Tyranids
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Without warning the Tyranid alien threat entered the galaxy of the Imperium, destroying all in its path, consuming entire planets, leaving them lifeless in their wake.
Neither beast nor man, the Tyranid forces attack without warning, descending in huge swarms onto a planet's surface, consuming all biological matter that can be found, adding new genetic advances to their own race.
The Tyranid could very well be the greatest threat that the Imperium has ever faced. The Tyranids are super-predators destined to hunt all others to extinction. Each Tyranid is a living weapon, perfectly bioengineered to rend and kill. As their hive fleets drift through space, they strip all life from the worlds in their path.
Tyranids are an alien race from the cold depths of space travelling the galaxies and the voids between them in vast, drifting hive fleets, constantly hungry for warm flesh. They infest the stars in their billions, a raw force of destruction that has been likened to a locust swarm - remorselessly hungry and far too numerous to stop. When a hive fleet locates a planet its warrior-organisms descend and slaughter its inhabitants like cattle, dissolving their corpses into biological gruel from which new Tyranids are spawned. The Tyranid race thinks, perceives and acts as one great whole; every Tyranid is bound to the implacable will of the Hive Mind.
[edit] Genestealer
Original Author: Formorach
- Movement: 8/16/24/48
- Wounds: 15
- Skills: Awareness, Climb, Concealment +10, Dodge, Silent Move +10
- Talents: Ambidextrous, Berserk Charge, Catfall, Furious Assault, Leap Up
- Traits: Brutal Charge, Fear 2, From Beyond, Multiple Arms, Natural Armour 2, Natural Weapons, Unnatural Speed, Razor Claws*, Unnatural Agility x2, Brood Telepathy**
- Razor Claws: The creatures claws are incredibly sharp and deadly, adding +2 to damage, with a Penetration value of 3. Also, they lose the Primitive trait.
- Brood Telepathy: The creature can communicate mentally with other Genestealers within one mile.
- Razor Claws: The creatures claws are incredibly sharp and deadly, adding +2 to damage, with a Penetration value of 3. Also, they lose the Primitive trait.
Weapons: Claws (1d10+7 R Pen 3; Tearing)
Threat Rating: Xenos Majoris
"With this beast, it’s Berserker Charge and Brutal Charge together, for its first attack it has WS 87, rolling 2 dice for damage and picking the highest and then adding 10 to the result with an Armour Penetration of 3!"
[edit] Lictor
Original Author: Formorach
- Movement: 6/12/18/36
- Wounds: 24
- Skills: Acrobatics +10, Awareness +10, Climb +10, Concealment +20, Contortionist, Dodge +10, Shadowing +10, Silent Move +20, Swim +10, Tracking +20.
- Talents: Ambidextrous, Assassin Strike, Catfall, Counter-attack, Furious Assault, Leap Up, Rapid Reaction, Resistance (Cold, Heat, Poisons), Sidestep, Sure Strike.
- Traits: Dark Sight, Fear 3, From Beyond, Multiple Arms, Natural Armour 4, Natural Weapons, Size: Hulking, Toxic (as Ars Imperialis Mortua in the GM Kit), Unnatural Strength x2, Unnatural Toughness x2, Unnatural Agility x2, Unnatural Perception x2, Unnatural Senses (including Flash immunity), Razor Claws**, Chameleonic***, Barbed Hooks****.
- Double the bonus due to Unnatural Characteristic.
- Scything Talons: Add +2 to damage, Armour Penetration of 5, remove the Primitive tag and add the Tearing tag.
- Chameleonic: Adds +10 to Concealment tests and all range modifiers to hit suffer a further –30 penalty (which becomes –20 when the Size modifier is factored in).
- Barbed Hooks: Cause 1d10 + half SB damage, plus Toxic trait. Add +10 to Climb tests.
- Chameleonic: Adds +10 to Concealment tests and all range modifiers to hit suffer a further –30 penalty (which becomes –20 when the Size modifier is factored in).
- Scything Talons: Add +2 to damage, Armour Penetration of 5, remove the Primitive tag and add the Tearing tag.
- Double the bonus due to Unnatural Characteristic.
- Armour: Head 4, Body 4, Arms 4, Legs 4.
- Weapon: Scything Talons (1d10+12 R, Pen 5, Tearing), Barbed Hooks (1d10+5 I, Toxic)
- Threat Rating: Xenos Extremis
