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[[File:Hive_Tyrant_b&w.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Here we see the Hive Tyrant in its natural habitat. Wrecking everything in its path.]] | |||
A '''Hive Tyrant''' is the scariest possible thing an [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Guardsman]] will ever have the misfortune of seeing. Mostly because it will be the ''last'' thing he sees. | A '''Hive Tyrant''' is the scariest possible thing an [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Guardsman]] will ever have the misfortune of seeing. Mostly because it will be the ''last'' thing he sees. | ||
Hive Tyrants are a large type of the [[Tyranid]] Synapse-Creatures, making it three or four times as tall as the average [[human]], all of it violent muscle, claws, and teeth able to tear through plasteel, ferrocrete, and ceramite with ease. They serve the same role that generals do in ordinary armies. Unlike other Tyranids, Hive Tyrants are unique entities in the Hive Mind, with personalities and preferences, meaning that if someone actually does manage to kill one, it's not only coming back, but it's going to remember who did it and be seriously pissed off. | Hive Tyrants are a large type of the [[Tyranid]] Synapse-Creatures, making it three or four times as tall as the average [[human]], all of it violent muscle, claws, and teeth able to tear through plasteel, ferrocrete, and ceramite with ease. They serve the same role that generals do in ordinary armies. Unlike other Tyranids, Hive Tyrants are unique entities in the Hive Mind, with personalities and preferences, meaning that if someone actually does manage to kill one, it's not only coming back, but it's going to remember who did it and be seriously pissed off. | ||
Revision as of 04:32, 26 May 2017
A Hive Tyrant is the scariest possible thing an Imperial Guardsman will ever have the misfortune of seeing. Mostly because it will be the last thing he sees.
Hive Tyrants are a large type of the Tyranid Synapse-Creatures, making it three or four times as tall as the average human, all of it violent muscle, claws, and teeth able to tear through plasteel, ferrocrete, and ceramite with ease. They serve the same role that generals do in ordinary armies. Unlike other Tyranids, Hive Tyrants are unique entities in the Hive Mind, with personalities and preferences, meaning that if someone actually does manage to kill one, it's not only coming back, but it's going to remember who did it and be seriously pissed off.
At least that's what the fluff says. On the tabletop, the Hive Tyrant has some interesting psychic powers, but is massively expensive, lacking invulnerable saves, and can't join squads. They're far from weak, in fact in close-combat they're flat out deadly, but they sucked at shooting before 6th ed and have always lacked much protection when getting shot at. And it will get shot at, a lot, because everyone knows the golden rule when fighting Tyranids: Take out the big ones!
Variants
- Walkrant - The basic Hive Tyrant. Used to be able to gain a 2+ Save in the tabletop, but was removed for obscenely stupid reasons. Generally accompanied by Tyrant Guard
- Flyrant - A Hive Tyrant with wings. Master of the Flying Circus. Probably one of the only good units in the tabletop because of how mobile it is, especially if it goes dakka. One recurring meme for this thing's value is the fact that it would require SIXTY MULTIMELTAS to remove, despite far better alternatives being available.
- Dagon Overlord - In FFG's Deathwatch, a very accomplished Hive Tyrant called the Dagon Overlord is mentioned to be leading the forces of Hive Fleet Dagon. Unlike the Swarmlord, it's able to drive the swarms it commands into a blind rage and can actively copy the traits of the victims it devours, all while emitting a constant cloud of poisons that would make a Venomthrope jealous. (Unusually, it seems to go out of its way to hunt down and kill Deathwatch Kill-teams, as if it wanted revenge against the Hive Fleet's past defeats at their hands.)
Dawn Of War
The Hive Tyrant appears as one of the Tyranid heroes in Dawn of War II. Early game, due to its high starting health and DPS, it's the strongest commander in the game, and is immune to suppression, but starts without a ranged weapon. Like the other tyranid commanders, the Hive Tyrant is extremely customizable, being able to perform a support synapse role, or become a dedicated melee fighter, though in the late game it's outperformed by the Warboss, Force Commander, and Chaos Lord. In Retribution it also breaks the campaign in half, since the game is coded to treat it as a vehicle (all Monstrous Creatures are), and thus can smash through walls even when the campaign level wasn't designed to permit it. Hive Tyrant goes where he wants, he doesn't care.
Hive Tyrants appear as bosses in the vanilla Dawn of War II campaign and as one might expect, they can be tough opponents. The exception the Alpha Hive Tyrant that appears as a last minute final boss. While certainly not weak, by that point your squads are strong enough to the point it doesn't pose much threat, especially if you've got terminator armor from fighting the Warboss and Avatar (and if you beat either of those things, you can pwn the Alpha Hive Tyrant). The most ridiculous part of the fight that removes any chance of challenge from it is that Gabriel Angelos aids the player and can grant temporary invulnerability to multiple units, which conveniently lasts long enough to fill the cooldown gap between two uses of the Rosarius' strategic item invulnerability ability (and the planet Typhon happens to have the most Imperial Shrines to power the Rosarius' uses-per-mission). Though, even with all the cheese you have, the Hive Tyrant Alpha is still a deadly enough opponent that you shouldn't be lax at in the fight. This is especially true in the Primarch difficulty as its bio-plasma shot and charge move can kill everyone in your squad, and it only takes about 2-3 normal melee attacks for it to knock out one of your sergeants, even in full Terminator armor. So if you aren't careful in keeping your invulnerability skills up and deal enough damage to it while you're invulnerable, it can still wipe the floor with your entire strike force in a heartbeat.
That said, fans probably shouldn't have complained about how easy the Alpha Hive Tyrant was, because Relic listened, and the expansions included final bosses in form Ulkair and Kyras, who are both absolute hell, way worse than the (already mind-numbingly hard) optional bosses in the vanilla campaign.
You can also play as one in Last Stand, where you can become a minion-spawning murderer of things. Take a look at what it can tote.