Breaking Retribution: Best Single-Player Strategies

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The Tyranid Hive Lord has some of the best unit synergy and excellent abilities, as well as being the game's best tank. However, what truly marks the Tyranids as a terrifyingly effective force in single player are the warriors, and genestealers to a lesser extent. Warriors In retribution, you generally see two classes of heavy weapons: slow-firing anti-vehicle, and suppressive anti-infantry. Blurring the line between the two is the venom cannon carried by Tyranid warriors. An immediately noticeable advantage is that you will have it from the first mission- the Tyranid warrior squad starts fully upgraded, meaning that you have more opportunities to take wargear. The venom cannon also fires at a rapid pace, meaning that missed shots have less of an adverse impact. What places it above almost all other weapons is that its rate of fire, coupled with all-around good damage, makes it equally potent against both infantry and tanks. While not as deadly as the venom cannon, the barbed strangler offers its own benefits. As an area-of-effect suppression weapon, it can affect multiple clustered squads, allowing you to easily render horde units like guardsmen ineffective. Furhtermore, as its fire behaves much like a grenade launcher's, it's equally effective against units in cover and behind walls. Weapons aside, the Tyranid warrior itself is a superb heavy-weapons platform. A unit can start alongside you in any mission, and with a high amount of health and three-man squads, warriors are difficult to take down and can deliver punishing fire. An immense advantage over other weapons teams is an intrinsic lack of setup time, allowing for rapid redeployment. If swarmed, they can deal decent melee damage compared to other heavy weapons specialists. The final advantage is their synapse, which increases ranged damaged for all other squads within its range. Naturally, filling your entire population cap with warriors, alongside a melee-specced hive lord and a squad of genestealers, makes a gunline that can ravage any unit it comes across. Genestealers While a decent melee unit even without their upgrades, genestealers begin the game without much health, and with an infiltration ability that only works when standing still. Thus, unlike warrior squads, they are best used when fully upgraded, at which point they act as an excellent ambush unit and can cripple both infantry and vehicles. The upgrades to genestealers provide the following benefits: Adrenal rush: this ability is useful for extending the staying power of the squad, granting them health for each strike in melee and increased damage for its duration. Rending claws: greater melee damage. Self-explanatory. Improved Infiltration: Allows genestealers to remain infiltrated during movement, you can position them before your main attack, destroying enemy vehicles and tangling up heavy weapon squads. One final point makes genestealers immensely flexible: the offensive track for the hive lord lets you summon genestealers for energy rather than requisition. This gives you a quick and easy way to deploy this unit into the thick of it. Hive Lord You get a single hero in the Tyranid campaign, but what you lack in quantity, you more than get back in quality. One immediate benefit is that the Hive lord has massive amounts of hit points, making him a viable tank from the game's very first levels, and letting him draw attention away from your comparatively squishier units. He is an incredibly useful combatant either in melee or at range, but what truly makes him broken is the variety of accessories and debilitating effects he can be given. The most recommended wargear options are as followed: Pheromone Trail: This is the most unquestionably important wargear item. Although its stated effect of "Tyranids around the Hive Lord periodically reinforce" may initially seem underwhelming, it offers an immense advantage; you will be refunded whatever requisition/power you invested in dead troops, and reinforcement will cost nothing but population cap, allowing you to harvest piles of req/power. Pruning a few warrior squads with bioplasma at mission start will give you enough resources to take all three commander upgrades for massive health, damage, and energy increases. This is useful in any build, and should be applied at first available opportunity. Psychic scream: An area-of-effect stun, incredibly useful for crippling incoming melee units, or weakening a force that you've just assaulted. This slows enemy infantry's movement and fire rates to a crawl, and its range is massive. Another option that will be applicable to all builds. Regeneration: A healing-over-time ability with decent range. While not astounding, this is the only healing ability bar upgraded zoanthropes. Worth a glance for more support-oriented lords. Note that this WILL heal you monstrous creatures, making Nids the only faction whose healing targets vehicles too. If you want to run an MC-heavy force, you'll want this. Most of the better command items for the lord act in a supportive role. Offensive synapse gives 15% to the ranged and melee damage of nearby Tyranids, as well as 20 melee skill; defensive synapse gives extra armor rating and health regeneration. Individual playstyles should decide which is best. There is no specific armor that can be said to be absolutely game-breaking; a melee build should use Fell of the Red Terror, which gives 95 armor alongside speed and health on each kill, while ranged builds are less decisive in their options. Talons of the Deathleaper/Shadow Scything Talons/Venomous Talons: all of these have the same primary focus, suppressing or stunning enemy infantry on hit, with the latter two being an on-hit ability and the former a chance on hit. This is effective in tying up dangerous enemy squads with low numbers, while warriors and zoanthropes kill vehicles. Any melee build should include one of these up until the final mission, where massive numbers of vehicles may necessitate crushing claws, with a fine set given by the Fortress Militant mission. In regards to ability tracks, the best combination for standard builds is probably a straigthforward 5//5/0 in stamina, offense, and will respectively. Stamina's fourth (extra health) and fifth (attacks by hive tyrant heal nearby Tyranids and vice versa) talents greatly extend the survivability of Tyranids and give them a secondary healing source, while offense gives you the very useful charge, genestealer summoning, and multiple bioplasma shots. As detailed above with the resource exploit, talent in energy will alleviate the need to put points into will. Thus, the above build, using psychic scream, pheromone trail, regeneration, defensive/offensive synapse and talons alongside its 5/5/0 build will be able to do the following: Disrupt infantry: bioplasma and charge knockback, talon suppression, psychic scream. If done in sequence, this will keep most enemy units locked down for a good half-minute, if not outright killed. Cripple vehicles: Bioplasma shots into rear armor, straightforward engagement with crusking claws. Buffs: regeneration, fifth stamina talent, armor or damage to your army. Note that all of your healing abilities will work on your carnifexes, allowing you to heal vehicles at a healthy rate. Tank: Massive health pool and strong armor make the lord unparalleled in this role. The Imperial Guard in Retribution is more or less the most broken army in the whole game. Two of their heroes are firmly in the top five, and they share a resource exploit with the Tyranids for a quick power boost in any mission, which doesn't require a piece of wargear. On the whole, very little works as well as a properly built Guard army. Lord Comissar Bern While not the top hero in terms of damage, Bern is unquestionably the most broken in terms of what he does with the army. Once he hits level 10, with will and stamina maxed, killing a single guardsman will make that squad and anyone in a signi