Consider it a social experiment. Thanks for the posts guys. Yes, FMC may seem a little strong, and I could always incorporate a points increase if more people thought it was necessary, and, admittedly, I hadn't factored skyblight, or any of the dataslate-things, into my calculations. However, with the new edition, it's going to be harder to get powers off, so that may balance it out a little. Warrington, UK. Tyranid primes need the option of wings so they can actually go with the Shrikes. I'm reading through it now, I like a lot of it, one thing I would note is if genestealers are deployed 'Dormant' then they should count as Elites or lose super scoring, as I think this might be too power an ability. Shingen wrote: Tyranid primes need the option of wings so they can actually go with the Shrikes. takonite wrote: I'm reading through it now, I like a lot of it, one thing I would note is if genestealers are deployed 'Dormant' then they should count as Elites or lose super scoring, as I think this might be too power an ability.

Dakka 5. Member List. Recent Topics. Top Rated Topics. Forum Tools Forum Tools Search. Codex: Tyranids - Fan Edition Full PDF - Updated for 7th edition. Forum Index » 40K Proposed Rules. Subject: Advert. The Shadow Agile Revenant Titan In the Casualty section of a Blood Bowl dugout. and biomorphs Link to the Codex Click here! Wilson Infiltrating Broodlord UK. No problem, like I say, I do enjoy it so it's really no problem. It's just nicer to finish with something that other people can enjoy as well! And I know, I honestly think GW would benefit from asking a few people to come in and playtest. There'd be many willing to do it for little or no pay or maybe just travel expenses and GW should get a slightly better codex out of it. But hey Hive Fleet Nom Mindless Spore Mine. Glorywarrior Raging-on-the-Inside Blood Angel Sergeant Texas. Shingen Sinewy Scourge Warrington, UK. Now, instead of affecting units in a radius, when these trigger still usually on a 6 unless boosted they only deal mortal wounds to the nearest enemy unit within the range.

Some monsters are big and chunky, others are small and highly numerous. Carpets of Gaunts are an iconic part of the Tyranid army, but one of the challenges with them has always been getting enough bodies into a fight for their numbers to be a factor. Units that gain this rule also gain a BURROWER keyword, which can be used for a handy stratagem. Hive Fleets are the Tyranid subfactions, granting a Hive Fleet Adaptation to your units, warlord traits, relics, stratagems and for Tyranids a free additional Psychic Power that all PSYKERS know for free. Not only that, but this book debuts a new spin on subfaction customisation, and this one rules, because as well as being able to build your own Hive Fleet from scratch, you can also customise the named Hive Fleets using the Hyper Adaptation rule.

Like most modern faction traits, Hive Fleet Adaptations have multiple effects. For Tyranids, one of these is labeled as Adaptive , and as a pre-battle ability you can swap this effect out for a choice picked from one of the three custom trait lists. That means you effectively get one free pick, and then get to select your other trait out of a list of six game to game — certainly not bad. This is obviously fantastic if you want to take lots of monsters you do , as it makes it harder for opponents to exploit your low model count to out-primary you, and harder to push you off key points when it really matters. Finally, Feed is maybe a bit weaker overall, but still has some draws. It feels like any custom fleet is very likely going to be built from Hunt and Lurk , and access to these is generally useful for Hyper Adaptation purposes and all fleets have access to at least one of the two. It means combat will never be safe against this faction, which is as it should be for bugs.

Lurk is also available to Behemoth. An early thing worth calling out with that is that far fewer things in this book are CORE-locked than normal — some effects still are, but many toys including this power are generally applicable. Making your opponent pay to take you off a point is always good, and can be especially strong into fragile but deadly units like Aeldari melee killers. In combination with the Psychic Power, this maybe also encourages you to bring one big unit of Hormagants, throw them at the enemy with boosted wounds and strength to carve something up on your turn, then annihilate anything that tries to counter-attack in melee. The Hive Fleet with a need for speed, 9th edition Kraken eschews its ability to fall back and charge which you can thankfully access elsewhere and gains a new lethality on the approach in the form of Questing Tendrils , bumping melee AP by 1 if a unit charges.

Potentially very handy to mitigate unfortunate low rolls or have another go at a long-bomb charge. Chameleonic Mutation got a huge glow-up and will enhance the survivability of the bearer significantly, even in close quarters. Equally important, the relic now disallows rerolls to hit, which a lot of armies leverage to push tons of hits onto targets just by sheer numbers. Lastly Opportunistic Advance can provide you that extra boost of speed you need to snag an objective or get in range for a surprise offensive. Not only do you presumably still have the powerful extra tools from their Codex Supplement to play with, they get one of the best Hive Fleet Adaptations in the book. This is incredible — opponents are going to sigh deeply as their lances bounce of T7 Flyrants, and it makes a unit of Warriors lurking behind a wall extremely difficult to promptly clear out in combination with Reinforced Hive Node.

The Adaptive part is also excellent, being one hit re-roll each time the unit shoots or fights, almost always one of the best faction traits in any book it appears in, and really good here with some of the best units which mostly carry around heavy venom cannons. The other key tool here is the Psychic Power Hive Nexus. This lets one of your units benefit from an extra Synaptic Imperative for a turn, and is both a flexible and potent tool in the abstract, and extremely good at enabling super-powered Maleceptor combos in the specific. The rest of this stuff is fine — Perfectly Adapted as a Warlord Trait provides them with one re-roll per battle round for pretty much anything, the Preceptic Node allows intercept shooting and is quite generous about it, making a character with it surrounded by shooty Carnifexes genuinely annoying for some lists and the stratagem lets you get an AP boost if you get multiple units into the enemy.

Primaris Kevin: Hive Nexus is an amazing power that offers a ton of flexibility. I feel like it should have been a core power available to everyone. Even if Crusher Stampede and the Supplement end up getting cut this is still a great option. Credit: Pendulin. Gorgon is clearly built for a horde list, which sadly means that it suffers somewhat from the hordy units in this book maybe being a touch overpriced. To top it off, you also get one wound re-roll each time you shoot or fight, which can support some of the bigger creatures too. Not necessary, but being able to make a genuine T9 model by sticking it on a foot Tyrant is cute. It feels like Gorgon wants you to stack up plenty of Hormagaunts, Genestealers, Raveners, Pyrovores and big units of Tyranid Warriors with high shot ranged weapons, and the resulting army feels like it should be pretty good, but not the best thing this book can be doing and maybe not the best way to run that army in this book!

Gunum: This is one that I absolutely adore. Some of you may have heard that Devourers got a bit of an adjustment, but the hordes of Gorgan care not. The stratagem is a generic deep strike one for a mere 1CP usable twice in Strike Force , with the only restriction being no TITANIC, so if you want to pick Hunt — Augmented Ferocity as your Adaptive option and stick a couple of Scythed Hierodules or six Screamer Killers in deep strike maybe with some longer-ranged bugs hanging back then yeah, this looks pretty good! The Relic is a moderately interesting anti-Action tool, and helpfully goes off after you move a lot of effects in this book look like some thought has gone into when they should trigger, which is good! Ever the bane of the Aeldari, Kronos hate psykers and love shooting, and their kit reflects this. However, it combines very well with the second part, which boosts the AP of shots under half range, and that starts to get really interesting — it means that the incidental firepower from Gaunts and Gargoyles is often going to be operating at AP-2, and opens up more play for AP0 stuff in this armour save economy.

Switching over to ruining the days of enemy Psykers, the Warlord trait is the always funny but never actually good aura of causing Perils on any double, but The Deepest Shadow is where the fun is. This is potentially backbreaking for armies that cast lots of powers, and can help you snipe out pesty elves too. It lets you pick an enemy unit within Synaptic Link range in your Command Phase, and until your next Command Phase they cannot re-roll hits or wounds, and cannot re-roll Psychic Tests. The first effect is very strong, and being able to send it via a link gives quite a bit of flexibility. To further shorten the existence of anything that gets tagged in melee by a Hydra unit, their Critical Mass stratagem gives them full re-rolls against a target that they outnumber.

This is done on a pure model count rather than anything count as 5, so it means this is never on for monsters but they can already do it with the generic Voracious Appetite stratagem, so whatever but is much easier to activate for mid-weight infantry like Tyranid Warriors or Raveners. The trait and relic, finally, let you amp up one of your characters — the Warlord trait regenerates d3 wounds in both players command phases, while the relic lets you re-roll wounds with ranged attacks. There are a couple of key old favourites that return to kick off though. Also good with the faster monsters is Overrun , slightly tweaked but still performing the same function. If one of your units charges, then after they have fought there are no enemies in engagement range i.

there were no survivors then your model can make a Normal Move instead of Consolidating, ideal for Flyrants to return to the warm embrace of their Tyrant Guard. Also returning unchanged is Synaptic Channeling , letting a caster share the powers of all your others, which can certainly be useful for ensuring that your Maleceptor knows enough powers to fully go off, and goes great with Power of the Hive Mind for an extra cast. Incredibly good, next. What about nastier monsters? Bringing a large squad is maybe a bit dicey while indirect fire is so dominant, but if that changes this is worth a real look.

If you prefer your small bugs more flappy and shooty then Blinding Venom for Gargoyles is excellent — you pick a unit within engagement of them at the start of the Fight Phase and for 1CP that unit gets -1 to hit and cannot re-roll hit rolls. Hive Tyrant. On the theme of flying stuff avoiding retaliation we have Encircle the Prey , potentially one of the most powerful stratagems here. A bunch of other units get some specific strats — Exocrines can have exploding 6s, Lictors can boost charges for things joining them in melee or dive into strategic reserves, Trygons can bring your Troops in from their tunnels, Toxicrenes can force stuff to include them in any charge they make, all cool effects and plenty pretty useful. The ones that seem to really push their units are Corrosive Viscera for units with Acid Blood, most notable for Pyrovores, and Enfolding Strike for the new Parasite of Mortrex.

Enfolding Strike lets the Parasite deal mortals and apply its nasty infection to an enemy it flies over in the movement phase, letting it do its key thing multiple times a turn which is nifty. Rounding out the stuff to talk about we have some standard 9th Edition fare — extra relics, extra traits, and a way to manipulate your army wide mechanic. The Tyranid stratagem sheet is really, really good, with almost no duds, some extremely powerful efficiency boosts and some tricks that will leave the prey absolutely fuming. Exactly what you want. Luckily, as will quickly become apparent, this is not going to be a problem. This is good on pretty much anything, but also happens to be the fixed trait for Deathleaper, which is a major contributing factor to them being a total nightmare and likely fixture in most lists.

Fine, but not super spicy. Finally, Synaptic Tendrils gives you an extra use of your Command Phase effects, and this is something you specifically want for a Neurothrope in Maleceptor builds but skip it pretty much everywhere else. Three hits and extremely generically useful ones at that , two misses and a buildaround is a fine rate for a set of traits, so expect to be buying these for your bugs left and right. One of the first standouts is the Reaper of Obliterax, which replaces a Bonesword and acts as a very powerful weapon in the hands of an already dangerous Hive Tyrant.

Credit: Chris Vo. Of particular note, Shardgullet boosts a heavy venom cannon to an almighty damage five, ideal for leaving Custodes Jetbikes sweating profusely. You get choices for other kinds of murder machine too. The Maw-Claws of Thyrax provides full wound rerolls without the spend for Voracious Appetite , as well as increasing the number of attacks each time you kill a model. Better still, this is not a weapon replacement so it can go on any character regardless of loadout. Seems great on a Flyrant, but also very strong on a Trygon Prime, where the volume of attacks works super well with it. You can combine it with the Heightened Senses for a monster that just re-rolls everything all the time, which is quite something! Tyranid Broodlord. That Gobbo. Moving on to more utility fare, the Resonance Barb has had a bit of a downgrade from previous incarnation.

Still useful, but not a must-take like before in pre-Crusher 8th ed lists. New and looking pretty good here is the Dirgeheart of Kharis , which lets you switch off the ObSec of a unit you hit in the fight phase, an extremely strong effect. Uncertain if it will get the nod over tools to just wipe out the enemy, but the power is there. Also new and hilarious is the Gestation Sac , which lets you spawn a unit of Rippers once per game as an Action in the shooting phase. Probably not very good , as Rippers are mediocre, but flavourful and fun. Most Tyranid characters already have a high strength though the Broodlord could arguably use this to decent effect and the bonus attack or bonus Toughness only is not going to take you as far as any of the other relics available.

Your workhorse powers remain Catalyst and Onslaught. Similar story for Onslaught , another classic power with very little changed. Moving on from those two to damage dealers, Tyranids get two Witchfire powers in Neuroparasite and Psychic Scream. Psychic Scream is a much more straightforward alt-Smite with the added ability to wipe a psychic power off a target Psyker unit. This not only makes it a faster roll, but also means your psykers with casting bonuses are more effective at blowing out the brains of your targets. Finally, debuffs — two Malediction choices in The Horror and Paroxysm. Paroxysm is more exciting, preventing a target from firing Overwatch which can be a big deal for swarmier units and also giving them -1 to wound in melee. Surprising no one who can recognise a pattern, Adaptive Physiologies go from a fresh new upgrade introduced in Psychic Awakening to being the point-buy upgrade for the 9th Edition Tyranid book. You can buy one of these for each non-CHARACTER, non-TITANIC MONSTER in your army, and as is standard you cannot include any of them more than once.

The biggest no-brainers on the list or big-brainer for the latter maybe are Dermic Symbiosis and Synaptic Enhancement. Being able to push out your Synaptic Link range without risking your more valuable bugs is super useful, and extra durability never hurts. None of the others shine quite as much as those first two, but plenty of these are cheap and pretty decent. Speaking of Mortals, you can also apply these either after shooting a target or when they fall back with some of the upgrades here, both totally fine. The last one to mention is Enraged Reserves , which doubles your remaining wounds for the purposes of determining characteristics and also gives you a discount on an Epic Deed once per game. Moving over to Shadow Operations, Spore Nodes also feels like a bit of a miss. The final option is very cool and probably the best and most interesting — it starts strong by being a generally applicable option in Purge the Enemy , a very desirable characteristic, and has some pretty unique conditions.

Every time one of your units kills an enemy character or unit champion in melee you get a victory point, and each time you do you get to roll a d6. Finally, if the enemy warlord is brutally eaten, you get another three bonus VP. Definitely a weak pack overall, but the Tyranids do at least get a partial reprieve from being particularly good at Warpcraft Secondaries. A general trend in this book is that Monsters have had big tuneups. The vast majority have had some sort of statline boost, usually one or all of more wounds, more toughness or a better base save. One thing to note here is that many monsters have been given wounds so that they hand out 3VP for Bring It Down which is a new balancing factor that we appreciate. Tau Empire. Angels of Death Space Marines. Black Legion Chaos Space Marines. Cadia Astra Militarum. Champions of Fenris Space Wolves. Clan Raukaan Space Marines. Crimson Slaughter Chaos Space Marines. Farsight Enclaves Tau Empire. Flesh Tearers Blood Angels.

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If you are already a member then feel free to login now. Subject: Codex: Tyranids - Fan Edition Full PDF - Updated for 7th edition. In the Casualty section of a Blood Bowl dugout. I spent quite a while writing this after the new Codex dropped and was going to share it, but held off upon hearing rumours of 7th. I waited and made some changes to coincide with the new edition, and here we are! My other 6th edition 40k Army, Eldar, saw a host of new rules and facets with its most recent release Battle Focus, Bladestorm, more wraith-goodness and Target Lock, to name but a few. This was the mind-set with which I attacked this project. It is, more than anything, a demonstration of ideas. We ran three test games three more than GW? I also apologise for any lapses in the layout - it's a massive pain trying to make it look neat sometimes! Feel free to offer comments, improvements or suggestions on the Codex.

And if anyone wants to add pretty pictures and page decorations, then they are more than welcome to do so! I have some decent ideas for CSM and Black Templars if I find that I have a certain knack for creating half-decent rules. Tl ;dr, I hope you enjoy reading these rules and appreciate the initiative and ideas. Feel free to share your views and of course feel free to make use of it! Summary of Significant Changes Spoiler :. and biomorphs. Spoiler :. FAQ Errata Pg 10, Pheromone Trail - This Special Rule should read: Any friendly unit that Deep Strikes onto the board does not scatter so long as the first model placed is within 6" of a model with this Special Rule.

Subject: Re:Codex: Tyranids - Fan Edition Full PDF - Updated for 7th edition. I think this is brilliant, when i read that the malantai is back and that there was access to Biomancy I was sold. I Had a quick flick through and really enjoyed it so far! I'll have to have another read when I'm at work later today. Ready seems like a much better codex! Shame really games workshop don't ask for advice isn't it. Cheers for your hard work! Wilson wrote: I think this is brilliant, when i read that the malantai is back and that there was access to Biomancy I was sold. I think this is a pretty good job youve done here nice one! I like the biological advancement rule because it suits the background loads and is another nice rule to mess around with since we didnt get any new rules in the new book. I like the hive tyrant upgrades but i think a flying hive tyrant with all those upgrades might be a bit broken especially now that they only have to take one grounding test a turn.

But maybe we need a bit of brokenness haha. Just by reading the description I need to tell you this. FMC Spam is good enough on it's own. Making them strength 10 T 10 or S 9 T 9. Or giving them endurance. Just be happy with skyblight on it's own. The buffs to genestealers and raveners and stuff sounds good though. Consider it a social experiment. Thanks for the posts guys. Yes, FMC may seem a little strong, and I could always incorporate a points increase if more people thought it was necessary, and, admittedly, I hadn't factored skyblight, or any of the dataslate-things, into my calculations. However, with the new edition, it's going to be harder to get powers off, so that may balance it out a little. Warrington, UK. Tyranid primes need the option of wings so they can actually go with the Shrikes.

I'm reading through it now, I like a lot of it, one thing I would note is if genestealers are deployed 'Dormant' then they should count as Elites or lose super scoring, as I think this might be too power an ability. Shingen wrote: Tyranid primes need the option of wings so they can actually go with the Shrikes. takonite wrote: I'm reading through it now, I like a lot of it, one thing I would note is if genestealers are deployed 'Dormant' then they should count as Elites or lose super scoring, as I think this might be too power an ability. Dakka 5. Member List. Recent Topics. Top Rated Topics. Forum Tools Forum Tools Search. Codex: Tyranids - Fan Edition Full PDF - Updated for 7th edition.

Forum Index » 40K Proposed Rules. Subject: Advert. The Shadow Agile Revenant Titan In the Casualty section of a Blood Bowl dugout. and biomorphs Link to the Codex Click here! Wilson Infiltrating Broodlord UK. No problem, like I say, I do enjoy it so it's really no problem. It's just nicer to finish with something that other people can enjoy as well! And I know, I honestly think GW would benefit from asking a few people to come in and playtest. There'd be many willing to do it for little or no pay or maybe just travel expenses and GW should get a slightly better codex out of it. But hey Hive Fleet Nom Mindless Spore Mine. Glorywarrior Raging-on-the-Inside Blood Angel Sergeant Texas. Shingen Sinewy Scourge Warrington, UK. takonite Been Around the Block China. Ooh yeah, good idea, never thought of that.

Could be the first change for v3 that takonite wrote: I'm reading through it now, I like a lot of it, one thing I would note is if genestealers are deployed 'Dormant' then they should count as Elites or lose super scoring, as I think this might be too power an ability Good point, however, although it depends on which army you're facing, Genestealers are going to die anyway. Even now, Genestealers are a huge threat, they just don't seem like one because they just get shot. But they get shot because they're a threat.

Even if they deploy via Dormant and rip a unit apart, I don't think they'll stick round very long to capture many objectives though could be great in the right Maelstrom Missions conditions. Dormant is simply to make Genestealers a viable combat choice, so people get to use them to do what they do best and do what they're meant to do, rip something up in combat. I will consider that one though.

The Hive Fleet with a need for speed, 9th edition Kraken eschews its ability to fall back and charge which you can thankfully access elsewhere and gains a new lethality on the approach in the form of Questing Tendrils , bumping melee AP by 1 if a unit charges. Meet Gregbot. Tyranid Lictors Credit: Pendulin. Goonhammer Hot Take: Star Wars Legion December points changes. It can do this turn 1, which rules. Not flashy, but good glue for the army and with an application or two of Endless Swarm might be more of a headache to remove than your opponent expected. Even now, Genestealers are a huge threat, they just don't seem like one because they just get shot.

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