Editing Codex - Tyranids: /tg/'s 8th Edition (section)

====Cortex Leech Swarm Brood====
This unit contains 3 Cortex Leech Swarms ('''Power Rating 2'''). It can include up to 3 more Cortex Leech Swarms ('''Power Rating +2'''), up to 6 more Cortex Leech Swarms ('''Power Rating +4'''), up to 9 more Cortex Leech Swarms ('''Power Rating +6'''), or up to 12 more Cortex Leech Swarms ('''Power Rating +8''').
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! Name !! M !! WS !! BS !! S !! T !! W !! A !! Ld !! Sv
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| Cortex Leech Swarm || 6" || 3+ || 4+ || 3 || 3 || 3 || 4 || 10 || 6+
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'''Biomorphs:'''
*Claws and Teeth

'''Special Rules:'''
*'''Burrowers'''
*'''Consume:''' During the Shooting phase a unit with at least three bases with this rule may opt to devour an organic terrain piece (forests, bushes, swamps, etc) it touches. If it chooses to do so, you may move models in the unit to any point wholly within that piece of terrain before removing it from the field. This counts as advancing for all intents and purposes.
*'''Cortex Command:''' When attacking, a cortex leech swarm base may choose to forego its normal attacks to instead make a Cortex Command check. This is a single attack that if it hits, both players must roll an opposed leadership check with both players rolling a d6 and adding it to their respective models' leadership values.  If the Cortex Leech's player succeeds, that model must make either a shooting or a melee attack against a target chosen by the Cortex Leech's player at its full value (I.E a model so controlled that assaults another unit must do so as if it had charged them).   If an enemy unit in assault is wiped out by the cortex leech's unit, roll a d6; on a 3 or less nothing happens, but on a four or more the entire unit must charge or shoot a target of the Cortex Leech player's choosing, though after the turn the models are removed from play.
*'''Instinctive Behaviour'''
*'''Surge:''' In close combat, every model with this special rule can exchange all of its normal Attacks to make a single surge attack, which uses the following profile:
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! S !! AP !! D !! Abilities 
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| 1 || 0 || 1 || If the target is a {{W40kKeyword|VEHICLE}} and you make a wound roll of 4+, the target suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any other damage. If you make a wound roll of 6+, inflict D3 mortal wounds instead. For each to-hit result of 1 or 2, the unit suffers a mortal wound.
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'''Options:'''
*Mutations: (M:5/WS:2/BS:4/S:4/T:4/W:-/A:3/Ld:-/Sv:-/Psy:-/Syn:5)
*The unit may take Spinemaws - 2 pts/base
*Any model in the brood may take one of the following biomorphs:
::-Carbonized Claws - 3 pt.
::-Serrated Blades - 3 pt.
*Any model in the brood may take any of the following biomorphs:
::-Adrenal Glands - 4 pts./model
::-Toxin Sacs - 3 pts./model

'''Keywords''':
*Faction:{{W40kKeyword|<Hive Fleet>}}, {{W40kKeyword|Tyranids}} 
*{{W40kKeyword|Elites}}, {{W40kKeyword|Swarm}}, {{W40kKeyword|Cortex Leech Swarms}}