These giant spore mines are quite potent if you can get them within range of an enemy model to detonate. At their point cost, it’s likely you’re going to avoid paying for these outright and instead spawn them from a Sporocyst if you want to go with that fun spore skew. Even if you are capable of spawning them, it’s likely you’re going to go with six Spore Mines instead as its a more reliable source of mortals. The d3+3 spike damage looks appealing, but consider that averaged out a Mucolid inflicts 3 mortals and six Spore Mines will inflict 8. Spore Mines No Mercy, No Respite: Synaptic Insight – Each battle round, keep a tally of what models are destroyed by SYNAPSE models if your army. If the SYNAPSE models destroy a model with 3-5Ws tally 1 point, 6-9W tally 2 points, and 10+W tally 3 points. For each round you tally at least 4 points, score 3VP. The codex offers many powerful SYNAPSE models, but considering it doesn’t account for 1-2W models this ignores a TON of infantry that you’re going to see on the field. Canny players will also try to screen out/hide elite models from targeting just to deny you on it. Considering how difficult it might be score, it also weirdly caps at 12. C If every model in an INFANTRY unit is on or in an Area Terrain feature with this trait, then it can either Hold Steady or it can Set to Defend (see below) when an enemy unit declares a charge against it. An armored advance by the Iron Hands faces off against the Tyranid onslaught. Credit: Warhammer Community. A good boost to mid-range shooting, especially if re-rolls are involved to fish for better results. Best applied to mass gunline fire mid-game, so if you’re mostly concerned with long range or melee this may not be so helpful. B Predatory Guile (BROODLORD)

LIVING ARTILLERY units can be included in a HIVE TENDRIL detachment without breaking Hive Fleet Adaptation or Hyper-Adaptation, though they can never benefit from them themselves. Exoskeletal Stabilisation – Models do not suffer hit roll penalty for Advancing or moving and firing a Heavy weapon. MONSTER models do not suffer a hit penalty for firing Heavy weapons in Engagement Range. If you’re fielding horde/elite infantry, advancing and shooting without penalty is great as Tyranid guns are strong and more speed on the table is an obvious win. B+ HFA: Bio-Barrage – Add 4″ to the range to any ranged weapons. Simple and useful, Kronos gives you a little more cushion for your gunline. B+Surprisingly cheap for how effective it is, the Neurothrope is best support character the Tyranid have. Provided you’re using psykers ( which, if you’re playing Tyranids is a good likelihood) the models Warp Siphon ability is great on anything, but especially Zoanthropes where it puts a “super” Smite into near-certainty and Maleceptors where it assists hitting that magical Psychic test target. It’s got a natural bonus to perform Pyschic tests on its own, provides one of the stronger Synaptic Imperatives , is a good platform for support Warlord Traits and Relics, is very durable thanks to the lone 3++ in the codex, and can keep itself or a unit of Zoanthropes topped off with Spirit Leech . Just a steal for the points cost; probably an auto-take in most circumstances. Augmented Ferocity – Units add 1 to charge rolls. Simple and very powerful. Combined with the various abilities to re-roll or further modify charges, this goes a long way to taking the chance out of the Charge phase. A There are five ‘chunks’ of Tyranids rules in the book, to wit: new Bio-artefacts, Stratagems and Hive Fleet-specific Psychic Powers and two new additions – Adaptive Physiology and Hive Fleet Adaptations. Here’s what I’m using from the book to properly establish my own Hive Fleet, Eumenides… Stratagems: The 16 new Stratagems often focus on specific units and monsters, so my Haruspex is definitely going to benefit from Feeding the Hunger (re-roll hits!) and my Exocrine is going to love Symbiotic Devastation – it counts as not having moved in the shooting phase, which means it can redeploy and still benefit from +1 to hit rolls and shooting twice! Psychic Scream (WC 5) – An enemy unit within 18″ suffers d3 mortal wounds and if that unit is a PSYKER and the roll result exceeds the units Leadership score the unit losses access to one psychic power randomly for the rest of the battle. Typically used to just force some extra wounds as a cheap “second” Smite . The random power loss is generally not going to be a thing and planning on it for any reason is just inviting disappointment. B Relics

Note that the models that can use these abilities are based on a KEYWORD , which means both the Swarmlord and Winged Hive Tyrant have access to Relentless Ferocity by virtue of having the HIVE TYRANT keyword.Some weapons have ‘Blast’ listed in their profile’s abilities. These are referred to as Blast weapons. In addition to the normal rules, the following rules apply to Blast weapons: Those are some fantastic tips from three people who know a thing or two about Tyranids. In each case, they’ve discovered loads of new ways to customise your army in Psychic Awakening: Blood of Baal. Though they are formidable fighters in their own right, it is the Tyranid Warriors’ role as the synaptic lynchpins of the swarm that makes them truly deadly. Tyranid Warriors are psychic resonators for the unwavering will of the Hive Mind and some of the more common conduits used to exert control over the less receptive creatures of the hive fleets. As such, Tyranid Warriors form a vital link in the Tyranid swarm, acting as relays and amplifiers through which Hive Tyrants issue their commands. So crucial is this role to a hive fleet’s efforts to defeat a prey world’s defenders that each Hive Tyrant is invariably accompanied by several broods of Tyranid Warriors cultured from its very own flesh – the better to enhance the psychic link throughout the swarm. This is not to imply that Tyranid Warriors are merely drones, for each is instinctively capable of assessing local Synaptic Legacy (1CP) – When selecting a Synaptic Imperative at the start of a battle round, if your WARLORD is on the battlefield, you can select a Synaptic Imperative of a destroyed model so long as it has not yet been used that battle. Another contingency strat and one that’s not commonly going to be used unless things are going so downhill that it may not matter anyway. C