Tyranid 2k - Niddlywinks

Yeah, the 'gaunt screen' is about blocking charges to keep those units not tied up, rather than provide cover.

You're right about Alpha striking, Or even armies that just hold a lot in Reserves in general... I'm pretty much just putting my cards on the table here and hoping the speed of certain units along with their general ferocity will do the trick. Will def have to practice my defensive deployment rather than just plopping stuff down.

I think the thresher scythe is kinda cool... since the fex doesn't have any proper melee weapons, the tail is basically a light deterrent vs tarpits. And I had a spare 5 points to upgrade, so figure I may as well try it out. But "slight deterrent" is all I expect it to be, not a "horde muncher".

And yeah, on redundancy... I'll have to play a few games with this style of list and see how it goes. With nids especially I try to have redundancy of purpose, without redundancy of Units. Hive Guard and Exocrine are both basically our best long range anti-tank (and probably just the best, most reliable anti-tank we have in general). I at least have 2 flyers, that can both dish out some nastiness in their own way, so hopefully that causes some choices (and keeping Warlord off the Tyrant removes that particular bullseye). But yeah, Tyrants being non-hiding really sucks... Tyrant Guard are cheaper, but they've always seemed like an expensive but basically mandatory way to add wounds to a character that otherwise just goes down to a single round of firing... sad.