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

(ALL RULES TAKEN FROM IMPERIAL ARMOUR FOUR, THE ANPHELION

PROJECT)

Pts/model WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv
445 46 2 10 8 5 3 2(4) 10 2+
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