Strangler & Skewer
BY ANDY CHAMBERS AND PAULE JURANIC

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Tyranid Autopsy

INCLUDING STRANGLEWEBS AND SPIKE RIFLES IN A SWARM

The Norn Queens of the Tyranid hive fleets spawn billions of bio-constructs during the invasion of a new world. Where living samples of bio-mass need to be captured in numbers or especially recalcitrant organisms are encountered, the Queens will instinctively produce weapon-mutants in response to the unvoiced needs of the Hive mind.

WEAPON-MUTANTS
If creating your own hive fleet then stranglewebs and spike rifles can be used to equip ranged weapon-mutants at the reduced points cost below, in place of that given in the codex. If you are using the unmodified Codex: Tyranids list then Gaunt and Gargoyle Broods can upgrade one model per full eight models in the Brood at the points cost shown.

Strangleweb

+10 points

Spike Rifle

+10 points

WEAPON-MUTANT BROODS
Some players may well have access to whole units of the original Termagant models and weapon-mutants may not give them the numbers they need. To accommodate these truly ancient hive ships an alternate way of fielding stranglewebs and spike rifles is in whole broods, as detailed below.

Impaler Brood

 

12pts/model

Strangler Brood

 

15pts/model

 

WS

BS

S

T

W

I

A

Ld

Sv

Gaunt

3

3

3

3

1

4

1

5

6+

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brood: The Brood consists of between 4 and 8 Gaunts

Bio-weapons:

Impaler Brood: Spike rifle

 

Strangler Brood: Strangleweb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPECIAL RULES

Fleet of Claw: Gaunts can race along extremely quickly by using all six limbs for locomotion. To represent this, Gaunt Broods which do not shoot can move another D6" in the Shooting phase, ignoring penalties for difficult terrain.

Infiltrate: As they are lacking in numbers, Weapon-mutant Broods instinctively gravitate towards stalking and concealing themselves in ambush. To represent this, Broods may Infiltrate in scenarios where the Infiltrate scenario special rule is being used. If the mission does not allow units to use the Infiltrate rules then the mutants must set up normally with the rest of the army.

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