Hive Crone

Monster · 170 pts

Lists– (one list or none, September – November 2026)

SimulateHive Crone against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Hive Crone kills

Damage for its points

35pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 170 pts kill ~60 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy infantry

Into each enemy type

Everything35bottom 25%

Hordes ★53bottom 49%

Line inf.48bottom 43%

Heavy inf.37bottom 26%

Light veh.43bottom 38%

Heavy veh.41bottom 42%

Units near it by SWORD

In Tyranids

Tyrant Guard39

Hive Crone35

Parasite of Mortrex34

Tyrannocyte33

Tervigon30

Across the game· shooters

Biologus Putrifier Death Guard · just ahead36

Hive Crone 35

Infiltrator Squad Space Marines · level with it35

SHIELD: how hard Hive Crone is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

358pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 170 pts take ~608 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points358top 26%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Tyranids

Trygon389

Screamer-killer373

Neurotyrant368

Lictor365

Hive Crone358

Across the game· shooters

Chaos Land Raider Chaos Space Marines · just ahead360

Hive Crone 358

Storm Speeder Hailstrike Space Marines · just behind357

What reviewers say

4 reviewers

Aircraft are weak this edition 4 of 4
A fighter that struggles to reach a fight 1 of 4

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Hive Crone170 pts	D	Bottom 25%	Top 26%	0of 217
Tyrannofex170 pts	A	Bottom 42%	Top 3%	94of 217
Maleceptor180 pts	A	Top 41%	Top 11%	123of 217

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Hive Crone, 170 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Infestation Swarm. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, 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.

170 pts → kills ~60 pts → 35 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~608 pts → 358 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.