrant Guards or Scythed Flyrant.
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2006, 02:10:40 PM »
  1rst Tyrant is walking shooty with Tyrant Guard.

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Re: 2nd Hive Tyrant, walking shooty with 3 Tyrant Guards or Scythed Flyrant.
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2006, 02:43:09 PM »
Cool cool. Then I'd say go for the winged tyrant. It will give you a bit more flexibility because you can zip it up the flanks and into some vunerable squad. I find that they're invaluable. Just don't expect it to survive too long if you leave it out in the middle of the battlefield, but you should be able to play it cunning and use the movement to your advantage.
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Re: 2nd Hive Tyrant, walking shooty with 3 Tyrant Guards or Scythed Flyrant.
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2006, 02:23:35 PM »
I was never a big fan of shooty nids, it's not real fluffy. When I think nid's i think zerg melee. So I'm all for the winged talon beast.
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Re: 2nd Hive Tyrant, walking shooty with 3 Tyrant Guards or Scythed Flyrant.
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2006, 02:36:36 PM »
It is fluffy. Tyranids have never been stated to prefer close combat in the way Space Wolves or World Eaters do. Perversely enough, they are much better overall at close combat than either of those two armies, but lack an ideology that would make them prefer it in the way said armies do. Tyranids favour whatever helps them eat the most stuff, plain and simple
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