Relentless Ferocity

Predatory Guile

Guidemind

Surging Vitality

Psychic Augmentation

• Add 1 to Psychic tests taken for that unit.
• Add 1 to Deny the Witch tests taken for that unit.
• Each time a model in that unit would lose a wound as the result of a mortal wound, roll one D6: on a 5+, that wound is not lost.

Thrashing Demise

• Each time you roll a dice for the Death Throes ability of a model in that unit, add 3 to the roll.
• Each time a model is destroyed in that unit as a result of a melee attack, if that model does not have the Death Throes ability, roll one D6: on a 6, the attacking model’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after making all of its attacks.

Goaded to Slaughter

Psychic Oversight

• If that unit is performing an action, it can make ranged attacks without that action failing.
• That unit can start to perform an action, even if it Advanced or Fell Back this turn.
• If that unit has the PSYKER keyword, performing a psychic action does not prevent it from manifesting psychic powers.

Warp Shielding

• MONSTER models in that unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
• Models (excluding MONSTER models) in that unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.

Swift Onslaught

BALETHORN CANNON

This enormous bio-cannon spits out a web of hyper-adaptive microfilament. Upon contact with the target, this sentient substance begins to contract; its contra-empathic surface identifying and adapting to any defences it encounters, flaring white-hot to burn through kinetic shielding, or sharpening to a monomolecular edge to slice through even the thickest power armour. Its contractions do not cease until the web is a knurled ball no larger than a Human fist, and whatever it encased has been sliced into bloody gobbets.

GESTATION SAC

Embedded within this organism’s body is a pulsating sac of membranous flesh and nutrient bio-slurry. As battle rages the grotesque graft swells and bulges, dark shapes writhing within it as they grow at an exponential rate. At last, with a wet ripping sound and a vomitous gush of fluids, an entire brood of parasitic Rippers spills forth to squirm their way into battle.

PATHOGENESIS

An organism like no other, Pathogenesis is perhaps a throwback to the Tyranids’ genetic origins, or a shadow of things to come. Though its motes of psychic awareness are diffused throughout its carrier like a virus, it acts with a singular will. Subverting the body and symbiotes of its host, pathogenesis causes rapid mutation: cartilaginous tubes and containment spines are lengthened; intercostal muscles are engorged; bio-ammunition is sheathed in a toxic dermis. With its host’s reach and lethality extended, fragments of pathogenesis can stretch out to the bodies of many more prey, by infesting the bio-ammunition or riding through the bioelectric charge. Whether it aims only to spread itself or is actively seeking something in the bodies of its fallen foes, perhaps only time will tell.

• Add 8" to the Range characteristic of ranged weapons the bearer is equipped with.
• Each time the bearer shoots, you can re-roll one hit roll and you can re-roll one wound roll when resolving those attacks.

RESONANCE BARB

Within the crowning carapace of this creature are pulsing bundles of nerves, their tendrils driven irreversibly into the beast’s cortex. The Resonance Barb throbs at sympathetic frequencies with the Hive Mind, transmitting a portion of its cosmic might into the creature’s flesh-form.

• Add 1 to Psychic tests taken for the bearer.
• The bearer knows one additional psychic power from the Hive Mind discipline.

SCYTHES OF TYRAN

The few remaining records of the fall of Tyran Primus speak of an alpha-beast that led the assault upon Magos Varnaks command bunker, tearing open the facility’s vast bulkhead doors with a single slash of its scything forelimbs. So sharp were these monomolecular-edged weapon-growths that several Skitarii defenders were bisected with the alpha-beast’s every frenzied swipe. The vicious blade-limbs of this appalling biohorror have since been witnessed several times by observers battling many different hive fleets across the galaxy.

SEARHIVE

Infesting its host’s body, this gestalt organism comprises millions of microscopic spore-worms that exude caustic chemicals when they detect non-Tyranid biological surroundings. Infusing their host’s saliva, organic projectiles, talon-tips and the like, the Searhive actively seeks to gain entry to the vulnerable bodies of the host’s prey. Once within, the worms begin the process of dissolving their screaming victim from inside, over long and agonising minutes.

SHARDGULLET

A terrible sound of wet and chitinous rasping emerges constantly from the innards of this gruesome weapon, like some monstrous beast chewing meat with a maw full of broken teeth. When it fires, what bursts from the bio-cannon’s muscular barrel is a hail of long, diamond-hard barbs, each with a voracious fanged maw growing at its base. Once the bioelectric-wreathed projectiles punch deep into their targets, their parasitic mouths begin chewing frenziedly, devouring the victim from the inside out.

THE DIRGEHEART OF KHARIS

First documented during the fall of the cardinal world of Kharis, this chitin-shelled organism embeds itself deep into the thorax of its host and emits a droning psionic note, that rises to an unbearable keening howl in the minds of those nearest. Whether this is thanks to some invisible neurotoxin, a directed synaptic assault or some other awful ability is unclear. Nor does it matter to those sent reeling back, gibbering in terror as their most atavistic fear responses are triggered, and their rational minds are choked off by unreasoning, animal panic.

• That unit loses the Objective Secured ability.
• Subtract 1 from the Leadership characteristic of models in that unit.

THE MAW-CLAWS OF THYRAX

During the destruction of Thyrax, the dread beast that spearheaded the assault bore a pair of symbiotic fang-lined pincers. These terrible claws consumed both the bodies and the memories of their victims, passing on the assimilated knowledge to the host creature.

• Add 1 to the bearer’s Attacks characteristic
• Each time the bearer makes a melee attack, you can re-roll the wound roll.
• Each time the bearer destroys an enemy unit as the result of a melee attack, until the end of the battle, add 1 to the bearer’s Attacks characteristic (to a maximum of +3).

THE PASSENGER

Named by survivors of the Orochon II Massacre, this graft-organism clings to its host’s dorsal chitin and sinks fleshy tubules deep into its body. The Passenger siphons off vital fluids to feed its own quivering flesh, exuding replacement liquids laced with doses of hyper-adrenaline. Augmented thus by its parasitic companion, the host gains a ferocious turn of speed that helps it to run down screaming prey, feeding both itself and the horror on its back.

• Add 2 to Advance rolls made for the bearer.
• Add 2 to charge rolls made for the bearer.

THE REAPER OF OBLITERAX

The Reaper of Obliterax, first encountered amongst the re-emergent swarms of Hive Fleet Jormungandr, is a sentient blade resembling a bonesword that discharges highly concentrated bursts of destructive energy. Even the lightest blow from this bio-weapon can result in its target being rent asunder.

• Each time an attack is made with this weapon, if that attack successfully wounds the target, the target suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any other damage, to a maximum of 3 mortal wounds.
• Each time an attack made with this weapon is allocated to an enemy model, that model cannot use any rules to ignore the wounds it loses.

THE YMGARL FACTOR

The Ymgarl Genestealers have long been a cancerous blight on the worlds of the Imperium. Their insatiable voracity is legend amongst those that have had the misfortune to encounter them and live. Now, dark rumours have surfaced of Tyranid leader-beasts that appear to share the unfathomable adaptability of the Ymgarl Genestealers.

• Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the bearer’s Strength characteristic.
• Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the bearer’s Attacks characteristic.
• Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the bearer’s Toughness characteristic.