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

====Crinis Brood====
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Fluff:
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">A horrid monstrosity tailor-made to assassinate, disrupt enemy formations, and destroy the precious equipment of its foes, the Crinis is named for the number of tendrils it possesses. Four long lash whip tendril arms, a maw ringed by yet more tentacles, and four flesh hooks that can burst from its chest, the Crinis is by all accounts an excessively horrid creature with remarkable regenerative abilities, bolstered by the fact that it is virtually a walking corrosives factory, producing acid in copious amounts to destroy equipment. 

The creature is remarkably quick, built more like a Hive Tyrant than a Carnifex, and may be an offshoot of that genus. Its strategy seems to be to engage targets already occupied by other Tyranids to strike at the targets it wishes to or drop in unannounced to sow havoc before inevitably perishing. It is theorized that the creature's regenerative powers are born out of a need to regenerate appendages quickly if they are cut off while it grapples, which translated into a body-wide healing factor. Some seem to further this regenerative power with special biomorphs that make it even harder to force an injury to remain. 

These creatures are understandably loathed by artificers and crafters the galaxy over for their wanton destruction of priceless artefacts, something which the Hive Mind seems to be keenly aware of, especially as many of these artefacts are very difficult to replace. These creatures even seem to enter a chemical high when they destroy what it is programmed to recognize as especially priceless relics such as Terminator or Artificer armour or master crafted weapons, meaning that even outside of synapse range they continue to hunt out items to destroy before messily devouring them.</div>
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Modelling notes
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">A Crinis should be represented with a Hive Tyrant base body with at least four tentacles to represent the lash whips, where you get these tentacles is up to you, but they should be decently long (See Toxicrene for inspiration).  The head should come from a Lictor or similarly cthulhoid head, and it should have something to represent the Flesh Hooks.  If the result looks like a Hentai monster you should be hiding your Sisters of Battle, Fire Warrioresses, Guardswomen, Slaaneshi Daemons, and Eldar (Dark or Craftworld) from, you've succeeded.</div>
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This unit contains 1 Crinis ('''Power Rating 8'''). It can contain 1 additional Crinis ('''Power Rating +8''') or 2 additional Crinises ('''Power Rating +16''').
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! Name !! M !! WS !! BS !! S !! T !! W !! A !! Ld !! Sv
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| Crinis || * || * || * || 6 || 7 || 12 || 5 || 7 || 3+
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! Remaining W !! M !! WS !! BS
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| 7-12+ || 9" || 3+ || 4+
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| 4-6 || 7" || 4+ || 5+
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| 1-3 || 5" || 5+ || 6+
|}
'''Biomorphs:'''
*Two pairs of Monstrous Lash Whips
*Flesh Hooks 
*Acid blood
*Feeder Tendrils
*Toxin Miasma
*Toxic Sacs
*Toxin Spike

'''Special Rules:''' 
*'''Bounding Leap:''' This unit moves an additional 3" when advancing and charging. Also, whenever this unit piles in and consolidates, it can move up to 6".
*'''Instinctive Behaviour'''
*'''Monstrous Brood'''
*'''Ruinous Touch:'''Non-{{W40kKeyword |Titanic}} models that had been hit by at least one Crinis close combat attacks suffer a -1 penalty to their armour save until the end of the game. In addition, if any model rolls at least one natural 1 (after all re-rolls) in close combat while trying to hit a Crinis, roll a die; on a 4+ the close combat weapon with which the model attacked is destroyed and cannot be used for the duration of the game. For attacks rolled for a group of models with the same weapons and Weapon Skill, treat each result of 1 as being rolled by a separate model.

'''Options:'''
*Mutations: (M:15/WS:10/BS:10/S:10/T:20/W:20/A:15/Ld:10/Sv:30/Psy:-/Syn:-)
*Any model may take one item from the '''Thorax Biomorphs''' list.
*Any model may take up to three items from the '''Biomorphs''' list.
*Any model take any of the followings:
::-Adrenal Glands - 5 pts.
::-Toxin Sacs - 6 pts.
*Any model may take one of the following:
::- Cluster Spines - 15 pts.
::- Stinger Salvo - 15 pts.

'''Keywords''':
*Faction:{{W40kKeyword|<Hive Fleet>}}, {{W40kKeyword|Tyranids}} 
*{{W40kKeyword|Elites}}, {{W40kKeyword|Monster}}, {{W40kKeyword|Crinis}}