Tyranid Warriors with Ranged Bio-Weapons
SWORD: what Tyranid Warriors with Ranged Bio-Weapons kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~47 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Tyranid Warriors with Ranged Bio-Weapons is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~240 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
4 creators- Cheap bodies 1 of 4
- A cheap source of synapse 1 of 4
- Poor shooting, and cover makes it worse 2 of 4
- Fragile against everything 1 of 4
- Slow 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyranid Warriors with Ranged Bio-Weapons60 pts | C | Top 15% | Top 17% | 4of 271 |
| Lictor60 pts | A | Top 36% | Top 27% | 84of 271 |
| Von Ryan's Leapers55 pts | S | Top 30% | Top 6% | 163of 271 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 168 | 192 |
| SHIELD | 400 | 400 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 168 | 192 |
| SHIELD | 400 | 400 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Tyranid Warriors with Ranged Bio-Weapons, 3 models, 60 pts, with 1 Barbed strangler, 1 Deathspitter, 3 Tyranid Warrior claws and talons, 1 Venom cannon, 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 ~47 pts → 79 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.
~240 pts → 400 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 4 creators' newest Tyranids tier lists: Auspex Tactics (12 Sep), Into the Hive Mind (12 Oct), HivemindHobbies (18 Oct), Maelstrom Gaming Studios (26 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
271 public Tyranids tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 2 Nov.