Biovores
SWORD: what Biovores kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~13 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Biovores is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~196 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Spore mines score secondaries without spending a real unit 4 of 4
- Screen the backfield for very few points 4 of 4
- Hold the home objective 2 of 4
- Mines stop enemies advancing near them 2 of 4
- Mines can give up kill points in some missions 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biovores60 pts | S | Bottom 7% | Top 41% | 205of 217 |
| Neurogaunts45 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Top 6% | 12of 217 |
| Lictor60 pts | A | Top 36% | Top 27% | 65of 217 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Biovores, 60 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Invasion Fleet (Hyper Adaptions: Swarming Instincts). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the army rule and the detachment's rule.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
60 pts → kills ~13 pts → 21 per 100SHIELD
Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.
~196 pts → 327 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 4 reviewers' newest Tyranids tier lists: Auspex Tactics (12 Sep), Into the Hive Mind (12 Oct), HivemindHobbies (18 Oct), Maelstrom Gaming Studios (26 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
217 public Tyranids tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Numbers run 2 Nov.