Tyranids – Venomthropes

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Monster Epic Hero

The Red Terror

Infantry Character

Monster Character

Battleline

Dedicated Transports

Infantry

Monster

06.01 Visibility

Line of sight is used to determine visibility between models. For an observing model to have line of sight, it must be possible to draw an imaginary straight line, 1 mm wide, from any part of that model to any part of the model being observed. This line is the line of sight. While doing so, other models in the observing model’s unit and in the observed model’s unit are ignored.

Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).

Model Visible

If any part of another model is visible to the observing model, that model is visible.

Model Fully Visible

If every part of another model that is facing the observing model is visible to the observing model (so the only thing blocking visibility to any part of that other model is that model itself), that model is fully visible.

Unit Visible

If one or more models in a unit are visible to the observing model, that unit is visible.

Unit Fully Visible

If every model in a unit is fully visible to the observing model, that unit is fully visible. When determining this, the observing model can see through other models in that unit.

01.07.01 Battlefield Morale

The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.

01.07.02 Battle-shock Test

The term Battle-shock test is the same as battle-shock roll.

01.07 Battle-shock Rolls

To make a battle-shock roll for a unit, its controlling player makes a leadership roll for it (see above).

If that roll succeeds, that unit does not become battle-shocked.
If that roll fails, that unit, and each model in it, is battle-shocked.

While a unit is battle-shocked:

The Objective Control (OC) characteristic of all of its models is modified to ‘-’ (02.02).
Its controlling player cannot target that unit with stratagems (15).
It is not eligible to start an action (16), and any action it has started cannot be completed.

SEE ALSO

Battlefield Morale 01.07.01
Battle-shock Test 01.07.02

BATTLEFIELD MORALE

The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.

FEEL NO PAIN24.12

The hardiest warriors refuse to be laid low, even by wounds that should by all rights prove lethal.

This ability always takes the form Feel No Pain X+. Each time a model with this ability would lose a wound, roll one D6: on an X+, that wound is not lost.

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The SYNAPSE keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Monster Epic Hero

The Swarmlord

Infantry Character

Monster Character

Infantry

Monster

Synapse

Some Tyranids serve as synaptic conduits or nodal relays through which a portion of the Hive Mind’s iron will flows, overriding the natural instincts of the swarm to direct the teeming warrior-beasts to function as a single, gestalt organism on the battlefield.

If your Army Faction is TYRANIDS, while a TYRANIDS unit from your army is within 6" of one or more friendly SYNAPSE models, that TYRANIDS unit is said to be within Synapse Range of that model and of your army. While a TYRANIDS unit from your army is within Synapse Range of your army:

Each time that unit takes a Battle-shock test, take that test on 3D6 instead of 2D6.
Each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack.

RAPID REGENERATION

1CP

Invasion Fleet – Battle Tactic Stratagem

Prey stare in horror as chitinous armour regrows and flesh, muscle and sinew knots back together.

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One TYRANIDS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability. If your unit is within Synapse Range of your army, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability instead.

05.04.04 Destroyed

Throughout a battle, models will suffer damage, lose wounds and be destroyed. When every model in a unit has been destroyed, that unit is destroyed.

When a model is destroyed, first resolve any rules that are triggered when it is destroyed, then it is removed from the battlefield. If any such rules apply, and if the model was destroyed as the result of an attack, unless otherwise stated, those rules are only resolved and that model is only removed after the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved. Unless otherwise stated, destroyed models and units cannot use abilities or be selected or targeted by rules.

Some rules only trigger if an enemy model or unit was destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army. This means that the enemy model or unit was destroyed by an attack made by a model from your army, or by a player rule you have. Enemy models or units that are destroyed by any other means are not destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army.

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The HARVESTER keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Infantry

Monster

Swarm

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The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Infantry Epic Hero

Infantry Character

Battleline

Infantry

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The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Infantry Epic Hero

Monster Epic Hero

Infantry Character

Monster Character

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The ENDLESS MULTITUDE keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Battleline

Infantry

Feed the Swarm

Assimilation Swarm Detachment

Even as the beasts of the Assimilation Swarm stalk across the battlefield they make use of the abundant biomass yielded up by the prey worlds slow demise. Warrior organisms heal even the most grievous wounds in moments, or stagger upright and return to the fight after they seemed slain. A strain of revolting vitality flows through the Tyranid broods as though leeched direct from their dismayed victims.

In your Command phase, each HARVESTER unit from your army can Regenerate one friendly TYRANIDS unit that is within 6" of it. A unit can only be regenerated once per phase. Each time a unit regenerates, do one of the following:

One model in that unit regains up to D3+1 lost wounds.
One destroyed INFANTRY model (excluding CHARACTERS) is returned to that unit with its full wounds remaining. If that unit is an ENDLESS MULTITUDE unit, up to 3 destroyed models are returned instead.

13.08 Benefit of Cover

Each time a ranged attack targets a unit, if every model in that unit meets one or more of the following conditions, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack:

That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area.
That model is not fully visible to the attacking model due to one or more intervening terrain features and/or one or more intervening obscuring terrain areas (see below).

Each time a ranged attack targets a unit that has the benefit of cover against it, worsen the BS characteristic of that attack by 1.

STEALTH24.33

The stealthiest warriors can evade the attentions, and the bullets, of their foes.

If every model in a unit has this ability, each time a ranged attack targets that unit, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).

03.04 Engagement

A model’s engagement range is the area of the battlefield within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of it.

While a friendly model is within engagement range of one or more enemy models, those models – and the units they belong to – are engaged with each other.
While a unit contains no engaged models, that unit is unengaged.

WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?

While opposing models are within each other’s engagement range, they are able to fight in vicious melee, so unless they are seeking to make melee attacks, models should keep out of their foes’ reach.

ENGAGEMENT

These two units have at least one model within 2" of the opposing unit, and are therefore engaged with each other.

01.05.01 Automatically Successful/Passes/Hits/Wounds

When a dice roll or test is automatically successful or automatically passes/hits/wounds, do not roll the dice and instead move to the next step of the sequence for that roll as if the required result had been rolled. Any rules that take effect on a particular dice result or roll result do not take effect.

Example: If a hit roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Wound Rolls step for that attack. Such a hit roll is not a critical hit.

Example: If a wound roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Save Rolls step for that attack. Such a wound roll is not a critical wound.

INSANE BRAVERY15.04

1CP

Core Stratagem

Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.

WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you make a battle-shock roll for a friendly unit.

TARGET: That unit.

EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.

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The BURROWER keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Monster Epic Hero

The Red Terror

Infantry Character

Infantry

Raveners

Monster

Mawloc

Trygon

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The FLY keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Infantry Character

Monster Character

Battleline

Dedicated Transports

Beast

Infantry

Monster

Swarm

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The GREAT DEVOURER keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Infantry Epic Hero

Monster Epic Hero

Infantry Character

Monster Character

Battleline

Dedicated Transports

Beast

Infantry

Monster

Swarm

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The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Infantry Epic Hero

Infantry Character

Battleline

Infantry

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The TYRANIDS keyword is used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Infantry Epic Hero

Monster Epic Hero

Infantry Character

Monster Character

Battleline

Dedicated Transports

Beast

Infantry

Monster

Swarm

[LETHAL HITS]24.23

Many deadly weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.

Each time an attack made with a [LETHAL HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, you can choose for that attack to automatically wound the target.

Designer’s Note: Choosing to automatically wound the target means that no wound roll is made for that attack. You may decide against this, as it means that attack cannot result in a critical wound and so cannot trigger other abilities such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].

Hit Roll

Make one hit roll for each attack dice by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a hit by matching the first condition below that applies:

	Unmodified	FAILS
	Unmodified	CRITICAL HIT
	Equal to or greater than that attack’s BS/WS characteristic	HIT
	Any other result	FAILS

CRITICAL HITS

Critical hits are still hits. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical hit, such as [LETHAL HITS] (24).

[SUSTAINED HITS]24.36

Some weapons possess a punishing rate of fire, or can land devastating flurries of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.

This ability always takes the form [SUSTAINED HITS X]. Each time an attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, that attack results in a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by X.

Example: An attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS 2] weapon results in a critical hit. That attack therefore hits the target three times (once from the critical hit, and twice more from the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability).

Save Rolls

The opposing player resolves the following sequence:

Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.

05.04.01 Current Allocation Group

The first group in the allocation order begins as the current group. Once all models in an allocation group are destroyed, the next group in the allocation order becomes the current one.

[PRECISION]24.28

Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd.

While resolving attacks made with one or more [PRECISION] weapons, at the start of the Allocation Order step (05.03), if the target unit contains one or more CHARACTER models visible to one or more of the attacking models, the active player can select one allocation group that contains one of those visible CHARACTER models. If they do, until those attacks are resolved, or until that CHARACTER group is destroyed (whichever happens first), that CHARACTER group is the current allocation group.

[DEVASTATING WOUNDS]24.10

The most potent weapons strike with such power that they make a mockery of armour and can cleave through several foes.

Each time an attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon results in a critical wound, the attack sequence for that attack ends and the target unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the D characteristic of that weapon. These are inflicted after resolving any normal damage inflicted by those attacks.

Mortal wounds inflicted by [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapons can damage a maximum of one model for each critical wound; any remaining mortal wounds inflicted by that attack are lost.

Example: An attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon with a D characteristic of 3 results in a critical wound against an Intercessor Squad, so inflicts 3 mortal wounds. The first 2 mortal wounds are sufficient to destroy 1 Intercessor model, so the remaining mortal wound is lost.

05.02.01 Multiple Toughness Characteristics

When resolving attacks that target a unit in which the models have two or more different T characteristics, follow the first instruction that applies from below:

If the target unit is an attached unit, use the highest T characteristic amongst bodyguard models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
Use the highest T characteristic amongst models in that unit that are on the battlefield.

Wound Roll

Make one wound roll for each hit by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a wound by matching the first condition below that applies:

	Unmodified	FAILS
	Unmodified	CRITICAL WOUND
	Equal to or greater than the required result below:	WOUND
ATTACK’S STRENGTH VS TARGET’S TOUGHNESS		REQUIRED RESULT
Strength is TWICE (or more than twice) the Toughness		+
Strength is GREATER than the Toughness		+
Strength is EQUAL to the Toughness		+
Strength is LESS than the Toughness		+
Strength is HALF (or less than half) the Toughness		+
	Any other result	FAILS

CRITICAL WOUNDS

Critical wounds are still wounds. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical wound, such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] (24).

SEE ALSO

Multiple Toughness Characteristics 05.02.01

ADVANCE MOVE09.06

MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Advance roll + your unit’s M characteristic.

ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.

EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).

BEFORE MOVING: Make an advance roll by rolling one D6.

AFTER MOVING:

Your unit must be unengaged.
Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or start an action.

CONSOLIDATION MOVE12.08

MAXIMUM DISTANCE: 3"

ELIGIBLE IF: It is the Fight phase and your unit was eligible to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).

BEFORE MOVING: Select consolidation mode:

Ongoing Consolidation:
If your unit is engaged, you must select this mode and select every enemy unit it is engaged with.
Engaging Consolidation:
Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more enemy units, you must select this mode and select one or more of those enemy units.
Objective Consolidation:
Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more objectives, you must select this mode and select one of those objectives.

WHILE MOVING:

Ongoing Consolidation:
Models in base-contact with one or more enemy models cannot be moved. Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
Engaging Consolidation:
Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
Objective Consolidation:
Each model that is moved must end its move within range of the selected objective if possible, or closer to it if not.

AFTER MOVING:

Ongoing Consolidation:
Each model that started this move engaged with an enemy unit must still be engaged with that enemy unit.
Engaging Consolidation:
Your unit must be engaged with all of the selected enemy units. If one or more enemy units engaged with your unit have not been selected to fight this phase, your opponent must select each of those units, one at a time; when each is selected, it becomes eligible to fight and is selected to fight (12.04).
Objective Consolidation:
Your unit must be within range of the selected objective.

NORMAL MOVE09.05

MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.

ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.

EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).

AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.

Hyper-adaptations

Invasion Fleet Detachment

Every warrior organism in the Tyranid race is fashioned by the ineffable alien will of the Hive Mind. Their flesh and chitin is endlessly mutable, honed into whatever form will prove most lethal to the prey.

At the start of the first battle round, select one of the following Hyper-adaptations to be active for TYRANIDS units from your army until the end of the battle:

Swarming Instincts

Each time a TYRANIDS model with this Hyper-adaptation makes an attack that targets an INFANTRY or SWARM unit, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.

Hyper-aggression

Each time a TYRANIDS model with this Hyper-adaptation makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, that attack has the [LETHAL HITS] ability.

Hive Predators

Each time a TYRANIDS model with this Hyper-adaptation makes an attack that targets a CHARACTER unit, on a Critical Hit, that attack has the [PRECISION] ability.

06.03 Hazard Rolls

To make a hazard roll for a unit, roll one D6: on a 1-2, that roll fails and that unit suffers 1 mortal wound, or 3 mortal wounds instead if each model in that unit is a MONSTER/VEHICLE model. If more than one hazard roll is required for a unit, make all of those rolls simultaneously.

FALL-BACK MOVE09.07

MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.

ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is engaged.

EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).

BEFORE MOVING: Select fall-back mode:

Ordered Retreat: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you can select this mode.
Desperate Escape: Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).

WHILE MOVING:

Desperate Escape: Each model that is moved can be moved through enemy models.

AFTER MOVING:

Your unit must be unengaged.
Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to shoot, declare a charge or start an action.
Desperate Escape: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you must make a battle-shock roll for your unit (01.07).

[IGNORES COVER]24.18

Some weapons are designed to root enemy formations out of entrenched positions.

Each time an attack is made with an [IGNORES COVER] weapon, the target cannot have the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08), including from rules that give a model or unit the benefit of cover (e.g. Stealth).

[BLAST]24.05

High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.

Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).

If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.

Example: If a [BLAST 2] weapon with an A characteristic of 3 targets a unit containing 12 models, you would gather four additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of seven for that weapon).

HEROIC INTERVENTION15.11

1CP

Core Stratagem

Voices raised in furious war cries, your warriors surge forth to meet the enemy’s onslaught head-on.

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.

TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.

EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:

Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.

+1CP

Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.

FIGHTS FIRST24.13

Those possessed of lightning-fast reactions may strike before the opponent can react.

While every model in a unit has this ability, that unit is a Fights First unit.

See the Resolve Fights First Combats step in the Fight phase (12.04).

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The TYRANIDS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Tyranids datasheets:

Infantry Epic Hero

Infantry Character

Battleline

Infantry