WoL , Bartz , CoD , BCLid , Lenna . You can swap in ExDeath for BCLid when you get him . As far as the weapons go they ' re fairly self explanatory . <| sep |> Tournament standard means the version used at tournaments . It won ' t affect you if you ' re only an online warrior . I go to locals and play offline . <| sep |> I would agree , if Tyranids literally didn ' t fly in the face of all of these claims . It isn ' t just a few units falling out of favor in their case . Their WHOLE ARMY is nearly unusuable in a lot of ways . Like Move too far out of the range of synapse and the unit self destructs or becomes useless kind of bad . They have 13 DECENT units . Mawlocs . Flyrants . Malanthropes . Thats about all that can do its job effectively in the nids dex . The rest ranges from Would be an OK option if it wasn ' t literally double or triple the points it needed to be to Literally the worst unit in the entire history of Warhammer 40 kOh , but surely , we can ally for some muchneeded help right ? Fuck no . We have 1 Ally , and we are AoC with them . And even then the VERY BASIC RULES of our army can cause a lot of interference with each others units Shadow in the Warp , and Return to Shadows , to be specific , REALLY bog down GSC and Nids allies . So , while we CAN ally with them , they would actually be better off without giant 12 inch bubbles of 3 leadership and denial of Return to Shadows flying around the map . Ok , so what about our good units ? Well , we have Flyrants , and the ability to take 15 point disposable bombs as troops . Yay ? We also have Mawlocs , but they are still fairly likely to scatter and become completely useless or straight up dead before they can even get on the table . If you want to take a more traditional Nids list with all the units that make Tyranids . tyranids . You have Malanthropes or Venomthropes to give a lot of cover ! But the second they die And they WILL die , as both are fairly large , tall models , vulnerable to instant death , and their bubbles are very short range , so they will be out in the open more then you would think . If you are playing competetive tyranids , you aren ' t playing Tyranids . You are playing A few flyrants , some mucolid spores , and maybe a mawloc . I still play Tyranids as I prefer regardless , but jesus christ , they need some serious love in order to even remotely compete with even the likes of Orks , Dark Eldar , and CSM . We have one unit making this army usable , and even then , its overcosted for what it does . I love playing them in casual games , and I have quite a number of decent victories under my belt , but I won ' t pretend for a second that any one of my lists will win me even a local tournament .