Tyranids Stratagems67 stratagems across 14 detachments, with the army rules and detachment rules they come with. Print them as cards, nine to a sheet.

Mindhunger

COUNTERPREDATION

Fight

One should never attempt to lay a trap for perfectly adapted ambush hunters, lest one become the prey in turn.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly DEATHLEAPER / LICTOR / NEUROLICTOR / VON RYAN’S LEAPERS unit is selected to fight.

Target

That DEATHLEAPER/LICTOR/NEUROLICTOR/VON RYAN’S LEAPERS unit.

Effect

Your unit’s attacks that target a hidden unit have +1 S and AP.

HYPERSENSORY ADAPTATIONS

Shooting

The organisms that comprise the Tyranid vanguard possess exceptionally keen senses, detecting prey no matter how well hidden it may be and relaying its location to the wider Hive Mind.

When

Start of your Shooting phase.

Target

One friendly DEATHLEAPER / LICTOR / NEUROLICTOR / VON RYAN’S LEAPERS unit.

Effect

Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of your unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range.

SCANNER GHEIST

Fight

What seemed a certain and identified Tyranid contact vanishes suddenly from sight and sensors both, seemingly nothing but a ghost all along.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One friendly unengaged DEATHLEAPER / LICTOR / NEUROLICTOR unit.

Effect

Place your unit in strategic reserves.

Feed the Swarm

BROODGUARD IMPULSE

Any phase

Should a foe successfully slay one of the swarm’s assimilation organisms, they only mark themselves as a priority for predation and consumption in turn.

When

Any phase.

Target

One HARVESTER unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

Until the end of the battle, each time a friendly TYRANIDS model makes an attack that targets the enemy unit that just destroyed your HARVESTER unit, add 1 to the Wound roll.

RECLAIM BIOMASS

Any phase

Dead Tyranids are consumed and reconstituted by the swarm just as readily as the lifeless carcasses of their prey.

When

Any phase, when a TYRANIDS unit from your army is destroyed, before the last model in it is removed from play.

Target

One HARVESTER unit from your army that is within 6" of that destroyed unit.

Effect

Regenerate one friendly TYRANIDS unit within 6" of your HARVESTER unit (See Feed the Swarm).

TYRANNOFORMED

Command

Swarms of diminutive Tyranid phage organisms carpet even the most vital strategic assets, steadily breaking them down for assimilation.

When

Command phase.

Target

One HARVESTER unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker you control.

Effect

That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn.

ABLATIVE CARAPACE

Shooting · Fight

These organisms have employed consumed minerals to exude an additional hardened protective layer over their chitinous armour.

When

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

Target

One HARVESTER 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 5+ ability. If your unit is within range of an objective marker you control, until the end of the phase models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 4+ ability instead.

SECURE BIOMASS

Fight

When rich sources of biomass are identified the warrior organisms of this swarm will stop at nothing to destroy resistance and claim them.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability. If your unit is a HARVESTER unit, each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit as well.

RAPACIOUS HUNGER

Fight

The hunger of the Tyranids can never be satiated.

When

Your Fight phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that just destroyed an enemy unit.

Effect

Your unit immediately Regenerates (See Feed the Swarm). When doing so, if your unit is a HARVESTER unit and you choose for one model to regain up to D3 lost wounds, that model regains up to 3 lost wounds instead.

Unstoppable Swarm

LIVING AVALANCHE

Movement

This hatchway does not so much slide open as burst asunder like a breached dam, warrior organisms spilling forth from it in a heaving mass.

When

Your Movement phase, just after a TYRANIDS unit from your army has opened a Hatchway.

Target

That TYRANIDS unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a Swarm move. To do so, your unit can be moved up to 3", but at least one model from your unit must end that move on the opposite side of that Hatchway from the one it started the phase on. When doing so, those models can be moved within Engagement Range of enemy units.

SQUIRMING MASSES

Movement

Like water flowing through every available gap and channel, the Tyranids squeeze through ducts and vents to spill out in the midst of the prey.

When

Your Movement phase, at the start of the Reinforcements step.

Target

One ENDLESS MULTITUDE unit from your army that is in Reserves.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Deep Strike ability and, when setting them upon the battlefield using that ability, they can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units, provided they are also within Synapse Range of your army.

Restrictions

You can only use this Stratagem once and, until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.

SWARM HUNTERS

Shooting

These Termagants act like a single, many-limbed, many-weaponed organism, squirming around one another to level the most firepower possible.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One TERMAGANTS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, models in your unit can ignore other models in their unit for the purposes of determining visibility. In addition, if your unit is within Synapse Range of your army, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.

ONRUSHING HORDE

Shooting

Surging toward their victims in a swift mass of screeching maws and lashing talons, the Tyranids are a panic-inducing sight.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army (excluding WINGED TYRANID PRIME units), that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

Priority Predation

LITHE KILLERS

Fight

These warrior organisms employ agility and stealth in place of resilience, weaving around their victims' blows and exploiting the tangled internal structures of the voidship to their advantage.

When

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 a 5+ invulnerable save.

ADRENALISED SLAUGHTER

Fight

These organisms contain additional adrenal biomorphs, which send them into a final killing frenzy just before death.

When

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, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6. On a 5+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

TALON-TIP SWARM

Fight

As they break the prey's lines, these organisms seek key strategic sites to tear apart.

When

Fight phase, just after a TYRANIDS unit from your army destroys an enemy unit.

Target

That TYRANIDS unit.

Effect

If your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 3". After that move, if your unit is within range of an objective marker and no enemy units are within range of that objective marker, that objective marker is Secured by your army.

PREDATORY POUNCE

Movement

The internal hatchways of prey voidships make excellent ambush sites for vanguard organisms.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit opens a Hatchway.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that is within 3" of that Hatchway and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Your unit can make a Pounce move. To do so, your unit can be moved up to 3", but must end that move as close as possible to that Hatchway. When doing so, those models can be moved within Engagement Range of that enemy unit, but only that enemy unit.

Enraged Behemoths

CORROSIVE VISCERA

Shooting · Fight

Highly acidic fluids spray from the creature’s wounds, lethal to those nearby.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after a TYRANIDS MONSTER model from your army with the Deadly Demise ability that cannot FLY is destroyed.

Target

That TYRANIDS MONSTER model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

Do not roll one D6 to determine whether mortal wounds are inflicted by your model’s Deadly Demise ability. Instead, mortal wounds are automatically inflicted.

RAMPAGING MONSTROSITIES

Fight

Tyranid monsters have reserves of energy that they unleash in waves of devastating fury.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS MONSTER unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.

SAVAGE ROAR

Fight

This monster is even more terrifying to behold than other bioforms of its kind.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

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

Effect

That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test and, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack that targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. If that Battle-shock test was failed, subtract 1 from the Wound roll as well.

UNTRAMMELLED FEROCITY

Movement

Encircling and entrapping such physically powerful and fearless beasts is nigh on impossible.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS MONSTER unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, it can move through models (excluding TITANIC models) and sections of terrain features that are 4" or less in height. When doing so:
▪ It can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them.
▪ It can also move through sections of terrain features that are more than 4" in height, but if it does, after its unit has moved, roll one D6: on a 1, your unit is Battle-shocked.

SWARM-GUIDED SALVOES

Shooting

One cannot hide from a gestalt entity with a million eyes, even in the densest cover.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS MONSTER unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability, and until the end of the phase each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that model’s Ballistic Skill characteristic and any or all modifiers to the Hit roll.

MASSIVE IMPACT

Charge

Employing their sheer bulk and vicious chitinous horns and spikes, the largest Tyranids crash headlong through the foe, often with devastating results.

When

Your Charge phase, just after a TYRANIDS MONSTER model from your army ends a Charge move.

Target

That TYRANIDS MONSTER model.

Effect

Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your model and roll six D6: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.

Half-Glimpsed Shadows

HYPERADRENAL REFLEXES

Fight

Goaded by the biostimulants surging through their bodies, these warrior organisms evade their enemies'attacks with unbelievable swiftness.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One GREAT DEVOURER 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 a 4+ invulnerable save.

PERVASIVE DREAD

Fight

With the death of their leader, the surviving prey feel an ominous sense of doom press down upon them, heightened by subtle psionic assault.

When

Fight phase, just after the enemy WARLORD is destroyed (and is not returned to the battlefield) by a GREAT DEVOURER unit from your army.

Target

That GREAT DEVOURER unit.

Effect

In your opponent’s next Command phase, each enemy unit on the battlefield must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result. This Stratagem cannot cause a unit to take two Battle-shock tests in the same phase.

HUNTING GROUNDS

Movement

Genestealers on the hunt are relentless, squirming through hatches before they have even half opened.

When

Your Movement phase, just after a GREAT DEVOURER unit from your army opens a Hatchway.

Target

That GREAT DEVOURER unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 3", provided at least one of its models ends that move on the opposite side of that Hatchway from when your unit opened it.

OUTFLANK

Fight

Swarms of Genestealers crawl through vents and ducts as they seek to outflank their prey.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One GENESTEALERS or PURESTRAIN GENESTEALERS unit from your army that is wholly within an Entry Zone.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. It will arrive back on the battlefield in the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase. When doing so, if it was within one of your Entry Zones when it was removed, it must be set up wholly within another one of your Entry Zones. If it was within one of your opponent’s Entry Zones when it was removed, it must be set up wholly within another one of your opponent’s Entry Zones instead. If this is not possible, your unit is destroyed.

Hyper-adaptations

RAPID REGENERATION

Shooting · Fight

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.

ADRENAL SURGE

Fight

These warrior organisms destroy all as their adrenaline surges.

When

Fight phase.

Target

Up to two TYRANIDS units from your army that are within Synapse Range of your army and are eligible to fight, or one other TYRANIDS unit from your army that is eligible to fight.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in any of those selected units makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

DEATH FRENZY

Fight

Tyranids care nothing for self-preservation, lashing out even in death.

When

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, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

OVERRUN

Fight

Tyranids in battle form an unstoppable avalanche of flesh and chitin that buries the foe alive.

When

Fight phase, just before a TYRANIDS unit from your army Consolidates.

Target

That TYRANIDS unit.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Consolidates, models in it can move an additional 3" as long as your unit can end that move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. If your unit is within Synapse Range of your army and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, instead of making that Consolidation move, it can make a Normal move of up to 6".

PREDATORY IMPERATIVE

Command

Guided by the instincts of leader-beasts, the swarm can be tasked with focusing its hunting instincts.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

Up to two TYRANIDS units from your army that are within Synapse Range of your army, or one other TYRANIDS unit from your army.

Effect

Select one Hyper-adaptation. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Hyper-adaptation is active for those selected units in addition to any other that may be active for your army.

Restrictions

You cannot select the same Hyper-adaptation you selected at the start of the first battle round.

ENDLESS SWARM

Command

As the battle rages, more organisms pour in to bolster the swarms.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

Up to two ENDLESS MULTITUDE units from your army that are within Synapse Range of your army, or one other ENDLESS MULTITUDE unit from your army.

Effect

You can return up to D3+3 destroyed models to each of the selected units.

Surprise Assault

ADAPTIVE OPTIMISATION

Command

On occasions where subterranean assaults are deemed tactically useful, the hive mind may spontaneously alter its burrowing organisms, enabling them to act as beacons for its will.

When

Command phase.

Target

One MAWLOC or TRYGON unit from your army.

Effect

Until the start of your next Command phase, your unit has the SYNAPSE keyword.

REPLENISHING SWARMS

Movement

Scrambling through the tunnels come endless multitudes of warrior-beasts and harvester bioforms, spilling out of the depths to reinforce the teeming masses.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army, wholly within 9" of one or more Tunnel Markers you placed.

Effect

One model in your unit regains up to D3+1 lost wounds, or you can return up to D3+1 destroyed models with a Wounds characteristic of 1 to your unit, with their full wounds remaining, instead.

ENFILADING EMERGENCE

Movement

Emerging from the depths, Tyranid bioforms level their weapon morphs and spit hissing volleys of living ammunition into the exposed backs of outflanked prey.

When

End of your Movement phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that was set up as Reinforcements this turn.

Effect

Until the end of your next Fight phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.

TUNNEL NETWORK

Movement

Taking advantage of freshly burrowed tunnels, Tyranid bioforms move swiftly across the landscape, emerging in unexpected locations.

When

End of your Movement phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that is wholly within 9" of one or more of your Tunnel Markers and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and set it up again, wholly within 9" of another Tunnel Marker you placed, and more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.

SWARMING ASSAULT

Charge

A hive fleet’s vanguard organisms favour mobility and aggression, keeping the foe on the back foot with repeated coordinated assaults.

When

Your Charge phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS MONSTER unit from your army that was set up as Reinforcements this turn.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, friendly TYRANIDS units within 6" of your unit can re-roll Charge rolls.

RETREAT BELOW

Fight

The network of tunnels beneath the battlefield enables Tyranid organisms to retreat from the foe and prepare further ambushes.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit or up to two BURROWER units from your army that are not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Synaptic Imperatives

THE SMOTHERING SHADOW

Any phase

In the heart of the swarms, the Shadow in the Warp can literally kill with its smothering power.

When

Any phase, just after an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test.

Target

One SYNAPSE unit from your army within 12" of that enemy unit.

Effect

Roll six D6: for each 3+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.

SYNAPTIC CHANNELLING

Command

Tyranids are one with the Hive Mind; individuality is a disadvantage that they surpass.

When

Command phase.

Target

One SYNAPSE unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, while a friendly TYRANIDS unit is within 9" of the selected unit, that unit is within Synapse Range of your army.

IRRESISTIBLE WILL

Shooting · Fight

Whether paralysing its prey or forcing them to stumble out of cover with its force of will, or else puppeteering nearby warrior organisms, the leader-beast ensures the prey targets are struck down.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One SYNAPSE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase, and one enemy unit within 24" of and visible to the SYNAPSE unit.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a friendly TYRANIDS model makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, if the attacking model’s unit is within 6" of your SYNAPSE unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

REINFORCED HIVE NODE

Shooting · Fight

Psionic shielding crackles around these leader-beasts, helping to ensure their survival.

When

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

Target

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

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

IMPERATIVE DOMINANCE

Command

At need, the focused will of the Tyranid leader-beasts can goad warrior organisms to exhibit strategically beneficial behaviours at the instant they are needed most.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that is within Synapse Range of your army.

Effect

Select one Synaptic Imperative, even if you have already selected that imperative this battle. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Synaptic Imperative is active for your unit instead of any other Synaptic Imperative that is active for your army.

OVERRIDE INSTINCTS

Movement

The seemingly omniscient Hive Mind processes the sensory input of its swarms at an impossible rate, and compels its broods to react accordingly.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that is within Synapse Range of your army and made a Fall Back move this phase.

Effect

Your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge this turn.

Higher Imperatives

CATALYTIC BIOFORTIFICATION

Any phase

Impacts and surface damage trigger explosive inflammation within this organism’s exoskeleton, spawning hardened outer layers that stave off even the most grievous hurts.

When

Any phase, when a friendly NORN ASSIMILATOR unit suffers a mortal wound.

Target

That NORN ASSIMILATOR unit.

Effect

Your unit has Feel No Pain 4+ against mortal wounds.

LESSER PREY

Fight

Focused on achieving its assigned imperative, this towering bioform smashes prey from its path with glad‑driven surges of additional might.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly NORN ASSIMILATOR / NORN EMISSARY unit is selected to fight.

Target

That NORN ASSIMILATOR/NORN EMISSARY unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks have +2 S.

TANGLESTRIKE ROUNDS

Shooting

These revolting living shells burst on impact to ensnare nearby prey organisms in a mess of dripping, incredibly sticky strands that take time to tear free of.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly NORN ASSIMILATOR unit has shot.

Target

That NORN ASSIMILATOR unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit hit by those attacks. That enemy unit is tethered until the start of your next Command phase:
▪ While a unit is tethered, that unit has -2" M.

Xeno-Terror

BIO-ACID SURGE

Fight

Triggered by synaptic imperative, these warrior organisms'weapon limbs secrete dripping gouts of virulent bio-acid.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that is within Synapse Range of your army and has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.

PHAGIC SPORES

Shooting · Fight

In death, these warrior organisms release billowing clouds of hideously corrosive spores that reduce nearby prey to bubbling organic slicks.

When

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

Target

One TYRANID WARRIORS WITH MELEE BIO-WEAPONS or TYRANID WARRIORS WITH RANGED BIO-WEAPONS 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, each time a model in your unit is destroyed as a result of an attack, do not remove it from play; after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, roll one D6: on a 3-5, the closest enemy unit within 3" of and visible to your unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 6, the closest enemy unit within 3" of and visible to your unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. The destroyed model is then removed from play.

EXPENDABLE BIOMASS

Shooting

The Tyranids will expend the lives of their lesser organisms in droves provided it results in their prey’s defeat.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One TYRANID WARRIORS WITH RANGED BIO-WEAPONS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Select one enemy unit that is visible to your unit and within Engagement Range of one or more friendly ENDLESS MULTITUDE or RIPPER SWARMS units. Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to make ranged attacks against that enemy unit as if it was not within Engagement Range of those friendly units. When doing so, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll and, after your unit has finished making its attacks, each of those friendly units that started the phase within Engagement Range of that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.

HIVE SIGHT

Charge

It is whispered amongst the fearful prey species that if one Tyranid can see you, they all can...

When

Your Charge phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS SYNAPSE unit from your army and one friendly TYRANIDS unit that has not declared a charge this phase.

Effect

Select one enemy unit that is visible to your SYNAPSE unit. Until the end of the phase, each time your other unit declares a charge, it can include that enemy unit as a target of that charge, even if it is not visible to it, and when doing so, add 1 to the Charge roll.

Insurmountable Odds

SYNAPTIC GOADING

Any phase

For a moment, a minuscule sliver of the Hive Mind’s ineffable will is focussed through these warrior organisms, driving them to pounce upon either valuable prey or else some vital strategic target.

When

Any phase, just before an ENDLESS MULTITUDE unit from your army that is within Synapse Range of your army makes a Surge move.

Target

That ENDLESS MULTITUDE unit.

Effect

When making that Surge move, you can re-roll the D6 to determine how far your unit moves, and your unit can end that move as close as possible to the closest objective marker (instead of as close as possible to the closest enemy unit]. All other rules for making Surge moves still apply.

UNENDING WAVES

Any phase

No matter how many warrior organisms are slain, more are already surging forward over their corpses.

When

Any phase.

Target

One ENDLESS MULTITUDE unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

Add a new unit to your army identical to your destroyed unit, in Strategic Reserves, at its Starting Strength.

Restrictions

Any destroyed CHARACTER units that were attached to your unit are not returned. You can only use this Stratagem once per battle.

TEEMING MASSES

Shooting · Fight

Skittering, darting and pouring over one another, the Tyranids make for hard and confusing targets.

When

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

Target

One ENDLESS MULTITUDE 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, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

SWARMING MASSES

Shooting · Fight

The sheer weight of Tyranid numbers begins to tell as they bury their victims in lashing, biting horror.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ENDLESS MULTITUDE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability, and If your unit contains 15 or more models, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

BOUNDING ADVANCE

Movement

Synaptic impulses from the Hive Mind urge greater speed from the swarm’s warrior organisms.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ENDLESS MULTITUDE unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.

PRESERVATION IMPERATIVE

Shooting

Triggered by incoming projectile fire, a synaptic pulse spurs the danger-senses of lesser warrior organisms and causes them to scatter like a shoal evading predators. Only once the explosions have stopped and the dust cleared do the bioforms bunch up once again.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ENDLESS MULTITUDE 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, your unit is treated as containing fewer than five models for the purpose of the [BLAST] ability.

Questing Tendrils

Vanguard Prime

SURPRISE ASSAULT

Shooting · Fight

Vanguard organisms strike from unexpected quarters with calculated and emotionless alien savagery that is appalling to behold.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after a VANGUARD INVADER unit from your army has selected its targets.

Target

That VANGUARD INVADER unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit that was selected as the target of one or more of your unit’s attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll. If the Battle-shock test was failed, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

ASSASSIN BEASTS

Fight

These bioforms have been adapted to strike with pinpoint precision at the pre-assessed weak points of selected prey that require elimination.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One VANGUARD INVADER INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.

SEEDED BROODS

Movement

Warrior organisms erupt from concealment straight into advanced positions.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One TYRANIDS unit from your army that is in Reserves, or up to two VANGUARD INVADER units from your army that are in Reserves.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, for the purposes of setting up those selected units on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is.

HYPERSENSORY SCILLIA

Movement

Hissing clusters of scillia warn of the slightest prey movements, allowing the Tyranids to react.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

Up to two VANGUARD INVADER units from your army that are within 8" of that enemy unit, or one other TYRANIDS INFANTRY unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit.

Effect

Those selected units can each make a Normal move of up to 6".

Restrictions

You cannot target units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

UNSEEN LURKERS

Shooting

Hyper-attuned senses warn vanguard organisms when they are being targeted by the prey.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One VANGUARD INVADER 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, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18" or, if your unit has the Lone Operative ability, if the attacking model is within 6". Your opponent can select new targets for the attacking unit’s attacks.

INVISIBLE HUNTER

Fight

Hunter-slayer organisms can melt away before the eyes of their foes, only to strike from a new direction.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

Up to two VANGUARD INVADER units from your army, or one TYRANIDS INFANTRY unit from your army.

Effect

Remove the targeted units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.

Restrictions

The targeted units must be more than 3" away from all enemy units.

Leader-beasts

ALIEN PHYSIOLOGY

Shooting · Fight

The sheer resilience of these warrior organisms appears nighsupernatural to their horrified prey.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly TYRANID WARRIORS unit.

Target

That TYRANID WARRIORS unit.

Effect

Attacks that target your unit with a S greater than your unit’s T have -1 to wound rolls.

SYNAPTIC MICRONODES

Movement

Shed like spores from chitinous exoskeletons, these micronodes infest the very battlefield with minute motes of the Hive Mind’s consciousness.

When

End of your Movement phase.

Target

One friendly TYRANID WARRIORS unit.

Effect

Select one objective your unit is controlling. That objective is secured.

PARASITIC PAYLOAD

Shooting

The projectiles fired by this weapon are infected with parasites that burrow into the central nervous systems of their targets, causing them to shriek and convulse, giving away their position to the oncoming swarms.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly TYRANID WARRIORS unit is selected to shoot.

Target

That TYRANID WARRIORS unit.

Effect

Your unit’s ranged attacks have [IGNORE COVER].