TYRANID TRYGON RULES

(ALL RULES TAKEN FROM IMPERIAL ARMOUR FOUR, THE ANPHELION PROJECT)

  pts/model WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv

TRYGON 290 6 2 8 7 5 5 3(5) 10 3+

BROOD: 1 TRYGON.

MASS POINTS: 1 (MASS POINTS SERVE A SIMILAR PURPOSE TO WAR MACHINES STRUCTURE POINTS)

BIO-WEAPONS 1: TWO PAIRS OF SCYTHING TALONS ( +2 ATTACKS) AND A SCYTHE TAIL.

BIO-WEAPONS 2: A BIO-ELECTRIC FIELD.

HEAVY SUPPORT: A TRYGON IS A HEAVY SUPPORT CHOICE FOR A TYRANID ARMY AND A TYRANID ARMY MAY ONLY INCLUDE A TRYGON IF IT ALSO INCLUDES AT LEAST 1 BROOD OF RAVENERS.

SPECIAL RULES:

BEASTS:

THE TRYGON IS FAST AND AS SUCH FOLLOWS THE RULES FOR THE BEASTS ON PAGE 57 OF THE WARHAMMER 40,000 RULEBOOK.

GARGANTUAN CREATURES:

AS A GARGANTUAN CREATURE, ALL THE RULES FOR MONSTROUS CREATURES APPLY TO THE TRYGON.

BEING A GARGANTUAS CREATURE A TRYGUN NEVER HAS TO FALL BACK WHEN IN COMBAT WITH A WAR MACHINE.

A GARGANTUAS CREATURE CAN STILL BE FIRED UPON IN THE SHOOTING PHASE WHEN ENGAGED IN A ASSAULT WITH A NON GARGANTUAS CREATURE.

IT COUNTS AS 10 MODELS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CALCALATING ENEMY MORALE AFTER AN ASSAULT.

FEARLESS:

ALMOST NOTHING CAN STOP A RAMPAGING TRYGON, THEY ARE FEARLESS, SEE PAGE 74 OF THE WARHAMMER 40,000 RULEBOOK.

DEEP STRIKE:

THE TRYGUN CAN DEEP STRIKE (TUNNELLING UP FROM BELOW), IT MAY ENTER PLAY USING THE DEEP STRIKE SPECIAL RULES IN MISSIONS WHERE THAT SPECIAL RULE IS BEING USED.

BIO-ELECTRIC FIELD:

THE TRYGON GENERATES A POTENT BIO-ELECTRIC FIELD WHICH IT CAN USE IN ONE OR TWO WAYS, IT CAN EITHER USE THE FIELD AS A DEFENCIVE BARRIER, GIVING IT A 6+ INVULNERABLE SAVE, OR USE IT IN THE SHOOTING PHASE TO ATTACK AN ENEMY UNIT WITH FOLLOWING STATS.

DECLARE AT THE START OF THE TRYGONS TURN HOW IT WILL USE ITS FIELD.

Range Str AP Type

12" 4 5 Assault D6

SCYTHE TAIL:

THE TRYGON CAN MAKE A SPECIAL CLOSE COMBAT ATTACK EACH TURN IF IT IS IN COMBAT WITH MORE THAN 4 ENEMY MODELS AT THE BEGINING OF THE ASSAULT PHASE.

THE ATTACK IS CONDUCTED AT INITIATIVE 1, WITH D3 ATTACKS MADE AT STRENTH 4 (HALF THE TRYGONS STRENTH).

SUBTERRANEAN TUNNELS:

THE TRYGON IS LARGE ENOUGH TO CARVE UNDERGROUND TUNNELS ALONG WHICH OTHER SMALLER TYRANID CREATURES CAN FOLLOW.

IF THE TRYGON ID DEEP STRIKING, THE THE TYRANID PLAYER MAY PLACE A SINGLE BROOD OF GAUNTS, HORMAGAUNTS, RAVERNERS OR A RIPPER SWARM IN RESERVE WITH THE TRYGON.

ONCE THE TRYGON EMERGES, THE BROOD WILL ATOMATICALLY FOLLOW IN THE NEXT TURN, MOVING ONTO THE TABLE FROM THE POINT THE TRYGON ARRIVED.

IF THIS MEANS THEY WOULD ENTER THE TABLE DIRECTLY INTO AN ENEMY UNIT, THEN THEY WILL MOVE ON IN THE ASSAULT PHASE AND COUNT AS ASSAULTING AS NORMAL.

SUCH IS THE TRYGONS SIZE AND POWER THAT IF IT EMERGES WITHIN 1" OF AN ENEMY MODEL ( AND WOULD THEREFORE NOMALLY BE DESTROYED) IT IS NOT DESTROYED BUT INSTEAD IT IS PLACED AS NORMAL, MOVE ANY ENEMY MODELS OUT OF THE WAY, BUT STILL PLACE THEM IN BASE CONTACT WITH THE TRYGON.

THE TRYGON COUNTS AS HAVING ASSAULTED THE ENEMY.

IF THE TRYGON EMERGES WITHIN 1" OF A SUPER HEAVY VEHICLE OR A CREATURE WITH MASS POINTS, THEN IT IS DESTROYED AS NORMAL.

 

TRYGON RECORD

THE TRYGON IS TO THE RAVENER WHAT THE HARRIDAN IS TO A GARGOYLE, A MONSTROUS TUNNELLING BIO-KILLER THAT LEADS WHOLE BROODS OF RAVENERS INTO BATTLE.

THE ORIGINS OF THE TRYGON ARE INKNOWN, ALTHOUGH ON BETA ANPHELION IV THE CREATURE'S ABILITY TO TUNNEL ALLOWING IT TO EASILY ESCAPE FROM THE CONTAINMENT AREAS, IT IS THOUGHT THAT THIS MAY BE THE ORIGINS OF THE TYRANID EVOLUTION OF TUNNELLING CREATURES AS A RESPONSE TO INPRISONMENT.

A TRYGONS CLAWS CAN BURROW THROUGH JUST ABOUT ANY MATERIAL CARVING OUT UNDERGROUND TUNNELS AS IT PASSES BY, THESE TUNNELS ARE UTILISED BY OTHER TYRANID CREATURES WHICH FOLLOW IN THE TRYGONS WAKE AND MOVE WITHOUT DETECTION.

THIS OFTON MEANS A TRYGONS APEARENCE IS A PRECURSER TO A FAR LARGER TYRANID ATTACK, AS SCORES OF SMALLER CREATURES POUR OUT OF THE HOLE IN THE GROUND LEFT BY THE TRYGON.

ON MORAN SPACE MARINE TERMINATORS OF THE DEATH STRIKE CHAPTER LAUNCHED A OPERATION TO INVESTIGATE THE TUNNELS LEFT BEHIND AFTER TRYGON ATTACKS, SAVAGE SUBTERRANEAN FIGHTING RESULTED IN A FEW GAINS, AND EVENTUALLY ALL THE IDENTIFIED ENTRANCES WERE SEALED AND VIRUS WEAPONS WERE DETONATED UNDERGROUND.

THE TRYGONS ACUTE SENSES CAN DETECT ENEMY LIFEFORMS ABOVE, AND THE TRYGON WILL BURROW UPWARDS, EXPLODING THROUGH THE GROUND UNDERNEATH ITS UNSUSPECTING TARGET WITH DEVASTATING POWER, ITS HUGE CLAWS SCYTHING THROUGH MEN AND VEHICLES AND IS POWERFULL ENOUGH TO EASILY SMASH THROUGH BUILDINGS AND BUNKERS.

THE TRYGON ALSO GENERATES A STRONG BIO-ELECTRIC FIELD OR AURA, CREATED BY CONSTANT MICRO-VIBRATIONS ACROSS THE TRYGONDS BODY AND CHITINOUS ARMOUR, THIS ENEGY CAN BUILD UP TO DANGEROUS LEVELS FOR ANYBODY TO CLOSE, DISCHARGING IN A SUDDAN POWERFUL ARC THAT IS STRONG ENOUGH TO KILL.

WHILE THE FIELD IS BUILDING UP , IT CREATES A LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELD AROUND THE CREATURE, WHICH WILL DISRUPT THE ENERGY OF WEAPONS USED AGAINST THE TRYGON, ACTING LIKE A PROTECTIVE SHIELD.

THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE TRYGON AND THE RED TERROR CANNOT BE IGNORED, AND MAGOS BIOLOGIS NOW BELIEVE THAT REPORTS OF ENCOUNTERS WITH THE RED TERROR WERE SIMPLY THE FIRST MISIDENIFICATIONS OF A TRYGON, IT MAYBE THAT THE RED TERROR WAS ACTUALLY PART OF THE TRYGONS EVOLUTION, A HALFWAY POINT BETWEEN THE RAVENER AND THE TRYGON.

SINCE THE LOSS OF THE DEVIAN SYSTEM THE NUMBER OF REPORTED ENCOUNTERS WITH TRYGONS HAS INCREASED.

THREAT EVALUATION:

VERY HIGH

TYRANID BARBED HIERODULE

(ALL RULES TAKEN FROM IMPERIAL ARMOUR FOUR, THE ANPHELION PROJECT)

Pts/model WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv

540 4 3 8 8 5 3 1(2) 10 2+

BROOD: 1 BARBED HIERODULE.

MASS POINTS: 2 (MASS POINTS SERVE A SIMILAR PURPOSE TO WAR MACHINES STRUCTURE POINTS)

BIO-WEAPONS 1: THE BARBED HIERODULE HAS TWO SCYTHING TALONS ( +1 ATTACKS)

BIO-WEAPONS 2: IT ALSO HAS TWO BIO-CANNONS (COUNTS AS TWIN LINKED)

IT MAY NOT HAVE ANY OTHER WEAPONS.

HEAVY SUPPORT: A BARBED HIERODULE IS A HEAVY SUPPORT CHOICE FOR A TYRANID ARMY .

SPECIAL RULES:

GARGANTUAN CREATURES:

AS A GARGANTUAN CREATURE, ALL THE RULES FOR MONSTROUS CREATURES APPLY TO THE HIERODULE.

BEING A GARGANTUAS CREATURE A HIERODULE NEVER HAS TO FALL BACK WHEN IN COMBAT WITH A WAR MACHINE.

A GARGANTUAS CREATURE CAN STILL BE FIRED UPON IN THE SHOOTING PHASE WHEN ENGAGED IN A ASSAULT WITH A NON GARGANTUAS CREATURE.

IT COUNTS AS 20 MODELS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CALCALATING ENEMY MORALE AFTER AN ASSAULT.

FEARLESS:

ALMOST NOTHING CAN STOP A RAMPAGING HIERODULE, THEY ARE FEARLESS, SEE PAGE 74 OF THE WARHAMMER 40,000 RULEBOOK.

THE HORROR:

ANY ENEMY UNIT WISHING TO ASSAULT THE BARBED HIERODULE MUST TAKE A MORALE CHECK.

IF THE UNIT FAILS THEN IT QUAILS BEFORE THE HORRIFYING PRESENCE OF THE TYRANID HIVE MIND AND MAY NOT MAKE AN ASSAULT THAT TURN.

Range Str AP Type

48" 10 3 Assault 1, Large blast

 

BARBED HIERODULE RECORD

FOLLOWING THE LOSS OF HAMMANS WORLD TO THE SWARMS OF HIVE FLEET KRAKEN, THE IMPERIAL FORCES WERE EVACUATED AND MOVED TO THE NEIGHBOURING MORAN SYSTEM , REINFORCEMENTS ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR HAMMANS WORLD WERE REDIRECTED TO THE MAIN PLANETS OF THE MORAN SYSTEM, A STRONG DEFENCE WAS RAPIDLY ESTABLISHED IN ANTICIPATION OF A NEW TYRANID INVASION.

MORAN DID NOT HAVE LONG TO WAIT BEFORE THE ONSLAUGHT BEGAN, HIVE SHIPS MOVED IN SYSTEM AND SOON THE CLOUDS DARKENED AND THE SKIES WERE FILLED WITH THE TELLTALE FIRE-TRAILS OF MYCETIC SPORES.

THE VETERAN IMPERIAL GUARDSMEN WHO FORMED THE BACKBONE OF THE NEW DEFENDERS THOUGHT THEY HAD SEEN EVERYTHING THE TYRANIDS COULD THROW AT THEM ON HAMMAN'S WORLD, BUT IT SOON BECAME EVIDENT THAT AS THE DEFENDERS HAD BEEN BUSY, THE HIVE MIND HAD NOT BEEN IDLE, NOW A NEW THREAT EMERGED, THE SCYTHED HIERODULE HAD EVOLVED INTO A NEW DEADLIER SPECIES.

SEVERAL SCYTHED HIERODULES HAD BEEN KILLED DURING THE FINAL DAYS OF BATTLE ON HAMMAN'S WORLD AS THE IMPERIAL DEFENDERS LEARNED TO BRING THEIR HEAVIST ORDNANCE TO BEAR AT MAXIMUM RANGE, THE HIVE MIND HAD RECOGNISED ITS WEAKNESS AND WITH DAZZLING SPEED HAD RESPONDED WITH A NEWLY EVOLVED RESPONSE.

THE BARBED HIERODULE (AS THE TROOPS ON MORAN SOON CAME TO KNOW IT) HAD REPLACED TWO OF ITS FOUR HUGE SCYTHE LIKE CLAWS WITH MASSIVE BIO-CANNONS, THE SYMBIOTE ACID CREATURE WAS GONE AND THE HIERODULE'S FRONTAL CHITINOUS ARMOUR PLATES HAD GROWN AND THICKENED FOR EXTRA PROTECTION.

GIVEN THE CREATURE'S NEW BATTLEFIELD ROLE, IT ALL MADE A CHILLING LOGICAL SENSE TO THE SOLDIERS ON THE GROUND, WAS THE ALIEN HIVE MIND LEARNING AND ADAPTING FASTER THAN ANYBODY THOUGHT POSSABLE.

LIKE THE SCYTHED HIERODULE, THE BARBED HIERODULE HAS SPREAD THROUGH OUT THE HIVE FLEETS, DUEING THE HELLISH FIGHTING ON DANTRIS, 26 HIERODULES WERE RECORDED AS DESTROYED, ON BETA ANPHELION IV INQUISITOR LOK'S FORCES ENCOUNTERED AT LEAST FOUR HIERODULES OF BOTH TYPES, INQUISITOR LOK HIMSELVE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING ONE , AND ANOTHER WAS DESTROYED BY CONCENTRATED HEAVY WEAPONS FIRE FROM CADIAN TROOPS DEFENDING LABORATORY COMPLEX THETA, BEFORE THEY WERE EVENTUALLY OVERRUN BY A SWARM OF TYRANID CREATURES LED BY A SECOND HIERODULE.

WHERE THESE CREATURES CAME FROM, AND HOW IT CAME TO PASS THAT A FEW ROGUE SAMPLES SHOULD BE ABLE TO SPAWN THE LARGEST OF TYRANID ASSAULT CREATURES IS NOT KNOWN.

 

THREAT EVALUATION:

EXTREME

TYRANID SCYTHED HIERODULE

Pts/model WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv

445 46 2 10 8 5 3 2(4) 10 2+

(ALL RULES TAKEN FROM IMPERIAL ARMOUR FOUR, THE ANPHELION PROJECT)

BROOD: 1 SCYTHED HIERODULE.

MASS POINTS: 2 (MASS POINTS SERVE A SIMILAR PURPOSE TO WAR MACHINES STRUCTURE POINTS)

BIO-WEAPONS 1: THE SCYTHED HIERODULE HAS TWO SETS OF SCYTHING TALONS ( +2 ATTACKS)

BIO-WEAPONS 2: IT ALSO HAS A BIO-ACID SPRAY

IT MAY NOT HAVE ANY OTHER WEAPONS.

HEAVY SUPPORT: A SCYTHED HEIRODULE IS A HEAVY SUPPORT CHOICE FOR A TYRANID ARMY .

SPECIAL RULES:

GARGANTUAN CREATURES:

AS A GARGANTUAN CREATURE, ALL THE RULES FOR MONSTROUS CREATURES APPLY TO THE HIERODULE.

BEING A GARGANTUAS CREATURE A HIERODULE NEVER HAS TO FALL BACK WHEN IN COMBAT WITH A WAR MACHINE.

A GARGANTUAS CREATURE CAN STILL BE FIRED UPON IN THE SHOOTING PHASE WHEN ENGAGED IN A ASSAULT WITH A NON GARGANTUAS CREATURE.

IT COUNTS AS 20 MODELS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CALCALATING ENEMY MORALE AFTER AN ASSAULT.

FEARLESS:

ALMOST NOTHING CAN STOP A RAMPAGING HIERODULE, THEY ARE FEARLESS, SEE PAGE 74 OF THE WARHAMMER 40,000 RULEBOOK.

THE HORROR:

ANY ENEMY UNIT WISHING TO ASSAULT THE SCYTHED HIERODULE MUST TAKE A MORALE CHECK.

IF THE UNIT FAILS THEN IT QUAILS BEFORE THE HORRIFYING PRESENCE OF THE TYRANID HIVE MIND AND MAY NOT MAKE AN ASSAULT THAT TURN.

Range Str AP Type

TEMPLATE 5 3 Assault 1

 

SCYTHED HIERODULE RECORD

THE SCYTHED HIERODULE WAS RECORDED DURING THE INVASION OF HAMMAN'S WORLD, A SMALL IMPERIAL COLONY CLOSE TO ONE OF THE TENDRILS OF HIVE FLEET KRAKEN.

HAMMAN'S WORLD WAS ATTACKED SOON AFTER THE KRAKENS DEFEAT ON ICHAR IV, AS THE HIVE FLEET BEGAN TO SPLINTER, NOTHING LIKE THE HIERODULE HAD EVER BEEN REPORTED BEFORE.

IT IS ARMED WITH FOUR HUGE RAZOR SHARP CLAWS , EACH CAPABLE OF SLICING CLEAN THROUGH A BATTLE TANK AND IS HEAVILY PROTECTED BY ACHITEN PLATES, IN PLACES UP TO 30 CM THICK.

A HIERODULE IS FAR LARGER THAN A CARNIFEX, A MONSTROUS KILLING MACHINE EVEN BY TYRANID STANDARDS.

THE GARRISION ON HAMMAN'S WORLD PUT UP A BRAVE DEFENCE DURING THE BLOODY BATTLES FOR THE COLONY, THE SCYTHRD HIERODULE PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE VANGUARD OF TYRANID ATTACKS, LEADING SWARMS OF LESSER GAUNTS INTO BATTLE, PARTICULARY AGAINST THE STRONG POINTS AND PREPARED FERROCOTE DEFENCES OCCUPIED BY THE PLANETARY DEFENCE FORCES.

AFTER THE BATTLES AND SUBSEQUENT EVACUATION OF HAMMON'S WORLD, A DETAILED STUDY OF THE CAMPAIGN WAS CARRIED OUT BY NEWLY ARRIVED XENOS-BIOLOGIS TEAMS, ALTHOUGH THEIR FINDINGS WERE KEPT SECRET, THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THE HIERODULE ACTED AS A FOCUS FOR THE HIVE MIND ACTIVITY OR IS A SYNAPSE CREATURE, ALL THE ATTACKS WERE STILL ACCOMPANIED BY THE USUAL TYRANID WARRIORS AND HIVE TYRANTS WHO SEEMED TO CONTROL THE ACTIONS OF THE LESSER CREATURES.

AS WELL AS ITS CLAWS, THE SCYTHED HIERODULE ALSO BEARS A SYMBIOTE CREATURE , WHICH APPEARS TO LIVE IN THE HIERODULE'S BACK GROWING OUT BETWEEN THE ARMOUR PLATES, THIS TOXIC CREATURE HELPS DEFEND ITS HOST FROM ATTACK, SQUIRTING A JET OF POTENT MUTAGENIC ACID AGAINST ANY ENEMY THAT GETS TOO CLOSE.

NO SAMPLES OF A SCYTHED HIERODULE HAVE BEEN RECOVERED FOR RESEARCH, THOSE CREATURES THAT HAVE BEEN KILLED HAVE ALL BEEN DESTROYED BY LARGE WEAPONS, LEAVING FEW REMAINS FOR LABORATORY INVESTIGATION.

AS YET THE SCYTHED HIERODULE HAS ONLY BEEN REPORTED ACTIVE WITHIN A SINGLE TENDRIL OF HIVE FLEET KRAKEN, AND EVEN THEN ONLY ENCOUNTERED ON A HANDFUL OF WORLDS, BUT SLOWLY ITS PRESENCE ON THE BATTLEFIELD IS GROWING.

THE ADVANCE OF HIVE FLEET LEVIATHON HAS SEEN HIERODULES LEADING ASSAULTS, CAPTURE OF A LIVE SAMPLE HAS BECOME A HIGH PRIORITY FOR XENO-BIOLOGISTS, IF AN EFFECTIVE COUNTER MEASURE TO THIS THREAT IS TO BE FOUND QUICKLY.

SO FAR NONE OF THE XENOS HUNTER TEAMS THAT HAVE BEEN SENT TO CAPTURE A SCYTHED HIERODULE HAVE RETURNED.

 

THREAT EVALUATION:

EXTREME