Editing Codex - Tyranids: /tg/ edition (section)

===Melee Biomorphs===
(re)'''Designer’s Note:''' ''Tyranid Melee weapons come in pairs. For game purposes, each pair is treated as a single Melee weapon. This means that Tyranid models must fight with two pairs of any Tyranid Melee weapons to gain a bonus Attack in close combat for fighting with two weapons. For example, a Hormagaunt armed with a single pair of scything talons does not gain a bonus Attack, but a Ravener with two pairs of scything talons, or a Genestealer with a pair of rending claws and a pair of scything talons, does.''

*'''Crushing Claws and Wrecking Ball'''
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! 
! Range
! S
! AP
! Type
|- 
| Crushing Claws
| -
| +3
| 2
| Melee, Armourbane, Crusher, Sunder
|-
| Crushing Claw and Wrecking Ball
| -
| +1
| 2
| Melee, Armourbane, Wrecker, Sweep
|-
|}<br style="clear: both; height: 0px;" />

::'''Crusher:''' A model equipped with two pairs of Crushing Claws gains +D3 additional attacks in close combat.
::'''Wrecker:''' A model equipped with a Crushing Claw and Wrecking Ball gains a +1 bonus when penetrating building armour and rolling for building damage.
::'''Sweep:''' A model equipped with a Crushing Claw and Wrecking Ball may forgo all of its attacks in close combat to deal a single automatic hit with S: User and AP: 3 for each enemy model in a base contact with it.
::'''Sunder''' Weapons with this special rule may re-roll all failed Armour Penetration rolls.

*'''Boneswords and Lash Whips'''
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! 
! Range
! S
! AP
! Type
|- 
| Boneswords
| -
| User
| 3
| Melee, Life Drain, Parry
|-
| Lash Whips
| -
| User
| -
| Melee, Constrict
|-
| Bonesword and Lash Whip
| -
| User
| 3
| Melee, Life Drain, Parry, Constrict
|-
|}<br style="clear: both; height: 0px;" />
::'''Life Drain:''' A model equipped with a single Bonesword inflicts Instant Death on a roll of 6+ in close combat. If it has two or three Boneswords, it inflicts Instant Death on a 5+ instead. If it has four Boneswords, it inflicts Instant Death on a 4+ instead.
::'''Parry:''' A model equipped with a single Bonesword has a 6+ invulnerable save in close combat. If it has two or three Boneswords, the save is improved to 5+. If it has four Boneswords, the save is improved to 4+.
::'''Constrict:''' All enemy models in base contact with a model with a single Lash Whip have their initiative reduced to 1. If the model has two or three Lash Whips, all enemy models within 3" have their initiative reduced to 1. If the model has four Lash Whips, all enemy models within 3" have their initiative reduced to 1, and decrease their Weapon Skill by 1.

*'''Rending Claws'''
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! Range
! S
! AP
! Type
|- 
| -
| User
| 5
| Melee, Diamantine Tips
|-
|}<br style="clear: both; height: 0px;" />
::'''Diamantine Tips:''' The close combat attacks of a model with one pair of Rending Claws have the Rending special rule. If the model has two pairs of Rending Claws, then the Rending special rule applies on a to-wound and to penetrate rolls of 5+ (with 5s being counted as sixes for the purposes of determining whether the attack has penetrated the armor).

*'''Patriarch's Claws'''
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! Range
! S
! AP
! Type
|- 
| -
| User
| 3
| Melee, Diamantine Tips
|-
|}<br style="clear: both; height: 0px;" />

*'''Scything Talons'''
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! Range
! S
! AP
! Type
|- 
| -
| User
| 5
| Melee, Slashing Attacks
|-
|}<br style="clear: both; height: 0px;" />
::'''Slashing Attacks:''' A model equipped with a single pair of Scything Talons re-rolls to-hit rolls of 1 in close combat. If it has two pairs of Scything Talons, it re-rolls all failed to-hit rolls in close combat instead.

*'''Sickle Claws'''
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! Range
! S
! AP
! Type
|- 
| -
| User
| 2
| Melee, Sickle Strike
|-
|}<br style="clear: both; height: 0px;" />
::'''Sickle Strike:''' A model equipped with Sickle Claws inflicts Instant Death on a to-wound roll of 4+ in close combat.

*'''Grasping Talons'''
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! Range
! S
! AP
! Type
|- 
| -
| +1
| 2
| Melee, Spine-Maw Strike
|-
|}<br style="clear: both; height: 0px;" />
::'''Spine-Maw Strike:''' A model equipped with Grasping Talons may make an additional Spine-Maw attack (see below), resolved at Initiative 1, provided that it scores at least one 6 when rolling to hit.

*'''Thorax Spine-Maw'''
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! Range
! S
! AP
! Type
|- 
| -
| +4
| 1
| Melee, Instant Death, Digestion Spine
|-
|}<br style="clear: both; height: 0px;" />
::'''Digestion Spine:''' When a Spine-Maw attack removes a model as a casualty, the Model gains a number of Plasm Tokens equal to the number of Wounds on the profile of the model removed (regardless of the number it possessed when it was removed). At the end of its following turns, the Model's controlling player removes one of these Plasm Tokens. Whilst the Model has at least one Plasm Token, it gains the Feel No Pain (4+) Special Rule