Editing Warhammer 40,000/9th Edition Tactics/Weapons (section)

===Tyranids===
Tyranids are a very mobile army and like to stay in your face with shorter-ranged assault weapons. Many of their melee weapons rely on the base strength(your high strength attacks come from monsters) of the user and many have high AP and/or reroll wound rolls.

'''KNOW YOUR BUGS''':
* Gaunts are GEQs, come in units of 10-30, and carry Fleshborers (Assault 1 Bolt Pistols).
** Termagants can mix in Devourers (the 18" Assault 3 version).
* Warriors are MEQs, come in units of 3-9, and carry Deathspitters, which are single-damage Heavy Bolters.
** Can also carry Venom Cannons (Assault d3 Krak Missiles), or Barbed Stranglers, a carbon copy of the Valkyrie's Rocket Pods.
* Hive Tyrants and Carnifexen are essentially light vehicles, and when kitted for shooting will usually carry either two pairs of Devourers with Brainleech Worms, which are twin-linked Multi-Lasers, or one pair and a Heavy Venom Cannon (think AP-2 Lascannon).
** Can rarely be seen carrying Deathspitters with Slimer Maggots or Stranglethorn Cannons, both higher-volume Autocannon equivalents.

'''Of Special Note''':
Any semi-serious list will include at least one Exocrine and a unit of 6 Hive Guard, for good reason: ''these are the threats!'' You will see them in a Kronos detachment for the reroll 1s to hit when stationary, and under the effect of the Symbiostorm power for generating additional hits on 6+. Each shooting phase will likely see your opponent popping the double-shooting strat on the Hive Guard.
* Hive Guard use Impaler Cannons (Krak Missiles on crack), but most importantly don't require LoS; you'll likely never get a wound on them if using proper terrain, so stay out of 36" range or just take the pain and target something else.
* Exocrines have native double-shoot and +1 to hit when standing still, with a 6-shot Plasma Gun, so try to take them out T1 if you love your multi-wound models.

'''Popular units''':
{|class="wikitable"
!Unit
!Good for
!Countered with
|-
|Gaunts
|numbers, taking terrain, horde pressure, blocking units in melee
|high volume melee attacks, high-volume shooting, blast weapons
|-
|Genestealers
|lots of CC attacks, rending, distraction carnifex
|heroic intervention, fight-first abilities, shooting
|-
|Warriors
|often ignore AP-1 and AP-2
|multi-damage shooting, blast weapons
|-
|Zoanthropes
|3+ invuln, being damage sponges
|weight of fire
|-
|Biovores
|move blocking, being annoying
|multi-damage shooting
|-
|Exocrines
|spamming plasma
|alpha strike, concentrated fire
|-
|Carnifex
|high damage melee, distraction carnifex
|concentrated fire, multi-wound attacks
|}