Cheers guys - thanks for pointing out the Hive Tyrant thing, that's totally obvious now you mention it. One thing I hadn't noticed about the swarming rule was that it allows you to increase the size of the formation beyond its starting size, for some reason I'd added that restriction in my head. That could be very nasty, almost like I form of teleport without the downsides...
I'm going to leave the Lictors out for now, at 150 for 3 they feel a little overpriced to me. I think I'd need to build the list around them a little more to get the most value - I could just see a formation of three taking blast markers on arrival and getting crushed!!
Ok so the tweaked list is as follows:
NEXUS SWARM [390] Dominatrix, 1 Termagant, 1 Hormagaunt
TYRANID SWARM [300] Hive Tyrant, 5 Termagants, 1 Hormagaunt, 2 Carnifex
TYRANID SWARM [300] Hive Tyrant, 5 Termagants, 1 Hormagaunt, 2 Exocrine
TYRANID SWARM [300] Hive Tyrant, 5 Termagants, 1 Hormagaunt, 2 Exocrine
TYRANID SWARM [200] 2 Tyranid Warriors, 1 Termagant, 5 Hormagaunts
TYRANID SWARM [200] 2 Tyranid Warriors, 1 Termagant, 5 Hormagaunts
GENESTEALER SWARM [175] 6 Genestealers, Broodlord
GENESTEALER SWARM [175] 6 Genestealers, Broodlord
BOIVORE SWARM [200] 7 Biovores
TRYGON SWARM [400]
HIERDULE [350]
I also like the fact that there is only ever one BTS and that the addition of the gaunts to the Dominatrix at least gives me half a chance against being wiped out by Deathstrikes!! I may well be facing guard in my first outing. In fact those things seem to be kind of problematic, possibly to the point of making one of the Tyranid swarms large taking the activation hit and making it the BTS:
NEXUS SWARM [390] Dominatrix, 1 Termagant, 1 Hormagaunt
TYRANID SWARM [300] Hive Tyrant, 5 Termagants, 1 Hormagaunt, 2 Carnifex
TYRANID SWARM [300] Hive Tyrant, 5 Termagants, 1 Hormagaunt, 2 Exocrine
TYRANID SWARM [300] Hive Tyrant, 5 Termagants, 1 Hormagaunt, 2 Exocrine
TYRANID SWARM [410] 2 Tyranid Warriors, 1 Ravener, 1 Termagant, 11 Hormagaunts
GENESTEALER SWARM [175] 6 Genestealers, Broodlord
GENESTEALER SWARM [175] 6 Genestealers, Broodlord
BOIVORE SWARM [200] 7 Biovores
TRYGON SWARM [400] 5 Raveners
HIERDULE [350]
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